Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Thorsten von Plotho-Kettner Tue, 9 Sep 2003 20:32:29 +0200 : I took my Mozilla and downloaded from a server in the Netherlands [1], did a fine job. Seems to be the server then. I may have picked the 2 servers which have broken ISOs as James pointed out. I just came back from breakfast and both downloads from nluug.nl timed out at the same time! Can't be my side of the connection because mail download worked as before. I restarted ncftp and it immediately resumed download at the point it timed out. How can I do that with Mozilla? wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:26:09 +0200 : On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:16, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be ok (nluug). My personal experience is that the surfnet one is more reliable but that might have changed in time. I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. going to have a big breakfast in my favourite café, read the morning paper and say Hallo to a new day! Ha! I remember doing that when we studied/lived in Berlin. That was nice...can't do that over here in NL. I thought you have cafés in NL, too? And morning papers? wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I thought you have cafés in NL, too? And morning papers? Yeah, but the bread is usually horrible if you've gotten used to the German choices. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:32, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** H.J.Bathoorn H.J.Bathoorn Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:26:09 +0200 : On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:16, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I'm just d'ling CD1+2 from the NL mirror which Thorsten reported to be ok (nluug). My personal experience is that the surfnet one is more reliable but that might have changed in time. I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had aborted. when I started the download if found the original and asked what I wanted to do with resume as the recommended option. James going to have a big breakfast in my favourite café, read the morning paper and say Hallo to a new day! Ha! I remember doing that when we studied/lived in Berlin. That was nice...can't do that over here in NL. I thought you have cafés in NL, too? And morning papers? wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. Now I'm really lost! The download worked until just 1 second was left. Then it stopped, timed out and showed: MandrakeLinux-9.iso: ETA: 0.01 650,37/650,49 177,21 Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out get MandrakeLinuxiso: could not retrieve remote file. The same output I received from the servers last night. This happened with ncftp, ftp, Mozilla, on 2 different machines, both with sufficient space on the target partition and on the tmp partition. Nothing has changed with my internet connection and I never had problems with downloads before. Last large download was RC1 when I started all 3 downloads at the same time using ncftp. Now I made another attempt with Mozilla at ftp.surnet.nl and it timed out at 230MB and 40 minutes to go. Not knowing how to resume a download I give up. Worst thing is: Now I wasted 2.8GB of my monthly limit of 5GB and can't get RC2 anymore via download because I need the remaining 2GB for other things. So if Final comes out in September I'll have to wait until October... :(( wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 05:39 am, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:32 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:48, Miark wrote: I'm fuzzy on the list mechanism. Do you have to be a subscriber to the list to send something to it? Or does subscribing only allow you to receive messages? And since we have to confirm all messages that come to the list, how is it that any automated message could make it through to us? Miark ahhh, I do not have to confirm any messages Surely we only confirm when we sign up? I seem to recall that someone said earlier that you can send a message to the list without being subscribed. You just won't receive the list messages. If it was a bounce, perhaps that's what's happening. Anne I have in the past sent to the list under an email address which is not subscribed to the list, and I get a confirmation email, which I need to return to have the message posted to the list. I don't do that, just resend the original message. Charlie -- Things of the past are already gone And things to be, Distant beyond imagining. The Tao is just this moment, These words: Plum blossoms fallen, Gardenia just opening. - Ch'ing Kung ( d. 1352) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. Now I'm really lost! The download worked until just 1 second was left. Then it stopped, timed out and showed: MandrakeLinux-9.iso: ETA: 0.01 650,37/650,49 177,21 Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out get MandrakeLinuxiso: could not retrieve remote file. The same output I received from the servers last night. This happened with ncftp, ftp, Mozilla, on 2 different machines, both with sufficient space on the target partition and on the tmp partition. Nothing has changed with my internet connection and I never had problems with downloads before. Last large download was RC1 when I started all 3 downloads at the same time using ncftp. Now I made another attempt with Mozilla at ftp.surnet.nl and it timed out at 230MB and 40 minutes to go. Not knowing how to resume a download I give up. Worst thing is: Now I wasted 2.8GB of my monthly limit of 5GB and can't get RC2 anymore via download because I need the remaining 2GB for other things. So if Final comes out in September I'll have to wait until October... :(( wobo You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 03:40:00 up 3 days, 14:56, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.25 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. Now I'm really lost! The download worked until just 1 second was left. Then it stopped, timed out and showed: MandrakeLinux-9.iso: ETA: 0.01 650,37/650,49 177,21 Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out get MandrakeLinuxiso: could not retrieve remote file. The same output I received from the servers last night. This happened with ncftp, ftp, Mozilla, on 2 different machines, both with sufficient space on the target partition and on the tmp partition. Nothing has changed with my internet connection and I never had problems with downloads before. Last large download was RC1 when I started all 3 downloads at the same time using ncftp. Now I made another attempt with Mozilla at ftp.surnet.nl and it timed out at 230MB and 40 minutes to go. Not knowing how to resume a download I give up. Worst thing is: Now I wasted 2.8GB of my monthly limit of 5GB and can't get RC2 anymore via download because I need the remaining 2GB for other things. So if Final comes out in September I'll have to wait until October... :(( wobo You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This should also help with your limited bandwidth when final comes out. Just rename the local .iso files to match the final release file names and run the same command. It should only download the differences between the files--giving you a shiney updated .iso at a fraction of the time. I don't know how much of a bandwidth savings it will actually give you so you may want to keep an eye on it. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 03:45:01 up 3 days, 15:01, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.27, 0.26 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:55, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This should also help with your limited bandwidth when final comes out. Just rename the local .iso files to match the final release file names and run the same command. It should only download the differences between the files--giving you a shiney updated .iso at a fraction of the time. I don't know how much of a bandwidth savings it will actually give you so you may want to keep an eye on it. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brant, I can see how this would work for directories but are you saying that rsync would actually go into the iso files to match them and then partially download? I'd think you'd need to mount them with -o loop first (and mounting the local one rw). Alas I don't have the bandwidth left to check that and it's only the first half of the month. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Brant Fitzsimmons Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:55:31 -0400 : Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This should also help with your limited bandwidth when final comes out. Just rename the local .iso files to match the final release file names and run the same command. It should only download the differences between the files--giving you a shiney updated .iso at a fraction of the time. I don't know how much of a bandwidth savings it will actually give you so you may want to keep an eye on it. This is great. I never cared for this because I always had enough bandwidth and a fast connection. Now James saved my day as well with his hint to gftp. What can I say: I resumed the download and it raced up to the end. Downloaded md5sum file and the checksums matched. Now I'll get the other 2 ISOs and if Final will come in September I can use your hint with rsync. I'll save it anyway for future reference. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:31:54 -0700 : I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had aborted. when I started the download if found the original and asked what I wanted to do with resume as the recommended option. Same here! You saved my day! Now I'm trying to kick my own butt because I already removed the other files. :( And of course I'll use Brant's advice to use rsync! This was a good learning experience how one gets careless by having more than sufficient ressources! wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:32 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line I was immediately suspicious, but ancestry.com appears to be a genuine genealogy site for USA, and rightnowtech.com looks genuine enough, so the only question is why mandrake? Could it be that one of these sites has been hacked to include a trojan? This is way beyond me. Anne They both run winIIS server... AKA virus magnate. Need I say more. (btw to find out what a site uses www.netcraft.com and use the what's this site running box.) James I suppose they don't even know they have a problem. Perhaps we should tell them? If I use my hotmail account (which is virtually a spam only account) I shouldn't cause any problems to anything else, I suppose. Would you like to suggest some wording that will convince them that they need to do something? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 03:06, Anne Wilson wrote: Over a long period I have seen commands given for finding informationabout a system, for instance this morning there was cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. It seems to me that those of us with aging grey cells, and maybe others as well, would be glad of a list of these really useful commands. Could someone either put a list on the TWiki site, or post a list here that I could add? Thanks Anne Anne it's been there for a while!... See my page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/QuikTips or the Tips and Tricks from the experts group page. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TipsAndTricks James OK - I missed that, so perhaps I need to look at how we can make it more visible when you're looking for something. Since we are trying to reorganise the index at the moment it is a good time to consider this. There's so much useful info on the site now that making it more accessible is increasingly important. If you haven't looked at what's going on, start at the NewIndex page. You will see links to discussion on developing the community and the proposed new index. The more input we get and the better the end result will be. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring
On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 9:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. I didn't want to sound over-critical, but if no-one tells you there's a problem you wouldn't know. I'll pop back and have another look. Thanks for being cooperative. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 3:00 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: One thing sadly lacking imho is the urpmi gui interface. There is only blank spaces with locations for url and relative path to synthesis/hdlist: ?? Of course if you don't enter the information exactly correct, it fails. With no hints on what is wrong. There needs to be some polishing of this idea in my thoughts. A way to browse around a ftp site and select where you want it to point to, or at least an error code telling you what is wrong. I've even tried the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site which has worked for me in the past. My 9.1 mdk doesn't seem to like the syntax he is suggesting I use. Very frustrating. The urpmi GUI is called rpmdrake. You can enter the info there, but I find it easier to let urpmi handle the set up for me, or for looking for one little program. I'm very surprised to hear his comment about the Easy URPMI site. It set up my sources under 9.1 without any problems at all. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Login problem
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 11:25 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. that's a kernel panic. If you had access to a console, it would be saying AIIEE!!! killed interrupt handler at and a whole bunch of illegible stuff. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. if you have ext3 or one of the other journalling filesystems, you do not need to say Y here. I do have ext3. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) well, something is causing the kernel to panic, and that's usually a sign of flaky hardware. The first time you boot, are you a) rebooting from Windows or b) cold-booting from power-off? If so, flaky hardware goes way high on the list of possibilities. less /var/log/messages and look for the stuff that you see when it reboots, then scroll up from there and you'll see if there was anything troublesome logged. Usually bad hardware just pulls the rug out before Linux can write anything to the log, but sometimes you get lucky and there'll be warning messages there. Thought occured to me this morning re hardware. I've been having a lot of trouble with the cd burner lately. That's secondary master. Put it into another computer and it worked perfectly. Also bought a new hard drive because I was SURE that I lost the 20 gig to failure. That was/is primary slave. Here's one message I'm seeing very often in /var/log/messages: DriveReady SeekComplete Error. That's for /dev/hdd which is my cdrom. And another: SCSI Error: host 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 802 Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 0 That's in there many many times. And another: I/O error: dev 0b:00; sector xx More: unknown group video and caught SIGHUP and defaulting to GID=0. The list goes on. This is a huge /var/log messages. Some 20,000 lines. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Login problem
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:05 am, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System wants to run fsck, you know, press Y in 5 seconds. So I press Y and after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says can't fix file system. No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. Computer reboots, sez to hit Y again to run fsck, but I pass on the offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's behavior, not mine. :) TIA I can think of a number of things not least of which is heat. (bad fan) or bad memory. is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than your lungs can blow) blown the dust out. (Dustpuppy LIVES!) If fans and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely the fans Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do wear out.) Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease (Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.) between the fan and CPU. If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory. Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight. In the morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very complete test.) This really sounds like a hardware problem. Not software. I agree with James. Flashing like that could be OS related, but... based on the way you explained it, I'm thinking hardware. What happens if you boot to floppy or if you throw another HD in it and run winbloze? james I boot 5 OS's, because I can. WinXP, 2000 Pro, and 98 seem to work well although I use them infrequently. Don't use Redhat too often. Too user unfriendly in my opinion. However, I'm beginning to think that this problem would occur no matter what OS I'm booting, but since I use Mandrake 90% of the time... I was having a CDBurner problem in XP too. Spent many hours trying to resolve it. Seems to have disappeared by itself. I do agree with the hardware problem line of thought. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:23, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Brant Fitzsimmons Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:55:31 -0400 : Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This should also help with your limited bandwidth when final comes out. Just rename the local .iso files to match the final release file names and run the same command. It should only download the differences between the files--giving you a shiney updated .iso at a fraction of the time. I don't know how much of a bandwidth savings it will actually give you so you may want to keep an eye on it. This is great. I never cared for this because I always had enough bandwidth and a fast connection. Now James saved my day as well with his hint to gftp. What can I say: I resumed the download and it raced up to the end. Downloaded md5sum file and the checksums matched. Now I'll get the other 2 ISOs and if Final will come in September I can use your hint with rsync. I'll save it anyway for future reference. wobo Of course you can always just set the new main contrib etc etc urpmi points for your install and just run urpmi --auto --auto-select No need to re-install .. you'll have final. (no disks but final) I did that from 9.0 to 9.1 on this laptop. (until the ide on the original mobo died then I did have to re-install.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31:24 -0700 : Of course you can always just set the new main contrib etc etc urpmi points for your install and just run urpmi --auto --auto-select No need to re-install .. you'll have final. (no disks but final) I did that from 9.0 to 9.1 on this laptop. (until the ide on the original mobo died then I did have to re-install.) Yes, but I always do a new install on a separate partition and tweak it to my needs. Then I declare that as my working system and move the data and clean out the old working partition to be ready for the next version. But concerning the download problems I ran into another problem. gftp downloaded the CD1 iso until about 100k to the end, then stopped. Just crashed with CPU running at 99.8% and my mail proggy told me that there's no space left on my partition to write incoming mails! I moved my /home to a spare partition and restarted the PC. Started gftp and as soon as I connected to the ftp server cpu went up to 98%. I looked at the logs and gftp showed a cache of 1.2GB. Which was the reason my home partition was full! Now gftp-log shows Error: Unvalid line in cache index file Logfile is growing by the second! WTF! wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
What I don't get is why it isn't shared using MLDonkey or xMule as this kinda makes people have to share the files once they're downloaded - unlike bittorrent. I have a feeling htat most people who use it stop thw upload as soon as it all downloads. You'd also find bit torrent would be a whole lot better if everyone used it. Hope that people actually consider using Donkey for downloading the ISOs as it's a great way of SHARING files. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:13:18 +0200 : I looked at the logs and gftp showed a cache of 1.2GB. Which was the reason my home partition was full! Now gftp-log shows Error: Unvalid line in cache index file Logfile is growing by the second! WTF! I cleaned out the index file and restarted gftp. At the attempt to download the CD1 iso gftp asked if I want to resume an interrupted download and after Yes it downloaded some KB and said Successful. It was not! Number of KB showed that the local file was nearly 80KB larger than the original. Of course, checksums did not match. Now I've wasted nearly all my bandwidth and all I have is a CD2 iso. I give up and ask someone in Germany to send me the CDs if possible. Never experienced such trouble since I started downloading iso files. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Michael Lothian Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:52:02 +0100 : What I don't get is why it isn't shared using MLDonkey or xMule as this kinda makes people have to share the files once they're downloaded - unlike bittorrent. I have a feeling htat most people who use it stop thw upload as soon as it all downloads. You'd also find bit torrent would be a whole lot better if everyone used it. Hope that people actually consider using Donkey for downloading the ISOs as it's a great way of SHARING files. The idea is not bad but file sharing systems like Donkey have all the smell of mp3 and video sharing systems. I'd never let any Donkey ride my machine (or was it the other way round?). Bittorrent is a whole different story. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
