Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 17:26, frankieh wrote: Have you installed the proper 3D nvidia driver? if you don't your never gonna get good speed from any 3D games. go to nvidia.com and look for the linux installer, follow the instructions.. its easy and makes a huge difference. See? Aussies know best mate. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The bigger the theory the better. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel includes path in version 9.2
Hi, In Mandrake 9.1 the path the linux source code includes was /usr/src/linux/include. Now that I upgraded to version 9.2 I cannot find these includes. Where can I find these now in 9.2 ? I appreciate your assistant, all. Cheers, Mazen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:38, ltcddata wrote: hi Hi, Data i downloaded mdk10.0 community and put them onto cds. for some reason disk one wont boot from cd to allow me to install on this machine... but does on my other one?? just at the point where it says boot from cd .. the cd then spins up but fails to load then it goes to lilo. i have tried to burn it slower and change my optical devices etc but nothing works.. could this be a bug in the iso of cd1? There has been talk of this on the expert list - if you need more info try the archives, but the gist, as I understand it, is that there is a bug that is proving very difficult to solve. Booting from cd1 works on some machines but not on others. On those machines the workaround is to boot from cd2 then go back to cd1. HTH Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXBsgkFAvMr/nNX8RAtQEAJ914rWO2b0XTGJ93QKX1fA4FiT4aQCgoTji KS9bMNzt8y/xGqMTpl4XL0k= =geBm -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:26, Erylon Hines wrote: To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk with their machines. The crippled crap disk included is a recovery disk which formats the HD and returns the machine to the factory mode. Truly useless, but the end users pay anyway. Even better, or worse, is that my daughter's employer has just bought her a new box with XP. She doesn't even get a recovery disk. She has to take it back to the vendor if it's needed. We solved it, hopefully, by partitioning on the fly then imaging the first partition. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXBvVkFAvMr/nNX8RAjgvAJ9JjYtSXWs8RQ1OOouSqCJDrYc6dwCfaLme tOBLw0RIC6BA65Hag18QVFA= =hMP9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy 2 ZS Sound Problem fixed and here is what I did
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:45, Mandrake User wrote: I recently did a clean installation of Mandrake 10.0 Community. The installation process lived up to Mandrake's fame as a user-friendly distro. Only problem I had was the Audigy 2 ZS sound card could not work. Could you add this to the TWiki, please, at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SounD Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXBzjkFAvMr/nNX8RAge7AJ9D29NQBevPt1x7fuIvKCED1OZBQQCeNznv J+hi+q7i4gjk65gwa2MdoA4= =X4OC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Even better, or worse, is that my daughter's employer has just bought her a new box with XP. She doesn't even get a recovery disk. She has to take it back to the vendor if it's needed. We solved it, hopefully, by partitioning on the fly then imaging the first partition. Anne I notice that some brands already provide this kind of feature. Acer is one, the give you a hdd with a hidden D drive containing the original C image, and a recovery button on the CPU casing, which make recovery very easy. I wish Linux has this kind magic solution. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 17:28:32 up 5:48, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXB1xkp5CsIXuxqURAvA3AJ9HutQPt23glDiF1I2cledpJZ9g/ACgi7R/ Yr5cZ0UQHWHt9EZZG/Phvbk= =fI4O -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31, Fajar Priyanto wrote: I notice that some brands already provide this kind of feature. Acer is one, the give you a hdd with a hidden D drive containing the original C image, and a recovery button on the CPU casing, which make recovery very easy. I wish Linux has this kind magic solution. I'm pretty sure that he is using the hidden partition route, but I wouldn't know how to get to it, so it's useless without returning it to him. He's a one-man business, and when he is on a virus-removal hunt he can be unavilable for a week. No use at all to her, so we took our own steps. Hopefully they'll never be needed, but I like to see something in place Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXB8ykFAvMr/nNX8RAkncAJ0dBaXKRo84PwhLhZ5gOarRPUa2QQCeMAik D05VDR9Vyu+upGN4KUEFlNI= =beOb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KMail crash on 10.0
Hi I'm having a problem with KMail after I upgraded one of the machines here that previously ran MDK 9.2. Before the upgrade, KMail chugged happily along and everything was fine and dandy. Now, however, whenever I try to navigate in the message list, or compose a new e-mail, it crashes and prints the error message: relocation error: kmail: undefined symbol: _ZN17Syntaxhighlighter16DictSpellCheckerC1EP9QTextEditbb6QColorbS3_S3_S3_S3_ to the console. Something with the way the spell checker is set up? I looked at the problem briefly, but I don't really have time to mess around with it a lot. Not now, anyway. So I'm kind of hoping someone else knows what's going on :) //Philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:21, Anne Wilson wrote: There has been talk of this on the expert list - if you need more info try the archives, but the gist, as I understand it, is that there is a bug that is proving very difficult to solve. Booting from cd1 works on some machines but not on others. On those machines the workaround is to boot from cd2 then go back to cd1. HTH Anne The problem seems to lie in which sector contains the boot catalog. Some test ISOs were released to test the theory, and the culprit seems to be that some CD drives are failing to boot up the CD when the ISO places the boot catalog in sector 929. At least, that's the drift I'm getting on the cooker list. It seems to have held true on my drive. Glenn -- 04:58:49 up 7:00, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 When people say nothing, they don't necessarily mean nothing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:38, ltcddata wrote: hi Hi, Data i downloaded mdk10.0 community and put them onto cds. for some reason disk one wont boot from cd to allow me to install on this machine... but does on my other one?? just at the point where it says boot from cd .. the cd then spins up but fails to load then it goes to lilo. i have tried to burn it slower and change my optical devices etc but nothing works.. could this be a bug in the iso of cd1? There has been talk of this on the expert list - if you need more info try the archives, but the gist, as I understand it, is that there is a bug that is proving very difficult to solve. Booting from cd1 works on some machines but not on others. On those machines the workaround is to boot from cd2 then go back to cd1. HTH Anne -- I can confirm M10-Community-download-CD1 is BROKEN. Mine will not boot either, though I must be cautious here, my CD was burnt from failed md5sum iso in order to test for the problem. I've still got to download an effective CD1 iso yet. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Testing... 1,2,3
I'm getting a bounce message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each email I send to the list. Am I getting out to the list? (I see the posts coming back.) Should I trash these as they appear? Glenn -- 05:23:54 up 7:25, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered Linux user #324360 Don't let go of what you've got hold of, until you have hold of something else. -- First Rule of Wing Walking Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Testing... 1,2,3
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:39:23 -0700, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a bounce message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] for each email I send to the list. Am I getting out to the list? (I see the posts coming back.) Should I trash these as they appear? Glenn You can safely show them the quickest way to /dev/null. We *are* getting your messages, never fear :) pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] ntfs read/write?
