Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote: Thanks Thomas I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself. I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive with winxp on it then as root attempt to list the contents .Why should you get permission denied messages. this dos'nt happen with win2000 which is also ntfs . it dos'nt explain why on install you can get a failure to write the partition table to the mbr. Sounds to me like there's a couple of BIOS settings that you need to change. Switch the Virus Protection (stop software trying to write the boot sector, partition table, mbr) off. You can switch it back on when the install is finished. Check the O/S is PNP option. ISTR the correct setting is off for Linux and On for Windows. I may be wrong here. For Windows 2000 and Windows XP the bios should be set to off. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD and k3b
Charlie wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11 pm, many eyes noted that Larry Sword wrote: Charlie wrote: In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer. I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or systems that I build. Using Mandrake 9.1 On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The reader was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a writer into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which recognised both accurately. However, after some months, the reader had problems. The reader didn't read and the system told me that no media was present. The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the slave. I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the cable, and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and try the reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave. Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only as a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but it still registered 2 readers, no writer. So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, it now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and trouble. Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having trouble with k3b not recognising writers Charlie. One question, did you change the settings in LILO and reboot after changing the location of the drives on the IDE channel? Larry No I didn't do that Larry. I don't have any reference in /etc/lilo.conf to CD-Roms that I can find, and I run grub on that system. But I did change the entries in /etc/fstab without any joy. There is probably an entry like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise label=linux-enterpris root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht read-only In the append= the hdd=ide-scsi and hdc=ide-scsi indicate these drives are to be setup for scsi emulation. The /etc/fstab entries should look like: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 (With supermount enabled, different if disabled) I run with supermount enabled without problems. Larry -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work
Artemio wrote: Hi everybody! I try to use POP filters in KMail but they don't work. What I do is: 1. Create a new POP filter 2. Use match any of the following 3. Set rule any header contains penis 4. Set rule any header contains viagra 5. Set action delete from server But I still receive messages that have these words in subjects. Even if I send a message to myself with subject penis - KMail downloads it. ??? Thanks for any help. Look at Download Filters. Download Filters can be used to filter mails from a POP server, before they are completely downloaded. You can use it to prevent KMail from downloading huge mails and save time this way. -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CD and k3b
Charlie wrote: In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer. I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or systems that I build. Using Mandrake 9.1 On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on the one cable. The reader was at the end of the cable, and later I installed and connected a writer into the center of the cable. I then started to use k3b which recognised both accurately. However, after some months, the reader had problems. The reader didn't read and the system told me that no media was present. The reader was jumpered as the master and the writer was jumpered as the slave. I couldn't boot a CD-ROM, so I altered the positions of both drives on the cable. Put the writer at the end and the reader in the centre of the cable, and jumpered the writer as master and just to fill up the hole and try the reader again, still put the plug in and jumpered it as slave. Surprise, surprise. The reader worked again and the writer booted CD's But when I tried to burn CD's, k3b would not recognise the writer. Saw it only as a reader. Just in case, uninstalled k3b and then reinstalled it, but it still registered 2 readers, no writer. So I took a panel of the box, left the CD drives where they were, but just jumpered the writer as slave again, and the reader as master. Invoked k3b, it now recognised the writer as such and the reader correctly also. The reader still worked and the writer with k3b burned CD's without and trouble. Thought I would pass this on in case it might help anyone that was having trouble with k3b not recognising writers Charlie. One question, did you change the settings in LILO and reboot after changing the location of the drives on the IDE channel? Larry -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Macros and OO
Try here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This isn't specific to Mandrake in any way, but I was hoping someone could point me to a good site that might explain how to setup macros in OpenOffice? I get to handle purchasing in my lab. This system (on a Mac) uses an excel database filled with scientific products/chemicals, etc, and an order form. There are macros setup so that one can select a row in the database for product X and enter it into the order form. I copied this database/form to my laptop running Mandrake with OpenOffice and imported it. All is well except, of course, all the M$ macros didn't transfer and, thus, if I desire to be able to handle these orders from my laptop I need to duplicate the macros in OpenOffice 1.5. I have NEVER done macros, in M$ Word, excel, etc, nor in OO. I don't even know where to begin. The tentative steps I've taken to try to figure it out have been hopeless thus far. Any really good HOWTOs on this? praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in full view if they look the right way. - --Samuel Adams, 1771 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/oTIdaKr9sJYeTxgRAooQAKC2Twx+dFexe981mPyExvi4CIQKowCff+C8 KvG5pnZu2w34lXap7GiBowA= =eySa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
Patricia Fraser wrote: Tried your suggestion. We must have different versions or something is not loading completely on my system. If I go to KaudioCreator - Settings - Configure KaudioCreator - Options - KAudioCreator, I find 3 icons, the first CD Config and the Configure AudioCD ioslave in the right pannel. When opening the Configure AudioCD ioslave I get The cdda tab is is the only one that is utilized at this time. It appears there is no way I can change. If I click OK at this prompt, a new panel opens with three tabs: the CDDA tab is open. The checkbox is there - uncheck it and you can edit the drive/device. I absolutely must have something not loaded or ??. It doesn't work for me. I've tried all the suggestion and it simply doesn't work. Oh well. Am I the only one running ML 9.2 having this problem? Thanks all Larry -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Go to the KAudioCreator options and then click the configure AudioCD ioslave button. Then uncheck the Determine Device Automatically button. Thanks Greg Tried your suggestion. We must have different versions or something is not loading completely on my system. If I go to KaudioCreator - Settings - Configure KaudioCreator - Options - KAudioCreator, I find 3 icons, the first CD Config and the Configure AudioCD ioslave in the right pannel. When opening the Configure AudioCD ioslave I get The cdda tab is is the only one that is utilized at this time. It appears there is no way I can change. I removed KAudioCreator, downloaded again and reinstalled, thinking I had a bad or incomplete install. Same problem. The version I'm using is ML9.2 0.89. I notice that Freshmeat has version 0.88 and a lot more information for setting on the panels. So maybe I have something not loaded or installed?? Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:15 am, Larry Sword wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Go to the KAudioCreator options and then click the configure AudioCD ioslave button. Then uncheck the Determine Device Automatically button. Thanks Greg Tried your suggestion. We must have different versions or something is not loading completely on my system. If I go to KaudioCreator - Settings - Configure KaudioCreator - Options - KAudioCreator, I find 3 icons, the first CD Config and the Configure AudioCD ioslave in the right pannel. When opening the Configure AudioCD ioslave I get The cdda tab is is the only one that is utilized at this time. It appears there is no way I can change. There is an okay button and if you click through it, the Determine Device checkbox is on the cdda tab. It appears that you closed the window without hitting okay or something. I removed KAudioCreator, downloaded again and reinstalled, thinking I had a bad or incomplete install. Same problem. The version I'm using is ML9.2 0.89. I notice that Freshmeat has version 0.88 and a lot more information for setting on the panels. So maybe I have something not loaded or installed?? Larry Nope .. not here. Doesn't work. -- - Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera
James Sparenberg wrote: it's a known bug. If it doesn't bugs.mandrakesoft.com *grin* James Heck tmb's kernels are there now... Why wait, try it now. If it works I'll give it a try later.. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 12:20, Markus Ueberall wrote: I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I used it)--ignore any linebreaks: none /mnt/usbstick supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc,fs=vfat,rw,--,umask=0,iocharset=i so8859-15 0 0 Of course, you'll have to enter mkdir /mnt/usbstick; chmod 666 /mnt/usbstick first. Note the trailing /disc (won't work without it here); /var/log/messages contains: No good here, still can't read the thing. There's clearly some sort of problem in the logfile: (this is an old logfile, but I checked and it's no different from a current one -- it's just a real pain to transfer the /var/log/messages info on to the machine where I am writing this): Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) Oct 18 09:43:19 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 18 09:43:20 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Oct 18 09:44:21 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB device not accepting new address (error=-71) Oct 18 09:44:26 localhost kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented Oct 18 09:44:36 localhost kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Oct 18 09:44:36 localhost kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = 605 That USB device not accepting new address looks problematic to me. Anyone any idea what it means? Or, more to the point, how to get past that point? Doc Looks like one system I work with that has the same message for usb. It's not accepting the usb device at that address... The system: Abit VP6 motherboard with built in usb (VIA) and an add on usb card with an NEC chipset. For whatever reason this motherboard stooped accepting any usb devices with, I think, about the 2.4.0 kernel, maybe a bit earlier. System boots clean except whit attaching any device on the built in usb (VIA) ports. It will display the same message you are receiving. Devices attached to the add in card works just fine. Is it possible you can try another device in this usb port that you know that works? Say like a mouse? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 usb camera
I just installed ML 9.2. Now when connecting the camera to the usb port the computer will do a hard lockup. The only way to recover is to disconnect the usb camera and reboot. I think this was previously discussed in the expert list. Problem is that when trying to search I get the following returned:* Can not connect to search daemon. * Any help would be most appreciated. TIA Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera
phriedrich: The camera is a SiPix StyleCam Deluxe. It's listed but when it starts to connect the lockup accrues. I just saw in the http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake92; * /Error Scenario/: *When plugging a USB webcam (some Philips webcam's, maybe others), system locks solid* Why There is a kernel bug when auto-loading the snd-usb-audio module. Solution Use ThomasBacklund http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/ThomasBacklund's kernel (packages beginning by kernel-tmb in contrib) until an update kernel might contain the fix as well. Looks like it's a known problem. Guess ill wait until it's fixed in the next kernel release. Thanks Larry -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Larry, whats the name of the camera? Did the Camera worked in 9.1? Or does this occur with every camera you test? Friedrich Preuss -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/lCWp1WA5NSHvnDARAmKrAJ9nIr25amyillm4Nc2TrzihClDoJQCgzL+D OKfTmUCQ8tQMYVz/HbaoBVM= =mGXA -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] refresh rate
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. There was a whole long thread about that on the newb list just a short time ago, IIRC the end of it is that, no, there is no pointy-clicky way. It is set at install time and conforms to the tested limits of your monitor, but it can be changed, you just have to do it the hard way. Check the archives, you'll see all the gory details. As a side note.In the Knoppix V3.3 within the KDE there is a Display setting where you can set the monitor and the refresh rates. It's really nice. sure wish Mandrake would include such. Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all logs? My laptop doesn't run 24/7 so the normal rotation period never arrives, and thus my logs get tremendous. praedor - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hEOLaKr9sJYeTxgRAtvSAKCKix0nY4cJ9gE5/A5tVqke21kRTQCeIdTF Hjxjo+kdSEUWoIozP3Rpt0s= =V/V/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Ref: Usage: logrotate [-m command] [-s statefile] [--usage] [OPTION...] configfile As root: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci I would suggest booting with one switch at a time and see if you can get a full or clean boot. I've noticed that the requirement for booting with or without a switch changes with the kernel and even the amount of memory, say updating from 512MB to 1.0GB. Try them all. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci Traci, Another suggestion would be to try the noinitrd switch. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: Thank you for these suggestions. I'll be trying both later today. Just a quick question, if I use noinitrd how does the system know which img file to use? Traci noinitrd This boot time option disables the two phase boot-up operation. The kernel performs the usual boot sequence as if /dev/initrd was not initialized. With this option, any contents of /dev/initrd loaded into memory by the boot loader contents are preserved. This option permits the contents of /dev/initrd to be any data and need not be limited to a file system image. However, device /dev/initrd is read-only and can be read only one time after system startup. See: man initrd Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1
