Re: [expert] lm sensors
From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file. I ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it unloaded the modules. When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked again. I am currently trying to load only the i2c-viapro, i2c-isa, i2c-it87 and it2-lm75 modules and skipping the adm1021 and eeprom modules since my machine appears to have the most issues with the adm1021 module and I don't really need the eeprom one. in order to solve wich one kills your system, you should use the modprobe command and try to load one module at a time until it hangs... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your sound system is virtually identical to mine. I have also installed aumix and maxed out all the sliders. All I can say is that when I use 2.4.21 kernels, sound works flawlessly. If I use anything in the 2.4.22 list, no sound. Sound works in windoze. Sound works for SuSE 9.0, mandrake 9.1, and 9.0. Nothing changes when installing 9.2 at all except that sound magically quits working. are you using the latest bios? would you mind sending me the output of the following: # lspcidrake -v # cat /var/log/dmesg # dmidecode (to get the dmidecode program, youhave to install lm_sensors package, but you may remove it after if you want...) I'll take a look if we need a workaround for the msi board and the apic/acpi stuff..., and if so I'll add it to my next kernel build that will be out by the end of this week... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the interest of avoiding hard lockups and troubleshooting THAT (see the lm_sensors thread) when all I want to do is troubleshoot my sound problems, which lm_sensor module(s) should I load in order to use dmidecode? I would like to restrict the modules to the minimum needed to get the information you request. none. the dmidecode is a standalone program that will probe your bios/system dmi, and give out as much info as it can... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GCC
From: Jarmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 18 November 2003 14:41, Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jarmo wrote: Anybody know reasom,why gcc-3.3.2 was downgraded in 9.2 into 3.3.1? In 9.1 it was 3.3.2. It wasn't. 9.1 has 3.2.2. Sorry...Missunderstanding...My BAD BAD English... In 9.1 it is 3.3.2 In 9.2 it is 3.3.1 Downgraded? Nope. If you had a 3.3.2 package in 9.1 you got it somwhere else... with a fake version number I might add, as according gcc.gnu.org: GCC 3.3.2 (released 2003-10-17) and looking at a ftp site near you: ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ you will see: 03/03/2003 12:00 4,119,793 gcc-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 1,988,909 gcc-c++-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 37,146 gcc-colorgcc-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00147,356 gcc-cpp-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00966,657 gcc-doc-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 4,403,079 gcc-doc-pdf-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 1,589,109 gcc-g77-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 7,194,031 gcc-gnat-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 01/08/2003 12:00 2,324,573 gcc-gpc-2.95.3-5mdk.i586.rpm 01/08/2003 12:00457,415 gcc-gpc-devel-2.95.3-5mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 1,446,712 gcc-java-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00 1,327,557 gcc-objc-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 03/03/2003 12:00137,731 gcj-tools-3.2.2-3mdk.i586.rpm so it's definately 3.2.2 in 9.1 -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with pio mode
From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 03:32, Angelo Naselli wrote: So there isn't any problem is it? I saw this thing because of a system that seems to be slower and with more hd access so i assumed the message ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx as something wrong on my system. No problem. You might try doing hdparm -m 32 to see if it speeds up disk access. But the reference to PIO mode would only affect you directly if you had some really old HDD's or CD drives on the box. The PIO IDE bus and the UDMA IDE bus are different (Although I don't have all of the details on the difference.) and you use one but not the other. Actually the bus is the same, it's only the data flow protocol on the bus that changes... running the bus in pio mode means that your cpu workload will get high since it has to be in charge of moving all the data to and from ram... but when the bus is running dma, the data from the hdd to ram will bypass your cpu (and leave it free for other work) and rely an the dma controller to make sure the data gets to/from ram. going from dma to udma adds crc32 checking to the transfers, thus enabling higher transfer speeds without transfer errors ... So, in short... to gain full speed from a pio hdd, your cpu will run with 60-99% workload, whereas running udma will keep it around 3-5% ( of course your might see different values, but this was only a generic example) -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?
From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 15 November 2003 4:01 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Ummm. I tried to upgrade my laptop with 9.2 by ftp this evening. I used the pcmcia.img from my club isos, and when I tried to start an FTP download, I got a complaint for an image with a good package list. The one from the ftp server works perfectly, however. The balk occurred when the kernel was attempted to be downloaded, so it appears that there is a kernel version number change. Well, the installer kernel on the mirror ftp tree is using 21mdk kernels, so you *must* download the floppy images from the ftp site to make it work Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shorewall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas I will Monday. I installed iptables and it works. 9.2 shore wall is broken. I did the same think I did at home for 9.0 in control center and it works. Just on 9.2 it's broken. What do you mean you installed iptables ??? Shorewall is an iptables based firewall? and my firewall is running MDK 9.2 now without any problems... Regards thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake releases public isos: updated boot images, anyone?
From: Stefan Rijnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Mandrake has now released the public isos of 9.2 on their ftp sites. Does anybody know if this release is based on the LG-friendly, updated kernel? In the root of the download location, there is a README.LG file, that tells the user to update their CD ROM firmware before installing 9.2 As stated before... They are the same as the ISO's on the MandrakeClub and the ones shipped of to paying customers... Of course, I am aware of the fact that LG is to blame. Still, updated boot images would constitute a good fix, imho. If these new boot images exist, would it be possible for me to get them without downloading a whole iso? It's better that people actually fix their broken h/w ASAP... as this is a vulnerability that could be exploited by maliciuos programs... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)
From: Piero Piutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 07:41, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Thomas Backlund ha scritto: But now that's changed too... Last night the 9.2 ISO's appeared on the master mirrors, so they should start showing up on the mirrors around the world... But it's not clear if these are the updated ISOs that overcome the LG bug. I've checked a mirror and the 9.2 ISOs come with a Readme LG text file suggesting to upgrade the drives' firmware anyway... They are the same ISO's as the Club ones, and the same 10mdk kernels used for install, and as installable kernels as on every shipped cd/dvd... Since LG has posted updated firmwares on their homepages, users are encouraged to check if their cdrom/dvdrom needs an update and if so.. they have to update them _before_ installing MDK 9.2... and since this is a serious bug from LG:s side, users should upgrade their f/w ASAP anyway... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shore wall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every time I start shore wall squid and everything is denied can anyone help me setting these up. I think Jack said to manually do this yesterday I get the same problem. Add a new firewall rule Action Source Destination Protocol Source ports Destination ports Move ACCEPT Zone net Zone fw TCP Any 53,22,137,138,139,631,3128,1 ACCEPT Zone net Zone fw UDP Any 53,137,138,139,631 ACCEPT Zone loc Zone fw TCP Any 53,22,137,138,139,631,3128,1 ACCEPT Zone loc Zone fw UDP Any 53,137,138,139,631 Add a new firewall rule If I undestand this correctly, you have made a nice attack point for hackers... Assuming 'net' is Internet, 'fw' is the firewall, and 'loc' is your local lan.. if so, you have your system open for attacks/missuse on dns, samba, squid, ... Here is what you need: ---cut--- #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL # PORTPORT(S)DEST # # access from the internet only to ssh (disable this one too if you don't need it...) ACCEPT net fw tcp 22 # accsess from the lan to the services on the firewall (ssh, dns, ipp, squid) ACCEPT loc fw tcp 22, 53, 631, 3128 ACCEPT loc fw udp 53 # Let the services on the firewall get net access (dns, squid http port) ACCEPT fw net tcp 53, 80 ACCEPT fw net udp53 # Special Samba rules between the lan and the firewall ACCEPT loc fw udp 137:139,445 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT loc fw udp 1024: 137 ACCEPT fw loc udp 137:139,445 ACCEPT fw loc tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT fw loc udp 1024: 137 ---cut--- now you only have to decide what to do about port 1, since I don't know what service you are using it for, or if it's a local service ( lan - fw ), so you need to put it in the right ACCEPT line this is all you need as the conntrack modules keeps the returning info/packets happy, and you should have a secured firewall... If you need more info... feel free to ask... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shore wall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] This was the default except for 1000 and 3128. It doesn't work anyway that is why I am asking. 