[expert] MDK9.1 iso's and LG
Please would people get it that LG CDROMS are not friendly to Linux thing right. NOT MDK9.2 is not friendy to LG CDROMS. LG has now released firmware for LG's problems so the distro, and other distro's will run smoothly after the update. No remastering of iso's kernel etc - upgrade the firmware issued by the manufacturer for their hardware. Regards Steve sorry just dont like all the negative mdk stuff, its LG's fault, it's now weekend now so enjoy ! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 iso
On Saturday, 1 November 2003 23:50, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:37, HaywireMac wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 11:12:10 -0800 > > > > James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > I'm under the impression they are waiting until they have new masters > > > that get around the LG problem before they release them. > > > > So sad, Mandrake developers having to go through this because LG pushed > > a bunch of crap out the door...I bet there are a lot of said developers > > having fantasy dreams involving LG engineers and torture instruments... > > From what I hear it's not just MDK SuSE got bit as well. > > James Umm, just in case eveyone is confused, this is proof that linux is better, and can support HW vendors that arnt all that compliant. Remeber this long and hard Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 iso
On Saturday, 1 November 2003 21:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:09 am, sebelk wrote: > > Hey Does somebody knows what happens with the freely available download > > edition? We are on November and the official web site nothing say about > > that... > > Thank you in advance... > > If you had not heard about the problem with the LG CDROM drives, this is > what is holding things up. Mandrake is remastering the iso's to include > the fixes, so be patient, they are doing the right thing by making sure the > product they release is quality. If you cannot wait, try an ftp install > from the source tree. Now I am much happier knowing that my Pre-ordered Mandrake Powerpak9.2 is worth waiting for - being still in, "Order waiting to be processed" Would have been nice to let the people know that the disks were being redone thus the wait. Just as well I am still running 9.2rc2 - which would have suited me as a release, havnt found anything to complain about yet after a month or so. But people its the weekend so ENJOY ! Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot
On Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:37, J.C. Woods wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > >KevinO grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244 > > > >I get "Page cannot be displayed." > > > > --Dave > > Well you might not want to read what it has to say. While it reads of a > less than auspicious beginning for Mandrake 9.2., I would only add that > the Mandrake folks are working assiduously to get it right. Keep up the > work, Mandrake, and it will work out in the end > > drjung It would be nice if the hardware manufacturers also came to the party & helped just a tiny bit to help with linux~hardware compatibility. Remember folks this isnt as a direct fault of LM, but rather non supported LG drives that the manufacturer also agrees are not compatible. It would be nice to see a fix - show the manuf just what can be done with linux. Besides all the gripes, I've been running 9.2 since it started on cooker and I dont have any problems, just waiting for my Powerpak I pre-ordered to put on my other machines. And I agree keep up the good work Mandrake, I shalln't change distro for nothing ! Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Q] Time to "marry" 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant
On Friday, 24 October 2003 21:29, stefmit wrote:
> In anticipation of the "early bird pre-order" MDK 9.2 package arrival, I am
> also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have right
> now is running 9.1, but it is at a stage where it can hardly manage all the
> stuff I want) ... so, the obvious formal step I thought of taking (instead
> of the twisted roads of http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and the likes) was
> to go directly to THE VENDOR site, and look for hardware support.
> Surprise?!? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/hardware.php3 does not have one
> single item listed as having been tested ("green"), let alone "certified"
> ("star"). Are these guys serious about it? You want to be in the OS selling
> business, and you do not have one single mobile device guaranteed to run
> this?!? All the laptops listed "have been reported" as working. I know I
> won't expect more if I were to download and build myself the Linux kernel
> ... but an official distribution?!?
>
> Anyway - besides the above - that may end up as just one of those
> unanswerable questions_rants ;) - does anybody on this list have a positive
> experience with 9.2 on a very recent / higher end model of laptop (and
> which one, of course)? I am not interested in a "desktop" (i.e. office
> apps) utilization type, but rather networking and security tools usage
> (tcpdump, snort, ntop, sniffers of all sorts ([t]ethereal), nmap, iptraf,
> bing, fping, hping, etherape, tcpflow, kismet, swatch, nessus, nagios, and
> on, and on ...), with support for VMWare, of course - if that helps
> narrowing down the options (i.e. translated in good integrated NIC, good
> Wi-Fi integrated one, etc.),
>
> TIA,
> Stef
I dont have any probs on an el-cheapo aopen, p4 1.7ghz running 9.2 cooker
Regards
Steve
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Re: [expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization
On Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> OK, I've looked at the faqs and I've read the expert list. I'm still
> getting a max of 7.6 K/sec download speed where I should be seeing
> between 70 to 90 K/sec.
>
> I fiddled with the download.py file, finally changing it to:
>
> ('max_upload_rate', 0,
> 'maximum kB/s to upload at, 0 means no limit'),
>
> and
>
> ('max_uploads', 0,
> "the maximum number of uploads to allow at once."),
>
>
> This increased my download speed from 2 something to what it is now,
> which is 7 to 8 K/sec. I tried "None, 13," but that caused it to bomb
> out altogether. I'm running bittorrent-3.3-2mdk which was pointed at by
> the Mandrakeclub site. I'm not running the gui I'm just running the
> ncurses version. Can somebody point me to a faq I haven't seen or tell
> me something I haven't tried to increase download speed. I've been
> downloading for two days now and I'm only at 5.9%.
>
>
> TIA
>
> LX
I had the same problem + ALL adsl in South Africa gets capped at 3gig (up and
down together) so I would never have got the 3 cds anyway. I just bommed it
at 340meg after 48hours and ordered the Powerpak. I am running 9.2rc2 anyway.
Good luck
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Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...
On Thursday, 16 October 2003 20:35, Thomas Backlund wrote: > From: "Praedor Atrebates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > A bit more information and I am no longer prepared to be T'd off when I > > get my > > > CDs. I see that the bare-bones, 3CD iso download addition is what is > > missing > > > the kernel source, not what I ordered (nor what anyone paid for). Given > > this, it is still not unreasonable to NOT include the any experimental > > kernel, multimedia kernel, enterprise kernel, smp kernel, etc, IF that is > > what it takes to get something as basic as the kernel-source onto the > > first 3 > > > CDs. Have the others available for download separately as it is a > Cant there just be 4 cd's, and also change to separate bittorrent files rather to let you choose which cd you want, that way you can get your 1,2,3 or 4. If you down need your kernels then just dont download the 4th? Also when 9.2 goes public why dont the mirrors mirror the three iso's as torrents and then the general public can get the download advantage? Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] remote access to text only screens
Hi James, I need it as the program that is running on the server, takes over a virtual screen CRTL/ALT+F8 and I need to be able to see that output, it's also curses based to make things interesting. It looks like the serial option is the only answer as long as I can get to the other virtual screens over a serial link. -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 14:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, Kitchener, Steve wrote: > Hi James, > > I know about ssh and the like, but what I was after was the ability > to display the screens that are only normally displayed via the > console screen, specifically those that are accessed via the CTRL/ALT > + F1 etc, but to be able to display those remotely on a different > computer. Why do you need those screens and not some functionally identical text logon? It is possible to get the single-user console to be via a serial port, (and by extension over a modem,) but doing it over a network is always going to fail if the network drivers are not loaded, say in single-user mode. The only reason I can think of is if you want to support users who have no GUI running. It might be possible to come up with some app that lets you do that, the interfaces are pretty simple, but it probably isn't out there already. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] remote access to text only screens
Hi James, I know about ssh and the like, but what I was after was the ability to display the screens that are only normally displayed via the console screen, specifically those that are accessed via the CTRL/ALT + F1 etc, but to be able to display those remotely on a different computer. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 11:03 To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 02:42, Kitchener, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I need to be able to get at the screens that are displayed when you enter > the key sequence CNTRL/ALT + F1 etc on a remote machine. I know that VNC > will give me a display of my desktop, but is there a facility in VNC that > isn't obvious or is there a text equivalent of VNC. Closet I know of is ssh. Both are text based terminals and functionally equivalent. James > > Thanks > > Stephen Kitchener > IT Manager > > Broner Metals Solutions > 1 Century Court, Tolpits Lane > Watford, WD18 9PT, UK > Tel +44 (0) 1923 652125 > Fax +44 (0) 1923816456 > > > > __ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] remote access to text only screens
Hi, I need to be able to get at the screens that are displayed when you enter the key sequence CNTRL/ALT + F1 etc on a remote machine. I know that VNC will give me a display of my desktop, but is there a facility in VNC that isn't obvious or is there a text equivalent of VNC. Thanks Stephen Kitchener IT Manager Broner Metals Solutions 1 Century Court, Tolpits Lane Watford, WD18 9PT, UK Tel +44 (0) 1923 652125 Fax +44 (0) 1923816456 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: >I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out. It has booted >to the point of the blue wave, then it can't get the display up. > >I tried going to init 3, then running XFdrake as root, the menu comes >up, but I can't find any way to change any part of the configuration. >I have to set it to a generic lcd screen. > >I have to get this fixed before he gets home, or I'll be divorced >What do I do now? > >Anne If you are installing 9.1 with an LCD monitor, the appropriate driver for the video card may not be present. For instance, I have an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download Nvidia's driver before I could get KDE to load onscreen. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Illuminati Tesuque, NM, Chapter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem
Hi...