Traci Collins wrote: Hi! I have a Mandrake 9.1 box running on an Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. When I installed Mandrake it correctly identified my hyperthreading capabilities and installed the smp version of the operating system and defaults to that version in lilo. When I permit the system to boot with that default it goes through a page or two of the loading process ultimately crashing with a kernel panic which states that it can't find the init and suggests that I boot with an init= statement. I have checked lilo.conf and verified that the initrd setting is for the smp image and that the file which is referenced is actually present on my harddrive. I have also edited the initrd setting to point directly to the mdksmp img instead of the more general img file but the system behaves in exactly the same way no matter which initrd img I specify. I would like to take advantage of the hyperthreading capabilities of my chip and I was wondering if someone knows the magic boot parameters that I need to smooth this out. I read the article in LinuxWorld Magazine and added the acpismp=force statement to my append line in lilo but that doesn't make any difference. Mandrake 9.1 has a kernel that is greater than 2.4.18 and it is supposed to support hyperthreading. I have verfied that hyperthreading is turned on in my bios. I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to find a solution. Thanks. Traci Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this morning, in the office - X is broken. What do I mean by this? When starting, the screen shows lots of colored lines in the upper portion, after which it brings up the login (what used to be) acreen, but with no dialog box for input, or possibility to do anything (actually I can pick the username, which is still visible, but I cannot guess where the password field may be ... let alone the fact that this would come up - probably - with more weird stuff, even if able to login. In the rest, another tty (CLI) works just fine, as does non-init 5 levels. Anybody having any idea what could have broken with the new X? I would appreciate any help, as I am stuck now with a Windows box, readin/writing email using a browser, and all my weekend work dependent on my laptop (unless deciding to install Openoffice in Windows). Thx, Stef Stef, As root run XFdrake and reset your X system. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. Yes, this is exactly true. ATAPI drives must be on VIA controller on this board. both drive cables are connected at the same place as before, ie IDE1 IDE2, which are at the side of the mobo next to the memory slots. as i said earlier, BIOS recognises both drives correctly those are the slots which the manual says can accept a CD drive (p 20). however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone offer clarific'n ? IDE Channel win/dos Linux ide1 hdd0, hdd1 hda, hdb ide2 hdd2, hdd3 hdc, hdd ide3 hdd4, hdd5 hde, hdf ide4 hdd6, hdd7 hdf, hdg the problem with booting from CD mb due simply to giving the wrong 'HDDn', which i will test later tonight. if i can get the CD drive to boot, i can try to re-install Mdk 9.1 see if it then understands the new mobo. doesn't anyone know what the Linux kernel panic message implies? mt there be a special problem with Mdk 9.1 (the RAMF rescue diskette is ok)? should i perhaps have to pass some parameter to the kernel at boot? -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HP Wireless Mouse Help
Benjamin Hiller wrote: Hello I have an HP Wireless mouse and keyboard. The keyboard works but the mouse thinks the left button is the center button. Please help It really makes my computer unusable. You didn't say what program you are running, maybe KDE? Anyway try running /usr/sbin/mousedrake (as root) and choose the correct mouse and see if that clears things. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation
David E. Fox wrote: I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this Use a special device for that format you want. I'd suggest first trying # fdformat /dev/fd0h1660 see what happens. Back in the old days and I think that's still true, you'd use the special form of /dev/fd0 (for instance /dev/fd0h1440) when formatting only. As I recall, uppercase H was for 5.25 and lowercase 'h' for 3.5. I don't know offhand what the 'u' is. Maybe 'unformatted' but that doesn't make sense. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- And have a look at: mtools, fdutils all provided on the ML disks. ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/Fdutils.html Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Interesting times with sound
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi folks, I'm hoping that someone will have been through this! I've got a new PC, and I'm attempting an install of 8.2 (waiting for the 9.1 CDs to arrive). I've installed ALSA, with some success - the sound is an onboard VIA8233/AC97, and I can play MP3s, I'm getting some noises out of KDE even though arts is complaining mightily - but I can't get a peep out of a CD. Is this back-to-front or what? The CD is a CD/RW, and is set up in fstab as scd0; it works beautifully as a data CD, and I've successfully ripped tracks using grip - and the resulting files sound great in XMMS! but I can't hear a thing when the CD is playing. I looked at the Wiki, and saw Regis' suggestions - when I ll /dev/cdrom I get /dev/cdrom - cdroms/cdrom0 and when I ll /dec/scd0 I get /dev/scd0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd so I think that's okay. Any clues where to look for answers? Probably because the audio cable from the cd to the sound card is not installed. You will need to open the computer case and check, if missing then install. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RC1; mount points are _what?_ (bit wordy, sorry)
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy; As is my usual practice since Mandrake 7.1; somewhere during the run-up from cooker to final I do a re-install. This time I did it at the RC1 stage. A few interesting things to report, and maybe a question or two. As usual I did a fresh install using two of the five hard disks available. I kept the existing partitions and just formatted /boot, /, /var, /usr, and /tmp. All but /boot and swap are Reiser formatted. hdb is miscellaneous storage (music etc) and 'backups' accumulated over time, plus a complete Mandrake-devel tree copy, rsynced twice daily. System: Pentium 3 @ 500 MHz stepping 6, model stepping 3 Katmai 3x256 MB Infineon PC 133 SDRAM Macronix MX9875x5 PCI ethernet card to external cable modem Creative Graphics-Blaster (nvidia) Riva TNT 128 (16 MB) Creative SoundBlaster Live! assorted odds'n'ends, +; Maxtor 4D040H2 at 40 GB set as master on IDE0, Maxtor 6L060J3 as slave on the same channel CD-ROM (LiteOn 40X 403L) master on IDE1, CD-RW (Mitsumi CR-4804TE 24x4x24) as slave. The motherboard is an A-Bit BX6 Revision 2 using BX6 chipset. No scsi cards exist in the box. Add in PCI cards to handle extra hdd drives etc. are unplugged at the moment. It was a smokin' system back when I first built it back in 1999. It's getting a little cantakerous now though. Like me. ;) Interesting thing number one; these are the listings for the hard drives c'n'p'ed from harddrake2: Model: ?4D040H2 Vendor: ?Maxtor Bus: ?ide Channel: ?primary New devfs device: ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: ?/dev/hda Media class: ?hd Model: ?6L060J3 Vendor: ?Maxtor Bus: ?ide Channel: ?secondary New devfs device: ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc Old device file: ?/dev/hdb Media class: hd Nope. These are the ide channels. i.e /dev/ide. The scsi will be listed as: /dev/scsi Huh? Aren't those scsi emu devfs listings? As a result of this; I have no working swap partition, even though diskdrake identifies it and claims it's mounted. As hda8, but fstab uses the sudo scsi devfs designation. I've tried every way I can think of (command line, graphic drakxtools, anything) to mount the swap partition. I think I first have to find out why devfs decided my drives were to be scsi emulated. Then I can take care of a couple other nagging little things that relate. Another weird thing; lmsensors have decided to suddenly accumulate CPU temperature readings and set off that ear shattering alarm at odd times. The CPU temperature reading shown when I had to save this message to the drafts folder and shut down was 260.7 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the actual 107. I suppose the major question is are these things likely to be assorted hardware gremlins and signs of impending doom for old reliable? Or are there glitches in the software causing what was once an (almost) stable collection of parts to go nuts? Or is it all TLNOTKB? The Loose Nut On The Key Board. I actually reinstalled the release twice thinking I had screwed up, but got basically the same result. I even tried a brand new network install with a brand new network.img but the server told me I couldn't have it since I was running the wrong kernel. What??? Hard drive install wouldn't work either. The boot images seemed to be screwed when I tried it yesterday. I really do need to find time to stick my new box together soon. Throw an old dog a bone gang, OK? Dissect the report so far, ask for whatever information will help make sense of this stuff and help me figure this out? Call it an early birthday present; Sunday isn't *that* far off. g Regards; C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-5mdk 13:15:34 up 1:24, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.10, 0.10 Everybody has something to conceal. -- Humphrey Bogart -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/WPjsG11CaRuZZSIRAnGQAJ0ftkavLXjYg40guln/xVpzAIPepQCbBt28 5vF5ZyBQ9El/5XBXOvP5/Ds= =Dn08 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Print problems
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings, but although I have all the printer defaults to give me 1 top and bottom (which should be enough to allow headers/footers) whenever I print from Mozilla it refuses to allow me to change the margins from 0.5. Everything looks ok in the print preview, but it still is not right when it prints. Is this a Moz bug, do you think? Anne Anne, There are numerous settings you can make to the page and in the print settings. File-Page Setup - Format Options, Margins Headers/Footer. Try playing around with these and then use the File-Print preview to check the page. Oh yes, in the Print-Properties you can set the Gap to the Margins. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear, even though they do not appear any more in kwrite. Ronald, ?? Another thought squashed. I tried Kwrite, Kedit and Kate and the all have different behaviour. Kwrite works and has a full Kdeprint panel with all options but NO SPELL CHECKING. Kedit has spell checking but does not call the full Kdeprint panel with all options. Different programmer?? Kate has SPELL CHECKING and calls the full optioned Kdeprint panel.. Figure that. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 25 Aug 2003 9:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't found out where. Not acting the way it's suppose to or the way it did before my updates... Still looking. Anyone else with this problem out there? Larry I'm still not sure what these headers look like. Could you find some way of letting us see one? Anne Sure, normally if one were to print a file, say a shopping list, the printer would print only that information which is part of the original file. This header is that extra information that gets printed on the top line, within the area commonly known as the header section. The information now printed is: Left on page: Date 08/24/03In the Centre: The file name On the Right: Page No. 08/24/03 Agent ph Chicago Title1 Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 04:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Ronald, This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't found out where. Not acting the way it's suppose to or the way it did before my updates... Still looking. Anyone else with this problem out there? Larry Larry, sorry I've got you knee-deep in this. Hopefuly someone will be able to show us the light. :-) Well after some sleep last night I renewed my search. My face is quit raw from the slapping myself silly inflected on myself. The solution was right there on the print panel: 1. From within KWrite go to print screen and on that panel, I'm using Cups, 2. Hit the Expand button 3. Right in the middle you will see Copies, Text Settings, Headers Footer Layout Advance Options and Additional Tags. 4. Open the Header Footer panel and check or uncheck the Print Header I'm feeling a bit embarrassed right now :-[ . Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:22 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Well after some sleep last night I renewed my search. My face is quit raw from the slapping myself silly inflected on myself. The solution was right there on the print panel: 1. From within KWrite go to print screen and on that panel, I'm using Cups, 2. Hit the Expand button 3. Right in the middle you will see Copies, Text Settings, Headers Footer Layout Advance Options and Additional Tags. 4. Open the Header Footer panel and check or uncheck the Print Header I'm feeling a bit embarrassed right now :-[ . Larry I'll go try that right now - but...does it affect all printouts system wide? I've never ever used Kwrite Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tried this under the newbie list - didn't solve it. I just want to print out (kedit or the printer icon I manually put on my KDE desktop) plain ASCI files without the header being appended to it by CUPS. Anyone have any idea how to turn it off? I went thru KDEs control center and looked at /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but couldn't find anything relevant. Thanks! You need to review two docs: file:/usr/share/doc/cups/sum.html and man lpoptions. Look for headers and prettyprint. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 12:28 am, Larry Sword wrote: You need to review two docs: file:/usr/share/doc/cups/sum.html and man lpoptions. Look for headers and prettyprint. Larry Hi Larry. Thanks for the reply. I looked at sum.html and according to that, lpoptions -r prettyprint is supposed to remove and save this option. I tried it - as root and my normal user account, made no difference - still get a header. I couldn't find anything listed under headers, per say... Ronald, This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't found out where. Not acting the way it's suppose to or the way it did before my updates... Still looking. Anyone else with this problem out there? Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
engage wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:11 am, Larry Sword wrote: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) I changed my preferences in gcombust from cdrecord to cdrecord-dvdhack but it didn't work. Sony DRU-510A. /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Found DVD media: using cdr_mdvd /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Drive does not support TAO recording /usr/bin/cdrecord-dvdhack: Illegal write mode for this drive I see that DVD-R media support was added at the Version 0.1.54. Mandrake 9.1 ships with version 0.1.53. Look in: http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/ Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hardware question..
