Re: [newbie] What changed? mdk10 won't detect my soundcard (sb16)

2004-06-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thursday 03 June 2004 02:45, Dexter N Muir wrote:
 Hi Frans

 Bash: aumix: command not found

 Module sb loads, and it looks like it does so twice...
 System sounds work, so does the CD player - just can't control 'em...

 Any further clues?

You have to install the aumix rpm package. What's the output of 
/sbin/lsmod? What's in /etc/modprobe.conf? What do you mean with 
Module sb loads, and it looks like it does so twice...? 

HTH,

-Frans

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  mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Frans Ketelaars
  Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 5:25 a.m.
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [newbie] What changed? mdk10 won't detect my soundcard

 (sb16)

  On Tuesday 01 June 2004 23:29, Dexter N Muir wrote:
   Hi all
  
  Something's gone awry.  Mandrake 10 (Community) install on and
   older pII-500 (mobo has 2 ISA slots) won't detect the sb16
   (actually a Vibra16).  In a console, su root and sndconfig, and
   the test sound works, and a CD plays, but no device detected in
   the MCC, and no Mixer. What gives?  Any clues?  A FAQ?
  
   Cheers
   Dex
 
  Sndconfig is an old program to set up the OSS sound system. IIRC

 already

  in Mandrake 9.1 Mandrake didn't set up sound for ISA cards during
  install (because things can go wrong). But you have sound working

 after

  sndconfig set everything up? If aumix won't start from the menu you

 can

  try starting it from a terminal to get error messages.
 
  HTH,
 
  -Frans



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RE: [newbie] mandrake community 10.0 updates

2004-06-03 Thread Tony S. Sykes
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Subject: [newbie] mandrake community 10.0 updates


hi
while updating my mdk community there are 3  files that cant   be selected
drakconf
drakfirsttime
drakwizard
they all need some perl stuff ...
anyone know where i can get the perl stuff so i can get the updates as they 
dont  seem to be  adding it to the updates list of files?

LtcdData

This may help.

Updated Packages:
  
 Mandrakelinux 10.0:
 1e8067073351157e566d4f95906187ef  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
 0595f4e35182cd2157ad704d13df4a1d  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-http-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
 b29d74c16e0a1cdc3f63ebb395d3d6c0  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-newt-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
 0776db369580bde12f9f202d3a35c54d  10.0/RPMS/harddrake-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
 476673b1214eb968be7bae74a7124f91  10.0/RPMS/harddrake-ui-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
 8cc2bfb921f457390bfa63095034fba5  10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
 97f695c37d0d8e735ae830dd09026aa6  
10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-gui-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
 a1d37a134641a7839393d47795a2d6db  
10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-samples-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
 f66bd60060c0286e1a253e975f97fa07  10.0/SRPMS/drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.src.rpm
 d0212334638b3b6027adabf9a8251938  10.0/SRPMS/perl-Libconf-0.33-2.1.100mdk.src.rpm


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Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 and apache2

2004-06-03 Thread Klemens Arro
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 12:11, Derek Jennings wrote:
 There is a bug in libapr0 that causes this error with certain processors.
 Via C3 and K6-II  in particular seem to be affected.
 There is an update available on the update mirrors. It worked for me.
 Hopefully it will work for you too.

 derek

Thanks Derek, update fixed my problem.
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Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:08:15 +
Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:56:50 +
 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  I'm stuck using oo in the office because I got everyone else
  started on it.  Hoisted on my own somethingorother.
  
  OO 1.1.0 on mdk 9.2
  
  Only on 'my' oo installation, the default save format is .doc. 
  I can't change it in the options menu, although I can change
  to.sxw at the time of a save.
  
  I changed Netscape Navigator to HTML 3.2 in another section of
  optionsjust to change something and the change worked.
  
  Still couldn't get rid of the .doc save, though.
  
  Any ideas?  (Going to the oo list is not an option.  It's up to
  you.)
  
