[expert] kvm switch
Hey all I've got a logitech trackman marble which works fine no matter how I connect it. My problem is, when I connect it through my kvm switch (linksys 2-port with button on front), my wheel stops working. Is there any kind of workaround for this? TIA, mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash
11:09am... Ronald J. Hall was spotted running through the streets shrieking: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Dude - no problem! Sorry 'bout the long shifts though :( Mike Well, as they say - it keeps the groceries on the table! (and supports my 'Nix addiction!) ;-) hehe, I know that feeling... -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash
Yesterday... Ronald J. Hall was spotted running through the streets shrieking: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: the scheme reported above (-rwxr--r--) is read as 'user - group - other' and since the following entries show that aleksey is both owner and group, root wouldn't be an issue. I think I would go with previous posts that the executable itself is the problem? Mike Yes, you are of course, correct. Another user politely pointed this out to me. I was half asleep when I replied to the original poster (I work 12 hour night shifts) and I apologize for any confusion my reply might have caused. Sorry. Dude - no problem! Sorry 'bout the long shifts though :( Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] IDE Hardware raid
Wednesday... tester was spotted running through the streets shrieking: Mike Tracy Holt wrote: 10:49am... Lars Roland Kristiansen was spotted running through the streets...: Is there any good hardware raid controllers out there - i dont have the time to check out software raid or strange binary only drivers. I have seen a product called duplidisk witch look nice have anyone tried this ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Check out www.3ware.com Mike Arco Duplidisk is the Platform-independent IDE RAID solution available and the only one recommended by linux-ide.org. 3ware closed up its drivers and lost the recommendation about 9 months ago. Civileme Is it just me or does everyone seem to be giving up linux support lately? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] No such file or directory message from bash
1:49pm... Ronald J. Hall was spotted running through the streets shrieking: -rwxr--r--1 aleksey aleksey104318 Jan 22 20:31 swatgrs_set* The executable 'swatgrs_set' is there, but I can't run it: [aleksey@botik aleksey]$ ./swatgrs_set bash: ./swatgrs_set: No such file or directory It looks like its set to only run for root. Have you tried running it as root? If it works there, then change your permissions. You should see some more x's there... ;-) the scheme reported above (-rwxr--r--) is read as 'user - group - other' and since the following entries show that aleksey is both owner and group, root wouldn't be an issue. I think I would go with previous posts that the executable itself is the problem? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] will questions on 8.0 not be answered?
mike was spotted running through the streets shrieking: Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:19:41 -0600 From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] will questions on 8.0 not be answered? Hi, I recently posted a question on how to update to a newer kernel in 8.0 but got no answer. :-( Is 8.0 too old to reply on now? Mike McNeese Mandrake purchaser and user of 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 8.0 / 8.1 AFAIK, the same way you would update any kernel - what exactly is the question? (no sarcasm intended) Are there any special circumstances? I wouldn't just blindly update the kernel, especially if you already have a copy of 8.1 - why not just use that? I would imagine that anything capable of running 8.0 could also handle 8.1. Then again, if there's something specific that you need support for, you might just recompile your existing kernel? re-post with more info, k? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] email on home network
Thanks everyone who responded!!! Postfix is now up and running! I was starting to pull my hair out (which is a bad thing considering my lack of it), and then after reading all of your replies, things started making more sense. I'm going to keep reading the comments / howto's and see if I can't figure out what all those 100 options are g Thanks again! Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] email on home network
Hello all, hope this isn't too newbie. Here's my dilema: I'm on dsl behind a netgear router using portmapping to my linux server which handles a web page, ftp, quake server, etc... I've been wanting to set up an email server for learning experience; so people could email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally sat down and tried it using postfix, yet I don't have a CLUE what I'm doing! I thought this would be as simple as setting up http; just start the postfix daemon, make sure there is a user account on the server, then just jump on another computer and send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it should automatically appear on my server - right? I can't find squat for online docs (in simple terms at least) and it's just not working the way I expect :-( Help? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] test
test - am I getting through? -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3
Tuesday... Ric Tibbetts was spotted running through the streets shrieking: Ok gang, this is WAY off topic. :) Somebody convince me about something: snip I feel your pain ;-) Quake II was the last release with a 'story line' included. I'm sort of hoping that a 'Quake IV' will emerge with a story line AND a new deathmatch included but I might just be wishing in vain. I do like both versions, but probably lean more toward deathmatch cause you can interact with other people while you play. The popular thing now is using modifications to the basic game (only for deathmatch though) like UrbanTerror. It's really impressive if you like the 1st person shooter games. Anyway, maybe we can rally a round of pleas to idsoft and see if they won't accept the challenge of creating one more new adventure? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === Unix is all about taking big rocks and turning them into little rocks - Windows is all about taking sand... and dumping it in your gas tank... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Multi boot with Lm 8.1
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN enlightened the whole world with this utterance: Is there a reason you can't boot with lilo. My desktop system Multiboots. Win 98, Win 2k, and three linux's. Lilo works fine. I use Mandrake's Graphical boot screen. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB I've personally never had much luck using lilo to boot nt of any kind. It seemed to work fine when I just had it booting win98, but when I added win2k, it actually was easier to go the route already explained on this thread. Are you using ntfs with your win2k? I think I remember reading that lilo couldn't boot an ntfs partition? Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Happy New Year 2002 Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === I've got a fever ...and the only cure is... more cowbell! -SNL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dpms?
Tobias Marx enlightened the whole world with this utterance: Date: 03 Jan 2002 00:05:48 +0100 From: Tobias Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] dpms? Am Mon, 2001-12-31 um 23.16 schrieb Ken Thompson: Instead of commenting out the line try Option DPMS (off), Works for me on all 5 of my MDK 8.1 systems... but then it will be off! ;) no, seriously. mplayer switches dpms off for the period it's playing something. imho better behaviour than ogle. i like dpms. I guess it depends on your environment. If I was in an office, I might want my screen blanking on it's own. Here at home on my network, if I'm not using my monitors, I turn them off. I don't really like the computer deciding when I should have a display. Just me, Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Happy New Year 2002 Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === I've got a fever ...and the only cure is... more cowbell! -SNL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dpms?
Hello all, I've been watching some dvd's this morning and ogle looks great! Only problem that I had sll morning was that the monitor keeps shutting off every 15-20 minutes I guess. I tried commenting out the option dpms on line in my XF86Config-4 file, and still get the same thing. Where can I disable this so my monitor doesn't go off on me - I don't use screen saver and I don't like power managment!! Thanks in advance, Mike -- Michael Tracy Holt Happy New Year 2002 Kirkland, WA[EMAIL PROTECTED] === I've got a fever ...and the only cure is... more cowbell! -SNL Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] totally OT - quake 3 arena
I'm sorry! I know this is totally OT - but I've searched google and all
the archives I could think of and if I sign up on one more email list,
my wife is going to divorce me! Anyway, here's my question:
For all you quakers, after a game ends and you see the player rankings,
sometimes I see a number 99 and a face next to a certain player (on the
left hand side, not the right) and I wonder what the heck that means???
Thanks!
Mike
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RE: [expert] Xine and mplayer in mandrake 8.1?
Yes! I've followed the xine and captain css plugins for dvd decryption
for awhile now and even though xine has a cool interface, it's still
choppy and freezes while changing chapters on the dvd. Ogle seems to
play flawlessly (VERY minor choppyness on occasion). I haven't had time
to play with the gui interface or anything, but it was easy to pop a dvd
into the drive, open a terminal and type 'ogle' and then sit back with
the popcorn! By the way, the movie was 'Practical Magic'.
Mike
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 04:47, Roger Munoz wrote:
Try using ogle !
Roger
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Sent: 26 December 2001 05:53
To: maillist
Subject: [expert] Xine and mplayer in mandrake 8.1?
Hi,
I got several problem with xine and mplayer with mdk
8.1 with my friend machine.
Xine; compile latest version and install ok; but crash
the whole system in my friend comp (intel pentium 3 S3
savage4 rev 2 according to the XFree86 log file in
/var/log ) not leave any messages at all the system
freezes have to use power button . If I use gcc in a
machine running debian woody (gcc 2.95.4) to make the
kernel+modules for his comp. xine crashed but the
system is still running as normal that makes me think
gcc-2.96 in mdk still buggy ? .
In my comp. using intel celeron 400Mh intel8x0 card
the latest xine compiled and seems run as normal
What should I do? mplayer can not play as well after
./configure --disable-gcc-checking compile is ok, can
not render anything
What is the recommended program for playing vcd and
dvd in mandrake ? because I saw no xine packages for
mandrake, mplayer as well so
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[expert] daemon scripts
Hello all!
I have a few programs that I've added to my server box running mdk8.1
and I'd like to create daemons and startup scripts for them in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ so that I can do the 'stop, start, restart, etc.'
thing for them. I'm not a coder, though I'm trying to pick it up a
little, and I've looked at my other files in that specific folder as
well as searching the net for my answers, but to no avail. I want to
know how to kill a thread without having to manually call 'top' and
search for the pid then running kill on that pid. I would like to be
able to do it the same way my other services run. I would also like to
know how to make them start on boot-up. If someone would please point
me in the correct direction or maybe give a brief tutorial on how these
things work, I would be very grateful!