Alfredo C. López wrote: HI! We have a cluster of machines. I made a soft to boot machines without harddisk with linux-mandrake trough the network. So.. till now the motherboards could be used without a vga card conected to the motherboard. So we put all the machines in a shelf and forget about them.. :) But we buy some new motherboards model MSI 845PE Max3 and I couldn't find anywhere in the bios an option to make the bios ignores that they don't have a vga card, keyboard, and other stuff present. So.. if someone could send me some hints about this .. How about in the first panel of the BIOS screen, Main, does it ave a Halt On for setting the value not to halt for none or such? Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
deedee wrote: However, when I returned to Linux, the list of modems had grown to include all kinds of devices that I'm sure are not there. There still was no /dev/usb/ttyACM0, but a device I knew was physically on the system had now shown up -- /dev/usb/acm/-0 -- and I connected. Perseverance and linux and it can be done. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?
Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they will probable work for burning a dvd as well. (I don't have a dvd burner connected so can't verify this will work) -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cups web interface files missing
Carlos: It is odd that these files did not install as they are part of the cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk. You might try re-installing this rpm to ensure that the rpm database is correct for any future updates. Larry -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry: Thanks for your replay. These are the very same programs I have installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk libcups1-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-common-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-drivers-1.1-104.2mdk The weird thing is that in my workstation I have exactly the same programs and here I have the /usr/share/doc/cups files. I have resolved the problem (at least temporally), copying all the /usr/share/doc/cups directory from my workstation to the print server and now everything seems to be OK. While this solved the problem now, I still have some concerns on what is going to happen when I have to update any future cups release. I think the problem resides in the cups rpm configuration. Maybe it requieres another package to be installed in order to install these files. Anyway urpmi has never reports any error. El Saturday 16 August 2003 19:02, Larry Sword escribió: Carlos A. Siso wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: I am trying to setup a Cups print server using Mandrake 9.1. I installed 9.1 from CD's without any additional packages and installed Cups using the urpmi command urpmi cups. While the cups server is running, the problem is that the Cups web interface files at /usr/share/doc/cups are not installed, so there is no access to the print server using http://server:631;. I have reinstalled cups a few times (rpm -e cups; urpmi cups) and still there are no files at /usr/share/doc/cups. The strange thing is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cups]# rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/cups/index.html cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] cups]# ls -la /usr/share/doc/cups/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x4 root root 4096 Aug 16 14:29 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 16 14:29 ../ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 28 16:15 de/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 28 16:15 fr/ What am I missing here? Any help woul be appreciated. TIA. Runnig fine here. These are the programs I have installed. # rpm -qa | grep cups libcups1-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-common-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-drivers-1.1-104.2mdk cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp - -- Carlos A. Siso Hyper Sistemas s.a. GPG Key: E762AD4D http://www.hypersistemas.com/keys/casiso.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P7ll+tvDo+dirU0RAl27AJwProezPZreNCmIbZfe1Mr2LcFxwQCgkrxm KhUgSWbsh/DnOMjIZKbHgPA= =cZ7C -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 09:45 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Larry Sword wanted us to know: I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected sigh How have you pulled this off? I have tried, off and on, to get k3b working - and disabling supermount is not an option. I just wont do it. I have tried temporarily disabling supermount but it hasn't worked. Then I tried just letting k3b add its garbage to /etc/fstab while leaving the supermount entries for the very same cdrom drives intact. No worky. What is your trick to getting k3b to work without disabling supermount? praedor My system: Abit VP6 with Dual 1GHz pentium 3. A Plexor writer CD-R PX-W1210A, master /dev/hdc and a Sony DVD, slave /dev/hdd. This is my system settings, sorry for the long message. I ran k3b Setup and accepted all defaults. Added myself as a user. I Also added myself as member of the cdwriter group. After starting k3b as user I ran settings -Configure-Devices and set the Reader-Cdrdao drivers-generic-mmc and the Writer-Cdrdao drivers-generic-mmc. 1. Pertinent lilo entry. image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp label=linux-smp root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi read-only 2. My /etc/fstb file. (I'll aplhbetize these due to word warp) a. /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 b. none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 c. /dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 d. none /mnt/cdrom supermount e. dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 f. none/mnt/cdrom2 g. supermount h. dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=00 0 i. none /mnt/fd0 supermount j. dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 k. /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 l. /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 m. /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 n. /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_d2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 o. /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 p. /dev/hda7/mnt/win_fvfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 q. none /proc procdefaults 0 0 r. /dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 00 s. /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 /cd/mnt/cdrecorderauto ro,noauto,user,exec 00 3. My /dev/cd entries. ls -l /dev/cdrom lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/cdrom - ls -l /dev/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/cdrom0 - ls -l /dev/cdrom1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 13 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/cdrom1 - ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd ls -l/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 - ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd ls -l /dev/cdroms/cdrom1lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Dec 31 1969 /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 - ../scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd ls -l /dev/scd0 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/scd0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd ls -l /dev/scd1 lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd ls -l /dev/hdc lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 35 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/hdc - ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/generic ls -l /dev/hdd lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 35 Aug 16 12:31 /dev/hdd - ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/generic ls -l /dev/dvdlr-xr-xr-x1 root root 36 Aug 16 05:31 /dev/dvd - /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd 4.My .kde/share/config/k3crc file [Audio project settings] default pregap=150 [Cddb] cddb server=Http freedb.org:80 cgi path=~cddb/cddb.cgi local cddb dirs=~/.cddb/ proxy port=8080 proxy server= proxy settings type=kde save cddb entries locally=true use local cddb query=true use manual cgi path=false use proxy server=false use remote cddb=true [Data project settings] Drop doubles=false List hidden files=false List system files=false Use ID3 Tag for mp3 renaming=false [Devices] Reader1=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd,40,generic-mmc Writer1=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd,32,12,generic-mmc,yes,yes,yes,2048, 8,yes [Docking Config] K3b Audio Player:stayButton=false K3b Audio Player:type=DOCK K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:first_name=K3b Dir View K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:last_name=Workspace,K3b Audio Player K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:orientation=0 K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:parent=yes K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:sepPos=32 K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:stayButton=false K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player:type=GROUP K3b Dir View:stayButton=false K3b Dir View:type=DOCK Main:Geometry=408,29,805,641 Main:dock=Workspace Main:view=K3b Dir View,Workspace,K3b Audio Player Main:visible=true NameList
Re: [expert] Cups web interface files missing
Carlos A. Siso wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: I am trying to setup a Cups print server using Mandrake 9.1. I installed 9.1 from CD's without any additional packages and installed Cups using the urpmi command urpmi cups. While the cups server is running, the problem is that the Cups web interface files at /usr/share/doc/cups are not installed, so there is no access to the print server using http://server:631;. I have reinstalled cups a few times (rpm -e cups; urpmi cups) and still there are no files at /usr/share/doc/cups. The strange thing is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cups]# rpm -qf /usr/share/doc/cups/index.html cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] cups]# ls -la /usr/share/doc/cups/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x4 root root 4096 Aug 16 14:29 ./ drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 16 14:29 ../ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 28 16:15 de/ drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 28 16:15 fr/ What am I missing here? Any help woul be appreciated. TIA. Runnig fine here. These are the programs I have installed. # rpm -qa | grep cups libcups1-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-common-1.1.19-1.1mdk cups-drivers-1.1-104.2mdk cups-1.1.19-1.1mdk Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
Possibly it's looking for a /dev/modem in which case try making a link to the /dev/usb/acm/0 device. In the kernel doc sections see: file:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.21/usb/ acm.txt Larry I installed minicom. It tells me that it can't find /dev/tty1 -- which is correct because there is no /dev/tty1. The device should be ttyACM0, but AFAIK the system doesn't recognize that the USB modem should be driven with the acm module. Harddrake or whatever it's called lists it under unknown devices, and for its module, harddrake has unknown. The portable computer does have a Conexant winmodem built-in, but I don't use it and harddrake doesn't see it at all. There are no serial or PCI ports. Just the USB ports. The Zoom Telephonics 2986L Faxmodem was quite literally the only hardmodem that I could find for a USB port. insmod says /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.25mdk/kernel/drivers/usb/acm.o.gz is installed. When I look under /dev, there is /dev/usb/acm -- but it only contains a single file -0 with a major number of 166 and a minor number of 0. Is there some way to tell minicom about the device? I saw stuff in the configuration file for a serial port, but as I mention above, there are no serial or PCI ports on this computer. Thanks, deedee Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:22 -0700 From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried insmod acm, it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A spelling error, should be minicom. Have you tried loading the module by: modprobe acm then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] k3b CD writer
David Guntner wrote: I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and harddrake configured it to mount on /mnt/cdrom2. When running harddrake, it sees the device as /dev/hdd, and claims that it is a cd burner device. So far, so good. Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into the k3b configure screen (from the option menu), it shows both of my CD drives (one a DVD ROM and the other the CD writer), and it even identifies both devices by name and so on. But they both show up under the CD Reader tree. The CD Writer tree is empty. So the question is, how do I get k3b to recognize the CD writer as a CD writer? Any help/pointers/etc. would be appreciated. --Dave 1. Take a look at your /etc/fstab file. see if you have and entry for none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ... 2. Look in the file /etc/lilo.conf and that you have an append line that has the cdwriter as hdd=ide-scsi. This will id it as a cdwriter. You ca also set the regular cd or dvd as scsi by placing in in the append line hdc=ide-scsi. *** By making changes in the lilo.conf file you must run (as root) lilo -v *** Then reboot 3. Check in the /dev folder to insure you have the links for @cdrom, @crdom0, @cdrom1 pointing to the correct device. Say /dev/cdroms and /or /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0 or target1. 4. Once thing are set correctly you should rerun K3b Setup. I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.32 04/08/2003, you wrote: Olaf, Within KDE try: Kstart - Configuration - Other - LocaleDrake and select the language you wish to use. Larry It worked, thanks! Now I'm fighting with the modem, it connects to the internet and it's able to ping an address (I had only my public IP and the PPP server IP, I tried both of them) but it's impossible to reach any site, so it must be a DNS problem. Olaf Probable correct. Check the /etc/resolv.conf file to verify the entries for nameserver. Larry Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when needed. Plugins are .so files in the plugin folders. Helper applications are entered for those things you wish accomplished that don't have a plugin. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Am I providing you the correct information? If not, what do you need? Is there another utility -- GUI or CLI -- that will allow me to set up an Internet connection with this modem? I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack. Thanks, deedee Have you tried loading the module by: modprobe acm then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00
