Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs volumes remotely? Many thanks Eduardo Eduardo, if you search in the ´Mandrake 9.x´ and ´Mandrake other´ areas on pbone: http://rpm.pbone.net/ there will be a couple of 2.4.22 kernels in contrib and cooker which have the hfsplus module built in. Thereafter, you should be able to specify a filesystem type in a regular mount command. Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty promising (that said, I´d be reading the doco to check before entrusting critical data ) (replying to own post here -- first signs of geek-senility...) OK, I´ve installed hfsplusutils-1.0.4-4.i386.rpm (src.rpm wouldn´t rebuild on my system, didn´t want to muck around), and ...it works!! took a Mac OSX-partitioned firewire drive, plugged it in to Linux i386 box, checked dmesg to find device (/dev/sda), and [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpmount -r -p3 /dev/sda (read-only, partition 3) then [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpls Apps ATOG Macintosh HD_asr.dmg Backup_bootie.sparseimage BBEdit User Manual (HTML) BBEditUserManual_HTML.sit.bin Build additions Carbon Copy Cloner Citrix ICA Client client_50540.sit etc... [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpcopy -r Picture\ 1.pdf /home/john/ (raw data copy) gives a readable pdf Finally [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]$ hpumount Now, I guess I´d like it to mount somewhere tangible, rather than virtual, but all in all, I´m impressed. It mounted the first partition (which is MacOSX Server), the second (MacOSX Client), and the third (MacOSX data drive) flawlessly. Even if the documentation is a bit nonexistent, it´s certainly quicker than ftp... -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs volumes remotely? Many thanks Eduardo Eduardo, if you search in the ´Mandrake 9.x´ and ´Mandrake other´ areas on pbone: http://rpm.pbone.net/ there will be a couple of 2.4.22 kernels in contrib and cooker which have the hfsplus module built in. Thereafter, you should be able to specify a filesystem type in a regular mount command. Alternately, there are packages/source at ftp.penguinppc.org/users/hasi, called hfsplusutils, which support read-only access, and looks pretty promising (that said, I´d be reading the doco to check before entrusting critical data ) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] !!! Install problems on compaq server!!!
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:10 pm, Terje Heen wrote: Thanks for the info James. I will try some more when I come home from work Terje.. James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 00:16, Terje Heen wrote: Hi there all. (I did not get any avswer on the newbie list, so I hope that you all forgive me that I'm trying on this list) I am a totally newbie folks, and I have tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on a old compac Pentium server (Prosignia 500) with 160 Mb ram. The problem is that Mandrake only detects 16Mb of ram for some reason all thou the system counts 160Mb on POST. The memory consists of 16 Mb onboard (soldered directly to the main board) and 72 pins simm for the rest. I have tried the option by hitting F1 during startup and write linux mem=160M but after some seconds Mandrake replies: Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs on 01:03, and there it hangs I hope there are someone who can help me with an advice what to do.. In advance, thanks Terje, Well since it's a compaq using it as a target at a shooting range is an option (*grin*) I just spent 2 day and someone else spent 4 more getting any os (ended up with RH9) on a Proliant server. Seems that Compaq likes to or liked neuter the BIOS on a lot of their boxes. Looks around to glare at the two silent HP Netservers, and one Compaq 3000 which does run Linux [lotsa SNIP] http://www.cpqlinux.com/memory.html - look down the bottom of the page You might also check if you can find a SmartStart CD for your machine, and prep it for Linux (long shot, as this is usually more concerned with arrays and partitions , in my experience) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] eud2mbox.pl doesn't like spaces in filenames?
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:26 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I'm converting my mail archive from .mbx (Eudora windows) to mbox (to use with KMail and maybe one day Mutt with a GUI...) and I decided to use a script to save time (there are many folders and many files for folder). [SNIPPY] Not meaning to demean your efforts, but there is a set of scripts already available to convert Eudora to kmail. http://eudora2unix.sourceforge.net/ BTW this information was gleaned from the tools page of http://kmail.kde.org/ where some extremely useful info/links is available for kmail users hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Laptop NFS
I´ve just set up my file server to do NFS to make life easier in keeping track of data (I use Linux/windows, Mac laptop boxes all together at home), and I have one last point where there seem to be conflicting views: The server is not always available (have to shut it down at night or nobody gets much sleep!!), and the laptop is obviously not always connected to the server. The NFS Howto seems to be extremely clear on using rw,hard,intr0 0 as options in /etc/fstab But others on this list have mooted that soft mounts might be better in my situation If anybody could point out the advantages and drawbacks of either, I´d be most grateful. Also, are there any issues with using the XFS file system and NFS together? cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31 am, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only displays the KDE gear icon. If I click on it, it would say the serivce not found. (e.g., Could not finnd service Terminal/kconsle.desktop). Would someone please tell me how to recover the settings? That sounds strange, I have lost the /home icon use in Red Hat in panel, menu and on the desktop and could only get it through the run command in the menu and type /home to have it come up. But everything showed that it was right in kmenuedit. You could try that. You might try Menudrake as well, they might still be there? Strange indeed. I tried kmenuedit and menudrake in the console. kmenuedit does show any entries. But menudrake has the regular application groups and shortcuts showing on the left pane. So it is safe to add them to the system menu again? I'm doing cautiously as this is my working file server 8( Please advise. Regards, Norman .Nothing strange to me !!! I went through 3 months of constantly losing the Apps menu, and fixing it, until I found the culprit - or at least enough of the culprits to fix the issue. Quick fix: log out of Xwindows cd ~ mv .kde kdestuffed (or whatever epiphet feels good!) startx You will then have a generic, first time log in again Now log out of Xwindows and start copying stuff selectively from the old kdestuffed to the newly created .kde. Stuff you most probably want lives in the share folder, and its subfolders including the kmail resources ad configs, knode, etc etc. Remember to copy the resources and configs, so that if the thing goes belly up again, you can just erase the whole .kde folder and start again. In my case, I was using xscreensaver as my screensaver (duh!) by disabling the inbuilt kde saver, (cause the random module never worked for me) by making a link in the .kde/Autostart directory. Once I had recreated all my kde settings and left this out, all is well with the menus again!! hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpm database corruption -severe
on installing the latest kernel n my laptop, there were various errors pertaining to lines in the rpm database No problema, just remove the __db* files, the rpmrebuildpid number and rebuild again, thought I ... now the whole thing segfaults OK, go to rpm.org, http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ and follow the more advanced rebuild process near the end (first install db4-utils, though) now the final instruction reads (in part) as follows: (with comments in brackets) Verify integrity with cd /var/lib/rpm db_verify Packages (command ran successfully - errors found) If there are any errors, repair by doing mv Packages Packages-ORIG (yup!) /usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ /usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages (now, I don´t get the command here) = What is the final command above? Why the \ just after the pipe? Any hints here? cheers from a very sad-looking laptop (with all my invoicing waiting on it!) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.25mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Realtek 8139
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming from. http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html This may or may not help. I know my experience with the '8139too' left a nasty taste. ... the link on the site to the SRPM´s is bogus, and the compilation of the module by hand from his source is a bit obscure. So for the record, here is how I finally managed to compile for a non-cardbus card (all on one line): gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h and for the pci-scan module: cc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c pci-scan.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h Now the insmod on the pci-scan works, but fails on the rtl8139.o ...any thoughts? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] reading dvd (again)
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:19, dfox wrote: followup of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 uh, er, yeah, that was going to be number 4... or, in devfs land... /dev/dvd - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling k3b-0.9-1 source
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:55 pm, R N dev wrote: Hi has anyone compiled this k3b-0.9-1mdk.src.rpm cooker? I found some errors into spec file, i had to change 0.8-i18n in i18n-0.9 but it does not work yet. It seems to loose something like buildroot/usr/lib/menus. Am I the only one? Any suggestion? Angelo texstar has 0.9-1 on his mirrors (you can use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php for easy urpmi config) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex outputfile.txt Do you need the cat? Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this work: grep regex file outputfile.txt One less action to get in the way. or is there a text editor which could handle that size (I have 512-meg RAM, and I know some editors try to load the whole thing into memory first) Then the real crunch: The following is the expression which is given on a website to do exactly what I need: [^\received: from .*\r and the second, [^\t].*\rReceived: from .*\r but they both appear to have syntax errors!!! What are the exact strings that you are looking for? It may be a little bit easier to determine what characters you need in your search pattern if we knew that. [SNIPPY] Thanks for that, Brant. Let me state as exactly as possible what I am trying to do: The file in question is a corrupt Microsoft Entourage message file. It is 1.8Gig in size (approx). I need to step through it and convert it to an mbox format file, by searching for patterns such as : received: from name Received: from name and replace these with: From name also, some messages start with From: Return Path: Then I need to get rid of garbage stuff between messages (odd characters, number strings etc.. Then save the whole thing out as a text file I´d prefer to use a GUI text editor if possible, as it looks as if I´ll still have to screen out some additional gumph manually according to the author. Just for completeness, here is the URL of what I am trying to do: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/database.html, under Database Woes section Thanks for any help you may be able to offer -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT: regular expression help
Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex outputfile.txt or is there a text editor which could handle that size (I have 512-meg RAM, and I know some editors try to load the whole thing into memory first) Then the real crunch: The following is the expression which is given on a website to do exactly what I need: [^\received: from .*\r and the second, [^\t].*\rReceived: from .*\r but they both appear to have syntax errors!!! Can anyone help fix these up please - it´s rather urgent. Thanks a lot john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! [SNIPT] Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. As previously posted, I get the same result if I try editing the menu using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt All ideas welcome!!! Does update-menus run as the user bring them back? James No, doesn´t do a thing -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:38 pm, KevinO wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Do you have any documentation for it? Nope. All I have ever seen was just the tarball... http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/gogo2/readme_e.txt ...looks like a document to me ..., and on sourceforge there are the latest binaries (i386 source rpms) for nasm, which is alluded to on the previous page to compile it: http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html I´m going to give it a go groan, and see if I can rpm it let you know -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:58 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: KevinO wrote: bascule wrote: any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? SPEED! Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command line. The command line options are a little different from the others but fairly simple. I found this through Google. It seems like something worth checking out. http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_1712.html And as always - hit send button, followed by the results of a pbone search forehead slap PLF has the gogo rpm for gogo 2.39b with all the extensions for various processor types compiled in ...which only goes to go sorry, couldn´t resist! - when you need anything multimedia-ish - especially US-license restricted go to PLF -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 06:11 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:51, Robert Crawford wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:28, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! Now, I can fix this by mv .kde .kdeold, then restarting kde, whereupon the menus reappear, but this is a sledgehammer and nut fix, which involves resetting all my themes, window decorations, datafiles, moving or recreating the resource and config files in .kde/share and config etc etc. Not to mention that my home directory is getting a bit littered with kdeold, kdeoldest, kdestuffed etc etc Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. As previously posted, I get the same result if I try editing the menu using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt All ideas welcome!!! Does update-menus run as the user bring them back? James I seem to recall when this was happening to me, there was a kde config file that kept getting overwritten somehow- if I think of it, I'll post, but really the fix seems to be upgrade to Tex's stuff. I've not had one problem like that since I did. I think people (me included) went back and forth on pclinux online about this, so probably those threads are still there if you're interested. James- that update-menus trick worked for me a few times, but it always reverted to the overwritten file. I'm trying to recall exactly what action instigated this, but at present, it escapes me. Robert Crawford Robert Now that you mention it.. I'm on Texstar's rpms myself as well. Have been since about 3 days after 9.1 came out. In fact 3.1.2 runs like a top on my box. While I check things out locally.. I've one question for John on his box. Has he done upgrades at all. Thought here is that I know kdmrc (/usr/share/config/kdm/) has changed. If the new one is still there as kdmrc.rpmnew moving this to kdmrc will help a number of things (this file did change.) and I remember it causing me a plethora of problems till I did this. Now the menu is assembled from the structure in ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk. Is this directory structure present? James Yes, I´ve updated to Texstar a while back (one of the first things I do!), and have had a peek into /usr/share/kdm/. There is no kdmrc.rpmnew I´ve just updated to the new texstar stuff, which includes the RandR screen resizer, and I´ve made a new .kde folder I´ve only copied a selected few config files across to the new folder (mail, news, etc), and I´ve redone all the look ´n´ feel stuff by hand, so let´s see how this pans out. In the meantime, I´ll take a hike through pclinuxonline and see what there is about these here menus... Thanks for all the input, chaps -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] CPU Temperature monitor
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I need a utility that will tell me what is going on with the cpu temperature. Haven't been able to locate one. Any of you guys out there got any suggestions? --LX you don´t say whether you want a cli or a gui, nor which gui if the latter, but: All require lm_sensors, liblm_sensors then run sensors-detect make sure the modules.conf is kosher check /etc/sysconfig for the lm_sensors file (I don´t believe you need to append the output of sensors-detect to any rc. file, as /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors takes care of this run sensors, and then maybe tweak the alarms and what´s reported (YMMV) For Graphical front-ends: gkrellm has a sensors module (hint - get texstar´s) ksensors if you´re using kde hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mandrake-menus again!
I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! Now, I can fix this by mv .kde .kdeold, then restarting kde, whereupon the menus reappear, but this is a sledgehammer and nut fix, which involves resetting all my themes, window decorations, datafiles, moving or recreating the resource and config files in .kde/share and config etc etc. Not to mention that my home directory is getting a bit littered with kdeold, kdeoldest, kdestuffed etc etc Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. As previously posted, I get the same result if I try editing the menu using menudrake, either as user or root, either the Sys menus or the User menus. Both same - menus well and truly edited!!! There must be a file or combo in ~/.kde which is, or becomes corrupt All ideas welcome!!! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:24 am, Brian Schroeder wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. Oh well, Google it is, then http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=179 http://www.chipmunk.nl/DRAM/ amongst the gazillion hits -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:52 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: At home I am stuck forevermore with a godawful slow dialup connection. As a result, I rarely do a MandrakeUpdate from home - takes way too long with anything over a several megs of files. My laptop gets access to a fast connection at my university so it gets updated often...but such a waste. My laptop is a pathetic old celery 366 stinkpad. It would be way nice if I could do a MandrakeUpdate at work/school with my laptop and select to save the downloaded rpms so I could go home, connect up to my desktop, and upgrade it too. MandrakeUpdate deletes all the rpms it downloads, and good thing else you would begin to seriously consume hdd space. What I would like is an option to save the rpm downloaded by MandrakeUpdate...perhaps to another directory or simply leave them in their cache directory until I elect to dump them. Make MandrakeUpdate default behavior to delete the downloads but give an option to save them. it´s odd that urpmi --auto-select --noclean will do exactly this, but the gui front end doesn´t include this option, I agree -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] radeon 8500
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:09 am, Vincent Danen wrote: Anyways, doesn't matter. I've had nothing but problems with this radeon under Mandrake so I pulled it out. I've got better things to do with my time than muck around with proprietary drivers that need 5% skill 45% luck and 50% vo0doo to make work. my sentiments entirely - and the same conclusion! I pulled my 9000 out and plunked in a Ti4200, used Texstars rpm´s and yohoho! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:31 pm, charlie wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:29 pm, John Haywood had this to contribute :- 1. Black backgrounds sometimes print out as black -much waste of ink/toner (hmmm methinks I´ll buy epson shares now!!) Kprinter by default methinks, does not print out black backgrounds. But if it does, Open it, click on the HTML and you will find what your looking for in the options there. HTH Charlie Not my point at all, Charlie. While I know it is usually the default behaviour *not* to paint the whole page, it still is possible, and therefore undesireable The author of the page was asking for feedback, nothing more :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Menudrake shennanigans
