chalex20

The problem is that not only /dev/modem dissapears every time, the whole /dev/ttySHSF0 vanishes everytime I restart! wvdial seems to be the only program clever enough to dial on this modem.

Is devfs enabled? You must configure /etc/modules.conf or /etc/devfsd.conf such that it loads the driver for your modem when you try to access it.

I believe that all your hsfconfig program does is to load the driver and maybe do some mknod and little tuning.

I have an odd font problem that I think is timing-related but I can't pin it down.

 

When my Mandrake 9.0 machine starts up and I get to the kdm login screen, I usually end up with tiny, uncomprehensible fonts (I am presuming the nil font from browsing through all the fonts).  If I keep restart the X server,  it will eventually come back and my nice, clean anti-aliased fonts will show up.  I initially presumed that this was a timing issue with kdm perhaps starting before xfs, but I can leave it on the login screen for 15 minutes and then try and it still may not work.  Sometimes I restart the X server once and it works, sometimes 15 times.

- xfs doesn't provide antialiased fonts. Period. They are provided by a separate mechanism, which is even configured differently.

- X in Mandrake configuration relies on xfs to get its fonts ( non-antialiased). So there could be no such thing as "kdm starting before xfs". X (and therefore KDM) just wouldn't start at all if xfs doesn't run. ( AFAIK ).

Yes chalex20, you are correct, I am trying to fire up KDE (or gnome) through Lilo's graphic login.

Why Lilo's? Please start calling things their right names :-)

LILO graphic prompt is what you get before you boot Linux

I get the "Welcome to localhost" login (with a black background instead) and with the additional 20 users I never added.

kdm configuration file ( /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc) is screwed. Have you tinkered with the "Login manager" part of KDE Control Center? It's an option there to show all users, or selected users, or all but no-show users. Most chances are that the "show all users" value got selected somehow.

Yes also, I have been confusing a KDE crash with X. That would explain then why XFdrake tests fine and also config-4 file is OK then. This would also explain why it would happen after being in KDE's control center

Being root is dangerous :-)

Cool! Will that leave the mp3's there too or are they oblitherated by the conversion into oggs?

It will leave them there.

Also, where is the proper codec for ogg for windows so we can play them in both environments?

I believe that Winamp for Windows supports ogg.

The way I apparently installed mandrake, with high security, the permissions for /etc are 711. As root I've changed the permissions using chmod 751 and things are cool, until the next time that I reboot. Then the permissions revert back to 711.

 

What's up with this? And how can I keep my changes?

 

Kevin

That has something to do with msec. There is a cron job for msec that runs hourly and changes all the permissions according to the requested security level.

I'm looking for software that will do a big batch conversion from .mp3 -> .ogg

 

I have 4 gigs of .mp3 files that I want to convert to .ogg using a seperate command for each one will take me the rest of my life!

You mean issuing each command manually? But you shouldn't.

You may easily convert all of them by just one command. You need the command-line based convertor called mp32ogg - or whatever suits you better.

Let's suppose all your mp3 files are located under /home/your_user/mp3

Let's even suppose there are subdirectories within that.

The command will look the following in this case :

find /home/your_user/mp3 -iname "*.mp3" -exec  mp32ogg {};

It will nevertheless take some time, but you won't have to issue each command manually.

man find

This manpage will help you learn the options of the "find" command better.

My install of Mandy 9 went fine about three months ago, and Nvidia driver update went glitch free about 2 weeks ago, but on a recent cold boot I find I now have 20 more users at the login window (such as adm, bin, and daemon) and nothing will get X up and running anymore (at least not more than a few seconds before it crashes again).

Most chances are that you're using a graphical login, am I correct?

I've tried various things to get XFree86 to run, but nothing is working. I end up with various fatal server errors. I wasn't trying to install anything or upgrade anything lately and glx gears were churning out a nice 600 plus frames per second during the previous weeks. (My current projects involved mplayer and mencoder or poking around kde's control center looking for preferences I could set)

 

Looks like I will be doing a fresh install, but my concern at the moment is why this may have happened? Any ideas?

If you succeed to see the graphical login window for more than several seconds, then XFree86 does run. It is your desktop environment that is screwed. Just re-install KDE.

OTOH, if even the graphical login window doesn't show but for a few seconds, the problem may be completely different.

Still, if the graphical login window does show, the problem is not with XFree86 as such not running ( for it does run), but rather with kdm ( or gdm, or xdm, whatever you use).

Just 2 peeps who are LANing with linux and trying to share stuff but not being succesful. Okay, the NFS route. How does that work. What do I need to do.

I have already created and NFS Export with webmin, but we can't seem to mount that...!!

Try reading the manpages for "nfs" and "exports"

man nfs

man exports

They describe all the options and have some good examples for mounting NFS shares.

Okay, but I want to share between 2 linux boxes. Isn't SAMBA for sharing linux dir sothat windows machines can access them...!!

There is no problem to use SAMBA to share between two linux boxes. CIFS is mainly for Windows, but not only. Largely, it's just another protocol.

And if you want purely UNIX way, configure your boxes as NFS servers. NFS shares are easily mounted into the FS hierarchy tree.

OTOH :

Unless your matter is to succeed to compile k3b by yourself :-), you may get it from here :

http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...4-1tex.i586.rpm

It is supposed to work, AFAIK.

Cooker RPM is not even supposed to install on 9.0.

What is supposed to usually help is to download the source RPM from Cooker and then -

rpm --rebuild path_to_it/k3b.*.src.rpm

And then install the resulting RPM.

Otherwise, without the < it's expecting the input to patch to come from stdin.

patch -p expects its input to come from stdin IN ANY CASE. It's just that with the < sign you REPLACE its stdin to come from a file and not from a console.