Sorry to but in - but I am waiting to install the new kernel .25 but I am
holding off until I can find and build the new rams for Nvidia, I can find
the rpm on the Mandrake club site, but I cannot find the src rpms, do they
exist and if so, where would they be located.
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Vincent Danen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 August 2003 18:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem
On Fri Aug 01, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0500, Jeffrey Litterick wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a computer with a Geforce 4. I am
or
> should say was using the standard NVdriver that was installed
automatically
> with Mandrake 9.1.
>
> When I first installed Mandrake I had the same problem then was I do with
> the secure kernel but the enterprise kernel worked just fine. So I just
> changed my default kernel to the enterprise one.
>
> The problem is that I used RPMDrake to update my kernel to the new .25
> versions which also fixed a problem I had with ipsec not starting on
> startup. But after the update I could no longer start the X server.
> Because the NVdriver kernel module was not being loaded. I checked the
> modules.conf and modules file and everything is correct but a modprobe
> returned with a "Could not find file" and lsof showed that it was not
being
> loaded.
>
> Doing a file search I found that the NVdriver.o.gz was only in the old .13
> enterprise kernel module directory and was not in the new updated kernels
> module file directory. So I first I tried to just copy the driver over and
> run a depmod -a but it came back with unresolved symbols. Then modprobe
> could find the file but of course would not load it because of the
> unresolved symbols.
You had the binary driver for nvidia installed. I did build a new one and
it should be on Club (I didn't put it there, but asked someone else to). I
just assumed it would be there. If it isn't, I can email the webmaster
again and get him to put it up.
I'm on holidays right now, still reading mail, but anything that requires
work will have to wait till I get back. =)
What you can also try is to use the "nv" driver for X (I believe that's it).
That's the non-binary/commercial version of the driver, and should work
although you likely won't get 3D or acceleration. Since none of that
matters to me, and since I dislike the binary drivers, I use the nv driver
instead of the one nvidia closed.
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[expert] configure touchpad on Aopen1845A laptop
First time I ever used a laptop. I put MDK9.1 on and every thing works well. Just when I did the install I had an external ps2 mouse attached, if that makes a difference. If I unplug the mouse and boot up there is activity from the touchpad but completely uncontrollable. Where does one configure this, or what should I be reading up on. I am using KDE, but would probably change to ice when I get it working. Any help / pointers appreciated. Best regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft is a platinum sponsor for LinuxWorld Malaysia 2003 - eh?
On Tuesday, 22 July 2003 16:33, Joe wrote: > Guys... > > Read this... typo or real? > > am i having nightmare? > > Best Regards > Joe > RLU#186063 http://counter.li.org > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600. Hey guys, This is perhaps a good thing. Competition is good for both sides. Of course in the long run Linux will do and is doing better. Some of us are forced to use M$ at work and stuff anyways. Less bickering = less time wasted = more time 2 develop. Regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live
On Sunday, 29 June 2003 01:32, John Wilson wrote: > On June 27, 2003 09:56 am, Steve Cox - dig wrote: > > Hi there, > > This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my > > ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, > > basically uploading to a hosted out website. Currently I use a cron job > > every 15 mins that checks if the current ip is the same as the last in > > /var/log/syslog, if not then and only then upload it. I do not run any > > mail services, I do however run apache live for webpages only. It is on a > > text only machine, Mandrake9.1, P1 100mhz, that doubles as my gateway for > > small lan at home. If anyone has pointers, please share. > > > > I dont really want to run dyndns just yet, but if this turns out to be > > the best solution, then so be it, I will. > > > > Oh, I am more a user, and not so good at bash & scripting, so if there > > isnt an easy way, dont worry, I'll go the dyndns route. > > > > Best regards > > Steve Cox > > Hi Steve. First of all you need to understand how adsl, and indeed all > dynamic IP works. You are assigned an IP when you first connect to the > server. Not log on, not do anything except connect. For the duration of > the connection your IP doesn't change. So, if you don't turn off your > computer/router combination the IP should never change. If you do the > chances are you will get the same IP back again, though there's no > guarantee of that. > > At no time during a connection will the IP ever change. It's theorectially > possible, of course, but in all my years of supporting and installing adsl > I have yet to see it. And the reason is fairly simple. To assign everyone > a new IP the dynamic IP server would have to take down your connection and > initiate another "handshake", then pass on the new IP, then, just to make > sure it's you, ask for your password again. As a simple matter of customer > relations telco's don't do this. > > Indeed, the telco will reserve the IP you already have for a period of up > to 96 hours so that it can deal with such things as power failures either > at the Central Office or in your area. You have to be shut down for quite > some time before you'll get a new IP, as a rule. > > Running a cron job, as long as your connection stays up, is, then, a waste > of time. If you want to check it do it immediately after bringing up the > connection using ifconfig eth0/eth1 or whatever. BTW, restarting your > network appears to have no affect..your IP will, 99.% of the time be > correct. > > (Incidentially, this is how my home network works as well.) > > That said, I'm a bit unclear about what you're saying with respect to your > web site. If you're hosting a web site on a dynamically allocated IP > address you're asking, no begging, for trouble. Buck up for a fixed IP for > that. > > ttfn > > John (Telco God, 3rd Class. :-) ) Oh I wish we had that kind of service here in South Africa. At very best our telco lets the line stay up 24hours then dropps it. Sometimes you get to keep the same ip, mostly not though. To top it off they are busy fixing a piece of cable on my line, so at the moment my line drops between 6 ~ 10 times a day. We only have a single land line operator monopoly here os unfortunately its a bit of a dictation from them what they want you to get. The php redirect I got right. Its not for a commercial website, just my own for notes & stuff & practising new technoques. Check out www.dig.co.za & you will see it redirect nicely now with this bit of code: The uploadip is created from my existing cron job and uploaded to my hosted out domain www.dig.co.za automatically if the ip changes. http://$shellcommand";); ?> Regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] adsl logging ip add changes live
Hi there, This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, basically uploading to a hosted out website. Currently I use a cron job every 15 mins that checks if the current ip is the same as the last in /var/log/syslog, if not then and only then upload it. I do not run any mail services, I do however run apache live for webpages only. It is on a text only machine, Mandrake9.1, P1 100mhz, that doubles as my gateway for small lan at home. If anyone has pointers, please share. I dont really want to run dyndns just yet, but if this turns out to be the best solution, then so be it, I will. Oh, I am more a user, and not so good at bash & scripting, so if there isnt an easy way, dont worry, I'll go the dyndns route. Best regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Running "updatedb" crashes my comp!
On Friday, 13 June 2003 19:31, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > Why? > > > > I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. > > > > As root, I can type in "updatedb" at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 > > mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine > > spontaneously reboots. > > > > I have an 80 gig HD. > > > > and usually...some kind of damage is done. > > > > This folks, is off a fresh (re)install after the last episode caused > > major damage. I figured it was doing it then because the db was corrupted > > or something. > > > > Anyone have any ideas? This is terrible. :-( > > Dark, > >Sounds like somehow slocate didn't install right. Are there any > error messages in /var/log/messages or possibly but less likely > /var/log/kernel/errors left behind. Also what is in /var/lib/slocate? > you may need to remove what is there (or move it aside) before trying, > if you dare, again. (btw mine works.. not that this helps you at all.) > > James If you want/are running cooker, update the normal updates first after the fresh install, then cooker. I had some issues but came right. Running smoothly now. My 2 cents Regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?
Had a /bin directory in my home directory for binary downloads. As root I decided to delete the directory and every thing inside it, except a little finger error and I enetered: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rm -rf /bin Man it was fast. Well we live and learn. Almost the fastest way to destroy your machine. Regards Steve Cox -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Blomquist Sent: Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:32 To: Expert Subject: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root? Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3 server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it quick! One other time, I pointed a chmod -R at another folder, and everytime I loaded KDE, it took much longer than before. Thank god that one is in my past. So, what's the dumbest thing you have done? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] spamassassin & kmail
Hi Eric, Could you send it to me as well - I have been looking to do this for ages - thanks -Original Message- From: eric huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2003 15:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jonathan Dlouhy Subject: Re: [expert] spamassassin & kmail > Could someone either help me to get spamassassin working with kmail or > direct me to somewhere where I can find some direction? I have a big messy text file of collected spamassassin advice and links, if you want me to post/send it to you. I haven't tried them yet. It's not clean, just a bunch of random excerpts (including from this thread). The highlights are probably ( sorry if i misplace credit! ): >From Derek: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&a rtid=15 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 13 05:33:44 2003 http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6669 On Kmail specifically: >From Dennis: Open >settings> configure filters in kmail. Click on "new" in the lower left corner don't rename>select "match all of the following" select "any header" on the first box and "matches regular exp" in the next box and then put a "." in the text box, without the quotes just the . by itself. Then in filter actions choose "pipe through" and in the text box put "spamassassin -a" without quotes uncheck the box for "if this filter matches stop processing here". >From Derek: The most recent versions no longer alter the subject line (by default) instead they insert a new header line. So you will have to set the second kmail filter to be, filter on 'Any Header' to be "X-Spam-Status: Yes" (without the quotes) eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:19:24 +, you wrote: >in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto >UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set >upto UDMA2 max. So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a >faster speed as its ata100 hpt etc. The UDMA setting is controlled by the manufacturer's software utility. I don't work with WD drives but I'll bet yours is set to UDMA2. Go to WD's Web site and there is probably a utility you can download to change the UDMA setting. IBM's utility runs under PCDOS on a single boot floppy. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:34:38 -0800, you wrote:
>What I do not understand is if etc/modules should say nvidia and not NVdriver
>and the XF86Config-4 Module should say Load "GLX" and it points to the
>libglx.so file why does it appear to work and yet not work when the new rpms
>are installed. Should I change the XF86CONFIG-4 Module section and the
>etc/module file to nvidia?
