Re: Crashing with video drivers on dell inspiron 2650
Well I am not going to be of much help but I had very similar problems with my desktop (that I built, based on a asus k7v and a Geforce DDR) back when I was using SuSE 7.3 My system would seem to hang (in 5 minutes, 2 hours, 5 days...) with no prior logs that I could ever find, when I logged into my system from the serial port I would find X at 99% and killing -9 X would render the system totally unresponsive (I would loose my serial link) I would have to pull the power cord. This all disappeared when I moved to RH 7.3 and I have never seen it since Samuel Monsarrat On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 13:53, Hans Scheffers wrote: > Hi, > I have installed RH 8 over a RH 7.3/Ximian install > When I use the standard VGA driver for Xwindows, everything seems to > work (mostly that is, I have some small problems thx to my older > configuration;-) > > When I install the nvidia drivers for this notebook, after a few minutes > the system hangs / crashes (i can reach it for a little while using ssh > from antoher system) and X give a load of 4-5 on my CPU. Killing the X > process doesn't work, the system hangs itself then > Has someone experienced thes problems also? > > Greetz > Hans > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: Help Please! Red Hat 8.0 is kicking me out!
Well I seem to recall having a similar problem a year ago. Shortly afterwords my graphics card burnt out. (the fan had stopped working and I had not noticed). One should open the box every few months and make sure all is OK... Sam. On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 10:53, Tino Meinen wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 06:37, richard wrote: > > yep happens to me as well. i can also be doing anything and it seems xserver > > just reboots. Why i have no idea and can happen at anytime and not in any > > So it logs you out because the xserver restarts. That might indicate > something with the video card. > > What kind of video card do you have, and what settings do you have in > xfree86-config. You could try out the vesa server and see if that makes > a difference. > > Good luck > > Tino Meinen > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: cyrilic?
Well this is due to the fact that RH8 is now using UTF-8 as a system wide charset. Certain apps will not work properly if you do not change the charset back to something simpler, acroread or easyTAG to name two. You can either use $ env LANG=C or change the system-wide setting in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. For me, the first line of this file was LANG="en_GB.UTF-8". I changed it to LANG="en_GB" and rebooted and things are much better (for me anyway). although mc still seems to play up with kinsole, I am not quite shure why, but at least most other apps work fine and konsole is actually "usable" (I had reverted to xterm before I changed this setting). Sam Monsarrat. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 17:22, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > I've noticed that the font used when I rad some man pages, from Konsole, are > gibbled. Instead of dashes - I get little boxes being displayed. Could > this be a related problem? > > > > > > _ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
flac & xmms ?
Been trying to get the xmms flac plugin working but I cannot get it to show up in xmms! I pulled the following rpms from freshrpms.net: flac-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm flac-devel-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm flac-xmms-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm I installed them, encoded a file from the command line, so far so good. But when I try to use xmms, the plugin does not show up in the Input plugins pref page, although libxmms-flac.la and libxmms-flac.so are indeed in /usr/lib/xmms/Input/. XMMS refuses to open my .flac file although winamp, using the winamp flac plugin is quite happy with it. As anybody got an idea? Sam.
Re: flac & xmms ?