I decided just to leave my new box as win2k only.  I hate to say this on this board, but compared to win95/98 I actually like win2k.

 

I have mdk 9.0 on my other box working good.  I would like to get rid of the win98 dual boot on that box.  

 

I am gonna do what was suggested above - use PM 7.0 to reformat the fat32 win98 portion of my dual-boot box and make it ext2 so that linux can use it.

And then when within linux, make it ext3. Journalled filesystem, good-bye long fscks if the system crashed and such.

After I reformat it as ext2, can I make my home dir bigger to take advantage of the new space?

Yes. It may be done several different ways - either transfer all your old /home into the new partition and mount the new partition as /home, or mount your new partition somewhere under /home/your_user. E.g, /home/your_user/huge_partition_for_music. Or use some other way, whatever suits you better.

Anyway, my older box - PIII-1Ghz, 256Mb RAM, 40Gb HD is still a good machine, and I'm looking forward to making it all mdk 9.0, if I can get rid of the 23GB that win98 is taking up (and get rid of LILO).

I'm not so sure that you can get rid of LILO. Linux needs some bootloader to boot up, period. Mandrake bundles LILO and GRUB as its bootloaders, and you may choose either one.

OTOH, you may configure LILO not to display prompt and boot Linux within some very short timeout.

ok on my laptop linux doesn't automatically detect my sound card, but thanks to the web i found that...

 

modprobe ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

 

makes it work, but the problem is that i have to type that each time i reboot my laptop , how do i add it to modules.conf so that it will automatically be started at boot? thanks in advanced

Add the following to /etc/modules :

ad1848

and the following to /etc/modules.conf

options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0

And then run :

depmod -a && modprobe ad1848.

I'd try setting the driver to the standard "nv", I had a similar problem with the "nvidia" drivers, and it was linked to a problem with the "GLX" module which the "nvidia" driver uses.

 

Tim

If that is really so, just re-install BOTH parts of the NVidia driver - both kernel one and GLX one. It may be just well that the GLX part of the NVidia driver got overwritten by Mesa during the install.

chalex20: So did this work for you? If so I might need to try again....

I wouldn't recommend this way if it didn't work :-) Just don't forget that all channels are muted by default and that you need to unmute the MIDI channel to hear something.

post-install snd-emu10k1-synth sfxload -V100 some_path/8MBGMSFX.SF2

 

Actually I have tried something like this in modules.conf, which did not work:

 

post-install snd-emu10k1-synth /bin/sfxload some_path/8MBGMSFX.SF2

 

So, may I ask, what does "-V100" parameter mean here?

 

man sfxload

-V 100 means that the volume of the font is 100 %.

#7. TO-DOs

 

1) To figure out how to auto-load soundfont at boot

For example, it may be done like this :

Put the following line in your modules.conf

post-install snd-emu10k1-synth  sfxload -V100 some_path/8MBGMSFX.SF2

Also, there's caitoo as an alternative for d4x but as far as I know it hasn't been updated for a while (?).

In KDE 3.1, there would be KGet. Pretty good download manager, the only thing I miss in it is better integration with Konqueror, something along the lines of Mozilla download manager.

Hey Yves - I am pretty certain that when I, as root, create something in /home/static, static can't delete it. (Maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to remember..)

 

This could be a problem with userid's. If baudolino has the same uid as root this will happen.

 

PS Newbies take note: The original post is very neat and easy to follow. Excellent structure - makes it easier for us to help ;O)

I've performed such test on my own machine.

[alex@linux alex]$ ls -l somefile

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 6 17:10 somefile

[alex@linux alex]$ rm somefile

rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `somefile'? y

[alex@linux alex]$ ls -l somefile

ls: somefile: No such file or directory

[alex@linux alex]$ id

uid=501(alex)

You're surely wrong :-) . The file was created by root and nevertheless a regular user succeeded to delete it. Pure issue of directory permissions.

Thanks a lot! Finally, I managed to install the nividia drivers. 

 

But, how do I remove the damn nvidia logo, which is displayed during every boot-sequence?

This is from my XF86Config-4

Section "Device"

Identifier "RIVA TNT2"

VendorName "Unknown"

BoardName "Unknown"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "NoLogo" "True" That's what you need

EndSection

They have some littlle :) README both at their site and within the .tar.gz or .rpm. You may learn all the options, issues, tricks etc from there.

More than that, THEIR tutorial ( they do have one, on the download page ) MANDATES reading this README as one of the installation steps.

I am hoping it'll be faster, but i don't understand "better".

The transfered Data should be the same, though. Am i right?

Somebody experienced with the actual epson series concerning USB & LM 9?

Epson 760 via USB - prints without any problem. There used to be a problem around two years ago, but it was quickly solved ( Epson printers require some control sequence to be set to them so that they start receive jobs via USB, and this very fact was undocumented).

 

 

Additional i found out that telnet doesn't accept root but all others. That's all that was needed to go for it.

Yes, that's by definition. Just security-wise. If I'm not mistaken, telnetd may be configured to accept root login, but by default it doesn't.[/b]

They are called /dev/ttyS<number>, /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1 and so on. When devfs is enabled, /dev/ttyS* are links to /dev/tts/*.

First of all I am using 8.2 standard.  One of the things I love about Mandrake is the Mandrake community of which this forum is a wonderful example.

Now for my dilema.   I have just bought a D-380 and do not know how to mount it.    It is USB and Mandrake recognizes it as a Mass storage device then says "/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or user mode driver usb-storage"

Just another bug, don't cry, it doesn't hurt :-) Just mount it as /dev/sda1 ( in case you haven't got another USB storage device connected before), filesystem type is vfat.