>
>Confused.
Re your last sentence, yes. Then do "modprobe nvidia".
I got it working from the following advice:
Load drivers
Vi edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
In the Module section,
Remark out Load "glx"
Instead, right under the line Load "dbe", add:
Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
In the Driver section,
Replace driver "nv" (or "NVdriver") with "nvidia"
Save file
Run modprobe nvidia
If you are using an AGP card,
In the Screen section add this line:
Option "NvAgp" "1"
("0" will disable AGP)
Good luck,
Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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Re: [expert] Best way to backup.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:45:42 -0400, you wrote: >On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: >... >> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb >> >> This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the >> others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer >> can take a LONG time. Like, five hours. > >Have you tried increasing the buffer size? >Something like "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M" >This should help, granted it won't do lots if you have 5400 RPM drive, with >ISA IDE and a 486. I'll try that. Thanks. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Best way to backup.
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:47:22 -0400, you wrote: >Hi list, > > I have complex configurations on a few servers - MDK 8.1, 8.2 - >and I am now at the stage to setup a backup procedure that would enable me >to save the images of each server on a second hard drive on the same >machine. In case of failure, I would like to be able to restore the >original server setup. > > What is the best way to reach that objective. In older days of >Unix, we used the instruction DUMP and RESTORE. Is this valid in Linux or >is there a better way. > >Thanks > > >Groupe Richard Laframboise Consultants Inc. >St-Eustache, Qc >Canada That is exactly what I do: use two identical sized hard drives and clone one to the other. The native Linux command is dd dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer can take a LONG time. Like, five hours. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] how to test CPU-temperature, fan etc. ?
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:17:38 +0200, you wrote: >hi, >does anyone have knowledge about progs or scripts, which are able to find out, >which temperature the CPU have and perhaps RAM or other things ? > >thanks and bye >hans Install gkrellm. It's on your installation CDs. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Spanish question mark
On 30 Sep 2002 21:28:52 -0300, you wrote: >Hi! I've Mandrake 9.0 with USA international (with accents) keyboard >layout. I can type all the spanish specific symbols, except the opening >question mark (this one: '¿'). > >Anybody know the key combination to generate this symbol? > >Toshiro. > The extended ASCII code is 168. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] compiling a c++ program in mandrake
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[expert] Modifying $PATH in KDE3 terminal
My $PATH as root in runlevel 3 is fine, but as user in KDE3 in a terminal window there are errors. Such as /usr/local... I use /home instead of /usr/local. Such as /usr//bin (two slashes). How do I correct this $PATH ? I see nothing in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d which lists the directories. I have no .profile in my /home/steve directory. There is nothing in .bash_profile or .bashrc which lists the directories of $PATH. Where else should I look, or is there a runlevel 3 command (as root) to reset user steve's $PATH ? Thank you. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Changing Desktop Manager?
I installed LM-8.2 without KDE 2.2, then installed the Mandrake RPMs for KDE 3.3. Mandrake defaulted to an autologin with the Gnome Desktop Manager. I fixed that by going to /etc/sysconfig/desktop and revising to DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm Now, however, if I log out of KDE, the system still defaults to the Gnome DM. How do I change that? Thank you. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?
On 19 May 2002 00:25:02 -0400, you wrote: >On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 22:11, KevinO wrote: >> IBM > >I heartily second this. I set up a web company on IBM's over three >years ago, and they've been running 24/7 ever since. Last week the >technical director told me it was one of the best things I ever did; >he's sold on the hardware. The irony is, I recently read that IBM is getting out of the hard drive business. I don't know if that means selling off that arm, or stopping production. Anybody know more? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xine error message
On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:12:17 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 >Steve Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: >> >> >Stephen, >> >Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? >> > >> >The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the >> >possibitity of legal problems in some countries (e. USA), you can find >> >the appropriates rpms for 8.2 in http://plf.zarb.org/ >> > >> >Also you could find there the rpms for the 0.9.9 xine release, that has >> >been improved and debuged a lot; also some other plugins for xine are there. >> > >> >Francisco Alcaraz >> >Murcia (Spain) >> >> I don't believe it is encrypted (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Region 2). Are >> you saying that the error message >> "xine engine error >> There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui >> version 0.9.8'." >> means that xine can't find the DVD, or is a piece of the software >> missing? > >The error you are getting is Not that you receive when trying to play encrypted DVDs. > >You may not have all the necessary rpms installed. > >What is the output from: > # rpm -qa |grep xine > > >Charles xine-aa-0.9.8-4mdk xine-alsa5-0.9.8-4mdk xine-arts-0.9.8-4mdk xine-dvdnav-0.9.9-1mdk xine-esd-0.9.8-4mdk xine-oss-0.9.8-4mdk xine-plugins-0.9.8-4mdk xine-ui-0.9.8-3mdk xine-ui-aa-0.9.8-3mdk xine-xv-0.9.8-4mdk xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.0-4plf libxine0.9.8-0.9.8-4mdk libxine0.9.8-devel-0.9.8-4mdk Most of these came with the 8.2 "download" CDs. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Xine error message
On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: >Stephen, >Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? > >The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due to the >possibitity of legal problems in some countries (e. USA), you can find >the appropriates rpms for 8.2 in http://plf.zarb.org/ > >Also you could find there the rpms for the 0.9.9 xine release, that has >been improved and debuged a lot; also some other plugins for xine are there. > >Francisco Alcaraz >Murcia (Spain) I don't believe it is encrypted (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Region 2). Are you saying that the error message "xine engine error There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'." means that xine can't find the DVD, or is a piece of the software missing? Regards, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Xine error message
I'm trying to get xine working in 8.2. I'm not sure it is finding the DVD drive though I have created the appropriate sym links. Xine gives me the following error message: "xine engine error There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'." Since I've installed 'xine-plugins' I have no idea what this message means. Do you? Thanks, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?
On 13 May 2002 06:57:22 -0500, you wrote: >For what it's worth, I am running Mandrake 8.1, and both Opera 6 and >Mozilla (any version) work fine together. > >However, to help you solve your problem, I would guess that you >installed the dynamically-linked Opera, which uses the standard shared >libraries on your Linux system. It is possible there is a library >version problem between Netscape and Opera. My suggestion would be to go >to the Opera website and download the *statically compiled* version. >This version will include all libraries in its own binary, so Opera will >not need to access the system shared libraries, thus Netscape can use >its shared libraries installed in the system, and Opera will use its own >that are compiled right into the binary. > >Hope this helps, >Dave There is a newsgroup, opera.linux If your ISP carries it, you might find the problem discussed there. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] access to CD-RW
On Sun, 12 May 2002 06:42:23 -0400, you wrote: > > >nDiScReEt said onto me: >-- > > |> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 > | > |If this is a cd-rw, you have to point it to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdd. > | > >I also tried it as > >/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount >dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > >(and any other combination w/scd0 that I could think off) > >No dice. DrakConf sees the drive as /dev/hdd. I don't know why. It used to be seen >correctly. Any other ideas? I'm having the same problem, so I hope you get an answer. It has something to do with missing symbolic links. You could try asking this in the newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake; I often get quick answers there. Good luck, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lm_sensors broken in 8.2
On Tue, 07 May 2002 07:51:33 -0500, you wrote: >Is lm_sensors broken in 8.2? No, I just finished configuring it for gkrellm. The modules are compiled in the default installation kernel. You need to run, from the command line, "sensors-detect" and then add the indicated lines to /etc/rc.modules and /etc/modules.conf Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] print servers
The Netgear PS110 print server is also a very good choice. I went thru two of the Linksys printservers, and never got either one of them to work. Of course maybe the store I purchased them from had a bad batch. I own alot of Linksys equipment, and never had a problem with any of it. The Netgear costs about $130 from your local CompUSA, but you can probably get it cheaper online. http://www.netgear.com/product_view.asp?xrp=6&yrp=15&zrp=60 Pierre Fortin wrote: >On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:41:56 -0700 Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The most cost effective would be by using Samba. But looks like you are >>looking for an external hardware server that connects to your hub or >>switch and allows the printer to connect via a parallels port on the >>server. The advantage is that you need not have a computer on as a print >> >>server, may save on the electrical bill. There are quite a number >>available with prices range from $100.00 to $250.00 USD. >> >>I have one system running the Linksys BEFSR41, connects 2 printers. Abt. >> >>$120.00. Works very well for the intended service. >> > >Did you mean EFSP42? >http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=27&prid=133 > >The BEFSR41 is a 4-port router/switch (no print serving). >http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=20 > >Only the BEFW11P1 wireless router currently comes with a print server. >http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=171 > >HTH, >Pierre > >>Others are: >>D-Link, >>Trendnet, abt. $99.00 >>HP JetDirect 300SX, abt $250.00 >>Cables To Go JLP3110, abt $140.00 >>And probably numerous others, just use Google and search for "print >>servers hardware". >> >>All of these will serve your purpose. >> >>Larry >> > > > > > >E-mail scanned by McAfee. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] best firewall
What is the best firewall to use with linux mandrake these days? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] monitor refresh rates
Can someone please help me with setting up my monitor refresh rates? My monitor( CTX PR710) is capable of 1152x864 with a vertical refresh rate of either 85Hz or 100Hz, but X keeps on wanting to set my monitor at a refresh rate of 75Hz. How in the heck can I setup X to use the right refresh rate? I'm using a Geforce 256 DDR, with the latest drivers from Nvidia. I would appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks in advance. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] command for making a rpm
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:29:53 -0500, you wrote: >On Wednesday 13 March 2002 09:49 am, you wrote: > >But what I have is a filename.tar.gz and would like to make it into a rpm. >A while back I knew you could type the [command] filename.tar.gz and it would >then be a rpm. > >So I assume the command that you just mentioned [rpm -tb x.tar.gz] would >still work like I just quoted. > >Harold There is a program called "Alien" which will do this. You will have to rebuild Alien's rpm from the source code, which you can find at: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Only root can use dri how to fix it?
