[expert] ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron
Hi, Has anyone tried ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron? I saw the AMD64 RC1 is out now, but there was no mention. I want to setup a high-powered GNU/Linux graphics workstation. Tips appreciated JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] "mount -o remount,ro /" still shows up as (rw) in mdk9.0
on the 27/05/03 19:25, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:03, J. Grant wrote: Hi James, > JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to > telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only? 5 is reboot right? yeah, it complains, can't write to /var while it is going down :( 6 is reboot 5 is X multi-user. ah ok, well reboot tries to write, and it gives the same "Read-only file system" errors (I just tried telinit 6 too) Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'
Well, its "Desktop Access" , find that and set a short cut key, its on the "Special Button" menu. Gambatte! JG on the 12/04/03 02:25, bascule wrote: i'm looking for a way to achieve the above, does any one know the command that is run by the 'show desktop' icon? unlike the other icons on the panel there is no 'preferences' option to check, i ran 'kmenuedit' from a console and although you can asign shortcuts to progs listed the 'show desktop' isn't there interestingly, alt-f2 and typing kmenuedit launches menudrake, why would this be if 'kmenuedit' in a console works? if i know the command for 'show desktop' i should be able to edit ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc and force a shortcut bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Connection sharing in mdk9 issue
Hi List, I setup connection sharing in the mdk control centre. However my ppp conection (via kppp) now does not work. I can connect but all programs give either "Connection refused" or DNS errors. /etc/resolve.conf has the correct IP addresses in it. And so does my laptop which I also tested with. I set kppp options to use ppp as default route too. The mdk control centre wizzard seemed to set it all up ok, I found it had changed my IP, with the new IP or after I changed it back to the origional it was not working from other of my 2 computers. mdk seems to use shorewall for this sharing, i've checked /etc/shorewall/ but nothing seems obviously incorrect. Any ideas anyone? I expect it is working ok for other ppl, so must be something simple Regards JG route: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 62.252.226.217 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 62.252.226.217 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:96:02:5D:18 inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:990357 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1454952 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:93662763 (89.3 Mb) TX bytes:1972554055 (1881.1 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:107559 (105.0 Kb) TX bytes:107559 (105.0 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:62.252.241.64 P-t-P:62.252.226.217 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:135 (135.0 b) TX bytes:166 (166.0 b) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stupid password loss
on the lilo prompt try: linux single or linux init=/bin/sh one of those should work Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB problems
could try the other usb kernel module if you are using uhci etc, try lsmod to see which you are using. See kernel HOWTO and modules config if you are unsure how to procede. Cheers JG on the 04/04/03 21:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I posted this message (similiar) twice to the newbie list and got zero responses: This is the first time I've ever used USB and its been rock-solid up to a little while ago. I've got a Logittech USB mouse and a Epson C62 USB printer. Both were found and installed flawlessly by 9.0 of Mandrake. I've got a Soyo Dragon plus MB with 4 ports enabled. Every so often, the mouse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Flash 6 vs 5
Did you try the version at http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html ? This works fine for me with mozilla 1.3 If this is really bug, why not email macromedia about it? they list an email address for contact http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P5_Language=English http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/flash/english/linux/6.0r79/install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz If not, check out http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/ although this is far from alpha Cheers JG on the 23/03/03 23:25, Hezekiah Carty wrote: For a while now I've been using the Flash 5 plug-in for Mozilla, etc. under MDK 9.0. I've been using the 9.1rc2+cooker on my laptop for a while now (and it's truly great...), and some of the testing Mandrake Club commercial RPMS. The 9.1 club Flash is version 6, and it seems to have some pretty bad sync problems on both my laptop (p3-900) and my desktop (Athlon 1.4ghz). I tried downloading the plugin from Macromedia directly and I've had the same problem. I also have these problems on my 9.0 install if I use the version 6 plugin rather than 5. Going back to ver. 5 fixes the problem. Has anyone else seen this? Are there any workarounds for it, or do I have something setup incorrectly? Thanks, Hez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
Hi Vincent and others, Thanks for the help so far. After rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk I have found even though I am not booting it, my system is not stable. in X/KDE the whole system has crashed twice today when loading ~30MB text files. Which never happend before. I can not ssh in to reboot, nothing is responsive except sysrq+alt+shift+ctrl etc, so i sync, unmount, reBoot again. this is the line I use to boot. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=linux2.4.19 root=/dev/hde2 read-only optional vga=normal append=" devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img Oddly USB is working slightly better than it used to with this kernel today! Is there any reason my my computer could be crashing frequently in the old, working kernel? I also have been trying to get kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk running ok, as an alternative, so I booted into kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk then: Some things I can not install though [EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] now3d]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: kernel-headers is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk kernel-headers >= 2.2.1 is needed by glibc-devel-2.2.5-16mdk I did not want to break it, so I have not installed them. I wanted to install them so I can rpm --rebuild the nvidia kernel driver so X will work.. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ISO image from 1.2Gb folder
"dar" can make split archives, so can "zip" write a script to do that, then burn the 2 isos. or buy a dvd-r and avoid the issue :) JG on the 22/03/03 21:25, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts, i would like to make a simple question, but i've been looking everywhere for the answer. I would like to make 2 iso images, of 700Mb each, from a 1.2Gb data folder. that is, i want to cop my 1.2 Gb folder into 2 Cd's, but with mkisofs making the automatically, not having to move the files into 2 folders and then making the iso files. I know that there is a option to make the iso's images of a desired size, but couldn't find it anywhere. That's all, thanks for your time. PS: I would apreriate if you answer quikly, because i will be only this weekend with a CD-R/RW device on my hands. 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] New linux kernel for mdk9
Hi James, Thanks for the reply. on the 22/03/03 18:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 06:29, J. Grant wrote: I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in lilo.conf and /boot the -U is why... don't upgrade kernels install them with -i this will put everything in parallel. One thing you will need to do is change rpm -ivh is what I did first, this wiped out all my lilo.conf settings, and changed vmlinuz sym link. I had to re-add my old kernel to the lilo.conf file. shouldnt the install avoid removing the current kernel? In my case it seems lilo.conf was all setup with vmlinuz, so perhaps it would be better for "failsafe" image=/boot/vmlinuz to image/boot/vmlinuz.2-x.x.x.xmdk where this matches the kernel for that lilo entry. Then do the same for initrd changing it specifically to the one you need rather than the symlink. ok, i specified my initrd by full filename rather than sym link. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in lilo.conf and /boot eg image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-2.4.19mdk root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only but in /boot vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk So its still not working mdksoft, is this an known issue? Is anyone working on a fix for it? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Logitech USB Wheel Mouse
Hi Rob on the 22/03/03 06:25, Rob Blomquist wrote: I was able to solve my PS2 mouse/CD burning problem by shifting the mouse to USB. But here's the catch. I was unable to use mousedrake to configure it. It kept complaining that "no usb bus found\n at /usr/sbin/mousedrake line 54." Bull, I type this with a USB mouse configured with modprobing input.o, mousedev.o and rebooting my system, which found it during hardware detection (hey I thought I didn't ever have to reboot!) Now, I am trying to get this to be a proper wheel mouse which it was as a PS2 mouse, but as a USB mouse I can't get the wheel detected. I edited /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Pointer section: from: Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device "/dev/psaux" ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection to: Section "Pointer" Identifier "USB Mice" #added 03/21/03 Protocol "IMPS/2" # Device "/dev/psaux" #commented out 03/21/03 Device "dev/input/mice" #added 03/21/03 ZAxisMapping "4 5" #quotes added 3/21/03 Buttons "5" #added 03/21/03 EndSection With this, I still don't get a wheel mouse. I have the wheel button functioning, but not the wheel motion. I have: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Mine is Logitech USB too, works fine with scroller This XF86Config file differs from the ones I have previously seen. where are the quotes around the names of the fields? What about the quotes around "4 5" has Mandrake changed things? Or am I behind the times. what should my pointer section say to get this mouse to work right? man XF86Config should include info on the quote issue, i think they are required, but there are many alias's that are valid here. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
I've installed the rpm now. What I am really surprised about is that it wipes out the old ones config. So if there had been a problem my computer would not have booted. Is there a reason for this mdksoft? Cheers JG I had to add this at the end again just incase there was a problem. image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=linux2.4.19 root=/dev/hda2 read-only optional vga=normal append=" devfs=mount" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
Hi James, The 9.1 kernel may or may not run as is on your box... The odds are better than 50 50 HOWEVER I've heard of a number of people who have built the 9.1 kernel on 9.0 without a problem. I would recommend doing just this.. get the source build the kernel. Ok, getting this now, thanks. jack, The kernel will run without the kernel source installed though won't it? But I guess that would stop me compiling other apps on the upgraded machine? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
Hi Jack, rpmfind.net has difficulty indexing Mandrake's RPMs -- try searching for "kernel-2.4" instead of "kernel". Thanks for tip. However, 2.4.19 is the newest i can find on rpmfind still. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] New linux kernel for mdk9
Hi, I have been searching for a newer kernel on: ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS rpmfind.net However, I can not find a 2.4.20 rpm. Are there rpms for mdk anywhere on the net? I found the cooker ISO's: ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/i586 However I just wanted a newer kernel rpm. With that local root, and some RAID updates etc Could someone direct me to an rpm for mdk9 please? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hard disk duplication and partition growth
Sounds like you want cp -dpr, info cp gives you more details. cheers JH on the 19/03/03 12:28, Christopher Joseph wrote: First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been able to trawl for past questions regarding the same topic properly. The problem: I have bought a new 80 Gb ATA133 Hard disk for my desktop running mandrake linux. I would like to migrate some of the partions on the existing disk to the new disk and then 'grow' the remaining partitions to fill the original disk. I tried moving /home, /usr and /var on to the new disk by simply using SU on konqueror and simply copying the files accross. I them altered /etc/fstab to mount the new partitions at reboot. BUT - the copy process changed a lot of permissions and all kinds of things have errored Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?