1 us webmin. I hate running to the server to manage it. What I would like is to have everything bound to eth0 and deny all but ssh to eth1. then you should have this in /etc/shorewall/interfaces --- cut --- neteth1 detect loceth0 detect #LAST LINE -- ... --- cut --- and this in /etc/shorewall/rules ---cut--- #ACTIONSOURCEDESTPROTODESTSOURCE ORIGINAL # PORT PORT(S)DEST # ACCEPTnet fwtcp 22 # accsess from lan to the firewall (ssh, dns, ipp, squid, webmin) ACCEPT loc fw tcp 22, 53, 631,3128, 1 ACCEPT loc fw udp 53 # Let the services on the firewall get net access (dns, squid http port) ACCEPT fw net tcp 53, 80 ACCEPT fw net udp53 # Special Samba rules between the lan and the firewall ACCEPT loc fw udp 137:139,445 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT loc fw udp 1024:137 ACCEPT fw loc udp 137:139,445 ACCEPT fw loc tcp 137,139,445 ACCEPT fw loc udp 1024:137 ---cut--- this is all you need as the conntrack modules keeps the returning info/packets happy, and you should have a secured firewall... then restart shorewall, and let me know if it works... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shore wall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did what you put here and on mandrake 9.2 via the ssh and vi I copied and pasted what you had typed and after I started shore wall it disconnected webmin and ssh via the local net. Question: are you sure that eth0 is your lan, and eth1 is your internet access? ( if shorewall didn't get back up, it too would lock you out) so add eth0 to /etc/shorewall/routestopped and the access will keep on working even if shorewall is misconfigured... if you just copy / pasted my settings, I hope you moved the text PORT(S)DEST to it's right place, under: ... SOURCE ORIGINAL or else it would have broken your shorewall setup... preventing shorewall to restart... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shore wall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] The server has 2 eth ports eth1 and eth2 eth 1 is eth0 and eth 2 is eth 1. eth1 = eth0 is inside and eth2 = eth1 is outside just checked. also I did cut and pasted yours into the rules. so add eth0 to /etc/shorewall/routestopped and remove the line that starts with PORT(S)DEST and issue a 'shorewall start' and it should work, as it does for me... and I have been using Shorewall since before MDK started to use it... let me know if it works... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shore wall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is what I have in my /etc/shorewall/rules the ones with the # are old ones. #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVECTION SOURCE remove this line that is above the rules, or they will newer get activated... as the shorewall script only reads until it finds the text '#LAST LINE...' and as it states it's the LAST LINE, so it should be found only once, and that is as the last line in the rules file (and you already have that line in place according to your mail) then issue a 'shorewall restart' and let me know how it works... -- regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] shorewall
From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did this below still nothing everything stops... Can you help more Please. the three last lines of /etc/shorewall/routestopped should be: --- cut --- #INTERFACE HOST(S) eth0 #LAST LINE... --- cut --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] shorewall]# service shorewall check Loading /usr/share/shorewall/functions... Processing /etc/shorewall/params ... Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf... Notice: The 'check' command is unsupported and problem reports complaining about errors that it didn't catch will not be accepted Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: NAT: Available Packet Mangling: Available Multi-port Match: Available Connection Tracking Match: Available Verifying Configuration... Loading Modules... Determining Zones... Zones: net loc Validating interfaces file... Warning: Invalid option (routestopped) in record net eth0 detect routestopped remove the 'routestopped' from /etc/shorewall/interfaces so the four last lines in that file should be: --- cut --- #ZONEINTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS loceth0 detect neteth1 detect #LAST LINE ... --- cut --- btw, as I forgot to ask before, what internet connection do you have? is it a dsl? and does it get it's ip through dhcp or is it static? if you have dsl that uses PPPoE or PPPoA, you need to change /etc/shorewall/interfaces to: --- cut --- #ZONEINTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS loceth0 detect netppp0 detect #LAST LINE ... --- cut --- and if it's also using dhcp, you need it like this: --- cut --- #ZONEINTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS loceth0 detect netppp0detect dhcp #LAST LINE ... --- cut --- and of course restart shorewall after you have made the changes -- Regards Thomas PS. sorry for the delays in answering, I had to leave my computer for a while... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)
From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlie: My bad. Sorry about sending you on a wild goose chase. I made the mistake of not realizing when Mandrake says, Mandrake 9.2 is now available for download, they really mean that Mandrake 9.2 is available for download to Club members only. MOF, it wasn't even obvious to me when I followed the download link. Somebody ought to write a browser plug-in to detect marketspeak (Q. How do you know if a salesman is lying? A. His lips are moving.) Actually MDK 9.2 has been available on the public ftp servers since 2003-10-13, (same time the club members got the isos) but only as a ftp tree... But now that's changed too... Last night the 9.2 ISO's appeared on the master mirrors, so they should start showing up on the mirrors around the world... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cooker update with newer packages
From: Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've noticed that Cooker contains KDE 3.1.4, Mozilla 1.4, Evolution 1.4.4 and other packages that have newer versions. Is there a timeframe for when these will be updated. Just curious. No. It's just that Cooker is now fully open again, and the development for MDK 10.0 is getting up to speed... We have been in a Deep Freeze since the 9.2 Freeze, with only updates for syncking with amd64 development branch... now it's done, so syncing a 9.2 install with Cooker is no longer really an option, unless you want to break your system from time to time... regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks
From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 23:17, Greg Meyer wrote: Unless I am missing something that you have not brought up, the errors you are describing generally refer to the IDE controller itself and not the hard drive. I/O APIC and ACPI problems generally cause interrupts to not get assigned properly, so frequent symptoms include nics and usb ports not working and lost interrupts on drive channels. If this is the case and I have seen it causing problems with NICs, the install should be set to turn it off by default, once you have a running system, it can always be turned on,.; But this type of thing happening on install will drive people away from MDK. most winyuk users are extremely biased against linux, why give them fuel for their arguments ??? Well we can disable that stuff in the install with the kernel, but in order to do so we need the hw info bios revision so we know what system to block, and what part of it... So here is what you need to do... first get MDK installed, probably using the above mentioned commands.. then install lm_sensors... then tell me what commands you needed (acpi=off, acpi=ht, noapic, nolapic, ...) to get it working... then send me the output of the following commands: (as root) #lspcidrake -v #cat /var/log/dmesg #dmidecode with this info I'll add them to my kernels, and most likely Juan will pick them up for MDK main kernels... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?
From: Oscar Retana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Thank you Robert for your answer. I need to apply a patch to the kernel. I don't want to use my own configuration. Instead, I want to use the mandrake kernel configuraion (as it is shipped in the CDs), apply the patch, and compile it. Of course, I want to use this configuration with the mandrake kernel it self, and not with other kernel sources. I did as I said, compiled and installed the kernel, but got some problems with scsi drivers (totally not related to the patch, with is about mppe). So, I thought the problem was the patch I applied. But then, and tried to compile it without a single modification from my part, and the compilation failed. So, I was not sure if the .config file the kernel-source rpm includes is the oficial configuration mandrake uses, or just something else. Thank you! - Oscar Retana. p.s.: By the way, in trying to do this with kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk if you have installed the mdk kernel-source, the configs for all mdk kernels is at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/ where defconfig is for up kernel, defconfig-smp is for the smp kernel and so on... of course you shouldn't build the kernels as root, so I suggest you make a local copy in your home directory for example: 1. copy the contents of /usr/src/linux/ to /home/oscar/kernel/ 2. cd to /home/oscar/kernel/ 3. do a 'make mrproper' 4. apply your patches 5. copy the config you need: cp arch/i386/defconfig .config 6. do a 'make oldconfig dep clean bzImage modules' 7. su to root 8. do a 'make modules_install install' this will build and install a kernel named 2.4.22-21mdkcustom btw, the patch you need, is it something anyone else would benefit from? If so, would you mind sending me the patch (or a link to it) and I'll add it to my kernel-tmb in contribs... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Packet writing to CDRW - URL has been changed
Mark Williamson kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 00:22): Hi, I have found the correct link.. http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2002-August/001207 .html Super I will be trying that out later, it's about time that Linux had packet writing, I can see with decent packet writing setup, the old floppy drive will no longer used, I hate floppies. (Hey so much for the LG CD readers) :) With the new Kernel that Mandrake now suppling does that support packet writing or did they pull it out? It got pulled out... no reason to take another chance for now... I'll readd the new patches to my kernels sometime in the next couple of weeks -- Regards Thomas 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?