TIA, Mike
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Re: [expert] Xine and mplayer in mandrake 8.1?
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 19:00, J. Grant wrote:
Do the dvd libs on that site only work with the specific region of your
drive? or can it work with any drive?
JG
That I don't know, but I don't ever recall seeing anything about it. I
do know that regions are hardcoded into some (if not all) dvd drives
themselves. Example is that my dvd drive leaves a message (under
windows) that I can change my region a total of five times and then it
says I won't be able to change it even if I move it to another computer
or reload my os - it would seem that the manufacturer has coded
something into the drive itself to only except a total of 5 changes
before it becomes unchangeable. I don't know if software can over-ride
this or not.
Mike
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Re: [expert] daemon scripts
On Wed, 2001-12-26 at 16:18, J. Craig Woods wrote:
At 01:56 PM 12/26/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Hello all!
I have a few programs that I've added to my server box running mdk8.1
and I'd like to create daemons and startup scripts for them in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ so that I can do the 'stop, start, restart, etc.'
thing for them. I'm not a coder, though I'm trying to pick it up a
little, and I've looked at my other files in that specific folder as
well as searching the net for my answers, but to no avail. I want to
know how to kill a thread without having to manually call 'top' and
search for the pid then running kill on that pid. I would like to be
able to do it the same way my other services run. I would also like to
know how to make them start on boot-up. If someone would please point
me in the correct direction or maybe give a brief tutorial on how these
things work, I would be very grateful!
TIA, Mike
Are you looking to write a script where you would have the ability to run
statements like service some_program start or some variation with stop,
status, etc.? Yes, the easy part is to know where to put it (/etc/init.d
and maybe /etc/rc5.d). Unfortunately the hard part is writing the script,
and there is no substitute for a good book on bash scripting. Plus you
might try looking at one of the other scripts for a running service, and
use this as a kind of template.
J. Craig Woods
UNIX/NT SA
-Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
Ok, yes, I will look a bit more at my existing scripts. Thanks for the
reply.
Mike
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Re: [expert] MPlayer
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 16:49, Tom Brinkman wrote: best solution (I've tried both) is GC's rpm's for mplayer http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- Tom Brinkman _ South Texas, USA_ Do you mean that you not only want a wrong answer, but a certain wrong answer? -- Tobaben hmmm... I'll have to take a look. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:06, Robin wrote: Hi Everyone, snip BTW, Outlook XP also automatically blocks off sending and receiving files with exe, vbs and quite a few others, if anyone figures out how to save those attachments please let me know, thanks. Robin I believe you're supposed to be able to go to 'tools' - 'macros' - 'security' and change the security level to be able to get the attachments. I've played with it before but never got it to work; not sure what I did wrong ??? Anyway, before I get flamed off the list; let me end with this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/office/maintain/featusability/xpsec.asp I hope this helps - I'm outta here! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 02:23, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 17:06, Robin wrote: Hi Everyone, snip BTW, Outlook XP also automatically blocks off sending and receiving files with exe, vbs and quite a few others, if anyone figures out how to save those attachments please let me know, thanks. Robin I believe you're supposed to be able to go to 'tools' - 'macros' - 'security' and change the security level to be able to get the attachments. I've played with it before but never got it to work; not sure what I did wrong ??? Anyway, before I get flamed off the list; let me end with this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/office/maintain/featusability/xpsec.asp I hope this helps - I'm outta here! Mike Me again, found the link you're looking for: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002/newfeatures.htm#security Sorry all, I promise that's it! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MPlayer
On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:10, Theo Brinkman wrote: Let me get this straight. 1) The mplayer developers are developing software which uses various libraries with incompatible licenses. 2) They claim the files are allowed to exist in the same project in *source* form. 3) They also claim that distributing (or even *building*) the project results in you violating some of those licenses. 4) They tell you to go ahead and download it and build it. 5) They apparently don't think their project violates any of those licenses even though (by their own admission) they must have violated these licenses hundreds of times during the development cycle. WHAT THE #@*!!! - Theo Just for kicks, go ahead and install on Mandrake. The mplayer developers are VERY childish about having to accept that they believe gcc 2.96 is bad. On one install, I actually had to type something like gcc 2.96 is no good or something to that effect; before it would let me compile the program! Needless to say, it works just fine with gcc 2.96. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla Java
Phil wrote: Hello All, This probably seems like a dumb question but I can't see how I can get Mozilla to use the Netscape Java plugin. I can't do any Internet Banking with konqueror and only some transactions with Netscape. I don't expect that Mozilla will be any better but I thought it might be worth a try, once I get Java support. Follow this link: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2/unix/linux22/xpi/jre.xpi and the java plugin should install for you. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Difference in MDK 8.1 and RH 7.2 (XFREE)
Thanks Mike, I dounloaded the files, installed and it is now working like a charm. Thanks for the help. George cool! -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Difference in MDK 8.1 and RH 7.2 (XFREE)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all. I have a Compaq Presario 5000 (intel i810). I had MDK 8.1 installed on it, and the scroll wheel worked like a charm. When I installed RH7.2, the scroll wheel did not work. I have made sure that the xf86config file is identical between the two (especially the pointer section) but still the scroll wheel does not work in RH7.2. Does anyone know what is the difference between the two? Thanks for your help. George Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Make sure you have the program imwheel installed (rpm -qa | grep imwheel) If it is installed, try starting the program from the command line while you're in X and then see if the scroll wheel now works; if so, then try making an entry in your .xsession file. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net --- There's something to be said for relatives... it has to be said because it's unprintable. (A. Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Promise Fastrak 100 lite - anyone?
civileme wrote: snip OK let's look at the software RAIDs Hardware Cards Linux Software RAID Extents 1 16 RAID Types 0, 1 0+10,1,4,5 Identical drivesYes Irrelevant Volume mgr No Volumes can be pieces of up to 16 drives Setup at installNo, requires kernel modsYes Cost $30-100 extra Your time Journaling filesystems will work with both. snip You DO NOT have to have identical drives to use ide raid cards. If you expect to create a RAID array with either hardware OR software, you calculate based on the smallest drive in the array. You can have 4 drives consisting of a 10GB, a 15GB and two 20GB and RAID 0 will yield you 40GB total while RAID 1 will yield 20GB. Obviously not the most effecient setup with EITHER type of RAID, but it will work. Check out this link: http://dukeofurl.dhs.org/reviews/misc/promisehowto/2.shtml I would also add that RAID controlled by the operating system (doesn't matter which one you choose WindowsNT which also has a softRAID or Linux), will NEVER be as fast or efficient as hardware (even semi-hardware products as the promise ide cards). Mike WinRAIDs, anyone? I really wouldn't compare to Winmodems as they are DESIGNED to work only with Windows - that's a little misleading when comparing to the RAID card which DOES offer linux drivers. Civileme -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies
Randy Donohoe wrote: On Monday 26 November 2001 05:54 pm, you wrote: On Monday 26 November 2001 06:23 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote: machines. Neither of us can mount a floppy that has been fully formatted in the KDE floppy formatter using the ext2 file system. DOS, yes, ext2 , no. Any ideas? What does fstab say? as you can see from mine (below), I had to comment out the fs=vfat line and add one in that uses auto, for the filesystem (plus some other borrowed changes ;) Supermounts both ext2 and fat fs's now. # none /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,nodev,code page=850, exec,unhide 0 0 none/mnt/floppy supermount auto,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850, noauto 0 0 I needed this so I could do a 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' I'm using auto and so is my friend. If I change to ext2 it tells me it's an unsupported file system when I try to mount it. Go figure. Randy Donohoe Wow! I know I've been able to mount my ext2 floppies in the past, but I just tried it to see what you were talking about and I got the same error! I'll do some research and see if I can't find out what the problem is. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net --- There's something to be said for relatives... it has to be said because it's unprintable. (A. Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Promise Fastrak 100 lite - anyone?