Hi, For some reason I dont know but today when I run bzflags as normal user, things are terribly slow ; even I have to reset the computer, I guess something wrong with dri. After reboot, I try to run it as root and it is good. Some permission is wrong but I dont know how to fix it; probably the mod xxx under Load "glx" in Xconfig file? Pls help = S.KIEU http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - Vote for your nominees in our online Oscars pool. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mouse flicky wacky :-)
Hi, I dont know if some one has ; in one of my box, amd athlon Duron 900Mn, S3 savagepro video card (I have to use the latest savage_drv.o to work,not working by default in Mandrake 8.1) . The problem is with the mouse movement, If the setting by KDE default, (accel 2 threadshold 2) it is too slow. No matter how many combination value I tried, its movevment is still difficult to use and made my palm so tired :-) compared to win xp. what is the cause? how to solve it? pls help PS I use standard PS2 mouse = S.KIEU http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your Valentines love online. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Shell scripting question
Hi, How can I tell ls to display the "\ " in a file name or directory name" Usually if I do mkdir Test\ This ls Test This How can I tell ls to make its output as a continuous string like "Test\ This" Well the real problem is ; I want to convert every mp3 file in a directory to ogg vorbis, and the file name has the \ . I use mpg123 to convert to wav file and oggenc to encode to ogg; I attchaed my script here .. But it doesn't work as expected because the file name has "\ "; is ther any way to work around it? Thanks a lot and sorry for a bit wordy :-) = S.KIEU http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your Valentines love online. lf Description: lf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla 0.9.7 question
Hi, Is there any way to tell mozilla not to unzip a tar.gz file when downloading (save link as) ? I try edit preferences and helper application file type but it doesn;t show any hint, just two file types there and not the tar.gz one, why mozilla always runs helper to extract and save and the default name still tar.gz! ? = S.KIEU http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your Valentines love online. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation
> 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'. I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to /boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-) > > This process used to work perfectly, but now the > process freezes my whole > computer whenever I get to the /sbin/installkernel > phase (part of 'make > install'), and specifically when it gets to running > mkinitrd. On a quick glance > of the 'make install' process, I noticed a reference > to zImage. This is strange > because I used 'make bzImage', not 'make zImage'. > After a hard reboot, the > kernel looked as if it was mostly installed: there > were modules in /lib/modules/ > and various files in /boot. The only file missing in > /boot was an initrd image. > As an experiment, I configured the new kernel in > /etc/lilo.conf, but I got a > "Kernel [name] is too big!" error whenever I tried > to run LILO (as if I had used > 'make zImage' instead of 'make bzImage'). > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "I feel that open, competitive markets, free thought > and democracy all flourish > only when we defend the medium itself as being > independent. That may mean > constraints that carriers cannot also supply > software, that suppliers of generic > software should be constrained from competing in > markets which that software > gives access to." -- Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the > World Wide Web > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your Valentines love online. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory leak?
--- David Guntner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Kieu grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > The VM in the kernel 2.4.x has problems this is a > > _hot_ topic in the LKML; so the kernel in MDK8.1 > > > > >From my experience I use 2.4.13 and it is quite > good The kernel I mentioned is the official 2.4.13; it is quite strange to see and understand why 2.4.13 VM is different from any others, I compiled it and use for a ancient box 486 16Mb RAM and running XFree86 3.0.6; when X is up with fvwm95 the free memory is still 1.2Mb with no swap used !. After starting netscape, swap used around 3Mb But if you try even the latest kernel (2.4.17) the result is different. (worse). You can go to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/ to download. To know the actually kernel version u are running u can use uname -a > [davidg@rhpsfan2 davidg]$ rpm -q -a|egrep kernel > kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-doc-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-headers-2.4.8-26mdk > kernel-2.4.8-26mdk > [davidg@rhpsfan2 davidg]$ > > Looks like I'm running 2.4.8 (-26?). So I guess an > upgrade is in order. > Thanks for the suggestion. Is that kernel available > in the "updates" > directory for 8.1 at the nearest mirror site? > > --Dave > > > --- David Guntner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm running 8.1. > > > > > > After starting my system, I've noted the amount > of > > > memory and swap space > > > being used on a "top" display. After a reboot, > > > there's always 0 swap being > > > used. I've noticed that the longer the system > runs, > > > the more memory > > > resources show up being used, and the bigger the > > > used swap space gets. I > > > came home from a trip recently to find my Linux > box > > > stopped for no apparent > > > reason, and after a reboot, none of the system > logs > > > showed any errors at > > > the point where the system stopped. I've pretty > > > much got the same things > > > running all the time. I'm beginning to think > that > > > *something* has a nasty > > > memory leak, but I don't have a clue as to what. > Is > > > there a way to > > > identify programs that have memory leaks? > Something > > > that can track the > > > memory usage of program running in the system or > > > whatever? > > > > > > Any ideas? > -- > David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! > http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server > for PGP Public key > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Memory leak?
The VM in the kernel 2.4.x has problems this is a _hot_ topic in the LKML; so the kernel in MDK8.1 >From my experience I use 2.4.13 and it is quite good in terms of VM management. Try it first. Regard --- David Guntner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 8.1. > > After starting my system, I've noted the amount of > memory and swap space > being used on a "top" display. After a reboot, > there's always 0 swap being > used. I've noticed that the longer the system runs, > the more memory > resources show up being used, and the bigger the > used swap space gets. I > came home from a trip recently to find my Linux box > stopped for no apparent > reason, and after a reboot, none of the system logs > showed any errors at > the point where the system stopped. I've pretty > much got the same things > running all the time. I'm beginning to think that > *something* has a nasty > memory leak, but I don't have a clue as to what. Is > there a way to > identify programs that have memory leaks? Something > that can track the > memory usage of program running in the system or > whatever? > > Any ideas? > > --Dave > -- > David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! > http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server > for PGP Public key > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mozilla 0.9.7 for mdk 8.1?
Hi I am looking for mozilla-0.9.7 for mandrake 8.1 ; if any one knows where or compiled it sucessfully from cooker source pls let me know. I try to compile from source but it gave me segmentation fault when it nearly finshed the compilation. And binary package from cooker depends a lot of other package that I dont want to install. It is critical, as I heard that the versions < 0.9.7 have security bug... Thanks a lot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cases
I bought mine from http://www.mpcparts.com. I haven't checked the latest prices lately, but if you go to pricewatch you will find the vendors who sell them. gnerd wrote: >A google search turned up a lot of reviews on these cases, but after >three pages of review links, my ADD kicked in and I lost focus. ;-) How >much are they, and where can you buy them? > >Mike > >Steve wrote: > >>Lian-Li cases are really awesome. They're made of aluminum, they're >>light, no sharp edges, and very high quality. >> > > > > > > > >E-mail scanned by McAfee. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] sb driver suported?
