Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
I don't have the optimisations enabledI have tried everything to get it going...it's been frusterating to the nth degreeI have a standard floppy...like I said it works fine in 7.0 after doing the fix (cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom) no problems at allbut install 7.1 and it

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Philippe Wautelet
Civileme wrote: 7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do such. Not impossible, but my drive doesn't work with any DMA mode in 7.1 (and it worked in 7.0 and in MSWindows). Another

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Torben Tretau
Hi! Anyone has successful installed UDMA 66 with 7.1 and HPT366 on his BP6? My problem starts when installer makes ide-scsi detection it hangs.. any workaround to disable detecting? (export mode doesn`t work..) bye, Torben

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is anybody getting substantially better than 142 mb/sec and 22 mb/sec from 'hdparm -tT' ?? ATA/33 is capable of that 'cause those are my numbers, and one (slave) HHD's a WD Caviar 8.4. ... and is it worth all that hoops y'all seem to be jumpin thru to

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired of not having a working cd... Well, the IDE CDRW setup should be the same in 7.0. If it's not working then

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Those things are done automagically in 7.1 But with some drives supermount can interfere with burning. Basically, your drive MUST be unmounted to burn. Most drives unmount with a complaint when supermount is active and complain again when the burner

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about some brands of hard drives NOT being up to the UDMA 66 spec, and causing problems, especially if

[expert] security warinigs

2000-06-29 Thread Patrick Erler
hallo MANDRAKE! the daily security report tells me, that there are changes in the ports which are open.. all these ports are qute high.. is this a side effect of ip-masquerading? because i don't have services behind these ports.. it looks like this Security Warning: There is modifications for

Re: [expert] DISPLAY variable Java?

2000-06-29 Thread Jere_McDevitt
I ran into a similar problem once. The problem you are running into is that the Image classes in the Java package make use of the java.awt.Toolkit. For that class to work correctly, it has to connect to a graphics system (i.e. X ). Since Windows 'always' has a graphics engine running, it

[expert] Drakfont

2000-06-29 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I am running LM7.0 with the 2.2.16-9mdk kernel. I d'led Drakfont and tried to use windows fonts. Error messages led me to dl gdk, gtk and glib from Mandrake cooker. However, I still get the following errors when I open Drakfont: Gdk-WARNING **: Creating pixmap from xpm with NULL

Re: [expert] supermount and IDE ZIP

2000-06-29 Thread Norman Carver
Jens Benecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get an IDE zip running on our server. It's for people who want to copy stuff off the server onto a removable media and take it with them. I use supermount to mount the thing: /zip /zipsupermount

[expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-29 Thread Leopold Palomo
Hi, I have installed at work Mdk 6.1 with the Samba 2.05a. Everything works normally but I have realised of one big problem. I have a directory shared with the windows users and in the smb.conf I have a selected an option that say the force user = x for that share. Howeber, it does't have

Re: [expert] where is the Mandrake 7.0 kernel update?!?!?!

2000-06-29 Thread Denis Havlik
:~Do you mean even if and when we receive our "new" Mandrake 7.1 :~versions in the mail, we will have to upgrade the kernel??? :~vern Jup. -- - Dr. Denis Havlikhttp://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik Mandrakesoft

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
Philippe Wautelet wrote: Civileme wrote: 7.0 didn't really support UDMA/66 without a lot of tweaking. My guess is that your WD drive cannot do UDMA66 even though it was advertised to do such. Not impossible, but my drive doesn't work with any DMA mode in 7.1 (and it worked in 7.0

Re: [expert] starting X for remote access only

2000-06-29 Thread Bug Hunter
you can even run gnome in xstartup. comment out twm with a #, and exec gnome-session on the next line. (or kde !) bug On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VNC is nice as you can start a desktop at one site and go somewhere else and pick-up where you left off. You have to

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Xuejun Liu
I am wondering what the normal speed for UDMA66? I just got about 14M/second, as fast as UDMA33. From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:09:30 -0800 Philippe Wautelet wrote: Civileme

Re: [expert] DISPLAY variable Java?

2000-06-29 Thread David Talbot
Actually The X Server is indeed running with a Gnome session Any ideas? -David Talbot On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: I ran into a similar problem once. The problem you are running into is that the Image classes in the Java package make use of the java.awt.Toolkit. For that class to

Re: [expert] FW: X works but kdm not, why?

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
Federico Silva wrote: Hi experts! :) This was originally posted on newbie-list but it seems no one can help me so I (again) am doing cross-posting. Any help or hints is welcome -f. -Original Message- From: Federico Silva Sent: miƩrcoles 28 de junio de 2000

Re: [expert] FW: X works but kdm not, why?