At least it's designed for sharing. And I also seem to remember downloading the new tomb raider film with bittorrent and the buffy eps before they were released in the UK. It's all a matter of what you share. Mike Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Michael Lothian Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:52:02 +0100 : What I don't get is why it isn't shared using MLDonkey or xMule as this kinda makes people have to share the files once they're downloaded - unlike bittorrent. I have a feeling htat most people who use it stop thw upload as soon as it all downloads. You'd also find bit torrent would be a whole lot better if everyone used it. Hope that people actually consider using Donkey for downloading the ISOs as it's a great way of SHARING files. The idea is not bad but file sharing systems like Donkey have all the smell of mp3 and video sharing systems. I'd never let any Donkey ride my machine (or was it the other way round?). Bittorrent is a whole different story. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:31, James Sparenberg wrote: Of course you can always just set the new main contrib etc etc urpmi points for your install and just run urpmi --auto --auto-select No need to re-install .. you'll have final. (no disks but final) I did that from 9.0 to 9.1 on this laptop. (until the ide on the original mobo died then I did have to re-install.) James This is the lazy way I did it: Dloaded the 2 cd iso's and booted installed from that. Then removed all the cd's as media and added main, contrib and plf on top as sources. Works OK upto now. good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was a query Do you have disk/scsi? when Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was recognised automatically on boot-up. However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I can see. Once the system is up, modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.. etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with depmod -a, lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me unfortunately, no further forward. TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
On 10 Sep 2003 13:18:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was a query Do you have disk/scsi? when Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was recognised automatically on boot-up. However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I can see. Once the system is up, modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.. etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with My /etc/modules.conf contains this line: probeall scsi_hostadapter aha152x ide-scsi depmod -a, lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me unfortunately, no further forward. TIA DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
*** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space issues in my partitions. I already moved /home to a separate partition which was easy. In case it helps, I use a separate /ISO partition for downloads (of course, I now avoid stupid s/w that insists on d/l'ing to /tmp or other) and ftp directly into it. I used gftp because I had this nearly complete DL of CD2 done with Mozilla and was looking for s/w which would resume a Mozilla download. James wrote that he did it with gftp and as he wrote it worked ok for this one iso. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:32:02 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Pierre Fortin Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:23:16 -0400 : On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:56:53 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Due to some problems during download of RC2 I ran into space issues in my partitions. I already moved /home to a separate partition which was easy. In case it helps, I use a separate /ISO partition for downloads (of course, I now avoid stupid s/w that insists on d/l'ing to /tmp or other) and ftp directly into it. I used gftp because I had this nearly complete DL of CD2 done with Mozilla and was looking for s/w which would resume a Mozilla download. James wrote that he did it with gftp and as he wrote it worked ok for this one iso. Had this problem with beta1, so I just moved the obfuscatedly-named file over to a partition with enough space, renamed it and used ftp's reget command --- worst part was getting this done before another Moz d/l ran out of space too... That's why I now have a /ISO partition and avoid Moz d/l'ing for anything large. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Panasonic DVD-RAM a Linux Backup?
Hello Everyone. I am a little confused about the Panasonic DVD-RAM drives.. I see that the DVD-RAM disks can hold 9.4GB, and in theory with good compression they could make a very good backup device.. Well that's in theory, but there are a few things that i don't know, does the 9.4GB RAM disks need turning over after they record 4.7GB? Is the Device compatible with Mandrake 9.1 Linux.. Anyone on this mailing list using one? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OpenGroupware Questions......
Hi all, I'm trying to setup an OpenGroupware server for a client for a demo and possable deployment. It will be on a mandrake 9.1 box. The setup needs to be as follows: 1. Needs to authenticate users from a WinNT box. 2. Needs calendaring with Outlook/Express or Mozilla/Netscape mail. Where should I get the rpms from? Do I need to have Cyrus-imap setup. Any tipson that if I do? Any tips would be appreciated. Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] linux multitask performance?
Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? Thanks, - Yahoo! http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB key drives and linux
On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) right-click - mount makes it tick I love Linux I love Mandrake On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 05:28, James Sparenberg wrote: From the Why I like Mandrake column Saw this over on extreme tech http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1256768,00.asp a 3 page convolution aka tutorial on how to setup usb mass storage devices on Red Hat 9 wow. am I ever glad I use MDK ... boss handed me the first one I'd ever used the other day. Plugged it in. Typed in mount /mnt/scd0 /mnt/disk... and poof I was off and running. Wow and to think that I actually should have done so much more *grin* James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:06:04 +0800 (CST) Vincent Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? I would bet it's the 48x burning. Linux handles multitasking *far* better than Win, AFAIK, but it is still dodgy with multimedia tasks such as burning, sound, and the like. It's all kinda kludged if you know what I mean, since *nix was built as a server OS originally, the media stuff is kinda piled on the best way they can for now, least tha's the way I hear it. I keep my burning to 10x, and I can burn, read mail, web, compile source, use VNC, and much more all at the same time without draining the buffer or maxing my pitiful P3 866. Try using GCombust as an alternative, too. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Xawtv problem
My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and what I can do about it? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]
Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen. Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:36 AM Subject: Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 9:54 pm, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 11:53 am, KevinO wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: As a side-issue, I have to get close to the page and squint to read that page, Kevin. For those with less than perfect vision, dark blue text on black is not easy. Sorry about that. The color has been changed. Thanks for the comment. I didn't want to sound over-critical, but if no-one tells you there's a problem you wouldn't know. I'll pop back and have another look. Thanks for being cooperative. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] this one is harmless?
Ah! Okay fixed. Boy, is that going to make life a whole lot easier! Miark On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:43:27 -0700, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, Being a member should allow you to send IF you send from the same e-mail return address you receive on. For me if I send from my opencountry.org site. No problem. If I send from my work server (Nisvara.com) I have to confirm. So if you want to be able to do both without constant confirm make sure your sending and receiving server are the same. (btw reply to doesn't work) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Cyrus-imapd and postfix.....
Hi all does anyone have cyrus-imapd and postfix working together? If you do could you help me get things going on my Mandrake 9.1 box. I have cyrus and postfix installed but thing aren't working. Any help would be great. Thanks Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
Hi, Since i build my own kernels from www.kernels.org, patch them with openMosix, do i still need to apply Mandrake's kernel patch? _Thanks Richard. Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory Package name: kernel Advisory ID:MDKSA-2003:074 Date: July 15th, 2003 Affected versions: 8.2, 9.0, Corporate Server 2.1, Multi Network Firewall 8.2 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?
I'd bet it's not using DMA With IDE drives: man hddparm would tell you the command, but no idea about how to get it when at scsi emulation :-(( El mié, 10-09-2003 a las 17:25, HaywireMac escribió: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:06:04 +0800 (CST) Vincent Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? I would bet it's the 48x burning. Linux handles multitasking *far* better than Win, AFAIK, but it is still dodgy with multimedia tasks such as burning, sound, and the like. It's all kinda kludged if you know what I mean, since *nix was built as a server OS originally, the media stuff is kinda piled on the best way they can for now, least tha's the way I hear it. I keep my burning to 10x, and I can burn, read mail, web, compile source, use VNC, and much more all at the same time without draining the buffer or maxing my pitiful P3 866. Try using GCombust as an alternative, too. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?
First of all, what kind of system are you on (CPU - RAM), which burner
are we talking about?
Is it an IDE burner with SCSI emulation?
What could help a lot is tune your disc devices with hdparm (I got a
huge boost out of this).
Install hdparm with 'urpmi hdparm'.
First turn to your hard drive (/dev/hda I will assume), since it is the
source of data for both your writer OS and programs, it needs to work
optimal.