Sorry, Answered my own question, I was having problems with id3lib for some reason, reinstalled that package and got things working. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 20:59, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > Been trying to get the xmms flac plugin working but I cannot get it to > show up in xmms! > I pulled the following rpms from freshrpms.net: > > flac-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm > flac-devel-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm > flac-xmms-1.0.4-fr3.i386.rpm > > I installed them, encoded a file from the command line, so far so good. > But when I try to use xmms, the plugin does not show up in the Input > plugins pref page, although libxmms-flac.la and libxmms-flac.so are > indeed in /usr/lib/xmms/Input/. XMMS refuses to open my .flac file > although winamp, using the winamp flac plugin is quite happy with it. > > As anybody got an idea? > > Sam. > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: playing MP3 and Format(CLI)
For the mp3 problem, look at the archives, there has been extensive discussion about this. RH do not ship mp3 s/w for copyright reasons, you can get it all back at freshrpms. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 09:01, Brian York wrote: > 2 problems that I have came across so far. First redhat descided to fix xmms > so you couldn't play MP3. How can this be fixed. The last thing is I can't > use 'mke2fs' to format with redhat 8. I am waiting to figure that out before > I put RH8 on servers. Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks > Brian
Re: Backup
Yup, works fine, use this every time I reinstall my system, to restore, I generally am careful, I tend to run tar xvfz backup-file.tgz in a temp directory and then copy my real data, and things like my mozilla and/or evolution profile etc manually back to my home directory as between two different system types or versions one probably should keep a few new . config files. On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:55, Dale Kosan wrote: > as a normal user do this: > > tar cvzf /path-to-backup-file-and name /home/your home directory > > > so, on my machine my home dir is dale and I put my backups on a seperate > partition called data. this is what the above command looks like: > > tar cvzf /data/dale.tar.gz /home/dale > > > hope this helps.. > > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 16:29, Bernd Kunze wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:08, Tobias wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > How do I copy my 'home' dir the easiest way? When I try to copy it as root I > > > get some error msg of diffrent kinds. > > > All I wanna do is a backup of my personal files so I can make a clean install. > > > > > > Regards > > > Tobias > > > > > My way of backing up things is to rsync it to a partition on a different > > hard disk: > > > > rsync --delete -rv /home /mnt/backup/hal > > > > Bernd > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Psyche-list mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- > http://www.winsweptrottweilers.com > > ICQ# 55846749 > > Registered Linux user #191829 > > A Cherokee Prayer: > > Oh Great Spirit, > > Help me always to speak the truth quietly, > > to listen with an open mind when others speak > > and to remember the peace that may be found in > > silence. > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: nvidia driver for RH8
Why not just use the tarballs? I have never had any problems with those. Sam On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 23:50, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Fri Nov 01 2002 at 14:07, Roger wrote: > > > > > Around Fri,Nov 01 2002, at 03:51, Louis Garcia, wrote: > > > This is what I get when installing the package: > > > > > > [root@tiger root]# rpm -i > > > /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.i686.rpm > > > > get NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm from nvidia, rpm -i it, > > then go to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES to find the > > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.tar.gz file. > > tar -xzf the file, navigate to the newly created directory > > 'NVIDIA_kernl-1.0-3123 and run 'make'. > > > > > > then you can install the NVIDIA_GLX rpm > > IMHO, that is bad advice. > > Or at least confusing. > > For the record: if you do "rpmbuild -rebuild" on the .src.rpm then > it will produce a binary rpm that will install and work. I know, > I've done it. > > But you are saying to manually make the package, why? (I assume > that "make" does not do a "make install"). > > And _then_ you can install the rpm ??? > > Can you clarify the logic here? (or lack of it:-) > > > roger > > Cheers > Tony > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: security level not changing
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 03:53, w wrote: > > I also notice that the security window always says 'High' regardless of > current status .. but that's ok now that I know it's not supposed to be > an indicator. > I seem to remember this as being "by design" (this was discussed at the beginning of this list) as by default the idea was to set security to high for people who do not understand exactly what they are doing. I personally regard this as a bug.
Re: logout
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:33, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Javier E. Tia Marin wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > I have same problem, PLEASE HELP???, any siggestions? > > > > I am having a problem with login when i logon to GUI mode it works > > fine but when i try to goto terminal screen( ctrl + alt +f1 ) then its > > automatically i logout from GUI, what is the problem ? > > > That's what it's supposed to do. To get back to your graphical screen try > (ctrl + alt + f7). > > HTH, > Oisin Feeley > No, that's not what it's supposed to do, It should not log you out (i.e. X server probably crashes). Where Michael Schwendt's remarks not helpful? are you getting messages in you log files?