  I would suspect foul play if anyone here were savvy enough.  Am
  I to be subjected to a lifetime of .doc clutter in my hd? sigh
  
  Lee
  
  
 Robin's Delete 'em all and let God sort it out approach struck
 me as appropriate.
 
 Try that in Windows, Bill.
 
 Thanks all for the response.
 
 Lee
 
 
\


Continuing tale.

Deleted /home/.openoffice

Started oowriter

Still can't change .doc save.

I know this is a conspiracy.

I went over to my brother's machine, changed the default to .doc,
changed it back to .sxw and every time when I left and came back,
the default was where I left it.

On my machine, .doc rules.  Period.

Is this possible?

Lee



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Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-03 Thread robin
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:08:15 +
Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:56:50 +
Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I'm stuck using oo in the office because I got everyone else
started on it.  Hoisted on my own somethingorother.
OO 1.1.0 on mdk 9.2
Only on 'my' oo installation, the default save format is .doc. 
I can't change it in the options menu, although I can change
to.sxw at the time of a save.

I changed Netscape Navigator to HTML 3.2 in another section of
optionsjust to change something and the change worked.
Still couldn't get rid of the .doc save, though.
Any ideas?  (Going to the oo list is not an option.  It's up to
you.)
I would suspect foul play if anyone here were savvy enough.  Am
I to be subjected to a lifetime of .doc clutter in my hd? sigh
Lee

Robin's Delete 'em all and let God sort it out approach struck
me as appropriate.
Try that in Windows, Bill.
Thanks all for the response.
Lee

\
Continuing tale.
Deleted /home/.openoffice
Started oowriter
Still can't change .doc save.
I know this is a conspiracy.
I went over to my brother's machine, changed the default to .doc,
changed it back to .sxw and every time when I left and came back,
the default was where I left it.
On my machine, .doc rules.  Period.
Is this possible?
Try running setup as root first. I'm not sure where it will be on your 
system - if you used the Mandrake RPM, it's probably 
/usr/lib/openoffice/setup.  Then wipe your ~/.openoffice directory again 
and run as user.

Another idea - have you had a look at the file associations for whatever 
desktop environment(s) you are using? It's a very long shot, but it's 
remotely possible that if OO is associated with .doc files and nothing 
else, it's getting the message that you want .doc files. Sounds absurd, 
but it's the only other theory I can come up with.

Sir Robin
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Re: [newbie] Setting up two sound cards in Mandrake

2004-06-03 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 23:22, Greg Meyer wrote:
 Is it possible?

 I'd like to send all system sounds to the onboard codec, and then my
 music signal to a higher quality add-on board.  Is there anybody out
 there doing it?  What are the pitfalls?

I have no experience with it but ALSA supports up to 8 cards. 
http://alsa-project.org/ seems to be down atm but in the kernel-doc rpm 
I found 
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.3/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt which 
near the end gives an example of how to set up two cards. I think the 
card you choose as the first card will have /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p as the 
(first) playback device and the second card will have /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p 
as the (first) playback device. KDE's arts soundserver let's you choose 
a custom playback device. If you let arts use the 'second' card (the 
onboard sound) your music applications could then just use their ALSA 
plugin and play on the higher quality add-on board. Just to be sure, 
you want to play system sounds to cheap speakers connected to the 
onboard soundcard and send music to higher quality speakers using the 
add-on board, right?

HTH,

-Frans



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[newbie] Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 won't execute

2004-06-03 Thread Peter Mann
I embarked with Mandrakelinux 7, which came in the back of Sam's Teach Yourself
Linux in 24 Hours book.
It installed itself OK, but then it wouldn't recognize my on-board modem, my LG CD
Burner files, nor my Canon scanner,
and although it could tell me what model of Canon printer I have, attempts to
print did not work.