Hi, I was tempted by the lure of a digital video recorder. I found this http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html It seems great, my tv card is working fine with xawtv, so i checked vcr out. However, there are so many deps, I cant even get the avifile src on this site to build, (seems automake files are corrupted). main avifile.sf.net does not build either, until i install some other libs etc. Fianlly failed with make[3]: *** No rule to make target `pci_db2c.awk', needed by `pci_dev_ids.c'. Stop. http://www.stack.nl/~brama/vcr/index.html?page=download I downloaded the avifile rpms from plf, but they need even more Has anyone used vcr with mdk9 ? Are there any rpms floating around? Seems even the extra rpms I installed are now out of date too: win32-codecs-1.0-1plf xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf Has anyone got it to build from scratch ? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /tmp size
I have a computer with only 128MB ram, it chuggs along very slowly in X Windows. in fstab there is a /tmp tempfs ramdisk, I commented it out so that it now uses the root /tmp. However, performace is still about the same, odd considering there should be about 64MB of ram extra available. Any ideas on speeding up this computer with only 128MB ram (more ram is not an option unfortunatly as the mobo has a broken socket, and 256MB ram does not work in the remaining socket). Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?
You probably need to do this on the directory level to get those new files or add the recursive switch. I tried with cvs diff -uNr but that did not work either, the N was removed i showed from the patch. Another way is to check out a pristine copy alongside your version the run a recursive patch against the directory. diff -urN /pristine_dir /changed_dir > filename.patch ok, thanks for this info. I got this working after adding "-X .cvsignore", seems strange that "cvs add" does not allow me to add to the local repository! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?
Hi, I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :) I have been unable to get "cvs diff -uN" to work, the -N flag should include new files in the patch. I can not add files to the local repository with "cvs add" which I believe I should be able to. I do not have a cvs account on this project, so i just checkout as guest. It is wierd that "cvs add" does not work, and the -N flag does not work either. cvs server and client are both under a few weeks old. Any tips welcome. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.0 installation fails on step 'Hard drive detection'(WDC WD800AB-00CBA1)
Is it SCSI then? I thogught it was IDE I have: hde: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive Works ok, as long as I set it as udma2 in the bios, have you done this? have you checked its got the right jumper settings? Cheers JG on the 05/03/03 22:07, Andreas Weiss wrote: hi, the installation of ML9.0 on a new PC hangs on the step "Hard drive detection --> starting step 'setupSCSI'" with no error messages. The harddisk is a Western Digital WDC WD800AB-00CBA1. I can install Suse Linux, but only with the kernel parameters: ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off With ML these parameters didn't help. noapic didn't help either. Can anybody help? Thanks! Andreas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?
I use netstat -ntl JG on the 05/03/03 23:46, Simon Prosser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Jim C wrote: I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. What is a simple but sure way to find out if a specific port is open on a specific interface? Jim C. yes there is... netstat hth Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity
Hi Keith, Using HTTPS is much more secure than sending via post. I am also in the UK, I have never been the victim of online fraud. However before the net revolution some one did charge my CC and it was refunded. All online CC have a garentee against fraud just like anything else. MDK could support paypal etc, but I am sure that would still leave some one out CC is still the best option. Cheers JG p.s. can I pay in half used phone cards? If not, why not!? on the 05/03/03 15:55, Keith Powell wrote: I agree that the boxed sets should be made available before the download version. Possibly four weeks before would be a good timescale. However, I can see problems with making a version available for club members to download at the same time as the boxed versions are available. This assumes that all club members have broadband and are able to do the large download. Those members with only a slow dial-up connection would be penalised. On a slightly separate issue, Mandrake Club really should get their act together and make it easier for prospective members to join. They will only accept payment by sending credit card details over the internet, or by FAX. This makes it a very difficult decision for people who either have no credit card, or who, like me will not send my credit card details either over the internet or by the equally "open" FAX. They will not even accept credit card details sent by a much more secure letter. A small Canadian firm from whom I buy things, will accept payment by any of the above methods, and also by a cheque made out in GB Pounds for the current rate of exchange between Canadian Dollars and Pounds. So come on, Mandrake, if they can do it to help customers, so can you! Just my thoughts. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Samba-Only Windows Clients can write toshares
Hi, I am not a samba expert, but could it be as simlpe as smbmount mounts read-only by default. My /etc/fstab entries for my samba shares have rw set in the options. I recall having to explicitly set this after install. something like this should work. //ps2/now3d /home/now3d/ps2 smbfs users,username=now3d,noauto 0 0 Then just type "mount ps2" in your home dir. Or u could set it to auto if u know the other machine is gona be on when it boots. Always have "users" with the "s" if you want anyone to be able to mount it. That bugged me for a while b4 I found it in the man pages. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] UT2003 help?
Have you tried running it in gdb ? then doing what ever you do to make it SIGSEGV I've found div-by-zero and other bugs this way. Cheers JG on the 02/03/03 15:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: If you are the one with the different drivers, try and isolate that by dropping back to theirs. If it is not the drivers, it sounds like it could also be a heat issue ie, program segfaults when things get a little warm. What's the cooling like on your machine? Hi Greg. I've tried both 3123 and 4191 drivers. I also ran memtest for about 12 hours/24 passes on my 512 megs of DDR Ram. No errors reported. System temp is 27 C. CPU temp is 50 C. After 12 hours of running memtest, it was 52 C. I've had the game segfault right after booting up, like 2 mins into the game, and I've had it run for 2 hours, with the machine having been on all day. In single player or across the LAN. Seems to be totally random. Tribes 2 and Rune also crash, back to the desktop. Whats really odd is that not even one of my WineX games, including a hog like Warcraft 3, crash. They all run perfectly. These 3 games run fine under 9.0 on my 2 sons comps (Geforce 2 cards). I even tried renaming /lib/i686 to i686.old and copying their i686 folders to mine, then running ldconfig. Made no difference, same error. I'm really at a loss. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)
Hi Civilme, Thanks for the reply. well first of all, if you can split ide drives to one per channel, that would be more efficient. ONly one device per channel on IDE may be active, and two disks on the same channel really slows down disk-to-disk operations ok, I will give this a go soon. Next a DTLA and a DTTA on the same channel is a wide difference in timing specs. This leaves enough room for echo bounce on a signal gating line to cause mischief. It is not that hard to move a drive if the installed systems have the /etc/fstab modified (of course with any winsystems we have a little more work) to recognize the new location. no more winbloat here :) The WD should not be paired on any channel with any other hard drive,because its timing is very strange compared to the others and data can be eaten by timing chatter. It is safely default configured as you can see, peaked at udma2 ok, so is this what the linux kernel does when it boots up? it gives all those errors DriveSeek etc, then says device reset DMA disabled i think it was. I would definitely try limiting the DTLA to udma2 as well --it appears to be set initially for udma3 the DTTA can go to udma4 or perhaps more. in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set upto UDMA2 max. So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a faster speed as its ata100 hpt etc. drakopt is in /contribs these days, but it does an alternative test and setup for tuning, and it runs in python. It may be able to set the drives where they run reliably. It requires some manual asistance yet because I never had time to finish the parser for error messages nor to make the settings within 2% of each other in tested speed "brothers" and to choose the brother with the highest noise immunity. Still you might find the program useful for performing all the tests of various hdparm settings--none of those are dangerous to existing data. i downloaded drakopt. Unfortunatly it does not support my drives: OPTIONS: (A)--Abort (N)--New (or you changed disks around) (C)--Continue from a previous run Your Choice (N/c/a) n Drive WDCWD800BB00CAA1 not found in database Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Capabilities line not available this drive model No optimizations possible this program Drive IBMDTLA307060 not found in database Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Capabilities line not available this drive model No optimizations possible this program Drive IBMDTTA351010 not found in database Attempting to use capabilities line in hdparm -i Please report driveid to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Capabilities line not available this drive model No optimizations possible this program I tried it on my laptop and the same problem existed. I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] with my aditions from my laptop and it bounced back. Is there no maintainer now? Are you still working on it at all? I added my laptop drive to the config but it still would not run... I strongly suspect a timing problem between the two IBM drives and I would suggest splitting them to different channels as a first step. The slow performance appears to be a fallback setting from probable timing crosstalk. Civileme Also, there were some interesting logs about my system for you. Strange that: /dev/hdh1 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults,user,auto 1 2 only works when uncomented after boot, it will not mount at all during bootup for some reason. Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide3(34,65) Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdh1, Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g mount:or too many mounted file systems Feb 23 12:50:34 now1g netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hda: DMA disabled Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdc: DMA disabled Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hda: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdc: CR-48X5TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hde: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdg: IBM-DTLA-307060, ATA DISK drive Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hdh: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11 Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: ide3 at 0xe000-0xe007,0xe402 on irq 11 Feb 23 12:50:31 now1g kernel: hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100) Feb 23 12:50:31 now1