2000-06-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: Diamond gets awards for uncoopertiveness second only to Adaptec. Almost all their X drivers are done without ANY help from Diamond. But it sounds llike you almost have it. Hmm... I *know* that Advansys supported linux, almost from the start. But, I'd heard

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: "Jim P." wrote: I saved and printed your message and the next time I decide to abuse myself with 7.1 I'll give that a try. I have reinstalled 7.0 because I got tired of not having a working cd... Jim The information that it works in 7.0 and

RE: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-29 Thread Bill Shirley
You sure didn't provide much information! Send a: cat /etc/smb.conf ls -l /path/up/to/share/name ls -l /path/share/name and maybe someone can help you. One of my shares look like this: [billprivate] comment = stuff for install/admin path = /home/lan/shares/billprivate

[expert] REPOST: BUG in netconf

2000-06-29 Thread Bill Shirley
Title: Did anyone understand my posting? Did anyone at Mandrake verify this problem? Am I on track here, or totally ignorant of how ipchains works? (Pffft, pffft, is this thing working? Testing, one, two, three. Testing.)

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
I am sorry...I should havce changed the subject line...I was responding to someone with a laptopbut I am getting desperate here...LOL Jim Hey Jim, I'm not an 'expert', but I just read your message and it seems that you're not real happy. It sounds like somebody dropped the ball as far

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is anybody getting substantially better than 142 mb/sec and 22 mb/sec from 'hdparm -tT' ?? ATA/33 is capable of that 'cause those are my numbers, and one (slave) HHD's a WD Caviar 8.4. ... and is it worth all that

Re: [expert] REPOST: BUG in netconf

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
Bill Shirley wrote: Did anyone understand my posting? Did anyone at Mandrake verify this problem? Am I on track here, or totally ignorant of how ipchains works? (Pffft, pffft, is this thing working? Testing, one, two, three. Testing.)

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 setup

2000-06-29 Thread Burkhard Zombronner
Hello, Iam just trying to setup XFree 4.0. I remember there was a command on command line like xf86config -xff4 but i do not remember any more and have missed to save the topic. I believe it came from Pixel. Could anyone help me? Thanks and regards Burkhard Zombronner

Re: [expert] REPOST: BUG in netconf

2000-06-29 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Netconf has always been a bit buggy. I found this out trying to get it to setup multiple IPs. The only thing reliable is to do it yourself. Seve -Original Message- From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:09 PM Subject:

[expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread root
here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the only drives I can access are the 2 windoze drives...no cdrw or floppy output at all.hope this will finally get this

[expert] SECURITY

2000-06-29 Thread Pj
Mandrake and Red Hat have collectively released 50 or more patches for kernel and other security problems. Look at rpmfind and in RH updates. Pj

Re: [expert] Metro-X

2000-06-29 Thread Calvert S Robertson
Hi Jon I have a problem can you help. I have set up my internet. Modem is set up but netscape refuses to connect to the internet. It is not seeing the modem, also i can connect to the internet but cannot browse the net. I am usin Linux mandrake 7.0 Release Number 15 The exact

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Norman Carver
Did you enable supermount during the install? I have been talking with civilme and others about my cd-rw and tried disabling supermount so I could just manually mount the cd with different file systems. Guess what, caused the CD-RW to quit functioning. Re-enabling supermount got it working

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-29 Thread Leopold Palomo
Bill Shirley ha escrit: You sure didn't provide much information! Send a: cat /etc/smb.conf All right, I'm sorry. I all the time complain about the people that don't send information and I do the same. [docutech] path = /home/users/docutech/fitxers-docutech valid users = produ admin

[expert] PATH variable?

2000-06-29 Thread David Talbot
I think I posted this one awhile back, but never got a solution: I install Mandrake 7.1 using medium security and it refuses to take alterations made to the PATH variable in /etc/profile. The line of the file that normally contains the PATH variable in /etc/profile is commented out and says

RE: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-29 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
I'm still a bit confused on your problem. I had several Samba problems in the same configuration area as well and unintentionally became quite knowledgable at the million ways NOT to configure Samba. Perhaps you could provide a 'ls -l' of the dir itself plus its contents. Here is an example of

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the only drives I can access are the 2 windoze drives...no cdrw or floppy output at all.hope this will

[expert] RealProducer Plus Version 8

2000-06-29 Thread Sevatio Octavio
RealProducer Plus Version 8 is now available from Real Networks. However, there are a few things I find disturbing. I called them to find out what happened to the GUI version (that came with V6.0), they told me that there is no plan for one. It is their belief that "linux-people prefer using