Escape from the swampy Winduck (ie short legs) archipelago was looking like a long
expedition.
But then I found the website where one can download Mandrakelinux 10.0 Beta for
AMD64 .
Perfect ! Thinks I.
Latest version might have the missing hardware patches, and is optimized for my
Athlon 1.2GHz cpu as well.
Certainly big enough to contain a kitchen sink for every room in a large hotel.
So I barter with a friend to download the mind-boggling 2.5GB of executable files
via their broadband connection.
And tonight we sit down to run these 3 CD ROMs full of arcane code with an ISO
file extension (never heard of it).
The file manager recognizes the files on the CDs as executable, but they cannot be
induced to execute.

What I need is a stable, efficient operating system that uses the hardware that I
already have,
and does not have the self-destructive file-corrupting monotheistic personality
attributes of Winduck,
and preferably without being susceptible to the anonymous malice of demented
hackers and their poxy proxy viruses.
It is unlikely that I will ever do any programming or systems development.
Just a nice, reliable, obedient machine will do me fine.

I am prepared to put in the time and endure the pain that it takes to start again
in a foreign cyberscape,
but be aware that last time I worked directly with an operating system,
it was 1985 and my Morrow MD11 cp/m machine with its 32kB operating system
would blow the doors off an IBM XT,
so be gentle with me.
Peter Mann

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.  It is the state of the soul at war, and its
ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood  wrong, and the power to bear
all that can be inflicted by evil agents.  It is generous, hospitable, temperate,
scornful of petty calculations and scornful of being scorned. It persists ... its
jest is the littleness of common life.
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Re: [newbie] Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 won't execute

2004-06-03 Thread aron
On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:32 am, Peter Mann wrote:
Mandrake has come a long way since 7.  9.2 is very good 10.0 is also very good 
Use  64 only if you have a 64 bit processor  if you have a 32 bit processor 
(most likely) down load mandrake 10.0 isos and burn your self a set of CDs
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/
is a good place to start Download Mandrake 10.0
Enjoy
 I embarked with Mandrakelinux 7, which came in the back of Sam's Teach
 Yourself Linux in 24 Hours book.
 It installed itself OK, but then it wouldn't recognize my on-board modem,
 my LG CD Burner files, nor my Canon scanner,
 and although it could tell me what model of Canon printer I have, attempts
 to print did not work.

 Escape from the swampy Winduck (ie short legs) archipelago was looking like
 a long expedition.
 But then I found the website where one can download Mandrakelinux 10.0 Beta
 for AMD64 .
 Perfect ! Thinks I.
 Latest version might have the missing hardware patches, and is optimized
 for my Athlon 1.2GHz cpu as well.
 Certainly big enough to contain a kitchen sink for every room in a large
 hotel. So I barter with a friend to download the mind-boggling 2.5GB of
 executable files via their broadband connection.
 And tonight we sit down to run these 3 CD ROMs full of arcane code with an
 ISO file extension (never heard of it).
 The file manager recognizes the files on the CDs as executable, but they
 cannot be induced to execute.

 What I need is a stable, efficient operating system that uses the hardware
 that I already have,
 and does not have the self-destructive file-corrupting monotheistic
 personality attributes of Winduck,
 and preferably without being susceptible to the anonymous malice of
 demented hackers and their poxy proxy viruses.
 It is unlikely that I will ever do any programming or systems development.
 Just a nice, reliable, obedient machine will do me fine.

 I am prepared to put in the time and endure the pain that it takes to start
 again in a foreign cyberscape,
 but be aware that last time I worked directly with an operating system,
 it was 1985 and my Morrow MD11 cp/m machine with its 32kB operating system
 would blow the doors off an IBM XT,
 so be gentle with me.
 Peter Mann

 Self-trust is the essence of heroism.  It is the state of the soul at war,
 and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood  wrong, and
 the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.  It is
 generous, hospitable, temperate, scornful of petty calculations and
 scornful of being scorned. It persists ... its jest is the littleness of
 common life.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson



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Re: [newbie] Setting up two sound cards in Mandrake

2004-06-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:25 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
 On Wednesday 02 June 2004 23:22, Greg Meyer wrote:
  Is it possible?
 