So, should one choose creating a fat32 partition to have a shared (between MS Windows and Linux, and with write privileges) hard disk partition? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Program to establish a VPN connection
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:07:13 + Paul Smith disseminated the following: Dear All What program should I use to establish a VPN connection? Thank you a lot in advance! Freeswan. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 10:26:54 up 13:53, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 ++ The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack! -- Rick Mercer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:54:51 -0800 (PST) Mandrake User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried games on Mandrake 9.2 as well and they were terribly slow. Currently, I am running Mandrake 10.0 Community but without games installed. Maybe you should try Mandrake 10.0? It is a big improvement to 9.2, in my opinion. --- achmad fauzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I has install Linux Mandrake 9.2 with games package. But went I execute my games (exp : in category sport) that's run too slowly. My VGAcard is Nvidia GeForce 4. Processor AMD 1700++, RAM 256. May you can tell me why it's happen. thank you. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. You must install the Nvidia drivers from their site. Go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html and install them. Download the file to your computer, then do this: 1. Logout 2. Press CTL and F2 at the same time (will take you to a black screen) 3. login as root 4. Type init 3 5. go to the directory whereyou installed the NVIDIA driver. 6. type sh ./NVIDIA-Linux*run 7. Follow the instructions 8. Type vim /etc/X11/XF*4 9. Scroll down with the arrow keys until you find the section that says: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS 10. Press the insert key, and then change nv to nvidia. 11. Under Option DPMS, add Option NvAGP 1 12. Press escape, then :wq 13. Type init 5 and you should be good to go. If these instructions are too obvious, sorry. :) John -- Sat Mar 20 09:20:03 CST 2004 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. -- P.J. O'Rourke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] For Mdk-10.0
Now available for Mdk-10.0: bogofilter-0.17.3-1mdk.i586.rpm bookcase-0.8.5-1mdk.i586.rpm dlume-0.2.2a-1mdk.i586.rpm emelfm2-0.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed2-0.9.9-0.20040229.1mdk.i586.rpm Charles -- There... I've run rings 'round you logically -- Monty Python's Flying Circus -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.4-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Supermount in 10.0
On Saturday 20 March 2004 08:52 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: 10.0 should not be using Supermount for the CD-ROMs any longer. There is a new version called magicdev that performs the same function as supermount, it automatically mounts removable media when inserted. Yes, but this isn't quite the whole story. Supermount-ng in the latest kernels is a better solution than magicdev. Even the Mandrake developers involved have said so on the cooker ML, an alluded to the fact that making magicdev the default wasn't their preference. So they suggested, and many cooker'rs have: urpme magicdev supermount -i enable mount -a A search of the cooker archive should clear it up. Most cooker'rs like myself updated daily to 10.0+, an so never had magicdev installed. So at best it's very much untested. Bugs have been filed on it tho, search bugzilla. Most common bug was that it wouldn't release the CD tray, and/or recognize when a media was inserted. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie]
Hi all, During the installation of a Cisco VPN client I get the following question: Directory containing linux kernel source code Can anybody tell me where/how I can that in mdk 9.1? Marco -- They're pink and wet, they make the best kinda pet... (Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes) Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] boot to install mdk 10.0 from cd2 worked great... thanxs
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Re: [newbie] Supermount in 10.0
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11:11 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, but this isn't quite the whole story. Supermount-ng in the latest kernels is a better solution than magicdev. Even the Mandrake developers involved have said so on the cooker ML, an alluded to the fact that making magicdev the default wasn't their preference. I haven't been following the cooker ML. Probably should since I upgraded to 10.0. So they suggested, and many cooker'rs have: urpme magicdev supermount -i enable mount -a A search of the cooker archive should clear it up. Most cooker'rs like myself updated daily to 10.0+, an so never had magicdev installed. So at best it's very much untested. Bugs have been filed on it tho, search bugzilla. Most common bug was that it wouldn't release the CD tray, and/or recognize when a media was inserted. Well, I did have the media recognition problem initially, although that has cleared up now. I haven't had any problems with magicdev since the initial ones, I am pretty sure that I am still on that since I did not do anything to change it. I can still remember all the problems associated with supermount but will take your word for it that it works better than magicdev. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie]
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 04:15, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, During the installation of a Cisco VPN client I get the following question: Directory containing linux kernel source code Can anybody tell me where/how I can that in mdk 9.1? Marco If you HAVE the kernel sources installed, they should live under /usr/src/linux -OR- /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/ stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Set unlimited history entry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IIRC, I set up mdk92 back at the office and during the installation it asked me whether I want to set the history entry unlimited or not, or specific amount. Now, at home, I tried to find the setting but couldn't. I looked into MCC security, but with no success. How do I set it up? Since I'm learning here, I want to record all what I typed in bash :) TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 00:31:39 up 2:03, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXIClkp5CsIXuxqURAjCMAJ436Hjvcyz0tlsvKz67U8D9FMKxJACdH6fd Ek9wqpsWLLj8KLnNrudLOgw= =Bv0Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot
John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:38, ltcddata wrote: hi Hi, Data i downloaded mdk10.0 community and put them onto cds. for some reason disk one wont boot from cd to allow me to install on this machine... but does on my other one?? just at the point where it says boot from cd .. the cd then spins up but fails to load then it goes to lilo. i have tried to burn it slower and change my optical devices etc but nothing works.. could this be a bug in the iso of cd1? There has been talk of this on the expert list - if you need more info try the archives, but the gist, as I understand it, is that there is a bug that is proving very difficult to solve. Booting from cd1 works on some machines but not on others. On those machines the workaround is to boot from cd2 then go back to cd1. HTH Anne -- I can confirm M10-Community-download-CD1 is BROKEN. Mine will not boot either, though I must be cautious here, my CD was burnt from failed md5sum iso in order to test for the problem. I've still got to download an effective CD1 iso yet. John Spent the afternoon installing 10 - the CD1 worked fine for me, so is not totally broken! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Set unlimited history entry