* IBM on Thursday filed counterclaims against the SCO Group in the continuing legal battle over the Linux operating system. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5060965.html * On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 03:24 pm, Frankie wholly or partly mentioned :- I think IBM and Novell should get together and counter sue SCO for making unproven claims and trying to extort their linux clients. Have SCO barred from making such claims till its proven in court. In other words, put up or shut up! IBM and Novell can also sue that their linux business has been hurt by SCO's unproven claims and sue for damages. First rule of law for anyone not a lawyer, don't sue, let others sue you. IBM and Novell don't want to throw money away chasing a chimera. -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem
deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried insmod acm, it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A spelling error, should be minicom. Thanks, deedee Have you tried loading the module by: modprobe acm then using mincom or such program to see if you can talk to the modem? Larry deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The Wizard for setting up the Internet connection does not see it at all, and there appears to be no place for me to give it the correct device name using the Wizard. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had trouble at that time getting Mandrake to recognize my USB external floppy drive, which I solved), I got back the following information: hub.c: new USB device 00:08.0-2, assigned address 5 usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x803/0x9700) is not claimed by any active driver. usb.c: registered new driver acm ttyACM0: USB ACM device acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters Am I providing you the correct information? If not, what do you need? Is there another utility -- GUI or CLI -- that will allow me to set up an Internet connection with this modem? I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing .ra files
Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I install an Helper for each of the plugins ? 2. also, I found 4 plugin directories on my system: mozilla, mozilla-1.3, mozilla-1.3.1, netscape. I have Mozilla 1.3.1. Should I keep all of the directories ? thanks a lot. Best regards This is for an older installation but still works for the new Mozilla. I saved them from an old message, sorry didn't save the author's name... 1. If you don't have the player already, hit up this link and get it. 2. Go ahead and install it. 3. On my system, the executable installed to /usr/bin/realplay. Find out where it went on yours, and keep that info handy. Now comes the fun part. Getting it to work with Netscape. According to help file for the G2 player, it will only play real audio and real video. But, that is incorrect as you will soon find out. 4. Open up Netscape and click on Edit and then Preferences. 5. On the new screen that appears, click the little arrow next to Navigator and then Applications. On the right, you should see a list of all the mime types already in the system. This is where we will be adding in the info to configure the G2 player. Now, my system didn't have any of the stuff that follows set up, but your might have a start. So, before you add anything listed below, look to see if it is already there and add/modify as needed. 6. Click the New button to bring up a new mime type. 7. Enter the following settings, then click the OK button to save them. Description: RealMedia File MIMEType: application/vnd.rn-realmedia Suffixes: .rm Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s The description doesn't matter, but the rest does. Make sure to click the box next to Application to enable G2, and don't forget the %s part or it will just open G2 and not stream. If G2 installed somewhere other than /usr/bin/realplay, replace that part with your path. Another thing to watch is that you but the . in front of the suffix. 8. Add all of the following using the steps 6 7. Description: RealVideo File MIMEType: video/vnd.rn-realvideo Sufffixes: .rv Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File MIMEType: audio/vnd.rn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Description: RealAudio File 2 MIMEType: audio/x-pn-realaudio Suffixes: .ra, .ram Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s Now, your G2 player should work great with Navigator. But say you hop over to live365.com and want to listen to for awhile. Well, live365.com sends you am mp3 play list, not a standard stream. This is nice if you're sitting behind a firewall and your administrator has blocked streamed data. To get this up and running on you Linux box, add this last part into Netscape, again using steps 6 7. Desciption: Live365 MIMEType: audio/x-scpls Suffixes: .pls Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s So, now maybe you want to hop over to MP3.com and have a lsiten over there. No problem. look down the list for MPEG Audio. Once you find it, click on it, then click on edit. Change the following: MIMEType: audio/mpeg Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) We have to add another one now. Follow step 6 7 to add this one in. Desciption: MPEG Audio 2 MIMEType: audio/x-mpegurl Suffixes: .m3u Application: /usr/bin/realplay %s (Click OK) That should do it. Now the G2 player will handle all that media from the web with little or no hiccups. Enjoy! We would like to hear your feedback. Hope you fine them helpful and Thanks to the author of these instructions. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I just installed Bamboo, everything worked fine (P4 1.8, 256DDR, mobo MSI645Ultra and Ge2MX400). I selected italian as primary language and english as secondary lenguage during installation, and when I started Mandrake Control Center it was in italian. After that, I added english as secondary language in KDE control center (there was only the italian language) and MDK control center now it's n english. I removed english from the KDE control center but the MDK control center it's still in english. I also executed OO to check how much time it takes to load, and I found it in english too! Unfortunately, I executed OO after all the stuff described above. Is there a solution? I also have the Mandrake login in english, from the first boot... Thanks Olaf Olaf, Within KDE try: Kstart - Configuration - Other - LocaleDrake and select the language you wish to use. Larry -- Abit VP-6 Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdksmp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's working now :). Still, very weird behavior. I'll have to check mandrake.com and see if there's a bug report. Thanks again Larry for all your help. Jeremy Gregorio Yep, you're welcome. Sometimes strange and unexplainable things happen.. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Thanks for the suggestion (I hadn't realized there was a way to pass options to it) but it's still trying to treat the 'audiocd:/?device=/dev/sdc' as an url, and heading off to google. What really bugs me is I know it's worked before, and I don't know what made it stop. Thanks again though. Jeremy Gregorio Check in the KDE Control Center - Sound - Audio CDs and In Konqueor - Settings - Previews -Audio CD Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, Yes, this is probably an IO problem. I tried but the installation still stops with an error. Other ideas ? Regards, Stephane Go back and double check your dip settings for the hard drive and the cd-roms to insure they are set correctly as 'master or slave Try making and booting from a floppy image. I had to do this on one machine. Larry Sounds like an io problem, try installing by passing the noauto switch. That is when installing hit F1 and linux noauto this will bypass the hardware detection. G'Luck Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: When I enter 'audiocd:/' in the location bar of konqueror, it treats it as a web url (or sometimes decides to search google with the pharse 'audiocd:'. Thing is, I've used it before on this install. Am I doing something wrong, or did something get foobared along the way? I've got write permissions to the sg* files in dev, but I haven't a clue what else could go wrong. TIA :) Jeremy Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] device Set the path to the audio CD device, e.g. audiocd:/?device=/dev/sdc. Normally, the slave will try to find a CD drive with an audio CD inserted, but if it fails or you have more than one CD drive, you may want to try this option. Note that the configuration dialog allows you to set a default value for this option. This is from the info file in KDE Control Center Protocols audiocd. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with 8MB of cache. But the same happens with my older IBM 10GB and my Fujitsu 40GB (just tested tonight for the Fujitsu) I think my EEC settings are OK, I can choose between no EEC, detection, detection+correction or something else that I don't remember. I tried no ECC and correction, it made no difference. The processor is in socket 1, as recommended by MSI I am now testing with a Redhat 6.2 CD (I didn't know Mandrake at that time :-) and it seems to work allright. That's a 2.2.14 kernel. I strongly suspect that something in the 2.4 kernel has to be switched off, but I can't figure what... Any ideas ? Thanks for your help ! Stephane Sounds like an io problem, try installing by passing the noauto switch. That is when installing hit F1 and linux noauto this will bypass the hardware detection. G'Luck Larry I don't have the same motherboard but the AMD 768 works just fine on the Asus A7M266-D. On this machine I run 2x AMD2400+ with Matrox drives. Had a problem with one machine with the same problems installing linux, it was on a WD drive, it simply would not install. You might double check your BIOS settings for the memory EEC settings. BTW which cpu socket are you using? Not sure if it makes any difference. ??? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, First of all, greetings to all of you ! My name is Stephane Junique, I am new on this list. I have been a Mandrake user for a few years and a Linux user since 95. I hope I'll get everything right from the first post :-) I am looking for someone with a Linux system running on a MSI K7D Master-L motherboard (the bi-processor mobo for the Athlon from MSI). It seems that linux has trouble handling this beast, probably (from what I have found so far) with the AMD 768 south-bridge. I don't have the same motherboard but the AMD 768 works just fine on the Asus A7M266-D. On this machine I run 2x AMD2400+ with Matrox drives. Had a problem with one machine with the same problems installing linux, it was on a WD drive, it simply would not install. You might double check your BIOS settings for the memory EEC settings. BTW which cpu socket are you using? Not sure if it makes any difference. ??? Larry My system consists of the MSI motherboard, one Athlon 2400MP, one memory module (512MB Apacer, reg ECC), a GeForce4MX graphics card, a Chieftec 420W powersupply, a HDD and a DVD drive. I can't seem to install Linux on this system. I tried Mandrake 9.1, 8.2, as well as several RedHat distributions. Most of the time, the installation stops with I/O error, impossible to read blablabla.rpm (or some similar message) and sometimes it just crashes. It usually takes between 5 and 15 minutes. I tested the memory modules with memtest86, it looked OK. I switched the memory module (I have 2 identical + a nonECC/nonreg one), the processor (I have 2 spare Athlom 2000XP), the power supply, the HDD and the DVD. Most of these parts are known to work on another motherboard. Finally, I got the motherboard replaced. Still the same problem. While browsing this list, I found a thread with pointers to programs to test the hardware. Since I can't install an OS on the HDD, I downloaded Knoppix (a Linux distro running from the CD) and used it to test some more. I ran some burnCPU utilities: burnK7 for a couple of hours, then burnMMX for a couple of hours. No crash and no error message from the programs. I then started to copy the CD to the harddrive and the system hanged... I went to the BIOS, turned off IDE DMA, switched PIO to 1, but it got no better. I tried to use a PCI IDE adapter (Promise) instead of the one on the motherboard, but no luck. And it's not a hardware problem, no such problems under Windows... Irritating, isn't it ? By the way, the motherboard is described as Tested hardware for both MDK 8.2 and 9.1 in the HW database. Any ideas what is going on ? Best Regards, Stephane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] no USB mouse in 9.1
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on Redhat 9 as my main OS), but the options are simular. Here's the relevent part of my grub.conf: title Mandrake 9.1 root (hd0,7) kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk root=/dev/hda9 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi pci=noapic noapic initrd (hd0,7)/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img Sadly this didn't work. I've got an Nforce2 based board, the chipset's made by nvidia. Support for the board is relavively new, but the mouse does work during install. I'm at a loss here. The nodes seem to be in /dev and seem to be corrent. The driver selection seems fine in XF86Config-4. Heck, if I run 'XFree86 -configure' X claims to have found the mouse on /dev/mouse (a sym link to /dev/usbmouse which in turn links to /dev/input/mice, if I remember correctly). There's also nothing in my XFree86.0.log to indicate a problem. The mouse will light up briefly during boot (it's an optical) but then go dead and stay that way. I really don't know what to do. Jeremy Gregorio Try booting with linux acpi=off Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] aiuto!!!