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: civileme wrote: snip OK let's look at the software RAIDs Hardware Cards Linux Software RAID Extents 1 16 RAID Types 0, 1 0+10,1,4,5 Identical drivesYes Irrelevant Volume mgr No Volumes can be pieces of up to 16 drives Setup at installNo, requires kernel modsYes Cost$30-100 extra Your time Journaling filesystems will work with both. snip You DO NOT have to have identical drives to use ide raid cards. If you expect to create a RAID array with either hardware OR software, you calculate based on the smallest drive in the array. You can have 4 drives consisting of a 10GB, a 15GB and two 20GB and RAID 0 will yield you 40GB total while RAID 1 will yield 20GB. Obviously not the most effecient setup with EITHER type of RAID, but it will work. Check out this link: http://dukeofurl.dhs.org/reviews/misc/promisehowto/2.shtml I would also add that RAID controlled by the operating system (doesn't matter which one you choose WindowsNT which also has a softRAID or Linux), will NEVER be as fast or efficient as hardware (even semi-hardware products as the promise ide cards). Mike WinRAIDs, anyone? I really wouldn't compare to Winmodems as they are DESIGNED to work only with Windows - that's a little misleading when comparing to the RAID card which DOES offer linux drivers. Civileme Here's a more updated link to installing that card: http://dukeofurl.dhs.org/reviews/misc/promisehowtorh71/ Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Civileme? Are you listening?? This is the point you need to take to your superiors instead of just sitting here defending their actions. You've got an email right here telling you exactly how you just lost your bonus for this year - are you paying attention? Mike Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Exactly. If Mandrake needs to charge more to make a profit, then let them do so. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: vnc . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 5:31 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release | | |On Saturday 24 November 2001 14:17, you wrote: | |As it is, sorry Civilme, Mandrake's marketing people don't get it. | |The same was with 8.0 Prosuite edition citing 2 updates in the |life cycle of |the product (8.1 ...8.2). My companies purchase was based on |the though |(lead by the web site's statment) that when 8.1 was released, |there would be |a full update. Not a single CD which only updated X, some |wizards etc. Not a |full upgrade. The response from MandrakeSoft was...a full updrade to |include things like kernel would pull the whole 8.1 release |which is not |feasable ...their words not mine. | |Our intention was to seriously review mandrake for some |machines we were |moving to linux from windows. Mandrake was considered after |that event to be |not the type of organization my company was willing to go |with, and the |decision was made to put the workstations to RedHat 7.2. |Todate, 97 of the |150 targetted machines have been flipped to rh. Incidentaly, |as a point of |salt in the wound, My company is purchasing each machine as |full pack + |support contracts. It's thier way of giving back to the |community. 150*69 US |= ??? ...some nice profit I'd bet. | |Once again, as the people speak. There is some misrepresentation by |MandrakeSoft thats going to eventualy cost them a place in the |distro world. | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net --- There's something to be said for relatives... it has to be said because it's unprintable. (A. Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: EXACTLY!!! I couldn't have said it better. I would like to add though, NOWHERE on the mandrake site does it mention that the commercial apps are demos. NOWHERE on the box you have on the shelves in the store mention that they are demos and if it were Microsoft which had done this (civileme) you would be bitching about it to no end. It's plain and simple FALSE ADVERTISING!! On the flip side, mandrake is my favorite distro and I would've simply DONATED MONEY (as is available on the mandrakestore web site) had I known that I was only getting stuff that I already have on my computer! I'm also now going to have to wait to buy win4lin as it's not in the budget this month after sending away for a mandrake prosuite pack which I THOUGHT INCLUDED THAT SOFTWARE PACKAGE! AARGH!!! I AM NOW VERY PISSED OFF!!! Like Jose has already said, it would've been far better NOT to have included those packages because I feel mandrake is worth supporting WITHOUT that stuff. Since I end up using cooker most of the time, I tend to download the stuff I need, it would've been much more convenient if I had known what I was getting in the package before I bought it. And finally; civileme, your arguments are very weak - you make it sound as though a complete rookie would be buying your prosuite package? Why? That doesn't make any sense - if someone were that unfamiliar with linux as to not be able to sucessfully install and use StarOffice, do you really think they're going to go out and buy your most expensive package? Let me see a show of hands from all people who run and jump right in the flippin pool before checking to see if there's any water?? And if you want to include mandrakeized packages for some other 'high-end' server software, advertise it as that and sell it separatly! $20 for a cd full of mdk.rpm's and say it's tested and approved to run on mdk 8.1 - but you still must say that they are DEMOS!!! DAMN! How hard is that to understand?! Mike Jose M. Sanchez wrote: No you are approaching this the wrong way. The DVD version is touted as containing other packages available to the end user. As a result many people purchase this package expecting ALL of those listed applications to be available on the DVD. This is what leaves the ripped off feeling. It would have been far better NOT to have included these demo packages or at least not have listed them the way your marketing people have as an enticement to purchase the Prosuite. What you are doing is effectively making everyone feel short changed. That said, yes you can provide bundled in commercial packages at added cost on additional cds provided the end user is fully cognizant of what they are getting. A Game release version of Linux should not only be tailored to be game friendly but ideally should include a full title or two, even if this brings up the price. Eh, wait, that's exactly what you did! Mandrake is in a unique position, in that it can negociate deals with the producers to provide fully bundled in apps at a low cost. When you list extra applications as included, this is what we expect. The assumption is that the added cost is to pay for these apps. As an end user, if I'm popping extra money for a pro version or the like, the first thing I do is look to see what is included. I did this when looking at the Pro-suite release... Oooh it looked nice, all those extra apps listed in the matrix. Well I get the DVD product only to find that there really ARE NO extra apps, other than the few Mandrakized RPM's for the free apps already available on the internet. Hmmm. Not a good buy IMHO. If I'd have been told that I could get the 3CD set, but for 20.00 more I'd get another CD with the Mandrakized RPM's, I'd have gone for the latter and felt pretty good about it. As it is, sorry Civilme, Mandrake's marketing people don't get it. Remember I'm merely voicing my displeasure. This represents a minimum of 100 or so people who feel likewise but never bother posting messages about this. Pointing to other releases is also a non-sequitor, who cares? I'm only going by what is posted on Mandrake's web site which is misleading. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:57 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mike Tracy Holt' |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Extras in the DVD release | | |On Saturday 24 November 2001 10:29 am, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: | Yeap, that's why the Prosuite DVD leaves a bad taste. | | The source RPM's are included, which is nice, but aside from already | free freebies, the DVD only gives you Mandrakized RPM's for the | programs I listed. | | Yeah it's nice that the RPM's are included for Realplayer, but since | it's a free release, it really should have been packaged in the | original release, etc
[expert] live drive
Hello all, I'm just wondering if there has been any new developement on the sound blaster live front side drive? I've been scowering the internet for answers, and it seems that it's supposed to be supported, but no one really talks about how to get it working. I read in one place that you needed a separate mixed to access the functions on the drive, but it didn't go into detail about that. Does anyone have this device working correctly (mostly the headphone jack and the volume control for that jack)? Thanks in advance! Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt \|||/ Kirkland, WA(o o) [EMAIL PROTECTED]o00--(_)--00o www.holt-tech.net --- There's something to be said for relatives... it has to be said because it's unprintable. (A. Einstein) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] apple network?
A V Flinsch wrote: On Thursday 15 November 2001 20:43, you wrote: Hello all! I'm running a mandrake 8.1 server which hosts printer and file services for my windows 2000 machines via Samba; I would like to be able to set up the same stuff for my imac running mac os 9.1 ~ what do I need? I want to use the same server that is already running Samba and I would just like to add whatever I need to that server. Does that make sense? You need to run netatalk, you can find Mandrake rpms at http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ You can run on the same server that you are running Samba on (I do it that way) As a side bonus, if you have a printer on a window machine, and it is shared via windows and it is set up to allow the linux machine to print to it, you can also see if from the Apples. Awesome! Thanks all for the answers - I'm up and running and it was relativly easy (after a couple beers ;-) ) I do have one problem though; I'm not really an apple / mac guy. I've only recently aquired a used imac and getting it networked to the rest of my resources was my mission (now accomplished). I'm still unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the mac however, and while I can get drivers, software, etc right from Epson for my model 860 inkjet and it will print beautifully as long as I'm connected to the usb port on the mac; if I print throught the network, it seems the only drivers available are the generic laserwriter drivers. My server is setup to use CUPS and I can print from Win2k through Samba with my Windows drivers and I get perfect prints - is there a way to setup the iMac to do the same thing? I would like to be able to control the print quality the same as I can when printing from linux or windows clients to my server. Do I set options in my papd.conf file and then just always use those settings? Here's my working papd.conf: Epson860:\ :pr=/usr/bin/lpr -PEpson860:\ :pd=/etc/cups/ppd/Epson860.ppd: I assume that the last line is the actual driver that I'm using, but on the mac I've selected 'laserwriter8' from my chooser and it also prompts me for a driver (for which I selected 'generic'). Thanks all! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- echo Michael;echo ---;uname -s -r;echo on an;echo AMD Athlon 700MHz Processor with 768MB RAM;echo ---;uptime Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] apple network?
Hello all! I'm running a mandrake 8.1 server which hosts printer and file services for my windows 2000 machines via Samba; I would like to be able to set up the same stuff for my imac running mac os 9.1 ~ what do I need? I want to use the same server that is already running Samba and I would just like to add whatever I need to that server. Does that make sense? Thanks in advance!! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] blackbox mouse
Hey all! I was wondering if someone knew of a way to adjust the mouse sensitivity in blackbox? thanks, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] blackbox mouse
Mitchell, Edmund wrote:
This is probably better posted to the Blackbox list at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
after searching in their archive at:
www.mail-archive.com
but to save the trouble here's a couple of ways:
Use xset like in
[submenu] (Mouse) {}
[exec] (Fast) {xset m 7 10}
[exec] (Normal) {xset m 3 6}
[exec] (Default) {xset m default}
[exec] (Slow) {xset m 0 10}
[end]
or, even easier, :
I use a simple line in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file (I think you need X
version
4.1.0, and double check me - it might have been the XF86Config-4 file, but
you'll
know right away, only one of those files has the syntax Optionxxx
value
It's in the mouse pointer section.