OT Re: [expert] 9.1 party
hi Jack Coates wrote: A UK-specific distro is kinda scary, I'm imagining all this Austin Powers theming going on :-) And of course it would have to use the Slackware .tgz packaging system, just to be anachronistically different than the EU... heh, and we all still wear bowler hats and pin strip when we go to work in the city! not to forget the important umbrella, as its always raining! Would be fun to try a Chinese distro, probably got anti capitalist msg in there somewhere. What then would be a US theme? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 party
I'm in UK. As for a UK distro... I once heard of something called Eridani Starsystems .. I think. Was more of a redistribution of Red Hat with some of the latest software. And I never used it. ah, checked their website, they are using RH6.2 as their base. I think i'll give it a miss, supporting the French is more fun :) JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 party
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:32 am, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere in Europe? I vote for a place that all members can agree upon...Downtown Baghdad. Heh, well if mdk9.1 gets delayed by a few months it should be a safe venue. Out of interest are there many UK mandrake users on this list? I've never heard of a UK specific gnu/linux distrib, has any one else? (reply just to me if you feel its off topic) cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 party
Hi, Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere in Europe? Cheers JG tarvid wrote: it is time to plan 9.1 release parties i propose part celebration part installfest we are planning to have a local mirror and a half dozen KVM stations for installs and a cd (maybe dvd) burning station running full blast timing should be as close to release as feasible as that is when interest is highest we would like participation to be high enough to build enthusiasm and confidence but small enough to give everyone adequate attention we'll keep one machine reserved for MandrakeClub signups i'd like to get this right so positive suggestions are welcome jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Playing DVDs, Part II
Hi Rob, Basically installing these rpms from plf will work with your existing xine, with no extra config required! xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf win32-codecs-1.0-1plf libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdcss-ogle0-0.0.3-9plf xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf I also have the following installed from the mdk9 cds libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2md Cheers JG ps click on d5d, d4d or NAV to select these "plugins" on the xine controls. Using the "DVD" button only works with region 0 disks Rob Blomquist wrote: I am all screwed up with ALSA, OSS, and aRts, so I put getting ogle running on the shelf. It turns out that Xine is working pretty well, but I am getting an error message. I am using a test DVD of trailers that my wife got with a laptop containing a DVD-ROM. I get an error message from Xine saying, "There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'. What do I need to do to get an input plugin, or is this the end with xine, and I need to get back to my Ogle/Alsa configuration? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba hide "." prefixed dirs?
Hi, Thanks for the reply David. David Stevenson wrote: hide dot files = yes I added this to the [global] section of smb.conf. However the dot files/dirs were still visible unless i configure hide dirs in windows. veto files /^.*/ I added this too, but it gave a warning that it was unsupported on the console when ever I mounted one of my old machines on my LAN. does it only work with Version 2.2.6pre2 or later? (my other machine is Version 2.0.10-ja-1.1) Cheers JG Couple this with the Windows Explorer setting. Make sure you run the latest version of Samba as there was an issue with the veto files token not working correctly. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide "." prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba hide "." prefixed dirs?
Hi, Thanks for the reply vox. Vox wrote: This time Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, > If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show > hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! I had the same feeling, but couldn't find it. Trust me - if you go into the folder properties and unselect 'show hidden file' all will be well. I had to do that :) How about sticking: hide dot files = yes in your [general] section? That works better :) I don't have [general] but i put it in [global] and the dirs/files still show up in windows as hiden dirs. So maybe i still have to hide hidden folders, but thats not something I want to do really.. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm
Hi guys, Thanks for the sugestions. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Try this: rpm2cpio > newfile.cpio cpio -ivd < newfile.cpio That should get you going... Cool, thanks that worked. compiled rpm does not seem to require a .spec file, the src had it though, so i know the ./configure line now :) Rolf: I checked in mc, it shows the .spec file but i can not extract it from there. Unless i've missed something? Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm
Hi, Does anyone know how to exract a .spec file from a compiled rpm? I tried using cpio and some other stuff, but cant get it. rpm --rebuild sss.src.rpm is meant to put it in the SPECS dir, but it isnt there either. Also there is one in the tgz of the soft, but thats generated for a different archiecture so I cant use that. Cheers JG Jim C wrote: Perhaps: rpm -ba Ken Thompson wrote: Can someone refresh my memory? I want to build an rpm from a src.prm and have forgotten the command. 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] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)
Hi, Thanks for the quick replies drjung, civilme, rolf and sridhar. > Jus wondering, have up updated ur bios. Just wondering, are you using WD harddrives? drjung I was wondering the same thing. I am aware that Andre Hedrick has campaigned for a while to keep WDs off of udma3 or higher because they don't exactly comply with the requirements for the CRC protocols for those speeds. ANd My thoughts fall first to WD when I see {DriveReady SeekComplete} because that is the only brand on which I have seen it. I'm using the latest hpt370 bios This is my system spec atm. Abit KT7-RAID (VIA chipset) Award BIOS Ver 6.00PG (01/31/2002-8363-686A-6A6LMA19C-7N) Highpoint RAID BIOS Ver 1.11.0402 Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 (rev 03) Guilmott nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev a4) VT82C586B USB (rev 10) I've noticed this problem for a while.. but not found the solution while looking. It crashes twice a month or so, not sure if this is related. I've not lost any data.. yet... Below I will paste dmesg and the hd spec. yes there is a WD one... When booting bios if hardrive is on hda,hdb,hdc or hdd normal speed channe: Primary IDE channel no 80 conductor cable installed. It boots, and even with new cables I saw this error. My fried also has this on another abit board, and his works ok too. Not sure what it means though. dmesg|less had lots of usb stuff and not much bootup, is this meant to be wiped out when the computer is running for a while? usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 28, frame# 1427 usb-uhci.c: Host controller halted, trying to restart. Also some hdh stuff hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdg: DMA disabled ide3: reset: success hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide3: reset: success hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } end_request: I/O error, dev 22:41 (hdh), sector 32 hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdh: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdh: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide3: reset: success here is the real /var/log/dmesg file, Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000a (usable) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 17ff (usable) BIOS-e820: 17ff - 17ff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 17ff3000 - 1800 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 383MB LOWMEM available. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 98288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.4.19mdk ro root=2102 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1000.070 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1992.29 BogoMIPS Memory: 386360k/393152k available (1176k kernel code, 6408k reserved, 444k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff , vendor = 2 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check re
Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)
Hi, Thanks for the info. I did download the propreitary hpt370 kernel module, but it was only binary and I could not get the root disk to work. Perhaps I should try a newer kernel than 2.4.19-16mdk, have you tried with the default mdk9 kernel on your board at all? I have the latest bios for my board, I don't think much of highpoint's support. Cheers JG I see you have the hpt370 onboard controller. Although not an exact match, I have hpt372 onboard Iwill XP-333R and it works well as an extra ide controller for me with the newer kernels in RC1 or in cooker. Alan Cox's ide patches from 2.4.20-ac1 have been merged and it enables my controller to work this way w/o having to build Highpoint's driver for the first time. Don't know if that carries over to your controller but someone said they use the same BIOS. I am running the lates BIOS for my board, as well. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)
Hi, I've got one Abit KT7 RAID MB system running stock mdk9 kernel. Its running, however, the hd speed is slow because it only works with no dma etc. I am using the correct ata100 cables with only a single drive on each channel. Has anyone else experienced this with this motherboard using the raid channels? Cheers JG Journalled Block Device driver loaded hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide2: reset: success hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide2: reset: success Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA
Hi, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:48:15PM -0500 : whatsoever, no beeps, no messages. Logs are totally devoid of any information on the 2.4.19-24 kernel. It is absolutely, totally, without doubt a dead, lifeless, useless, limp, cold kernel. Logs won't have anything until it boots up to a point where syslog starts. syslog does not seem to record everything sometimes... I found creating a file /etc/rc.d/rc.log and modifiying the /etc/inittab to run this instead of rc.sysinit stored all those modprobe and hd dma timeout msg complete. #!/bin/sh /bin/mount /mnt/mc00 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 2>&1 | tee /mnt/mc00/sysinit /bin/umount /mnt/mc00 In my case mc00 was a memory card, using a 5MB ext3 partion should be ok, I would not wirte it to my root FS or home dir though (could corrupt it if the script went wrong), especially as mtab is not kept uptodate this low in the boot sequence. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?