stefano macchiavelli wrote: Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Stefano e vi scrivo da Bologna. Tempo fa ho installato Mandrake 8.2 ma ho avuto da subito dei problemi con i dispositivi cdrom e floppy. Ogni volta che tento di accedervi compare una finestra che mi nega l'accesso. Gli how-to che ho letto in proposito docono che si tratti di un reale inconveniente. Così ho deciso di disinstallare Mandrake 8.2 e di provare a installare la versione 9.1, per vedere se cambia qualcosa. Sulla mia macchina ho 2 hard disk: uno con win98, l'altro con mandrake 8.2. Vorrei sapere come fare per disinstallare quest'ultimo per poi provare ad installare 9.1. Help me! Grazie Stefano Macchiavelli, Bologna. You will not need to remove the 8.2 version to install 9.1. Just install in the same partition after formating during the install phase. Mandrake version 9.1 installs and works qiute well. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sending openoffice document as fax with kdeprintfax
R N dev wrote: Hi, A friend of mine need to send documents by fax using kdeprintfax (trying to forget windoze;-) Is there a way to send an openoffice document with it? do i Have to suggest to add a filter? something like soffice/* soffice -tp %out %in or similar? Thanks Angelo There is procedure in the openoffice help files. Basically it's: Setting up Efax as a fax printer in OpenOffice... Run /usr/lib/openoffice/spadmin as root. # or the dir where you have installed Select add new printer Select fax printer Set command to: fax send (PHONE) (TMP) Save and exit. Now when you want to fax you can select your new fax printer from the list of available printers in OpenOffice. A dialogue will pop up asking you for the phone number. The only problem with this approach is that you don't get any feedback about errors. You can try fax send -v (PHONE) (TMP) in that case. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs
**From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the following on the screen: 'installing driver for bus/firewire card Texas Instruments|TSB43AB21 iEEE-1394 controller (PHY/Link) 1394a-2000' The 1394 is builtin and can't be disabled in BIOS. Is there a workaround; such, as a kernel parameter which'll disable loading of the driver? Thanks Roger Try the linux noauto to bypass the hardware detection. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Shorewall
Joseph Loo wrote: I recently installed a fresh copy of Mandrake 9.1 and included the shorewall firewall. I have a modem hookup. When I try to ping a site e.g. www.ibm.com the system never seems to respond. It looks like the firewall is preventing something from happening. I have enable the shorewall to allow everything and none. If I have none, I can ping specific addresses with no problems. It seems to me that the program is not allowing the standard dns client information to either broadcast or receive. Note, I also found out that the local systems tied via an ehternet connection will not allow me to ping any addresses. It seems to me that the system allows the ping but does not allow the responds to come back. This is true when everything is blocked but it allows when nothing is blocked. At this time I have 2 problems, the firewall can not distinguish the local network versus the internet (I use mandrak configuration tool to add the modem into the syste but no such luck). and the rules needed to allow the internet to communicate. Some systems are set not to respond to pings... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] other OS booting real slow after install of Mandrake(lilo used as multiboot)
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi everyone, Before you flame me for using Windows 2000 Pro :) , I am a gamer and since my favourite games don't exist for linux, I have to dualboot. I already installed Mandrake 3 times on this machine :) after managing to thrash my linux severely when my mobo was not yet supported and I have same funny effect each time. Windows 2000 boots ok till before the login screen and then it stays there aparently doing nothing for almost 2 minutes... It is annoying. After I do a repair installation of windows 2000 it works ok again till next time I recompile the kernel and install it. Same thing happened to me when I tried to install debian on this machine. So I am starting to beleive it is linux/lilo related. I started letting my system permanently on just to avoid the annoying effect, but don't think this is a good longterm solution. Another funny thing is that a repair install of win2k doesn't remove lilo. I wanted to clean up my system at one point to move linux to a new hdd, but lilo remained. Trying a format /mbr didn't do anything. Does anyone know how to remove lilo and let the previous OS boot normally? Best regards, Adrian You might want to install the Windows 2000 Recovery Console as a startup option. Afterwards read the help section for recover console, fixing the master boot device. Something as; fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0 should do it. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. During the recovery process some inodes and segments files seemed to have been identified as lost and deleted (I do not remember the exact message). After fixing the problem the computer booted up normally but now I get messages such as Can't write file /var/log/linuxconf/netconf.log I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would record the location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data was lost. Why?! Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special action? Thanks, Andrei Check to verify that the file exist and check write permissions. If no file then as Root do a : touch /var/log/netconfig.log This should set the file in place for writing. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues
Azrael wrote: Just bought and installed a pioneer dvr-105 (dvd-r/rw burner). I've installed it as /dev/hdc. Two issues: 1) In xcdroast it only appears as an atapi device, rather than available as emulated scsi, unlike my plextor cdrw which appears as both. I tried to remedy this with adding 'hdc=ide-scsi' to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf but no change. Am I supposed to edit /etc/modules.conf ? This is what I already have in modules.conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi ataraid probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias eth0 eepro100 above snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 options bttv radio=0 card=9 gbuffers=4 2) The second problem is actually using the dvd burner. I believe cdrecord-2.01-0.a16.1mdk supports dvd burning, and I am using it. But xcdroast fails to either burn anything onto a dvd-rw, or to blank it. No way I am making dvd-r coasters until I am sure it works, at which point I hope not to make coasters anyway. Advice/assistance very much welcomed Just make sure that you have the correct append stanza in your lilo.conf or grub. Then rerun lilo -v to install with the changes. Which version of Mandrake are you using, I have ML 9.1 and there is a program cdrecord-dvdhack-2.0-2.2mdk, this version include a basic DVD support. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:31 am, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:52, Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability? I agree. This would be very useful. It would certainly simplify life for those users who do not have a dedicated connection, potentially greatly reducing stress or concern about what will happen if the connection is terminated early (for whatever reason). Best wishes, Damon not realy sure if this is what you have in mind, but the --wget option seems to work from some mirrors as an auto-resume after break function Err...do you mean that MandrakeUpdate has a switch '--wget'? I did a 'man MandrakeUpdate' and get nada. Doing a 'MandrakeUpdate --help' produces nothing useful either. In any case, since I would expect that a lot of users, particularly new users, would start the update process from DrakConf rather than from a CLI, they would not tend to use command line switches, just icons. Autoresume should be builtin by default. praedor I think that MandrakeUpdate is just a link to rpmdrake. Rpmdrake uses urpmi to do all the work. See man urpmi Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Monitor refresh rates
Anne Wilson wrote: I want to put a lcd monitor onto my old box. The refresh rate, as it was on the ancient monitor is too high for this, so it won't let me boot into x. I tried failsafe + text mode, and tried to run XFdrake from the command line, but only got a blank screen. There must be some way to get to the monitor setup program. How can I do it? Anne Configure X from the console. As root XFdrake Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] joypad and cs46xx ?