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:34:27 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IIRC, I set up mdk92 back at the office and during the installation it asked me whether I want to set the history entry unlimited or not, or specific amount. Now, at home, I tried to find the setting but couldn't. I looked into MCC security, but with no success. How do I set it up? Since I'm learning here, I want to record all what I typed in bash :) TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 00:31:39 up 2:03, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 snip Hi Fajar You can set it manually in /etc/profile by changing the HISTSIZE variable. -- Björn Olsson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Audigy 2 ZS Sound Problem fixed and here is what I did
Greetings Anne, the TWiki thing is new to me. I have just registered an account, I will definitely add my fix to it tomorrow (it is later here and I am tired ;) ) Thanks for pointing me to TWiki! --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:45, Mandrake User wrote: I recently did a clean installation of Mandrake 10.0 Community. The installation process lived up to Mandrake's fame as a user-friendly distro. Only problem I had was the Audigy 2 ZS sound card could not work. Could you add this to the TWiki, please, at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SounD Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXBzjkFAvMr/nNX8RAge7AJ9D29NQBevPt1x7fuIvKCED1OZBQQCeNznv J+hi+q7i4gjk65gwa2MdoA4= =X4OC -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Supermount in 10.0
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 08:52 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: 10.0 should not be using Supermount for the CD-ROMs any longer. There is a new version called magicdev that performs the same function as supermount, it automatically mounts removable media when inserted. Yes, but this isn't quite the whole story. Supermount-ng in the latest kernels is a better solution than magicdev. Even the Mandrake developers involved have said so on the cooker ML, an alluded to the fact that making magicdev the default wasn't their preference. So they suggested, and many cooker'rs have: urpme magicdev supermount -i enable mount -a A search of the cooker archive should clear it up. Most cooker'rs like myself updated daily to 10.0+, an so never had magicdev installed. So at best it's very much untested. Bugs have been filed on it tho, search bugzilla. Most common bug was that it wouldn't release the CD tray, and/or recognize when a media was inserted. Thanks - I uninstalled magicdev, turned on supermount and everything was back to normal. Now if I can get sound and my nvidia drivers working, I'll be a happy little Robin! Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Set unlimited history entry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 01:53 am, Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:34:27 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, IIRC, I set up mdk92 back at the office and during the installation it asked me whether I want to set the history entry unlimited or not, or specific amount. Now, at home, I tried to find the setting but couldn't. I looked into MCC security, but with no success. How do I set it up? Since I'm learning here, I want to record all what I typed in bash :) TIA. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 00:31:39 up 2:03, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 snip Hi Fajar You can set it manually in /etc/profile by changing the HISTSIZE variable. -- Björn Olsson Many thanks Bjorn, You help my Linux studying a lot. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 01:00:08 up 2:31, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXIbPkp5CsIXuxqURAkroAKCDJOsK3Don3VvUhx2U+3e5NsvLzACfVDmH l9CN/DD6LNVftwIhEU/XC4A= =sOcW -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:12 am, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:19:10 -0500 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Curiously, Ive been getting a lot less spam lately. You shouldn't have said anything...looks like it's picking up. I've knocked off about 60 so far today already. I've seen no slow-down whatsoever on my wife's account (her e-addy is on the internet because of volunteer work). Thank God for SA. My ISP uses SA, also, and (quite intelligently) tags them in the header with sss, one s for each point, then sends them on. I can filter on my ISP's score, which is pretty aggressive, and then filter the ones that don't go to the bit-bucket with my own Bayes rules. It works pretty darn well and the spammer's haven't figured out how to get much by it---yet. e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:12 am, Frank Bax wrote: At 10:26 PM 3/19/04, Erylon Hines wrote: To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk with their machines. The crippled crap disk included is a recovery disk which formats the HD and returns the machine to the factory mode. Truly useless, but the end users pay anyway. I think here you are referring to the $35 version here. When I build new systems, I get OEM media (a real OS disk) for CDN$220 for XP-pro - about US$167. Must purchase hardware components at same time to qualify though. Either way ($35/$200) there must be a license sticker glued to case to prove OEM license. Frank Yup, the big guys--Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc--the ones that MicroSux gives the sweetheart deals to. Not the full-install OEM disk that small white box outfits pay real money to buy. e Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Track ripping with lame
Begin forwarded message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mail forwarding loop for [EMAIL PROTECTED] again... On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:21:33 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on That's quite odd, as xmms is usually low latency on such a system. I wonder if there might be something else that's amiss. Case in point, on my AMD 1000 box recently, I experienced lots of skips recently playing from a URL. This is fairly uncommon, even though I was encoding a VCD at the same time. But that wasn't the problem - it was artsd. Darn thing was eating up most of the cpu, and (2.6) kernel was spending a lto of time in system mode. As a result, my system was barely usable, and the encode ended up dropping way too many frames :(. Killing artsd made it all better. Brian -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
