Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Aug 2003 3:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing new mobos, and there's not much info easily available. Yes Ma'am bows head sheepishly! -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Friday 08 August 2003 11:36 am, Felix Miata wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. My nephew did a hd.img install yesterday, and can't ping anything on his local network, much less reach the internet to do updates. The built-in sound doesn't work either. I'm just guessing the installer botched his eth0 and sound configuration. I gave him necessary instructions for verifying /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network were properly set. You have to pass noapci acpi=off to the kernel at boot time with this motherboard. I don't think it is the KT-400, but the BIOS implementation on the Soyo board. Hit esc at the lilo menu and type linux noapic acpi=off all should be well. If this does work, add noapic acpi=off to the append line of your /etc/lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing new mobos, and there's not much info easily available. Yes Ma'am bows head sheepishly! I must defend myself holds head up high! I went to the wiki to add this info and saw that I had already put it there in June when I set up the hardware compatibility page. Thanks for checking, anyway. I know I nag, but I do believe that this is a valuable resource, so worth working for. I agree 100%, which is why I set that page up to begin with (at your suggestion of course). BTW, I don't think you are a nag, I was just making a feeble attempt at humor. I had been previously quoted on the Cooker ML, during the discussion about where I should put my Cooker HOWTO, about not being a big fan of wiki's, but I am a total convert after being convinced to use it by Vincent. I've got one up at work now too. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH Server problem
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:11 pm, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... Thus, I tried to run telnetd from xinetd, no success, tried to configure the listening ports to the standard ports, and got no success. Shorewall is not installed, iptables is empty, netstat shows listening entries corresponding to the service I tried to run, but i can connect only from my local machine. no friends could connect to my computer. Thanx all!!! Hello all, me again! As I sent before, I'm trying to use SSH server in home, to access on my work. But as I said b4, my work firewall is blocking almost all outgoing ports. So, i have to use SSH on the port 80. I successfully ran the daemon on the port 80. To see that, I just netstat -pln, and saw an entry like this: LOCAL FOREIGN 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 sshd blah blah Whel, with that, I knew it was listening correctly on the port 80. So to try it out, I tried from the same machine I was running sshd to use ssh. So I did: $ ssh -l my_user_name -p 80 127.0.0.1 It worked fine. Then I asked a friend to connect on my ssh server, and told'im to do: $ ssh -l usr_name -p 80 200.100.100.100 (where 200.100.100.100 was my internet IP address on that time). But he couldn't connect. My firewall was disabled, I cleared out my lname (or something like that) but my friend was still unable to connect on my ssh server. Anyone knows what can I do to figure out whats happening? Is your isp blocking inbound traffic on port 80 to prevent web servers from running on the network? That would be a cruel catch 22 if it is true. Work only allows outbound on port 80, while home allows all inbound but port 80. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.0???
On Monday 11 August 2003 03:48 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine just asked me if there are KDE 3.1.3 RPMS for 9.0. Anyone know if there is such an animal?? My guess is it definitely won't happen as an official upgrade provided by MandrakeSoft and since Texstar isn't building for 9.0 anymore, quite unlikely that it will happen within the community. You might try proposing it on the Club and see how many votes you get. My advice is that if your freind really wants KDE 3.1.3 would be to upgrade to 9.2 when it comes out, skipping 9.1 completely. He could also always install from source This is the same trouble we had with backporting KDE 3.0 to 8.2 and prior. SOme asked for it, no one ever did it. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1
On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Aug 2003 3:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing new mobos, and there's not much info easily available. Yes Ma'am bows head sheepishly! I must defend myself holds head up high! I went to the wiki to add this info and saw that I had already put it there in June when I set up the hardware compatibility page. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where are the Cooker GPG keys
On Thursday 07 August 2003 06:52 am, Alex Bennee wrote: After a 2 months without a working machine I've come to update my cooker install. It however keeps complaining of bad GPG keys. I currently have This is a known problem with cooker right now. It has been reported to be fixed in the next beta. http://www3.mandrakelinux.com/en/92beta.php3 -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:27 pm, Sevatio wrote: I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software RAID without having to do a full re-install? The Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid mini-HOWTO has a section on this that will walk you through it. Section 4 I believe. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC
On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:02 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:19 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: You *might* be able to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and make sure there is in entry that looks like: NEEDHOSTNAME=no You would also need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set the following entry (if it's not already there): HOSTNAME=localhost This is the solution and was the first response to your post. SOmehow I think you missed it. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=localhost I did do this, maybe you didn't get the mail that stated that. Thanks. It is the NEEDHOSTAME=no that is important. It prevents the machine from setting the hostname to the one acquired in the dhcp process. I can't double check my machine because I am using a router for my cable modem and use static addressing behind it. I have previously solved the problem by running drakconnect in expert mode, making sure the need host name box is unchecked, and don't make any entries in the zeroconf or tmdnsboxes. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:39 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java, javascript and popups with no luck. Several windows friends using explorer don't have this problem. Anyone know how this works and how I can avoid it? I'm running mdk 9.1 on this box, but my suse and redhat boxes have the same problem with all brousers. Thanks, Dan Not sure the cause. I have recreated in Konq, but Opera is okay. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATA RAID
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did recompile the kernel with the Highpoint drivers and got it to the point where it wouldn't kernel panic when starting Linux but it still would not see the hard drives on that controller. I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure it is the Highpoint COntroller causing the kernel panic and not the APIC or something. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATA RAID
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:50 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure it is the Highpoint COntroller causing the kernel panic and not the APIC or something. Pretty sure it is not. I have the Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard and even with APIC disabled (which it has to be to boot Mandrake at all), turning on the RAID controller causes a kernel panic. Could be a BIOS version. On you on the latest. APIC is a whole other ball of wax, with APIC turned on, I can get Mandrake to boot up but the whole devfs file system is screwed up, the USB ports aren't detected properly, and finally, my standard IDE ports get assigned funky IRQ's and then my filesystem gets trashed. I also had to turn off ACPI, for some reason, loading the ACPI daemons causes havoc with Linux on my system as well. Mirrors my experience. That also means that I have never been able to use the RAID controller as even standard ATA controllers either, just enabling them in the BIOS causes a kernel panic on boot. Looking back at the logs, it is trying to initialize the 366 Highpoint driver at the point that it dies in a panic. If you are using all of the IDE channels on the MB then you are already far ahead of me, I just have never been able to do it. Since we basically have the same board, it would seem you should be able to get them working. Again, I'd check the BIOS for the latest. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1 samba server is HORRIBLE! Say I'm copying 650mb of Wav files. We're talking an hour or so! Looking at the traces, everything seems ok. We're moving it along at 1514 chunks. Well since no one has taken me on, I'm going to reply to myself. :) I have found a potential clue. I just did a samba mount to my xp box from the linux box. Transfers FLY! I can transfer 650MB in 2 minutes flat. Take that same bunch of files from Xp to linux via samba and it will take ?? I stopped timing after 20 minutes. ??? Anybody have any clues? I did find something about disabling a web service, but it made no difference. At least I have a work around for now. IIRC, there are some registry settings in XP that affect this. MS, in an effort to break Samba I'm sure, introduced some registry settings which check for things like remote task execution and stuff on the remote server, assuming it is a windows machine. I do not recall where specifically I found the info, and I recall a thread about similar problems on win2k not to long ago somewhere. Not sure if it was on this list though. With these additional clues though, you probably could come up with something on Google. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any answers resolving the issue. When a transfer to or from a Samba box is initiated from a Win2000 box it flies. When the same transfer is initiated from a Samba box to either another Samba box, or to a Win2000 box, it crawls at around 1/3 the speed of the Win2000 initiated transfer. Is this expected behavior? I think the op of this thread had the slowness going the other way. Samba to XP is fast, while XP to samba is fast. In any case, it always seems to be a problem with the configuration of the windows machines, not the samba machines. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login appears. In order to get the GUI login screen back I've got to drop to init 1 and then go to init 5. Known bug that has actually been fixed already I think, at least I have not experienced it since I urpmi'd my cooker box on Sunday. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble
On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has booted to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the display up. I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root, the menu comes up, but I can't find any way to change any part of the configuration. I have to set it to a generic lcd screen. I have to get this fixed before he gets home, or I'll be divorced g What do I do now? Anne If you are installing 9.1 with an LCD monitor, the appropriate driver for the video card may not be present. For instance, I have an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download Nvidia's driver before I could get KDE to load onscreen. Hi, Steve. No, it's not the video card. That's an old SiS card that was working under 9.0. Of course, it may be that 9.1 can't handle that card. If that's so, I'll have to work out how to vi lilo.conf to get back to the old 9.0 install Anne Does it work with Knoppix? Maybe you could boot up with Knoppix and copy the resutling XF86Config-4 file to your new install. I have to go out this morning, but I'll try that when I get back, thanks. Anne, if this is an older card, it might not support the render extension, in which case you have been bitten by the libqt bug in the version of qt that shipped with 9.1. This was subsequently fixed with an update, so if you have not added any updates yet, try updating libqt first. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:15 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote: I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1 installation with all the fixes that have taken place. What is the command that I should use. The Cooker HOWTO has this info. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Keeping_Your_Cooker_Installation -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's
Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership of this list has really taken to the concept. I also see a lot of questions on this list about how to deal with Cooker, and I am not sure that everyone realizes that there is a Cooker wiki too, complete with Cooker HOWTO. So I just wanted to point that out to the list since beta testing is in full swing. The main page is here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux The HOWTO is here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership of this list has really taken to the concept. I also see a lot of questions on this list about how to deal with Cooker, and I am not sure that everyone realizes that there is a Cooker wiki too, complete with Cooker HOWTO. So I just wanted to point that out to the list since beta testing is in full swing. The main page is here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux The HOWTO is here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo I don't suppose you could do a short intro piece, making Cooker sound slightly less terrifying, to act as a link to those pages, could you? Do you mean an intro in the Community Wiki with a link to the Cooker HOWTO? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble
On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote: If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? There are no error messages. KDE is obviously trying to start up. I hear the .wav file, and bits of the display flash on screen then off again. Then the watch cursor stays on screen for a long time, and finally starts alternating between the watch and the arrow. I don't know how to get out of this apart from powering down. Anne, have you updated libqt. You are describing the symptoms of the bug that prevented qt apps from running in vnx or any other display that does not support RENDER. If you have an older card and XFree86 3.3.6 was installed, this will be the case with you. I'll bet you $10 that if you update your libqt packages your problem will go away. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's
On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 2:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Do you mean an intro in the Community Wiki with a link to the Cooker HOWTO? That's what I was thinking I will do it tonight. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble
On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Forcing it to recognise that it is a Matrox card, not a SiS did the trick. I've done all the upgrades now. It seems unbelievable, but I couldn't get eth0 up either, and as soon as the video problem disappeard eth0 was fine! So you see I wouldn't have been able to update the libqt anyway! Okay, glad to hear you got it running -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?
On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:07 pm, Francisco wrote: But bascule, If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you? Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail server and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in fact that is what I am doing right now. This message was delivered to the list via postfix running on my machine, and you don't need a domain name for that. The only problem with this is that some isp's block smtp port 25 and require you to use their mail servers instead in an effort to block spammers. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1
On Sunday 07 September 2003 02:04 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi All, Am back again with a small prob. :) After I saw the electricity invoice and recovered from the heart attack:) I decided I might want to stop keeping my server/firewall online all the time. I only have a small server and is mostly experimental and only for a few friends which mostly sleep at night. :) On the other hand, having to connect to it, shut it down and then having to wait till it starts when I need it again might not be something I want to do each day. :) So the last solution that crosses my mind is to make it go into standby. The problem is that I want it to go in standby when no activity from it is required. No activity would mean no incoming requests from the clients inside the network. Is it possible to make my Mandrake 9.1 server go into standby only when no network traffic for like 15 minutes or so. On the other hand, will it wake up from standby if incoming network traffic or do I have to move mouse/ hit any key on keyboard? When in standby mode, will it drop the adsl connection or will it remain online? How much (aproximately in percents) does the power need sink when in standby mode? Thx in advance for your help. I have been told that leaving your computer on all the time would be the equivalent of keeping a 60watt bulb lit 24x7. This can't cost more than $5 a month? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told me that the files are identical. md5sum check failed! Then I used pure ftp, opened a US server (mirrors.usc.edu) and failed again with the same behaviour! Out of disk space? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 03:34 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. Now I'm really lost! The download worked until just 1 second was left. Then it stopped, timed out and showed: MandrakeLinux-9.iso: ETA: 0.01 650,37/650,49 177,21 Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out get MandrakeLinuxiso: could not retrieve remote file. The same output I received from the servers last night. This happened with ncftp, ftp, Mozilla, on 2 different machines, both with sufficient space on the target partition and on the tmp partition. Nothing has changed with my internet connection and I never had problems with downloads before. Last large download was RC1 when I started all 3 downloads at the same time using ncftp. Now I made another attempt with Mozilla at ftp.surnet.nl and it timed out at 230MB and 40 minutes to go. Not knowing how to resume a download I give up. Worst thing is: Now I wasted 2.8GB of my monthly limit of 5GB and can't get RC2 anymore via download because I need the remaining 2GB for other things. So if Final comes out in September I'll have to wait until October... :(( You can fix the iso's with rsynch without downloading all of them again. Instructions here: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:08 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. I suspect that this is the infamous anti-aliased fonts compiled into the qtlibraries bug. Suffered from this one myself. If you go to the Texstar repository off of http://pclinuxonline.com site, you should be able to download a fix for this issue which will remove the AA fonts from the qt libraries and enable tightvnc to work. If you have problems, let me know and I will send a direct link to the source repository for those rpm's. There is also an official Mandrake update for this now available from any of the update mirrors. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by default got render as compiled in, and VNC doesn't handle that one well. It's actually qt that is crashing, and it will happen on any display that does not support the render extension, including vnc, XFree86 3.3.6, XForbserver, etc. libqt must be updated on the host machine. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?