  I'd like to send all system sounds to the onboard codec, and then my
  music signal to a higher quality add-on board.  Is there anybody out
  there doing it?  What are the pitfalls?

 I have no experience with it but ALSA supports up to 8 cards.
 http://alsa-project.org/ seems to be down atm but in the kernel-doc rpm
 I found
 /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.3/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt which
 near the end gives an example of how to set up two cards. I think the

I started poking around myself, and found some stuff.  I posted the message 
because I was frustrated that I could not get to alsa-project.org.  I guess 
I'll just have to experiment a bit with it when I get the new card.

 card you choose as the first card will have /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p as the
 (first) playback device and the second card will have /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p
 as the (first) playback device. KDE's arts soundserver let's you choose
 a custom playback device. If you let arts use the 'second' card (the
 onboard sound) your music applications could then just use their ALSA
 plugin and play on the higher quality add-on board. Just to be sure,

Thanks for this, it gives me some clues to work with.

 you want to play system sounds to cheap speakers connected to the
 onboard soundcard and send music to higher quality speakers using the
 add-on board, right?

Actually, I want the music to go to a usb DAC that has a headphone amp in it 
and be able to play the music on high quailty headphones, and have the system 
sounds continue to go to the speakers and not interrupt the music playback, 
but this is the basic scenario.  

 HTH,

Yes, thank you for taking the time to post.
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Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:44:21 +0300
robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Lee Wiggers wrote:
  On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 17:08:15 +
  Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:56:50 +
 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 I'm stuck using oo in the office because I got everyone else
 started on it.  Hoisted on my own somethingorother.
 
 OO 1.1.0 on mdk 9.2
 
 Only on 'my' oo installation, the default save format is .doc. 
 I can't change it in the options menu, although I can change
 to.sxw at the time of a save.
 
 I changed Netscape Navigator to HTML 3.2 in another section of
 optionsjust to change something and the change worked.
 
 Still couldn't get rid of the .doc save, though.
 
 Any ideas?  (Going to the oo list is not an option.  It's up to
 you.)
 
 I would suspect foul play if anyone here were savvy enough.  Am
 I to be subjected to a lifetime of .doc clutter in my hd?
 sigh
 Lee
 
 
 
 Robin's Delete 'em all and let God sort it out approach struck
 me as appropriate.
 
 Try that in Windows, Bill.
 
 Thanks all for the response.
 
 Lee
 
 
  
  \
  
  
  Continuing tale.
  
  Deleted /home/.openoffice
  
  Started oowriter
  
  Still can't change .doc save.
  
  I know this is a conspiracy.
  
  I went over to my brother's machine, changed the default to
  .doc, changed it back to .sxw and every time when I left and
  came back, the default was where I left it.
  
  On my machine, .doc rules.  Period.
  
  Is this possible?
  
 
 Try running setup as root first. I'm not sure where it will be on
 your system - if you used the Mandrake RPM, it's probably 
 /usr/lib/openoffice/setup.  Then wipe your ~/.openoffice directory
 again and run as user.
 
 Another idea - have you had a look at the file associations for
 whatever desktop environment(s) you are using? It's a very long
 shot, but it's remotely possible that if OO is associated with
 .doc files and nothing else, it's getting the message that you
 want .doc files. Sounds absurd, but it's the only other theory I
 can come up with.
 
 Sir Robin
 
 -- 
This gets better.

I tried everything suggested.  Still the same default save to .doc

Then I urpme'ed the whole oo, libs and all.

Then I urpmi'ed them.

File association is .sxw.
New installation of oo
Same problem.

Still insists on starting with .doc save default.

It's not a real problem.  I can save .sxw.  Just don't like the
machine winning.

It's sure not worth subscribing to the wincentric oo lists.  They're
more aggravating than their program (barely).

Thanks for the suggestions.