A few days ago one of my neighbors asked me if it was possible to install Linux on his computer. Up until about 3 months ago he had a older computer with win 98 installed on it. He thought that win 98 was a disaster at best, he listened to all the advertising and thought that Windoze XP was going to be a cure all. He then decided to order a new machine from Gateway with Windoze XP. After using the new machine for a couple of months he could not help but conclude that XP was evan a bigger screw up than 98!!! Thats about the time that he asked me about Linux. I burnt him a set of 10.0 disks and first thing in the morning he went to install them on his machine. I had told him how to set it up for dual boot with Mandrake 10.0 and XP but he decided aginst that, he wanted XP gone forever and did a straight ML 10.0 install. The whole installation went very well up untill he did the reboot at the end of the installation. At the start of the reboot the machine hung on the startup screen with the Gateway logo and instructions to press F2 to enter setup, it would go no further, F2 would NOT work! Thats about the time that he called my house and explained the problem. I just knew that it had to be a simple problem and I spent a few miniuts on the phone with him trying to walk him through it but rebooting did not help, Rebooting and tapping F1 or F2 did not help. I thought this was a bit odd but I still knew that it had to be a simple problem so I drove over to help him out. The problem was as he discribed so I reset the bios by moving the usual jumper but still no luck. After doing a bit more trouble shooting, checking for loose connectors etc. etc. I unpluged the Hard drive. SUCUSS I could now get into the bios. All the settings looked OK. I had a old 500MB hard drive from a old windoze machine, Really to small to be of practical use but OK for troubleshooting. We plugged it in and the machine tried to boot into the old windoze 98 installation on the replacement hard drive. OK simple enough I thought The hard drive must have died all we need to do is get Gateway to send a new drive under warrenty. I talked to them on the phone and explained the problem but did NOT tell them that we had installed ML for fear of voiding the warrenty. After going through the usual trouble shooting proceedures with a Gateway tech the folks at Gateway also said that the hard drive was dead and said that they would ship out a new one free of charge and that it would be about 3 days for it to arrive. Meanwhile my neighbors business is dependant on using a computer, all day every day. I had a spare machine that I had just built. What better a way to do a 24 hour burn in than to let my neighbor use it for a few days and then just reformat the HDD and reinstall ML 10.0. All went well and he was very happy with Mandrake This morning he called and said that the new HDD had arrived, He had been watching me enough to know how to install it and load ML but after installing Mandrake again he had the same problem all over again. I asked him to bring the machine over. After I checked things over a bit I found that he was correct. We tried a Gateway restoration disk but that did not work. I unpluged the hdd and finnally I was again able to at least access the bios. I went through the bios and tried any change that I thought could possibly help but time after time as soon as we pluged in the HDD the machine would hang on the Gateway start up screen. I put the HDD in another machine and used a Maxblast and a windoze boot floppy to wipe the HDD and reformat it. WE put it back in his machine and now everything again seemed to be fine. After more attempts we discovered that after ANYTHING but a microsux product is installed on the HDD the Intel MOBO with Gateway BIOS can no longer see the drive I always thought that that Gateway was in bed with Microsux but now it seems that they have gone to a whole new leval of BS. Well at this point the neighbor renistalled win XP but wants to sell the machine and wants me to build him a new machine. I do not think Gateway or should I say Gates way have made any friends here. If this is the kind of bull $hit game that Gateway wants to play may I suggest that anyone that reads this start to boycott them. Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:28 pm, Marc wrote: snipped If this is the kind of bull $hit game that Gateway wants to play may I suggest that anyone that reads this start to boycott them. Don't sugarcoat it, tell us how you really feel. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Still no sound
OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 - audio CD
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:21:20 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I $799? Outrageous. Robin, here's what I do. I use xmms with the dikwriter plugin and cdrecord. open up xmms, select the tracks to burn. This is pretty simple if they are all in one convenient place. Otherwise you can use gcombust and do drag drop from a file management tool like konqueror. Make a subdirectory to hold the wavs - usually I put them under /tmp. Next open up the Visualization window, select Audio I/O plugins, select Diskwriter. This opens up a subwindow, enter in the directory you created. After you've added all the files, press play, and in a few minutes (here's where diskwriter shines, it's fast) you'll have a number of wav's in that directory. Next open up a command line and $ cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0 -v -eject -speed 12 -audio pad list of files Most of the time, after entering that I just type the first few letters of each track, and hit tab. I have to do that repeatedly for each track, but what the hell, it works :). Otherwise, you can use gcombust, or any other cd writing tool. But from the tenor of your email it would seem you're stuck on the mp3-wav conversion. Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] FTP Server GUI?
Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not sure if it's my router's firewall, or proFTPD. TIA, Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 - audio CD
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:49:21 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't know K3B did file conversion - I'd only used it for data backups. That'll teach me to RTFM before I post! It supposedly does - you can burn the mp3s and convert them at the same time. But I have found this doesn't always work well in practice. I've managed to coaster several CDs when trying this approach in the past, and I've used several front ends when doing so. I've found that it does not work well to do this especially if your mp3 sources are not 44.1K/stereo files. A bunch of my OTR is not, and the various front ends do not pay attention to this, and it results in coasters featuring chipmunk soounds. Also, from my experience, they do not support VBR encoding well at all. Having your front end segfault in the middle of a burn is not encouraging, to say the least. So far, I've found xmms-diskwriter / cdrecord the best way to do this. Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden partition causing the problem you could probably get rid of it that way. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXKE9kFAvMr/nNX8RAkSeAJ9quUtlWpXdxofC/i31VLxL5K4t0ACfZq5l t3OqnX89qGUEQ7O0k+Xnoto= =SUmr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: compile asm in C
thanks for the reply
I have MDK9.2 and gcc 3.3.1.
Does anyone know how I can compile the assembly in a c file?
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
any help is appreciated, please. :)
best regards
Chungwei
Björn Lundin wrote:
Chungwei Hsiung wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it.
My story is a little bit different..
I just copy the codes you modified to a file and I compile it.
I have the following error message that I had before. Any other thoughts??
$cat asmExit.c
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
$ gcc -c asmExit.c
asmExit.c:2:9: missing terminating character
asmExit.c: In function `main':
asmExit.c:3: error: syntax error before mov
asmExit.c:6:1: missing terminating character
asmExit.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
best regards,
Chungwei
It might have something to do with the compiler version.