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-enterprise-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/kernel-tmb-source-2.4.22-12.tmb.1mdk.i586.rpm This same kernel set is also in MDK 9.2 contribs... As there have been problems with urpmi sources lately, try using --wget as it's not as picky as curl... #urpmi.update -a --wget #urpmi --wget kernel-tmb-source Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 strange one
From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a sense it's already there. When the first Lilo screen comes up hit the escape key and type linux 3 this will boot linux to runlevel 3 (text only) and then you can make the adjustments via good old vi. Not sure exactly on Grub what to do... Don't use grub. James grub does the exact same thing as lilo... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OLD ALR server
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Say, I seem to remember awhile back that Mandrake has removed old Pentium support? I have an old ALR 4 processor 200MHZ pentium Pro. It locks up just as it is trying to load the drives for the Mylex DAC960 Controller card. The support is not removed... we still run i586 optimized ... wich means that pretty much everything after 486 is supported... you probably hit a bug regarding the Mylex driver... do you have more specifics... do you see any error messages... do you have a linux system that works on that system? would you mind posting the output of lspci -v directly to me, and also the /var/log/dmesg file... if it's a recent MDK, please post lspcidrake -v Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD
From: Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlie M. wrote: [...] Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). gendistrib if for prepairing the tree for hd / network installs... you don't need it for making cds... both gendistrib and makecd does that procedure... gendistrib verifies dependencies and write one hdlist.cz / synthesis for the whole media, leaving out the packages that don't have their depencies met... as for makecd is does the exact same thing, but it splits up hdlist.cz and synthesis based on amount of cd's, and their contents (so urpmi/rpmdrake will know on wich cd to look...) [...] I'll probably wait for the power pack, too. I was just curious as to how to do it. The CDs I made, did boot, but I didn't try installing because of all of the dependency errors (most of them in apach2, but there were others, too, like gdm). My real reason to try was that I have a high speed connection from work, but not home. But the work connection does work with BitTorrent. So, I could ftp the 9.2 tree down and I thought I would build my own ISOs. Like I said, the process was pretty smooth (although lengthy) and I ended up with 8 CDs (I included contrib, too). But, with all of those dependency errors, I didn't want to risk screwing something up (my test linux box is temporarily in production). The dependency problems is only makecd's way to inform you that those packages won't be on the cd's as you cant install them anyway... so it does make the cd's installable ... In reality, downloading the tree and running MakeCD was not significantly more work that ftp'ing ISOs. Oh well, the powerpack should be shipping in the next two weeks! Joeb Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Orinoco gold driver problems
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been trying to get kismet, the wlan sniffer, to work with my orinoco gold. There are patches available for the orinoco driver that allows it to go into monitor mode. The thing is, all the sources indicate that the default driver version in the 2.4.21 kernel series was orinoco 0.13b. The patches available are for 0.13b or later. I check my mandrake 2.4.21 kernel orinoco driver and it is version 0.13a. Why is the mandrake kernel behind the curve with regards to orinoco drivers? I cannot get my kernel orinoco driver patched to permit it to go into monitor mode (I need monitor mode to try to detect a possible wireless ISP from a long distance via a parabolic antenna). I cannot patch the 0.13a orinoco driver with ANY available orinoco patch as they are all for more up-to-date driver versions. I have tried and it totally screws up the orinoco driver. Can anyone tell me how I could go about upgrading my kernel pcmcia orinoco driver WITHOUT having to resort to pcmcia-cs and rebuilding my kernel, etc? Is there no way to upgrade the kernel's orinoco driver and then patch it? for MDK 9.1 the update kernel is 2.4.21-0.25mdk wich carries orinoco 0.13c for MDK 9.2 we hav the latest orinoco, and that sniffer patch will be in my next kernel-tmb in contribs... Regards Thomas 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
From: D. R. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc So when you are at the console... login as root... and do: #update-menus -v and you should be Ok... (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) Regards Thomas 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
From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: D. R. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! And opening one using ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't work, because then I can't run X - - - so I can't run a graphical program. Doc So when you are at the console... login as root... and do: #update-menus -v and you should be Ok... (you need the -v switch, or update-menus wont do anything...) Regards Thomas Actually from my experience it does do something... It just doesn't tell you it's doing it(without the -v switch). It dives into the background and if you wait a few minutes it will produce results. Are you sure? If so... everything is OK... There were some discussions on the Cooker ML that -v was needed due to some bug in update-menus... but I have never needed to use update-menus yet... so I was only posting what I learned from cooker... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 20.35 16/10/2003, you wrote: The reason for dropping kernel-source, was AFAIK to make room for all the kde-i18n, koffice-i18n stuff... as you know mdk supports *many* languages... i18n and similar were in other MDK distro... so they added something else, your explanation isn't an explanation. Actually if you think about it a bit before discarding my statement, you see what I mean... as packages / programs get developed / enchanced, they tend to grow, when adding more features... So here is a short comaprision... MDK 9.1 - all kde* + koffice* + locales* = ~240MB MDK 9.2 - all kde* + koffice* + locales* = ~262MB so there went ~22MB compairing the same kernels: MDK 9.1 ~73.6MB MDK 9.2 ~86.2MB so there went ~12.6MB now I am at 34.6MB already ;-) (wich is pretty much the size of kernel-source in 9.1, 9.2 kernel-source is ~40MB) and this list can be made longer... (I havent calculated any other) as we upgraded gnome to 2.4 - more space needed, added more supported kernels... and suddenly those 3 ISOs seem _very_ small... and looking at 9.1 Prosuite Edition CDs+DVD ONLY, they came with 8CD + 1DVD... the same for 9.2 is 9 + 1DVD, so that's 700MB of extra stuff between 9.1 and 9.2 I hope the source will be back in next release, I have a 56k and, once I burned my 3 ISO downloaded somewhere else, I'd like to have the source of the kernel. If 3 ISO are not enough, release 3 ISO or remove some games, but NOT THE KERNEL SOURCE. Removing the kernel source will put off from Mandrake many potential Powerpack customers, I'm sure much more people than those that will buy Powerpack to have the sources or other extras... and yes ... I do understand that many people would have liked the kernel-source on the download isos, but the descision has already been made, cd's manufactured ... and so on... Of course the next release could have a different decision... who knows ... but if you can't download the extra stuff over your modem, you could of course go somewhere (friend / library / net-cafe), where you can download it, burn it to a CD, and take it home... and install from the cd... and there will be an update kernel that will hitting the updates when it's ready... So then you would have to download the stuff anyway... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Automount missing
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello James; indeed it's Supermount that I meant, sorry about that. I am now using 2.6.0test7-bk8. I tried the supermount enable command but it did not seem to do anything. Thanks! -turgut That's no MDK kernel... so you have to patch the kernel yourself´to get supermount support... you can get the patches from supermount-ng.sf.net... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs
ed tharp kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Torstai 16 Lokakuu 2003 13:17): disk 3 download is 652 megs Then you have a bad image: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]$ du -m * 652 MandrakeLinux-9.2-17-Download-1.i586.iso 699 MandrakeLinux-9.2-18-Download-2.i586.iso 696 MandrakeLinux-9.2-19-Download-3.i586.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED] powerpack]$ du -m * 695 MandrakeLinux-9.2-03-Install-1.i586.iso 695 MandrakeLinux-9.2-04-Install-2.i586.iso 695 MandrakeLinux-9.2-05-I18n-Com.i586.iso -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 16 Lokakuu 2003 17:30): Please let me know when you do build the disk (and drivers) for this. My Will do ... I'll post on the lists when they are out... machine is basically unusable until this happens. I don't understand how M$ can work and install without special drivers! Bob Since just about every manufacturer makes their own drivers for M$, or releases their specs / documentations to M$... On the linux development side, most drivers get done when some people start needing them, and then it happens by reading whatever info you can, and start trying to build by trial and error ... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
Praedor Atrebates kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 16 Lokakuu 2003 19:41): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Err, in following this thread my first thought is: isn't not supplying the kernel source technically a violation of GPL? The HAVE to supply the source and should make allowances (reductions in certain packages) if it is not possible to put the source on one of the official distro CDs. Kernel source is critical for many reasons, not leastwise to comply with GPL. It is supplied, just not on the CD:s, head over to the ftp mirrors and grab it there... and as far as GPL go, It has been stated before, you don't need to ship the sourcecode with your rpms, _only_ make them easy available, wich they are... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] A bit more information and I am no longer prepared to be T'd off when I get my CDs. I see that the bare-bones, 3CD iso download addition is what is missing the kernel source, not what I ordered (nor what anyone paid for). Given this, it is still not unreasonable to NOT include the any experimental kernel, multimedia kernel, enterprise kernel, smp kernel, etc, IF that is what it takes to get something as basic as the kernel-source onto the first 3 CDs. Have the others available for download separately as it is a relative None of the contrib kernels are on the download edition... Here is a list of all packages on the download edition... http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.2/features/15.php3 The reason for dropping kernel-source, was AFAIK to make room for all the kde-i18n, koffice-i18n stuff... as you know mdk supports *many* languages... as for dropping smp / enterprise kernels... that's not an option..., as there are many home-users too that have smp systems... of course you could drop the up kernels, since the smp/ent kernels does work on up system, but then again we would have to drop support for laptop features, as not all of them are smp safe... few that use them as compared to those with NVidia video cards and the like (those who need to rebuild the kernel or build drivers that depend on the kernel source). This is simply something that should be reconsidered for future releases as a way to optimize for functionality given limited space. As I paid for the powerpack addition, I am no longer concerned with being without the kernel-source on one of the CDs. Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D865GLC MB with SATA drives