Re: vmware support
Just curious to know what problems you guys have, for me (what I have seen so far): - vmware systematically crashes on shutdown. This is not fatal but is just annoying to me - I am unable to activate audio support. If I add audio support to the virtual machine then the w2kpro (my guest system) does not start and complains about gui startup and mga.dll being corrupt (which is not true). The OS is up and running as I can access it by smb but not the gui. Sam. On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:39, Gene C. wrote: > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:59, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > This was my reply from vmware support. > > > > On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 05:15, WebForm wrote: > > > Dear Iain Buchanan, > > > VMware Workstation 3.2 was released before RedHat 8.0 so it is not > > > supported either as guest or host. Use RedHat 7.3 instead. > > > > I especially like that 'fix'. > > > > > We will support RedHat 8.0 in our next major update of Workstation. > > Yes, I am very disappointed with vmware support also. There are some > work-arounds to get 3.2 to work on 8.0. These are available newsgroups > vmware runs. I also seem to remember posting these to either this mailing > list or the beta mailing list limbo-list. > > Gene > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
Re: vmware support
> 1. Late in the development cycle RH introduced a scheduler-fixes patch to the > kernel which causes vmware to panic/crash when you shutdown/poweroff the > guest. The fix is to use a replacement for nice(). This is available at: > http://www.angelfire.com/linux/ylai/ > > This is needed to run both the 3.1.1 and 3.2 versions (I don't know about > others). If you (for some reason) cannot get libnice.tar.gz from the above, > email me and I will send you a copy (it is only 10K). After installing > libnice.so, you use it by doing: > > LD_PRELOAD=libnice.so vmware > > to run vmware. Thanks, got rid of the panic with libnice.so. works great. > 2. With respect to 3.2, after installing 3.2, configure the kernel source > properly: > > a) edit Makefile so that EXTRAVERSION matches the kernel you are running > b) copy the config file for the kernel you are running from configs to > arch/i386/defconfig > c) make mrproper > d) make oldconfig > e) make dep > > The to configure vmware do: > > CC=/usr/bin/gcc vmware-config.pl > I am a relative newbe with regards to kernel stuff, could you explain what this second point is about, why it should be done? Sam.
Re: vmware support
> - Accessing filesystems on the Linux host from a Win9x client via Samba > is awfully slow. Same setup on RHL 7.3 worked flawlessly. I am using the samba server that came with RH, not the one that vmware offers, and it does not seem too bad, I noticed on the other hand that the guest system is seeing a 10baseT network, this seems to be a shame, how can one get the network link between the two OSes higher? (I do not have a second physical network card to assign to the guest). Sam.
Re: vmware support
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 16:33, Gene C. wrote: > > vmware does not have compiled kernel modules for either the base 8.0 kernel or > the errata kernel (they are usually do not for errata kernels and the 8.0 > errata kernel should be considered a must). Therefore, when you run > /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl, it will try to compile the modules such as > vmnet.o. To get the compile to run successfully on any system, you need to > have the kernel-source installed and configured to look like the running > kernel. On 8.0, you need to "CC=/usr/bin/gcc" prefix or you will get an > error when you run vmware-config.pl. > > -- > Gene > Hi there, thanks for the info! It looks like I should reconfirure vmware properly then. Cheers, Sam.
Re: Bash trivia question
Am reading it at the moment. Well worth it!
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:18, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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Re: XMMS from source under RH8
Also, what system is this? what soundcard? When you say it works for root do you mean that you log in as you, su -l to root in a xterm and run xmms or do you restart X and log in as root? Do you use KDE or GNOME, do you have a sound server running?, have you configured gnomemeeting? I ask all these questions as I am having similar problems on a Dell inspiron 8200 laptop. it seems that I cannot have two apps using /dev/dsp at the same time. i.e. if I use xmms alone: AOK, if I start ogle, play a DVD and then start xmms, I get the same error as you. If I then stop ogle, xmms can play again... I also found that having gnomemeeting installed and configured rendered all other audio apps useless (xmms gives your error, ogle crashes on startup with the same kind of error) Sam. On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:20, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 25 November 2002 22:31, Rob Blomquist uttered: > > I am in the same place. I can play mp3s as root, but not as user. I get a > > message box saying "Can't Open Audio" please check that: > > > > You have the correct output plugin selected. > > No other programs are blocking the soundcard > > Your soundcard is configured properly. > > Are you using OSS output (/dev/dsp) or arts/alsa output? Can you check the > permissions on /dev/dsp? Your user should have write access to it. Also > check out /etc/security/console.perms to see what is set for /dev/dsp and the > family. > > -- > Jesse Keating > For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Samuel Monsarrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: CF card reader for RH8?