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:30, John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, lose all menus and toolbar customisations. Go to root mode and edit sys menus - no change Copy /usr/share/applnk-mdk directory into ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk. No change [SNIP] If you run update-menus what happens? James Hi James Run menudrake both as root and as user. Tried updating the menus, loading a different set (simple, sysadmin, mandrake) as both - no dice . ...looking like redoing the .kde/ stuff again - had to do this on 9.0 as well, and it never really worked 100% satisfactorily (sigh) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:36 am, Nisco wrote: Hi all, I've written a small dcoumentation page about installing Mandrake 9.1 onan Acer Aspire 1300xc Lpatop. Here: http://www.angelfire.com/blog/madrid/lap-ing.html Comments appreciated :) Cesare great to see documentation, and I liked the summary table near the beginning withthe table. I would suggest that you change the colour scheme, though: 1. Black backgrounds sometimes print out as black -much waste of ink/toner (hmmm methinks I´ll buy epson shares now!!) 2. The blue links are too dark - can´t read them (and I have a Sony E220 w/Ti4200 card, so it´s definitely the page itself If you changed #1 to bog standard plain white, # 2 would resolve itself :) cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] radeon 8500
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:02 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: [SNIP cut to the chase!] Looks pretty similar. I have to use the binary drivers tho... no two ways around that. Oh well.. not that big of a deal. At least now I've got a decent resolution... =) Getting the games to behave is a completely different story tho. and you have been here? http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html ...and here? http://nwn.bioware.com/support/known.html#23 (this one hints that all may not be well inter Radeon NWN) -but fixing it is definitely a quest worth pursuing :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Menudrake shennanigans
OK, so now I´m a tad PO-ed go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, lose all menus and toolbar customisations. Go to root mode and edit sys menus - no change Copy /usr/share/applnk-mdk directory into ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk. No change Anybody help me out here? What on earth is overwriting/taking precedence over my home resources? TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.18mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:05 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: You need to get spamd up and running. You can bring up mandrake control center, go to system, and then to drakxservices. Enable spamd at bootup. You could start it immediately by doing, as root/superuser /etc/init.d/spamd start. Yup, spamd is running - no problem there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] john]# ps aux|grep -i spamd root 1439 0.0 3.9 8 20508 ? S10:34 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -H The trouble seems to be in the filters. Mine are as follows: 1. Message size is less than 25, pipe through spamassassin -a 2. Header X-Spam-Staus = yes, move to SPAMTrap (my own created folder) I had thought, with spamd running, all I would have to do is to change the spamassassin in number 1, above, to spamc, but the result was no spam filtered mai (boo hoo!) Any ideas? Spamassassin works, but it´s a bit of a slow dog ... cheersl -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7000 DRI
On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 14:53, J.C. Woods wrote: Jack Coates wrote: any one got this working? Driving me nuts. Card is an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI, XFdrake chooses the radeon driver, everything works fine in 2D -- but DRI is not enabled, and all that the log says is not enabling direct rendering. Nothing about why! XFConfig-4 looks fine to me. potential issue is that there is a built-in trident cyberblade/i which cannot be disabled. XFree86 detects it and loads modules despite removing its section from config, so maybe DRI isn't loading because that card doesn't support it? Can't be *disabled*? This means you have tried to do so from your BIOS, yes? I can tell you that DRI is enabled with my radeon driver, if that helps to confirm that it does indeed work. I am do just this on my LMDK9.0. Check XF86Config-4 for AGPMode true, and check for agpgart loaded into kernel. Cheers, drjung that's right. PCI card, but I tried the AGP stuff any way with the expected result of no change. for 3D, you´re going to need the proprietary dri and fglrx drivers from ATI. They were posted on their German support site, and, while I could get them to sort of work under 9.0 (X worked in blissful 3-D, but going back to runlevel 3 gave me a messed-up/blitted console, I could not get the newer drivers to work on 9.1. There was a short thread on this a coupla months back - ´ATI Radeon Drivers´ The other thing I just noticed, is that the latest kernel from MDK seems to include some fixes for the Radeon good luck with it all - I must admit I gave up under 9.1 and bought a Ti4200 - what to do? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: I´m running 9.1, so I just downloaded the Cooker source rpm from pbone and rebuilt it - I suppose I could send it on through if you so require, but the perl dependencies will still probably bite, as SpamAssassin is itself perly ... (my perl-base is also perl-base-5.8.0-19mdk) Any deps I just searched for on pbone, grabbed the mdk ones and away we went! Now, on to a question which I answered and you picked up on a coupla days ago I have spamassassin running fine in kmail, but it´s slow on incoming mail filtering, so I switched the filter to spamc instead of spamasssassin. Result - no filtering at all Now how have you managed to get the spamc/spamd combo running? Tricks and filter examples, please! -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:41 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Im sorry for bringing this topic up again, but after hunting through the readme files, etc. for a faster way to run spamassassin it looked like using spamc and spamd instead might work. Can anyone figure out how to use these in conjunction with kmail, for example? Go here: http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html and, if you want to add the Razor feedback: http://news.spamassassin.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=13 (mind the linewrap) I´ve upgraded spamassassin with the one from cooker (on a standard 9.1 box), and if you want to do this, download the spamassassin source rpm and the perl-Razor-Agent source rpm from a cooker near you and rebuild them. You´ll also need the db2 and db2-devel packages to rebuild Razor hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.1, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] USB problems
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 06:34 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Every so often, the mouse dies (no power). I can unplug it, plug it into another USB port (not with the same group though) and it is instantly back on. Unplugging it from the original port it was in and plugging it right back in has no effect. Time varies that it takes for this to happen. When this happens, the printer also will not print (USB bus busy, will retry in 30 seconds) but it never does print. I had the same issue on my GigaByte GA-7VAX1394, until I passed acpi=off to the kernel at boot (put it in lilo.conf and lilo -t, lilo -v) Now ACPI did work on the board except for that, but I found a message in dmesg, stating that an unknown something-or-other-to-do-with-APIC had been found, and could I mail the maintainer, so I´m guessing that this board is simply too new -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.21-0.13mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SMC EZ Card 8041TX NIC and Dell Inspiron 4000 problem (revisited)
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 06:58 am, Technoslick wrote: With the problem resolved, I wanted to thank those people who had contributed their time and efforts in helping me. [SNIPT Praise and thanks] Now, with all the formalities behind you - :) do you think you could share the process in one posting on how you got everything to work. It'd be helpful (if you know) the generic process, as opposed to using linuxconf/Mandrake gui tools, as not all of us are either enamoured or capable of using these I, and perhaps others, would thank you in advance (my NIC is also proving slightly tempremental) regards -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:13 pm, Dave Seff wrote: On this topic, does anybody know of any project that aims to be a drop-in replacement for exchange? Well, you might look at CommuniGate Pro (commercial) with the new plugins. It might not have everything, but it certainly is moving along -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:59 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: 1. The problem is that the module from ATI doesn't load if agpgart is not loaded, or am I mistaken and there was some other strange reason for my X server failing?!? 2. Do you have the agpgart loaded? The agpgart module is not loaded on my system 3. Does your system have a nforce2 chipset? No, I chose to use the VIA chipset - one weird driver is enough pour moi!!! (from next post) Almost forgot. Did you manage to install the drivers with the XFree86 4.3.0? nope - I'm still on 4.2.1 What errors are showing up in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? the (WW), (EE), (??) and the final error?? -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny stuff which I don't really understand is that in installer I could select my radeon, and XFree86 4.3.0 with hardware acceleration with no prob and the test would show the X screen in my chosen resolution and colors, but after reboot X doesn't start anymore with the classical error that no screens were found. Is anything different in the X screen showed during the config test in installer and the way X starts normally?!? I would expect that if my hardware combination isn't supported, then also the test inside the configuration part of the installer would choke too... :/ Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:25 PM Subject: Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!? On Wednesday 12 March 2003 09:21 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi mates, I managed to solve my crash problem with the A7V8X and 1GB of mem by changing it against a A7N8X :). Easiest sollution ever (but expensive tho :) ). Anyway, my problem now is that I am sick of running my Radeon as : Vesa. Till now agpgart doesn't want to load on this board (nforce2 chipset) even with agp_try_unsupported=1 and nvidia provides no driver for its agp beside the nvagp module in the drivers for their graphics cards. Since I have an ATI card I am not sure how to make it work in a better mode than vesa on my mainboard. I read a lot of things on the net and I can shorten the long story to the following: 1. Some suggesting to try to install the NVIDIA rpm and then use the nvagp module with the ATI card. No answer from the original poster if it worked. :/ 2. The current kernel agpgart module lacks the description for this card and though some people offered to write the driver provided someone can help with collecting the needed info, the post was left in the air, so no news there... 