I run mdk 9.1. Have a look at the first warning my compiler
gives. In your compiler version it migth be more than deprecated, it might
have been removd. Try having it all on one line? Perhaps not practical
in a real world situation, but there is perhaps som new switch to gcc?
/Björn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc asm_test.c
asm_test.c:2:9: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
asm_test.c: In function `main':
asm_test.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat as
asm_test.c asm_test.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat asm_test.c
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$
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Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden partition causing the problem you could probably get rid of it that way. Anne No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not sure if it's my router's firewall, or proFTPD. TIA, Marc Webmin. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go. -- Austin Dobson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says WHACK The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. WHACK It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- A gossip is one who talks to you about others, a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself. -- Lisa Kirk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says WHACK The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. WHACK It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
re: [newbie] MP3 -.cd
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:21:20 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I $799? Outrageous. Robin, here's what I do. I use xmms with the dikwriter plugin and cdrecord. open up xmms, select the tracks to burn. This is pretty simple if they are all in one convenient place. Otherwise you can use gcombust and do drag drop from a file management tool like konqueror. Make a subdirectory to hold the wavs - usually I put them under /tmp. Next open up the Visualization window, select Audio I/O plugins, select Diskwriter. This opens up a subwindow, enter in the directory you created. After you've added all the files, press play, and in a few minutes (here's where diskwriter shines, it's fast) you'll have a number of wav's in that directory. Next open up a command line and $ cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0 -v -eject -speed 12 -audio pad list of files Most of the time, after entering that I just type the first few letters of each track, and hit tab. I have to do that repeatedly for each track, but what the hell, it works :). Otherwise, you can use gcombust, or any other cd writing tool. But from the tenor of your email it would seem you're stuck on the mp3-wav conversion. Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
My Mom has a gateway from about 4 years ago. It came with Windows 98. I have gotten Linux to run on it fine, but to share your griefThere is NO FAN on the processor...Which is a celeron...Nice huh? After 20 minutes of being on you can feel the warmth from it...The power supply has a fan, that blows RIGHT ON THE FUCKING HEAT SINK FOR THE PROCESSOR...So putting a fan in would be a bitch, because the extra air coming on the fan would probably screw with the air flow...And either way, the fan blows out warm air! I have been saying gateway is shit for years. Hmm, did you keep the other HD they sent? That would be fun. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden partition causing the problem you could probably get rid of it that way. He shouldn't have to. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. Maybe the problem is your bios needs upgrading ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 -.cd
On Saturday 20 March 2004 20.46, David E. Fox wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. Check out BashBurn (http://bashburn.sf.net). It's a simple little app for the console that can do that and much more. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Re: compile asm in C
Chungwei Hsiung wrote:
thanks for the reply
I have MDK9.2 and gcc 3.3.1.
Does anyone know how I can compile the assembly in a c file?
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
any help is appreciated, please. :)
best regards
Chungwei
Björn Lundin wrote:
Chungwei Hsiung wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it.
My story is a little bit different..
I just copy the codes you modified to a file and I compile it.
I have the following error message that I had before. Any other
thoughts??
$cat asmExit.c
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
$ gcc -c asmExit.c
asmExit.c:2:9: missing terminating character
asmExit.c: In function `main':
asmExit.c:3: error: syntax error before mov
asmExit.c:6:1: missing terminating character
asmExit.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
best regards,
Chungwei
It might have something to do with the compiler version.
I run mdk 9.1. Have a look at the first warning my compiler
gives. In your compiler version it migth be more than deprecated, it
might
have been removd. Try having it all on one line? Perhaps not practical
in a real world situation, but there is perhaps som new switch to gcc?
/Björn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ gcc asm_test.c
asm_test.c:2:9: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated
asm_test.c: In function `main':
asm_test.c:1: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat as
asm_test.c asm_test.o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cat asm_test.c
void main() {
__asm__(
mov $0x0, %ebx
mov $0x1, %eax
int$0x80
);
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$
It's been a while since I compiled C but try the smallest C program
possible. As follows;
main()
(
print hello;
)
Hoyt
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Re: [newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:49:59PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: I used the mencvcd script to convert an animated movie that started out as a 700 MB DivX, but it ended up being over 1 GB when converted to .mpv and .mpa files. I believe it is mplex that the script uses to convert those two files into a .bin and .cue to be burned as an SVCD. What I would like to do is run mplex so that I get 2 CD's, each about 500 MB. I've looked at 'man mplex', but I'm not grokkin' it. In fact I'm not even absolutely sure it's mplex I should be using on the .mpv and .mpa. Any pointers appreciated. I should have set the CD size at the beginning, but this is the first time I've run into an animated flick that ended up being so huge when encoded :-\ I'm kinda new to this, but try tcmplex to get an mpeg video, then mpgtx to split it, then vcdimager to create the bin cue files. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Re: MP3 - audio CD
But from the tenor of your email it would seem
you're stuck on the mp3-wav conversion.
Sir Robin
As usuall, there are always many way of doing the same thing.