Hi there, And has anybody got experience with PCMCIA cf readers? I have RH8 on a Dell laptop and a PCMCIA reader seems to be a more elegant device for a laptop. Sam. On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 10:52, Christopher M. Taylor wrote: > Hello, > Anyone know of a good quality CF card reader that is compatible with > RedHat 8? I'm not concerned with interface...the HCL seems to be a > little scarce on this subject. The CF reader will be used to process > digital images for a local police evidence, and the Linux machine will > be used to store those photos as evidence, as I feel that Linux will > provide additional security over Windows. Your help would be greatly > appreciated! > > Thanks in advance! > > Chris Taylor -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: strange font display in man and info
It's in the release notes, RH8 is now using the UTF-8 char set. search the archives for UTF-8 and you will find a hole lot of info. Sam. On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:43, jeff wrote: > I have 8.0 and am getting garbled character display in the man pages. > What happened between 7.3 and 8.0? Suggestions? -- Samuel Monsarrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Unable to activate dma on dvd drive
I am trying to get Ogle working again on RH8.0 and I am up against a problem when I try and activate dma on my dvd drive: [root@touzi root]# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Adding a h /etc/sysconfig/arddiskshdb file does not hep either. How can I allow this kind of operation? I do not recall any such problem with RH7.3. Enabling dma on dvd players is essential for smooth playback (at least on Ogle) Does anyone have suggestions? Sam.
Re: nvidia drivers
Since 7.3 I have always used the tar balls and did so yesterday with no problems for my Geforce 4mx card. unpack the kernel and GLX tarballs an run make install as root in each then edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to replace "nv" or in my case "versa" with "nvidia" and also look for the other things to add or remove as per the nvidia README. The problems that I (and many others) had under 7.3 seem to have gone. Sam.
Disappearing entries in fstab
I am having a hard time adding my USB Iomega peerless to RH8.0. If I add: /dev/sdc4 /mnt/peerless auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 to /etc/fstab and create /mnt/peerless/, things work up to a point: root can mount the peerless drive fine and users can use it but users cannot mount the peerless themselves because "only root can do that". I have not yet found how to allow anybody to mount a file system. What is really galling is that on the next reboot, my fstab file is back to what it was, i.e. my /dev/sdc4 line has gone and the /mnt/peerless folder had gone, vanished. I had not seen this in 7.3. What I really do not understand is that I also added the line: /dev/sda1 /cdrw_buffer reiserfs defaults1 2 for another scsi drive that I did not include during install and that line stays in the fstab file Anybody got any ideas? Sam.
Re: Disappearing entries in fstab
Well actually my problem was that I had kept "kudzu" in the fstab entry. I took this out and my fstab file is left unchanged (during reboot you do actually see "updating fstab" or something fly by). Thanks for the "user" tip. works fine now. sam. On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:58, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:56:29AM +0200, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > > I am having a hard time adding my USB Iomega peerless to RH8.0. > > If I add: > > /dev/sdc4 /mnt/peerless auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > to /etc/fstab and create /mnt/peerless/, things work up to a point: > > root can mount the peerless drive fine and users can use it but users > > cannot mount the peerless themselves because "only root can do that". > Replace the owner entry with user and all users can mount the device. This may be a >crazy > question but when the lines in fstab disappeared did you reboot, shutdown, or what? >How did you > reboot and were you in runlevel 3 or 5 when you did it? The only time I have seen >lines dissapear > from a file after reboot if the file sysytem was not sync-ed before reboot. >Automatic syncing > happens every 30 seconds or so (or it used to) and some reboot methods sync and some >do not. > At run level 1 syncing is required before you hit a -D to reboot. > -- > --- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > 715 Stadium Dr. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