3. Some reported they managed to run their Radeon 9700 Pro as pci and not AGP on this type of motherboard, but also no details provided upon how to do that?!? PCI is a lot better than vesa anyway, but have no clue how to do that. They said they got 320fps in glxgears. 4. Some said that AGP is needed just to do some texture loading(?!? whatever that is), but if the card has enough memory on the card (radeon 9700 Pro comes with 128MB) you don't absolutely need it and that you can run it as PCI (again?!? but again no clue how?!?) and works just fine (just a tad slower than if ran in AGP on other motherboards where agpgart support exists. I am as clueless as a baby in a topless bar :) about how to get the best out of my card under linux. I really want to try some gaming under linux, but with vesa mode and Mesagl I can go smoke a cigar till next frame comes on the screen Please help. Best regards, Adrian Well the truth is that the ATi boards are very poorly supported in linux, largely because tech info is so hard to get out of ATi, so drivers usually run a few generations behind the current ATi board models. Recently ATi has shown some interest in providing drivers ... If they would open the source, things would be much easier for all concerned. Civileme Righty ho, time to post I've come late to the thread, but not the issue - I posted not so long ago about using the Radeon 9000 board under MDK. Here's what partially works for me: 1.Backup your current /etc/X11/XF86-Config 4 to .org 2. Download the ATI Linux drivers 3. Install them, using --force if necessary, as per their instructions (AFAICT this is needed to overwrite the existing libGLcore stuff) 4. Run their version of XFConfig (all as per instructions) to generate an initial config file - don't start X Windows yet!!! 5. Munge the .org file with the new file - things like font paths, mice, monitors etc. In fact, I ended up just using the graphics section, and matching the screen identifier: ** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section Device Identifier Standard VGA VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown # The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override # the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified. #Chipset
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:01 pm, Gustavo Alberto Homem wrote: No, the latest drivers include the whole schemozzle, right back to the original Radeon - it says so in the post install script of the rpm, and detects fine in the XFree log You mean that the latest binaries from ATI support the old radeons ? In the ATI website you aren't lead to the drivers if you choose an old radeon. Try here, instead of the Powered by ATI link, there are a heap of cards in the pop -up menu. Although my card is actually OEM, and a plain 9000, rather than a 9000Pro, it certainly uses the driuvers, and the changelog (which pops up during the install) mentions some fix or fixes for the OEM cards Any way, YMMV, and all . http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:18 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] It looks like it tries to use a driver called fglrx for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses 1:0:0 and 1:0:1 I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver fglrx into the Device section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using AGPMode true, I get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). I don't know what your card is but it sounds like newer than mine (7200). There is documentation about that AGPMode option that says the value should be 1, 2, or 4. Although I don't think it will make much difference, you can see that here: http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/radeon.4.html You can also find some driver enhancement and details at that site wrt your card in 4.3. What I thought I noticed is that there is only, so far, 2d support for the newest Radeon (9500?) http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/RELNOTES2.html#3 One more option might be a 3rd party commercial driver: http://www.xig.com/ Rolf Further to this, (and thanks for putting me on the right track) I changed the line in my XFree Device section to read: BusID PCI:1:0:0 from 1:0:1, as put in by the ATI post-rpm script (their own xconfig basically). I'm guessing that the original refers to the digital output on my card, whereas I'm using the old SVGA one. The card supports a dual-head setup, so this may explain this. Looking at my old card's config, AGPMode is set to true, rather than 1, 2 or 4 which I'm guessing refer to AGP modes. Anyway, the upshot is, I can startx, run glxgears at 2000fps, but after exiting from X-windows or switching to another VT, I get an unreadable set of snow columns- on which I can make out about 10 sets of prompts, and only rebooting restores the console. Any suggestions on this last annoyance? And ta for all your input so far From Joan Tur: Joan said also: You haven't told us what Radeon you have, but the Ati's drivers are for 8500 to 9700 cards. The other Radeons are supported by DRI (afaik). No, the latest drivers include the whole schemozzle, right back to the original Radeon - it says so in the post install script of the rpm, and detects fine in the XFree log Just as soon as I get a fully working config, I'll post for others -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ATI Radeon drivers
I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own XFreeConfig-4 generator, and generates a completely useless file. It looks like it tries to use a driver called fglrx for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses 1:0:0 and 1:0:1 I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config file which I used for my previous video card, and after commenting out the ATI-generated stuff, inserting the Driver fglrx into the Device section and leaving the PCI, stuff out, instead using AGPMode true, I get X to boot, but it seems woefully slow, (about 200 - 220 in glxgears). I see also that there are gatos drivers which might cover this card, but yet again, I'm at a loss as to which way forward here Just thinking about this, I wonder if the libGL.so.1.2 is playing nice, and does anyone have a clue as to how I determine which/whose version I've got installed ... alternatively, of course, if anyone has upgraded to one of these cards (rather than a clean install), I'd really like to hear from you as to how you achieved all this TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-24mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] OT - Comparing a remote file
Folks, a little help here would be appreciated, if you have a mo' I have a local virus definition file on a MDK 9 ftp server that needs to be kept up to date, so that client machines will be updated when they log in. The latter part is accomplished by using a perl script invoking the virus checker itself to get the definition vers number, then it goes off and downloads the newer definition if necessary. All works fine on the client... Now, the server. I do not want to run/cannot run the virus checker on the server, so I cannot get the definition version string this way. What I *think* I need to do is to grab the file name from the remote site, strip out all the guff, leaving just the numbers in a variable, then do the same with the local file and then compare the two. If local remote, go grab remote, then delete the older local. Can anyone help me in achieving the server-side stuff? An added complication is that the remote URL is not absolute - it goes through akamai's servers (hence the choice of curl).. TIA -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT network backup solutions
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:16 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Amanda is a good free choice. Requires a bit of patching for simple features like fill unused portion of tape. Amanda is commandline oriented (ie no gui and no curses access). Todd, I've been looking around for a couple of weeks now (not full time...), and I can't seem to find the patches which you have alluded to. This one above, and the other 'span multiple tapes' you mentioned in a previous thread. Pointers ... instructions , code ? all greatly appreciated -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:12 am, Brian York wrote: If anyone is using these two together would someone please send me some configuration files. I have a teriable time getting it to work. If they go in more than one place zip them in the file structure in the place were they should go. Brian, go to this site: http://www.communigatefaq.com/cgatefaq/SpamAssassin print the page out take some quality time with your linux setup :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:34 am, Mark Weaver wrote: I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there, but the cooker packages won't install on a 9.0 machine! I'm getting endless dependencies. What's up with this? Is it possible to ask for an update to at least the 9.0 samba packages to fix this problem? Thanks. [SNIP] just how long is that list of dependencies? it might be worth it to you to satisfy them if you can get past the 2GB file limit. This *usually* works on cooker releases earlier in the cycle (i.e. just after the main release), but I wouldn't really recommend it, unless you have a test box. What I try to do is get the cooker source .rpm and rebuild it on your system (rpm --rebuild xxx.src.rpm). Yes, you might still have to go off and get some dependent stuff, (and maybe build that too!!) and you'll almost certainly have to install some developer packages, but you'll end up with new packages built for your system hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fonts issues for OO and Mozilla
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:22 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: After having installed some packages from TexStar, I do not see anymore the MenuItems in OpenOffice (only - signs). I tried to change the AUTO option in /etc/openoffice/openoffice.cfg but with no luck... Also I noticed that I started to see strange characters in some web page using Mozilla (- changed into ? for instance, but not consistently on the page, but consistently on the type of font used...) I would really like to avoid to go back and roolback my installation ! Unfortunately I realized this strange behavior after I have actually updated too many things that I woud really do not want to get rid of. Does anybody have a workaround for this? Is this problem due to the new fonts that are present in the TextStar archive? Thanks a lot for any help. Best regards /stefano Stefano - I had the same issues as you, but decided that, since one of texstar's main things was his truetype libs, I'd use one of the installed fonts which I *know* work with his libfreetype packages. My /etc/openoffice/openoffice.cfg looks like this (comments removed): begin here= UI_FONT=Arial Unicode Ms [Xft] FONT_SCALING=AUTO PAPER_SIZE=A4 =end there= I got the name of the font from the Appearance section of the KMail configuration panel (you may have other applications installed which show the exact names), and note that I uncommented the FONT_SCALING parameter All works well this end - hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au