Hi, This is not running in mdk8.1 as the machine is too old, 486 100Mh box 18Mb RAM, and a sound card (I am not sure its type) working with sb.o driver in OSS Free (the linux kernel) . I am trying to use it with alsa but no success so far, tried using snd-card-sb8.o ; snd-card-sb16.o , snd-card-sbawe.o without any module parameters in modprobe. Any hints, suggestion pls, as I need alsa for full duplex for my speakfreely :-) The error message is : something like initmodules error, no such device! Using sb.o I just use modprobe sb ; Kernel 2.4.13 Thanks, = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] urpmi problems
I got it ; I think we should file a bug report to mdk; its MandrakeUpdate for 8.1 is really buggy. I have to reinstall from scratch and now I still can not update, (If I use it is back). Just use it to install packages from cdrom ; --- NDPTAL85 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For some reason whenever I add a source to my urpmi > database it becomes > corrupted in a way that won't let me update it. For > example no matter > which Cooker source I add, whenever I use > "urpmi.update" to update it I > get this back: > > [root@Dreadnaught ndptal85]# urpmi.update > the entry to update is missing > (one of ¨K) > > > Now this is really strange because I keep clearing > and adding the > sources but urpmi can never find them when it comes > to updating them. > When I use them to install something however it DOES > work. > > > > > > > > --- > I think, therefore, I am... not related to you. > --- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Cases
Lian-Li cases are really awesome. They're made of aluminum, they're light, no sharp edges, and very high quality. Bruce Endries wrote: >What are you looking for in a case? > >I have been assembling computers for 10 years now, and have >used a lot of different kinds. Currently, for a "normal" mid-tower >case, of good quality and reasonable in price, I am using In-Win's >S700 case with the 300w power supply (to support the Athlon). >You would have to look for a re-seller near you, as the company >doesn't sell them direct to end-users, but they should be selling in >the $60 -$70 range. > >Their cases are actually better than their website (www.in-win.com). > >Hope this helps. > > > >>I'm looking for a good, decent quality case for a new box. I've seen a >>bunch of junk, but not what I'm looking for. >>Does anyone know of a good supplier, that builds a decent case? >> >>Thanks!! >> >>-- >>Ric Tibbetts >> >>Linux registration number: 55684 >>If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to >>http://counter.li.org/ >> >> >> > > >Bruce Endries >Bruce Endries Consulting >(607) 433-2677 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >E-mail scanned by McAfee. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tyan Dual AMD board
I have the Tyan Tiger MP (S2460), the one without the integrated stuff. Anyway has anyone gotten Mandrake to properly recognize the motherboard's chipset. The stock kernel defaults my ide speeds to UDMA(33). I installed the 2.4.17 cooker kernel, and while this kernel seems to recognize the chipset correctly, the kernel causes other things to break. Does anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best kernel to use on my system? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Package for Printting Unicode document
Hi, Which packages in mdk 8.1 needed to print a utf8 html page and retain its WYSIWYG , ? I got several pages using utf8 and truetype font Times-New Roman. It is displayed correctly in both Mozilla and Konqueror but when print out, it is not, Thanks a lot in advance = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recording vcd's
> > Also what app's are used to build vcd's under linux? I heard of vcdimager, it is quite nice tool > All the > instructions I have found so far depend on xawtv to > create a .mov to > start the process, or have difficulties in one area > or another for me - > high processor usage, low frame rates etc. > > BillK > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Is there any update for kppp?
Hi, kppp has its known memory leak bug but I am not sure if there is any update / fix or work around this bug for Mandrake 8.1 Thanks = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH message not to panic
I have a Solaris server at work running SSH-2.0-2.0.13 and lately I've noticed weird addresses in the logs attempting to connect to the sshd server. It seems that we have similar problems. Here are a few examples of the log entries: Dec 27 18:55:10 sshd2: refused connect from webcoenvironmental.com Dec 28 07:48:32 sshd2: refused connect from tripleimage.nobleimage.com Dec 29 16:00:02 sshd2: refused connect from nikita.csun.edu I'm running tcp wrappers to only allow certian ip addresses to access the ssh server, so I'm probably okay but does anyone know if there are any security holes in the version of ssh that I am running? Charlie Bebber wrote: >Mike Leone said: > >>Meanwhile, that IP belongs to www.picantecorp.com. "A Leader in Email >>Enhancement Products and Services". >> >>Why would they want to SSH scan you? You work for them? Are a customer? >>Collect the same baseball cards as the webmaster? What? >> > >Yeah, I looked that info up too and I just can't figure out why someone in >College Station, Texas would SSH scan me (especially from their web server >which is to what that IP maps). > >>I'd semi-politely mention to them, to DON'T BE DOING THAT TO ME, >>please. >> >>Of course, they may not even know that they're doing it. >> > >Yeah, I think I'll do that. Just thought it was interesting. > >-Charlie > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] xine problems.
--- Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded everything I need to install xine > 0.9.7-3 (cooker rpms). > Installed all the plugins etc. now when I want to > play a divx file sometimes > the frames just hang during a video. Also sometimes > it takes 10 secons or so > before I hear sound, if I get any sound at all that > is. Also have similar > problems with other types of files like mpeg. > Is anyone else having the same problem?? I run MDK I got the same problem compiling from source, not RPM soure, New version even do not play vcd ; it always complain something about no plugin but it is ok if I run xine in xine source directory (although I do a make install already) if I remove it, no longer works). And xine is much less tolerance to cd reading IMHO, the same disk If I use mplayer it plas just fine, but xine can play just one track and then continue to skip to the end. In the previous version, it plays for a while (nearly half of the disk) lots of the frames drops, picture jitters. BUt if I use the forward button to forward to that track , it doesn't happen but will happen after a while of playing. That is why I am so tired of xine, use MPlayer instead save me headache :-) > > i used to have xine 0.9.6 that worked like a charm > and never had problems. > Now with 0.9.7 all kinds of weird things are > happening. cannot even compile > the darn thing from source, gives errors no job > control fg. Well the bg & fg > work perfectly fine because I use that once in a > while. > > I wanted to download 0.9.6 again but Can find it > anywhere on the net, Not > for Intel mandrake anyway. > > Marc > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Best mp3 encoder ?
Hi, I was confused, lame package in mdk is not mp3 encoder :-) and the name is so confusing. I compile lame from source but when running it gave segmentation fault after working for a while, just wondering what is the best mp3 encoding should I use? bladeenc included in mdk but last time I try, it is worse than lame (in a debian box) Thanks = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can not play music CD with alsa
--- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WinME does not need the cable to play Audio CD's > From Win ME onwatds Windows Media PLayer uses the Yes u are rigth, I tested this > IDE interface to play CD's. > Some cheapskate manufacturers now save themselves > 10p by not supplying the > cable!! What a shame ! > To hear your CD's over the IDE interface try this > > cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -q -e -t1+10 -d0 -N This gives me error below: $ cdda2wav -D /dev/cdrom -q -e -t1+10 -d0 -N cdrom device (/dev/cdrom) is not of type generic SCSI. Setting interface to cooked_ioctl. cdda2wav: Invalid argument. Cannot get mmap for 86016 Bytes on /dev/zero. However grip is ok to rip it using cdparanoia . The /dev/cdrom is symlink to /dev/scd0 ; first cd drive, the second one /dev/scd1 is cd writer Somehting wrong with cdda2wav? Thanks a lot for your reply. > This will play tracks 1 to 10 on standard sound > output using CD device > /dev/cdrom > > > HTH > > derek > > > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 21:33, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have searched the bug database in alsa site but > > found nothing similar, the thing is very strange. > I > > got via686a card ; two cd using ide-scsi for all > as > > one is cd-writer, alsa-0.5.12a ; everyhting is > fine > > (play xmms, etc..) except cd music doesn't play no > > matter I try. When iserting music cd and press > Play > > button on cd drive, the light on the driver is > > blinking indicating that it is playing but no > sound at > > all. Use grip and play, or any cd player is the > same. > > Run aumix and set the cd ; unmute .. doesn;t help. > > > > I just dont understand why, probably the cable? > Then I > > reboot, boot into winme and play, it is fine. > > > > Ok here I got stumped, pls help. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > = > > S.KIEU > > > > http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! > > - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can not play music CD with alsa
Hi, I have searched the bug database in alsa site but found nothing similar, the thing is very strange. I got via686a card ; two cd using ide-scsi for all as one is cd-writer, alsa-0.5.12a ; everyhting is fine (play xmms, etc..) except cd music doesn't play no matter I try. When iserting music cd and press Play button on cd drive, the light on the driver is blinking indicating that it is playing but no sound at all. Use grip and play, or any cd player is the same. Run aumix and set the cd ; unmute .. doesn;t help. I just dont understand why, probably the cable? Then I reboot, boot into winme and play, it is fine. Ok here I got stumped, pls help. Thanks = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Printer question.