Steffen Barszus, Have you tried loading module cs461x? Hi! I have an analog joypad here (interact pc powerpad pro) with a gameport connector. My soundcard is a Terratec Xfire 1024 (cs46xx). According to lsmod the modul gameport is loaded. Any hints what else have to be done to get this working ? ns558 does not work modprobe joydev = done , no error modprobe analog with some option = done no errors Works : The buttons doesn't work : The stick/throttle Someboady with similar hardware out there ? I know I had it running with Mdk 9.0 and the onboard-sound gameport. Any hints ? Thanks Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Routing with 2 different subnets
On Monday 23 June 2003 04:03, Ken Walker wrote: what's cli command to show the following ? /sbin/route Ref: 1. man route many thanks Ken Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 usb0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.10.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0 Then I changed usb0 to 192.168.0.10 and I had Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.10 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 usb0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.10.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 eth0 I switched off the pda, later switched it on again and -boom- my eth0 was gone! I had Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.10 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 usb0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 usb0 127.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.10.0.0.0 UG0 0 0 usb0 WTF! Now I have switched off the pda, usb0 is gone and I was left with lo as single network device! I did a 'service network status' and it listed eth0 as active. I did a 'service network stop' and then started it again and there was eth0 again. I switched on the pda and eth0 was gone and usb0 took it's place. wobo -- Public GnuPG key available at http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] create fat32 file system
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:26, Thomas Gamble wrote: At 03:45 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation no it is not true. He may be thinking of the 4GB file size limit for fat32. That's 2GB 2GB or 4GB ??. Is this information incorrect: http://ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw
richard bown wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 06:42, Larry Sword wrote: richard bown wrote: Hi Larry, read your mail , unticked the on the fly box and action and then it did this Wrote 17 of 24 MB. ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF F1 E3 00 00 1A 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 71 00 04 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 91 41 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, deferred error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x91 Qual 0x41 (vendor unique sense code 0x91) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 4.114s timeout 20s ERROR: Write data failed. ERROR: Writing failed. so its a string of monosyllabic four letter words. I wonder if I've got a duff cdrw, as there's a hardware error. any thoughts ?? Richard Well to check the cdrw I returned it to the shop, with the printout showing a hardware error, so got a new one ,,,and its the same :) How do you have the Settings - Configure K3b Devices set? Under the Writer for Cdrdao driver:?? . I have mine set as generic-mmc. For ARTEC it seem to be generic-mmc-raw ## Plus, I don't think this will make any difference, have the Dvd settings as a hdd=ide-scsi. yup did that During setup the program added the following stanza in my /etc/fstab file: # /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorderauto ro,noauto,user,exec0 0 Umm just looked at my fstab K3b setup has made a right mess of it ! ev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /music ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /video ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target3/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Well I only have 1 cd drive on the machine at the moment which is the cdrw, As I have scsi emulation do I need the dev/hdd line in ?, the last line can go as its a duplicate Hmmm point us in the right direction on this TIA Richard Well if you only have the one cd-writer attached to the system: 1. Make and save a copy of the fstab. 2. Remove the all lines added by k3b. 3. Remove the supermount lines for /dev/hdd. 4. Modify the /etc/lilo.conf and ensure that only the correct append statement for the one cd-writer in indicated: hdc=ide-scsi??? 5. Run lilo to install (as Root). 6. Reboot machine. If a clean reboot run cdrecord -scanbus to virify the correct info fot the cd-writer. 7. Ensure that the stanza the /etc/fstab is correct and pointing to the right link. Correct as necessary. 8. Try running a data cd in the writer to ensure it reads okay. 9. Re-run the K3b Setup program. 10. Check the /etc/fstab to verify thre correct stanza added. 11. Run K3b and change the correct cdrdao in installed... 12. Burn Burn Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw
richard bown wrote: I edited out the previous post as it was getting long. Like others I want to dump using winxp and nero and K3b is very similar in style to nero. I'm trying to run K3b in Gnome, some seem to be getting success with K3B while others like my self ar'nt. So who's is running K3b with Gnome or with KDE3.1. The other files that K3b looks for and I cant find:- eMovix, tccat, tcdecode, tcextract, tcprobe tcscan What function do they have? , and have those who have success with K3b loaded them ? If I can find a way of getting K3b top burn audio cd for mp3 files or even better vcd's, the old windows machine is redundant as win4lin ver 5 can handle all the other win apps I use TIA Richard 1. System: Abit VP-6 with 2x1Ghz Intel. Santa Cruz Soundcard, 512 MB memory, PlexWriter 12/10/32A and a Sony DvD. 2. OS: Mandrake 9.1 with all updated. I have used K3b for writing data backups, ISO images, copying data and audio cd with now problems whatsoever. So thought I'd try the MP3 to audio procedure. Opened a new audio project and drag 'n drop 19 MP3's and started the burn. I did uncheck on the fly box so as to rip the mp3 to wave files before burning the audio disk. This procedure worked flawlessly. Conclusion: K3b Works... Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw
richard bown wrote: Hi Larry, read your mail , unticked the on the fly box and action and then it did this Wrote 17 of 24 MB. ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF F1 E3 00 00 1A 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 71 00 04 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 91 41 00 00 Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, deferred error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x91 Qual 0x41 (vendor unique sense code 0x91) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 4.114s timeout 20s ERROR: Write data failed. ERROR: Writing failed. so its a string of monosyllabic four letter words. I wonder if I've got a duff cdrw, as there's a hardware error. any thoughts ?? Richard How do you have the Settings - Configure K3b Devices set? Under the Writer for Cdrdao driver:?? . I have mine set as generic-mmc. ## Plus, I don't think this will make any difference, have the Dvd settings as a hdd=ide-scsi. During setup the program added the following stanza in my /etc/fstab file: # /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd/mnt/cdrecorderauto ro,noauto,user,exec0 0 ?? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] create fat32 file system
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 10:09 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:10:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:03 pm, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: Fat16 has suport to 4gb, but its not recommended to driver greater than 512mb, i think You could be right - it's a long time ago. Thinking about it, it was cluster size rather than support of partition size that made us break our 8GB drives down into several partitions. Anne If it helps the original poster. Check your BIOS and see if it recognises the whole disk first. My Epox-6VBA (circa 1999 from memory) would only recognise 32Gigs of a 40Gig Seagate. I can't remember how big a drive we were talking about. A friend of mine, though found his bios wouldn't support his new 80GB drive, but got a pci Promise controller card and has found it works fine. Are they recognised under Mandrake? Anne We all work with facts that we can not remember where they came. I've found it's always best or required to have and provide a reference source to support these facts. Reference for file systems are found at microsoft + numerous other places. Reference: 1. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 100108 2. http://www.ntfs.com Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB CDR/RW include on fstab (SENT-AGAIN)
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: First you need to make sure where is the correct mount for the drive. cdrecord -scanbus this command will display the scsibus0 and / or scsibus1 and the drive that is on this channel. I'm not sure of the cd-writer but the first drive on the bus normally is /dev/sda1. You might try, with data cd, mounting. If this works then it should be a simple mater of placing the correct links in place to be able to use this drive as a cd-writer. You need to place the correct append statement in the lilo file. Larry Hi Experts, I'm resending this mail, because i don't know if it was recieved. Please excuse me if you are reading this for the second time. Greetings -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [expert] USB CDR/RW include on fstab Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:35:06 -0400 From: Gonzalo Avaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Experts, how are you. I hope everything is going great. Well, i have a little question, very basic. I bought a Asus external USB CD-R/RW unit, and want to install it on linux, i would like to know if this line on the fstab it's OK for a CD-R unit or not: /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 where ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrw has been done,. So, do i have to add anything else or is it all right? I'm asking because if i mount the unit i recieve the following error: gonzalo~ mount /mnt/cdrom2 mount: No medium found gonzalo~ With a data or music cd inside. The same always. I have to mention that the cdr unit is made to work with USB 2.0 to get the higest speed, but i've been told that if i work with a USB 1.1 (wich i have) the unit will work OK but at the minimun speed. So, any ideas?? Thanks for your time Best wishes to all. Gonzalo Avaria Linux User From The End Of The World CHILE --- 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw
charlie wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:23 pm, Colin Close had this to contribute :- richard bown wrote: Hi has anyone on the list had experience of setting up K3b, I can burn data files but not audio. selecting audio project reports no cdrd driver found when a burn is started, yet its found when data file are burnt. TIA richard bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hi, I had this problem the fix was to run the k3b setup program from my user login. The config did not seem to take when I did it as root after the install. This prog does seem pretty buggy to me; if you start an audio project for example and select mp3 files after you have selected them there is no way to refer back to what you have selected. Still it does work for me. Colin Close I have to admit that surprises me, but then it occurred to me that something I forgot to mention in that post, being that I don't use supermount. That has been removed and therefore I don't mount the CD or CD drive. Just pop in the CD, then su - in the shell and k3b and we have liftoff. I don't know if this makes any difference, I only mention it because supermount in Mandrake affects my system in so many detrimental ways that it boggles my mind, and can't explain why it does this. The minute that I disable it, it seems that Linux was written for the two systems that I run here at home and also systems of friends that I help with Linux distro's of one kind or another. It is nothing that I do otherwise, as I am only just over 12 months new to Linux. So maybe k3b runs differently under supermount guidance? Charlie. Not here. I have supermount and it works fine. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] create fat32 file system
David, Have you tried it with the -F switch? mkfs.vfat -F 32 Hi, when i type mkfs.vfat /dev/hdb1 it says ..Attempting to create too large file system. Why? /dev/hdb1 is 20GB large. Thanks David Hlacik 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] kernels updates !!??
Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2003 00:13, PlugHead wrote: [Re-directed to the list, after replying to Rodrigo...] IIRC, you should *always* use rpm -i (install) for kernel rpms, not -F (freshen, i.e. update.) Doing so could (will?) result in a non-bootable system (because update will try to delete your current kernel and--even if it succeeds--the new one might not work.) Here's a concise sure-fire manual way to upgrade the Mandrake kernels with the new rpm versions Mandrake issues. Upgrading with vanilla kernel.org sources with any extra patches differs, and is a little more complicated, but for Mandrake rpms, the steps below are all that's needed. 1. Download the new kernel and kernel source rpms to their own directory you create in /home (two rpms). 2.Open a console, su to root, and cd to that directory. 3. Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm 4. After they install, check the following locations: 1. /etc/lilo.conf. You should now see the new stanza for the new kernel at the bottom. 2. /boot. You should now see items for the new kernel there. 3. /usr/src. There should be a new directory there for the new kernel. 4. /lib/modules. There should be a new kernel modules directory there. If all that checks out, you have done it, and can reboot, and choose the new kernel in the lilo boot screen. The old kernel will still be listed, and available. That's all there is to it with the Mandrake rpm kernel updates, as all copying and editing is done automatically. Robert Crawford Yep this is the way it's done.. but it sure is questionable why in the Mandrake notice on the kernel, *MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:066 : kernel the have the following: * To upgrade automatically, use *MandrakeUpdate*. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server mirrors http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php and upgrade with rpm -Fvh *.rpm. :-P Larry * * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release
Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the acpi=off to the boot. But now with the new kernel I've lost all usb devices and the acpi=off or on doesn't make a difference. No mouse, no joystick, no radio and no anything off the usb bus. Any thoughts on getting the usb devices back?? Larry Situation Report -- After of hours of troubleshooting, a few moments sleep, and suggestions from James Sparenberg and Greg Meyer the system stands as follows: 1. Abit VP-6 with VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset (VT82C694X and VT82C686B). My system has 2x pentium 1GB cpu. 2. The system will not assign an address or recognize any device off the onboard usb ports. This is with all the various switches used during boot. pci=noacpi acpi=off apic=off noapic. 3. There is a NEC 2.0 card installed in the machine. 4. The system now boot without any switches being used. The usb ports are all seen in usbview but will not assign address to the devices on the onboard ports. 5. The usb ports on the NEC 2.0 card is displayed and works fine with all the usb devices attached. 6 .Looks as if the new ML kernel as changed / corrected some problems with the acpi but not those on the VT82C686B on the Abit VP-6. Thankfully I had the NEC card installed. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release
Yes that's the one as released and announced by Mandrake Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:066. Interesting thread. However - I only see the kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm in the updates section. Is that the kernel you folks are talking about ? If that's the case - then the agpgart patch for the ATI-Radeon fglrx extension has not been included. Well - kind of nasty when I always have to recompile my kernels because I need to patch some things ;) to get the X-Display working. PS: The alsa-0.9.4 drivers are also working nice - but you need to disable the verbose printk in configure during the driver build. Cheers Joerg 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
[expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release
Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the acpi=off to the boot. But now with the new kernel I've lost all usb devices and the acpi=off or on doesn't make a difference. No mouse, no joystick, no radio and no anything off the usb bus. Any thoughts on getting the usb devices back?? Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release