- check the current settings and mail the output to the list, this way
we can advice you better.
hdparm /dev/hda
Now, make sure you have the specifications of your devices handy.
I use these settings for my Hardisk:
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 -X69 /dev/hda'
Breaking it up:
-c1: turn on 32-bit disk access
-d1: turn on DMA (is probably on already)
-k1: keep settings over bus reset (you need this)
-u1: Unmasq IRQ (reduces waits between different disk operations) -
Watch out with this one, it has been known to cause system instabilities
on some motherboards/harddisks, but it works fine for me.
-X69: force IDE-DMA Mode5 (UDMA 100) (adapt to your need, check 'man
hdparm'
Test them out to see which one suit you best.
Now do almost the same for the cdrom/dvd/writer devices (e.g. /dev/hdc)
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdc'
'hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -u1 /dev/hdd'
Again, test it carefully.
If you are satisfied with what you got, put it in a startup script like
the one below (which is /etc/init.d/idedma)
Then open the Control Center, go to system - services and set it to run
at boot.
-- done
Additionally you can also switch filesystems to get an even better
performance.
I found ReiserFS very fast, XFS has been reported to be great too.
Good luck and have a lot of fun!
BEGIN SCRIPT
#!/bin/sh
# description: hdparm setup voor harddisks
# chkconfig: 2345 99 00
HDPARM=/sbin/hdparm
case $1 in
'start')
echo Setting up DMA parameters (hdparm)...
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 -qX69 /dev/hda
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 /dev/hdc
$HDPARM -qc1 -qd1 -qk1 -qu1 /dev/hdd
touch /var/lock/subsys/idedma
;;
'stop')
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/idedma
;;
*)
echo Usage: $0 { start | stop }
;;
esac
exit 0
END SCRIPT
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 17:06, Vincent Chen wrote:
Dear all,
Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using
xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do
anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and
surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my
mandrake 9.0 for better performance?
Thanks,
-
Yahoo!
http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html
__
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Re: Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 4:59 pm, David Rankin wrote: Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items I'm not too surprised. I'm not aware that much spam starts from tiscali.co.uk, but it seems to me that they make little effort to filter it out. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. I suspect that this is the infamous anti-aliased fonts compiled into the qtlibraries bug. Suffered from this one myself. If you go to the Texstar repository off of http://pclinuxonline.com site, you should be able to download a fix for this issue which will remove the AA fonts from the qt libraries and enable tightvnc to work. If you have problems, let me know and I will send a direct link to the source repository for those rpm's. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
you need to update your version of QT. You can do this in your mandrake control center... David -Original Message- From: James D. Parra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:04 AM To: Mandrake-List (E-mail) Subject: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
On Tue September 9 2003 11:03 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town (Acarigua, Venezuela) with my computer tenders get crazy and said that they can not receive customers property inside their local, i void to argue for hours with 'em. But i am interesting in know: How can i download all updates packages for Linux Mandrake 9 version, i never have updated my system and i would like it. What URL (ftp or http) can i go ? Hello Luis, ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/updates has worked well for me from Cd.Ojeda. Look for your version and download all to burn to a CD. saludos, Richard. Thanks in advance and Best regards Luis Duran On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:07, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The local Linux Users group meets there once a month. If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time. What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in? - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XaZdWOfRC7Rnmv8RAhmzAJkBFzs91XLoHcVdb5D01ZnyX0AvcACeLKlx By4tE41bkwZ5PS8nAzDxv3U= =NwSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncfix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:06 am, Vincent Chen wrote: Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? Thanks, Is it IDE or SCSI? If SCSI, I'm surpised. I have SCSI here and can do darn near *anything* while burning. If its IDE, then you probably don't have DMA turned on for it. If you don't have hdparm installed, do it. Then do a man hdparm for full details but what you are trying to do first is make sure DMA is turned on so as root: hdparm /dev/hdx (where x is the letter assigned to your CDR. If your hard drive is /dev/hda, then your CDR should be /dev/hdc) You don't have the hard drive and burner on the same IDE channel do you? It should be separate, BTW. Now you should have a listing of what your CDR is doing, look for using_dma = 0 (its off) or using_dma = 1 (its on) If its off, still as root, go to /etc/sysconfig/. Make another copy of the file harddisks and name it harddiskhdc (or whatever your CDR is). Now edit this file. Note the entry for DMA usage. Just turn it on and save it. DMA should now be enabled for your CDR. I'm not sure if you have to reboot for this change to take effect. You could use hdparm to turn DMA on for your CDR until you do reboot. BTW, you might want to use hdparm on your hard drive to make sure your getting optimal performance there as well. HTHs! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and what I can do about it? Anne Anne, when you first ran Xawtv did you do it from shell? I ran it first from the menu and it did not open up correctly, but not what you are describing. Try running it from a shell - I did that and it talked grin as it worked and told me what it found on my system. I finally figured out from what it said that I had to do this to start it here: xawtv -device /dev/video0 and it ran fine. Lemme know what happens! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 7:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 11:27 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My Philips webcam works perfectly under Camstream. In xawtv all I get is a wide bright green stripe, with faint lines across it. If I switch to full screen it is clear that there are four (iirc) ghost images of what the camera should be displaying. Does anyone know what's causing this and what I can do about it? Anne Anne, when you first ran Xawtv did you do it from shell? I ran it first from the menu and it did not open up correctly, but not what you are describing. Try running it from a shell - I did that and it talked grin as it worked and told me what it found on my system. I finally figured out from what it said that I had to do this to start it here: xawtv -device /dev/video0 and it ran fine. Lemme know what happens! :-) Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
On Wed Sep 10, 2003 at 09:07:07AM -0700, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote:
Since i build my own kernels from www.kernels.org,
patch them with openMosix, do i still need to apply
Mandrake's kernel patch?
Only if you want to apply them all.
If you use the absolute latest 2.4 kernel, you should be ok.
Mandrake Linux Security Update
Advisory
Package name: kernel
Advisory ID:MDKSA-2003:074
Date: July 15th, 2003
Affected versions:8.2, 9.0, Corporate Server 2.1,
Multi Network Firewall 8.2
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MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/
Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/
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Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne Hmm, that was running it; xawtv -device /dev/video0? Here's what mine looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ xawtv -device /dev/video0 This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument and I stopped it with a control c. But it was working fine, picture and all. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 08:18 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Don't know which Adaptec card you have, but here is what some of my stuff looks like: /etc/modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. nvidia scsi_hostadapter -- and /etc/modules/conf: probeall scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias scsi0 aic7xxx (there's more in there of couse, I'm just showing the SCSI stuff) HTHs. :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv problem
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:13 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Hi Dark Lord. This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: composite1 valid choices for input: Webcam ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes) Resource id in failed request: 0x2a0004b Serial number of failed request: 467 Current serial number in output stream: 467 For some reason, also, the view window changes to grab. Is that what you expect? I've never seen this running, so I don't know what to expect, other than a webcam picture. Anne Hmm, that was running it; xawtv -device /dev/video0? Here's what mine looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ xawtv -device /dev/video0 This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.21-0.13mdk) /dev/video0 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=7): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(int=0): Interrupted system call ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=3): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=4): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=5): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=1): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(frame=0;height=120;width=160;format=13): Invalid argument and I stopped it with a control c. But it was working fine, picture and all. There was no picture on mine, just a dark green screen with a bright green top third. Expanding it to full page shows that there are four ghost images, vertically compressed - and I know it is the camer pictures, because I can make it change by moving around. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1 - ??similar to [expert] Re: SCSI, Scanner... How?