Hi, The printer I got is Epson Stylus C60, and it is supported with CUPS+gimp-print-4.2.0 . If I run Printer from Control Center it doesn't list this printer. So I pull a gimp-print source code, compile it with cups ; but after that I can not see the entry in Printerdrake as well as access the CUPS system using web browser to http://localhost:631/ I suspect that the ppd file is not automatically generated. How can I tell Printerdrake to do or to update with the new gimp-print? Or is there any better way to do to solve the problem? Thanks a lot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question SOLVED
> Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> grumbled this: > > Anyhow here is the link to the site I forgot to add > to the last email: > > http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake8/ Yeas I checked that site read info there, but no file to download ; When reading I found that may be the other stale libGL lying aroung is the problem (that is why the author said mannually edit make file to change the lib directory. So I check it, normally the NVIDIA_GLX put its library in /usr/lib ; and some smae library in /usr/X11R6/lib; just remove it; it works very well now! Thanks > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question
--- "Craig Williamson (ENZ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > Just a little question. Did you modify the XFree86 > config file. If Yes of course as I said, I did everything :-) in the README file in this site. I changed nv to nvidia in config file (when start X I got a NVIDIA splash screen. > you haven't done that you are still using the > original Linux drivers. Check > out www.mandrakeforum.org site or www.nvidia.com and > look for documentation > for the drivers. > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Kieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 12:14 p.m. > To: maillist > Subject: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question > > > > Hi all, > > When installing mdk8.1 it suggests that I should use > XFree 3.3.6 if I want 3 D accelation with this cards > Riva TNT2, I did and some program (game) using > OpenGL > doesn't work, (some work!) Then I read from the web > that nvidia has its own driver and works with 4.1.0 > ; > admit that XFree 4.1.x is much better in 2D ; then I > install it follow everything, But it is not working > (OpenGL program) I check by running xdpyinfo but I > found everything is correct. What is wrong here ,m > what I missed? SHould I go back to XFree 3.3.6 X > server ? One point I think it might be the problem, > that the OpenGLX (from nvidia > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm it should go with the > same version with the kernel but I can not find the > source file corespondingly in > http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux as I use > my > custom kernel 2.2.19 ) then I have to use > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.src.rpm and rebuild it, > install it and the GLX package as well, it did not > complain anything... > > At the moment 2D is good, using nvidia driver just > all > other program using OpenGL even the screen saver > doesn;t work > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > = > S.KIEU > > http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! > - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! > > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question
Hi all, When installing mdk8.1 it suggests that I should use XFree 3.3.6 if I want 3 D accelation with this cards Riva TNT2, I did and some program (game) using OpenGL doesn't work, (some work!) Then I read from the web that nvidia has its own driver and works with 4.1.0 ; admit that XFree 4.1.x is much better in 2D ; then I install it follow everything, But it is not working (OpenGL program) I check by running xdpyinfo but I found everything is correct. What is wrong here ,m what I missed? SHould I go back to XFree 3.3.6 X server ? One point I think it might be the problem, that the OpenGLX (from nvidia NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.i386.rpm it should go with the same version with the kernel but I can not find the source file corespondingly in http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux as I use my custom kernel 2.2.19 ) then I have to use NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.src.rpm and rebuild it, install it and the GLX package as well, it did not complain anything... At the moment 2D is good, using nvidia driver just all other program using OpenGL even the screen saver doesn;t work Thanks in advance = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java Virtual Machine problem
Thanks the problem turns out to be rather stupid :-) but I did not find it out, then reading your hint, > create a symbolic link to matches your java version > /usr/bin/java -> > /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper /usr/bin/java exists and it is a wrapper to run kaffe in Mandrake, not my jdk, that is why, I just delete this and make the symlink to my jdk > modify the /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper > so that > > PATH=/usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin:$PATH I even dont have to do that it works > > erase the entries that may be listed under the path > > Registered Linux User Number 254358 = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Java Virtual Machine problem
Hi, I guess that there are many people having no problem with jdk but I have, that is strange; Any way, here is what I did, I got a machine running debian woody and install jdk1.3.1_01 in /usr/local; I make a tar.bz2 of the directory and extract it to /usr/local in the mandrake machine. Insall mozilla plugin it works, but konqueror not (as konqueror use the command java I thought). In the Mandrake machine, I can not run any Java application; like Limewire17, Unicodeconverter ..; Limewire complain something about Illegal Instruction ... and then NoClassdef found..; In Unicoder converter program, it says: Internal Error ; then pls check CLASSPATH ...; If requested I will repeat this and copy the exact text (I can not do now, it is another machine) I tried to set export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/jdk1.3.1_01/lib but nothing Come back to the debian machine, no problem, even before running Limewire I try echo $CLASSPATH and found it is not set. But run all (Limewire, Unicode converter ...) is just fine. Please help. what should I do? I even try ulimit -s 1024 ; (no no I forgot the exact number but the number I copy from sun site that says the bug in newer glibc may cause the problem, I doubt this is the case as it works in woody with new libc as well) but it wont work too. Regards, = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Video card help urgent pls,
> My suggestion is to install 8.1, set it to not boot > into X, then Yeah, for some reason, the install program hang when it run the XFree Test, I have to re-install it, and this time not test; then login . I got the newest driver from the author of the driver and replave it in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers ...; run Xdrakes, it works. Now my question is, is it 3D accelarated card? If yes, how to configure it, I did not see any thing similar when compiling the kernel, the DRI module, (it has AGP though); I have not run any program using OpenGL yet, not sure if it is ok. Thanks for the response > download the newest Xfree packages. These will solve > your problems with > the driver. Then boot into X and go from there. > > Nelson > > On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 16:24, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage > KM133 is > > supported by Mandrake and if yes how or which > > documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot > > > > > > > > > > > > = > > S.KIEU > > > > http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! > > - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! > > > > > > > > > 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 > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Video card help urgent pls,
Hi, I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is supported by Mandrake and if yes how or which documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems after adding a SCSI card.
I have an IBM eseries 230 server that has onboard SCSI and an IBM ServeRaid adapter. The raid adapter has 3 hdd's and the onboard scsi has a tape backup drive on it. I have had no problems and really love this server and Mandrake 8.1. I have been using Linux for awhile and am no where near an expert, in fact this is the first time I have added hardware to a linux box. I have added an Adaptec 2940U scsi adpater so that I could connect a 7 CD MDI SCSI Tower. When I boot up I can see all 7 of the drives as LUN 0 - 6 This is my present /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: E-IDEModel: CD-ROM 48X/AKU Rev: U23 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: DAT06240-XXX Rev: 8160 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.0 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 01 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 15 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.0 Type: ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 01 Host: scsi3 Channel: 01 Id: 15 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: CaHv3 S2 Rev: 0 Type: ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 02 First of my problems is that I can only see 1 cdrom and it is the first one on Lun: 00. How can I add the rest of them so that I can use the ones on LUN 1 to 6? Secondly, the adapter that I added became Host0 which bumped the internal adapter to Host1 which has messed up my /dev/st0 which points to Host0. This means no backups until I can get this fixed. Is there a way that I can correct all my broken links without going through each one? (I might miss one, heh.) Any assistance or guidance to the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Steve Helder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] kernel update question
I am currently running Mandrake 8.1 on my Tyan Tiger MP (Dual Athlon) box, and I would like to update my SMP kernel to the one included in the latest Cooker build. Anyway what is the process for going about installing the kernel from Cooker? What rpm files do I need, and how do I go about installing them? I would appreciate any help. Thanks. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV
--- Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on > my TV > In other words. Which video card has the best > tv-out support in Linux? > > Please do not reply with theoretical bullshit, but > would like to hear some > practical examples. > IF you say so, why not buy one (any ) and test by yourself, it is REALLY Pratical, as you may not believe in others , it is still not Practical! > Marc > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[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 = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.
Hi, My friend has a pentium 100Mh box with only 16Mb ram. I need an advice on how to install mandrake 8.1 on this machine, is it possible? Probably I need to install in text mode? By the way I would like to ask if any one has the same problem, that is if I install Mandrake using the recommended method, it ends up with unuseable system, when start up It prints a lot message saying that permission denied (when an init scripts trying to run a command) But if I chooose the expert mode it is fine. is it a known bug? And the menu systm in some window manager for low mem computer is not functioning like I use menudrake to add a new menu item but it did not come up. Or installing-removing a package but the menu is not refreshed even after restarting wm. The wm I test are blackbox, fvwm2 but icewm is ok. one more thing is, with the above comp, (100Mh, 16Mb ram) does cups run well? I mean the whole printing system as my friend is going to use it with epson stylus c60 printer thanks in advance = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] epson stylus c60 in mandrake 8.1 help
Hi, This printer is marked as fully supported but I can not see the entry when using mandrake printter tool, pls help = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:29:57PM +0100, Tobias Marx wrote: > Am Mon, 2001-12-17 um 17.53 schrieb Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN: > > look at http://xine.sourceforge.net > > They state that with the win32 codecs (downloadable) > > you can play Win Media 7/8 files > > imho mplayer can play wma files, too (besides divx, mpeg, avi and mostly > everything you throw at it). you can get rpms for mandrake 8.1 here: > http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ > > get all the mplayer and the win32-codecs rpm > > have fun! FANTASTIC! Thanks. =)) -- Cheers, Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AMD 760MP setup...
This bios recognizes the drive as a UDMA mode 5 drive which is ATA100, but Mandrake does not. Darwin Gottfried wrote: 20011218032158.DSYB15616.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there"> On Monday 17 December 2001 19:39, you wrote: Everyone I need your help here. I just build a new computer using theTyan Tiger MP S2460 motherboard. For those of you that don't know, thismotherboard has the AMD 760MP chipset which supports the dual Athlon MPprocessors. Anyway I have the Tiger MP with dual AthonMP 1.2 gigprocessors which sounds all good, but I'm having some problems gettingMandrake 8.1 setup. I install Mandrake 8.1 with the default kernel, andit seems that the chipset is not full recognized. So, I upgraded to thenewest kernel from Cooker 2.4.16.3. Now I'm not sure this helpedbecause HardDrake still shows unknown AMD components, and my Maxtor 40gig hardrive is only running using UDMA 33 when it should be using UDMA100. I sure would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could offer. UDMA 100? or ATA100? Also could you please tell me what rpms that I need to upgrade wheninstalling a new kernel. I dowloaded the smp kernel and the headers,and used the following commands:rpm -ivh rpm -ivh If this is not right please let me know as well. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] AMD 760MP setup...
