Linux Help

[ViolentJ]

Think i'll just keep adding to this thread with my problems

Few things I'm stuck on at the moment:

1. Getting my MX700 mouse buttons to be recognised. Linux currently thinks it's a 5 button when it's a 10. I don't appear to have evdev loaded as it freaks out and dumps me to a prompt when i edit xorg.conf with it but can't work out how to get it installed.

2. I can't find my other local hard drive

3. HTTP links in GAIM don't open in Firefox - in fact they do nothing. I have Firefox 1.5 installed.

4. In evolution, how do you forward an email as an email rather than an attachment and when forwarding or replying to an email how do you include the full header i.e. the email address as it only inserts name and time.

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Si what version of Linux you using?

 

[Griff]

Ubuntu iirc

 

[RobertCL]

For (2), try running dmesg | grep -i hd and look for output along the lines of

hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive

and

hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3

Depending on where you 2nd hard disk is plugged in it is probably "hdb" or "hdc". Unless you have SATA disks, then I'm not sure, maybe try dmesg | grep -i sata...

Then you need to mount them somewhere....

 

[ViolentJ]

Si what version of Linux you using?

Ubuntu 5.10

 

[ViolentJ]

For (2), try running dmesg | grep -i hd and look for output along the lines of

hda: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive

and

hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3

Depending on where you 2nd hard disk is plugged in it is probably "hdb" or "hdc". Unless you have SATA disks, then I'm not sure, maybe try dmesg | grep -i sata...

Then you need to mount them somewhere....

I get:

[4294673.595000]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb: DMA
[4294673.595000]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd: DMA
[4294673.859000] hda: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0, ATA DISK drive
[4294674.114000] hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
[4294675.092000] hdd: PHILIPS PBDV1640P, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[4294677.194000] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[4294677.207000] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16 /63, UDMA(100)
[4294677.207000] hda: cache flushes supported
[4294677.215000] hdb: max request size: 128KiB
[4294677.221000] hdb: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/ 63, UDMA(133)
[4294677.222000] hdb: cache flushes supported
[4294677.249000] hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[4294684.403000] Adding 506036k swap on /dev/hdb2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
[4294684.699000] EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal

WDC is my windows drive I want access to.

How do I mount this?

 

[RobertCL]

You need to create a directory to mount it on mkdir /windows then mount.. Im guessing you only have one partition on this drive if it countains only Windows, so probably mount /dev/hda1 /windows should do the trick.

I'm guessing ubuntu will already be setup with the necessary filesystem drivers to access most types of Windows drive.

 

[Daz]

sudo mkdir /media/windows/
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/

 

[Daz]

*grrrrrr*

 

[RobertCL]

*grrrrrr*

heh, too slow :rasp:

Yeah, I forgot to say you will probably need to be root to do that so use sudo, or su -

 

[Daz]

Ubuntu, by default, has no access as root - you have to use sudo as your normal user account.. terrible.

 

[ViolentJ]

ok it's created the directory.

If i go into it though it says "You do not have the permisions necessary to view the contents of "windows"

 

[Daz]

Cus' you need to be root to view too.

Unmount it (sudo unmount /dev/hda1)

Then, sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows -o uid=youruid (from cat /etc/passwd - probably 1000 or 1001 or something)

You should be able to (without remounting)

sudo bash
cd /media/windows/
... then see the files, tho.

[Edit]
-o uid=simon or similar may work, also - it does on smbmount.. try it.

 

[RobertCL]

Or you can use mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows -o user to allow normal users to see stuff if you don't want to specify your username.

 

[ViolentJ]

I couldn't get the above to work

However I found this and it did work:

sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Added this line to the end of the file:

/dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0

And then remounted with:

sudo mount -a

 

[Daz]

Same thing, just it uses /etc/fstab for mount info!

 

[RobertCL]

Ah, Linux, soo many ways to do the same thing

 

[ViolentJ]

sorted my mail probelms out.

As far as the mouse goes i've got it to recognise another 2 buttons (back and forward) but can't get cruise up and down to work.

no luck yet on getting links in gaim to open in firefox.

Thanks for all the help so far.