OptionResolution200
HTH
Edmund
-Original Message-
From: Mike Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] blackbox mouse
Hey all!
I was wondering if someone knew of a way to adjust the mouse
sensitivity in blackbox?
thanks, Mike
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Thanks so much for the reply! I appreciate knowing where the archive of
bb list is, but sorry to say, there's no way I can subscribe to another
list - between mandrake cooker, expert and a tarantula list that my wife
subcribes to - 300+ messages a day can get hard to sift through!
Thanks again!
Mike
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[expert] cd label creator
Hey all, I've been playing around with the different front-ends for cd burning and I was wondering if there were any projects out there to create cd labels that you put on the disc itself? I've found that I can print decent covers that go in the jewel case, but I'd like to find something that lets me use my stomper. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] raid and mandrake
civileme wrote: On Sunday 11 November 2001 05:12 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2001 10:55 pm, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Are there stats to backup the fact that linux software raid is faster than the highpoint chips+linux software raid - I have not seen any articals to that effect http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=450lang=en I'd want Civileme to respond to your speed query rather than try to speak for him. I would add tho, that the win-raid fad that many popular boards came out with a while back, requires a pcb design that actually introduces many problems. I believe it is at the heart of the much (over)hyped VIA-IDE 'bug' problems. Fortunately this win-raid kludge fad appears to have died out with mostly clueless windoze users being the majority of those who got snookered. Most from reading favorable win-raid motherboard reviews on otherwise respectable windoze hardware sites. eg, Tom's Hardware, Anand, Ars Technica, etc. There is nothing to indicate that RAID0 under linux software RAID would be any slower or faster than RAID0 on one of the HPT or Promise RAID controllers. If you want higher performance on that, you need real hardware. Of course these hardware sites reviewed RAID favorably because it gave some performance hains in Windows over the regular stuff, but realize that these are basically WinRAID controllers. Obviously if many windows users have the setup, and feel the need to access their WinRAID partition (yeah singular--you get _one_ RAID partition with these controllers) and use dual-boot, a project would be in order to assist them, but notice it is not by commercial distributors. What?? That last sentence is absolutely cryptic! What do you mean that you only get one RAID partition with these controllers? Once you setup the array, you can partition the drives as though they were only one drive - you can have as many partitions as you can without raid. Even the linux-ide project has no personnel involved. Andre Hedrick wrote quite an interesting letter about this junk on kernel traffic, more than a year ago, as you can discover from the link Tom posted. For right now, the Promixe RAID controllers are supported for one drive per channel, as regular controllers, and the HPTs seem to work somewhat better as regular controllers. That depends on what controller you're talking about. The fasttrak 66/100 add-on cards work the same as your existing ide controllers; two devices per channel - two channels onboard. When you create the array, you have the choice of 2, 3 or 4 ide devices in that array. There is a supported hardware IDE RAID documented at www.linux-ide.org and it does work very well indeed. It is a tad on the expensive side, but it could work wonders in limited space (one device runs two 2.5 notebook size drives as a RAID0 or RAID1 totally transparent to the system in a single 3.5 bay--great for a high-reliability thin box... Civileme QA team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quake 3 and Mandrake 8.1
Patrick Mayer wrote: I am trying to run Quake 3 Arena on Mandrake 8.1. My hardware is as follows: PIII 800mhz, 768 megs ram Matrox G400, 16mb 1024x768x 16bpp Soundblaster Live! Asus P3B DRI runs well with the games packaged with MDK 8.1. However, Quake 3 Arena crashes just before it gets in play mode. The same goes with Descent 3. This crashes X but does not lock up th emachine: I can still telnet and shutdown. Both programs have been patched to their latest version. Has anybody been able to make hose two games runwith Mdk 8.1, using similar hardware? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Can you start it from eterm or similar and then post the error message please? thanks, mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] YaST2 can not detect ISDN Fritz!Card
Dear my friends... I find a catasthroph about detecting ISDN Fritz!Card in SuSE Linux 7.2 and 7.3 . Before it, I was using the same ISDN (Teledat 150 PCI [Fritz!card]) card but I could detect this ISDN card very easily with SuSE Linux 7.3 . But why can my SuSE not detect this card now ? I have made sure that the card plugged correctly.. but xconsole always said Can not find Fritz!card PCI after I installed the driver of my Fritz!card manually. Is there a file that I have to modify to make my SuSE Linux can detect an ISDN card ? which one ? Thank you very much in advance hmmm... I've used SuSE but not since version 6.3 and I'm sure it's changed quite a bit since then. Even when I did use it, I never quite mastered the YaST admin tools. I would suggest this page: http://www.suse.com/us/support/mailinglists/index.html On it you will find a fairly extensive choice of lists to join - they even have one just for isdn. Good luck! Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Secure Disk Partitions
Well here's just my un-orthodox guess: Create a new user and group on your machine and give it ownership of that disk partition. Or maybe just pick an already existing group and put the partition in that group. As you can probably tell, I'm just guessing here 'cause I've never had to try that; I believe it's going to have to be a combination of permissions / ownership / grouping to get what you want. Maybe a System Admin could chime in here and add something? Good luck, Mike Dalton Calford wrote: Does anyone know how to encrypt a disk partition so that you have to provide a password in order to mount the volume? Are there how-to's available? best regards Dalton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] dual booting with Win2k
I have the same setup on this machine; it's simple setup using the nt bootloader (which has always worked without a hitch for me). Install mandrake as normal but when you get to the point where you need to install the bootloader, tell it to use lilo (graphic or text - doesn't matter) and then install it on the /boot partition (or just / if you haven't specified separate partitions). Make sure that you create a boot floppy during the install because you won't be able to boot without it. After the install is done, leave your boot floppy in and reboot. Log in and then su to root and run this: dd if=/dev/hdax of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 The x in hdax should be the partition that you installed lilo to. Now move the bootsect.lnx file that you just created from the directory you're standing on to the Windows 98 root directory (c:\) and open the boot.ini file that's in that directory. Add the following line: C:\bootsect.lnx=whatever you want to show up in the boot menu Save and reboot (remove the floppy this time though). I've been doing this for over a year now and I've never had any problems. One other suggestion though; create a common directory that all three systems can access - I use My Documents on c drive. It's FAT32 so all 3 can read and write without problems and I'm not always wondering what I did with a file that I just downloaded. Also, I'm very careful about mounting my Windows 2000 system under linux; I only do it if necessary and only to maybe to copy a file and then I unmount it so I don't take a chance on corrupting it. Have fun! Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Rambo Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] dual booting with Win2k One of the guys I work with is interested in putting Mdk8.1 on his workstation to try to learn to use it. His box presently dual boots Windows98 and 2000 and he uses both systems at times depending on what he has to do. He has a 30GB hard and therefore has enough room for all three systems. Are there any gotcha's or problems in doing this - particularly since 2000 uses it's own boot loader? Thanks. -- Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] realserver playlist
Hello experts! I'm writing again about realserver; this time it's about how to stream a playlist. I've been looking around at different formats that real server handles (.ram, .m3u, .smi) and the common thread that I've noticed is that each of these has to have the FULL path to each mp3 listed that you want to stream. Now this is for a home network where I would like to be able to sit at any of the computers, pull up real player, pick a playlist and start listening; however, I have over 500 mp3's on my local server - that's a lot of hand editing. I can ls the directory and output to the file I need, but getting the rest of the path added to each line has got me stumped. Is there a program that can handle this task? I've been looking at sed and awk, but I'm a little bit confused as to how to use them. TIA, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] One week after... And no one has noticed! WOW
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Octuber 11 it was released MandrakeLinux81-ProSuite I discovered on the 12 of Oct. and been waiting for comments. This file has been available and NO one, not even Mandrake has mentioned it! MandrakeLinux81-ProSuite.i586.iso md5sums.81prosuite I downloaded it last thursday, made the CD (Single CD installation) and is the Server-Only version of Mandrake-8.1 I believe it will replace Mandrake Corporate Server. It seems like everybody has been busy testing the new release of Mandrake 8.1 (Vitamin) and have not visited the mirrors lately ;-) Mandrake Linux 8.1 Vitamin-Server-i586 20011009 15:25 Run to the mirror closest to you! Important note: The root account will give you unrestricted access to your Linux system. Do not use it except to configure or administer Linux. For every day use, use a normal user account which you can configure with the userdrake tool, or with the commands adduser and passwd. Good luck with MandrakeLinux ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Actually, it was mentioned a few days ago (cooker list or here? Can't remember ~ anyhoo); I wouldn't encourage people to 'run' out and get it though, I would encourage them to 'buy' a copy of prosuite. Isn't it enough that the 3 cd's worth of 8.1 are free to download? Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] all-white tux?