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 1:18 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, First time subscriber, please excuse if this is all repetition. I've had no success in solving this problem on the newbie list-- My disk drives are PCI/IDE/ etc.but I have an old useful 35mm film scanner CanoScan 2700FS that runs off a SCSI Adaptec Host Adapter card. Under MD9.0, there was a query Do you have disk/scsi? when Upgrade-ing in Expert Mode, that allowed me to select the Adaptec Host Adapter aha152x, insert appropriate parameters, and the Canon scanner was recognised (I couldn't use it, due to lack of stable drivers, but that's another story). After that, the SCSI device was recognised automatically on boot-up. However under 9.1, Expert install doesn't recognise the SCSI card or provide any means of getting it incorporated manually, as far as I can see. Once the system is up, modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,.. etc.on the CLI gets the SCSI card and scanner recognised and MCC Scannerdrake gets the CanoScan onto the scanner database. But it's all lost when I power down - which I have to do frequently for some unavoidable dual-booting with Win$. It's a real PITA.:-( Is there something I'm missing during Expert install? Or is there some way of incorporating the modprobe, etc.into boot-up? I've tried modifications to /etc/modules.conf and modules with depmod -a, lilo.conf ansd running /sbin/lilo, putting stuff into /etc/rc.d/rc.local I googled linux Adaptec/AHA1520, problems and installation. Problems referred to kernel problems around 1998,Installation gave essentially the same information as the Mandrake Twiki SCSI entry, and got me unfortunately, no further forward. TIA DougB Douglas, it's going back a bit, so my memory is hazy, but I seem to recall that the adaptec scsi card supplied with my FS2710 would not work with other scsi devices (this was under windows, of course). I had to buy a new card before I could put a tape drive on, but both items worked fine from the Tekram card that I have in now. I think it would be worth a google on that card model. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: USB key drives and linux
Guy Van Sanden wrote: On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) It used to do that on KDE 3.1.2 for me too, but when I got KDE 3.1.3 (Texstar), it doesn't show anymore :( (on the desktop) Any ideas? (Well it's not that big problem, since I created a shortcut manually and mount it from there, but I'm curious of what broke it) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Permissions don't stick
I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2 (sorry, length)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 02:29 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** James Sparenberg Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:31:54 -0700 : I've had luck using gftp to restart a download that Moz had aborted. when I started the download if found the original and asked what I wanted to do with resume as the recommended option. Same here! You saved my day! Now I'm trying to kick my own butt because I already removed the other files. :( And of course I'll use Brant's advice to use rsync! This was a good learning experience how one gets careless by having more than sufficient ressources! wobo Howdy; Lowest possible bandwidth required methods for staying current. For anyone having bandwidth limitation problems that wants to keep current, there are a few ways to do it. One is the easy way; use urpmi, make your software management sources using the Mandrake-devel tree from whatever server works best for you, and before anything else update urpmi. If there's an update you'll get it, then you can use Tom's; urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm - --auto-select -v to get everything at once. Of course this works best logged in at the console as super user with no X running. It's boring, but baby it's a hell of a lot faster, and less problematic, than trying to upgrade GUI apps while you're running them. Alternatively if you have downloaded the ISOs for any recent Mandrake release _don't delete them once you've burned the disks._ When a new release is called all you have to do is rename the ISOs to the new release and rsync will take care of making them actual copies of what the servers hold. This example was saved from my synchronization of Mandrake 9.0 ISOs renamed to 9.2 beta2. Disk 1 shown: [...root]# rsync -avrt --progress --delete ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso /store/MandrakeISO/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso Welcome to the FTP archive at The University of Oslo This archive is running on a GNU/Linux PC with 1.7 TB of diskspace. Machine and diskspace provided by UiO. Uninett provides the gigabit network connectivity. Please use the alias ftp.uninett.no instead of other, old, aliases or the hosts real DNS-name. receiving file list ... 1 file to consider /store/MandrakeISO/MandrakeLinux-9.2beta1-CD1.i586.iso 682575872 100% 146.86kB/s1:15:38 wrote 249968 bytes read 620523546 bytes 135407.03 bytes/sec total size is 682575872 speedup is 1.10 The important part is the line that displays how much was actually read and written. All bits in the image have to be read at both ends for comparison, but the actual transfer is just the difference between the two. No need to mount the ISOs loop-back either. Just do it. I'd say 249,968 bytes is far preferable to the entire ISO image of 682,575,872 bytes, wouldn't you? Thought so. :-) Of course for anyone with tons of disk space (me) and/or a broadband connection (also me ;-) there are other alternatives. You can have a local copy of the Mandrake-devel tree and use a hard drive install image to make a boot floppy to upgrade or do a complete install. Or you can do the same with a network image and install directly from the mirror or any other server you can access that holds the files needed. If you don't want to use a floppy, or don't have one, you can make a bootable CD by following the instructions on the Cooker TWiki, or add them to lilo as boot options, same how-To source: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo and the link to the actual article: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#From_a_Local_Mirror There are links from there to other tutorials including, Greg Meyer's how-to on rsyncing ISOs. I'm sure one of the gurus will come by and let you know whatever I screwed up in this post. I hope they will anyway, I'm still 2 days behind with stuff I'm *supposed* to be doing. lol Have fun people. g Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 13:40:10 up 13:35, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.33, 0.42 New York's got the ways and means; Just won't let you be. -- The Grateful Dead -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/X4YhG11CaRuZZSIRAsRXAKCl0E8vEJmCGARyuEsHpdIzb15+WwCggH8U 5pWVW9SIf/ih5MharZg+kvg= =f6Lf -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. msec. it doesn't *like* you to mess with file perms outside of your home dir, mostly. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cyrus-imapd and postfix.....
Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all does anyone have cyrus-imapd and postfix working together? If you do could you help me get things going on my Mandrake 9.1 box. I have cyrus and postfix installed but thing aren't working. Did you read README.RPM in the cyrus-imapd doc directory? Bye -- Que les importa a las viudas, a los huérfanos, a los desvalidos si las masacres se hacen en nombre del totalitarismo o en el sagrado nombre de la libertad y la democracia. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. msec. it doesn't *like* you to mess with file perms outside of your home dir, mostly. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged out and in again. Then anne owned it again. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Q: When I move /usr and /var to separate partitions, what is the proper line in fstab? I guess something like: /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:16 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncf ix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
*** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) : /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) Of course. I put it into fstab but forgot to mention it here! It wouldn't have worked with /home without that. My question aimed more to the 'default 1 2' part. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Runs as root but not as user
Could someone please look over this exchange from the GnomeMeeting list and tell me what the equivalent file is in Mandrake. Or indeed, anything else that makes sense when you've read through. Anne On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:58 pm, Stefan Bruens wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 22:03 schrieb Anne Wilson: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 8:07 pm, PUYDT Julien wrote: Then no wonder the error message is the same: change the perms to a more sensible 660, and the owner to root:video, and that should work. OK - now it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# ls -l /dev/v4l/ total 0 crw-rw1 root video 81, 0 Jan 1 1970 video0 If I launch as root I have a picture. If I launch as anne I still get the same message Later... I've just discovered that I can change owner, group and perms, and they list ok, but if I log out and back in they have reverted. I must be missing something vital here, and perhaps that's what's causing the problems. This is done in accordance to /etc/logindevperm. As you said, the directory /dev/v4l belongs to root.video, check that the _directory_ /dev/v4l is accessible by users belonging to group video, so this should be 750 for the directory and 660 for the device. Make shure to change /etc/logindevperm accordingly. Stefan -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost
Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. In fact, I wanted to try at first the Medal of Honor linux beta client, and got an awfully slow rendering speed with missing textures. I then remembered that after upgrading to 9.1 I never installed the Nvidia drivers. I tried it, but, damned !, it wasn't as easy... I did it succesfully before with the kernel glx modules, but with the new .run system I'm lost. I'm using 9.1, and I did not compile my own kernel. So my system should be quite standard for Nvidia... I downloaded the latest .run archive and ran it. It doesn't work, and after trying different settings, the fact is that starting X with the 'Driver nvidia' setting in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 leads me to some kind of kernel panic: CTRL-ALT-SUP not working, Verr Num and Caps Lock keyboard leds not responding. It's late, I'm tired and my english is as bad as my brain for now, but any clue, advice or good direction would be very welcomed. It may be a newbie question, sorry... I'm more experienced with networking than in X configuration ;-) Regards, anybody François -- A bas il choublanquisme fascistique ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. In fact, I wanted to try at first the Medal of Honor linux beta client, and got an awfully slow rendering speed with missing textures. I then remembered that after upgrading to 9.1 I never installed the Nvidia drivers. I tried it, but, damned !, it wasn't as easy... I did it succesfully before with the kernel glx modules, but with the new .run system I'm lost. I'm using 9.1, and I did not compile my own kernel. So my system should be quite standard for Nvidia... I downloaded the latest .run archive and ran it. It doesn't work, and after trying different settings, the fact is that starting X with the 'Driver nvidia' setting in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 leads me to some kind of kernel panic: CTRL-ALT-SUP not working, Verr Num and Caps Lock keyboard leds not responding. It's late, I'm tired and my english is as bad as my brain for now, but any clue, advice or good direction would be very welcomed. It may be a newbie question, sorry... I'm more experienced with networking than in X configuration ;-) Regards, anybody François If you ran the NVidia installer while running X you'll have trouble. If you ran it as user you'll have trouble. If you install a new kernel after running it you have to run it against the running (new usually) kernel for it to actually work. The last time I had to help someone with this was a system I assembled for a friend. Dual AMD MP 2000+, 1024 MB DDR-RAM and an MSI G-Force 4 MX 440 128 MB graphics card. The NVidia installer complained about finding no kernel module or some such, I allowed it to build one. Edited the XF86config4 file to use the nvidia drivers instead of the default nv and it was good to go. There's one little gotcha in all of the above though. You have to install the kernel source for the kernel you're running *first!* That should take care of that. Whenever you upgrade the kernel install the source for the new one, boot the new kernel in run-level 3 (console) and run the NVidia run file again. You can then edit lilo to start in graphical mode again. It should always work that way. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 16:04:35 up 16:00, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.62, 0.41 #define BITCOUNT(x) (((BX_(x)+(BX_(x)4)) 0x0F0F0F0F) % 255) #define BX_(x) ((x) - (((x)1)0x)\ - (((x)2)0x)\ - (((x)3)0x)) - -- really weird C code to count the number of bits in a word -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/X6JnG11CaRuZZSIRAsjCAJ4y/3XgBdtAA86R8mxGFTfC5wR9egCePgsQ 85SaFhgiHCCQCO3Dsf8UrXs= =w7kP -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 03:34 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp download resumed at the breakpoint and it's almost done now (running at 177,2kB/s now). But I haven't found out how I can resume a download with Mozilla. Now I'm really lost! The download worked until just 1 second was left. Then it stopped, timed out and showed: MandrakeLinux-9.iso: ETA: 0.01 650,37/650,49 177,21 Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out get MandrakeLinuxiso: could not retrieve remote file. The same output I received from the servers last night. This happened with ncftp, ftp, Mozilla, on 2 different machines, both with sufficient space on the target partition and on the tmp partition. Nothing has changed with my internet connection and I never had problems with downloads before. Last large download was RC1 when I started all 3 downloads at the same time using ncftp. Now I made another attempt with Mozilla at ftp.surnet.nl and it timed out at 230MB and 40 minutes to go. Not knowing how to resume a download I give up. Worst thing is: Now I wasted 2.8GB of my monthly limit of 5GB and can't get RC2 anymore via download because I need the remaining 2GB for other things. So if Final comes out in September I'll have to wait until October... :(( You can fix the iso's with rsynch without downloading all of them again. Instructions here: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:08 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. I suspect that this is the infamous anti-aliased fonts compiled into the qtlibraries bug. Suffered from this one myself. If you go to the Texstar repository off of http://pclinuxonline.com site, you should be able to download a fix for this issue which will remove the AA fonts from the qt libraries and enable tightvnc to work. If you have problems, let me know and I will send a direct link to the source repository for those rpm's. There is also an official Mandrake update for this now available from any of the update mirrors. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
*** Greg Meyer Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:18:31 -0400 : You can fix the iso's with rsynch without downloading all of them again. Instructions here: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html Thanks, but I found a nice person who will send the CDs tomorrow. But I'll keep all good advices of this thread for future reference, thank you. wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: USB key drives and linux
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:02, Björn Lundin wrote: Guy Van Sanden wrote: On my Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1.3, it just popped up on the desktop as Harddisk (sda1) (unmounted) It used to do that on KDE 3.1.2 for me too, but when I got KDE 3.1.3 (Texstar), it doesn't show anymore :( (on the desktop) Any ideas? (Well it's not that big problem, since I created a shortcut manually and mount it from there, but I'm curious of what broke it) /Björn Björn Try in the kcontrol program LookNFeel-Behavior-Devices and see if that is checked and if this kind of device is checked to run. It's possible that texstars system has different defaults than MDK's James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. msec. it doesn't *like* you to mess with file perms outside of your home dir, mostly. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged out and in again. Then anne owned it again. Anne Reason number 43 of why I just love msec *grin*. but it could very well be the problem. It's helping you. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by default got render as compiled in, and VNC doesn't handle that one well. James -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:16 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 10:03, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying and nothing else. This appears to be an inherent problem with the MDK 9.1 build; how is this resolved? Your responses are greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance. James go here. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/vncf ix/ grab the rpms and update libqt... restart X (cntrl-alt-backspace) and you should be good to go. It's actually a conflict surrounding true type fonts. In theory the fonts get less clear when you do this. But danged if I can see it. (Texstar claims he can.. I can't) James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current
Felix Miata wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Lots of info, yet no answer. So are you new or not? ;-) Define new. Please re-read my previous email. It's obvious that you are not new to Linux or to Mandrake. :-) -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 12:10:01 up 3 days, 23:26, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.14, 0.10 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:55, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: You need to get familiar with rsync. Navigate to the directory with the partial downloads and run this from the command line: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD* This should also help with your limited bandwidth when final comes out. Just rename the local .iso files to match the final release file names and run the same command. It should only download the differences between the files--giving you a shiney updated .iso at a fraction of the time. I don't know how much of a bandwidth savings it will actually give you so you may want to keep an eye on it. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brant, I can see how this would work for directories but are you saying that rsync would actually go into the iso files to match them and then partially download? That's exactly what I'm saying. :-) I'd think you'd need to mount them with -o loop first (and mounting the local one rw). Alas I don't have the bandwidth left to check that and it's only the first half of the month. If you tried it you would know whether or not it's working in a few seconds. If it's not working just hit Ctrl+c to kill it. Good luck, HarM -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | Kernel 2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk KDE 3.1.3 | Mozilla 1.4 Mail Client Uptime: 12:05:01 up 3 days, 23:21, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.21, 0.11 ___ All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:46 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 08:03 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave and mp3 files I want to burn to CDrom and some of them have a VERY annoying screech at the beginning I want to clip off. you'd think this easy to find... am I just having a brain fart? I don't have much experience with this but you might want to take a look at hackaudacity in 9.1/contrib/. There was some bug in audacity that made hackaudacity a better choice, at the time I looked at it. Here is the qip: Audacity is a program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms. In addition to letting you record sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis. It supports all common editing operations such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, plus it will mix tracks and let you apply plug-in effects to any part of a sound. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Rolf hey Rolf, The ONLY place I'm seeing that file is in mandrakes contrib? Is that true, or is there another site you know where it is? My guess is that I'm going to have the same problem with any. Audacity and another one (I forget the name right now) are having trouble with sound. The preferences pull down shows no devices at all and no way to add one that I can see. Since I run sound constantly I know I'm having now problems with it. I'm a little perplexed. about what could be wrong. I am not sure if you installed audacity or hackaudacity. They are both in contrib/: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources audacity file://back/contrib/audacity-1.0.0-3mdk.i586.rpm [EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2]$ urpmq --sources hackaudacity file://back/contrib/hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm If you are having trouble with audacity, you might urpme that and urpmi hackaudacity, or vice versa. I think I tried audacity first, which didn't work for me, then, since, like I said, I had read about a bug in audacity, I tried hackaudacity, which got rolling and let me play with some editing. I didn't use it extensively, however, and don't remember what version I was using. Try hackaudacity. The two packages have conflicting files, so uninstall audacity first. Sorry I don't know more than that about it. What I'm trying to say is that I get no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker contrib/ mirror which should have been the same as the release. Maybe something has changed. If you want, I put a copy here: http://home.mindspring.com/~rolfpedersen/hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 03:49 pm, Molotov wrote: Hello list Sorry if I'm disturbing you with an already-solved problem. This is about 3D acceleration support with mdk 9.1 and a GeForce 4 MX 440. François If you ran the NVidia installer while running X you'll have trouble. If you ran it as user you'll have trouble. If you install a new kernel after running it you have to run it against the running (new usually) kernel for it to actually work. The last time I had to help someone with this was a system I assembled for a friend. Dual AMD MP 2000+, 1024 MB DDR-RAM and an MSI G-Force 4 MX 440 128 MB graphics card. The NVidia installer complained about finding no kernel module or some such, I allowed it to build one. Edited the XF86config4 file to use the nvidia drivers instead of the default nv and it was good to go. There's one little gotcha in all of the above though. You have to install the kernel source for the kernel you're running *first!* That should take care of that. Whenever you upgrade the kernel install the source for the new one, boot the new kernel in run-level 3 (console) and run the NVidia run file again. You can then edit lilo to start in graphical mode again. It should always work that way. HTH Charlie To the original poster, François, and to Charlie. There is a lot of confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I have posted about this issue more than once but here it goes again. If your Geforce4 MX 440, or any other video board, i.e. Radeon, is using AGP 8X then you are using AGP 3.0, and are no longer using AGP 2.0. AGP 3.0 is *NOT* supported in any 2.4.x kernel that I know of. There are some patches out there but most of these are made to support 8X Radeon cards (and are buggy at best). I have the Geforce4 MX 440 8X, and I was able to compile the Nvidia drivers, and I did get them to load but AGPGART would not work for the reasons outlined above. I had graphics but color rendering was for shit. It seems the only solution to 8X AGP 3.0 support is to wait for kernel 2.5. (at least, I hear it will support this newer AGP version). The pivotal point is are you trying to load modules for 8X AGP 3.0? Does anyone know the final kernel version in LMDK9.2? Now does the foregoing elucidate or obfuscate this issue even more? drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engineer http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Let him that would move the world, first move himself. --Socrates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any non-Mandrake 9.1 vnc host. Thanks again. James On the 9.1 box. It's by default got render as compiled in, and VNC doesn't handle that one well. It's actually qt that is crashing, and it will happen on any display that does not support the render extension, including vnc, XFree86 3.3.6, XForbserver, etc. libqt must be updated on the host machine. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adding a header to KMail
I'd like to add an Approved: header to messages approving bounced posts to a mailing list that is managed with Majordomo. Is that possible with KMail? Anyone know how to do it? Thanks, deedee -- Visit WordStar GNU/Linux http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 9:25 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:10:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I need to change permissions of /dev/v4l. As su I can chown, chgrp and chmod, the ls shows the new values. If I log out and in again they are back to what they were before. Why? It can't be security, because I'm changing the owner to root. msec. it doesn't *like* you to mess with file perms outside of your home dir, mostly. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged out and in again. Then anne owned it again. Two comments: 1) The problem most people have with msec and permissions isn't that it somehow doesn't allow them to make a change, but that when the msec cron job runs later, it detects whatever change was made (by comparing current permissions on the files/dirs that come under its purview to the values it expects to find), and corrects any differences it uncovers; this is why those changes don't appear to stick. But that isn't what's going on in this case, anyway, AFAICT. 2) What govern the permissions changes at login for such devices are the relevant entries within the /etc/security/console.perms file. This file controls the temporary resetting of ownership and permissions on various devices to the UID of the logged-in user, and also the settings they will revert to when that user logs out. The format of the file is explained in the comments at the top of the file itself, and further info is in the console.perms man page. I would think that to prevent the switch of the v4l device's ownership to that of the user, you would want to comment out this line near the bottom: console 0600 v4l0600 root.sys Your line may differ, as this is from my 9.0 system. Reboot, and hopefully then the device will stay owned by root, even after you log in as anne. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:14:37 -0400 (EDT) : /dev/hda7 /usr default 1 2 which I inserted for my /home /dev/hda7 /usr fstype default 1 2 You might want to mention the filesystem type in there. ;) Of course. I put it into fstab but forgot to mention it here! It wouldn't have worked with /home without that. My question aimed more to the 'default 1 2' part. Looks fine to me; if it's reiserfs, you might want 'notail 1 2' instead. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 An opinion is like a branding iron. It is one thing to hold it, and another to press it into the skin of a friend. - James Lileks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?
On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still unstable ? In case of yes, which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk Club ? I am using Texstar's packages and they work great. Unfortunately, I think the qa on them is better than those packages available from Club. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] removing boot themes
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:42 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How can this be done? From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use themes check box, but this doesn't work. Just remove the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:32 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. Best regards and thanks you If you can burn cd's at the cafe, you will want to download the entire updates directory for your version. If you are on 9.1, look at mandrake/updates/9.1/i586/RPMS and you will see a slew of update RPMS and a file called synthesis.hdlist.cz. That file will allow you to setup your cd as a urpmi source. Burn that whole directory to cd. Once you get the cd, do something like urpmi.addmedia updates file://mnt/cdrom with synthesis.hdlist.cz and then urpmi --auto-select and all packages that need updating should be done for you automatically. Hope this helps. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
Hi all, Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search ways to get MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi and have quite a collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give 'em up! Alas! although I've progressed past utter silence and incomprehension from various apps, I've managed to lock the computer up *hard*, twice! /dev/sound has a couple of likely-looking devices: midi1 and dmmidi1, and sequencer and sequencer1. these are linked to by the standard devices. However, if I use either midi1 or sequencer as the output device, I get lockup. I haven't dared try the others yet! lsmod shows in the relevant part: snd-seq-midi5024 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss31104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq42608 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-mpu401 1984 0 snd-pcm-oss43556 0 snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx14092 0 snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-pcm77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-mpu401 snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi17600 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm] snd40868 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-mpu4ss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 6276 0 [snd] and, based on stuff I found on the alsa wiki, /etc/modules.conf reads: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401 options snd-card-1 port=0x330 irq=7 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss So: does anyone have any ideas of things I could try? Have I maybe loaded too many things? Other than this, alsa is working jest *fine*. 8-) -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 19 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 07:05 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: What I'm trying to say is that I get no package named hackaudacity. It isn't in most contrib sites. It must ONLY be at mandrake. ?? Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker contrib/ mirror which should have been the same as the release. Maybe something has changed. If you want, I put a copy here: http://home.mindspring.com/~rolfpedersen/hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm Thanks man. I appreciate it. Man it is s easy to get into dependencies hell! I do rpm -ivh hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm and get: error: failed dependencies: libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1 is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk No problem, let's go find it. It is in a file called wxGTK-2.3.2-11.i386.rpm, so I think, well why not. I get: error: failed dependencies: OpenGL is needed by wxGTK-2.3.2-11 iconv is needed by wxGTK-2.3.2-11 wxwin-afm = 2.3.2 is needed by wxGTK-2.3.2-11 wxwin-common = 2.3.2 is needed by wxGTK-2.3.2-11 ARRG!!! hahahaha... I guess what I should do is concentrate on finding out why on earth two of the two editors I have installed refuse to recognize my /dev/dsp. ??? It makes no sense. ALL of the other numerous programs play audio with no problems at all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files
Oh, sorry. That's weird. I don't see it on a couple of mirrors I looked at. What I did when 9.1 came out was save my local cooker I concur - audacity is good for mp3/wav editing - provided you have enough spare disk space. If you don't, don't try to save the project as a project file in your home directory. I use /tmp for most everything for that, since I don't have a lot of room left in /home and /tmp has several gigs available (editing roughly an hour's length of wav file will need close to 2.1 gigs of space). But what's 'hackaudacity'? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?