I found something similar to this from a debian site i think
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail]$ cat /usr/bin/mp32wav
#!/bin/bash
# mp32wav
BASENAME=${1%%.mp3}
mpg123 -b 1 -s $BASENAME.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 -
$BASENAME.wav
# And the use is:
#
# mp32wav file.mp3
It make a .wav from a .mp3, which would be easily burnt with k3b or whatever
/Björn
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Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:55 pm, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: My Mom has a gateway from about 4 years ago. It came with Windows 98. I have gotten Linux to run on it fine, but to share your griefThere is NO FAN on the processor...Which is a celeron...Nice huh? After 20 minutes of being on you can feel the warmth from it...The power supply has a fan, that blows RIGHT ON THE FUCKING HEAT SINK FOR THE PROCESSOR...So putting a fan in would be a bitch, because the extra air coming on the fan would probably screw with the air flow...And either way, the fan blows out warm air! I have been saying gateway is shit for years. Hmm, did you keep the other HD they sent? That would be fun. I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. I think it was probably one of the last decent machines gateway made. It had a full mid tower case that was made well. A real graphics card as well as a creative labs soundblaster sound card. It even came with a floppy drive, It seems like gateway quit installing those as standard equipment some time ago. I have worked on computers for a lot of people around the area that I am in. To the best of my knowledge I am the only person for at least 15 miles around that builds or repairs computers so I have seen a lot of gates ways since I first got mine and every one has been at the lower end of the quality spectrum. I must have had one of the last reasonably good ones that they made because I have had my fingers into many of them since then and every one has had some shortcomings with quality but this BS with the one that I helped my neighbor with this week is in my mind a whole new leval of crap for Gates way. I have probably done over a hundred ML installations and have seen more than a few problems along the way but this is the first machine where I have seen something that screwed up. Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] MP3 -.cd
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:46 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:21:20 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a program to make normal audio CDs from a bunch of mp3s? Googling found me a program which retails at $799. For that, I Here's what I do: How about this, got it from this list quite awhile back, I can't remember who posted it. I run mp3_check first, then mp32wav, then normalize -m then I run Tom Brinkmans bacd (thanks Tom) alias file. Works great and all on the CL. #!/bin/bash # mp32wav mp3file=$* mkdir wav for file in $@ ; do #echo $file wavfile=`echo $file | sed s/\\.mp3/.wav/` printf %-50s %-50s\n $file -- $wavfile # to encode wav--mp3 #lame -h $file $mp3file # to encode mp3--wav mpg123 -b 1 -s $file | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - wav/$wavfile done HTH -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:03pm up 12 days, 23:50, 7 users, load average: 0.28, 0.25, 0.20 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc wrote: No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. Maybe the problem is your bios needs upgrading ? John Thats what I thought also but first something with bios that screwed up should have never been shiped and second the owner of the machine is concerned with warrenty issues that a bios upgrade could cause. This machine is only a few months old. IMHO a person should not have to screw around for hours to simply be able to begin to install a different OS. Even with the cheep low end machines I have never seen anything like this!! Also my MAIN point is that the bios must have almost been made that way on purpose for it to not reconise any HDD with a non Microsux OS on it. I would guess that it would be possible to get a bios upgrade from intel but difficult at best to get one from Gateway but I may look into it further. Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] kernel source (SOLVED)
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 16:32, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 04:15, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, During the installation of a Cisco VPN client I get the following question: Directory containing linux kernel source code Can anybody tell me where/how I can that in mdk 9.1? Marco If you HAVE the kernel sources installed, they should live under /usr/src/linux -OR- /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk/ stephen kuhn - owner Thanks Stephen, It seemed I didn't have them installed. Found them on the cd's and installed the lot. Cheers, Marco -- They're pink and wet, they make the best kinda pet... (Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes) Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin Do applications 'seem' to play (progress indicator, terminating after a reasonable time)? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:46:54 -0500 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what /etc/modules.conf says If you are running any of the 2.6.x kernels, they use modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload Not modules.conf Charles -- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, Notebooks -- Mandrake Linux 10.0 on BigBoy #184142 Registered Linux user #182463 *http://www.eslrahc.com* 2.6.4-1.tmb.1mdkenterprise -- pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Marc wrote: Maybe the problem is your bios needs upgrading ? John Thats what I thought also but first something with bios that screwed up should have never been shiped and second the owner of the machine is concerned with warrenty issues that a bios upgrade could cause. This machine is only a few months old. IMHO a person should not have to screw around for hours to simply be able to begin to install a different OS. Even with the cheep low end machines I have never seen anything like this!! Also my MAIN point is that the bios must have almost been made that way on purpose for it to not reconise any HDD with a non Microsux OS on it. I would guess that it would be possible to get a bios upgrade from intel but difficult at best to get one from Gateway but I may look into it further. Marc I take your point about the warrenty issue problem but if you save your old bios to disc it is possible to reinstall it should you need to send the equipement back.Alternatively , it is quite cheap to buy a spare bios chip, I did quite recently, cost me £5 for a modern type chip and install the upgrade on that , then you can merely change the bios chip over to go back to the original. Still, the starting point here is go onto the mobo website and start looking up your current bios version and see what it's is rated for then download all the updates there are for that mobo from that point onwards. When you get them unpacked, there is usually a readme to say what it was the bios upgrade did in order to fix something or other. Maybe it will say something about extending supported file systems ? who knows, then I think I would try to contact the mobo directly and ask them if they think upgrading the bios might help you overcome file system recognition dificulties, stating exactly what file systems you want the bios to support. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 20:00, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:28, Marc wrote: Ahh well enough of a rant for now. Marc, did you try any of the partitioning tools - Partition Magic, or the like? If it's a hidden partition causing the problem you could probably get rid of it that way. Anne No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. You could be right, but I was thinking that Gateway may have already doctored the drives before sending them out. After all, recovery disks usually mean setting everything back to a blank install, so it would be quite possible. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXMd4kFAvMr/nNX8RAlLXAJ4/0B+pMCsYM7Hgv2pOyY27TPSmDgCfV3fz LRxn3KdxNVIBhUgFAE7RFrI= =Vxdh -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 00:10, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:21:33 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on That's quite odd, as xmms is usually low latency on such a system. I wonder if there might be something else that's amiss. Case in point, on my AMD 1000 box recently, I experienced lots of skips recently playing from a URL. This is fairly uncommon, even though I was encoding a VCD at the same time. But that wasn't the problem - it was artsd. Darn thing was eating up most of the cpu, and (2.6) kernel was spending a lto of time in system mode. As a result, my system was barely usable, and the encode ended up dropping way too many frames :(. Killing artsd made it all better. Brian Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again. You could be right, but I was thinking that Gateway may have already doctored the drives before sending them out. After all, recovery disks usually mean setting everything back to a blank install, so it would be quite possible. Anne You may be correct. I will look into that if the owner of the machine decides to try it again. But I am failing to understand some things here I really don't have extensave knowledege of some of the fine points of hardware design but I would think that the bios would in most cases detect the HDD from a prom on the circuit board of the HDD and not from data on the disk itself similar to a CD drive, stick of memory etc. I would normally think that what is written on the HDD would have little or no effect on how the bios detects it. This dont not seem to be the case with this machine. Am I having a misunderstanding of how the BIOS detects hardware? Any hardware experts on the list ? -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firestarter