Hey~ I'm playing with tuxracer and I've picked it up off of one of the lists but now can't seem to find it; what do you change in the options file for tuxracer to bring back his skin color? Right now it's all-white. tia, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] backups
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:49, civileme wrote: On Monday 01 October 2001 07:21, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? tia, Mike See mandrakeforum. There are three packages of interest and it is probably tstill the lead article. Civileme =_1001922593-1934-1284 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks to everyone for these answers - I think I like the Partition Image program the best. It has only beta support for XFS but it seems like it has the most promise. I didn't even think about the 'dd' command; I use it all the time when I update lilo for anything to copy my bootimage so I can use the windows 2000 bootloader to boot linux. thanks again, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] pine error 550 relay....
hh!! I know I've been able set this up before - what the heck am I doing wrong now??? I'll back up; I'm trying to setup pine on my linux box (mdk 8.1) and I've got fetchmail getting the mail just fine. When I try to send however, I get the error listed in my subject line (or something to that effect) and I can also see that it's adding my useraccount@my computername.etc and I'm using verizon dsl which requires that that says my verizon account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I cannot figure out how to get it into pine. I've tried setting it up in my .pinerc, etc. but to no avail. Can someone please tell me how to send mail with pine without having to use sendmail? tia, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] backups
Hello experts I excitedly installed norton ghost (with support for my yamaha 16x cd burner) and was so happy that I could make images of my drive (ALL operating systems!) and when problems arise, reinstall everything in a matter of minutes to prestine state. My problem now is that I've migrated to XFS and I don't have that comfort know that if something happens, I can restore my system in minutes to exactly the way it was. Can someone point me to something comparable for linux using jounaling filesystems? tia, Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] spaces and command line
I've got a couple of newbie questions that I've just never really bothered asking before but it's always bothered me, so here goes. 1st, I've noticed that bash doesn't seem to handle spaces in directory or file names very well. When I look at my windows partitions from linux, I can see the complete file names, but when I try to 'cd' to a certain directory, bash doesn't seem to deal to well with the spaces. I've found that I can just use an asterisk in place of the spaces, but is there another way? 2nd, if I'm at the command line, no X server involved, is there a way to 'scroll' up to see what stout was previously on the screen? Say I do 'ls' and then do some other stuff and lose that information, is there anyway to retrieve that screen or is it just printed once and lost? Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] spaces and command line
Thanks! Hi, when you cd to a directory that has spaces in its name, you have to escape the spaces with a back slash, e.g.: [/]$ cd dir\ name\ with\ spaces\ in\ name [/dir name with spaces in name]$ as for scrolling up, try SHIFT+PGUP. HTH, David Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] samba printing
Ok, to append that last message, I've narrowed it down to Microsoft photo editor that comes with office. I was able to print with the gimp (a windows port) and I was able to print a project from publisher. It seems like I'm going to have to go through and find out which programs can and can't print to samba. I would still like some insight as to why this is if anyone feels qualified to take a stab at an explanation? Again, tia, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner@linux- mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Mike Tracy Holt Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] samba printing Hello again, Ok, I'm new to Samba but I think I've covered all my bases and I'm still having trouble. 1st, I'm using mdk 8.1b3 and cups on my linux server. I've got Windows 2000 setup on another box and it can see my linux stuff under network neighborhood. I've got my Epson 860 setup with cups using the recommended gimp / ghostscript driver and it will do test pages fine from both linux and the Win2k boxes, and I was also able to print a .doc file from word. When I try to print .jpg files though, I get print error from windows and if I try to print another test page, it says can't find printer at the top of the print queue window. I let it sit for a few minutes, and then I can print my windows test page again. Any thoughts? When I'm connect to a windows machine, I can print beautiful photos and I've had pretty nice ones come out of linux too. The linux driver shouldn't be the issue, I wouldn't think. TIA, Mike Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] spaces and command line
Thank you! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of jipe Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] spaces and command line Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Thanks! Hi, when you cd to a directory that has spaces in its name, you have to escape the spaces with a back slash, e.g.: [/]$ cd dir\ name\ with\ spaces\ in\ name [/dir name with spaces in name]$ as for scrolling up, try SHIFT+PGUP. HTH, David Charles u can also replace all spaces with ? (most appropriate) or * or simply type some letters of the directory and use some * to go to my mp3 directory - cd my*ry or cd *mp3* can run fine if no other directory in the parent directory uses the same chains of characters in its name. bye jipe
[expert] win2k to samba printing [This is a REPOST]
Hello all, Over the weekend I was able to setup Samba on mdk8.1b3 and I'm able to see my shares under Network Places on the win2k box and I can also see my Epson860 printer and I can print to it with most programs. However, there are a few programs that I've noticed so far that generate a simple print error message and fail to print (microsoft photo editor and kodak image editor are two such programs). After this happens, it takes a few minutes for the win2k box to find the printer again (maybe it actually is receiving the file and just not spooling it?) My question is this: How can I get seamless support for printing? I use multiple client platforms (imac, win2k, linux, etc...) but I would like my backbone stuff (web, email, printer, file servers, etc...) to run on linux only without having to unplug and plug cables different places or boot into different operating systems to get the job done. I will be setting up netatalk this week, but again, I would like to know that samba is functioning correctly first. Should I grab the newer Samba packages from cooker? Is there maybe a setting that I've overlooked? Is the problem more likely to be in the cups packages or another package that I haven't thought of yet? TIA, Mike If my email seems to vague, please write me for more info ~ I really need help!! Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA www.holt-tech.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Blocking oulook/outlook express
What the heck for?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner@linux- mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Tom Badran Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Blocking oulook/outlook express Im running a multipurpose server based on mandrak 8, using postfix and the pop3 service in xinetd. However i would really like to block any requests (posts or pop downloads) from outlook and outlook express email clients. Is this even possible? and if so could someone help on how this is done. -- Tom Tomahawk Badran Department of Computing, Imperial College Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Blocking oulook/outlook express
I'm not sure exactly what your network situation is, but can't you simply instruct people that are using your network in the proper etiquette for using Outlook? People attack Outlook because so many people use it and aren't familiar with it's features (the bigger the target, the easier to hit); if you're the company admin, simply turn off the scripting abilities of Outlook for each of your clients and you're set. I'm typing this reply using Outlook on my Win2k box and to my knowledge, I've never given, received or passed a virus. Let me make this analogy: Your roommate comes in the apartment at 3am with a loud group of friends after a party and walks in your bedroom (knowing full well that you have to get up at 5am for work) and flips on your light to ask you if he / she can borrow some money ~ the following day, do you rip all the light switches out of the apartment? Mike :) The reason i want to block is simple, outlook and outlook express spread those horrible email viruses, nothing else seems too, and im tired of the going through parts of my network. I already have adresses blocked that i dont want to connect, but iwas just hoping that maybe email clients reported themselves like web browsers do, and it would therefore be reasonlby simple to block, if they dont then i suppose there is nothing i can do, i just hate having one single byte of network bandwidth abused because some idiot can be bothered to change mail clients. On Saturday 15 September 2001 11:42 am, you wrote: What the heck for?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Intel web cams
Hello Has anyone been able to get an intel web cam to work? Thanks, Mike
RE: [expert]Thanks! (was anonymous ftp login)
Thanks Mark! I tried getting anonftp installed but it complained that it wanted wu-ftp installed also. I installed both of them but they complained about conflicts with proftpd; I uninstalled them again and took a look at proftpd and found out that I could get it do exactly what I wanted it to. I just had to add a couple of lines to my existing /etc/proftpd.conf file and viola! Thanks again for your help! I wouldn't have found out about proftpd if I hadn't installed the other two packages. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 4:26 AM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] anonymous ftp login Hi Mike, The first thing you want to do is make sure you have the package anonftp installed on your system. rpm -qa | grep anonftp If you do you will get a response from your system that looks like this; anonftp-3.0-14mdk The next thing you will want to do is read and follow very carefully the instructions that I've sent along. this is what I used to configure and get going my anonymous ftp. If you have any troubles please feel free to email me. Mark Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello experts I sent this a couple of days ago, but I'm not sure if it went through. Could someone either explain the procedure for making /var/ftp/pub available to anonymous login or possibly point me to a howto? Thanks in advance, Mike
[expert] anonymous ftp login
Hello experts I sent this a couple of days ago, but I'm not sure if it went through. Could someone either explain the procedure for making /var/ftp/pub available to anonymous login or possibly point me to a howto? Thanks in advance, Mike
[expert] cups and the netgear ps110/ps113 printserver
Hello all, Has anybody tried using cups with the aforementioned printserver? I don't imagine that it would be a problem, but after a lot of thought, it seems that this will be the most efficient solution for me at this time. I'm running multiple computers and multiple OS's on each computer in my home (SOHO); I don't really want to try to get every OS talking to every other OS on each computer - way to much confusion. If anyone has had experience with this setup, please let me know how it worked out, k? TIA, Mike
[expert] attn: Till Kamppeter / Axis 1440 print server
Hello experts (especially Till), I've got a small network at home running multiple OS's and I've been considering buying the Axis 1440 print server to attach to my Epson printer. It's a small device that attaches directly to the parallel port and then to your hub/switch or whatever and has it's own ip address. There are drivers available for Windows and Macintosh and it says that it supports Unix also. What I'm wondering is if I can use cups with the setup or do I need to work something else out? With all the great work that Till has done for printer drivers for my epson 860, I hate to have to back to some generic driver that looks like crap! Here's the web address for the pdf document from epson about setting this up under unix if it helps: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/c1440a/c1440au1.pdf page 63 deals with unix (section 8) Thanks in advance, Mike Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Windows media player
Hello experts! Does anybody know of a media player that will handle the new windows media player codecs? Most of the streaming media I listen to uses Real Player and I've got Mozilla calling that just fine ~ now there are just a couple of places that contract with www.streamaudio.com to handle their streaming media. It comes up as mime type "application/x-mplayer2" and I can't even find the extension; I think it's .asf, not sure though. Any thoughts? Thanks, Mike
RE: [expert] LM7.2 and a promise FASTTRAK66 questions.