On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still unstable ? In case of yes, which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk Club ? I am using Texstar's packages and they work great. Unfortunately, I think the qa on them is better than those packages available from Club. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] removing boot themes
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:42 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How can this be done? From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use themes check box, but this doesn't work. Just remove the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:32 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. Best regards and thanks you If you can burn cd's at the cafe, you will want to download the entire updates directory for your version. If you are on 9.1, look at mandrake/updates/9.1/i586/RPMS and you will see a slew of update RPMS and a file called synthesis.hdlist.cz. That file will allow you to setup your cd as a urpmi source. Burn that whole directory to cd. Once you get the cd, do something like urpmi.addmedia updates file://mnt/cdrom with synthesis.hdlist.cz and then urpmi --auto-select and all packages that need updating should be done for you automatically. Hope this helps. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?
On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:42 pm, bascule wrote: well that makes sense, thanks now i don't suppose you know why a 2.4.19-35 kernel would run an opengl screensaver like molasses while an earlier 2.4.19-16 is as smooth as silk? :) oh well maybe 9.2 will make it go away! You don't have the nvidia drivers installed? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, you wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via the retailer, so all awaits its return after 1 - 2 wk . Let me know how it goes once you get the board back. [ cc to Mdk Expert, in case anyone else has helpful advice ] the retailer -- to whom i returned the Soyo Dragon Ultra KT400 mobo -- told me that Soyo had recalled them were replacing them with new ones. last week, i picked up a mobo, which i assume is a replacement (i forgot to make a note of the serial numbers) i have now reassembled the box tried it out. it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level: it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly) defaults the DRAM clock to 166 MHz (previously it set it to 133 MHz ). however, there's a new problem: Linux won't start! i had installed Mdk 9.1 , which is still there of course, Lilo comes up properly tries to boot the system, but fails with a kernel panic, which is quite new (Linux was ok before). the lines on the screen are as follows: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: c02360d0 *pde = Ooops: What does your lilo.conf look like? Remmeber that board has to boot with noapic acpi=off. Can you boot off the cd in rescue mode or does every attempt to boot result in this error? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo
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. I have experienced Yes, this is exactly true. ATAPI drives must be on VIA controller on this board. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 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 ? On my board, IDE0 (VIA Primary) hde, hdf == My burner attached here IDE1 (VIA Secondary) hdg, hdh == My cdrom IDE2 (Highpoint Primary) hda, hdb == My boot drive IDE3 (Highpoint Secndary) hdc, hdd == My spare drive You can switch the order of IDE0,1 and IDE2,3 by passing ide=reverse to the kernel at boot, so that your VIA channels will hold hda, hdb, hdc and hdd and the Highpoint channels will hold hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:57 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: IDE0 (VIA Primary) hde, hdf == My burner attached here IDE1 (VIA Secondary) hdg, hdh == My cdrom IDE2 (Highpoint Primary) hda, hdb == My boot drive IDE3 (Highpoint Secndary) hdc, hdd == My spare drive You can switch the order of IDE0,1 and IDE2,3 by passing ide=reverse to the kernel at boot, so that your VIA channels will hold hda, hdb, hdc and hdd and the Highpoint channels will hold hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh. That's interesting. On the IWill, with ALi M1647 chipset, IDE0 and 1, the normal ide channels, are hda-hdd. The Highpoint channels come out as hde-hdg. My concern about the cdrom on hdg was based on this configuration and I didn't know it would be different for different chipsets. I think it depends more on the BIOS than the chipset, but nonetheless it can be different. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Memory Leak in XFree updates
Hi. Ever since I updated my XFree packages last week, I have been seeing X use massive amounts of memory and I am concerned there may be a memory leak or something. Here is some output from top. See how X is using 212M. Way more than it used to. Has anybody else experienced anything like this? top - 22:39:01 up 1 day, 37 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.01 Tasks: 83 total, 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle Mem:511360k total, 490604k used,20756k free,22984k buffers Swap: 306896k total, 3812k used, 303084k free, 129584k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ Command 15354 greg 11 0 32176 31m 16m S 0.0 6.3 0:02.46 kmail 15428 greg 11 0 28716 28m 11m S 0.0 5.6 0:02.00 opera 15430 greg 8 0 28716 28m 11m S 0.0 5.6 0:00.00 opera 1522 root 5 -10 212m 19m 4652 S 0.0 4.0 2:31.82 X 15376 greg 9 0 17284 16m 15m S 0.0 3.4 0:00.09 kdeinit 14467 greg 15 0 16768 16m 1464 S 0.3 3.3 0:31.20 Xvnc 3948 root 8 0 15472 15m 9812 S 0.0 3.0 0:00.32 kdm_greet 15365 greg 9 0 15312 14m 13m S 0.0 3.0 0:00.15 kdeinit -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Memory Leak in XFree updates
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:33 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: For which version? 9.1? or 9.0? I am running 9.1 w/ all updates 9.0 shouldn't have anything funny in there at all... that was just some minor changes to fix the font issues. The 9.1 packages had some fixes due to some ATI cards... what kind of video card do you have? I have a GeForce3 ti200 and I use the binary driver from nVidia. I think the version I am using is 4496. After letting the machine sit all night, total memory usage is about the same, so perhaps I was wrong about the leak, but it still seems like it uses a lot of memory. The total memory usage on my system is much higher than it used to be (500+M vs 250-300M). -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders
On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:31 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 9.2 is supposed to go final RSN (Monday?), but neither the Mandrake home page nor the Mandrake Store have any mention about accepting orders for it. There's a thread on the Club Forum about this (and yes, I did add my two cents worth), but no response has been forthcoming from anyone at Mandrake. How's this for marketing skills: I've bought every PowerPack since 8.1 through the Store, and I've been a Club member (Silver) since January, 2002. What's wrong the Store sending an email asking if I want to reserve my copy now? Arg... Perhaps they have had enough of the criticism from people who pre-order and then get their boxes late or never. Maybe this is their way of fixing the Store. Another thought, IIRC, one of the main reasons to pre-order was cash flow. Let us charge your card now and we'll ship later. Perhaps this is a good sign that they do not need the cash flow from pre-orders. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] grub-install won't
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:33 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed 9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4 00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since last install. Is grub installed w/o problem (rpm -V grub)? If it is and you did not re-partition for the re-install, there should be /boot/grub/install.sh and you could try: sh /boot/grub/install.sh If your partitions did change from the last time, have a look at the install.sh script. It is pretty easy to modify it to take into account your partitioning scheme. Here is mine grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch EOF install (hd0,5)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,5)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,5)/grub/menu.lst quit EOF -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why does MandrakeUpdate show a new kernel-source but not a new kernel?