Lee


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Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 03 June 2004 14:18, Lee Wiggers wrote:

snip
 This gets better.

 I tried everything suggested.  Still the same default save to
 .doc

 Then I urpme'ed the whole oo, libs and all.

 Then I urpmi'ed them.

 File association is .sxw.
 New installation of oo
 Same problem.

 Still insists on starting with .doc save default.

 It's not a real problem.  I can save .sxw.  Just don't like the
 machine winning.

 It's sure not worth subscribing to the wincentric oo lists. 
 They're more aggravating than their program (barely).

 Thanks for the suggestions.
/snip

Recently, I had some problems (spellcheck in Danish) with the 
default installation of OpenOffice.org 1.1 that comes with Mandrake 
as a .rpm.

I urpme'ed it and installed the newer version 1.1.1 from 
www.openoffice.org. Not only did it solve my problem, it starts and 
runs faster.

Just my 0.02 ¤

Kaj Haulrich.

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Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-06-03 Thread linux
 What I want to try next is to put the disk-test program on /tmp (if I
 can write to that, have not tried yet) and see if I can make it run. And
 then see what comes out of it. I assume it will be working quite a while
 on a 120Gb disk.

I tried testdisk. It tells me everything is fine where fdisk tells me that
validating the partition table fails.

I then removed the last partition (hda10) and rebooted. Validating with
fdisk told me everything is fine. Then I created a new hda10, 100 blocks
smaller than the previous one. Reboot. fdisk validate says all is fine. I
reboot into MDK 9.1 and the disk read fail-messages start flying all over
the place again...

I am now quickly running out of options of a less radical incling...

Paul




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Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-06-03 Thread linux
I started installing MDK 10.

Turned out that the problem was in the root partition...




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[newbie] Keys not working

2004-06-03 Thread chris
I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key often 
doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function.

I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the next 
time they don't. Sometimes they will work as root, but not as myself. This 
affects both the console 'windows' as well as Kde functions.

Chris


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[newbie] MDK 10 runs, no Inet connect

2004-06-03 Thread linux
Hi all,

I have mdk10 running on the machine now. Most things look okay (although
as user I can't run OpenOffice install, but I saw a thread on that).

Problem I face now: in gkrellm I see that there is an internet connect
running. ifconfig tells me there is an IP address from DHCP, but I can't
get on the net.
Resolv.conf is created and looks fine, but nothing works. Not even a ping?

Help?




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Re: [newbie] OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-03 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:29:40 +0200
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Thursday 03 June 2004 14:18, Lee Wiggers wrote:
 
 snip
  This gets better.
 
  I tried everything suggested.  Still the same default save to
  .doc
 
  Then I urpme'ed the whole oo, libs and all.
 
  Then I urpmi'ed them.
 
  File association is .sxw.
  New installation of oo
  Same problem.
 
  Still insists on starting with .doc save default.
 
  It's not a real problem.  I can save .sxw.  Just don't like the
  machine winning.
 
  It's sure not worth subscribing to the wincentric oo lists. 
  They're more aggravating than their program (barely).
 
  Thanks for the suggestions.
 /snip
 
 Recently, I had some problems (spellcheck in Danish) with the 
 default installation of OpenOffice.org 1.1 that comes with
 Mandrake as a .rpm.
 
 I urpme'ed it and installed the newer version 1.1.1 from 
 www.openoffice.org. Not only did it solve my problem, it starts
 and runs faster.
 
 Just my 0.02 _
 
 Kaj Haulrich.
 
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* http://www.haulrich.net *
 * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
 
 
I would do that but this box is 100% rpm now.  I swore on a stack of
six packs to keep it that way.

Maybe Mdk will catch up with OpenOffice again someday.

I still think it's peculiar that one computer out of 5 does this.

Lee


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Re: [newbie] MDK 10 runs, no Inet connect

2004-06-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 21:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,

 I have mdk10 running on the machine now. Most things look okay (although
 as user I can't run OpenOffice install, but I saw a thread on that).