Steve Pugh wrote: Are you interested in second-hand? I have a powercolour 128mb 9000pro surplus to my requirements. http://www.power-color.com/html/rv25a-c3p.html In box with all contents and original receipt so you would still have plenty of warranty. Available for immediate pickup in Adelaide (southern suburbs). This card was purchased last month but I have since obtained an even faster card. Asking $195.00 Email me directly if interested. Regards Steve Steve, I'll buy this card if the original poster hasn't expressed an interest. I'm willing to pick up the COD charges, too. -- john in sydney 0402-292-255 Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au
Sorry about that folks, my system just hardlocked on a java website, and somehow the mail got sent to the open mail group ...back to the normal channels after a brief but nail-biting dip into xfs_repair... :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition
On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:14 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? I'd definitely become familiar with the xfsprogs-installed applications. xfs_repair is particularly handy hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0
On Monday 23 December 2002 11:32 pm, James Francis wrote: Thanks heaps for the info - I was actually giving supermount a second (or third, or fourth ) look. Turning it off and manually editing fstab was the thing that got it going, plus your help in the /dev linkage. I also made the raw nodes suggested by another poster - all is good! hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdg On my system this makes dvd playback smoother I do not use supermount, so my fstab entry for the drive looks like this: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdburn auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 Hope the above gibberish is of some help to you. -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] printing from an XP machine to a CUPs printer
As the subject says, I've got a client machine running XP which can browse the server, see the shares, see the printer, but when trying to access it says that permission is denied, or somesuch (in Windowsspeak) Now, the server has the printers defined with guest access, client-side drivers (which Windows detects and installs correctly), and the client can access the home and general-access shares on the machine (after I set ZoneAlarm to allow my internal network to function) Any ideas where to go from here? Websites welcome, but I'm pretty googled out right now cheers -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:31 am, tarvid wrote: PayPal, here I come. Argh. Sign up for PayPal. Then get their debit card. Then you can either transfer money into the PayPal account or they can hot your bank account directly. It will take a few days (2 or 3) but it comes in handy at times like this. There are horror storeis about PayPal around the web but I have used PayPal for several hundred transactions without a hitch. Jim Tarvid [SNIPT] : 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. Allrighty - make it easier for me to join the club - I *don't* have a credit card -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kdm xscreensaver
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:44 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 21:25, Philip Webb wrote: 021129 Guilherme Cirne wrote: Is there some way to get xscreensaver working with kdm? Following the instructions from man xscreensaver I added to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: xhost +localhost xscreensaver but this didn't work. I tested adding other commands to this file and they were executed correctly when kdm comes up. you need to start it as a service. in /etc/X11/xinit.d add an executable script 'xscreensaverexec', which contains the lines: #!/bin/sh # your comment here if you wish xscreensaver-command -exit xscreensaver obviously, reboot to test that it works: you should see the Xscreensaver splash screen after logging in. This also doesn't work. I want xscreensaver to run before anyone is logged in, so that the screen gets blanked after a period of inactivity at the login prompt. Now lets make this easy (standard disclaimer - it works for me!): in $HOME/.kde/Autostart, create a symlink xscreensaver - /usr/bin/X11/xscreensaver* Then turn off the kde screensaver in the kde control panel hth -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/3E4A902F B38A AB0F 8658 D9E1 4900 3050 08FA D4FA 3E4A 902F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:18 pm, civileme wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. Welcome back - its great to see such loyalty, and expertise not going to waste :) 2. All of you are desperately needed to complete the push to get Mandrakesoft on a self-sustaining level. Allrighty - make it easier for me to join the club - I *don't* have a credit card -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 9.0 Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk Uptime: minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stable video card
On Monday 18 November 2002 01:00 pm, luke wrote: Hey guys, i'm going to be buying a new video card (PCI) for my mandrake 9.0 installation, I was hoping to get a 32 mg card with 3d acceleration that works well in mandrake. Any suggestions? I have a couple ATI cards that work, but the 3d support is flaky ... Well, my vote for a PCI card would have to go to the 16-meg 3dfx Voodoo3. Linux loves it, the 3D acceleration works, and they're cheap as if you can find them. If you can snag a Voodoo4 or even a 5 that'd be awesome!! OTOH, if you're after a new 32-meg, why not an nVidia? I know they're closed source drivers, but there's really not a lot around in PCI anymore ... -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 9.0 Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk Uptime: minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14 am, John Haywood wrote: I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I had configured correctly: /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd the scsi modules are loaded, but ... 1. cdrecord -scanbus errors 2. no dvd any ideas or url? The dvd howto is hopelessly out-of-date (no devfs..) ...oh dear! now the cdrom part is playing up too. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 9.0 Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk Uptime: 2 days 1 hour 52 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0
I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I had configured correctly: /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd the scsi modules are loaded, but ... 1. cdrecord -scanbus errors 2. no dvd any ideas or url? The dvd howto is hopelessly out-of-date (no devfs..) -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 9.0 Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk Uptime: 1 day 14 hours 44 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mozilla bug
On Saturday 26 October 2002 15:45, you wrote: John Haywood wrote: Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it crashes again. (you don't have to move the all the stuff back - cache files spring to mind) I suspect the bug will reappear with this. But should we care if it works 8) Well, obviously, you'd then delete the current ~/.mozilla dir, then move everything up to, and except for, the last item pre-crash. Then , in the interests of rigour, you continue on from the item straight after the 'crash item' -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk Uptime: 70 days 19 hours 58 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mozilla bug
On Saturday 26 October 2002 00:26, you wrote: the quick fix was to delete the contents of ~/.mozilla (make sure your mails are not in there though). Quick, but unsafe - as you noted! Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it crashes again. (you don't have to move the all the stuff back - cache files spring to mind) -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk Uptime: 70 days 16 hours 31 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to identify tape drive in ML 9.0?
On Sunday 13 October 2002 19:24, you wrote: I hope someone can help me with this... :-) I've got a Travan TR-4 (IDE) tape drive in my system. It's in the slave spot on the IDE cable in IDE controller 1, with the CD-ROM in the master position. When I fire up Mandrake Control Center and click on Hardware in the left-hand side of the display, it identifies the tape drive as being on /dev/hdd. This sounds suss to me - the floppy tape drive as a hdx device ... hmmm. Forget the gui, read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ftape.txt, and /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ftape-HOWTO.html Trying to run the Mandrake supplied backup software and specifying a tape drive of /dev/hdd doesn't work. It just says no such device. In fact, when I do a ls -la /dev/hdd, I get a no such file message. What do I have to do to create the appropriate link at this point to make things work? I suspect that MAKEDEV is involved, but I'm not sure what parameters should be used and so on. Nothing's going to work until you've successfully loaded the ftape module, insmod ftape, append to your etc/modules.conf with appropriate parameters, if necessary ad/or desired, then try the utilities.. --- brought to you by a quick doco + Google search.. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk Uptime: 63 days 14 hours 39 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trasferring/upgrading server
I have an internal Web/FTP/File server running MDK 8.2 which I need to transfer to a new box. The current filesystem is as follows: /dev/sdb1 / /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda6 /tmp /dev/sda?/swap /dev/sdc1 /home /dev/sdc2 /usr/local /dev/sdc3 /var The new machine will run MDK 9.0, and while I intend to re-use sda as the boot, temp and swap, and also (maybe) the sdb as /, the third disk is going to be moved to a hard AMI RAID 5, comprising completely different disks Anybody like to suggest the most painless manner of doing this? I had thought to : tar up the /etc, /home/username, /var and /usr/local directories copy these and the served files in /home/shared (a lot) and the updates rpms from /usr to an interim server directory move the two hard disks to the new server install Mandrake 9 on the new server copy/untar everything back The one sticking point is that I'd like to install the same set of packages as before. Is there any way of saving out my currently installed package list (which is not the same as the original MDK 8.2. install), and then passing that list to the MDK9 installer?? any script mavens out there? cheers -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk Uptime: 57 days 14 hours 53 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Tape backups in Linux?