On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:18 am, vatbier wrote: MandrakeUpdate shows a new kernel-source and kernel-doc but to install the new kernel you have to use RpmDrake:Install Software. MandrakeUpdate replaces the old kernel-source and -doc with the new ones, RpmDrake must be used for the kernel itself to install it next to the old one. I thought that these three (kernel,-source,-doc) must be installed together. If you want to update everything with MandrakeUpdate, you have to know that if you also select the new kernel-source and -doc you must run rpmdrake to install the new kernel. Is this info documented somewhere for newbies? How would they know that they have to install the new kernel with rpmdrake or rpm? Because I only find these old links: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php and http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php The reason is you cannot upgrade the kernel, you have to install it. As a safety feature, the kernel rpms are designed to be installed alongside each other so you never end up without a working kernel. the kernel-docs and kernel-source RPMs are upgradeable on the other hand. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 22:29, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting better recording levels will help. Where can I get Xmixer, or what can I use in place of it. You should be able to use any mixer app to adjust the level of your line-in. try aumix or kmix. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)
On Saturday 04 October 2003 14:06, zephod wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! If you can point me where I can do this in kmail 1.5.3, I will be glad to do so. It seems that there is only a global Reply-to setting per identity, but not one for a specific mailing list. Maybe I have overlooked it? You should only need to set a reply-to at all if the address you want replies to go to is different than the address you are sending the message from. For instance, if I send a message to my project team asking for input, but I want all the replies to go to my secretary so that she can compile the feedback into one document. So, since your from and reply-to are the same, just clear the reply-to. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(
On Saturday 04 October 2003 23:13, Anton wrote: Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? My patience with newbie is wearing somewhat thin too. I find myself frequently just marking all messages as read without reading them because so many are OT of just personal conversations. You may also have not gotten a response because your topic may actually be somewhat advanced, and the newbie's can't address it. As for actually answering the technical part of your question, I fear I have no knowledge to help you. Sorry :-( Hi, I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private subnet. I have finally managed to get the ME machine able to reach the outside world but to be honest I can't really work out how! I tried pretty much everything and nothing worked... and then it just started working. My general process was to just keep running drakgw until the damn thing worked - finally it did. (i tried knetfilter, and everything else I could get my hands on, but I'm still a newbie...). The problem is this. EVERY time I want the ME machine to work I have to rerun drakgw. Not only that, however, but I have to go in and manually reset the default to the dialup address, as running drakgw always seems to put the default back to my home net interface (ethernet). What is going on here? Also simply booting up the ME machine resets the default route to the address of the local subnet interface! (even though it be on the dialup after connecting to the net) Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. I originally set up a network with XP (which I also have on the mdk9.1 box) and used a disk created by the xp wizard to get it going. Somehow ME always manages to set the IP address to 192.168.0.163, and the gateway to 192.168.0.1 - what it originally had for the xp network. Mdk9.1 seems to want to have a subnet starting with 192.168.1.1 but ME isn't listening to the dhcp (which I guess should be running, as it seems as if that is what it says it is doing) and just sets itself to 192.168.0.163. If I set the mdk9.1 to statically come out with 192.168.0.1 then, as long as I rerun the config tool, keeping the IP addresses the same for dns and others then after I reset the default I can access the net with both machines. This is an enormous amount of hassle and I'm sure there is something silly I'm not doing. Any suggestions? Cheers Anton -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)
On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:45 am, zephod wrote: So, since your from and reply-to are the same, just clear the reply-to. After all these years I finally got to learn something new about mailing. Thanks for the tip ! Thanks for being open and listening. -- Regards, /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Texstar KDE 3.1.4
On Sunday 05 October 2003 10:36 am, Damien wrote:
Hello,
I've recently installed (tried to actually...) texstar's KDE 3.1.4 binaries.
Everything seems to install fine (except for some harmless dependencies),
but
on the launch, when KDE shows up I keep getting :
Unable to create io-slave: unknown protocol file
and it doesn't recognize any mime type anymore, however installed (
${KDEDIR}/share/services... )
On xsession-errors I got some :
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 40, expecting version 48 or higher.
Error can't open database!
kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
Anyone here has some other feedback on texstar's kde 3.1.4 ?
I have not, but you should check the forum posts at his website to see if
anybody else has experienced this. You might also consider e-mailing him
directly or posting in his forum, as he may be able to provide more help. He
also occasionally hangs out on usenet in alt.os.linux.mandrake.
--
/g
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside
a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx
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Re: [expert] Re: Switch to another window manager?
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:57 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: I've jsut found one way of doing it: The First Time Wizard asks for it and sets it. Apparently, it sets a file called .desktop in $HOME, containing the choice. I don't know how to run that functionality from the console, but I'll certainly be able to edit .desktop should the need arise - the syntax seems simple enough. You can set it globally in the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file too. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:46 am, HaywireMac wrote: How would one configure Apache so that anyone using IE would be met with a nice friendly message that they are not welcome? Considering the effects of compromised home computers running XP on the 'net, I would like to start a campaign to essentially lock out IE from accessing websites. Of course, one would still be able to use Windows, but have to use an alternate browser such as Mozilla. Do what the sites that allow only IE do. Test the browser string and present a warning page to users of IE and the real page to everybody else. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] This Host Wont Die/Shutdown!!