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 20:16): Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. What SATA controller? That board does not have any integrated, so... Oops, I read the wrong MB number. It's the Intel 865GLC, sorry. Mdk 9.0 would not find the CD Drive - died right away. Mdk 9.1 would load some more from the CD, but then would fail looking for the hard disk. It wants to know what SCSI module to use. I tried a whole bunch, all to no avail. Help! I want to install (preferrably 9.0) on this lightning-fast machine! Thanks. Bob Sorry, no can do the SATA support for most chipsets boards has just gotten to the process where they get integrated in the current kernels, so the first MDK distro to support other SATA than Sil3112 are MDK 9.2 + driver disk.. Where can I find this driver? Bob It's not built yet... AFAIK..., and if MDK won't be building any driver floppies, I will build them and post them on my site... But I need to get the newer libata integrated in my kernels first... And I know that one of the OEM partners has demanded the SATA support for atleast Intel Boards... But you will atleast have to wait a week, before I can get around to building those driver disks... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks
Kwan Lowe kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Tiistai 14 Lokakuu 2003 17:23): I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also video and audio playing from cds and dvds in addition to internet oriented jobs. -- As of this writing, Centrino wireless does not work with Linux. There were some postings before Centrino was released that Linux would, in fact, be supported. This was entirely marketing hype because there's no working drivers available (I just spent days trying on a Compaq X1000). Also, the power level indicator does not work correctly with RedHat 9 or Mandrake 9.1 on the above X1000. I've tried rebuilding with various patches found throughout the web but it was unreliable. I personally won't buy a Centrino notebook until Intel supports Linux fully. I don't think Intel has the released the specsdocs for the wireless part yet, so there will most likely be problems with that ... not to mention the fact that it's already outdated ;-)... As for the rest of the hw it should be supported in 9.2 kernels, but I don't have the hw to test... And I think Juan himself has a Centrino based laptop, so ... I don't have many other newer notebooks but here's my experience with the older ones that I own: Toshiba Satellite 4090XDVD -- older, but everything works (sound, video, modem) IBM Thinkpad T22 (800MhZ) -- older, everything also works. Dell Inspiron 3500 -- ancient, no sound (NeoMagic chipset) -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk
Tibor Pittich kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Maanantai 13 Lokakuu 2003 23:14): On 13. October 2003 at 13:34, Thomas Backlund wrote: all of you with an nVidia nForce2 or Via KT400 board.. please try this one out... %changelog * Sun Oct 12 2003 Thomas Backlund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk * libata driver for ICH5 and VIA SATA. what this mean? is there improvement to use sata disk direct as hdx? or there is still only scsi emulation for sata disks which was added in 2.4.22.10.tmb ? If you look at the changelog closely, you see that two lines above it states: - sync with 2.4.22-11mdk so that is from the main mdk kernel changelog, and it's exactly the same as I used... For my next build I'm switching to a newer libata, wich should work better and also support some promise cards... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D845GVAD2 MB with SATA drives
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. What SATA controller? That board does not have any integrated, so... Mdk 9.0 would not find the CD Drive - died right away. Mdk 9.1 would load some more from the CD, but then would fail looking for the hard disk. It wants to know what SCSI module to use. I tried a whole bunch, all to no avail. Help! I want to install (preferrably 9.0) on this lightning-fast machine! Thanks. Bob Sorry, no can do :-( the SATA support for most chipsets boards has just gotten to the process where they get integrated in the current kernels, so the first MDK distro to support other SATA than Sil3112 are MDK 9.2 + driver disk.. -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk
Hi, all of you with an nVidia nForce2 or Via KT400 board.. please try this one out... I've been running this kernel for ~24hours, and no problems yet so ACPI seem finally to be fixed for nForce2... and native IDE UDMA133 is not bad either... ... and there is some other fun stuff too... ... and more vill follow in the next couple of days... it should show up on the contribs mirrors soon, but for those of you that can't wait... go to www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker and grab it there... and let me know how it works for you... %changelog * Sun Oct 12 2003 Thomas Backlund ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk - acx 0.2.0pre3 - cifs 0.9.4cvs - ieee1394 rev 1073 - mod_dvb 1.0.1 - program nForce2 IDE to UDMA133 - acpi 20031002 + acpi_asus_build - pci.ids 20031012 + my addons - fix bug in BadRAM marking all highmem bad (svetljo) - acpi 20030918 (svetljo) - sync with 2.4.22-12mdk * Various updates to PDC ultra driver * Various i810 audio fixes from 2.4.23pre5 * Add nForce3 IDE UDMA support * Add VM overcommit accounting + new swapless mode - sync with 2.4.22-11mdk * av7 is good for acpi. * libata driver for ICH5 and VIA SATA. * 3ware patch to make smartmontools happy (erwan request). * low latency fixes are back. - sync with 2.4.22.10.tmb.5mdk (non-public sparc test-build) * initial sparc/sparc64 support (only up support for now) * sparc/sparc64 fixes from 2.4.23-pre7 * using a temporary check_asm hack until gcc is fixed... * fix grsec for sparc/sparc64 -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk
Hezekiah M. Carty kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Maanantai 13 Lokakuu 2003 18:22): Thanks for the tip! I'll go try this out right away...I've been having constant stability problems with Mandrake and my new asus k7n8x deluxe nforce2 board. Hopefully this will help. Do you have any suggestions for a good lilo config? Any special kernel options to pass? I have that board myself, and yoo dont need any options no more to get it to boot... one thing of course ... if you have the onboard Sil3112 SATA controller enabled, and no hdd's attached to it, you will see some delays during bootup... Either disable the controller, or pass: hde=noprobe hdg=noprobe to the kernel -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] acx100 won't work on my mandrake 9.1 or 9.2rc
From: Mike Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are any of you guys/gals willing to offer a tip or two on getting it to work? Or do you recommend I go to the newbie list? I get errors trying to install around line 100 of the script. I posted this a few days ago. If there was a response I missed it and I apologise. But I don't think so. Looking forward to a reply. cheers Grab the latest kernel (2.4.22-10mdk) from cooker, and you will have acx100 0.1h drivers or my latest kernel-tmb (2.4.22-10.tmb.4mdk) from contribs, and you will have acx100 0.2.0pre1 drivers or wait for my upcoming 2.4.22-10.tmb.5mdk that should be out this weekend and you will have acx100 0.2.0pre4 drivers... The choice is yours... Regards Thoams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How possible is it to upgrade a 9.0 system by pointing urpmi to 9.1 sources? I attempted to do this, and urpmi found about 250MBs of things to download, but then failed on further dependencies when it tried to install. If you have a clean 9.0 system it should work like this: - remove the 9.0 sources / update sources: - point your urpmi to 9.1 sources, (wich you did), - add the 9.1 security updates source - first you should update urpmi and rpm packages: #urpmi perl-URPM urpmi rpm - then update the whole system: #urpmi --auto-select - the last thing you need is to update the kernel: # urpmi kernel - and reboot into your fully updated 9.1 system... If you are using contribs or plf or some other repositories too, you need to point them too to their 9.1 respective sources (and remove the old ones...) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib
From: Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Backlund schrieb am Thu, 9 Oct 2003 23:51:07 +0300: - the last thing you need is to update the kernel: # urpmi kernel Are you sure about this? I remember something about NOT using urpmi for the kernel. But maybe that's an old rule and outdated or even an urban legend... :) It's true that it did not work before as it performed an upgrade instead of an install, but atleast beginning with urpmi that shipped with 9.1 it works as it should... (maybe even before, but I dont remember if I ever tried...) But I have done it *a lot* of times since that, and it has never failed... So yes It's safe... ;-) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Discussion: Ready for SATA?
From: Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5. October 2003 at 14:48, James Sparenberg wrote: Do you know of a list of chipsets that are correctly supported? I've not been able to find one. yet. in latest kernel from mandrake we can see support for these sata controlers: PDC20318 (SATA150 TX4) Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA HostRAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller unfortunately, kt600 chipset isn't still supported. but i found email about this in l-k, where someone wrote that jeff garzik write this driver already.. In my kernel-tmb series in contrib I have that patch so it should support both intel and Via SATA chipsets, but since I don't have the h/w I cant test it myself... So if anyone feel lucky... please give them a try... Both HighPoint and Promise does have drivers and sourcecode for many of their sata controllers, but you have to compile them yourself for now, and it does not work for everybody... They will at some point probably get integrated in the kernels, but they need to be rewritten to use the libata interface instead of the older cam interface... same goes for newer cmd, sis and sil chipsets... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Do these messages explain why my system hung?
Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 06 Lokakuu 2003 20:35): diego schrieb am 06 Oct 2003 19:02:06 +0200: Hu... and if that's the case (a module is corrupted), you can have a look at badmem: it will lock bytes reported as wrong by memtest86 so you would be able to still spend 0$ and use much of that module ;-)) Now this IS a great advice! I have a module here in my desk that memtest reported has some bad bytes (only a few). If I could get that to work with locked bad bytes it would increase my desktop's memory up to 1GByte! If this works then this advice may be one of the most important advices I received this year. wobo As we have the badram patches in upcoming 9.2, here is how to do it: (it was added in 2.4.22-0.7mdk) run memtest, choose the following: (c)onfiguration (6) Error Report Mode (2) BadRam Patterns (8) Restart Test When the test have run, and found some bad ram, it will show a line like this: badram=0x09c17d18,0xfffc this line that is reported is exactly what you need to add to your lilo append line, and the kernel will map that memory area as forbidden area that no program will use, not even the kernel... Thanks to the badram patch I didn't have to discard a 512MB module due to a 4kB bad area in that module (that's what the above badram=... example fixes) -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Archives (was: Reply-to)
From: T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:38:15AM -0700, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:55, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... [0] on archives.mandrakelinux.com, I get Can not connect to search daemon - are there other archives? Google, and add site:mandrakelinux.com to the end of the search string. e.g.: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=t+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search I'll try that next time, thanks. Pity that the official archives don't seem to work - or was that a fluke? Or use MARC: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-expertr=1w=2 Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x in asus 9180se
L.V.Gandhi kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 05 Lokakuu 2003 17:10): [...] Further in mdk I have problem of harddisk not getting udma5 as default in hdparm -i /dev/hdx with this A7N8X MB and mdk9.1. but it shows in knoppix 3.2. Can you share your experience of your harddisk with respect to udma status and any configuration you did update to the latest kernel for 9.1 from security updates, wich also has the fix for that... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Discussion: Ready for SATA?