On Friday 04 October 2002 18:06, you wrote: Two questions: How do I reference the tape drive? Since it's not a disk type device, I don't think that /dev/hdd will do it. Would it be as simple as /dev/tape? Something else? /dev/st0? Also, is there a reasonably good backup program (preferably something free, but an inexpensive one would be fine as well) that will use the tape drive? The next time I manage to destroy my system, it would be awfully nice if I could just restore from the last backup :-) Any information would be appreciated. There are quite a few - but amanda stands out as the most robust for network/client backups. There isn't a Mandrake RPM for it AFAIR, but the .src.rpm should compile -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-8.1mdk Uptime: 57 days 15 hours 31 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Network Client Billing Solution needed
On Friday 02 August 2002 15:17, you wrote: On 2 Aug 2002 at 7:45, John Haywood wrote: Has anybody come across any decent solutions? I've checked Sourceforge, but most projects are either pre-alpha, dead, or contain no files You might look at ntop http://www.ntop.org It should do most of what you want. Ray Warren Ray, this looks promising for the Cisco side of things- now does anybody have any suggestions for the stuff in the DMZ, and the unmanaged HP switch TIA -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-6mdk Uptime: 11 days 2 hours 45 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Network Client Billing Solution needed
I've got a situation whereby a client allows its building's tenants to use their LAN, and in some cases their mail server within the firewall. They will also be able to set up their own servers in a DMZ for such things as web/mail/sftp hosting. What we need to be able to do is be able to obtain stats for usage, both in and out, on any interface, and then present these in an easy-to-understand, per client (i.e. ip range) format. Now, using Netflow on the Cisco's, this should be possible. But there is also one site which has an unmanaged HP switch (sigh!), which may prove more interesting I'm guessing that I'll need to monitor several/all ports, then find a decent analysis package which will dump into csv, Excel (for Open Office) or somesuch format, but an end-to-end would be nice :) Has anybody come across any decent solutions? I've checked Sourceforge, but most projects are either pre-alpha, dead, or contain no files TIA -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.18-6mdk Uptime: 10 days 0 hours 32 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Installing 8.2 - not a happy camper
On Monday 03 June 2002 13:06, you wrote: Ummm at the boot splash screen esc then linux noapic If that works, then put noapic in the append line of every linux boot sound of smacking lips Kiss, kiss, kiss..!! w00t!!! Now, back to sobriety - anyone any clues on how to set the speed on a PCMCIA card to 100 - ethtool doesn't see the card (ethtool -eth0 throws an unknown port error). -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 5 days 16 hours 21 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Installing 8.2 - not a happy camper
Thought I'd start the upgrade path on the machine whih originally brought me to Mandrake - my Digital HiNote VP. Tarred up the /etc, /home, chucked them on server, installed 8.2 All well so far, not a problem, until .. on reboot, disk thrashed around for ages, just after the detecting new hardware item Eventually (we're talking 20 minutes here), a login prompt. OK, but no network no sound. Looked in old modules.conf, loaded and inserted relevant sound drivers (cs4232) - one issue fixed. The other still remains. I have a Compaq combo modem/100/10 card, which uses the xirc2ps_cs module. If the card is in at boot, the system takes forever to boot, complaining about too many open files, and when it does come up, there is no network. Manually ejecting the card and reinserting it loads the modules and brings the network up, but only at 10 (I have a 100 network). All this worked perfectly under 7.x though 8.1 - so something seems to have gotten broken here. Ideas? Suggestions? Civileme??? All welcomeand thanked -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 3 days 8 hours 26 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] makefile problems
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 14:45, you wrote: DrJung, Does this mean I can now teach him that it's slash not forward slash? *grin* Nope... ... it's slash*dot* G -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 days 7 hours 12 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Boot Shutdown problems on Gigabyte mobo
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:18, you wrote: John Haywood wrote: I've just transferred my setup into a new case/motherboard - a GA-5AX, and a couple of problems have arisen: 1. I can only boot into Linux via floppy or failsafe (worked fine on another board - Gigabyte GA-5AA). Oh, I'm running MDK 8.1 with a few upgrades, including kernel 2.4.17-5mdk You did not confirm that after floppy booting, as the superuser, you ran lilo. This reinstalls the booting information for the partition / MBR. Sorry - my omission. Yes, I reran lilo. I've also have lba32 in lilo.conf, and have even tried using grub. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 hour 6 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade
On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:58, you wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is that it is _not_ possible to do so while booted into Linux. [SNIP] To end - look into it a bit and I am sure others with more recent experience will provide information or corrections to my general outline. praedor Could also look at the info in the Hard-Disk Upgrade Docs. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/ ...wel-explained, and a good site to bookmark. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 day 3 hours 16 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] X - I give up!! - What's a good video card for 8.2
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 12:26, you wrote: That's it, I've had it, I'm ripping that sucker out by the RAMDAC. Then I'm going to see how far that square frizbee will fly! I've given up trying to sort out the #9 Imagine 128 video problems with X4.2 and X3.3.6 (for now). Why it works under LM7.2 and not under 8.2, we'll never know. Anyway, anybody know a good fast 2D card that does work with LM8.2 that I can find pretty cheap out there? ATI are pretty well supported, as long as you don't go onto the latest card (bleeding edge stuff). nVidia if you don't mind the proprietary driver hassles. As for me, I'm using a 3dfx Voodoo 3000 with (accelerated) XFree 4.2 just fine -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 20 hours 33 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Printing
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:05, you wrote: /WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. Historical - printing used to be extremely expensive slow. It's really only now starting to be ironed out I have played with Redhat, Mandrake 7.1,7.2,8.1 8.2, Caldera, and ELX, and in EVERY CASE its an uphill battle to get a DIRECTLY attached printer to work.It doesn't seem to matter whether it is an old dotmatrix, an inkjet, or a laser; I've ALWAYS encountered problems. /RANT OFF Mandrake is easily the easiest, IMHO, as they have embraced CUPS in all its glory Current problem: Using 8.2 beta 3 beta, huh? If you're having issues, why not move to a supported distro (just a thought...) My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. The printer works fine under all version of windows. Ken According to LinuxPrinting.org http://www.linuxprinting.org, your IBM laserprinter is partially supported. Navigate from this page, as there is more than one 4029 model entered: http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Basically, it looks like CUPS will handle your printer via either the generic PostScript driver for the model 4029 10P, or via gimp-print for the non-postscript version. Mandrake should make this pretty painless for you, either way just make sure CUPS is installed hth -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 20 hours 43 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. not just KDE3 if I'm right. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for the file open dialog to appear. Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. Do you have automount enabled on your box? If so, chkconfig --del automount is your friend -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 21 hours 18 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Anything else better than NFS in Mandrake 8.2?
On Saturday 30 March 2002 11:57, you wrote: May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS.. but a lot of text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is.. Isn't that what NFS stands for old 'nix joke approaching No f**îng Security .. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 23 hours 36 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 04:43, you wrote: Yes I agree with Ed , western Digital Hard Disks have problem Sharing IDE CABLE , this question may destroy your disks. Got another go figure with a Western Digitalis . On one box, I have to set the drive as Master, on another, the *same* drive has to be set to Cable Select, or else it won't boot. Other HD's on these same boxen do *not* have this issue. And then, just to top things, the up-till-now solid-as-a-rock IBM drives are now flaky (the new 40-60 gig) ,.. damn!! -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 hour 47 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cannot print to cups 1.14 from Windows 2000 SP2
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:52, you wrote: Hi. I'm running cups 1.14 on a current Mandrake Linux cooker. Since I've updated to 1.14, I cannot print from my Windows 2000 machine anymore :( Leaving CUPS to one side, how is your samba setup? Is it also upgraded squeakily clean??? -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 42 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] RPM bug MDK 8.1?
On Monday 18 February 2002 02:25, you wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1? su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading its database. So, if I do rpm -qa for example, I'll get half the list and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it happens once, it keeps happening on subsequent tries. When it's acting up, other operations like rpm -Uv will also hang. The strange part? In another window, as regular user, do the same rpm -qa, everything works fine. These would normally be symptomatic of a corrupt rpm database. Have you tried rpm --rebuilddb as root? I think it's ok if I login as root from console When you say 'think' - have you verified this? If so, I'd suspect, if rebuilding the database doesn't help, that your security level might be interfering... -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 0 hours 36 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Conflicts when Upgrading Apps
On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:04, you wrote: I would like to upgrade the applications on my Mandrake 8.1, like Galeon for example. But usually, grabbing an RPM from the net somewhere only leads to a mess of dependency problems. I always try to chase down the dependencies at least once or twice, but they often lead to more problems until I might as well wait for Mandrake 8.2! I know RPM has its limitations, but it would seem that MDK builds posted to rpmfind and other sources are so dependent on the Cooker/beta Mandrake there's no chance to get it installed on a release version. Am I doing something wrong? Packages like Nautilus, Evolution, Mozilla, Galeon, and a lot of KDE stuff have come a long way since 8.1 was frozen. -- j rpmdrake (aka package manager) for GUI, or urpmi for CLI, will both attempt to resolve dependencies and offer to dl install any needed packages. You just have to define a source first -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 hour 19 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Keyboard problem
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 19:45, you wrote: For some reason I have no access to the single/double quote key while using Opera. On Xterm, Netscape, and Kword the key works but I have to hit it twice to get it to display once. Sounds like you've chosen an international character set w/dead keys. this is the standard behaviour of such keyboards (actually I think it is set by just the international setting, but on my system, I have both enabled, and have just the behaviour you cited) -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 23 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: Hi Folks, Good question. We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI name. But it's using Red Hat. Does MDK work fine with XFS? Is the procedure installation of XFS in MDK equal to the one in Red Hat? Thanks for any attention. Had XFS running on my server since the beginning, after having read about some (rare) cases of corruption on RFS. The boot partition's still ext2, just for paranoia's sake, though. The box has been up for (quick ssh to check) over a month since some security upgrades, and a month or so before, and no probs. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 38 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?
On Monday 28 January 2002 11:33, you wrote: This has been going on for quite some time, and we've finally tracked it down. When running gkrellm and the GKrellWeather plugin, it fails on the following: 400 FTP return code 500 at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 49. which eventually tracks the troublemaker down to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/HTTP/Message.pm Once that's removed, it works fine. I thought it was perhaps the version of perl-libwww-perl that shipped with 8.1 so I installed the version available via cooker (5.63-2mdk) to no avail. It's simply if /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/HTTP/Message.pm exists, GKrellWeather can't grab the weather. Sorry to contradict your findings, but. running with the following: perl-libwww-perl-5.63-2mdk gkrellm-1.2.4-2mdk gkrellm-plugins-1.2.4-1mdk and the weather plug-in runs just peachy -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 hours 46 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PCMCIA Ethernet 100 card only at 10?