If there is a jumper on the disk to reduce the size, try that (for testing), this might eliminate the possiblity that the drive is faulty. Although it works in win2k, have you done a surface scan there? It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you could search google and also upgrade your kernel, its over 5 months since mdk9 kernel came out now. JG Wolf N. Paul wrote: I am having trouble getting a 120G Maxtor 4G120J8 disk working on my Mdk 9.0 system. When I attach the drive and reboot, the boot hangs indefinitely at the partition check, both when the disk was virginal from the store, and now that I have created a single large primary partition on it with Win2K. If I append "hdh=noprobe" to the boot prompt, I can boot the system, but the drive is not accessible. If I specify the geometry the kernel reports for the drive just before the partition check, like so: "hdh=14946,255,63 hdh=noprobe" which corresponds to an example in the kernel source Documents/ide.txt file, the kernel panics. The same thing happens if I use the geometry values given in the spec sheet for the drive on Maxtor's support web. The first line of the panic message refers to a null pointer reference at address 63, which makes me wonder whether the sectors parameter of the geometry spec is getting misinterpreted. Any hints? Any ideas? Regards, Wolf N. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.0: Fresh install, found one file 2 GB big, "e2fsck-f -c /dev/hda2" returns errors:
Hi, "[root@mycom root]# e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) /dev/hda2 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes You did not remount your /dev/hda2 read-only, then you said yes when it warned you, this most likely caused the problem. Reboot into single user mode and do it them mount -o remount,ro / this might not work if you have active processes runining, so kill off any that give problems. Or you could put this code in your rc.sysinit before your system really starts I guess. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,"could notfind mime type",kde3.0.3
e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX can do it for you now, make sure you are in single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro. I already reinstalled ML9.0, but I tried on this new install "e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2": and it returned a bunch of errors. And this is after a fresh install. I'll complain about this in another thread. If they were badblock errors your HD has failed, replace it and your problems might go away. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,"could notfind mime type",kde3.0.3
hi vatbier, vatbier wrote: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The X66 is safe to use as you have described it. What is dangerous is overdriving. hdparm -k1 -d1 -X66 /dev/hda (66:UDMA2) I guess you mean if I change the hard drive setting with DataLifeGuard and then do "hdparm -d1 X69" (69:UDMA5) that this is dangerous, or if I try to set it to UDMA6 (:133Mhz)? Mandrake 9.0 uses UDMA5 automatically (without program hdparm), is this configured on booting are is it written at installation of ML9.0 in some configuration file? mdk9 does not use UDMA5 by default. Your HD/BIOS initalise themselves to what they consider to be the fastest stable speed and setttings etc less /etc/sysconfig/harddisks You can override what mdk9 has in that file to change stuff, default is often very slow. What program in Mandrake 9.0 is responsible for this, or is it just the kernel that figures out what the highest UDMA setting is? man hdparm Also, IIRC, DataLifeGuard phones home and gives you warning if your drive is about to fail (and it works on non-WDs too). DataLifeGuard is just an utility on a floppy disk, or does it install a phone home program in Windows XP? As for the variance of speed, consider this... Ok, then I'll probably set it with hdparm to UDMA2. Hm, where is the -k1 option for hdparm written to? man hdparm doesn't talk about a configuration file. it doesnt, you have to have it in /etc/sysconfg/hardisks or somewhere like /etc/rc.d/rc.local etc a secondary cosmic ray is a significant noise source. Not much charge moves on those cables at the interface voltage in that time span. "secondary cosmic ray": didn't know it was that delicate, how are IDE-cables protected on the Space Station and what speed would they have? They dont use WD drives for sure :)) i bet they use extra CRC checks on all their comms too. You can download an ATA66 disable utility (windows compatible) for your WD. I think this utility is also on the DataLifeGuard floppy disk dlgudma.exe - Data Lifeguard Ultra ATA Management I'm not sure why are considering this program as it will never work on GNU/Linux or GNU/Wine. Something else I wonder: A lot of system files (e.g. /usr/bin/play) disappeared, they were cleared because of corruption (bad mode,deleted/unused inode,illegal character device,...). Did the corruption occur with these messages in syslog: "EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 294914" ? What do these messages mean? Did you install with a search for badblocks? e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX can do it for you now, make sure you are in single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] locales problem
I don't know why you have quotes, but anyway, is the output of "locale" any different? you could edit your ~.i18n file, that ":en" seems uncessary too check /etc/sysconfig/i18n too, might be something there. Unless this is because you "su" instead of "su -" (using a real login as root)? Cheers JG Steffen Barszus wrote: I have a problem with the locales of my user. In root all is fine.Can someone give me a hint on what is wrong ? ]$ echo $LANG de_DE [steffen@ernie SPECS]$ urpmi perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MONETARY = "en_US", LC_NUMERIC = "en_US", LC_MESSAGES = "en_US", LC_COLLATE = "en_US", LC_CTYPE = "en_US", LC_TIME = "en_US", LANG = "de_DE" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locales-de is installed, the $LANG value seems to be irrelevant, as I set de_DE per export LANG=... 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] Samba hide "." prefixed dirs?
Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Samba hide "." prefixed dirs?
Hi, Its a trivial question, but i cant find the answer, could someone tell me how to hide "." prefixed dirs in samba please? I remember seeing an option in "smb.conf" but I can see it in the mdk9 version. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hi, The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA. That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st listed en dictionary. Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB OK, I just tested. So, the correct myspell should be selected for install, this seems simple to me, select from the locale of the installer. What do you think Gwenole? Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hi Gwenole, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then configured automatically? This would save time for all users. Deps already exist. Global configuration is already performed. i.e. updates to dictionary.lst. Deps are broken for en_GB then, myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk is not installed my my 2 mdk9 systems, I installed with en_GB as my locale. So, I installed manually, but as there were still problems I tried to remove. # rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk error: removing these packages would break dependencies: myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk The removal dep is there. To be honest there should be no dep, but the dictionary it *should* be selected for install automatically as this is user friendly. The same for rpm -e myspell* etc, if someone is trying to remove it it should be allowed. Also, myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was installed on my system by default! I did not select any en_CA locales during install or after. I just removed all OO and myspell-*, trying to install OO again required the en_CA myspell dictionarys. So another dep is broken. myspell-en_JA-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was also required, as I said above I belive this should be selected for install, but not forced (i selected JA as second locale during install). OpenOffice.org-l10n-ca-1.0.1-9mdk was not reqired to reinstall, this is atleast correct. Again myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020315.4mdk was installed though. myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk was not selected for install by rpmdrake, I installed it manually after. I saw the rpm script that updated /usr/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst, but if the rpm is not installed it won't matter that it is updated correctly. Note that MySpell dictionaries are in /usr/share/dict/ooo/ so that our Mozilla can also see them. Still the dictionary needs to be switched on internally in OO, I do not know a work around for that one yet. What do you mean by "switched on internally in OOo"? The user will enable dictionaries *he* wants and those that are actually available. I can't force a default for a user especially for a dictionary it wouldn't want and also because the dictionary wouldn't exist. When OO is loaded it is neccessary to go to OO "Tools-> Options -> Language Settings -Writing Aids", select "OO MySpell SpellChecker", click edit and enable for "English(UK)". Also in OO the "Tools-> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages" I have to set Locale to English(UK) and Default language to English(UK). The later is required to be set for each new document, for some reason it is not saved; and the default is no western locale! These are minor configuration problems compared to the other issues, but would be very nice to have initalised with a sensible default, as MS-Word and etc has. If I install en_GB and I open en_GB OO documents, it is fair to assume I would like to check them with an en_GB dictionary. I think that is obvious. Hopefully you can answer some of these queries and improve the next version of mdk. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X: 2 mouses with different speeds?
KDE has some configure options for this. However, i have the same problem as you. kde scale 0-10 i think it was anything more than 1 was too quick. and it goes up in steps of 1 ! i've emailed them, but no reply JG Robert Goshko wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:55, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've modified XF86Config-4 in order for me to be able to use both integrated (it's a laptop) and usb mouses, and it now works. The problem is that the usb mouse moves too fast. How can I slow only the usb one? 8-? I have a similar config, but I have listed my USB mouse first in the XF86Config-4 file, I'm not sure if this would make a difference, but both mice are usable and I do not have any speed problems. Hope this helps. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" EndSection Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xawtv and UK tv channels
UK is PAL-M right? JG Lorne wrote: Make sure you have the right frequency table set. I think it may default to us-cable. There are like 11 different choices. Long shot here. :) On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:11 am, Roger Munoz wrote: Hi I've have installed a hauppauge wintv card on my mandrake 9.0 system. On install there were no problems encountered, but the problem is, when i a channel scan nothing comes back!. The card works fine in windoze and i can see all the UK channels in the London region. Is there any reason why i cant pick up channels from the London region (or any channel for that matter !) in mandrake? Roger London, ENGLAND 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] Mozilla Language packs??