James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:20, Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the acpi=off to the boot. But now with the new kernel I've lost all usb devices and the acpi=off or on doesn't make a difference. No mouse, no joystick, no radio and no anything off the usb bus. Any thoughts on getting the usb devices back?? Larry Larry, I'm willing to bet usb isn't starting. do lsmod and look for usbhci (or similar my spelling may be off) if you don't see it do /etc/init.d/usb restart if that brings it back do chkconfig usb on and it will restart on bootup. James James, Thank you. I started looking at everything and found that the usb on the motherboard which has the hub attached with mouse and such is not working. I have a NEC2.0 card and when changing the mouse and radio to this card the system now works with these attachments. What has happened to the motherboard usbs not being able to attach anything is the question now. I tried these connection with WindowsXP and they still work as usual, just not in ML with the new kernel. BTW this is running without the requirement of acpi=off now. Sill troubleshooting Thanks Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 10:20 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the acpi=off to the boot. But now with the new kernel I've lost all usb devices and the acpi=off or on doesn't make a difference. No mouse, no joystick, no radio and no anything off the usb bus. Any thoughts on getting the usb devices back?? Larry I need the noapic parameter in addition to the acpi=off in order to get my usb and network running. noapic is usually the magic fix for usb devices not working. Greg, Thanks Greg. See my reply to the message from James Sparenberg. System is working now with the NEC2.0 card and without the requirement to boot with the switch acip=off. However I am still troubleshooting the system and will try with the switch you suggest to see if that will bring back the on board usb connections. Thanks Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I apologize if this will show up as duplicate but the original seemed not to reach the list] I have installed linux Mandrake 9.1 on my SONY VAIO GRV6161S Laptop. Since the VAIO has no PS/2 ports I bought the following adapter to attach a PS/2 keyboard and mouse to one of my USB ports : http://www.gwctech.com/ebproductdetail.asp?id=48 Everything works fine under winXP (I am on dual boot), but on Mdk the only the external keyboard works. the external mouse is not seen, only the laptop's touchpad (which is seen as a PS/2) itself is detected. In both cases the keyboard works at boot time, before any OS loads. I searched the web - but could not find a solution yet. has anyone got a clue ? I'd be happy to load additional drivers ... ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Larry cheers, Edo PS - more info : /var/log/messages contains the following lines: Jun 9 22:46:43 edolxv /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 0/0/0 Jun 9 22:46:43 edolxv /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbkbd hid for USB product d3d/1/1 Jun 9 22:46:43 edolxv /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 0/0/0 Jun 9 22:46:43 edolxv /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup keybdev for USB product d3d/1/1 and this is the output of KDE's USB Viewer: Generic USBPS2 Manufacturer: Tangtop Speed: 1.5Mb/s (low) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 0d3d Product Id: 0001 Revision Number: 0.01 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 2 Attributes: a0 MaxPower Needed: 100mA Interface Number: 0 Name: keyboard Alternate Number: 0 Class: 03(HID ) Sub Class: 01 Protocol: 01 Number of Endpoints: 1 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 3 Type: Int. Max Packet Size: 8 Interval: 10ms Interface Number: 1 Name: hid Alternate Number: 0 Class: 03(HID ) Sub Class: 01 Protocol: 02 Number of Endpoints: 1 Endpoint Address: 82 Direction: in Attribute: 3 Type: Int. Max Packet Size: 5 Interval: 10ms 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] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse
James Sparenberg wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Linus might not like this *grin* sorry couldn't resist it. Wow, a slip of the fingers and I find myself being internally intrusive. Apologies to the big guy :-[ . On a serious note I think Larry is right... you may need to run mousedrake as it's taking the first mouse it sees and auto configuring it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Sword wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Larry that was the very first thing that I tried, with no help. I told mousedrake I have a USB mouse (as under WinXP it is seen as a HID-compliant mouse) but with no luck. Sounds as if the connections are okay if they work in windows. here is some additional info about my mopdules and devices: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecomar]# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc=217/900 us (24%), #Int= 2, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=1820 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0d3d ProdID=0001 Rev= 0.01 S: Manufacturer=Tangtop S: Product=Generic USBPS2 C:* #Ifs= 2 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=keyboard E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=10ms I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 5 Ivl=10ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=1800 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms Nope don't see a usb mouse loading. My system shows: C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=046d ProdID=c00e Rev=11.00 S: Manufacturer=Logitech S: Product=USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse videodev8160 1 [dsbr100] keybdev 2720 0 (unused) mousedev5368 1 hid21124 0 (unused) input 6048 0 [usbmouse keybdev mousedev hid] ehci-hcd 19208 0 (unused) usb-ohci 21320 0 (unused) usb-uhci 25772 0 (unused) usbcore76608 1 [usbmouse dsbr100 hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci usb-uhci]rtc 8828 0 (autoclean) ext3 62572 2 jbd42568 2 [ext3] sd_mod 11580 0 (unused) ataraid 6980 0 (unused) scsi_mod 94516 3 [sr_mod ide-scsi sd_mod] Try reloading the usb. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 18:16, Larry Sword wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Linus might not like this *grin* sorry couldn't resist it. Wow, a slip of the fingers and I find myself being internally intrusive. Apologies to the big guy :-[ . On a serious note I think Larry is right... you may need to run mousedrake as it's taking the first mouse it sees and auto configuring it. Just had another thought.. XP might be ignoring BIOS and doing the usb mouse. My laptop had/has a setting for multiple/internal/external mouse. Here I couldn't use a USB mouse until I set it for multiple on another laptop... oh and if you haven't guessed I'm grasping at straws here. James You might even try changing within the file, /etc/sysconfig/usb: MOUSE=no to MOUSE=yes and then reboot the system. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade
Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support the chip but...in any case, this is true, it seems, only with windoze when using a special MSI-supplied application for overclocking. After changing cpu from the Duron, FSB=100, you will need to change the FSB for the Athlon XP2700+ to FSB=133, this will set the correct speed for the processor. Not sure why the system would not boot into your ML OS. You may have to rescue boot and insure that the fstb is correct and the sound system Larry I downloaded the latest bios upgrade for this mobo thinking/hoping it would add support for XP2000 and higher chips but. After upgrading the bios, Windoze ME still fires up just fine but Linux is hosed. I can boot up in failsafe mode and from there start up graphics and networking just fine as root. If I try to login from failsafe as a user, if fails to start XFree. This isn't the main problem at this point, however. The primary problem is if I try to startup linux via a normal kernel and graphical startup, I get a screen full of error messages having to do with unable to touch /var/lock/subsys/whatever no such file or directory and I also get an error message about being unable to mount most of my partitions because their /dev/hd* entries do not exist. Ultimately, the bootup fails when the system gets to the point of trying to start the system logger, at which point it just sits for a long time and then the screen goes blank and that's it. Why would I be able to start up just fine, graphics and all, all my partitions, all my /var/lock/... files, etc, from failsafe all the way to graphics (but only for root) but not be able to do the same from a normal bootup? How do I go about fixing this? Since I can get in as root via failsafe I am not yet ready to try reinstalling and feel that the system MUST be salvagable, but where to start? And why would a bios upgrade do this in such an odd manner, affecting only the graphical bootup but leaving the failsafe bootup (to graphics) intact? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade
Larry Sword wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support the chip but...in any case, this is true, it seems, only with windoze when using a special MSI-supplied application for overclocking. After changing cpu from the Duron, FSB=100, you will need to change the FSB for the Athlon XP2700+ to FSB=133, this will set the correct speed for the processor. Better make that FSB=166 for the XP2700+ while operating at 333. Not sure why the system would not boot into your ML OS. You may have to rescue boot and insure that the fstb is correct and the sound system Larry I downloaded the latest bios upgrade for this mobo thinking/hoping it would add support for XP2000 and higher chips but. After upgrading the bios, Windoze ME still fires up just fine but Linux is hosed. I can boot up in failsafe mode and from there start up graphics and networking just fine as root. If I try to login from failsafe as a user, if fails to start XFree. This isn't the main problem at this point, however. The primary problem is if I try to startup linux via a normal kernel and graphical startup, I get a screen full of error messages having to do with unable to touch /var/lock/subsys/whatever no such file or directory and I also get an error message about being unable to mount most of my partitions because their /dev/hd* entries do not exist. Ultimately, the bootup fails when the system gets to the point of trying to start the system logger, at which point it just sits for a long time and then the screen goes blank and that's it. Why would I be able to start up just fine, graphics and all, all my partitions, all my /var/lock/... files, etc, from failsafe all the way to graphics (but only for root) but not be able to do the same from a normal bootup? How do I go about fixing this? Since I can get in as root via failsafe I am not yet ready to try reinstalling and feel that the system MUST be salvagable, but where to start? And why would a bios upgrade do this in such an odd manner, affecting only the graphical bootup but leaving the failsafe bootup (to graphics) intact? praedor __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Avery business cards
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there a program or a way to use a word processor to print business cards using Avery cards? There are 10 cards/sheet and each card is 2 x 31/2. Thanks, Sure, use openoffice writer. File - New - Business Cards. There is a setting (template) for Avery Cards. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hardware compatibility 2.0
r. wrote: Hello all! Six month ago, I bought a new mobo ... onboard, my new mobo have the Promise chip PDC20276 That offers the possibility to add 4 hard disk more and set them like Raid 0 or Raid 1 (MotherBoard : Asus P4T533 ) ... I was running MDK 9.0 ... and all my five hard disk was working ok !! but, last monday, I installed MDK9.1 ... and my disk on RAID dissapear .. Harddrake, shows only disks on primary or secondary ide... and show an unknown device : Vendor: ?Promise Technology, Inc. Bus: ?PCI Bus identification: ?105a:5275:1043:807e Location on the bus: ?2:2:0 Description: ?20276 Module: ?unknown Media class: ?STORAGE_RAID PCI-KDE control module shows a little more information ... : Raid bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 IDE (rev 01)(prog-if 85) Subsystem : Asustek Computer, Inc. Unknown Device 807e Flags : bus master 66mhz, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 I/O ports at d800 [size=8] I/O ports at d400 [size=4] I/O ports at d000 [size=8] I/O ports at b800 [size=4] I/O ports at b800 [size=16] Memory at ed80 (32-bit, non prefetchtable ) [size=16k] Capabilities : available only to root module problem ? .. kernel ? Any idea will be super welcome !! Rodrigo Sanchez DGF, U. de Chile Just a guess Have one motherboard with raid controllers, Abit with HPT, but I don't use raid. However the following is in my modules.conf file: # probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi ataraid # So you might see if the module ataraid is being loaded. Also when I loaded ML 9.1 my system would not boot without adding acpi=off which did not happen with ML 9.0. You might try booting with this stanza. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hardware compatibility 2.1
Since I don't use raid I can't be much help. I do know that my Highpoint loads the hptraid module. Have you tried to load the Promise module pdcraid? Maybe force it. Larry Hi Larry .. I agree about acpi=off... My old modules.conf was: alias autofs autofs4 probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci probeall usb-interface usb-uhci usb-ohci ehci-hcd above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss an the new-one (your modification included ..): alias autofs autofs4 probeall scsi_hostadapter usb-storage ide-scsi ataraid - (Note usb-storage ) probeall usb-interface usb-uhci usb-ohci ehci-hcd above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci But, It didn't work ...--- Rodrigo Sanchez DGF, U. de Chile Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess Have one motherboard with raid controllers, Abit with HPT, but I don't use raid. However the following is in my modules.conf file: # probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi ataraid # So you might see if the module ataraid is being loaded. Also when I loaded ML 9.1 my system would not boot without adding acpi=off which did not happen with ML 9.0. You might try booting with this stanza. Larry 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] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound
Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG16 (ALC200/200P) via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xD000, IRQ 10 But I can't use kmix to configure volume and no audio while playing avi file. Is there anything I missed? Try using the aumix program. Thanks, - ¨C¤Ñ³£ Yahoo!©_¼¯ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - À°§Aºâ¥X³Ì¦X¾Aªº¨D¾¤è¦V http://fate.yahoo.com.tw/ 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] xcdroast -iso files
richard bown wrote: Thanks Jack, but I just managed to make a straight copy on to the cd, so there's a bit I've missed ? TIA Richard Ref: file:/usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98/FAQ Q: 17. Uh...I feel stupid but how to write downloaded ISO-images? A: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux distribution) you have to copy that big file (extension should be .iso) first to an image-directory of X-CD-Roast. You specify these directories in Setup at the HD Settings tab. These are the places where X-CD-Roast will look for audio (.wav) or data tracks. Now you enter the Create CD menu and you will see your image-file displayed nicely in the Image-Information window. Go to Write Tracks - click on Layout tracks tab, add your image-file, click on Accept track layout and finally a click at Write tracks will write that image perfectly to your CD-R/RW. - On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 22:17, Jack Coates wrote: from memory, go to create cd : write cd : master tracks. select the ISO (it must be in the directory you've configured as xcdroast's swap space) and click OK, then it'll ask if you want to proceed. On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 13:00, richard bown wrote: Sorry that was a but vague,, I have an iso image I 'd like to tun into a cd. Richard On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 21:42, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 9:38 pm, richard bown wrote: Hi, me again. Its Bill Gates fault not mine in case your getting fed up with me !!! Xcdroast , burning an iso image, its not very clear, is there a help file ?.. Or which options do I need to do this.. Just to clarify - do you have an image that you want to turn into a cd, or do you want to create an image? Anne 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:[OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!? ... now we'retalking search fundamentals!
