Dakota

June 21, 2005

I have the same problem using Firefox. I have noticed the stalls downloading nvidia drivers and just today downloading flash from macromedia. Konqueror works fine on these sites. If I use the retry feature in Firefox it works, comes at 300+

Dakota

June 21, 2005

Last night that's just what I did, pulled the mainboard out of the box and disconnected everything except the CPU, one piece of ram and videocard. Same result. I've really tried everything I can think of except replace the processor. I am almost sure its not the power supply, I replaced it with a bigger one but took it back for a refund when that did not fix it. The mainboard is the GA7VRXP, I believe the problem is the system board or the processor. A computer I had with a 500 Mhz Pentium did the same thing when the processor died so maybe thats it. I just think its strange that my wife bumped it and it cut off similiar to a power outage. Oh well we should find out within a few days.

Dakota

June 21, 2005

The battery is good, capacitors look fine. As soon as the test cpu gets here via snail mail we will see if the problem is the mainboard or the cpu. If its the mainboard I will just go to a XP 3000 400 FSB Barton core. The main reason I built the machine was to run RC5, looks like it has crunched all the keys it can! :lol2:

Dakota

June 21, 2005

ChrisM - Glad you fixed it!

My fans only turn once and all is dead, I have tested everything except CPU and Mainboard. I bought a Duron 650 Mhz for 10 bucks to test with. If it doesn't work the problem has to be the mainboard. The original CPU is a Duron 1.3 Ghz, its been running OC for at least 2.5 years. The processor looks good though, no discoloration at all. Smells normal as well. All this happened when my wife bumped the computer! It just shut off like power died. Any ideas?

Dakota

June 20, 2005

I have the same problem on one of my Linux boxes running Fedora Core 3. When I power on the power light just turns on and off quickly. The fans turn once and the motherboard ram light is on. In the manual it says if the ram light is on check ram, psu and cpu. I checked the ram and bought a new psu so its more than likely the cpu. This thread reminds me to buy another one. I did overclock it by 100 Mhz and it ran for about 2 years.

If your fans turn a little when you turn it on and you know your ram is good its more than likely your cpu.

Dakota

June 17, 2005

Use Klamav, the GUI to clamav. Just simply urpmi klamav.

Dakota

June 15, 2005

Thanks mrmagoo! X11 is no longer listening on TCP however I still have KDM listening on port 1024. What can I do to stop it?

Dakota

June 15, 2005

Being behind a NAT router with SPI and running Shorewall one would have to say it's pretty safe. Although I really dislike KDM and X11 listening to TCP. I have no idea which service is listening to the high UDP port, the port number changes quite often.

Dakota

June 15, 2005

if you are running x, try to open MCC - Systems - services, here you can uncheck those services u dont need to run and stop it. If you prefered CLI, use the chkconfig utility... #chkconfig --list listdown running services on different init level...just man chkconfig for more commands available or just type #chkconfig ..it will show you the usage

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Thanks, I was not aware of the services tab in MCC. I used that and chkconfig to close many services I do not need, However the ports below still need to be closed.

(The 131063 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT      STATE         SERVICE
68/udp    open|filtered dhcpclient
1024/tcp  open          kdm
1025/tcp  open          NFS-or-IIS
5335/tcp  open          unknown
5353/udp  open|filtered unknown
6000/tcp  open          X11
38529/udp open          unknown
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X
OS details: Linux 2.5.25 - 2.6.3 or Gentoo 1.2 Linux 2.4.19 rc1-rc7), Linux 2.6.3 - 2.6.8

Is there anywhere else I should look at trying to close these ports?

June 15, 2005

Well, really need to disable some services. I would like to close every port that was detected by nmap as long as its not needed.

Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-06-14 23:02 EDT

Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against localhost (127.0.0.1) [65535 ports] at 23:02

Discovered open port 25/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 887/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 10026/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 1025/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 631/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 5335/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 6000/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 111/tcp on 127.0.0.1

Discovered open port 1024/tcp on 127.0.0.1

The SYN Stealth Scan took 11.59s to scan 65535 total ports.

Initiating UDP Scan against localhost (127.0.0.1) [65535 ports] at 23:02

Discovered open port 62118/udp on 127.0.0.1

The UDP Scan took 14.70s to scan 65535 total ports.

For OSScan assuming port 25 is open, 1 is closed, and neither are firewalled

Host localhost (127.0.0.1) appears to be up ... good.

Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):

(The 131054 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)

PORT STATE SERVICE

25/tcp open smtp

68/udp open|filtered dhcpclient

111/tcp open rpcbind

111/udp open|filtered rpcbind

631/tcp open ipp

631/udp open|filtered unknown

881/udp open|filtered unknown

884/udp open|filtered unknown

887/tcp open unknown

1024/tcp open kdm

1025/tcp open NFS-or-IIS

5335/tcp open unknown

5353/udp open|filtered unknown

6000/tcp open X11

10026/tcp open unknown

62118/udp open unknown

Device type: general purpose

Running: Linux 2.4.X|2.5.X|2.6.X

OS details: Linux 2.5.25 - 2.6.3 or Gentoo 1.2 Linux 2.4.19 rc1-rc7)

OS Fingerprint:

TSeq(Class=RI%gcd=1%SI=40887A%IPID=Z%TS=1000HZ)

T1(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=7FFF%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNNTNW)

T2(Resp=N)

T3(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=7FFF%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=MNNTNW)

T4(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=)

T5(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%Ops=)

T6(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=)

T7(Resp=Y%DF=Y%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%Ops=)

PU(Resp=Y%DF=N%TOS=C0%IPLEN=164%RIPTL=148%RID=E%RIPCK=E%UCK=E%ULEN=134%DAT=E)

Uptime 0.080 days (since Tue Jun 14 21:07:25 2005)

TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments

Difficulty=4229242 (Good luck!)