IE exported charsets have not been a problem for me. make sure your fonts are installed in X etc. Btw, sugest your translator uses mozilla/composer in ms-windows, then at least your html files you get from him will be clean. I sugest you use UTF-8 for all your html files. Regards JG Jason Greenwood wrote: As a followup to my question, I have a question about translation done in MS word. We have a local translator who does website translation for us and they use MS Word with language support packs. The problem is, AFAIK this translation (once output to HTML by Word) is only viewable in IE with language support due to the proprietary nature of almost all MS shite. My question is, is there an OSS way of doing things?? Can I use OO or similar to create docs in other languages (then output them to html) that are cross browser compatible?? Is this possible or are my only options to use MS means and just expect people to use IE to view the docs in other languages?? The only other way I can see to do it is to take a screen shot from within Winblows and crop it and add the text as images to the docs. Then ALL browsers can see the images. I just wonder if there is not a better more oss friendly way to do things?? Besides, I don't want to have to use MS Word just to type text in other languages!! Thanks for any advice. Jason Jason Greenwood wrote: How do you install/download language packs for Mozilla?? I mean to DISPLAY pages created with different languages, not locals. If know there are language packs for Mozilla but these seem to change the language for all of Mozilla. I just want to be able to display text in other languages. For example, I remember way back when I used Winblows that if I visited a page I didn't have a language pack to display, IE would prompt to download the pack to display it. How does Moz handle it?? I went to a Korean site and it looks like gibberish (and not Korean gibberish either). Ideas?? Cheers Jason Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hello Gwenole, Thanks for the reply. Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then configured automatically? This would save time for all users. Still the dictionary needs to be switched on internally in OO, I do not know a work around for that one yet. Regards JG Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected during the install process I beleive. Dictionaries for OOo are in the MDK distribution. Look at myspell-* packages. Note packages are installed but not configured. This is up to the user to enable which dictionary to use. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution
Hi, The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected during the install process I beleive. Currently I have to setup OOodi to download and install english dictionarys, North american english is the only dictionary supplied with mdk. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Hi, Sounds like you are nearly there. How about adding a line to your fstab with auto as the fstype? Also dd if=/dev/sda of=dump; then take a look at the FS, maybe its not formated? or corrupted? try inserting a card before switching on the machine... Also try the adapter in another usb machine, and I assume you got other usb devices working on this machine? Also try another CF card incase thats the problem. if all else fails get a pccard adapter and access that way on a laptop, thats what I do. Regards JG Jason wrote: Hi all, Hope you can help. Now we're getting somewhere!! I unplugged the device AGAIN and rebooted. Went through the steps again and this time it created the devfs entry...but with errors in the log (/var/log/messages): Dec 30 11:27:17 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 2 Dec 30 11:27:17 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xd7d/0x240) is not claimed by any active driver. Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/240/100 Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.06 Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 30 11:27:21 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2097144 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2 Dec 30 11:27:26 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Weird is says medium not present since I had a SM card in the reader when I mounted it!! I had to do the sd_mod straight away or the usb would time out. Anyway, once I did this I tried to mount it: [root@localhost jason]# modprobe sd_mod [root@localhost jason]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/cf /dev/sda: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type So I tried several ways: [root@localhost jason]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/cf mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems [root@localhost jason]# mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/cf /dev/sda: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type [root@localhost jason]# I used vfat cause I know these crap readers use fat by default. Why can't I mount the bugger!!?!@#$%^ =) Cheers Jason J. Grant wrote: Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed. If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too. JG Jason wrote: Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I had a look in: |/proc/bus/usb/devices| and there is nothing in there, even after plugging in the device. This tells me that the kernel is not recognizing the device right?? If so, how do I rectify this?? This device is SUPPOSED to be supported under Linux so I just need a nudge in the right direction. Cheers Jason PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | 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] mldonkey, kazaa, emule
Hi, 2.0.3 kazaalite crashed like this for me, but 1.72 kazaalite works fine, i downloaded a default registry, ran the installer, got some windows shared libs and it worked. http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm http://www.kazaalite.com/ http://doa2.host.sk/ copy dll's in to windows/system /usr/bin/wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n ~/.wine/c/kazzalite/kazaa.exe Regards JG SainTiss wrote: Hi, could you tell me how you managed to get kazaa working? I installed it once, but it crashed after showing the kazaa window for about 1 second... Thanks Hans On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 23:26, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0
Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed. If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too. JG Jason wrote: Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I had a look in: |/proc/bus/usb/devices| and there is nothing in there, even after plugging in the device. This tells me that the kernel is not recognizing the device right?? If so, how do I rectify this?? This device is SUPPOSED to be supported under Linux so I just need a nudge in the right direction. Cheers Jason PS, since I've had no joy here, I'll cc it to the cooker list too. Thanks for the help all.| | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cron & smbtar
Hello Jack, Thank you for the infomative reply. Clearly you have considered this more than me, but surely this is what the special headers are for? List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is the users client that is broken if it does not support list replies correctly in this case. Because this reply-to is changed "reply all" does not work, and I have to manually add addresses. I agree that maybe mdk is making the best of the current bad situation, but if mdk changed the list policy, this would mean all the email clients got fixed to follow those darn RFC's! Which is how it should be. We did not end up where we are here by changing standards. Best regards JG Jack Coates wrote: This is a religion issue, really. I usually try to avoid those and live quietly with my choices, but this one bugs me because it causes either needlessly duplicated mail or replies to questions to be unpublished/unarchived. The RFCs for mailing lists and many MUA authors/contributors feel that mailing lists should not munge REPLY-TO because the end-user and MUA set it and no other authority should be able to override that desire. The administrators of and frequent contributors to mailing lists love reply-to munging because it prevents needless duplication of mail and helps to keep discussion threads in the mailing list, where they can be archived and publicly posted. On the one hand: pedantically correct behavior; on the other: rule-bending for the sake of practical usage. The pedantics will rightly point out that workarounds exist. In order to avoid seeing the needless duplication of email, simply have every user of the mailing list set up their own Unix mail server where they can install procmail and configure it to find and delete duplicated email. In order to make sure that everything is archived simply instruct all list users to always use reply-all, at which point another set of people is going to get upset because they're getting duplicate messages, at which point everyone else flames them for not have their own Unix mail server and procmail setup :-) The best solution? Removing reply-to functionality from MUAs is tempting but impractical; even though it is almost an anachronism in today's world of ubiquitous email services, those who rely on it do rely on it. Removing reply-to munging from MLM software would represent a pretty ugly choice for the reasons above. (Hmm, in light of the ongoing discussion of Mandrake's money problems, would they be happy about a two-fold increase in the amount of email traffic? I know I wouldn't be.) Changing the standard so that MLMs are allowed to munge reply-to but MTAs are still prohibited? Sounds reasonable to me, and no one has yet given me a valid reason not to (which doesn't mean that it doesn't exist). So in my opinion, it is not mdk's config which is broken, but rather the standard which they are rightly not adhering to; just as, in my original example, anyone who fully adheres to the IP RFC's subnet mask guidelines needs to have their head examined. Jack On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 17:51, J. Grant wrote: is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you don't see people doing _that_ little bit of insanity do you?) On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all , I have asked this question on the newbie list, but have had no luck so far The script below works ok from the command line but when I run it as a cron job, it starts ok, but stops after backing up a few directories. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? is it a bug with cron? btw, I'm using mdk9 and the files being backed up are on an nt server, but have had the same problem backing up an xp box. I had the same problem with drakebackup, tar and cp #!/bin/sh smbtar -s elendil -t /dev/st0 -x "stuff1" -v -i -X System\ Volume\ Information mt -f /dev/st0 offline usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab (#vi /etc/crontab) then make sure root can run it from command line. Another possibility is that the network is fine when you're debugging, but congested by other traffic when your cron job runs. Try doing something less sensitive to network issues, like rsync'ing to a temp directory a couple of times, then tar'ing that temp directory to the tape. -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:00pm up 8 days, 3:46, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 No
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
2.27 €, but they are selling for 2.2 to us :) anyway i emailed them, they replied asking for my name, that was the last I have heard. perhaps the amount I wanted was not enough, but then asking users for support is never going to generate 300K €. JG Mcleod, Ian wrote: What are the Mandrake shares looking like right now? And why is Mandrake so disinterested in raising revenue out of Europe and North America. I swear I have emailed Mandrake 15 times asking how I can pay for a club membership - not ONE reply!! I am beginning to suspect that Mandrake is not too fussed about their financial health.. Shame really - I really like Mandrake! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] cron & smbtar
is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you don't see people doing _that_ little bit of insanity do you?) On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 01:55, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all , I have asked this question on the newbie list, but have had no luck so far The script below works ok from the command line but when I run it as a cron job, it starts ok, but stops after backing up a few directories. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? is it a bug with cron? btw, I'm using mdk9 and the files being backed up are on an nt server, but have had the same problem backing up an xp box. I had the same problem with drakebackup, tar and cp #!/bin/sh smbtar -s elendil -t /dev/st0 -x "stuff1" -v -i -X System\ Volume\ Information mt -f /dev/st0 offline usually this sort of error is due to differing environment or permissions. If it's a user's crontab ($crontab -e) then you need to su to that user and debug from there. If it's root's crontab (#vi /etc/crontab) then make sure root can run it from command line. Another possibility is that the network is fine when you're debugging, but congested by other traffic when your cron job runs. Try doing something less sensitive to network issues, like rsync'ing to a temp directory a couple of times, then tar'ing that temp directory to the tape. -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:00pm up 8 days, 3:46, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you. ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ 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] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
Hi Vincent, And I thank you for that, James. The issue at this instant in time, if we could freeze on today, is not new users; it's existing users that aren't doing their part (freeloaders if you will). Mandrake Linux is perhaps one of the most popular Linux distributions out there, but you'd never know it in terms of money. One of out greatest strengths and, inevitably, our greatest weaknesses, is allowing the entire distro to be downloaded for nothing. Don't tell me that people out there don't take advantage of this and continue to download ISOs and use Mandrake all over the place without contributing a dime. These are the same people who will whine and complain if Mandrake ceases to exist, or who currently scream and yell if something doesn't work to their liking. I don't know. Maybe we need to go with SuSE's model and allow a one ISO demo a few months after release to prevent people from doing this. Then again, who wants to see Mandrake become another SuSE? I think the fact that Mandrake does this is, again, it's greatest strength and I'd hate to see that change as I think it would change the entire philosophy of the company. So is that really an option? I hope not. I noticed this issue, it is confounded by the fact that mdkstore releases are upto 1 month after the free (as in beer) downloads that I often have to take (even though i have an order in the post). Others might just not bother with the purchase of a box set if they download it, i've downloaded ISO's for several releases. If mdk can either speed up the release of cds in the shop or delay the ISO download release they can make 20% more cash I am sure. Please pass on my ideas Regards and happy new year JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
No one has mentioned the share option yet, I'm taking this up, its less than market value and you might even get your money back. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install
Hi, It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968 specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf) David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :) JG J. Grant wrote: Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows: Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001 ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7 maestro: subvendor id: 0x001114c0 maestro: not attempting power management. maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf maestro: 1 channels configured. maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001 From the bootup ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running. Setting mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer [FAILED] /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 maestro $ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd snd-es1968 14316 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-es1968] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-es1968] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-es1968] snd24804 0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] $ ll /dev/sound total 0 crw---1 now3droot 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw---1 now3droot 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access permissions. I did the following before starting X/KDE [root@np850 root]# service alsa restart Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [ OK ] [root@np850 root]# service sound restart Loading sound module (maestro) [ OK ] Loading mixer settings [ OK ] it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway, sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been. David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees! So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working etc, i ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as before, and its now playing at normal speed again! "There's a star man waiting in the sky..." So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas? My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1. Best regards JG 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] problem with sound on mkd9 install
Hi, It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968 specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf) David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :) JG J. Grant wrote: Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows: Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001 ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7 maestro: subvendor id: 0x001114c0 maestro: not attempting power management. maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf maestro: 1 channels configured. maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001 From the bootup ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running. Setting mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer [FAILED] /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 maestro $ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd snd-es1968 14316 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-es1968] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-es1968] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-es1968] snd24804 0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] $ ll /dev/sound total 0 crw---1 now3droot 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw---1 now3droot 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access permissions. I did the following before starting X/KDE [root@np850 root]# service alsa restart Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [ OK ] [root@np850 root]# service sound restart Loading sound module (maestro) [ OK ] Loading mixer settings [ OK ] it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway, sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been. David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees! So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working etc, i ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as before, and its now playing at normal speed again! "There's a star man waiting in the sky..." So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas? My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1. Best regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install
Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows: Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001 ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7 maestro: subvendor id: 0x001114c0 maestro: not attempting power management. maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf maestro: 1 channels configured. maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001 From the bootup ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running. Setting mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer [FAILED] /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 maestro $ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd snd-es1968 14316 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-es1968] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-es1968] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-es1968] snd24804 0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] $ ll /dev/sound total 0 crw---1 now3droot 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw---1 now3droot 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access permissions. I did the following before starting X/KDE [root@np850 root]# service alsa restart Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [ OK ] [root@np850 root]# service sound restart Loading sound module (maestro) [ OK ] Loading mixer settings [ OK ] it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway, sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been. David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees! So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working etc, i ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as before, and its now playing at normal speed again! "There's a star man waiting in the sky..." So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas? My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1. Best regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question
there is a pdf on linuxsecurity.com that lists all this and more Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "man /etc/hosts.allow" should give you everything you need Err...all that does is display my current hosts.allow file in man format. A simple "man hosts.allow" produces the message that there is no such manpage. praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+Ahq3mkm5RO1gX9cRAmD/AJ90b8ZpMTHKkL8rjv5W8uq4zK9u/QCfaZwq QTc9EfIaNkHKaEdMpohersM= =n7S3 -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] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
The WD saga contintues, I have an 80GB drive that runs at far from optimium speeds. WD are adament that their drives are great, shame my WD certainly is not. JG Original Message > Subject: WD hard drive does not follow correct CRC checking procedure, > thus is incompatible with GNU/Linux [Incident: 021217-46] > Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:56:53 -0800 (PST) > From: Western Digital Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Western Digital Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear J., > > Below is a response to your recent question. If the response provided > does not answer your question, you can either reply to this message or > go to the link below. > > We will assume your issue has been resolved if we do not hear from you > within 96 hours. > > > To reply to this message, first click your email �Reply� button. You > must INSERT YOUR TEXT BETWEEN the lines indicated below. > [===> Please enter your reply below this line <===] > > [===> Please enter your reply above this line <===] > > > http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/acct_login.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&p_next_page=myq_upd.php&p_refno=021217-46&p_created=1040134005 > > > You may also update your question by using the link below. The link > will take you to MyStuff.MyStuff is a service where you can check and > update the status of the > questions you submitted to > us.http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/acct_login.php?[EMAIL PROTECTED]=myq_upd.php&p_refno=021217-46&p_created=1040134005 > > > Jason > Western Digital Customer Service and Support > > Summary - Brief Description (100 chars max) > --- > WD hard drive does not follow correct CRC checking procedure, thus is > incompatible with GNU/Linux > > > Discussion Thread > --- > Response (Jason) - 12/17/2002 11:56 AM > Our ATA is fully in compliance with set standards. Many users including > corporations use our drives in their systems and servers. Please > understand that we cannot provide you with technical support for the > install of Linux in any way. > > Customer (J. Grant) - 12/17/2002 11:52 AM > Civilme: I have CC'd you as Jason is sure that WD drives work fine with > GNU/Linux and do not in fact have CRC problems. Could you offer some > insight on the problem I am having with my WD800BB-00CAA1 80GB HD > > > Thank you for the reply. > > However I do not think your reply is correct. Please see the message > below from one of the linux lists. Also below is the output from hdparm, > it clearly states that the WD drive does not follow the standars as it > doe not even report it correctly! > > Please contact another member if your technical team and pose the > question about the CRC > > > Regards > > JG > > --- > > # hdparm -i /dev/hde > > /dev/hde: > >Model=WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, FwRev=17.07W17, SerialNo=WD-WMA8E3405796 >Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs > FmtGapReq } >RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 >BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 >CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488 >IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} >PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 >DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 >UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 >AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled >Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5 > > > > > > > linux-elitists] Your mother uses Western Digital > Don Marti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:44:58 -0800 rfc822 > mailmethis > Not that anyone on this list would buy such crap, but who knows > what people will drag to an installfest. > > This is from a recent linux-kernel discussion. Quoting Andre Hedrick, > Linux ATA developer: > > WDC drives blow off the CRC check of UDMA.This is BAD and STUPID. > Several of the OEM chipset makers have allowed this crap to exist. > ATA-2 (style) can not handle ATA-3/4 transfer rates without the CRC > checks, you end up continuing the DMA writing regardless if you lost data > that would have been saved if the UDMA CRC was intact. > > This is a pure hardware issue... > > http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0001_05/msg00211.html > > Response (Jason) - 12/17/2002 10:45 AM > Many users use our drives with Linux and are able to install with no > issues. If you are having issues with installation then please contact &g
Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root
This is from my desktop, i disabled supermount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 from my other machine with supermount none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,user 0 0 Both can only be unmounted by root normlaly. Occasionally the fomer lets me unmount as a normal user i think. I just changed to "users" so that any user can unmount, and it works! I guess its because the fs was mounted by root at startup Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:44, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said "you need to be root to unmount" perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat. How about you post the line in your /etc/fstab file? Then we can compare it to mine or someone else's and see if there is a difference. Here's mine: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
Hi, What is the WD email support address please? their site is terrible Regqards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root
Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said "you need to be root to unmount" perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat. Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote: Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Here are the relevant permissions on /usr/bin/smb* (RedHat 8.0, remember): -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 548K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbmnt -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 558K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbmount -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 547K Nov 20 11:18 /usr/bin/smbumount Notice that smbmount does not have the setuid ("sticky") bit set, because it really just calls smbmnt anyway. The only one I have to change was smbumount, the others were already set. Now, here are my /bin/mount and /bin/umount perms: -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 80K Aug 30 15:00 /bin/mount -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 40K Aug 30 15:00 /bin/umount Neither of these have been changed from their defaults. Notice that root is both owner/user and group, as I assume they are on your Mandrake system. But with the sticky bit set (the 'chmod +s' trick), this causes the program to run with the permissions of the owner and/or group, whichever bit is set. So a user can run these programs, but the program actually runs with root authority, not just the user's authority. That's why I said this isn't a secure solution, but it works on my single-user laptop. If, after trying 'chmod +s umount', you still can't use umount -- well, I guess I really don't know why. Do you get any specific error messages, like maybe the command 'umount' is not found? Perhaps it simply isn't in your $PATH, but it is in root's $PATH. The error I originally got indicated that only root had permission to smbumount network filesystems. Thus, I fixed it by making it setuid root. Dave Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have "user" in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? I ran into a similar problem with RedHat 8.0 and Samba (couldn't unmount a share as a user, even though I had mounted the share as the same user), my solution was to (as root): # chmod +s /usr/bin/smbumount I would think your solution would be to check /bin/mount and /bin/umount, and try the same thing on umount. This is not a secure solution, but it works on my (single-user) laptop. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root
Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have "user" in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? I ran into a similar problem with RedHat 8.0 and Samba (couldn't unmount a share as a user, even though I had mounted the share as the same user), my solution was to (as root): # chmod +s /usr/bin/smbumount I would think your solution would be to check /bin/mount and /bin/umount, and try the same thing on umount. This is not a secure solution, but it works on my (single-user) laptop. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity
Hi, Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD drive in it! as they don't follow the standards or support their drives under free software OS's. This is why you dont want WD, email them and tell them this as well. I've got an 80GB drive running about twice as fast as a floppy disk.. (well nearly ;))) JG # hdparm -i /dev/hde /dev/hde: Model=WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, FwRev=17.07W17, SerialNo=WD-WMA8E3405796 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=156301488 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version: 1 2 3 4 5 James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather strict checking and WD doesn't so WD drives can be problematic. James On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 06:28, Lorne wrote: Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector Journal-601, buffer write failed Kernel BUG at prints.c:334! invalid operand: cpu 0 Then a dump. I've taken a photo of it if the actual text is helpful. I've done some reading that WD drives don't work well with Linux? Anybody have any light to shed? 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] Kazaa for linux
Hi, So these programs are good now? limeware was poor last time i tried, and the gnutella was nearly as bad. I got Kazaa 1.72 working, 2.02 would not work. I start it like this "wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n zazaa.exe" if that is useful for anyone. JG Todd Franklin wrote: Please take no offense, but why do you need kazaa for linux when you have gtk-gnutelk, qtella, limeware, etc. ? SainTiss wrote: Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc, but kazaa crashes at startup... it shows the window for a few seconds, but then I get "uncaught exception"... Any ideas? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux
Hi, I have not got it working yet, here are the URL's I'm reading, it seems posible. JG http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 SainTiss wrote: Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc, but kazaa crashes at startup... it shows the window for a few seconds, but then I get "uncaught exception"... Any ideas? Thanks Hans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kazaa for linux
Hi, I downloaded kazaa for linux a few weeks ago. needed to install an old ncurses to get it to run, but it is not ever connecting. Support seems to be missing from the kazaa.com site as well now. Has anyone got this working? or found a better working p2p network client for GNU/linux? Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root
Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have "user" in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? Regards JG $ umount /mnt/cdrom umount: only root can unmount /dev/scd0 from /mnt/cdrom $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/hde2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hde1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 #/dev/hdh1 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults,user,auto 1 2 /dev/hdg1 /mnt/backup2 ext3 defaults,user,auto 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hde3 swap swap defaults 0 0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xine dvd playing
Hi, I have this working now. However I'm considering buying a PPC PowerBook. Do DivX plugins work with PPC if they are using wine? Or does anyone know if there are native versions? Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 03 December 2002 23:16, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Although mdk9 includes xine, I still have to install the encrypted dvd decoder. I had this working in 8.1 but it is not going well atm. As xine is installed already I added the following: libdvdread2-devel-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2mdk I built libdvdnav from source as it was not availble as rpm (for all my looking). I've tried to build xine-dvdnav from source as well, but it says xine-config file is not found, i could not avoid this ./configure problem. I've checked the penguin liberation front which normally contains these contentius rpms. http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.0/i586/ I also checked http://dvd.sourceforge.net/ Add contrib to your sources: Output here : # urpmi xine-dvdnav Um die Abhängigkeiten zu erfüllen, werden die folgenden Pakete installiert (0 MB): libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk.i586 xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk.i586 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] Java
about:plugins in mozilla will tell u all u need JG Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: # rpm -qa | grep ava # OK, what's the secret code to find out what java version is installed? -- "If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . ." Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Look for jre or jdk 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] second mouse ?
Myabe define 2 different layouts, thats the way i do it on my laptop (still not tested on mdk9) This should work, providing both of your mice at working separatly. The "SendCoreEvents" will mean you have "interference" eg on a laptop knocking the touch pad will mean your cursor might get moved while typing and knocking the pad. Regards JG Section "InputDevice" Identifier "mouse2" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #Option "ChordMiddle" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "2" Screen "screen1" InputDevice "mouse2" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "1" Screen "screen1" InputDevice "mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection mycal62 wrote: I used the info below to get my usb mouse working in Mdk 8.2 : The following lines in my XF86Config-4 file allowed me to use both a USB mouse and the mousepad in my laptop with mandrake 8.2. However it doesn't work in mandrake 9, only the usb mouse works. I believe you > >need to add a line to your "Server Layout" section. You will already > >have a line for "Mouse1", just add a line for "Mouse2" and use the > >"SendCoreEvents" as below. > > > > > >Section "ServerLayout" > >Identifier "layout1" > >InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > >InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" > >InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" > >Screen "screen1" > >EndSection > > > >This will have Mouse2 just send it's events to Mouse1, and let both of > >them work. > > > >Jim F > > > >On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 06:33, Bruno Maggi wrote: > >> Hi, > >> The following lines in my XF86Config-4 file allowed me > >> to use both a USB mouse and the mousepad in my laptop > >> with mandrake 8.2. > >> However it doesn't work in mandrake 9, only the usb > >> mouse works. Anybody has had the same problem? > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> > >> Identifier "Mouse1" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" > >> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > >> > >> # Option "Emulate3Buttons" > >> # Option "Emulate3Timeout""50" > >> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button > >> Logitech mice > >> # Option "ChordMiddle" > >> > >> EndSection > >> > >> > >> Section "InputDevice" > >> > >> Identifier "Mouse2" > >> Driver "mouse" > >> Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > >> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > >> Option "Emulate3Buttons" > >> Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" > >> > >> # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button > >> Logitech mice > >> # Option "ChordMiddle" > >> > >> EndSection > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jason Greenwood wrote: I wrote to the list yesterday with a similar problem with no response... =( rodrigo wrote: Dear Experts... I have been trying to install a second mouse in my laptop It comes with a touch-pad-mouse, and I like a second one (usb-mouse...), but tools like "mousedrake", Harddrake2, ... found just one of them ... Can I have both mouses working at the same time ? Not sure if this will help, but you can try :) http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/mouse.htm 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] Hangul (Korean) character entry
have you used drakeprofile to change the setup? JG Jones,Daniel E. wrote: I am trying to set up my Linux KDE system to accept input of Hangul (Korean) characters. The motivation is to have a separate account for my Korean-born wife. Since I do not read Korean very well, my account has to continue to work in English. I have no problem getting the desktop and key applications to _display_ Hangul. But all my attempts to get the X Input method (ami) to work for her account have failed. Specifics of configuration: Linux Mandrake 9.0 KDE v3.03 TIA D. Jones 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] xine dvd playing
Hi, Well I have it working now, i just click on the d5d button on the GUI, DVD button still does not work, i guess thats just the inbuilt code etc. thanks for the info JG Steffen Barszus wrote: input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code. Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL xine_stop Oh didn't read that :)) Try xine-d5d (plf) 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] xine dvd playing
Hi, I have it working using xine-d5d now, so i just click on the d5d button instead of the DVD one to play dvds. Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code. Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL xine_stop Oh didn't read that :)) Try xine-d5d (plf) 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] xine dvd playing
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 03 December 2002 23:16, J. Grant wrote: Add contrib to your sources: Output here : # urpmi xine-dvdnav Um die Abhängigkeiten zu erfüllen, werden die folgenden Pakete installiert (0 MB): libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk.i586 xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk.i586 I have installed it now. Unfortunatly I still get the same error message # rpm -qa |grep dvd libdvdread2-devel-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk xine-dvdnav-0.9.13-1mdk libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2mdk xineplug_inp_dvdnav.so is in /usr/lib/plugins Is there anything else I need to do? Regards JG input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code. Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. input_dvd: Unable to find >VIDEO_TS.VOB< on dvd. xine: cannot find input plugin for this MRL xine_stop Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] xine dvd playing
Hi, Although mdk9 includes xine, I still have to install the encrypted dvd decoder. I had this working in 8.1 but it is not going well atm. As xine is installed already I added the following: libdvdread2-devel-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2mdk I built libdvdnav from source as it was not availble as rpm (for all my looking). I've tried to build xine-dvdnav from source as well, but it says xine-config file is not found, i could not avoid this ./configure problem. I've checked the penguin liberation front which normally contains these contentius rpms. http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.0/i586/ I also checked http://dvd.sourceforge.net/ -- input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such code. Please check http://dvd.sf.net for more information. -- So, if anyone has a tip i'd welcome it. VCD's play fine, but I like DVDs ;) Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVdriver problem w/ recompiled kernel
Perhaps you should (if you did not already) make clean; make dep; in your kernel dir (with new sym link to /usr/src/linux) before compiling the nvidia src's JG Jorris Graad wrote: I've installed NVdriver successfully on mandrake's origin kernel. I used the tar.gz files. Then I compiled the new 2.4.20 kernel and starting xwindow but the window couldn't be displayed. I used "make install" to install the NVdriver but the result was error 1. like these: ld -r -o NVdriver Module-linux Module-nvkernel size NVdriver text data bss dec hex filename 894203 55476 52396 1002075 f4a5b NVdriver depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver make: *** [package-install] Error 1 Then, I tried "make SYSINCLUDE=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include" just like what is written in the README file, but the result was same with above. Can anyone help me.? thanks Ivo. _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus 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] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!
Just use smoothwall.org its great, even if the developers are cocky and not arogant :) JG Jim C wrote: Why not suggest it? Surely they must have a means of getting input from thier users and if they don't have a suggestion box perhaps they should get one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0
Why not use cups? perhaps your config has defaulted to another paper size than A4 for some reason. JG Jim C wrote: I also have a printin problem. An issue I've been trying to cope with since I got my first Linux distro. Every time I try to print it prints to high on the page. I loose enough that if I print from Netscape or Mozilla the top line that tells you what the URL of the printed page was is completely unreadable. Frequently for research prurposes I do actaully need this information. How can I fix this? There has to be away to set the printable area in Linux. rob wrote: Greetings all, Actually this has been plagueing me since 8.2 but continues in 9.0. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? "bad printcap name 'HP DeskJet970C', has '' character" Here is my /etc/printcap file Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....
Hi, Is there a way to split tar.gz archives in this way? I would like to find an eqivelent of winrar so i can split backups into 730,000,000 byte files. Regards JG Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi, read about -L option in 'man tar'. So you can create several files (<2Gb). I hope that's help. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Ken Walker wrote: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0
Hi, I'm looking for the ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0. I checked the mdk hardware db http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 but it does not seem to have a section for web cams. (would not let me search the whole catagory too for some reason) Could anyone recommend a good one, I am thinking of USB VGA or half VGA resolution quality for around 50€ or less. I have found one USB Flexicam, go to http://www.maplin.co.uk/ and search for product A01AL. Their URL's do not work for some reason. There is not info on supported architectures. Is it common for USB web cam's to use one chipset or standard commonly? Advice welcome Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is UTF-8 i18n working in cooker?
Hi everyone, I have changed all my locale, kde and email settings to UTF-8 as I do some internationalisation work. However there are some things that still do not work quite correctly. man pages and KWrite corrupts sometimes. gcc − GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [�c│�S│�E] [�std=standard] [�g] [�pg] [�Olevel] [�Wwarn...] [�pedantic] [�Idir...] [�Ldir...] [�Dmacro[=defn]...] [�Umacro] [�foption...] [�mmachine�[24moption...] [�o outfile] infile... Does anyone know if this is working well in cooker? I have tried changing /etc/man.config, but really its guess work as I'm not sure where man determines the charset from. in /usr/share/man there is only formated copy of the man pages in english, so in this case I think man should be conifgured to convert those iso-8859-15 files (or whatever they are) to UTF-8 for the shell. The work around is to type LC_CTYPE=en_GB before running man, this is not an ideal solution. If Mandrake can get this perfect I think it is a big selling point. Regards JG $ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] crossover plugin
Is the crossover site with all its docs and FAQs down? JG villoing wrote: Hello! I have two problems resulting from the installation of the crossover plugin. 1) I've installede crossover as root and the windows plugins only run if I launch mozilla as root. How can cahnge that to be able to use the pluqins as a simple user ? 2) I'm unable to run the media player plugin. I've tried it on www.fabchannel.com and when I launch the video streaming, the apllication shut down. Has somebody the same problem and a solution ? Best regards. 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] w2k shutdown from mdk
Hi, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastien Routier wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0500 : I am curious as well about your reason(s), but I can see three things that could annoy me: - It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side either X or frame-buffer. - It requires a mouse on the UNIX side. And cygwin gets rid of all three requirements, hence cygwin really is the desired solution. Do you mean with ssh? Is the cygwin ssh integration with the windows passwd file? JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk
just ssh in and shutdown, cygwin has both, or u could install one of the hundreads of trojans that have this feature for windows :) JG ps its not polite eticate to have such a large signature Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0 (needs to be a clean shutdown). Thanks, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Rippers for Real Audio streams?
run the realplayer thu a proxy configured to only use http port 80, nab the url and download it with wget JG Aristotle wrote: Anyone know how to save Real Audio streams to disk? On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 16:33, Marek wrote: Hi Has anyone got RealOne to work on Mandrake Release 9 ? I think i made the error of not uninstalling Real 8 first. Which dir should it go into ? It does not seem to link like the Real 8 rpm does. -- Marek __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ 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] system can not shut down the display manager - ML9.0
Is it not possible to just ssh login? I've recovered from most X probs with this, then execute reboot as r00t and your away. JG Brandon Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get this too, but only internittently, maybe one out of 20 shutdowns the shutdown process will hang on shutting down dm. Have to do a hard power down if it hangs. On Sunday 10 November 2002 18:29, Andreas Weiss wrote: hi i always get a "shutting down dm --> failed" when i reboot/halt my computer. when i do CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE for restarting X the monitor powers off. i've tried to start linux with the "noapic" option, the same errors. does anybody know what the problem could be? System: IBM compatible PC (AMD cpu) videocard: Kyro series (with the latest original driver) regards and thanks in advance, andreas - -- Brandon Long Northern Michigan Online [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg key at www.keyserver.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE90BIEmPa72av99QgRAszTAKCGYRIutKDtm7bVpG7aDdcLz4v7XACdHi31 UmouFkBILlLHZea5iFFZvsc= =w2tr -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] Turning off all power management... (was system resouceproblem)
try this too Option "DPMS" "off" or APM off in XF86Config-4 man XF86Config for more info JG . wrote: use chkconfig to keep /etc/init.d/apmd from running at boot up. Turn off all your power management in the BIOS too. Franki wrote: Hi guys, I think I have isolated the problem when I updated the kernel in 8.2... I'm having the same prob in mdk9.0 it seems that after a certain period of time, linux is going into some type of power management feature.. it gets slow, but if you go over and hit the keyboard it comes back.. I am guessing I have to disable some apm feature.. after all, a server shouldnt' be doing that.. anyone have any tips for where to start??? rgds Frank 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] Hardware ide raid question
Why not just look in the linux kernel config? JG aginies wrote: The ide raid controler is Promise 20276 and it seems it does not work under Linux. try to look here: http://www.gigabyte.co.jp/support/d_other.htm its seems that there is beta driver and utlity for promise 20276. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition
well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I know the answer to this, but is it possible to un-format a fat partition (formatted from diskdrake)? To set the scene: My windows partition trashed itself. I had a complete backup of it on another partition. So I decided to format the bad partition and copy on everything from the backup. Unfortunately (stupidly!), I somehow managed to format the wrong one... I haven't touched the newly formated partition since. Brian Schroeder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: > I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. > The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to > compile yet. > > Barry > > > > > > > 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] Send AOL IM from the console?
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to compile yet. Barry 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