I've just changed my laptop over from RH to MDK 8.1, and the PCMCIA card, while using the same module (xirc2ps_cs), now will only transfer at 10, as opposed to the 100 I was getting before (same network, same cabling). This would suggest a parameter or option passed in some script or another specific to the distro. Does anyone have a hint as to where I should start looking?? TIA -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 1 hour 2 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:31, you wrote: William R. Nash wrote: Hello, I just receive a new/used computer a compaq Proliant 2500R. with this computer there was no operating system on it. I need to know if I need the smartstart software so I load Linux mandrake 8.1 pro. if I need this where can I download it or get a iso image. thanks Bill Nash. Been awhile since I set up a compaq server, especially Proliant series. If I remember right the Compaq software, smartstart, is for the RAID controller cards, yes (c,mon help us out, your message contains a dearth of info. How ya gonna git help this way)? AFAIR, the Smartstart CD will also set up drivers for the OS of choice as well. But really, this guy needs to go to both Compaq's and Mandrake's web site before coming here. -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 0 hours 16 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:16, you wrote: You guys have given some great input on this thread. Hell, I am convinced! At this point, I am not sure how I have made it without a mouse wheel... ...and in the interest of completenesss (or complete utter overkilll) get a logitech USB optical scroller you'll get a red light in the base of your mouse, which is *essential* to cut 'n' paste operations!!! -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 7 hours 37 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Intergraph Intense 3D PRO 2200
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:32, you wrote: Anyone out there been able to get one of these to work with X? Can't seem to get the resolution above 800x640 w/ 256 colors (yeach) Quick google search seems to indicate that the accelerated mode is not supported in XFree86 4.1.0 - have you tried 3.3.x? -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 2 hours 59 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Joystick Detection
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:27, you wrote: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz Is there a difference between emu10k1-gp and emu10k1 Yes - emu10k1 is for the soundcard itself, while emu10k1-gp is specifically for the gameport -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.16-11mdk Uptime: 3 hours 1 minute = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] mozilla segfaulting
The window starts to come up, with the default URL
(/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, I think), then crash, boom!
I have deleted the .mozilla directory, created a new profile, but no go!
It seems to get hung up on this gettimeofday call, but I may be wrong here
Any suggestions, or places to start looking?
last half of strace output follows:
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gettimeofday({1010393491, 955181}, NULL) = 0
brk(0x8691000) = 0x8691000
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x8696000) = 0x8696000
gettimeofday({1010393491, 959599}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 959751}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x8699000) = 0x8699000
gettimeofday({1010393491, 973708}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 973861}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 977521}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 977673}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x869c000) = 0x869c000
gettimeofday({1010393491, 990231}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 990435}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393491, 994181}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 31614}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x869f000) = 0x869f000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 35632}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 35784}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 39434}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 39586}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86a2000) = 0x86a2000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 43413}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 43567}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 47386}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 47540}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86a5000) = 0x86a5000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 51629}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 51785}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 55450}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 55601}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86a8000) = 0x86a8000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 59350}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 59501}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 71299}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 71459}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86ad000) = 0x86ad000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 75381}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 75533}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 79229}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 79381}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86b) = 0x86b
gettimeofday({1010393492, 87729}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 87886}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 146617}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 146858}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86b3000) = 0x86b3000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 151423}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 151578}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 155279}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 155473}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86b6000) = 0x86b6000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 159215}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 159369}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 163311}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 163467}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86b9000) = 0x86b9000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 167200}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 167354}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86bc000) = 0x86bc000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 17}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 175720}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 179478}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 179630}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86bf000) = 0x86bf000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 183458}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 183608}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 187248}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 187401}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86c2000) = 0x86c2000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 192070}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1010393492, 192226}, NULL) = 0
kill(4579, SIGRTMIN)= 0
brk(0x86c5000) = 0x86c5000
gettimeofday({1010393492, 196068},
Re: [expert] External modem blues.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:11, you wrote: [SNIPT] Yep, Tried everything I could think of and used all the tricks learned from 10 Years as a computer builder/reseller/tech support... Set the first serial port (using the 9Pin cable so I use the COM1 BIOS setting) in BIOS to each of the 4 standard ports with proper addresses and I/O's, ie: 3F8 IRQ 4... Set the KPPP params to com1 and then tried the other com ports after each BIOS change. The modem is found and tries to initialize regardless of which port I have it set to but only gets as far as the O in OK that shows up before the ADTD command in the log window. I can get it to dial using minicom regardless of which port I have it set to I had a bucketload of problems with kppp, and so finally left it alone and downloaded vppp: http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/vppp/vppp-3.4-1.i386.rpm and all is well. -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:50, Tarragon Allen wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: [SNIPT] How can I create /dev/sda4? Or how can I mount /dev/sda4? Many thanks Ed The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive. I suspect that Zip drives don't have that many partitions. Does mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip2 work? Do you have any other SCSI drives? No, the sda4 *is* correct for any Zip cartridges, unless they have been reformatted (e.g. to ext2). The weird data partition number has, AFAIR, to do with both MacOS VFAT partition tables being present on the disk, or at least *potentially* present. As others have answered, either the devfs or the supermount (or an evil combo of the two) are the most likely suspects in this scenario -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:02, you wrote: A bud of mine picked up an old IBM PC server 500, and unless it is not a bios problem, the stupid thing keeps asking for a Reference disc I don't know what it wants exactly, I tried formatting a Linux boot disc for it, but its too stupid to read it I think, or else because the floppy drive is 2.88 it cannot read a 1.44 disc. Now there's a blast from the past!! The bane of my prior existence as a reseller/integrator - the reference disk! You want to upgrade RAM - insert the reference disk. Change the ISA/EISA card - insert the reference disk. Reset the password (user-error) ... insert the %** reference disk!!!. go to the following URL (and next time, use IBM's search facility to do the same) http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rs=0rt=0org=psgdoc=GCOR-3EMLNR I'd also recommend that you have a read of the tech specs at this URL: http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rs=0rt=0org=psgdoc=DDSE-42XMW4 as it gives some info about RAM, etc... -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Changing video cards and disappearing NICs
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:44, you wrote: Ok. The server that you guys helped me with 2 days ago needed a bit of adjustment. I have a Trident ProVidia 9685 (?) card in it and had the resolution set to 800x600x16. This really wasn't enough for me, so I set it to 1024x768x16. This is a *server* YMMV (extremely, it would seem), but what on earth does one need that kind of resolution for on a server? Most of the ones I administer have either no monitor, no X-windows (although they may have an X-server for remote log-ins), or, if X is running locally a tiny window manager like ICEWM, or TWM etc) running. However, I digress... The card appeared to work for a minute, but started freaking out if I had more than a couple of windows open. I really need that resolution, and I remembered that I can get it without a problem with my Stealth 64 Vram. I swapped the card out and figured that X wouldn't start and I could then fire up Xconfigurator and get my new card working. This didn't happen, X freaked out and when I finally got it to stop, I found out that there is no Xconfigurator. I quickly popped the old card in, got back into my system and attempted to install Xconfigurator, whn I saw no such option in SW manager. You need to find out which bits of XFree86 you need for the new card. For example, my desktop machine uses a Voodoo3, and has loaded: [root@thang dev]# rpm -qa|grep -i xfree XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-glide-module-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-devel-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-Xnest-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-server-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-libs-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-Xvfb-4.1.0-20mdk XFree86-4.1.0-20mdk Note that the glide-module is for *my* card, and wouldn't do anything for an Eagle2SuperPanorama card(!) A quick search reveals that yours is an S3Trio64 chipset, which doesn't look as though its supported under 4.1.0 yet, so you might need to downgrade your XFree to vers 3.3.6 (not a particularly happy scenario...) OTOH, you might decide to live with your current setup I also noticed that neither of my nics initialized on this boot, even though hard drake reports them being there. It had to run config tool to get the nics working, but after that, the connection sharing wouldn't work. I stopped/restarted all network services, only to find that connection sharing STILL didn't work. I had to reconfigure it to get it to work (thus overwriting my dhcpd config file). Now, when I reboot the pc, the nics don't initialize and I still can't figure out how to change my video card. Try cat/proc/interrupts /proc/iomem /proc/ioports to see if you've introduced any h/w conflicts - if so, try moving the cards, setting the IRQ etc hth -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: Best Video cards for Linux?