On Friday 10 October 2003 04:05 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Greetings, shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going strong!!! Finally, pulled out power plug!! Anyway to troubleshoot this further...?? Second shutdown in 6monthssame problem. Were you root? What's your msec level? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)
On Saturday 11 October 2003 07:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: I'm almost positive there was a thread on this just a short while ago, and I do believe that was the crux of the problem. IIRC, it involved disabling FrameBuffer mode altogether, but I may be wrong. Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? There is a thread going on Cooker right now about this very problem. Bug number is 4593 if you want to check it out. Juan's current theory is that anything older than a GeForce3 has this problem. He thinks the GeForce4 has the problem because it is essentially a GeForce2 core. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2
On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker) urpmi urpmi (get the new urpmi first it's ability to download install and then download more is a big boon. But be prepared for a huge list of changes to accompany it as well.) urpmi --auto-auto select --force why the force ... because signatures in the cooker are all over the place, and plf cooker isn't signed with the same sig as the rest of plf etc etc and I got real tired of saying y every 3 or 4 rpms. urpmi kernel. I already have the new kernel running on my 9.1 install, and all seems to be going well. Win4Lin is working and the nVidia drivers are installed. The balance of my plan is as follows: 1) remove all plf and Texstar packages 2) urpmi.removemedia -a 3) urpmi.addmedia my local Cooker mirror 4) urpmi urpmi 5) urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm 6) Add back plf source and reinstall anything interesting from there 7) Wait for Tex to build cool stuff for 9.2 Hopefully, I won't even have to reboot. I'll report back how it goes. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2
On Sunday 12 October 2003 08:19, Greg Meyer wrote: I already have the new kernel running on my 9.1 install, and all seems to be going well. Win4Lin is working and the nVidia drivers are installed. The balance of my plan is as follows: 1) remove all plf and Texstar packages 2) urpmi.removemedia -a 3) urpmi.addmedia my local Cooker mirror 4) urpmi urpmi 5) urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm 6) Add back plf source and reinstall anything interesting from there 7) Wait for Tex to build cool stuff for 9.2 Hopefully, I won't even have to reboot. I'll report back how it goes. Okay, I'm back and everything looks like it went okay. I have a few little tweaks to do, but other than that, I guess I'm on 9.2 now. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???
On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server I was planning on rebuilding. So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and booted into problems. Finally, I was able to have the BIOS detect it as a 8.4Gb disk, but no bigger. The 3rd drive in this box is a 15Gb that is detected and runs great. I have been reading Mark Minasi's 2003 PC Upgrade and Maintenence Guide and he talks about the addressing problems in the IDE/ATA BIOS space. Then he goes on to talking about how autotranslation works to circumvent the BIOS and allow bigger drives to run by the OS detecting the drive itself, and handling the addressing without BIOS support . MInasi says that autotranslation is part of some UNIXes. Basically, I am wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, as when I was able to run this disk as 8.4 Gb, the kernel was able to report the disk model number back during boot. I am now wondering if Linux supports autotranslation, so that if I set up the BIOS correctly, the drive could be detected and run? I believe the answer is yes, that the Linux kernel will be able to address the entire drive. You can test this simply by trying it though, I don't think you have anything to lose. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Anything win98SE or lower should do the job. I'd probably use the DOS 6.22 image. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:46 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image should I use to flash it? Anything win98SE or lower should do the job. I'd probably use the DOS 6.22 image. OK, but how would you build the boot floppy under linux? Maybe dd if=disk.img of=/dev/fd0 -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on www.madrakeusers.org that everyone it downloading awfully slow. Since I did the urpmi update to 9.2 a month ago, I'll just wait until all the mirrors are not slashdotted! ;-) I think a big reason for the slowness is that the uploads are choking the downloads. Most consumer oriented broadband services are half-duplex, so if you max out your upload, you can't download anything. I set --max_upload_rate to about 80% of my upstream cap and my download took off. I went from 30KB/s to about 210KB/s. On my cable system I am capped at 3000kbs down and 128 up (which translates to about 16KB/s up. If i use all my upstream bandwidth, I can't download anything. When I set --max_upload_rate to 13 it helped a lot. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:49 am, Vox wrote: I tried doing that, but I'm getting a weird error from it...if anybody's got a clue, I'd be happy :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 /home/vox/mytorrent-vox.torrent These errors occurred during execution: [00:45:23] error: Too many args - 0 max. run with no args for parameter explanations try btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 --responsefile /home/vox/mytorrent-vox.torrent -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on www.madrakeusers.org that everyone it downloading awfully slow. Since I did the urpmi update to 9.2 a month ago, I'll just wait until all the mirrors are not slashdotted! ;-) I think a big reason for the slowness is that the uploads are choking the downloads. Most consumer oriented broadband services are half-duplex, so if you max out your upload, you can't download anything. I set --max_upload_rate to about 80% of my upstream cap and my download took off. I went from 30KB/s to about 210KB/s. On my cable system I am capped at 3000kbs down and 128 up (which translates to about 16KB/s up. If i use all my upstream bandwidth, I can't download anything. When I set --max_upload_rate to 13 it helped a lot. for the life of me I can't get the switch to work. --max_upload_rate 8 keeps giving me an error saying that I have too many parameters. I'm trying trickle right now to see if I can throttle it that way. you are right though... at first I was doing about 7kbps both ways and then the upload jumped to 30kbps which had me maxed out. Apparently you have to use the --responsefile switch to specify the torrent, otherwise it thinks the torrent file is an argument to the --max_upload_rate switch. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:35 am, Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Hmm your the lucky ones, no matter what I try I get Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found Now I am on the Optus cable network in Australia, can't quite workout what is the problem, I have tried everything, but the Optus network does block some ports.. I wonder, there is even a mention of Australian users on the club site..I will have a couple more trys.. Your ISP is probably forcing you through a transparent proxy, so the tracker cannot get your real ip address. There is a lot of discussion on the Club about this. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:37 am, Richard Bown wrote: I'm going nuts ! I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. I'm running Gnome here so on the menus under networkingfile transfer I have 2 icons, One for bittorrent creator, and the other for bittorrent gui. select either has no effect. trying from the command line with the test package [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]# btdownloadcurses.py test mytorrent-richardbown929.torrent Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses.py, line 7, in ? from BitTorrent.download import download ImportError: No module named BitTorrent.download OK I can download 9.2 on a win98 using win4lin. I'd prefer to do it properly with a proper OS. What did I miss ?? Do you have Python installed? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:31 am, HaywireMac wrote: I was going to send a link to some friends about the availability of this Discovery Edition, but there's one thing I'd like to clarify, if anyone can. It claims: 9- Compatibility: Run Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer simultaneously What exactly does this mean? Simultaneously does not seem to imply a dual boot, does this edition come with some sort of package like Crossover or Win4Lin? I think they mean dual-boot -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:28 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Maybe the test file you are trying to download no longer exists, or if you are on dhcp and have a new ip address, you will have to get a new .torrent because they are designed to only work from the ip address you downloaded it from. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again). I can DL the sources, but it would have been nice if they were included! Does anyone know of any other files missing from the ISOs that are in the tree? I downloaded the PowerPack iso's and it is on CD3 of that set. There is actually a lot of stuff in main that is not on the 3 cd's. It just won't all fit on 3 cd's. But if you set up a 9.2 mirror as a urpmi source, any package you want installed will be automatically downloaded and installed. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee however. That was my first look at Mandrake (6.0). Then phatlinux was free. IIRC a 170mb zip file, expanded to about 500mb in a Windoze fat32 directory, C:\Mandrake. I was dual bootin Red Hat and Winblows at the time. I played around with phat for a short time, liked KDE, so I got 'real' Mandrake CD's and replaced RH ;) Didn't MDK at one time have a product that did linux on windows? If I remember right it was slower than honey during an Alaskan winter. Yeah, I believe it was called lin4win or something like that. It is how I installed 7.2 for the first time and was my first experience with Linux. It installed Linux in a loopback filesystem, so from Windows, you just saw one big file that was your Linux install, and no partitioning was necessary. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:31 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: # mii-tool eth0 -F 100baseTx-FD has no effect. Any clues as to what I should do next? IIRC, most cable and dsl modems run 10Mb/s half duplex. is eth0 the public interface? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Friday 17 October 2003 10:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would be sufficient. And maybe kernel-secure, which is really for professional use ? Eric even if it was... it wouldn't yield sufficient room. Now if Emacs was dropped or perhaps all of the kde eye candy etc.. To be honest. What they have done fits perfectly in with the way they are positioning themselves in the market. They are THE desktop distro. Remember all the flack they took for leaving kdeartwork out of 9.1. Someone's always bitching. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:55 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a forth install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them in a CD added to the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to add the CD to the sources there must be a hdlist.cz file. Now I know how to do (Steffen Barszus explained it in another post), but many people don't. Download the rpms you want from the mirrors, burn them to cd, then add cd as urpmi source. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 October 2003 11:38 am, D. R. Evans wrote: On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which when I ran it, it rebuilt all menus and desktop links. No such program on my installation. This is wonderful! Can anyone spell catch-22? Just how does one regenerate the start menu when the menu is so hosed that you can do almost nothing?!! I'm amazed that this didn't happen to anyone during testing. So far, the _only_ thing I did with my pristine 9.2 installation was to add Moz 1.4, and this immediately bit me. I suppose that I can always do a complete re-install. And NOT add Moz 1.4 once the installation is complete :-) Why don't you try running an upgrade install. No packages would be installed cause everything would be the same, but the config would be reset. Also, why would you install without Mozilla to begin with? I beleive it is such a core package that it has to be installed. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4
On Saturday 18 October 2003 12:44 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry This is a bug in the fluxbox package which compounds the menu problem. I have reported it. It has been explained to me that there is a locking problem in rpm-4.2 that is causing this problem. Apparently, when update-menus runs during the rpm installation, rpm has not yet released the lock on the package database, so update-menus cannot query it, so the package list comes up empty, and consequently the menus do too. If you run update-menus -d It will highlight any malformed lines for you In my case the problem was a line reading ?package(menu): needs=fluxbox icon=applications_section.png section=Fluxbox/Styles/ title= charset=utf8 The null title is not permitted. Just inserting some text here fixed it for me after running update-menus again as root and as user Yes, this works for me too. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:42 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Here's a nice one to get your battered brain in gear: Got any tips on an easy way to keep all the other PC's on the LAN in sync without each and everyone ftp-ing and rsyncing over the www? It just seems a waste of bandwidth to me IMHOmind the word easy though;) You'll want to look at the urpmi --parallel switch. It's more fully explianed in the urpmi HOWTO at http://www.urpmi.org. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)
On Monday 20 October 2003 12:42 am, Dave Seff wrote: I noticed that The Flash player from Macromedia.com is broken in 9.2 because of a missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I couldn't find it in any package so I symlinked it from libstdc++.so.5.0.5. It appears to be working but I am always thought symlinking the different versions was a ugly hack. On my machine /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is a symlink to /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so so if I do $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so I get libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk I bet you don't have that package installed. Just install the libstdc++2.10 package and you should be good to go. Something I have learned by getting familiar with urpmi, is that if I am missing some library file, just be typing urpmi libfoo6.2.2.so will install the right package most of the time. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3
On Monday 20 October 2003 01:32 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. I am going to try to NOT use ogg2mp3 as to go from one lossy to another is way too lossy for me. Than no matter what you do you won't get the results you want. I am wondering if a better path would be to use oggdecode, and to pick up the wave file in mp3encode or lame. Converting ogg to wav does not restore the stuff that was tossed during the oggenc process. Or is there a better way yet? re-ripping the stuff you want as mp3 is the best way to go. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel
On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched the kernel, or is it 'plain vanilla' as found at www.kernel.org? Can I just download the new one from kernel.org, make xconfig, install, and let it rip? You could actually install the kernel from 9.2 alongside the 9.1 kernel. It is 2.4.22 with a bunch of Mandrake specific enhancements like supermount, etc. Just grab it (the kernel RPM) from one of the 9.2 mirrors. It will install alongside your 9.1 kernel so that you can select between them at boot. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:11 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources only to be told that there were problems or errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# urpmi.addmedia -h mirrors.secsup.org_devel ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPMS I don't believe there is a hdlist for the SRPMS directory. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:54 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Yeah, OK...but then, MandrakeClub happily sends you to the download page for src.rpms and includes (useless) urpmi instructions for each link. In any case, I then tried looking for kernel-source-tmb in MandrakeClub and found reference to it in Mandrake Cooker. I went to the download page, used the urpmi source link and then tried to install kernel-source, expecting a list to come up with the -tmb kernel among them. Nope. I got a 2.4.21-0.25mdk kernel and a 2.4.22 multimedia kernel. OK, I give up. So I decided to download the 2.4.22 multimedia kernel source and...boop! It doesn't exist. This inspite of the fact that I just updated ALL my urpmi sources immediately prior to this attempt. It shows up when I urpmi kernel-source but none of them actually exist. Their links appear hopelessly broken. praedor On Monday 20 October 2003 02:22 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 03:11 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources only to be told that there were problems or errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# urpmi.addmedia -h mirrors.secsup.org_devel ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPM S I don't believe there is a hdlist for the SRPMS directory. It sounds to me like you are getting confused between the kernel-source package and a kernel src.rpm package. The kernal and kernel-source rpms are binary packages that are created when the kernel src.rpm package is processed by the build machine. The first two will be in the RPMS directory, while the third is in the SRPMS directory. Also, kernel-tmb and kernel-mm are in contribs not main, so make sure you are looking in the right place. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?