Re: [expert] RealProducer Plus Version 8

2000-06-29 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sevatio Octavio) writes: RealProducer Plus Version 8 is now available from Real Networks. However, there are a few things I find disturbing. I called them to find out what happened to the GUI version (that came with V6.0), they told me that there is no plan for one. It

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread David Mihm
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, root wrote: [ SNIP ] [root@localhost bin]# cat /usr/bin/lspcidrake #!/usr/bin/perl use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX); use commands; commands::lspci; [SNIP] Hehe, the output of running the 'lspcidrake' command is what he's after, not the contents of the script. Try

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the only drives I can access are the 2 windoze

Re: [expert] Mdk7.1 on laptop

2000-06-29 Thread Don
My experience with loading Linux on my IBM Thinkpad went ok except for getting the sound card (YamahaOPL3) to work properly. I tries Slackware7, All RedHat versions and Mandrake 6.0, 6.5, and 7.0. None of these worked with my sound card because there was always a conflict and would lock up the

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
David Mihm wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, root wrote: [ SNIP ] [root@localhost bin]# cat /usr/bin/lspcidrake #!/usr/bin/perl use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX); use commands; commands::lspci; [SNIP] Hehe, the output of running the 'lspcidrake' command is what he's after, not the

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Don
If you are using a Western Digital drive, make sure that the Mode is set to UDMA66. They provide a floppy disk to do that with. If this is not done the drive can behave differently. This system is using two 7200RPM WD drives on the UDMA66 IDE3 port. Don On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote:

RE: [expert] RealProducer Plus Version 8

2000-06-29 Thread John J. LeMay Jr.
this may give the hand to open source frontend My thoughts exactly. An open source frontend would probably be faster, smaller, and more "Linux-user Friendly" than some port of a Windows GUI anyway.

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the only drives I can access are

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Don
What kind of main board are you using? Don On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Hmm...Ok. My bad. I didn't see that bit about it working in 7.0 but not in 7.1. There have been reports (on this list and others) about some brands of hard drives NOT being up to the UDMA

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
"Jim P." wrote: see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the only drives I can access are

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
Civileme wrote: "Jim P." wrote: see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Jim P.
Civileme wrote: "Jim P." wrote: see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing elaborate about it...the

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: David Mihm wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, root wrote: [ SNIP ] [root@localhost bin]# cat /usr/bin/lspcidrake #!/usr/bin/perl use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX); use commands; commands::lspci; [SNIP] Hehe, the output of running the 'lspcidrake' command is

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: Civileme wrote: "Jim P." wrote: see bottom for latest output Civileme wrote: root wrote: here are the outputs you requested...and I also discovered my floppy drive doesn't work either...and it is just a plain old 1.44 3 1/2 drive...nothing

[expert] pppd dies after dialing

2000-06-29 Thread Guillermo Belli
Every time I dial my ISP and the modem makes those horrible noises, the pppd daemon dies for no apparent reason. Then, if I try again, it connects without problems. Im' using MDK 7.0, and my ISP's servers use Cobalt Linux. -- *Guillermo

[expert] Assigning IRQ to PCI NIC

2000-06-29 Thread Andy Judge
Is there a way to assign an IRQ to a PCI NIC. PnP OS is disabled, but I can't get the NICs' IRQ recognized / assigned.

Re: [expert] RealProducer Plus Version 8

2000-06-29 Thread Pj
Sigh... We really should pity those poor folks; They don't have a clue. Real Linux people *prefer* software that works in a *real* world. We don't care who makes it, but it would be nice if the maker knew something about the users. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:37 PM 6/29/00 -0700, you

Re: [expert] Metro-X

2000-06-29 Thread Craig Woods
Calvert, looks like possibly some DNS info is missing on your system. Edit /etc/resolv.conf, and add the domain name, and primary and secondary IP addresses of your ISP's server. Or you can use KPPP, and enter these values into the GUI setup, and the DNS infor will have a temp entry in

RE: [expert] Strange problem with the users with Samba

2000-06-29 Thread Bill Shirley
I don't see anything wrong with your share, but I don't understand it either. If "produ" is the only user that can access this share, why worry about user and group attributes? Is this directory accessed from the linux side? Or is it made public in the global section? Is "produ" in

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Civileme
"Jim P." wrote: I don't have the optimisations enabledI have tried everything to get it going...it's been frusterating to the nth degreeI have a standard floppy...like I said it works fine in 7.0 after doing the fix (cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s scd0 cdrom) no problems at allbut

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-29 Thread Norman Carver
Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dmesg cat /proc/pci lspcidrake cat /etc/fstab (AFTER you try installing 7.1 again) And I am very curious also why /dev/scd0 would work. CDRWs are normally assigned /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1 Could THAT be it? Is your CDRW acting like ONLY a CD-R?