Promise has a driver for both Redhat 6.2 and 7.0 available on their site but no other version; here's a copy of the 'readme' file included with it: FastTrak66/100 Redhat Linux 6.2 and 7.0 Readme This bootable SCSI Module only supports Redhat 6.2 and 7.0. If you choose to use any other Kernel or version of the Redhat you must recompile the Kernel against our SCSI module. Redhat 6.2 Extract the contents of the zip file onto a formatted floppy disk. 1.) Start the Redhat Install by booting with the installation diskettes or bootable CD ROM. 2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux 6.2" installation screen, a prompted labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen. At the prompt type "expert text" (without quoations) and then press the enter key. 3.) At the "Devices" dialog box insert the diskette with the module in the floppy drive and then select "ok". 4.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device". 5.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select "SCSI", and then select "ok". 6.) Now press "P" key and scoll down to "Promise IDE RAID SCSI Driver", and then select "ok". 7.) The installation process will now display the "Promise FastTrak IDE RAID SCSI Driver" as been found, select "done". 8.) Continue with the installation as normal. When you reach the partitioning you will only be able to use "Disk Druid". Create a 1 gig root partition and then use the remaining space to define to "/usr" folder off of the root. This must be done because Redhat 6.2 has a 1 gig SCSI boot limitation. LILO MUST BE INSTALLED ON THE MBR IF YOU WANT TO BOOT FROM THE ARRAY. Redhat 7.0 Extract the contents of the zip file onto a formatted floppy disk. 1.) Start the Redhat Install by booting with the installation diskettes or bootable CD ROM. 2.) At the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux 6.2" installation screen, a prompted labeled "boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen. At the prompt type "expert text" (without quoations) and then press the enter key. 3.) At the "Devices" dialog box select "Yes". 4.) At the "Insert your driver disk and press the "OK" to continue" prompt, press "OK". 5.) After reaching the "Devices" dialog box again, select "Add Device". 6.) When asked "what kind of device would you like to add?", select "SCSI", and then select "ok". 7.) Now press "P" key and scoll down to "Promise IDE RAID SCSI Driver", and then select "ok". 8.) The installation process will now display the "Promise FastTrak IDE RAID SCSI Driver" as been found, select "done". 9.) Continue with the installation as normal. You may boot from any size partition as Redhat 7.0 does not have the 1 gig boot limitation that 6.2 does. LILO MUST BE INSTALLED ON THE MBR IF YOU WANT TO BOOT FROM THE ARRAY. More extensive info the installation of the module will be posted by Nov 22, 2000. Hope this helps, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of hex Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 16:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] LM7.2 and a promise FASTTRAK66 questions. Hello all! I plan on gettin a promise ultra 66 fasttrak raid controller around christmas and i have a few questions concerning raid 0 striping and linux. Basically i will be striping to 17.2 gb WD harddrives and doing the combined drive thing and im needing to know if there is anything special i should do concerning kernel modules (like which ones to add to the kernel because im currently running a recompiled lm 7.2 base kernel with a bunch of stuff removed so it runs better on this machine). Also is it possible to get lilo to boot from the 2 hds seen as one or will i need a seperate drive to boot from? Will the striping process properly stripe reiserFS or should i just trash my mandrake install and start fresh? Willl this even work? Thanks for your time. h3x Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] scanning under linux
Hello experts! I've just connected my scanner (agfa snapscan 1212u) and I know it's supported because I had played with it under previous versions of MDK. I'm now using 7.2 and noticed that I don't have any scanner programs installed - could someone tell me exactly which programs I need to install in order to use my scanner? TIA, Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] WPO2000 / LM7.2
Hello experts! Anyone been able to get WPO2k to work with LM7.2? I've followed some instructions that I found on the cooker list and applied a patch that I got from the Corel website, but I still get these messages: "No running font server was detected. I will try to start a font server on this host and then wait for 30 seconds to allow the font server to start up." followed by: "Unable to add FontTastic font server to the font path. The font server is probably not installed or not running. Correct the problem and try again." I've toyed around with it but not come up with anything useful and Corel is no help either. TIA, Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] WPO2000 / LM7.2
OH THANK YOU!! The one thing that I overlooked! I had done all the other steps and even remember seeing this somewhere, just didn't do this part for some reason. As far as downloading - I don't think you can d/l wpo2k, only wp8. Thanks again, Mike (if running xf86 4.0+) open /usr/lib/corel/bin/wpolauncher and change everything that says xset fp+ tcp/$host:7102/all 2/dev/null remove the /all do this for all entries dave Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] raid / reiserfs
Hello, I would have searched the archives on this but I can't seem to get into the Mandrake website? Anyway, I'm planning on putting a Promise IDE RAID card (Fast trak udma 66) in one of my computers this weekend and I was wondering if anyone could tell me if reiserfs will work on a hardware raid setup as this? Also, if anyone is interested, this guy will do the necessary hack to a standard Promise udma 66 controller card to make it a fast trak 66 raid card (saving at least $50). If anyone knows about this/is interested, here's the address: http://promiseraid.tripod.com/ Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] raid / reiserfs
P.S. From what I can remember, the Promise ATA-RAID hack is the addition of the right resistor in the right place (which will cost you about 5c). Exactly, it costs 29.99 (+shipping and sales tax) for the card (5c for the resistor), then the time to do the work. This guy is selling the cards modified with a 30 day guarantee for $35 + $5 for shipping and you can deduct $10 if you send cash for a total of $30 - no tax. That's a savings of 4c (a little more if you count the tax and time it would take to do it yourself). Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] WPO 2000/PhotoPaint on LM 7.1?
Question: how should I interpret the relative silence of this list about WPO 2000. Several possibilities come to my mind: - (different from Larry Marshall and me) there is consensus that WPO 2000 is a bad product and nearly no one has bought it. I have it, used it on 7.1 and like it a lot. I'm now using the beta / cooker versions of Mandrake and honestly haven't had the time to load it back up. - there is a much better Office product. Which? The Office products for Linux are not as evolved as the solutions that you will find for Windows, that's just the way it is. Yes, everyone has their opinion on this, so please don't everyone attack. It's pretty much a toss-up over which features are on which product, but I think at this point, it's between StarOffice and Corel WPO2000. - (different from Larry Marshall) there is general consensus about mandrake: don't use it for WPO 2000. Joachim Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1
Any other possibilities? I am going to read the man and info pages on mkisofs, but I think I need to know how it works within the program itself since I'm not calling it from the command line; does that make sense? Try and create the image manually with mkisofs and experiment with the command line options. AFAIK, the gui programs are only frontends to mkisofs and sometimes don't make use of all the options. Using the example on the cooker page is a good place to start. I routinely add -J for Windows compatability. Hoyt Thank you! I'm on it! Mike Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1
Hello experts, I'm new to cd burning, so I'm wondering if this is me or the program. I tried to use both KisoCD and X-CD-Toaster and I get the same error: "Warning: creating a filesystem that does not conform to ISO 9660" My HP 8100 CD writer was found and configured on install of the system, and both programs seem to be able to find it ok, and I'm able to set up the files I want to burn and set the parameters that I want to use, but when I say 'ok, burn' I get the error message. Any ideas? Is this a problem with mkisofs? TIA, Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1
Hello experts, I'm new to cd burning, so I'm wondering if this is me or the program. I tried to use both KisoCD and X-CD-Toaster and I get the same error: "Warning: creating a filesystem that does not conform to ISO 9660" My HP 8100 CD writer was found and configured on install of the system, and both programs seem to be able to find it ok, and I'm able to set up the files I want to burn and set the parameters that I want to use, but when I say 'ok, burn' I get the error message. Any ideas? Is this a problem with mkisofs? No problems, it just means that you are not creating and ISO image that conforms strictly to the ISO 9660 standards, probably with nested directories or total length of the pathname. Read man mkisofs for some of the commands that deal with this. Certain non-conformities are not fatal. Hoyt Ok, that makes sense; problem is that both the programs I mentioned use mkisofs in the background and neither one gave me the option of bypassing the warning and burning the disk anyway. I was able to make an audio cd today by using the cd duplicate function of xcdroast (put a music cd into the burner, copy to hard disk, then put blank cd into burner and make the copy). I had to chmod 4711 on a handful of programs in order to run as $user (mkisofs included), but it did make a good copy. I'm wondering how that's different from just selecting files to create a data CD? This is what first made me think it was the program itself, but then I received the same error with both programs. Any other possibilities? I am going to read the man and info pages on mkisofs, but I think I need to know how it works within the program itself since I'm not calling it from the command line; does that make sense? Thanks again, Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
[expert] GLX / quake 3
Hello all, Could anyone give this one a shot? I'm trying to run quake 3 arena on mdk 7.2 beta 3 with a Matrox video card and 3D acceleration with XFree3.3.6. Quake starts up ok and I can select options, watch the demo movies, etc. but when I start playing the game, it crashes the game and whatever window manager I use (kde, windowmaker) leaving me eterm with the following in the display: Server: q3dm0 RE_Shutdown(0) Loading dll file qagame. Failed to load dll, looking for qvm. Loading vm file vm/qagame.qvm. VM file qagame compiled to 1406264 bytes of code XError of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request: 147(GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate) Any ideas would be great! Thanks, Mike Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Advice on Mobo
Hey Mark, I like to visit www.anandtech.com and www.tomshardware.com before I make hardware purchases. That said; at this point, I don't believe that there's a dual Athlon motherboard available to the public yet. I'm using the Asus K7V board with Athlon 700 and 512MB ram with no problems at all. I've heard the Asus A7V is even better (came out right after I bought mine). I've heard that Asus is working on a dual processor solution (and most likely others are too) and if they come out with one, I'm sure it would be as stable as their name is known for. Mike Hi list, I'm starting the research on getting the parts together to build a new system. I want to build a dual Athlon 700 system with at least 256MB of RAM and a large SCSI drive. What I'm wondering about is what kind of mobo would be best suited for my penguin. Of course there will be no Windows in this machine. I already have on machine with Windows in it and this one isn't going to be it. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. TIA -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this| ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] bind8 program
Unix version of DNS - no? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of faisal Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 7:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] bind8 program Why do we use bind program ? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Why must I confirm to post to the list?