Everyone I need your help here. I just build a new computer using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460 motherboard. For those of you that don't know, this motherboard has the AMD 760MP chipset which supports the dual Athlon MP processors. Anyway I have the Tiger MP with dual AthonMP 1.2 gig processors which sounds all good, but I'm having some problems getting Mandrake 8.1 setup. I install Mandrake 8.1 with the default kernel, and it seems that the chipset is not full recognized. So, I upgraded to the newest kernel from Cooker 2.4.16.3. Now I'm not sure this helped because HardDrake still shows unknown AMD components, and my Maxtor 40 gig hardrive is only running using UDMA 33 when it should be using UDMA 100. I sure would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could offer. Also could you please tell me what rpms that I need to upgrade when installing a new kernel. I dowloaded the smp kernel and the headers, and used the following commands: rpm -ivh rpm -ivh If this is not right please let me know as well. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Uptime in the email
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:28:14AM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 14:57 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > skidley, > > > > try this one. check the attached file. it's a little script that I've > > been using to place my uptime and other thoughts in a little file that > > my client then reads and uses for a signature line. > > > > -- > > Mark > > > > Registered Linux User 182496 > > Mandrake 8.1 > > - > > 2:05pm up 1:41, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.09 > > The important thing missing here is the automatic start of the script. > The script is nice but I still have to punch 'sig' (or whatever I call > the script) into an xterm before I start writing a mail. > What I'd like is: whenever I type 'm' or 'r' or any command in my mutt to > write a mail or reply to a mail I want this script generate the current > signature which mutt puts under my mail body. > > One possible solution may be running the script by a cron job every 5 > minutes during 'mail writing hours'. Since you're using mutt, one can put the uptime in the headers as well. I prefer this over the signature tag line. . --Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] $REMOTEHOST in mdk 8.1 question
Hi, Whenever I login from other machine, the variable $REMOTEHOST is set to the hostname of that machine, but it is not in Mandrake. How can I enable this? Thanks = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon-1.0 and mozilla-0.9.6
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:00:48 +0600, you wrote: >i hate rpms, i'm builidng from source, anyone built this successfully ?? For dependencies you'll need: mozilla-devel 0.9.6 libxml-devel 1.8.14 GConf-devel 1.0.4 oaf-devel 0.6.6 gnome-vfs-devel 1.0.1 gdk-pixbuf-devel 0.10.1 libglade-devel 0.13 Good luck! You sure you don't like rpms? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] galeon-1.0 and mozilla-0.9.6
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:11:19 +0600, you wrote: >has anyone successfully build galeon-1.0 from mozilla-0.9.6?? > >mark Someone said that if you have mozilla-0.9.6 you can install galeon 1.0-1 from the i386.rpm (without rebuilding from source). If this works, let me know. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:38:15 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:48:37 -0500 >Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Monday 26 November 2001 09:35 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: >> > Is anyone else experiencing problems? >> > I upgraded to mozilla-0.9.6-1mdk (from src.rpm), and Galeon >> > 0.12.7-1 segfaults on start up. Tried Galeon 0.12.8-1 (both from >> > source) with the same problems. >> >>I used the Red Hat rpm for mozilla 9.6 (to avoid the libpng3 >> deps) and galeon-1.0-1. Works fine, I believe you're problem is a >> mismatch between mozilla and galeon versions. >> >>Konqueror is still a better browser tho ;> > >You're right, of course. >I'd like a working Galeon tho. Do you think I should do some forcing with the rpms >you used? > >Bill. Galeon 1.0 is out; the homepage is http://galeon.sourceforge.netI downloaded the source rpm and tried to rebuild it, but it needs devel dependencies not included in Mandrake 8.1. So I'm sticking with the "old" 0.12 until Mandrake cooker offers 1.0. It is getting more and more difficult to upgrade just a part of a release because of all the changing dependencies. So why bother? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Hi Group I don't think my previous question made it
Hi,
I posted this yesterday, but I I didn't see it in
the postings.
Question:
What the mechanism used to "background images in Kde (Intel,
Mandrake 8.1)",
and can this ?Mechanism? be use to drop the same image
to a IBm Risc 6000 running Aix 4.3.3 and CDE.
If this ? mechanism ? is an Xsetroot, how do I convert the
jpeg to a pm files easily.
Again thanks in advance for your advice.
Steve
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[expert] hello all
Hi, I am trying to set up single network firewall and a few things keep screwing me up. 1st thing is that Unless I turn off the firewallrules in the Net Appliance Admin tool, I can't access the webpage locally. is this normal? I didn't see that anywhere in the docs. 2nd, if I try to set up forwarding (because I have a webserver I want to keep internal but also to have a static ip and I will just forward webtraffic to my webserver from the ip of my firewall outside ethernet device) Is this possible? Does it work? I don't need to have the webserver be static. I don't care about that. I just need it to be internal because it is using a database server on another machine for some of its content and I don't want to put my database on a dmz where it is more exposed. any answers you may have would be great. I have been playing with the SNF for a couple of days straight now but can't seem to figure this out. -Steve Hare
Re: [expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...
Let me know if you get your nVidia ge2 MX working. I have the same card and while it works in 2D quite well, it is lacking in the 3D department. Other than the udma and agp issues mandrake runs fairly good. I assume redat 7.2 probably has the same issues, though I may give it a try and see what happens. Do you know if the lm sensors package will work with this motherboard? J Grant wrote: >Hi Steve > >I do not know the state of the current kernel but my mdk8.1 box had and >is still having problems with my >adaptec SCSI card did not work, IDE CDROM would not work, finally I got >another SCSI card, but had to boot from floppy. Now i find out AGP is >not fully supported yet, i have been tring to get nVidia ge2 MX working >today. > >Good luck, i have the same board, so i hope the new kernel is better >with it, just checking that now.. > >JG > >Steve wrote: > >>If anyone is using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460, could you please tell me how >>you were able to get udma 100 to work properly. Mandrake 8.1 wants to >>use udma 33 instead. I figure it may have something to do with Mandrake >>detecting the AMD 760MP chipset. If you have any pointers on setting up >>Mandrake with this motherboard please let me know. Thanks. >> > > >Hypermedia Research Centre >Sanyo R&D Headquarters, Tokyo >http://www.sanyo.co.jp/R_and_D/3dm/ >Tel: +81 (0)3 5803 3566 >Fax: +81 (0)3 5803 3640 >E-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Please use open standard file formats for attachments > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > message.footer > > Content-Type: > > text/plain > Content-Encoding: > > 8bit > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...
If anyone is using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460, could you please tell me how you were able to get udma 100 to work properly. Mandrake 8.1 wants to use udma 33 instead. I figure it may have something to do with Mandrake detecting the AMD 760MP chipset. If you have any pointers on setting up Mandrake with this motherboard please let me know. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] AbiWord hoses KDE desktop
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:01:33 +0600, you wrote: >uninstall libpng3 with the --nodeps option, then link ln -s >/usr/lib/libpng2.so libpng3.so, that'll get it working even though this is a >shitty fix > >mark So you are saying that libpng3 messes up the KDE desktop? That doesn't seem to be right, because when I removed AbiWord (rpm -e abiword) and relogged in, the KDE desktop was back to normal even though I have left libpng3 installed. The fault is with AbiWord OR its interaction with libpng3. BTW, AbiWord was working fine with libpng3. Further thoughts? Thanks. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] AbiWord hoses KDE desktop
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:09:59 +0100, you wrote: I've tried installing the latest Mandrake cooker RPM of AbiWord (the one requiring libpng3). It installs correctly, but wipes out the links to many of the KDE programs on my desktop. For instance, I can no longer lnk to KOffice. Why should this happen? Installing one program SHOULDN'T interefere with another program. Thank you, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] terminal problem with period char
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 06:34:00AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hit the key twice and it will appear! Also other puctuation may happen > similarly. Fix is to select your language and keyboard within KDE. In > my case I use UK English and US int kb (am in Oz) and mdk 7.2 and 8.0 > required this. Not up to that stage with my new 8.1 system so dont know > if its been fixed yet. Appears to be a locale thingy > > BillK Well yes I tried that of course, btw I'm not using KDE. It appears that I've installed something from cooker that is causing the problem. The terms I've had up before the install[s] don't have the problem - new terms do however. Something is broken from cooker, which isn't a surprise. Now if I could just remember the exact packages I installed 3 days ago... Anyone have an idea? Fonts? My locale is setup correctly and I only have the problem in terminals. Thanks for the suggestion however Bill. > On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 21:33, Steve wrote: > > Wierd problem I'm having just recently. After my box has been up for a > > couple of days the period char won't appear when I type it in a > > terminal. Using rxvt but the same happens in xterm or aterm. Restarting > > Xserver fixes the problem, but of course I'd prefer not to have to do > > that. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 * It's easier to fight for one's principles * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] terminal problem with period char
Wierd problem I'm having just recently. After my box has been up for a couple of days the period char won't appear when I type it in a terminal. Using rxvt but the same happens in xterm or aterm. Restarting Xserver fixes the problem, but of course I'd prefer not to have to do that. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] setting up new linux workstations