From: Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] SATA hard drives are hitting the markets already. Normally the Bios should be able to emulate the same behaviour as if they're simple ATAPI devices, but who can be so sure? Is Linux ready for it? Anyone who has got a SATA HD is welcomed to talk about his testimony :-) It's not the harddrives that are the problem, the problem is chipset support, wich is harder to do since not all hw vendors document their chipsets (or actually the SATA controller part), or even better GPL their source code... But we are getting there Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support
From: Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 4, 2003 07:10 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Has anyone had any success getting the Audigy 2 sound card to work on MDK 9.1? I have one in a new Dell 8300 and it doesn't work at all. I have Goggled for answers and it looks like this card is not supported by Linux. Thanks. Call Dell and scream for a replacement for the card. The version OEM-ed for Dell has been crippled and won't use the audigy2 drivers. Seen it before and had to yell until the customer was sent a replacement. I don't remember the details, but I know a Dell supplied OEM Audigy2 ain't the same as an off the shelf version. Ah, here we are. Copied from a bugzilla report that confirms what I thought I remembered g: The problem with Dell's Sound Blaster Live is that their new computers ship with sound cards that have the DSP chip crippled so that all sound processing functions take place in software rather than hardware (like a WinModem). Creative and Dell have no solution to this, but I got Dell to send me a replacement Sound Blaster Audigy 2. Would someone with one of theese Dell systems with cripled audigy2 dsp send me the output of lspcidrake -v... If we can't get it to work normally, maybe we can work around the problem with it... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Audigy 2 Support
From: J. Kelley Jernigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kelley]$ lspcidrake -v [...] audigy : Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy Audio Processor [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:1102 device:0004 subv:1102 subd:1003) ohci1394: Creative Labs|EMU10K2 Audigy IEEE1394 Firewire Controller [SERIAL_FIREWIRE](vendor:1102 device:4001 subv:1102 subd:0010) [...] OK, thanks... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /proc/kcore
From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Why is this file size 148180K, when all other files in /proc are size 0? I'm in runlevel 3 no less. kcore is not a real file but is an image of your memory. Do an 'ls -lh /proc/kcore' and it should match your physical RAM size. It's not taking up any space on your disks. #ls -lh /proc/kcore -r 1 root root 145M Sep 29 14:12 /proc/kcore But my installed RAM is 128M. Why the 17M difference? Do I have a memory leak problem? Is the 17M swapspace in use? Possibly... do a free -m and you'll see the mem usage... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hdparm values
From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 9:08 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote:
From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two hard disks 20 gb seagate and 40 gb samsung. I see in BIOS
they
are
100 ATA. However when I use hdparm, i get follwing results.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.37 seconds =345.95 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.17 seconds = 15.35 MB/sec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=ST320413A, FwRev=3.39, SerialNo=6ED1JBLC
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs RotSpdTol.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39102336
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4
I have following lines in dmesg.
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x)
ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
blk: queue c03cb55c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x)
ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
hdparm -X 69 /dev/hda also doesn't help.
but for the same hdd, with mercury mb and 815 chipset, in mdk91, I
used
to
get
buffered disk reads nearly 29 MB/s.
How about telling what kernel version you are running,
and what m/b and chipset do you have...?
I am running mandrake 9.1 with the shipped kernel, in asus a7n8x deluxe
motherboard with nvidia nforce2 chipset and amd athlon 2400+ with 256 mb
ram.
I was only wondering when the same system is giving good transfer rate
with
knoppix, what tweaking is needed in mandrake9.1 to get it?
Upgrade your kernel to the 0.25mdk from security updates,
or Danny's 0.22mdk, you can find at:
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/kernel-2.4.21.0.22mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/kernel-source-2.4.21-0.22mdk.i586.rpm
or from your local Mandake mirror in it's path:
Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/
Regards
Thomas
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Re: [expert] Samba 3.0 is out
From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:58:46 -0500, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Samba 3.0's] in contrib, been there for a while, thanks to Buchan...unfortunately, they took too much time to get it out, and it didn't make it into 9.2 main...but it'll be there for 9.3/10/whatever :) The press release is dated Wednesday (which I don't consider a while ago) and I don't see Samba 3 at MandrakeClub. Are you sure? Maybe you're thinking of a RC or some other pre-release? we have had pre an RC in contribs for a long time, but the final got built and uploaded to Contribs: --- Name: samba3 Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.0.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 2mdk Build Date: Thu Sep 25 15:53:47 2003 --- And Buchan said he would take some time with the rest of the builds for older distribs, and afaik he will also put packages for 9.2 in MandrakeClub... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hdparm values
From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two hard disks 20 gb seagate and 40 gb samsung. I see in BIOS they
are
100 ATA. However when I use hdparm, i get follwing results.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount= 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.37 seconds =345.95 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.17 seconds = 15.35 MB/sec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=ST320413A, FwRev=3.39, SerialNo=6ED1JBLC
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs RotSpdTol.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39102336
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4
I have following lines in dmesg.
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x)
ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
blk: queue c03cb55c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0x)
ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
hdparm -X 69 /dev/hda also doesn't help.
but for the same hdd, with mercury mb and 815 chipset, in mdk91, I used to
get
buffered disk reads nearly 29 MB/s.
How about telling what kernel version you are running,
and what m/b and chipset do you have...?
--
Regards
Thomas
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Re: [expert] HP netserver E45
From: HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Terje Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi there. After installing mandrake 9.1 and reboot Mandrake reports cant locate fb0 and there are alot of activity on my HD but nothing happends. Have tryed with another display adapter, but same error. Anyone who can help me?? Sounds like it's trying to boot from a floppy...how did you do the install, did you boot from a CD? nope. the floppy is fd0 the framebuffer is fb0 It might be a problem with LILO, try booting from the CD and hit F1 to configure LILO to boot from the HD. I don't think it's your display adapter. I would say it is ... try to boot with vga=normal... What graphic cards do you have? Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 rc2
James Sparenberg kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Sunnuntai 21 Syyskuu 2003 23:06): On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:23, Jack Coates wrote: alright, installed it on my laptop. [...] 5) Getting the bad key error on RPM upgrades, I thought Mandrake's key was included in the gnupg package? Should have been included. Perhaps it hasn't gone through the final check by Warly on the rpms to make sure they are all signed. Maybe the gnupg rpm didn't get updated. The other thing is that I've noticed that sometimes RPM's in Contrib get skipped or missed (could be either case.) on having an MDK sig. chkrootkit with 9.1 was one example of this. James The problem arised from the fact that rpm 4.2 series does not use gnupg for key amangement anymore, it's using it's own internal handling, and some packages was not properly signed on rc2, but AFAIK it's fixed now... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do I get ext3 journal available on initial mount of /?
Peter Møller Neergaard kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Perjantai 19 Syyskuu 2003 20:02): I am running Mandrake on laptop. Unfortunately my APM suspend is not flawless so occasionally my laptop powers off when I try to suspend. Obviously this results in unsynchronized file systems and a check at boot time. For that reason I have formatted all my partitions (including /) as ext3 to have a journal to recover from. This does however not work for / where es2fsck is scanning the whole disk looking for errors. I presume that it is because ext3 is not build into the Mandrake kernel and thus have to be loaded as a module. Consequently the file system will only be mounted as ext2 and an old type scan will take place. One possible solution would of course be to compile the kernel with ext3 build. I would however prefer a solution where I could just use Mandrake's kernel. Is this possible? Thanks /Peter well this is fixed in the upcoming 9.2, where the initial bootup will playback the ext3 journals _before_ e2fsck is run... ;-) -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do I get ext3 journal available on initial mount of /?
Peter Møller Neergaard kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Perjantai 19 Syyskuu 2003 23:17): Thanks for the responses. On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:05:36PM -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: AFAIK, support for Ext3 and ReiserFS, both journaling file systems are built into the Mandrake kernel, either integrated or as modules that are available at boot. It is clearly a module on my version of Mandrake 9.1: pan:~ lsmod | grep ext3 ext3 64608 3 (autoclean) jbd48692 3 (autoclean) [ext3] If I mount a Reiser drive I also get a reiserfs module. Of course this does not preclude the modules from being available at boot time. When the modules resides in /lib/modules/... they cannot be loaded before I have mounted / and that cannot happen before the files system has been checked. Is that what the initrd images in /boot are for? If so this explains my trouble. Somehow the process of upgrading to kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk went haywire. I ended up with a useless initrd image and decided that it was easiest just to ignore it since it boots fine without. [...] So recreate it with: mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.25mdk.img 2.4.21-0.25mdk make sure your /etc/lilo.conf entry for the 0.25mdk kernel has initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.25mdk.img and rerun lilo... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: nforce2, I don't know how to use it or a bad choice for linux?
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 20:39, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all My old VIA mainboard was gone weeks ago and I bought a nforce2 board to replace it. I got a lot of situation with this new board: 1. usb mouse won't work during mandrake 9.0 installation event I set it to USB 1.0/1.1 only,but it works ok after new system start up. Is this a hardware or mandrake problem? problem... not sure, but it sounds like the boot kernel (which is a lot less caple than the runtime kernel) didn't have the needed kernel modules. if IRC this was an installer issue ... 2. while review dmesg output,my IDE drive hda doesn't indicate as UDMA100. It does show as UDMA100 in the old board. Should I run hdparm to get better performance? I would. There may be a need to change something in BIOS as well. It may not have DMA enabled (since windows defaults to PIO). hdparm -X udma5 /dev/hda, or even better go to http://www.iki.fi/tmb/9.1/ and install one of Danny's 0.22mdk kernels I have linked to, and watch your system go... :-) 3. It quit offen that I got heavy disk I/O while using mozilla to surf the net. At this time, I can barely move mouse or do anything else. How can this happen? This is my first terrible experience under linux. Is it possible to tune the system for better performance. Java, Disable the javavm and see if it improves things. The Java release from Sun available at the time of 9.0 would runaway on some websites. If disabling java works consider getting a newer version from Sun. I did a ps ax once and noticed that I had over 100 instances running. I would say this is the behaviour due to point 2 ... iff your system isn't running udma it will crawl during hevy I/O... 4. Each day I use ntpdate to sync system time with a time server, I got offset 100s. The value for old system always less than 5s. Is it possible caused by point 3? Possible yes. I have to say that this board works much better under windows than linux. Do you have recommendation for AMD boards which has best performance under linux? VIA? SIS? I would stick with the nforce2 board... once the kernel supports it, it flies... I'm quite happy with my nforce2 board... I personally don't like SIS if that's worth anything. One recommendation I've seen that is worthwhile, is checking out what Tom's Hardware site has to say. They shoot straight. The newer sis chipsets are not so well supported in old kernels..., even current kernels have some problems... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
Tango Echo kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu 2003 16:39): That is another problem. I found out about it from other distribution's security announcements then I checked MandrakeSecure and found that they posted the information there. They should send an announcement like this to the mailing lists. Avi That's strange! I think of individuals that are familiar with Linux to be more security oriented... Ya know, it would be best to either have some type of notification OR an auto updater like what XP has - Check for updates, downloaded when read and confirm install or automatically download and install... So I guess the answer to my question is: Check mandrakesecure.net at least once a week - look on the right side for Recent Mandrake Linux Advisories? Go to: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php and choose wich varnings you want mailed to you... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?