Possibly you are sending posts from a different address than you signed up on the list with? Mike Now I have to confirm each post? ??? Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from yavin.mandrax.org ([63.209.80.226]) by mtiwgwc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id 2927193854.YRQF19335.mtiwgwc22.worldnet.att.net@yav in.mandrax.org for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:38:54 + Received: by yavin.mandrax.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 279B41D44B; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:49:21 -0700 (PDT) From: SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: confirm 7e6ae2c41136ab1aa3b2d1d40b67a985 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="- Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Content-Transfert-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] WIN2K
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do, but I'm running Win2k Server, Pro, Win98 and Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta 2 all on the same box using the NT bootloader for all. If you install them each on a separate partition, you shouldn't have any problem. Of course you can't install them all on the same partition and expect them to work. Let me know what you need (write off list if necessary) Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Armisis Aieoln wrote: Microsoft needs to make things more compatable dont they? Linux is always attempting to make things compatable with everything else, what about windows? On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: [MandrakeForum] WIN2K WIN2K (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2917132808) Nacho writes "Can't install Mandrake Linux 7.1 on WIN2K. Please help, Nacho " Answer: Problem is: we can not resize NTFS. DiskDrake can only resize FAT, Ext2 and Reiser FS, and NTFS support in Linux in general is very bad. In order to get Linux and NT (with NTFS) co-exist, either you have to tell NT to leave part of the HD for Linux, buy a separate HD for linux, or use "Partition magic" (I think this prog. can resize NTFS) which is included in MacMillan packages of LM. The PM included with LM CAN NOT resize NTFS partitions. DO NOT confuse Win2000 with NT they are not the same. In Win2000 you can use the disk utility to convert the NTFS to Fat32. DiskDrake or PM can then be used to resize that partition and then to create a partition for the Mandrake installation. If this by chance was an attempt to install linux4win, it will not work period, with Win2000. Charles Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Linux - Cause I dont do windows or ovens! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Registered System: 83659 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] IE5 for linux
Yup - that's all there is. I'm currently using IE5.5 and Outlook 2000 (on win2k) which don't have near the problems of Netscape. I would love to see a port to linux (any hackers out there?) Mike Someone posted a comment that IE5.5 was available for UNIX at ftp.microsoft.com and that they were using it. After searching through their ftp site I find IE5 for Solaris and HP-UX only, any one have anything on this. I hate to admit it but IE is much better than NS4xx or NS6 (at least it doesn't lock my system while browsing java pages). Using NS 4.74 at present.. TIA, -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Electrocom Computer Services Payette, Idaho 83661 1-888-642-7101 Sales - Services - Repair Web: http://www,nwaa.com E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #183936 Driver Petition sig. # 00063954 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
RE: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out
Good luck, been looking all day with no luck =( Mike (Ulysses) iso is out I can't find the files yet - can someone post an address for an ISO mirror that that has 7.2 ? thanks, philomena
RE: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso is out
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=2902132634 Anybody know what extra cool new versions of old favorites this puppy sports? X 4.01? 2.4 kernel? There is no read me in the directory that refers to the ISO's. Abe
Re: [expert] BSD install
I would maybe go to www.ask.com and do a search on encryption types. Basically, different ones give you different levels of security. I played with FreeBSD a little but have decided to wait until I've read a little more before continuing with it. I do remember the screens that you're talking about, asking about encryption, etc, and I think the different types are included for backward compatibility? (Maybe joining an existing network?). Just some thoughts, Mike Thomas, On the BSD install it asks you what type of encryption you would like to use. What is the suggested and what are the reasons for so many? Don't you think you're asking a BSD question on the wrong expert list ?!? Thanks... Dan.
Re: [expert] CL = Command Line (TM) (NT)
Actually, I thought it was "New Technology" - no jokes intended. Mike I thought NT was for "Not Tested" On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, you wrote: For the uninitiated, NT means No TeXT. -- Best Regards, Bruce
Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.
GO AWAY! Allen Bolderoff wrote: I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the crap. Yea, let's get a mandrake kiss ass corporate employee to censor out stuff so you won't find out how crappy this 7.1 release really is. That way the stock price will dictate what you can and can't post to the list. Good move. So I was pissed when I wrote my little rant, have you ever thrown your keyboard and mouse across the room? Yes, I have a bad attitude towards lame geeky user interfaces, but that's just me. I think they need to hear loud and clear that when they put out releases or call things "stable" that arn't, they will cause people great frustration, including damage to anything close by :) I don't want to cause this list to be censored, please don't even consider it. Just take the responsibility of setting your filtering on your mailer, or even better, write a nasty message to your mailer developer and ask why they don't have a way to simply "right click" on a message and say "block this thread of messages" so you don't have to miss out on all my messages, sometimes I help people (really I do). This reminds me of when people ask the government to be mommy and censor the net for them. (there goes that nasty attitude again, I better shut up)
RE: [expert] MP3 Files
I've a couple of MP3 files. How to write these files to CD as a normal Audio CD. Cheers Sridhar You have to change the format from .mp3 to .cda; I've seen third party software for Windows that would do this, but nothing yet for linux. Sort of like the difference between jpegs and bitmaps. Mike
RE: [expert] MP3 Files
Sridhar G wrote:
I've a couple of MP3 files. How to write these files to CD as a normal
Audio
CD.
Cheers
Sridhar
Here is a script of mine. I call it
makecd. Just copy it into a file and make it executable. Then you just
give it a list of mp3's on the command line and it writes it. The
script make some assumptions, but change it to change those assumptions
should be easy.
assumes:
1. You already can write regular data CDs. This means that you have
SCSI cd-writer, or (more likely) you have SCSI emulation going.
2. Your CD-writer is on SCSI device 0. This is almost certainly true if
you have SCSI emulation ('casue you have either an IDE or parallel-port
writer), and almost certain false if you have a true SCSI system.
3. Your CD-writer can write at 4x speed. If it's recent and it's SCSI
and/or parallel, this is probably the case, though if you have a slow
CPU the mp3 decoding might not be able to keep up, and a slower speed
might be called for. If you have a parallel-port writer, you probably
can't go past speed=1.
Here's the script, far smaller than the explanation:
cut
here--
#! /bin/csh -f
foreach fn ($*)
mpg123 -s $fn | cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
end
cdrecord dev=0,0 -fix -eject
--
Hey Brian!
Question, will this convert the .mp3 to .cda format or will it just place
the mp3's on a cd? I was under the impression that the later would take
place and that you had to, at some point, convert the file type (or else not
be able to use the cd in a normal cd player).