stefmit wrote: Thank you - didn't know about this one. I will investigate those engines, in the hope for a Linux capable one. But talking about (re)search of Internet, and because you mentioned/quoted the paragraph below, then allow me to advise you to visit one very interesting site related to this subject: http://www.searchlores.org/ Click on the main icon/logo ... and welcome to Fravia's world ... On Thursday 06 March 2003 03:53 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:58, stefmit wrote: Sorry for the OT, but I am feeling so frustrated now ... I meant to ask this question for a while (Google didn't turn any positive results), but it is now when I am in dire need of an answer: is there an equivalent multi-site search agent for Linux, as Copernic is for Windows? TIA, Stef I've had success in google by using the technique of typing the following switch in the google search box, (linux: proceeded with the search term). linux:your search term This should search for items of linux nature. Larry Peruse the definitive list, site by site looking for a linux version. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/utilities.html or try the online equivalent. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/metacrawlers.html BTW http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ is a permanent bookmark of mine since i heard this quote somewhere. The internet is like a library. But a library where someone has ripped the covers off all the books and thrown them on the floor. You can either wade in yourself and pick up each book looking for what you want, or use a search engine that has already done this for you. Sorry, not verbatim, recalled from memory. 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] IDE CDR device not working
- Original Message - From: Daniel Axtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:15 Subject: [expert] IDE CDR device not working First, have you placed yourself as a member of the cdwriter group? I'm running LM 9.0 and can't get my CDR to work. This same set up works under Win98, but I need to be running Linux to do backups, etc. I have an IDE DVD-ROM and IDE CDR/W on the same IDE controller; the DVD is accessible via /mnt/cdrom, the CDR seems to be associated with /dev/scd0 (although I'm not sure how devices work with this devfs stuff). /etc/lilo.conf has append=hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet for the default boot settings. When I run cdrecord -scanbus I get cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/sg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. ide-scsi, scsi_mod, sg are all loaded into the kernel. How can I tell which is the correct device, and what parameters do I use to get cdrecord to see it? Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: [MANDRAKE-ONLINE ADVISORY] libsane1-1.0.9-3.1mdk.i586.rpmfor bejor -- Are these for real?
mike wrote: I keep on getting these messages, but when I run the update tool it says the list is null, I must have them all. But plainly, I don't as these are new messages. thanks for any insight. mg -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [MANDRAKE-ONLINE ADVISORY] libsane1-1.0.9-3.1mdk.i586.rpm for bejor Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:08:38 -0800 (PST) From: Advisory Bot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear mgrello, Welcome to the latest MandrakeOnline Security Alert. Sponsored by : MANDRAKESTORE Purchase all your favourite MandrakeSoft products from MandrakeStore. Mandrake Linux latest distributions, goodies, documents and partner software are all available from MandrakeStore. Discover MandrakeStore now! http://www.mandrakestore.com Please find below a security alert that may concern your host: 'bejor' To upgrade the package or for more information, go to http://www.mandrakeonline.net/ . Votre machine 'bejor' peut etre concernee par l'alerte de securite ci-dessous. Pour mettre a jour le package ou pour plus d'information, rendez-vous sur http://www.mandrakeonline.net/ . BUGFIX ALERT Make sure that when the final panel appears that you check the: Security updates , Bugfixes update and Normal updates as you like. This will cause the checked items or all to be available for download and updating. Larry - Name : libsane1 - Package : libsane1-1.0.9-3.1mdk.i586.rpm - Description : Updated sane packages fix various bugs Thank you for using MandrakeOnline. Merci de votre confiance! Be the next MandrakeOnline sponsor! Contact MandrakeSoft now for more information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are receiving this mail because you have subscribed to MandrakeOnline. To be removed from this mailing list, please remove your account from MandrakeProfile. For questions or suggestions, please write to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vous recevez ce mail car vous etes inscrit a MandrakeOnline. Pour se desabonner, il vous suffit de retirer votre compte a partir de MandrakeProfile. Pour toute question ou suggestion, ecrivez-nous a [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dual head with G400
Evaristo Ferrari wrote: Just install MDK9 inside a system with old G400DH but can't enable second monitor. I've heared that there are big problems setting up DH with G400 vcards. Can anyone help me ? TIA Evaristo http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/Ultimate.cgi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recognising Linux Burned CDs Under W*v
Daryl Johnson wrote: There appears to be something seriously wrong with the setup here. The writer (an HP 9100) appears to be /dev/scd0 mounted as /mnt/cdrom2. Permissions are as follows: /dev/scd0 Block Device rw-rw daryl cdwriter scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/cd /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target2//lun0/cd rw-rw darylcdwriter In Gnome-Toaster the preferences refuses to scan the bus to find the writer automatically. The settings entered manually are : Device File /dev/scd0 Scsi ID 1,0,2,0 Mountpoint /mnt/cdrom2 Drive is a CD writer Use SCSI Interface for DAE The file on the cd is recognised but attempting to blank the Cdr/w produces the remark: couldn't run client. Permission denied GCombust recognises the CD writer on the bus and identifies the correct unit but when asked to check the scsi settings produces the remark: cdrecord failed to recognise the selected drive (wrong SCSI settings or no permission to device)! X-CD-Roast is the least fussy as it identifies the writer by name, identif#ies the bus and location and appears happy to delete a file from the cd - but it doesn't burn a cd that is recognised by a Windoze m/c Sheesh. regards Daryl You didn't say which version of Mandrake you are using. I'm using version 9.0 and had some problems when the system was set to use supermount. I disabled supermount and entered myself as a member of the cdwriter group. As root: #supermount -i disable #adduser user name cdwriter Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question
Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would only burn the mp3 file as a data file no matter what setting I tried. I tried mpg123 to convert the mp3 file to a wave file but that failed also. mpg123 -w mp3file wavefile does nothing except display the help screen. mpg123 --wav mp3file wavefile at least does something if only to create an empty file named wavefile. This has been an exercise in frustration compounded by the fact that I was able the create an audio CD under MS Windows using Nero in a couple of minutes and I have never used Nero before! I use cdrecord to create back-ups but I have never had a need to create an audio CD. How do I do this? Past messages suggest the Gnome Toaster is the answer. Maybe the version supplied with Mandrake 9 is not working correctly? I would read the CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html before setting up a session to demo linux cdrecord. The section 3.2 Writing audio CD's has the full procedures for writing audio cd's including the syntax for converting mp3's and writing the audio cd's. Something like: - Quote To create a CD-R from a whole bunch of MP3-files, you can use the following command sequence: for I in *.mp3 do mpg123 --cdr - $I | cdrecord -audio -pad -nofix - done cdrecord -fix Depending on the speed of your machine, you may want to slow down writing to speed=1 (cdrecord option). If you use speed=4, your machine must be able to play the MP3-file at quadruple speed. mpg123 consumes much CPU-time! If you are in doubt, try an empty run with -dummy (keeps the laser switched off). --- End Quote Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] docbook SGML
Philip Webb wrote: i recently wanted to use a program whose dox were all in Docbook SGML. can anyone tell me how to read such documentation? file:/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7/docs/docbook/docbook.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Somebody with a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK9.0?
Stefano Pogliani wrote: If someone has a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK 9.0, could you please help me in configuring mine? I have no sound from it since when I installled 9.0 So far, 9.0 has been great for me except for this annoyance. Thanks a lot in advance for any help. Best regards /stefano Try placing the following line in your /etc/modules.conf file: alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx Works here. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:04 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: What is amazing to me is that nobody has had anything to say (positive or negative) about: 1) IBM drives 2) Seagate drives I have my own personal experiences with them, but am curious what others have seen. Blue skies... Todd Todd, IBM released a statement saying that their drives were not meant to be used 24 hours a day/7 days a week. (or somesuch to that effect). I'm have problems finding this anywhere on the IBM web site or by search. Can you please provide the source document you have for this?? Larry Since then, their reputation has been less than glowing. I've got a 60 gig Deskstar IDE that I've had no problems with (so far). Got a 20 gig IDE Seagate in my youngests' computer - no problems with it so far either. 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