I rebooted awhile ago and when trying to bring up firestarter I get a segmentation fault I removed and reinstalled via urpmi, same error. Drakconf System process shows it to be running. Can I assume it is running and that the problem is with bringing up the GUI? This is on MDK 9.0 Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:17pm up 15 min, 4 users, load average: 0.28, 0.35, 0.24 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Firestarter
Sorry, I should have said MCC shows it running. -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:20pm up 19 min, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.19, 0.19 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. I think it was probably one of the last decent machines gateway made. It had a full mid tower case that was made well. A real graphics card as well as a creative labs soundblaster sound card. It even came with a floppy drive, It seems like gateway quit installing those as standard equipment some time ago. I have worked on computers for a lot of people around the area that I am in. To the best of my knowledge I am the only person for at least 15 miles around that builds or repairs computers so I have seen a lot of gates ways since I first got mine and every one has been at the lower end of the quality spectrum. I must have had one of the last reasonably good ones that they made because I have had my fingers into many of them since then and every one has had some shortcomings with quality but this BS with the one that I helped my neighbor with this week is in my mind a whole new leval of crap for Gates way. I have probably done over a hundred ML installations and have seen more than a few problems along the way but this is the first machine where I have seen something that screwed up. Marc Gateway went bust in australia and pulled out... Starting to see why.. I had cause to deal with gateway laptops several years back.. it seemed a solid if uninspired design.. wonder what the modern versions are like. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: Thats what I thought also but first something with bios that screwed up should have never been shiped and second the owner of the machine is concerned with warrenty issues that a bios upgrade could cause. This machine is only a few months old. IMHO a person should not have to screw around for hours to simply be able to begin to install a different OS. Even with the cheep low end machines I have never seen anything like this!! Also my MAIN point is that the bios must have almost been made that way on purpose for it to not reconise any HDD with a non Microsux OS on it. I would guess that it would be possible to get a bios upgrade from intel but difficult at best to get one from Gateway but I may look into it further. Marc If its an Intel motherboard, perhaps you should look around on intels site for the Intel reference bios for the machine.. remove gateway from the equation altogether.. (or did you just mean an intel chipset?) Do you have a non gateway supplied hard disk that you could install mandrake on it and install?? I have had machines that didn't seem to want to install linux, and in those cases, I have just put the drive into an old PII box I have here that always works, and swap the drive back when its done.. its worked well for me many times... but if the harddisk has some firmware that (along with the mb bios) looks for an MS boot or something, then a drive that didn't come from gateway might be worth trying. If it really turns out that the machine won't boot any non MS OS, then the first thing I'd do is put up a web site about it and tell everyone you can, including any IT sites I could find.. I'd also tell the DOJ or whatever about it.. It doesn't get more Anticompetitive then that, and if the machine is only capable of running windows, then it should be advertised as such. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
My wife has a Solo 5300 that we bought a year ago refurbed. The first one got damaged in shipping..but Gateway replaced it withou problem..since then it has been rock solid..even better than the desktop i once had. frankieh wrote: Marc wrote: I also had a gateway some time ago, I sold it to a friend about 3 years ago. I think it was probably one of the last decent machines gateway made. It had a full mid tower case that was made well. A real graphics card as well as a creative labs soundblaster sound card. It even came with a floppy drive, It seems like gateway quit installing those as standard equipment some time ago. I have worked on computers for a lot of people around the area that I am in. To the best of my knowledge I am the only person for at least 15 miles around that builds or repairs computers so I have seen a lot of gates ways since I first got mine and every one has been at the lower end of the quality spectrum. I must have had one of the last reasonably good ones that they made because I have had my fingers into many of them since then and every one has had some shortcomings with quality but this BS with the one that I helped my neighbor with this week is in my mind a whole new leval of crap for Gates way. I have probably done over a hundred ML installations and have seen more than a few problems along the way but this is the first machine where I have seen something that screwed up. Marc Gateway went bust in australia and pulled out... Starting to see why.. I had cause to deal with gateway laptops several years back.. it seemed a solid if uninspired design.. wonder what the modern versions are like. -- My Foundation verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize. It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this. It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway and, or Intel like a ton of bricks. Marc It wouldn't be Intel, They support linux and in fact donated cash to the anti-SCO campaign... so I can't see them making a windows only bios, unless of course gateway insisted upon it as part of the supply contract. If they can get linux on an Xbox, I am sure that its possible to get it onto that gateway.. you just have to work out why its not working now... Can you make a linux boot floppy, boot from that and see if you can access the drive.. I don't think that the bios is not detecting the drive if its got linux, because it would have to map the drive params before it could check to see what was on the drive anyway.. more likely that something else is going on. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
I don't know how well it would work, but I used to use the nt bootloader to dual boot windows and linux. Maybe you could add just the nt boot stuff on a small partition and then have the nt bootloader send you over to lilo -- just a thought YMMV. On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:10, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine bascule Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize. It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this. It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. If that Is the case I hope that the Linux community comes down on Gateway and, or Intel like a ton of bricks. Marc __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ** * 59. Wonder what *this* command does? * ** * --Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say* ** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:46, robin wrote: OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not that I could understand much of what it told me) and followed all the advice on the Twiki, but still no sound. Here's what /etc/modules.conf says probeall scsi_hostadapter sata_via probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd alias agpgart via-agp above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx dxs_support=2 (the last line was one I added after reading the Twiki) The relevant parts of the lsmod output are snd-seq-oss31264 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq51248 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17824 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx23648 0 snd-pcm93220 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24516 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 57540 1 snd-via82xx gameport4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd52580 12 snd-seq-oss,snd The only thing that I can think of looking at this is that OSS isn't playing nice with ALSA. /sbin/chkconfig list --sound and --alsa give sound 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off It's not a KDE thing, since sound doesn't work in IceWM either, and it's not a hardware thing, as it works in that other operating system. Sir Robin Do applications 'seem' to play (progress indicator, terminating after a reasonable time)? Yes. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Still no sound
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:46:54 -0500 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what /etc/modules.conf says If you are running any of the 2.6.x kernels, they use modprobe.conf and modprobe.preload Not modules.conf Hah! That was it - thanks. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine Two screwed-up Machines? bascule On Saturday 20 Mar 2004 11:09 pm, Marc wrote: but I would think that the bios would in most cases detect the HDD from a prom on the circuit board of the HDD and not from data on the disk itself similar to a CD drive, stick of memory etc. I would normally think that what is written on the HDD would have little or no effect on how the bios detects it. This dont not seem to be the case with this machine. Am I Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MDK 9.2, MSI-6368 -- Blade 2D/3D and KDS vs190is -- screen not straight up and down at edges
I have a Blade 2D/3D integrated video on my MSI board that from some reason, either human error, or hardware glitch i do not get perfectly square desktop in X. usually you have to move over or stretch up and down but this one is a bit warped and while i can use KDS reset function in Anaconda i cannot do it during a Gnome session. 9.2 correctly identified my monitor. anyone have any ideas to get this right ? thank you Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:52:43 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and no matter how great an anti-spam system you have, the crap still gets through. Oh yeah, b1cau4se th3ey spe`1l li3k th45s. Fools spamassassin. I still get a number of positives flushed out with spamassassin running, but more and more spam makes it into the inbox. I get in total about 250 spams per day. I should proobably spend more time tuning spamassassin, but I am doubtful it'll be successful. stephen kuhn - owner -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:53:29 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know who I would shoot first. The spammer, or the idiotic 5% that support them. US should make a law making purchasing from a spammer a criminal act. JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community
Asa Rossoff wrote: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] exclaimed, I haven't forgotten, Charlie. As has happened once or twice before, you got the backlash when I'm feeling fed up about people who know very little about the os installing what is still, really, cooker, then complaining. Sorry. You didn't deserve that. Hi Anne. I'm new to Mandrake, and new to Linux even... but my impression from the Mandrake's announcement of the Community Edition's purpose was that the C.E. could be expected to be _as reliable_ as the standard releases of the past -- and the new final edition would be even _more reliable_. So if I had tried to install 10.0 without reading the posts of other users' tribulations, I would have probably been surprised and dissapointed to find it buggier than 9.2 was out of the box. As it is, I didn't put myself through that :) .. I'm still trying to get 9.2 running smoothly. It's hard to judge on just one release, since there's always variation between releases anyway (9.1 was a PITA for me, as was 8.1 - if I were superstitious, I'd definitely give 10.1 a skip). For me, installing 10.0 was a doddle, but configuring it gave me more fun than anything since RedHat 6.0 (Oh, those happy days of hacking modelines!). Still, I'd say the Community Edition is for the established community, not for anyone trying out Linux for the first time. Sir Robin -- Have you googled yet? Willow, she's seventeen! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KMail crash on 10.0 - fixx0r3d
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:49:00 +0200, Philip Cronje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm having a problem with KMail after I upgraded one of the machines here that previously ran MDK 9.2. Before the upgrade, KMail chugged happily along and everything was fine and dandy. Now, however, whenever I try to navigate in the message list, or compose a new e-mail, it crashes and prints the error message: relocation error: kmail: undefined symbol: _ZN17Syntaxhighlighter16DictSpellCheckerC1EP9QTextEditbb6QColorbS3_S3_S3_S3_ to the console. Something with the way the spell checker is set up? I looked at the problem briefly, but I don't really have time to mess around with it a lot. Not now, anyway. So I'm kind of hoping someone else knows what's going on :) //Philip Note to self: when KDE changes their package names around, the old packages do *not* get updated. :P It'd slipped my mind that KMail had gone from kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail, so the old version's libraries were suddenly out of whack. :P pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Encrypt a text file
When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:19:21 +1030, Stephen Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. For your intent, you'd just be encrypting to yourself. Hope this helps //Philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long
Marc wrote: Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a different machine to format it with a windoze disk before the gateway would recognize it again. The other machine reconized it right away and actually booted right on to the Linux installation on the HDD that I had removed from the Gateway That was 2 different HDDs that worked fine in the gateway (1 Western Digital and 1 Maxtor) until I installed Linux after that the Gateway machine would not reconize eather of them until they were installed in an other machine and reformated using a winbloze disk. After reformating with a windoze disk the Gateway machine was again able to use them with no trouble at all. And as I said in the first bessage I had a old 500 MB HDD with windoze on it that the Gateway computer was able to recognize. It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. This sound like it to me. Once you have eliminated the drives themselves, what else is ther but the mobo chips and bios , could be either. The MOBO was made by Intel but the Bios was customized with the Gateway logo Sounds very ominous, someone has done a limitation on the bios ! so I really cant say Who is responsible for the bios problems intel or Gateway Both, intel on behalf of Gateway, but don't rule out the control chips on the mobo, low probability I would of thought, few chip manufacturers are likely to do a costly chip modification, but still a possibility, but my money would be on the bios, it's cheap and easy to doctor. but due to the fact that Intel brand MOBOs are used in so many brands of computers if this was a Intel related problem I suspect that we all would have heard about it much sooner. But intel could of made the mobo up with a bios to suit Gateway requirements, and they are OEM in nature and in cahoots with vested interests to keep linux out ? As I said this machine is less than 3 months old so maybe as time passes we will hear more storys like this. It seems like this almost had to be something done on purpose to the bios. But check with intel, if they made the mobo , they should know what the bios is capable of, ask them, get on the net and find a support email address and chase them down, and confront them with the problem, and if it turns out to be the case let them know in no uncertain terms what you think of them and their mobos and wont be buying their boards again. My guess is once they start getting emails along that line they will change, because no mobo manufacturer really wants their boards being excluded because of bios limitations. Most likely if it turns out to be true they will supply a new bios download to overcome the problem pretty smartly, especially a 3 month old mobo. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