Vincent Danen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu 2003 22:07): On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 01:52:09PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote: Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay attention to one of the many: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - full-disclosure ml - RSS feed from MandrakeSecure - MandrakeSecure website (on nearly every single page) - MandrakeClub (latest advisory always on the front page) And no, announcements will not be going to this list or any other list other than the announce list. I appreciate the information and I just subscribed to the announce list. However, the same way I didn't know about the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list I am sure there are many others that are not aware of it. If there is a bug that has a potential of becoming a way to break into a computer I feel that all mailing list be notified of it to minimize the potential damage. Mandrake may have many newbies (I hope you do, you need the business) which are new to Linux and may need this extra help. One nice touch SuSE has is a small I'm sorry, but I disagree. I don't like the idea of spamming all of the lists (and while it might not be considered spam, why do it when there is one list that covers them all?). It's a matter of education. If someone gets on the newbie or expert list, they've likely visited the website. There is a link to the MandrakeSecure lists, clearly marked for security-related lists, on the mandrakelinux.com page where you can subscribe to the other lists. How difficult is it to subscribe to these other lists? No, one other list? Problem is people don't take security seriously, so they don't sign up for the list. There isn't much we can do to combat that... in the same way, they may skip those messages we put on every single list and then what? Also, FWIW, if you sign up for MandrakeOnline, you'll get alerts sent to your inbox. icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates available. Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for updates, show the last update log or start the update process. very nice, clean and can help users keep their system safe. I agree, this would be nice and hopefully this is something that can be done for 9.3 or 10.0. AFAIK in contribs there is a package started with the aim of doing this: mdk-check-update-* I haven't tested it myself so I can't say if it works... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ACL Support in 9.2
Norman Zhang kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Tiistai 16 Syyskuu 2003 00:43): Hi, I've searched the cooker and expert archives. But I couldn't find any conclusive answer rather 9.2 kernel includes XFS and ACL support. I believe ACL support was removed from the initial 9.1 kernel. Would someone care to update me on this? Regards, Norman It's in the update kernel for 9.1, and has been with the Cooker kernels since that... So for 9.2 there will be acl support for XFS, and _maybe_ for ReiserFS and ext2/ext3... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] md5sum
From: Gary Montalbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. Tried md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5sum with each rc2 CD gives me a letter/number combination. However I have nothing to check it against. I think my problem is that I do not know what to do with the 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc file. How do you open it or use it? I remember that when I did the 9.1 ISO's a simple md5sum command checked all three CD's at once. What am I missing? I have read the md5sum help and info files. md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Questions for the willing (MandrakeSoft)
J.C. Woods kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 8. Syyskuuta 2003 21:24): And, yes, I do hope you are willing. Does anyone know what kernel version will be included with the final release of LMDK9.2? I am still waiting for AGP version 3.0 kernel support (AGPGART for 8X cards), and I *understand* kernel 2.5 will have it (I could be wrong about this). I have found one patch that was backported to the 2.4 kernel but it is for ATI, and I have the Geforce4 MX 440 8X. I should have become a developer, and would then be able to write my own patch. Anyone having some additional info on the issue, and would feel inclined to share it, I would be most appreciative drjung It's 2.4.22 based with selected patches from 2.4.23-pre + mandrake specific patches... (current patchset is ~520 patches) as for the 2.6 series, there is a 2.6-test4 kernel in contribs for those who want to try it out ... The real switch to 2.6 kernels will AFAIK happend for MDK 10.0... And as far as AGP 3.0 (8X cards), most of them switches to AGP 4X automatically, when no 8X is available... The only trouble so far AFAIK is the AGP 8X implementation on some Via chipsets wich is causing trouble... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Brant Fitzsimmons kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Maanantai 8. Syyskuuta 2003 22:04): [...] I believe that when you run the Mandrake Update (to which I think you were referring) it only uses the media labeled updates. If there are no updates available on that specific source you will get the response that everything is already installed. This would be a correct response because all of the updates available on that source are already installed. If you want to update the machine using all available sources: -As root run urpmi.update -a on the command line to make sure urpmi knows what is available for updates -Launch Install Software from the menu and select All packages, by update availability. You will then get a list of updates that are available from all of the different urpmi sources. Or do just: # urpmi.update -a # urpmi --auto-select and urpmi will install everything that needs to be upgraded, except the kernels... last do an: #urpmi kernel and you will get a list with question wich kernel you want to install... -- Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? Well the CookerHowTo does tell you exacty what it is, so the fact at it makes some people terrified is _intentional_ So if you intend to run Cooker, you have to be prepared to do some bugtesting/fixing too, and have the rescue cd handy for rebooting the system when it's totally messed up But if you still are up for the challenge just go for it ;-) It's fun when it works, but it may be a PITA to get a broken system fully functional again... especially when you hit a bug that's hard to reproduce... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RC1; mount points are _what?_ (bit wordy, sorry)
From: Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:58:08 -0600, Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] RC1; mount points are _what?_ (bit wordy, sorry): Another weird thing; lmsensors have decided to suddenly accumulate CPU temperature readings and set off that ear shattering alarm at odd times. The CPU temperature reading shown when I had to save this message to the drafts folder and shut down was 260.7 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the actual 107. With every new kernel you may have to run the sensors-detect script to determine which modules are in the kernel and which need to be loaded. In fact, with some kernels, I personally was unable to get any temperature readings via lm_sensors. Check the documentation for lm_sensors. Well, not with every kernel..., but since lm_sensors switched to 2.8.0 beginning with kernel-2.4.22.0.1mdk, old setups / configs might not work Between 2.7.0 (in MDK 9.1) and current 2.8.0 the i2c interface was rewritten, and some modules renamed, and so on..., so you need to run the sensors-detect script to rebuild your setup After that... it should work ... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's
From: Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 6, 2003 06:39 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Well the CookerHowTo does tell you exacty what it is, so the fact at it makes some people terrified is _intentional_ So if you intend to run Cooker, you have to be prepared to do some bugtesting/fixing too, and have the rescue cd handy for rebooting the system when it's totally messed up But if you still are up for the challenge just go for it ;-) It's fun when it works, but it may be a PITA to get a broken system fully functional again... especially when you hit a bug that's hard to reproduce... Rescue CDs? Why? I have two strange stanzas in lilo. One says: hdimg the other: netimg Who needs disks? g Try to boot with those when lilo goes L 99 99 99 99 99 ... ;-) Thomas You're absolutely correct though, it's a lot of fun even when weird stuff happens. Also a great opportunity for learning and acquiring experience. No argue there ;-) Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 02 September 2003 12:13 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both kernel and Samba 2.2.x / 3.x ... What will be the benefit kernel level support? You wouldn't need samba to connect? Yep. it adds native cifs vfs support... some features mentioned by one of the developers: - more stable than smb protocol - faster - large file support 2GB - works with windows 2003 - ... You can read about it at: http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html and the only reason that you need to install samba-client is to install the mount.cifs helper wich simplifies mounting/unmounting... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents Just an update for you all... upcoming MDK 9.2 has cifs support in both kernel and Samba 2.2.x / 3.x ... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] sata and Socket A motherboard and Mandrake
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow.. Thanks for the info Byron, looks like it may be difficult to install and make the sata drive as the bootable drive.. Although I am not sure about this.. are you using the SATA dive as your main drive? The information about these drives is awfully sketchy at the moment, are they worth the trouble.. what sort of through puts are you seeing.. is it noticeable difference to the ATA133 stuff? Cheers Mark The Sil3112a was on of the first serial ata chipsets that got support added to the kernel.org kernels... (as it was one of the first to ship...) The mdk kernels recognized the 3112a chipset even before MDK 9.1 was released... as of wether it works... I can't tell you, as I have the chipset but no sata drives yet... but according to the kernel ml you should be ok Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Bootspash with linus kernel
From: Olaf Marzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which patch should I add to the linus kernel to have a bootsplash? Thanks Olaf http://www.bootsplash.org/ Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cannot find -lbfd
Viestissä Lauantai 16 Elokuu 2003 02:26, Todd Lyons kirjoitti: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: i tried 'urpmi binutils-devel' but it cant find it ans says 'no package named binutils-devel'... i couldnt get it from the installation CD cause the cdrom drive does not work on this laptop... Not cool. Then add a urpmi source for main using the ever helpful page at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php. Then urpmi it again. Assume you call the source main, then you can do: urpmi --media main binutils-devel and it will download it and install it (along with any dependencies it migh thave). i downloaded libbinutils-devel-2.12.90 from the web and tried to install that package but it says: libbinutils2-2.12.90.0.15-1mdk.i586.rpm: read manifest failed: Success why does it do this? I've never seen that. Don't know what causes it. It's caused by a bad download, or broken package on the mirror, so atleast the rpm headers is screwed up... Only solution is to redownload it, maybe even from another site... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Super FreeS/WAN
From: Mark Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me if Mandrake kernels have this or normal FreeS/WAN patched into them (I'm particularly interested in the NAT traversal and Aggressive mode stuff). Atleast current Cooker kernel is using SuperFreeS/WAN, If IRC it got included sometime after the 9.1 Release... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VMWARE $
Viestissä Sunnuntai 03 Elokuu 2003 19:11, Joseph Loo kirjoitti: The problem is that the smp is tacked on the end under uname -r. It will not recognize it because of that. [...] Just go to your kernel source tree (/usr/src/linux) and do: #make mrproper #cp arch/i386/defconfig-smp .config #make oldconfig dep and then rerun your vmware-config.pl ... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] www.mandrakesecure.net?!?