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:56, you wrote: First of all I must say I am not an nvidia fanatic or so, I dont like the drivers be closed-source either. But I believe that nvidia cards are the best opengl cards around,and despite the source is closed, nvidia is doing a great job for linux. For the following, there are things to be corrected. All I am saying here have been tested with nvidia tnt2 ultra, geforce DDR and geforce 2 MX. Back to the original question: Best Video Cards for Linux: nVidia uses either unaccelerated , 2-D only drivers which *are* supported or closed-source drivers from nVidia which are *not* supported (by either the distro vendor or nVidia) Now, not to say that the closed-source drivers do not work - there are tons of people who have working, accelerated nVidia cards running under various distros. (note that there are also tons of people who cannot make the driver work no matter how hard they try. This is logical given all the various models, RAM configs BIOS revs. of the cards themselves, plus all the mobos other paraphenalia that make up the h/w config itself. The implications for this are simple, however - if you want support under Linux, from either your distro vendor or the card vendor, an nVIDIA will not, at the current time, give you this. If you're happy tweaking, trawling the net, and (small percentage), having to give up, then the nVIDIA cards can provide a ripper of a card -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:02, you wrote: What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images. Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there something I am missing? Although I haven't totally worked this one through, yet (living w/o icons on some apps!!), it looks as though it's the *system* which is referring to the old libpng, rather than the apps Not sure of the fix, though... -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Using SMB shared printer from LM 8.1
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:57, you wrote: I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my lm 8.1 machine. I used the printerdrake and selected SAMBA printer and all the other screens. It says it has configured the printer right but when I try to print a test page nothing happens I can see the printer using smbclient program as shared from my W2K box. Am I missing something? Thanks, -nak What happens if you access the printer with another tool - KUPS for example? This has been a successful fix for people here before. -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but doesn't open a new mail message stumped -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was able to meet all dependencies with a minimum of hassle, and libpng upgraded just fine. BUT ... now, neither Mozilla not Galeon are able to renger .png images! If I look in /usr/lib/, I can see both libpng2 and libpng3: libpng.so.2 - libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.2.1.0.12* libpng.so.3 - libpng.so.3.1.2.0* libpng.so.3.1.2.0* I assume this is correct, because there are still many apps on my mostly-stock 8.1 system that require libpng2. I renamed the old libpng2 libraries, and made links with the same name to libpng3, but that did not seem to work. In fact, Galeon would not even launch! So, I named the libpng2 libraries back. At this point, I am at a loss, not knowing enough about how shared libraries work, and especially using different library versions. Any help? Dave Welcome to the world of Cooker! What you actually have to do in the case of the libpng2 - libpng3 shift (and many other major library upgrades, too), is to rebuild *all* of the libpng2-dependent apps against the new libraries. Often, this can be accomplished by simply downloading the src.rpm and issuing an rpm -bb command, but it can get a lot trickier hth -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:47, you wrote: Try clearing the setting. It will default to kmail, and should pass the correct parameters. That worked! Ta for that!! -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating
Have just noticed that I can not simply click on a mailto: URL and have kmail open up with a new message containing the recipient. The system switches to kmail all right, but no new message is opened, much less with a recipient Any ideas appreciated (probably one of them . files, methinks) -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK Kernel Configuration File
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:35, you wrote: Hello All, I have just downloaded the Linux kernel 2.4.14 and wanted to upgrade for a project that I am working on. I was wondering where I could find the base Mandrake configuration file that is used to compile the distribution kernels that come with the standard Linux Mandrake 8.0 which is using the 2.4.3 kernel or the Mandrake 8.1 distro. /boot/config-2.4.xxx.xxmdk and in this mailing list's Archives :) -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.1..... yes or no?!?!?!?!
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote: Whatever the technical reasons, as a desktop user I am not really interested in knowing all that. However, if you subscribe *totally* to the consumer mentality you seem to be espousing while dealing with OpenSource (or its variants), you're in for a rocky path indeed. I'm not knocking you for that, but I personally expect to have to do a little bit of research, get to know about my own hard/software interactions, and check the releases from *any* source (even kernel.org) on a test machine before I roll it into production. That's the trade-off for having a huge distributed developer base, and an extremely low-cost product (free, if you want to) 8,1 is really problematic, probably a hurried release trying to keep up with SuSE , RedHat etc. in the release cycle and not testing properly on different, commonly used hardware configurations. .So you've signed up on cooker, so that the release cycle can benefit from your contributions and add one more hardware configuration to their test bed?? ...and what exactly is a commonly used hardware configuration. I personally haven't seen one on the PC-side in at least 5 years, in fact not since the pre-clone days :) -- 2 cents john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Load a kernel module at boot
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:25, you wrote: [expert] Load a kernel module at boot From: Bill Witherspoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me where I can add: modprobe esssolo1 to my boot scripts so that my sound card module is loaded automatically? I don't want to recompile my kernel as I've got everything running s nice. Thanks in advance, Bill. /etc/rc.local, but for the *real deal* look in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules if you're running an older system) and load from there (man modules.conf) -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Backward compatibility
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:19, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alfredo C. Lopez wrote: I think you could use the packages , some are in the mdk 8.0 cds compat-glibc-7.2-2.1.3.3mdk.i586.rpm compat-libs-5.3-8mdk.i586.rpm others in previous versions: ld.so-1.9.5-13mdk.i586.rpm libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm Hi - many thanks, I guess this is what I need (hopefully they will install in Mandrake 8.1). Now I'm wandering why at Mandrake they decided that this packages shouldn't be in the distribution anymore. Biagio why don't you download the source rpm's, if available? Then issue an rpm --rebuild command, and voila!! - you have system-specific packages -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Prelinking qt and kde
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:40, you wrote: Is there a website that someone could point me to that goes through the steps to prelinking qt and kde? I must say that there is a DEFINITE slowdown in KDE speed after upgrading my install from Mandrake 8.0 + Cooker + Texstar prelinked qt2 and kde to the default, plain old standard non-prelinked KDE 2.2. I miss the speed of the texstar rpms and would like to prelink my current KDE version/revision. praedor I notice that there is an objprelink package in cooker - along with new kde packages. The objprelink has some fairly sobering notes (initial release, This tool is in a very early state and should be used with care), but at least it looks as though we're heading in the right direction In the meantime, I believe the link is off kde.org, though (my) memory is cheap these days :-0 -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:26, you wrote: Franki wrote: speaking as someone who has done this, I give you this message... DON'T !!! you will be successful at installing it, and you will be able to run software written for it, but some or alot of your old software will break,, I had all sorts of little problems after I did it, even things that are seemingly unrelated, like pppd not being able to sustain a connection after the upgrade.. other stuff as well.. First, let me say, congrats! for your success with your system. As for your warning...it is taken seriously. I've also done this before and ended up with a similar mess. however, this time i've begun to compile all the packages that my system is telling me that are dependent upon present libraries on the system. I've got a two page list of them. I've got the 8.0 disks that i'm grabbing the 8.0 equivalants for and placing them into a directory to see if that will quell the system's complaints for dependency issues. if you are going to do it.. remove all packages on you PC except for the kernel and basic necessary stuff. then upgrade it (glibc), and download all the src packges and recompile them all... Good luck or you could just get mdk8 or 8.1 and use that... As far as installing mdk 8.0 and above, sadly that is not an option. Each time i've attempted that on this machine - AMD K6 233Mhz/generic motherboard/160MB SDRAM/trident 9660 vid card/old SMC ethernet card/ISA 3Com USRobotics 56K Modem/old Ensonic sound card/new Sony CD-RW/Phillips T107 17 LightFrame flatscreen monitor - the install goes through ok until it's time to make a boot floppy. the install is unable to see the drive and create the boot floppy. then, when i attempt to configure X things really get ugly. At this point i figure i can just do it from console as i've had to do many other times in different situation with various systems - no big deal. when the system reboots after the ehem install, i get the usual boot error that the kernel, who i'm convinced has been drinking and has gone blind in the process, is unable to find the very / (root) partition created and installed to only a few moments before. So, system won't boot after installation cause it can't find the root (/boot). since i'm possitive it's not a cylinder 1024 issue and i'm currently running Mandrake 7.2 and prior versions on this machine for over two years now i've determined it's either a hardware issue, or...it's a hardware issue AND verion 8.x penguin hates my guts! I too thought about grabbing the src.rpm's and rebuilding them, but that's a catch 22 since those packages all require either glibc-2.2.x OR = gcc-2.9.x in order for that to happen. kinda like you need to have an egg before you can have a chicken, but you also need to have a chicken before you can get the egg! I'm assuming that this is *not* a production box you are attempting this on - or at least that it is all backed up... The reason that I ask is that I have seen all too many people, both on off this list who keep on playing with a major production box. Now, you may get it to work, and it may all go smoothly, and the many fine people here may be able to give the benefit of their knowledge experience before, during, and after the process ... but surely it's better to go down that path on a box that really doesn't matter..?? just a thought, and no personal slur intended - just that I've been a test engineer for too long... :) -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