On Monday 20 October 2003 04:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I understand that a kernel-source rpm is not the same as a kernel.src rpm. What I do not understand is that I have just updated all my sources, including contribs, AND I added the urpmi sources indicated for the There was some talk on the Cooker ML recently about urpmi not updating sources properly. Something about the md5 checksum on the hdlist being incorrect. In order to update the source, it had to be deleted and re-added. I have run into this myself. Once I updated my Cooker mirror to final and updated my sources, I noticed that several things that I knew had newer packages were not being updated. I deleted and adde the repository and all was well. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:20 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched the kernel, or is it 'plain vanilla' as found at www.kernel.org? Can I just download the new one from kernel.org, make xconfig, install, and let it rip? You could actually install the kernel from 9.2 alongside the 9.1 kernel. It is 2.4.22 with a bunch of Mandrake specific enhancements like supermount, etc. Just grab it (the kernel RPM) from one of the 9.2 mirrors. It will install alongside your 9.1 kernel so that you can select between them at boot. I have never updated the kernel with URPMI...do you still need to configure LILO or are necessary changes done 'auto-magically'? Thanks. LILO will be configured for you to boot the new kernel, although you may want to make sure a LILO entry exists to boot the old kernel in case you end up with problems. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Twiki feedback
I was poking around on the community twiki tonight and I am not sure I came back with an entirely positive experience. I really don't want to be negative, but I also want to give some feedback that I hope those of you that have worked so hard will find constructive. Anyway, the gist of my feedback is that I find the Community Twiki to be very hard to navigate and find information in. I think there is far too much text and explanation instead of visual cues to make it easy to navigate. I think it needs to have an element of simplicity to it that currently doesn't exist IMHO. When I say visual cues, I am not necessarily referring to a lot of graphics, but to proper use of formatting and highlighting, table of contents and color. For instance, I think it would be much easier to use if I could get anywhere I needed to go in the site from the home page without having to read more than 1 paragraph or scroll down in my browser. A lot of the text explaining what the Twiki is and its rules of operation would, IMO, be better on a secondary page that links from the main site. There is a tremendous amount of information on the home page about twiki and not so much about Mandrake Linux. I really think the ratio should be the other way around. Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. This is just my two cents. Hopefully you will find it useful, if not, you are free to tell me what rock to crawl back under. I'd make some changes, but what I am thinking of is so dramatic, I thought it deserved some discussion first. -- Kindest regards, /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Twiki feedback
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 6:16 am, Eric Huff wrote: Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. I added a Table Of Contents link at the very upper right. I think it is very easy to find. Not sure thet Knowledge Base is the best name for the section. What do you think? Personally, I think it is better, but we'll wait for feedback from others. I have always used the Index link on the blue bar, but the problem there is that it just does not stand out. Is it possible to make that entry bold? I presume it is on a page template, somewhere. I'm sorry that just at the moment I don't have much time to help. Anne When I get some time later, I will make a new page with a proposed home page layout, that way, you can see what I am talking about without changing anything just yet. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Twiki feedback
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It's not editable by mortals, but i think you (Anne) have the power to edit it. I can probably add/delete entries there, but I can't make it show Index in bold. (I had tried before, without success. All you get is *Index*) Probably because the pge header is not processed by the TWiki script. Did you try with the html tags for bold?, i.e.bIndex/b -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hdparm problem
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: (null): * signifies the current active mode Rob, the most significant thing I see is that it looks like the drive is only capable of doing udma2. Since this is a new drive, I'm assuming it should be able to do much more. First thing I'd check is to make sure that you don't have a 40 conductor IDE cable on that drive instead of the 80 that you need. Got another cable you can switch out and try? HTHs! :-) PS BTW, why is that drive /dev/hdd and not /dev/hda? Is it an add on? That looks like the slave position on the 2nd channel. Make sure your settings are correct there... Also, does your HD controller support higher than mode2? How old is your motherboard? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl package. Any idea. There should be a lot of info our on the web by now about this bug. I am surprised you couldn't find anything. Anyway, I believe you just run 'update-menus -v' as root and they should return. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:17 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi. El Miércoles 22 Octubre 2003 18:32, Greg Meyer escribió: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl package. Any idea. There should be a lot of info our on the web by now about this bug. I am surprised you couldn't find anything. If you use google, now all the info is about publicity in Mandrake so is difficult to find a solution. Look at this bug report: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4858 Anyway, I believe you just run 'update-menus -v' as root and they should return. update-menus do nothing to this. Sorry, I was confused. Here is the fix http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Splatt_Forumfile=viewtopictopic=12294forum=11start=10 -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home partition and then copy and start the game from there. Does it have to start from /mnt/cdrom for some reason. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For example: -consoles don't get installed properly What exactly do you mean. The menu entries for alternative consoles will no longer show up, for instance gnome-terminal will no longer show up in KDE and Konsole will not show up in GNOME. This is not a bug but a design choice. If you want them, you have to add them yourself. Also, when you find your KDE menus disappearing, that is not a bug in KDE, but a bug in RPM. Just run update-menus -v as root to restore them. -old nvidia video drivers don't get overwritten with the new one for 9.2 kernel, when you do an upgrade from 9.1 - and more They never will as the nvidia modules are related to a kernel, not the distribution. You have to reinstall them for each kernel you are running. I think the official 9.2 release should be delayed a little for these things to get fixed. Experienced users should have no problems fixing these install isues, but for new users it would be a big dissapointment. Unfortunately, it is too late. FiveStar has been sent to the manufacturer. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OggEnc problem
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:14 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote: This is a weird one, and I have tried *everything* I can think of... Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) to encode the ripped .wav files 925-30, but they are only 16-20 K, when they should be 3-5Mb. Everything (xmms, alsaplayer, MythMusic) play them with no failure, but no sound. Rate shows 0-2kbps with 44kHz. The time per cut is fine as well. Mp3 encoding in all the same apps works just fine, with files that play music (!) :-) and no failures. I'm convinced it is oggenc in vorbis-tools - tried 1.02, 1.06, 1.07 of these - same small file on all. I have removed *every* ogg / vorbis program / library, and all apps that required any ogg / vorbis files. Then tried to re-install just the minimum apps, such as just Grip and Vorbis-Tools. Even tried a different kernel, normally running 2.4.22-18, so I tried the 2.4.22.10multi-media kernel. Same schtuff no music! I'm at a @^#%!#?^!%@ loss - anyone have ANY ideas what-the- is going on? Are you running cooker? vorbis-tools broke the other day with an update. There was a thread on Cooker ML about this today. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GAL