 Problem I face now: in gkrellm I see that there is an internet connect
 running. ifconfig tells me there is an IP address from DHCP, but I can't
 get on the net.
 Resolv.conf is created and looks fine, but nothing works. Not even a ping?

 Help?

Check your default route. In a root terminal type :-
route
The last item in the list is your default route. If that does not show your 
Interface to the Internet, then that is your problem.
You can force an interface to be the default by editing /etc/sysconfig/network 
and adding the line
GATEWAYDEV=eth0  (or whatever it is)

alternatively if you have a router or something, then declare that to be the 
default route with
GATEWAY=ip_addy_of_router

The other possibility is your firewall. The Mandrake Installer is just as dumb 
in 10.0 as in previous versions and will assume eth0 connects to the Internet 
and eth1 (or ppp0) is your local network. Check /etc/shorewall/interfaces to 
ensure the correct interface is assigned to zone 'net' Restart shorewall 
after any change.

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Re: [newbie] mandrake community 10.0 updates

2004-06-03 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
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Tony S. Sykes wrote:
hi
while updating my mdk community there are 3  files that cant   be selected
drakconf
drakfirsttime
drakwizard
they all need some perl stuff ...
anyone know where i can get the perl stuff so i can get the updates as they 
dont  seem to be  adding it to the updates list of files?

LtcdData
This may help.
Updated Packages:
 
Mandrakelinux 10.0:
1e8067073351157e566d4f95906187ef  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
0595f4e35182cd2157ad704d13df4a1d  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-http-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
b29d74c16e0a1cdc3f63ebb395d3d6c0  10.0/RPMS/drakxtools-newt-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
0776db369580bde12f9f202d3a35c54d  10.0/RPMS/harddrake-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
476673b1214eb968be7bae74a7124f91  10.0/RPMS/harddrake-ui-10-34.2.100mdk.i586.rpm
8cc2bfb921f457390bfa63095034fba5  10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
97f695c37d0d8e735ae830dd09026aa6  10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-gui-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
a1d37a134641a7839393d47795a2d6db  10.0/RPMS/perl-Libconf-samples-0.33-2.1.100mdk.noarch.rpm
f66bd60060c0286e1a253e975f97fa07  10.0/SRPMS/drakxtools-10-34.2.100mdk.src.rpm
d0212334638b3b6027adabf9a8251938  10.0/SRPMS/perl-Libconf-0.33-2.1.100mdk.src.rpm

That fixes everything but drakewizard which is currently on it's way to 
the mirrors.

Hey Data.  How is Spot doing?
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Re: [newbie] Keys not working

2004-06-03 Thread SME Admin
On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote:
 I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key
 often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function.

 I cannot discern a pattern to this: sometime I boot up and they work, the
 next time they don't. Sometimes they will work as root, but not as myself.
 This affects both the console 'windows' as well as Kde functions.

 Chris

Have you tried another keyboard in case it is a faulty keyboard?


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[newbie] pearpc

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Kaplan
Has anyone been successful in getting any version of Mac OS X to run on pearpc 
under MDK 10?

Specifics please.

TIA
Paul


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[newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-03 Thread Walt Frampus
I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10
official. When I went to shut it down, everything did so normally. A
while later, I noticed a light on the laptop was lit and realized that
Mandrake rebooted again so I shut it down a second time. I checked it a
while later and found the screen blank but when I hit the enter button,
mandrake was still running. I had to reboot into windows (which I never
use) to get the laptop to shut down. I turned off all the power controls
and still have the problem. My desktop shuts down with no problem.
Anyone else having this problem? Is it just a version 10 problem? I
didn't have this problem with 9.2.