From: Steffen Barszus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 13:22 schrieb stefmit: Is it just me, or is this site ($subject) having big problems?!? Cannnot reach it for the second day in a row ... Hmmm ... same with archives.mandrakelinux.com?!? Could it be me, from three different locations (CW, Sprint and ATT backbones)?!? Stef Nope I don't think so. I have regular issues lately with mandrakes sites too. At the moment for me its mandrakesecure.net, archives.mandrake.com, yesterday it was mandrakeuser.org, mandrakesecure some days ago too. The mail archives were down several times for me too some days back. I use t-online and I think their backbones are very reliable So I think 1) They have server problems 2) they change their infrastructure. They have been updating their servers, (both hw and sw) and changing dns setups an so on... Even tonight or tomorrow there will be some dns updates It doesn't make a good picture to have regular sites down. Steffen I think they are prepairing their systems for the 9.2 rush... But hopefully we wont see downtimes from now on..., since they are using RR to handle the loads... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :)
Failed to find entry for user richard.
Failed to modify password entry for user richard
ideas /pointers pleeease
You need -a for add ('man smbpasswd' is your frien)
So:
#smbpasswd -a richard
will do what you want...
Thomas
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Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150
Viestissä Keskiviikko 30 Heinäkuu 2003 23:23, Eric Fesler kirjoitti: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got several issues: I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise 1°) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of 3.5Mb/s I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc and I got the following output: /dev/hdc: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted IO_support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 0 (off) 2°) If I switch ACPI on in lilo.conf, the PC just freeze after having loaded the kernel I trued to recompile without APM and without APIC but then the PC reboot after having loaded the kernel Any ideas how I can solve those issues. Issue 1 is the most important up to now. get the latest security update kernel: linux-2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise and try again ;-) Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't run perl scripts as non-root in 9.1
Viestissä Maanantai 28 Heinäkuu 2003 23:30, Ryan Hanlon kirjoitti: Here's the /etc/security/msec directory: -rwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jul 10 11:47 security.conf* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 27 Jul 10 11:05 server - /etc/security/msec/server.4 -rw-r--r--1 root root 193 Mar 7 06:41 server.4 -rw-r--r--1 root root 104 Mar 7 06:41 server.5 And env says SECURE_LEVEL=4. From that directory though, I can't see the correct way to set it lower than 4. I don't think you can just change the variable (I can 'export SECURE_LEVEL=1', but it doesn't change the perl behavior). Ryan 'man msec' will tell you how to change the security level... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
Viestissä Sunnuntai 27 Heinäkuu 2003 22:54, James Sparenberg kirjoitti: On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want the better code, instead of a module denounced as buggy or at best a sub-optimal implementation. Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not fact. I don't speak for them. james AFAIK the reason we need to keep the current 8139too is that is's supports more functions that we actually use, and more cards, and it is constantly updated, to get the bugs out of it (even by DB afaik...) One thing we could do is add the DB:s own driver as an alternative driver for people to use just in case... I'll ask Juan/Nicolas what they think about it... That way everybody would be happy ;-) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ipsec.o and GCC versions ?
From: Joerg Mertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Folks, just tried to use freeswan - to connect the 2 computers through the Wifi Network I have over here. However - without forcing an Insmode - I can't get the ipsec module to load. The funny thing though is that I did compile the kernel myself - and it doesn't seem to be a 3rd party driver IMHO ... as I didn't see any reference to an binary Object-file in the ipsec-part of the kernel source-tree that comes with the kernel-source rpm... Used the freeswan-1.99-3mdk RPM package - and a self-compiled kernel from the kernel-source-2.4.21-0.18mdk source file. Has this bug been Fixed in for the next kernel ? It's fixed in current Cooker, and in the next kernel update Juan / Vincent will push out... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in new kernel
Viestissä Perjantai 18. Heinäkuuta 2003 13:08, Huw Blackwell kirjoitti: Has anybody else tried to recompile the new Mandrake 9.1 kernel. I am trying to apply the win4lin patches and recompile it for Athlon and make xconfig is dumping out with: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) if [ -f .need_mrproper ]; then \ rm .need_mrproper; \ make mrproper; \ make preconfig; \ fi make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk drivers/net/Config.in: 193: unknown command make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.18mdk/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 Can anybody confirm this, or is it just me? -- Greg This patch fixes it: (I posted them on qa at 2003-06-18) http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=516action=view - changes incorrect define_mbool = define_bool and while you are at it ... get theese two also: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=517action=view - removes menu duplicate (if ... fi) from drivers/char/drm/Config.in http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=518action=view - remove duplicate 'source sound/usb/Config.in' in file sound/Config.in Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] infamous ldm_validate_partition_table() bug still alive!
From: Dean S. Messing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experts, We have purchased a new Sharp Actius RD-10 laptop and are seeing the (infamous) error ldm_validate_partition_table() : read disk failed bug during boot and at other times. We've read the bug reports at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=930 which seem to indicate that it's fixed. It's not! And the bug seems to break a lot of stuff in Mdk 9.1 on this machine. We've tried installing the latest update kernel Jun 4 19:53 kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm but we get the same errrors. We get the error at least 3 times during boot. Once after the message that says Load module dependencies,one after CUPS OK We can't remember the third instance. It also happens while running, and seems to keep a number of other things from running. We think that either the SmartMedia/Secure Data slot, Compact Flash or Sony memory stick hardware, or some combination is tickling the bug. Any help will be appreciated. grab the 22mdk kernel from one of the the mirrors in the directory: Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/ It has that fixed, and then some... ;-) Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Is somebody tried Kernel-2.6.0-test1 ?
From: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I think this is what James is thinking of: At this site is posted the new init stuff for 2.5 kernels that might work for 2.6pres. This isn't for supermount as the name implies, but you can get the supermount patch for 2.4's and I believe some 2.5's by going to the parent directory from the mdk-25 page. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/mdk-25/ Robert Crawford Andrey's stuff (the link above) will get you on the way, but all stuff is not finished yet, as we need updated module-init-tools, initscripts, and so on... This same problem is looked on by many people on the Cooker list, so I guess we will have a 2.6 alternative in 9.2... But the easiest way for now to build a 2.6 kernel is to build it without modules, only selecting the parts you really need to be built-in... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
From: Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All, After playing with Ksensors tonight I'm now wondering what the threshold temperatures for the CPU and Mother board should be. I have an AMD XP2000+ CPU which is currently running at 60 degrees C while the Mother Board temperature is 24 degrees C. I remember that these temperatures were quite a bit higher during Summer. If I remember the AMD documentation correctly, it was stated that anything below 70 degrees C is acceptable, but as far as the core goes it's temperature limit is somewhere between 90 and 110 degrees C sepending on manufacturing batches ... Of course running with those temeratures will shorten the life of the components, but hey... then you have a reason to upgrade ;-) Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU temperature question
From: Joerg Mertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hehe :) Got a Hush-PC on my Desk, M1 with nemiah Core. Actual Processing tempoerature: 57 C :) Didn't manage to get the lm_sensors stuff working on my Asus A7N8X Delux board - so can't tell you what I'll see on my AMD box. As for nForce2 lm_sensors / i2c support, it will work as soon as v 2.8.0 goes stable... I'm going to pull the files from cvs soon, and see if it's stable enough to use... And when the MDK 9.2 is released I hope to have it all in place... Best Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
From: Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok solved. Replacing the tulip driver by the dmfe driver did the trick. No more RX errors, no more errors at all. in /etc/modules.conf replaced alias eth0 tulip with alias eth0 dmfe /Fred Nice to hear... Now can you send lspcidrake -v (not lspci -v) directly to me so we can get it changed in the MDK installer... regards Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets
Viestissä Tiistai 8. Heinäkuuta 2003 22:50, Frederic Soulier kirjoitti: Hi Well I do not think it's a pbm with the network cards because I have 2 boxes with LM9.1 and 1 box with LM9.0 using the same type of card and they all show the same pbm. Also these Dell 4100 workstation come pre-installed with W2K and I don't have this pbm under Windows... What would be the best way to investigate this pbm? Thanks. /Frederic What card? Name? what module does it use? could you post the output of lspcidrake -v Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?
Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 09:27, Sevatio kirjoitti: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio I think you would be interested in this mail posted on the Cooker list: --- cut --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of you might be interested in this 9.1 kernel update (based on 0.18mdk): - better supermount (supermount-ng.sourceforge.net) - fix for ldm_validate_partition and ppa cable warning messages - alsa emu10k1 oops fix - newer pci ids - bus_ide_piix and bus_ide_nvidia_udma100(nforce) fixes - aic7xxx_20030502 - driver_sonypi_1.19 - firewire update to 925 - vesafb ram fix - fix a panic of ide-scsi - add acls on xfs filesystems - patch for devfs deadlock - unlock grsecurity settings Special thanks to Andrey Borzenkov and Thomas Backlund for many of the patches. The kernel was tested by club members for some weeks now, I have had no complaints. Its on the mirrors in Mandrake-devel/unsupported/MandrakeClub/9.1/i586/ To make it on-topic again: I would hope to have supermount-ng and ACLs in 9.2 kernel as well d. --- cut --- I'm running it myself with no problems what so ever... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed
From: Jim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. The problem has not been fixed. I keep emailing mandrake about the problem, but they don't seem to care. I think they need to pull some new XFS patches from the SGI guys and see if that works. The SGI kernel doesn't have this problem. Nor does any of the 9.0 kernels that mandrake has produced. Also, the cooker kernels seem to have the same problem. I don't think the XFS will be updated until XFS 1.3 is officially released... (should happend soon AFAIK...) Thanks a lot for the additional info! It probably wouldn't have dawned on my that the only system I've built with mdk 9.1 on which the debugger works is the one that uses ext3. The other 3 use xfs! Why not simply get a GNU or Redhat kernel? Better to get it fixed in MDK kernel ;-) I'll put it on my TODO list... Regards Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: New 2.4.21 Variable HZ question.
From: Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Janet, You might be able to find a new patch for one of the latest 2.4.xx kernels- I did google searchs for E7205 linux support Asus P4G8X kernel patch and came up with some good leads- below are 2 typical excerpts from one of the google results. You might also check first in your bios and be sure AGP is configured correctly, and perhaps setting it at 4x or even 2x- there's not much difference except in heavy gaming. Robert Crawford - Casey, I can send you the 2.4 patch for the E7205/E7505 chipsets that I posted a while back that also incorporates AGP 3.0 support if you are interested. However as Dave mentioned, I did have quite a bit of trouble with the Nvidia 8x binary only driver, so ymmv matt Could someone with this chipset send me the following info: cat /var/log/dmesg and lspcidrake -v I'll verify it and send it to Juan to get it added to Cooker kernel, along with some other stuff I been working on so we can get it into MDK 9.2 (I just have to get the Init panic bug tracked down and fixed first...) Regards Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What is sshd-restarter?
From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I asked this question on newbie, and I got no answer, so I'll repost here. Is anybody wiling to enlighten me as to what sshd-restarter does, and why it runs every 5 minutes? -- If you combine the name with the interval it runs at, it should not be to hard to guess ... ;-) But anyways... It's a script that checks if the ssh daemon is running, and if not... it will restart it.. Regards thomas. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Transfer mail from uw-Imap - Cyrus Imapd ?
From: Joerg Mertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Martin, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: [...] I think there is no easy sollution. Try to run both servers parallel and you can copy every mail from one server to the other. Yeah - tried that already. I have about 35 Folders and I didn't find a Client that copies folders correctly under Linux :( from one Account to the other one. Right now - I have to create manually the accounts on the Targate (cyrus) server, and then copy the content over ... :( Anyone else got an Idea ? Something like: cp -aRv source target for Imap would be great ... ;) using Google I found this: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk xconfig
From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I lost the email that mentioned how to get 2.4.21-0.18 to build (fails at xconfig). What file needs to be edited to fix this? praedor This fixes the network config.in bug: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=516action=view This fixes a drm config.in bug: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=517action=view This fixes an alsa config.in bug: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=518action=view Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nForce2 and UltraDMA
From: Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to enable UltraDMA ATA 100/133 on nForce2 boards under ML 9.1? I read in www.nforcershq.com that if you pass ide0=ata66 to the kernel it should be enabled. This works but after a few minutes my machine completely freezes and I have to push the reset button. So, is there another solution? TIA, Thomas Backlund has made some fixes for 9.1, one of which seems to pertain to your issue: http://www.netikka.net/tmb/9.1/ He says only ATA 100 is enabled in this and I don't have this hardware for direct experience. If you search cooker archives, you could find if he has made only a kernel that would work instead of reinstall but I don't know. I have the hardware myself, and have been ruuning it since before MDK 9.1 Release without problems... Regards Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks
From: Adrian Golumbovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel 2.6 would have been cool. at least as a side choice even a 2.5.xx would have been ok as a side choice when installing. :) AFAIK there could be a 2.5.xx (or 2.6.x), since Juan is working on it... As for 2.5 changing to 2.6, the estimated change is set to the end of this summer, if all goes as planned, so _maybe_ it will end up in MDK 9.2 along with the 2.4.22 wich also is planned to be released then... Of course MDK 9.2 will be at RC stage, so it's also possible that we stay with a 2.4.21 based one... that's up to the MDK guys too... Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...
From: Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like something got overwritten when you moded for xfs and it's overwritten what 13 or 18 would normally use. I honestly have no clue what the deal is. Kinda frustrating because I don't even know where to begin looking to track this sucker down. I tried to mail to you directly, but I haven't got any replies, so I try this way, in case you didn't get my mails... Could you send me your hardware specs, anything special in the setup, (dmesg and lspcidrake -v would be nice) and what programs you use / have installed... (especially those new acl/attr xfs* packages, etc..) And at what point does your system lockup... any info you can give... (you know the drill... ;-) ...) I would like to try an reproduce the bug if I can... -- Regards Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/tmb/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??
Citerar Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yep this is the way it's done.. but it sure is questionable why in the Mandrake notice on the kernel, *MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:066 : kernel the have the following: * To upgrade automatically, use *MandrakeUpdate*. Since rpmdrake/urpmi knows that kernels have to be installed, not upgraded, it works as it should... -- Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iki.fi/tmb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Running updatedb crashes my comp!
Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote: I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the option on hard drives that activates LBA or UDMA or something. I'm sorry I can't remember what that option is. It would seem hardware wouldn't it? Yet sitting here from my end, I hesitate. Everything is less than 6 months old, and its mostly quality stuff (I know - anything can go bad). Basic setup is: Soyo Dragon Plus MB AMD XP2100 cpu 512 megs DDR ram (Corsair brand) Maxtor 80 gig HD Nvidia Ti4200 video card. Toshiba DVD Plextor CDRW 350 watt AMD approved PS So I dunno...you'd think this little system would rock. Hmmm... The Via ide chipset support has been somewhat changing from time to time... Some times it works perfect, other times not... And it works for some, and fails for others... A few things comes to mind... 1. Did you run the bonnie++ test? 2. Is your system overclocked? 3. Have you tried to boot with mem=nopentium? 4. Have you tried the latest update kernel (18mdk)? 5. Have you checked /var/log/messages for complaints about /dev/hda or ide0? 6. Is your harddisk alone on the primary bus? - If not... does it help to make it that way? (keep your DVD and CDRW on the secondary controller) Best Regards Thomas Backlund Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: 9.1 kernel 2.4.21 vs cooker 2.4.21
Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:04 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dissabte 14 Juny 2003 23:52, en Jack Coates va escriure: doesn't matter where it is, urpmi will select the one with the highest version number. This way your computer installs the update package instead of the distribution package for packages that have been updated but weren't previously installed. You're wright. But there's an error in cooker's kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk. It installs itself in /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.1 instead 8-? Ah, you too. This install made me think it was a kernel version previous to my current 2.4.21-0.13mdk. Is this erroneous? Is it actually more recent than 0.13mdk? I ran urpmi --update kernel-source and get squat. I am doing an update on my sources to see if this changes the situation but if 2.4.21-0.1mdk is the most recent then I'll just go with it. Just to clarify for you all... The 2.4.21-0.1mdk that is the current kernel in Cooker is a 2.4.21-rc1 based... As for all users running MDK 9.1 I suggest you stick with the 18mdk from updates atleast for now (or my modified one for aic79xx support)... And those of you that have Club accounts, I suggest using Danny's latest kernels that has all my updates, and then some... ;-) And AFAIK Danny is building a kernel that will end up on a public host, that whould have all of theese new fixes + some more... As for 2.4.21 Release in Cooker, I think Juan is working on it, but since all MDK specific stuff also needs to be adapted to it, it will take some time (not to mention all the supported arches...) Best Regards Thomas Backlund www.iki.fi/tmb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Updated 18mdk update kernel...
Since the official MDK 9.1 update kernel still lacks some features, I decided to add some of them myself with the following changes: - Keep version/release to not breake 3:rd party modules / addons... - My latest vesafb patch that you can find in 2.4.21-rc7-ac1 - nForce2 UDMA/133 reporting (but I dont program above UDMA100 for now) - Updated pci.ids to help in bugtracking... - Updates to Firewire (ieee1394) revision 925, including nForce2 support - Updated Adaptec scsi aic7xxx, added 79xx (U320 cards) support - ACL support for XFS filesystem And since I haven't enough homepage space, I just provide the standard kernel precompiled. If you need any other, grab the src.rpm and rebuild the ones you need... And all this is found at: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/9.1/18mdk/ -- Thomas Backlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.iki.fi/tmb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