Voy a tratar de bajarlo desde un cyber. Muchas gracias Richard saludos por alla tambien. Luis Duran On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:14, Richard wrote: On Tue September 9 2003 11:03 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hi Kevin, Thanks for answer. When i went to faster cybers here in my town (Acarigua, Venezuela) with my computer tenders get crazy and said that they can not receive customers property inside their local, i void to argue for hours with 'em. But i am interesting in know: How can i download all updates packages for Linux Mandrake 9 version, i never have updated my system and i would like it. What URL (ftp or http) can i go ? Hello Luis, ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/updates has worked well for me from Cd.Ojeda. Look for your version and download all to burn to a CD. saludos, Richard. Thanks in advance and Best regards Luis Duran On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 06:07, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber cafe but that people didn't not like the idea. i have this question, Has Mandrake an iso image with all the updates that i could download from a cyber cafe without taking my computer there ? i will appreciate if you let me know about this. I use to haul my laptop down to the local, wired, micro-brewery and download the updates directory from a server to take home, and then run updates on the laptop. People are always hauling boxes and monitors into this place. The local Linux Users group meets there once a month. If you need to do more than just update the box you are dragging up there, set up a mirror and a small ftp server on your laptop (or box), use rsync to update the mirror on the laptop each time you hook-in. Then the laptop can be the updates source for itself and any other boxes at home on your LAN. The rsync goes pretty fast once you have the files all copied over the first time. What is the policy of the cyber-cafe? I used one in London that always charged me a little extra because I used my laptop, instead of using one of their windows boxes. How would your's react to you taking your machine in? - -- KevinO If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - -- Lily Tomlin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XaZdWOfRC7Rnmv8RAhmzAJkBFzs91XLoHcVdb5D01ZnyX0AvcACeLKlx By4tE41bkwZ5PS8nAzDxv3U= =NwSD -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ___ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Permissions don't stick
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:33:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But msec originally allowed me to change it to owner anne. Why would it not let me put it back to root? I have tried as user, but it wasn't allowed - fair enough. As root the change was accepted - until I logged out and in again. Then anne owned it again. You can override msec in /etc/security/msec/perm.local, and all will be well. As an example, I have this in mine: /home/mp3/ root.users 777 Interesting question, tho. I guess it just likes Anne better than Root, I know I do. ;-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain. -- G. Fitch Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux multitask performance?
Am Mittwoch, 10. September 2003 18:40 schrieb diego: I'd bet it's not using DMA With IDE drives: man hddparm would tell you the command, but no idea about how to get it when at scsi emulation :-(( It's the same. There are still the ide device names. So you can chenage de DMA via hdparm. Martin -- H E L I X Gesellschaft für Software Engineering mbH Hanauer Landstrasse 52 Telefon (069) 4789 35-30 D-60314 Frankfurt am Main Telefax (069) 4789 35-44 http://www.helix-gmbh.net[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 10, 2003 08:24 pm, J.C. Woods wrote: To the original poster, François, and to Charlie. There is a lot of confusion about using the Geforce4 MX 440 in Mandrake or, for that mattter, any other Liunx OS using the 2.4.x kernel. I have posted about this issue more than once but here it goes again. If your Geforce4 MX 440, or any other video board, i.e. Radeon, is using AGP 8X then you are using AGP 3.0, and are no longer using AGP 2.0. AGP 3.0 is *NOT* supported in any 2.4.x kernel that I know of. There are some patches out there but most of these are made to support 8X Radeon cards (and are buggy at best). I have the Geforce4 MX 440 8X, and I was able to compile the Nvidia drivers, and I did get them to load but AGPGART would not work for the reasons outlined above. I had graphics but color rendering was for shit. It seems the only solution to 8X AGP 3.0 support is to wait for kernel 2.5. (at least, I hear it will support this newer AGP version). The pivotal point is are you trying to load modules for 8X AGP 3.0? Does anyone know the final kernel version in LMDK9.2? Now does the foregoing elucidate or obfuscate this issue even more? drjung Hiya Doc; I know what you're saying but the point was moot for the guy I put the system together for, and for me. He just wanted clear, he's not much of a gamer so anything more than clear graphics was a side issue. The only reason the box actually has the card in it that it does was simple economics. A regular budget card was, at the time I picked up the components for his new toy, less than $7 cheaper. Some kind of a promotional 'special offer' a local retailer was running, $87 (prices are Canadian, which has no relationship to real money) for the MSI he has versus $81 for the next least expensive. I appreciate the explanation and the information but for me; and for the friend I built the box for, the latest super frame rate hot-rod video card, 8X AGP or not, or hypertrophied discombobulated whizzbang whats-its, were less important than the system's performance overall. Colour was fine, graphics are clear. It wasn't, and isn't, even trying to run at AGP 8X, the board it's on doesn't even support that to the best of my knowledge, so the card defaults to legacy mode. AGP 2 I mean. I've assembled three very similar systems for different people using almost identical components, and nobody has complained at all. That's all I care about. My 18 year old son and his Radeon 9700 Pro on an NVidia2 chipset motherboard on the other hand.g The kernel for 9.2 will be a version of the 2.4.22 series. The latest is shown in my signature. The 2.6 is available in contribs already, and the one I'm looking at right now is 2.6.0-0test.4.4mdk. The latest I suppose. I'll be installing it in a bit so I'll have a better idea what it's like. Best Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-7mdk 20:55:56 up 20:51, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.14, 0.09 The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. - -- Albert Einstein -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/YAjuG11CaRuZZSIRAgj+AJ4n/Q53Y0kSZED0L6L1BdnZ8ocd+ACePEhN Xzp4OSpsulWKsAiUkILFSR8= =NrWY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Moving /usr and /var
*** Bill Mullen Wed, 10 Sep 2003 23:12:01 -0400 (EDT) : Looks fine to me; if it's reiserfs, you might want 'notail 1 2' instead. No, it's ext3 wobo -- ... and anyway, html can't carry a virus. (Aug 2001, Usenet) --- GnuPG Public Key on http://www.wolf-b.de/misc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