Walt



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Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-03 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 03 June 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote:
 I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10
 official. When I went to shut it down, everything did so normally. A
 while later, I noticed a light on the laptop was lit and realized that
 Mandrake rebooted again so I shut it down a second time. I checked it a
 while later and found the screen blank but when I hit the enter button,
 mandrake was still running. I had to reboot into windows (which I never
 use) to get the laptop to shut down. I turned off all the power controls
 and still have the problem. My desktop shuts down with no problem.
 Anyone else having this problem? Is it just a version 10 problem? I
 didn't have this problem with 9.2.

 Walt
I have a Presario 1700T which will go to power down and sit. I have to hold 
the button down for 4 secs to power off. I believe it is a function of the 
mobo and you may have to disable ACPI or APM.  Not sure, what about anyone 
else?  
Dennis M. Linux user #180842


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Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-06-03 Thread Asa Rossoff
What steps did you take with Testdisk?
Have you tried the author's offer to tell you how to fix the problem if you
email him log files? (See offer on his web page).

Asa

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  What I want to try next is to put the disk-test program on /tmp (if I
  can write to that, have not tried yet) and see if I can make it run. And
  then see what comes out of it. I assume it will be working quite a while
  on a 120Gb disk.

 I tried testdisk. It tells me everything is fine where fdisk tells me that
 validating the partition table fails.

 I then removed the last partition (hda10) and rebooted. Validating with
 fdisk told me everything is fine. Then I created a new hda10, 100 blocks
 smaller than the previous one. Reboot. fdisk validate says all is fine. I
 reboot into MDK 9.1 and the disk read fail-messages start flying all over
 the place again...

 I am now quickly running out of options of a less radical incling...

 Paul










 
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Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-03 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Dennis Myers wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote:
I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10
official. When I went to shut it down, everything did so normally. A
while later, I noticed a light on the laptop was lit and realized that
Mandrake rebooted again so I shut it down a second time. I checked it a
while later and found the screen blank but when I hit the enter button,
mandrake was still running. I had to reboot into windows (which I never
use) to get the laptop to shut down. I turned off all the power controls
and still have the problem. My desktop shuts down with no problem.
Anyone else having this problem? Is it just a version 10 problem? I
didn't have this problem with 9.2.
Walt
I have a Presario 1700T which will go to power down and sit. I have to hold 
the button down for 4 secs to power off. I believe it is a function of the 
mobo and you may have to disable ACPI or APM.  Not sure, what about anyone 
else?  
Dennis M. Linux user #180842
No problems with shutdown here (now, anyway, though there were before 
the 2.6.x series of kernels) running 10CE (now 10.1 Cooker) on this 
Compaq Presario 2175US.  Previously, I'd sit at Power Down, as well.

Kernel is 2.6.3-9 (though it worked with earlier in the 2.6 series, 
too), and have Enable ACPI and Force No Local APIC (nolapic in 
lilo) checked in the boot loader GUI.

(If that works for you with respect to shutdown, maybe you can figure 
out how to get my 3D/OpenGL running ... or a functional Shockwave 
plug-in for my Mozilla Firefox.  :-)  Those are _my_ annoyances right 
now.  LOL.)

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Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 June 2004 07:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
 On Thursday 03 June 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote:
  I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10
  official. When I went to shut it down, everything did so normally. A
  while later, I noticed a light on the laptop was lit and realized that
  Mandrake rebooted again so I shut it down a second time. I checked it a
  while later and found the screen blank but when I hit the enter button,
  mandrake was still running. I had to reboot into windows (which I never
  use) to get the laptop to shut down. I turned off all the power controls
  and still have the problem. My desktop shuts down with no problem.
  Anyone else having this problem? Is it just a version 10 problem? I
  didn't have this problem with 9.2.
 
  Walt

 I have a Presario 1700T which will go to power down and sit. I have to
 hold the button down for 4 secs to power off. I believe it is a function of
 the mobo and you may have to disable ACPI or APM.  Not sure, what about
 anyone else?

Starting your kernel with the nolapic parameter should stop this behavior.  
Add it to the append line in /etc/lilo.conf and then run lilo as root.  After 
next reboot, the shutdown should work properly.
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