In later Linux releases I would use inetd.config or xinetd.config

How do I go about disabling these services on Mandriva 2005LE?

June 15, 2005

Heya,

I had this problem too. Kdm doesn't use the parameters in other files it seems (the latest version not anyway.

Add the following in the [X-*-Core]-section of the kdmrc-file to disable listening on a tcp-port:

ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp

You may not put " around -nolisten tcp, else it won't work it seems.

Hopes it helps you,

Michel

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This did not work for me. My port 6000 is still open.

Dakota

June 15, 2005

While trying to disable services during startup I noticed there is no inetd.conf or xinetd.conf. Where are these files or are we using a different configuration file for inetd?

Dakota

June 12, 2005

people confuse me. they complain about a difficult one-time install /configuration process, but would put up with daily adware/virus/trojan scans that would take up to maybe 2 hours.

i personally think the spyware/virus scans take much more effort. seriously, maintaining windows is too difficult for me. I get embarassed too many times when people approach me for windows maintenance advice, when i can only say, "I have absolutely no idea. I use linux, and I don't have to do that."

Then they ask, "what do you do to maintain linux then? Virus scanners? disk defragmenting? registry optimization?" I answer, "er, nothing."

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Exactly my point.

I like the configuration process the way it is. I remember installing Redhat 7.1 and believe me that took some configuration. Mandrake 10.2 found and installed everything on my system correctly. Even my HP all in one. Linux is perfect these days. I am afraid the easier we make it the more insecure it will become. The new users just get upset when they have to learn something new. Like how to unzip or unrar a file from command line instead of double click.

Dakota

June 12, 2005

Tried it, If the game would run ok on my system I would actually play it. Netcode needs work and I get horrible performance. I can run all the newer games with no problem "UT2004", Nexuiz on the other hand just runs like crap on my system, even with low effects. They should tell the truth about system requirments. This game should still be beta. Needs work.

Dakota

June 11, 2005

How To Install Quake 3 Arena Natively On Linux.

First make a directory /quake3 I made mine in /usr/local/games/quake3

command

* sudo mkdir /usr/local/games/quake3

then make a directory called baseq3 under the quake3 directory

command

* sudo mkdir /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3

then put the quake3 "windows version" in the cdrom and copy the file named pak0.pk3 to the newly made baseq3 directory.

command

* sudo cp /mnt/cdrom/Quake3/baseq3/pak0.pk3 /usr/local/games/quake3/baseq3

Go to ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/ and download linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run

Ok now run linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run (lets say the file is in my home directory)

command

* sudo sh linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run

after the install has completed just exit. (it's not a good Idea to run as root.)

now just type quake3 in your console and the game should run fine.

* after you run quake3 the first time as a user, it will create a hidden file in your home directory called .q3a . This is where your q3config file is and this is where you want to drop any extra config files as well.

* If your going to play online the I would suggest downloading pbweb.x86 and placing it in your pb file (~/.q3a/pb) then just cd to the file and run it.

command

o chmod +x ~/.q3a/pb/pbweb.x86 <----makes file executable

o cd .q3a/pb <---moves to directory

o ~/.q3a/pb/pbweb.x86 <---executes files

That will update you punkbuster files so you don't have to wait in spectator mode while trying to play.

* also to protect your install and to avoid having to use sudo alot, you can symlink to you home directory.

commands

o mkdir /home/dakota/quake3 <----creates quake3 folder in your home directory

o cp -Rs /usr/local/games/quake3/* /home/dakota/quake3/ <----creates symlinks to game install, simular to windows shortcuts.

Now you can just drop any files in the directories under your home directories (mapfiles, skinpacks, or what ever)

What this does is kinda protects the base install. Should you drop in a few bad pak files the all you have to do is delete the /home/david/quake3 file and make a new one. because your base install has remained untouched.

Good Luck and Have Fun! :beer:

Let me know if you need any help.

______________

Dakota

June 10, 2005

Well It's about time for an upgrade, trying to decide on either Geforce 6800 or 6600. I currently use a Geforce 2 GTS 64MB and have no problems running RTCW or Quake III. I can pull 200 FPS with good detail in Quake 3 with this GPU.

June 9, 2005

FIXED! I reinstalled Mandriva LE2005, Did not run Mandrake Updates, Installed Nvidia Driver and it worked!

Thanks for everyones help.

Dakota

:thanks:

June 9, 2005

I see you don't use a stock kernel... what have you added in your custom one?

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Nothing, all I have done is

1. Install Mandriva LE2005

2. Run Mandrake Update

3. Setup Printer

4. Try to Install Nvidia Drivers

I did find a post with a small amount of information about mdkcustom https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=ST&f=26&t=25178

And I found this file:///usr/src/linux/.config = Linux kernel version: 2.6.11-6mdkcustom

file:///usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/.config = # Linux kernel version: 2.6.11-6mdkcustom

.STUMPED.

:help:

June 8, 2005

Ok succesfully compiled! Nvidia.ko error What to do?

NVIDIA: left KBUILD.

-> done.

-> Kernel module compilation complete.

ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This is most likely

because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files.

Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your

kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the

'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel source

files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the

'--kernel-source-path' commandline option.

-> Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko':

-1 Invalid module format

-> Kernel messages: