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I’ve read that wasn’t done, but I got it working.

I’ve printed in colors in my Lexmark X1180 in Mandriva 2007.

Howto:

Download :  Lexmark site

$ tar xzvf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz

$ tar xzvf install.tar.gz

$ sudo rpm -ivh z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm –nodeps

$ sudo service cups restart

And its working (just use the Z600 driver when configuring your printer).

CentOS 4.3 and 4.1. 

I’ve found myself with no logs, the /var/log/message was empty.

The snmpd deamon was giving me “permission denied”. What was I to do?

Just Stop the selinux enforcing.

 ”echo 0 > /selinux/enforce“

or

Edit the  “/etc/selinux/config” and change to  “SELINUX=disabled” and “reboot?”

To format a disk (size 160 G) in Linux (FAT 32)

 mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1 -> device where to find the disk 

Link

Linux 2.6 (RedHat /CentOS 4.1)

Como remover 1 modulo do initrd?

Aconteceu-me que tinha 1 modulo (aic7xxx) a arrancar numa máquina que me bloqueava durante 20 minutos, o que fazer?

“rmmod” do modulo se não der problemas, não deve ser necessário.

Para evitar o “load” do modulo no arranque da máquina fazer:

"mkdir a  
 cd a  
 gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.9-11.EL.img | cpio -i -d

 **** alterar o initrd ****
 remover o modulo do lib/
 alterar o INIT (remover a linha que faz insmod do modulo)
 **** alterar o initrd ****

 find . | cpio -H newc --create --verbose | gzip -9 > /tmp/init.img "

Thanks to Nocturno.

In February 2005, Mandrake Soft of France and Conectiva of Brazil, announced that they merged. Shortly afterwards, in April 2005, they announced that they are changing their name to Mandriva. Then they released Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 (LE2005) which is what Mandrake 10.2 should have been.

Since I have several machines at home, all running Mandrake, it was time to start the annual upgrade to stay current.

The upgrade went fine without much surprises, except for those listed below with solutions. All the existing devices seem to work well, even the sound cards that were manually configured in 10.0.

After upgrading two machine, here are the caveats to watch for:

Xorg X11 packages unreadable

On upgrading the second machine using the same CD set, the packages xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11 were not readable for some reason. Without those, X11 would not run, and therefore neither KDE (or Gnome if you are using that), and therefore, no GUI application would run. The solution was for me to download them using FTP from the command line and using the rpm -e command, removed XFree86-Server package, then using rpm -ivh installed the above two packages.

Permissions wrong on /dev/null  

The permissions on /dev/null are not correct. it is 660 (rw-rw—-). This caused many programs to not work, or to be very slow, hogging the CPU. An example is xrdb when KDE is starting up. I found out that it is trying to wite to /dev/null and failing by running strace on the process. It should be changed to 666 (rw-rw-rw-). This can be done using the command chmod 666 /dev/null from a root terminal.

devfs vs. udev 

There is a conflict between devfs and the new udev subsystem for managing removable media. This caused booting to be either very slow, or freeze up completely. Since LE2005 uses udev, you have to disable devfs. The easiest way of doing so is to boot into failsafe mode (from the boot menu) and depending on whether you are using grub or lilo edit its file as needed:

• If you are using grub, then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change all devfs=mount to be devfs=nomount. If you cannot boot far enough for some reason, then you can use grub’s commands to edit the command line used for booting, so you can continue to boot, then edit the above mentioned file to make this permanent.
• If you are using lilo, then edit /etc/lilo.conf and change all occurances of devfs=mount to be devfs=nomount. You have to run the lilo command for this”

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