If you were asked by someone to build two linux workstations where one had to be pentium 4 based and the other athlon based, what two motherboards would you use? For the pentium 4, I was considering the Abit TH7II-Raid (i850 chipset). I am not for certain if there are any known issues with mandrake 8.1 and the i850 chipset. From what I have read I think it will run fine. For the Athlon, I am unsure which board to use. Which board does not have any known problems? I know some VIA chipsets have known problems. If these problems have been addressed with the newest Mandrake release then great, if not I would like to know which board to use and which to stay away from. I would like to be able to run the harddrives at the desired speeds of ATA/66 or ATA/100 without any data corruption resulting from VIA bugs. I would also like a board with more than two DIMM slots. Any input would be appreciated as I would like to order the hardware as soon as possible. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0400, Steve wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) > > agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. > > > > However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of > > those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was > > 31 Jul 2000). > > > > Check www.openBSD.org and www.netBSD.org. These OSs, if you don't know, > > are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems Distribution, the Real UNIX (tm) > > from which all others are derived. I know that OpenBSD is known to be the > > most secure UNIX, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. > > Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative > > Don't forget BeOS as well will run quite nicely on a Nubus box. > Still available for free last time I checked. Bad form to reply to one's own post but - I was wrong BeOS doens't run on Nubus. Sorry my bad, should have checked the hw compatiblity list b4 posting. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) > agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. > > However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of > those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was > 31 Jul 2000). > > Check www.openBSD.org and www.netBSD.org. These OSs, if you don't know, > are derivatives of the Berkeley Systems Distribution, the Real UNIX (tm) > from which all others are derived. I know that OpenBSD is known to be the > most secure UNIX, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. > Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative Don't forget BeOS as well will run quite nicely on a Nubus box. Still available for free last time I checked. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email/ \ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] spaces and command line
Backquote them. For example cd A\ directory\ with\ spaces Don't forget you can always uses filename completion by typing part of the name and hitting tab. As for scrolling back up console screens, you can use SHIFT-ARROW-UP or PAGE-UP Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Mike & Tracy Holt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[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] << File: message.footer >> ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Promise & 'LI' at boot
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:56:31 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >> >Hallo! >> > >> >I've changed my K6-III-400 for a Gigabyte 7DXR with a Promise controller & >> >1200 Athlon. My system is on a scsi hd and ide has to boot first in order >> >for win to boot so i've put lilo on hde. >> > >> >But i get 'LI' on startup. I've checked the mail archive and found no >> >sollution for this. Now i'm using a floppy disk to boot. Lilo returns "LI" on bootup if you have changed your hard disk configuration, because the parameters in lilo.conf are no longer valid. Since you have a "rescue" floppy boot disk, once the system has finished booting, type from the command or Xterm line, "lilo". That will reconfigure lilo. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Veritas odit moras" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory
Cheers Laurent - perfectly acceptable answer from Jeff, and I can see the logic behind it. Thanks for looking into it for me. Satisfied my curiosity anyway! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Laurent Duperval [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory On 6 Sep, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Sep, FLYNN, Steve wrote: >> Exactly what is the point in that? I've never done any Tcl programming >> (yet) but I can't see the reasoning behind this. >> > > I don't remember what the exact design decision was. It may have been > somnething to do with performance. I'll ask and give you the answer later. > >> It's a multi-tasking OS - everything should be handed back in a friendly >> manner. It sounds like a deliberate design ploy on the Tcl interpreter >> authors, presumably for performance increases, but it appears to fail as >> it causes swapping itself! >> >> Have I got the wrong end of the stick? >> > > In this case, probably. I suspect the the tkppoe script keeps large > amounts of data in memory and never releases it. For example, maybe it > sets an array aor a list and constantly adds data to it. In that case, no > matter what Tcl does with memory, it will just keep on growing and > growing. > > On the other hand, if the script allocates large amounts of data to do > temporary datamanipulation, then releases the handle to that data, the > memory growth will be a result of the way Tcl manages memory. Until I see > the script, I can't say for sure which of these situations is at work. > > L > As promised, here is Jeff Hobbs' answer, which you can find on comp.lang.tcl (and I think any subsequent discussions on the memory allocation aspect of Tcl should be taken there): Yes, it is in large part for performance. Yes, it still makes a noticable difference in that latest machines, and likely always will since the concept is fairly basic. This is exactly what Tcl does: It allocates Tcl_Obj's in blocks of 100. Ask for the first one, you get 100 and it pops one off to you. The next 99 are already allocated and just popped off to you. When you "free" a Tcl_Obj, it goes back on to a stack of free objects which can be reused. Any memory associated with the Tcl_Obj (string, list rep, other object data) is all freed, it is just the Tcl_Obj shell that is kept on the stack for reuse. This means if you have 1001 objects in use at once, you will have allocated at least 1100 Tcl_Obj's. However, if you used 1001 objects, but never more than 50 at a time, you only ever allocated 100 Tcl_Obj (others were reused). This goes on for the lifetime of the process. Thus, the objects used high-water mark is maintained - with the philosophy that if you used it before, you may need it again. The way in which they are maintained on the stack is done in a very efficient manner (linking to each other), which unfortunately makes it impossible to deallocate. To free, you would have to have the entire block of 100 Tcl_Obj's ready to free and remember which one was the first. What the person may have been seeing is some mem leak in Tcl. There were (*were*) a few that we hard to exercise, but 8.3.2 had a fairly easy to hit one in channels (unfortunately) that was fixed in 8.3.3. So, while it is true that certain parts of Tcl don't free mem back, it is just the Tcl_Obj shell allocator, everything else gets freed (structures, dstrings, strings, ...). --- Since tkpppoe most likely uses channels, it may be exercising the bug that Jeff mentions. You could try 8.3.3 to see if your script still ill-behaves. L -- Laurent Duperval <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique qui me fit sortir du lit, malgré l'aube matinale de l'après-midi! -Le disciple << File: message.footer >> ** This email and any files se
RE: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory
Exactly what is the point in that? I've never done any Tcl programming (yet) but I can't see the reasoning behind this. It's a multi-tasking OS - everything should be handed back in a friendly manner. It sounds like a deliberate design ploy on the Tcl interpreter authors, presumably for performance increases, but it appears to fail as it causes swapping itself! Have I got the wrong end of the stick? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Laurent Duperval [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:13 PM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject:Re: [expert] Netscape & wish using up memory Wish (and Tcl in general) does not release memory to the OS. Instead, when memory is released, it is maintianed in a pool to be reused by the application. Most likely, the Tcl (wish) script you are using is using up a lot of memory and never releasing it. One example is setting a new variable or an array and never unsetting it after it is no longer needed. You have to look at the code for tkpppoe to see where that happens. L -- Laurent Duperval <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bourgeois, ne niez pas: le frisson de l'envie chante au fond de votre prunelle! -Le commerçant d'Achille Talon << File: message.footer >> ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Find Command
This works here...
Remove all files in your home directory named a.out or *.o that have not
been accessed for a week:
find $HOME \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' \) -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
Note the '*.o'...
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
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Subject:[expert] Find Command
How is it possible to force the find command to list all files with
"read" in the filename, regardless whether they start with a period
or not?
I already tried the following:
find /usr -iname ".*read*" -iname "*read*" -type f -print
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RE: [expert] Fast KDE
This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had this problem before, but I have noticed a considerable difference in KDE startup time since performing the re-install... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [expert] Fast KDE On Tuesday 04 September 2001 12:21 am, Ron Johnson escribió: > Object Pre-linking speeds up KDE startup from 2.5 minutes to mere > seconds? That's how long it takes my KDE to load with AA turned > on. The claim is 30 to 50% faster. In my experience with objprelink'g, 50% is conservative, it's even faster than that. Apps like Kmail and Konqueror are ready to go in under 1 second. Using Mosfet's Liquid theme with System++ decorations increases it to just a hair over 1 second. KDE2.2 w/o prelinking, times were about 4 to 5 secs using the default themes. I can't comment on actual loading time for just KDE because I autostart 2 applications on all desktops. One of which is Gqview to display random background .jpgs from a dir that has 42,000+ pics in it. Still KDE loads in much less than 1 minute, more like under 30 seconds. IIRC, w/o prelinking it wasn't that much slower. It's never been minutes. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay << File: message.footer >> ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] kapm-idled????
It appears to be fine - I've only just upgraded to 8.0 last week, and I spend some of my time at work using Dynix machines, which don't run X at all, and the 37 meg seemed a bit high. However, from other people's posts, it appears to be fine. I picked the RAM out mainly because of the 0k of memory being shared. I'd expect to see at least *some* memory shared, even if it were only a few libraries... Mem: 125600K av, 62400K used, 63200K free, 0K shrd, 892K buff Swap: 265032K av, 52372K used, 212660K free 29892K cached Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [expert] kapm-idled so, are you saying that the amount of RAM that X is using is ok? or is there something amiss here with the amount that it's using? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions." Author unknown On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Alexander poslavsky wrote: >On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:10:01 -0400 (EDT) >Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [kapm-idled] > >Your poor 266 cpu is thanking you! >kapm-idled is a kernel daemon that constantly sends idle calls to your cpu. On >laptops, making the idle call actually puts the cpu into a state where it >saves more power. It doesn't hurt your cpu, but rather, is by design. Just for >reference, kapm-idled stands for: >K(ernel) A(dvanced) P(ower) M(anagement) Idle D(aemon) >Its also worthy to note that kernel threads and processes can't be killed from >userland. >(From some list) > >"FLYNN, Steve" wrote: >Also, I notice that X seems to consuming a hell of a lot of ram on your >machine - I don't have an Mandrake 8.0 machine here at work, to check but >I'm sure my box with 256 meg doesn't have 37M sucked up by X! > >Yes it does, sometimes even more (I've got 256) top: >1651 root 18 0 51692 50M 2364 R 2.9 20.2 2:19 X > >ah, now I'm not a lurker anymore. > > << File: message.footer >> ** This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or take/retain/distribute any copies. ** Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited Registered Office 2 Rougier Street York YO90 1UU Registered in England Number 3253947 A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Member of the Association of British Insurers. For further Enquires 01603 622200 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