Mike
[expert] promise fast trak raid card
Hello all, I was just looking at the archives for the answer to this question but didn't find anything adequate. How much Linux-Mandrake support is there for the Promise Fast trak 66 ide raid card? Does anyone have it running and what did it take? Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] MP3 Files
This converts 'em. I play the CD's I create this way on my car stereo. No problem. Cool, I'll have to give that a try - funny what you can learn if you just ask! Mike
Re: [expert] How to use JDK 1.2.2 with StarOffice52
Charles A Edwards wrote: I think it is my ignorance not yours. How does one know when looking at the source code on that page that the applet was done in Java. When I have looked at the code on other sites , they have listed : lang.javascript so I know it was done in Java but this page dosen't do that. You have a good point, I was mostly going by everything else on the page. Their whole point is to advertise a java applications builder - I just assumed they would be using their own product. I don't really know, but I think you could build the same applet in C / C++. Java is more popular I believe, but that doesn't mean they are using it. I suppose to be able to view this type of applet in Linux one needs to have some sort of MS VM clone installed hmmm... where would one find such a thing? Maybe I have just been lucky but on both my systems pages display in SO as well as in IE and in most cases load faster. You can and in some case have to do more tweaking in linux in so far as fonts, sizes, DPI, etc. to customize it to your preferences. In my case I have used Netscape only if I had to(I don't like it) so I was happy to get SO installed and running. I do have SO installed on Windows 2000 and it looks great! It even opens much faster than the Linux version, but that could be due to a number of factors - I should probably think before slamming an entire product. Netscape does have good qualities, each update (4.72, .73 and now .74) looks like the only thing they've really changed is the version number though! It does have a sort charming familiarity however, like an old shirt. Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.0test5 System.map?
Daniel Bodanske wrote: I tried both linking the system.map and simply moving it to the boot partition as well "Eric MC.D" wrote: After compiling the kernel did you: copy your System.map-xx.xx.xx to /boot , and rm /boot/System.map ln -s /boot/System.map-xx.xx.xx /boot/System.map ?? Eric Daniel Bodanske wrote: OK, so I compiled the new kernel yeasterday, so I could try out the new Linux Diskless Terminal version (they recommend using 2.3.somethingoranother, but I figured the 2.4 would be safer). Anyway, I had no problem with the compilation, added it using linixconf as I always have done ( I recompile at home all the time to play) and when I rebooted, I got the error messages that the System.map was the wrong kernel version. I've never run into this before. I've been recompiling eversince 2.0.?? Anyway, I tried linuxconf again, and then I tried manually adding the System.map out of the source code. and probably if you actually know what you're doing, you'll tell me what I know now:that doesn't work. Anyone give me a clue what I'm missing? I'm really kind of ignorant. Daniel I've always done 'make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install' then when complete I run 'make install' which is what places the System.map file for one. Is that what you did? Mike -- ======== Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] usb zip drive
A V Flinsch wrote: On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: When I try to mount the zip I get this: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) There's your answer, while the port/zip drive were recoginized, the kernel modules were not loaded. try the following insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod usb-storage then try mounting the drive. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) AARRRGH!!! Do I feel stupid! Well here's another stupid question, how do I make sure that insmod is done at boot time? Both usbcore and usb-uhci were already loaded, it only needed usb-storage to load; is there a problem with it not knowing that this module needs loading? Where do I tell it to load at boot time? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] usb zip drive
Ignore this, I found the answer (/etc/sysconfig/usb) Mike Tracy Holt wrote: A V Flinsch wrote: On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: When I try to mount the zip I get this: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) There's your answer, while the port/zip drive were recoginized, the kernel modules were not loaded. try the following insmod usbcore insmod usb-uhci insmod usb-storage then try mounting the drive. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) AARRRGH!!! Do I feel stupid! Well here's another stupid question, how do I make sure that insmod is done at boot time? Both usbcore and usb-uhci were already loaded, it only needed usb-storage to load; is there a problem with it not knowing that this module needs loading? Where do I tell it to load at boot time? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] usb zip drive
Ellick Chan wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: do I make sure that insmod is done at boot time? Both usbcore and usb-uhci were already loaded, it only needed usb-storage to load; is there a problem with it not knowing that this module needs loading? Where do I tell it to load at boot time? Try editing /etc/sysconfig/usb to read: KEYBOARD=no MOUSE=no ZIP=yes -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 5 Got it, thanks! Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] top
Hello, Just a curious question here; I was just running 'gears' from the mesa demos and was seeing about a steady 177 fps. Just for kicks I opened another window and ran 'top' and left gears running which promptly shot up to 214 fps! I would think opening another app would slow it way down but I was wondering what the functions of top are? Does it also kill background processes when you invoke it? What would explain the change in speed on gears? Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] usb zip drive
Hello experts! I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive. Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my system a few times and never been able to get my zip working under Linux again. Could someone please point me in the right direction? I'm using Mandrake 7.1, I did an expert install and went with reiserfs. I said 'no' to the 'any scsi interfaces' during install - is this my problem? I've even recompiled my kernel using the latest 2.4.xx from Mandrake, but still have never just had my zip auto-detected like it was the first time around. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] How to use JDK 1.2.2 with StarOffice52
If you look at the source that applet is not javascript, it is a ScrollAd.Zip which SO Linux can not handle Go to any page at www.zdnet.com , check the source and you will see that you do indeed have support for javascript in SO. Charles Please pardon my ignorance, but I've just looked at the source and it's javascript that's used to call that applet (which is a java applet), why doesn't it show on SO? I'm not a java developer, but I've played a little with it and if you've got some type of jre installed, you should be able to interpret applets. This isn't meant to be a stand-off, but a request for knowledge. This is something that has confused me for awhile, why IE can display pages beautifully and even Netscape under windows looks great; boot into linux and it's another story - pages look like crap compared to the windows counterparts! Thanks, Mike
Re: [expert] Mandrake of a 486?
Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the version that's optimized for i486. It's in iso format so you have to have a cd burner or you can compile your own kernel and just optimize it yourself for the i486 (the iso way, in my opinion, is much easier!). http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 Mike I know that Mandrake is configured for a Pentium or better, but I like it so much that I wonder if it would work on a 486 laptop? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
Re: [expert] Anti-Virus for Linux
Best thing is don't run as root. Other than that, go to www.linuxberg.com and you can do a search for antivirus programs there. There are some. Mike This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks. Jason
Re: [expert] Mandrake of a 486?
Yes, actually 7.02, but that's not really that old. Mike But isn't the version on the website 7.0 for 486 instead of 7.1? Matt Hey Jeff, if you go to the Mandrake web page, you can download the version that's optimized for i486. It's in iso format so you have to have a cd burner or you can compile your own kernel and just optimize it yourself for the i486 (the iso way, in my opinion, is much easier!). http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#486 Mike I know that Mandrake is configured for a Pentium or better, but I like it so much that I wonder if it would work on a 486 laptop? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
Re: [expert] usb zip drive
Hello experts! I'm kicking myself here; I had, at one point, a working usb zip drive. Don't know what I did, in fact I believe that Mandrake found and installed it without my intervention. I've deleted and reinstalled my system a few times and never been able to get my zip working under Linux again. Could someone please point me in the right direction? I'm using Mandrake 7.1, I did an expert install and went with reiserfs. I said 'no' to the 'any scsi interfaces' during install - is this my problem? I've even recompiled my kernel using the latest 2.4.xx from Mandrake, but still have never just had my zip auto-detected like it was the first time around. Let's ask the most obvious question first. During boot is your USB controller being loaded and also is it listed in your device menu? Charles Ok, my device menu does see the onboard usb controller and 'usbview' sees that I have both a usb hub and the iomega zip drive attached (yes, I tried moving the zip drive directly to the usb root port and it recognizes it both ways). When booting I see both the usb daemon and usb filesystem starting, and then when 'drakfont' starts I get the message 'usb.c not recognized by any drivers' When I try to mount the zip I get this: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) Mike
Re: [expert] usb zip drive
I don't know if this is your answer, but when I was VERY NEW in Linux, ( I'm still new, but not as bad! ), I installed Mandrake 5.2 or 5.3. I had never gotten my zip working and it was the parallel port version. One install, I happened to have a formatted zip disk in the drive and Mdk recognized it. Upon the next install, there was no zip in the drive and it did NOT install.. Try to put a disk in the drive before you power up, then try the install! Hope this could be your answer.. Alan That might be my next move, but I'm quite ready to give up. I'm hoping that I can get it going without having to reinstall. I have thought of doing 'upgrade', but I have updated almost everything on this install and I'm afraid it would make everything flip out if I went backwards. Mike
Re: [expert] Goofy SYMPA
Ken Thompson wrote: I keep getting a confirm message returned each time I try to reply to the list, what's going on?? I have tried with both upper and lower case "E" in the "Experts" in the address.. You're most likely posting from an address other than the one you used to sign up with; I did the same thing using bigfoot.com to route my mail and that's exactly what my problem was. Mike -- ======== Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Netscape RPM Problems?
Astrum Support wrote: Hello, Is anyone else having problems upgrading with the Netscape-4.74 rpms? I downloaded the netscape-common, netscape-communicator, and netscape-navigator 4.74-3mdk rpms... Verified them with md5sum, and went to install them (rpm -Fvh netscape*). I get: error: failed dependencies netscape-navigator = 4.74-3mdk conflicts with netscape-communicator-4.74-3mdk netscape-communicator = 4.74-3mdk conflicts with netscape-navigator-4.74-3mdk Thinking that maybe I should only be installing one or the other, I checked the currently installed rpms. Both netscape-communicator-4.73-3mdk and -navigator-4.74-3mdk are installed currently. System is a couple day old 7.1 (fresh) install. Thanks. You have to choose whether you want to install communicator or navigator. Been that way for a few months now. (Either choose common and communicator best choice or common and navigator). Mike -- Mike Tracy Holt Kirkland, WA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