On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:07 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all just starting to move apps over on to pc with a fresh install of 9.2. I've noticed a lot of apps and libs which were standard with 9.1, are no longer installed with 9.2. Doing battle trying to compile gal-0.23 which is need ed to run an app but I cant sort out what it looking for on the last line of the text below.I searched through the text description on the rpms but cant see any refence thats helpful, I 'm also getting to the point of hitting a lot of file conflicts. If I can get the Makefile built at least I stand some chance the build the blasted thing. can someone please point me in the right direction gal is part of the base distro. The package name is libgal23, don't ask me why though. You probably could just do 'urpmi gal' -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:13 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Mostly proprietary drivers and what not that are installed automagically. I think it includes stuff like Flash and RealPlayer as well Also the kernel-source, but that is moot anyway with the update kernel that is already available. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:01 pm, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I just got a copy of mandrake 9.2 download edition. It's very easy to perform a new install. But I found some of my favorite apps like mozilla,xine,etc in 9.1 are missing after login, are they in default installation of power pack or prosuite? I know package management can add those stuff but I am willing to pay to save some trouble. If this is how mandrake define their product line,I am happy to accept and wish it will bring more incoming for mandrake. It's a good marketing stragety. If not, why they are not in default installation? urpmi mozilla urpmi xine -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:38 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do it on mine after I back everything up. Everything went peachy, only lost the menu's once. That bug/feature was fixed with these patches. Seems quite nice. Now we just got to install all of plf's stuff and contribs, plus configure a few apps. I don't think the disappearing menu 'feature' was fixed since I lost my menu couple of times on two different machines since applying the patches. Avi What exactly is the disappearing menu 'feature' ?? Thanks. There is a bug in the version of rpm that shipped with 9.2 that causes the rpm database to remain locked for a longer period of time. This causes a problem for a postinstall script within a package that tries to update the menus. Because the database is locked, the postinstall script cannot retrieve the package names from the database, so the menu is not populated with any entries. This is easily fixed by the user by running the update-menus script from a console as root user. # update-menus -v -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] menudrake
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:29 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had problems myself. Just as you mention, items that appear in menudrake's depiction of the kmenus but not in real life. Some of these items are things I added several attempts in the past (as root editing the system menu) that just refuse to appear permanently in my working user menus. They show up for the session I am currently running so I think all is peachy but when I login for a new session the next day (system restart - laptop) they are gone. They still show up in the menudrake window, just not in real life. Make sure you are in the correct environment. Menudrake allows you to edit the menu for a particular DE or all of them at once, so for instance, if you were in the KDE environment in menudrake and add something, it is not going to show up in GNOME. Once you understand it, it works quite nicely. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GAL
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:16 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: Why are you going through all this hassle when gal is part of the distro urpmi gal I think the package name is libgal23 or something like that. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:25 pm, Thomas Gamble wrote: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? urpmi.addmedia --distrib /mnt/cdrom -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
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. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
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 -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:15 am, Larry Sword wrote: 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?? I have .89 on my machine BTW. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD
On Sunday 26 October 2003 12:46 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 18, 2003 02:07 pm, Charlie M. wrote: whack The only ISOs I've generated are from my local cooker mirror and are called Cooker Download after generation, but after install the boot splash identifies it as 9.2 Download edition. If you're impatient for the release you could try that, I don't know if it will work still since I did this before rsync started actually pulling new packages. In other words when cooker was still frozen. OK; I've generated a new set of ISOs from my local cooker tree yesterday and upgraded from them. Everything was generally all right with a couple of minor exceptions. xchat wouldn't install, error opening package messages at the console when the graphic progress bar seemed to be hanging, and KDE doesn't load a desktop at all. Blue screen, not desktop or icons or taskbar, but the KDE is starting sound plays. That IIRC is apparently because the KDE maintainer built the .80 version with the wrong compiler or some such. So for now, until I have a chance to do a bit of fixing and patching, I'm stuck with Ice-worm or GNOME or other. I can't install cooker for anyone that uses a KDE desktop from these disks. I'll take a swing at remastering the ISOs from my local 9.2 tree later today, adding the updates, and see if I get an installable set of disks, then report the results here. Thank [Deity] for CD-RWs. This could get expensive if I was forced to use CD-R disks. g Could you either report back here or e-mail me with the details of what you are doing. I am trying to build a page on the cooker twiki that describes how to make a new set of install disks with the updates slipstreamed. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KWeather
On Sunday 26 October 2003 01:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone use this applet? Under 9.0 it recognised my local station, but under 9.1 it only seems to deal with North America. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I used it in NA for 9.1 for a while, but it had a nasty memory leak that would bring my machine to its knees occasionally so I have not used it since. I'll give it a try and report back. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TV card recommendations
On Monday 27 October 2003 02:30 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV card for Christmas so she can take videos off of our analog camcorder and store them on our fileserver/webserver. I am *totally* clueless about tv cards (not watching much tv will do that to you) but I know getting one of these contraptions is very important to her since we have kids on the way. Can anyone recommend a good tv card that Mandrake 9.2 (she'll be upgrading soon) works out of the box with please? If so, I'd much appreciate it! Any card that works off of the bt878 chipset should work very well. I have the Leadtek Winfast 2000XP and it works great, wlthough the remote does not work. Since this is the expert list, you won't mind then if I point you to the fine manual. :-D There is a cardlist somewhere in the bttv documentation that should give you a listing of supported cards. Something like /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
