[expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Keed
I installed windows 98 first on the laptop. Then i tried installing mdk 7.2 on the second partition, with basically all options to see what was available. It took a bizzare long time to try install (about 4 hours), so i cancelled it ...has anyone experienced this with the mdl 7.2 install? I'll

Re:[expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Andre LABBE
Hi You don't say which type and model. The time to install varies a lot according the speed of the laptop. I have an Umax Actionbook 340T (Time laptop and some other are the same) and LM 72 works fine with it, I use the kernel 2.4.2, every thing is supported. But I recall that the install

RE: [expert] MP3's are not working

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Keed
yeah i have used this plugin under windows winamp, xmms is pretty similar. Under preferences u should be able to tell xmms instead of using diskwriter use wave out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 7:11 PM

RE: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Keed
come to think of it, it was towards the end of the install, and i was prompt a few times because it couldn't install some features. I'll give it another go tommorrow and see what happens cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andre LABBE

RE: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Andre LABBE
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[expert] Hamradio help needed

2001-03-04 Thread Leif Lundskov
Use MDK 7.2, have installed the ax25.o and mkiss.o modules, ax0 ok in ifconfig, kissattach also ok, but only ax25 frames are passing through the system, - no tcp/ip. When ping'ing, no ip number gets thru, and arp tels me that it is incomplete. Have tried the MDK 8.0, works fine, no problem

[expert] RealPlayer fails at CBS

2001-03-04 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Using Linux-Mandrake 7.2) May I ask any of you if you could check to see if Mozilla .8 can play the videos on CBS at http://www.cbs.com? I have no problem playing RealPlayer regular sites AND plugins on other sites in Mozilla .8 (so far), but when I try to play the videos on

[expert] libqt2-devel

2001-03-04 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
I have been trying to install kde21 from unsupportet and all seems to be going fine (i diden have kde before) until i have to installe kdelibs-devel ... it ask for libqt2-devel so i downloadet it but it whantet to have Xfree-4.02 witch i dont have (and have no plans of getting) ... Hov can i

Re: [expert] Hamradio help needed

2001-03-04 Thread richard
On Sunday 04 March 2001 09:40, you wrote: Use MDK 7.2, have installed the ax25.o and mkiss.o modules, ax0 ok in ifconfig, kissattach also ok, but only ax25 frames are passing through the system, - no tcp/ip. When ping'ing, no ip number gets thru, and arp tels me that it is incomplete.

[expert] Mandrake 7.2 + Corel Photopaint

2001-03-04 Thread sean gibbins
I would like to install Corel Photopaint on my Mandrake 7.2 build, and recall hearing/reading something about an issue with KDE 2.0.1 menus and also the fonttastic font server. Any pointers? Cheers, Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Ron Stodden wrote: Marc Siegel wrote: KDE 2.1 final binary RPMs for Mandrake 7.2 are now in the mandrake-devel/unsupported/KDE-2.1 directory on the mirrors. I wish I knew who to give credit to for this work ... I am glad they are in a subdirectory of their own; it makes

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Marc Siegel wrote: KDE 2.1 final binary RPMs for Mandrake 7.2 are now in the mandrake-devel/unsupported/KDE-2.1 directory on the mirrors. I wish I knew who to give credit to for this work ... I am glad they are in a subdirectory of their own; it makes updating so easy. How does

Re: [expert] Logrotate question

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Weaver
jarmo wrote: Hi I have now lost my red line how logrotate should work. Have one comp. running there vers.7.1 of mandrake. Have updated latest logrotate version from 7.1 updates. Um, can you tell me the name of the package that you used to do this with? -- Mark "If you don't share

Re: [expert] Real Player for Mandrake 7.2, Netscape 4.76

2001-03-04 Thread lorne schachter
To everyone, I got the bin file off of tucows and installed it without a problem. Everything's running great now, thanks for the help. Lorne William Bouterse wrote: s wrote: I think the .bin version is at tucows somewhere. -s On Saturday 03 March 2001 19:15, you

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Pedro Del Medico
On Sat Mar 03 2001 23:19, You wrote: 4. The panel is present, but most of the icons have the gearwheel (generic icon) instead of the expected icon. try doing as root and from console: rpm -i --rebuilddb update-menus -v -- Atentamente, Pedro Del Medico P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 03 March 2001 09:19 pm, Collins Richey wrote: create a directory to d/l the rpms to, then paste the URL with *.rpms added into nt (Webdownloader) or your favorite other. eg, ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde -2.1 /*.rpm When the d/l is

[expert] RealPlayer videos at CBS don't work

2001-03-04 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Using Linux-Mandrake 7.2) May I ask any of you if you could check to see if Mozilla .8 can play the videos on CBS at http://www.cbs.com? I have no problem playing RealPlayer regular sites AND plugins on other sites in Mozilla .8 (so far), but when I try to play the videos on

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Tom Badran
I get this alot, all you have to do normally is log out and log back in -- Microsoft is not the answer, its the question. And the answer is no. www.badran.co.uk

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 March 2001 08:02, Mark Weaver wrote: Ya know...it just doesn't feel right without Chris. Anyone know how to get in touch with him? I'm still here and reading the lists. If anyone has a question, just ask. Just a change in email addresses ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Chris -- New

[expert] cd changer

2001-03-04 Thread Bruce Endries
Does anyone know whether or not Mandrake will work with SCSI CD-ROM changers, able to mount all the different CDs in the changer? I'm just curious. Bruce Endries Bruce Endries Consulting (607) 433-2677 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Just a bit more info on the segfault...the actual message is /usr/bin/qcad: line 3: 7006 Segmentation fault ./qcad "$@" -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:14:06 -0700 From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Sunday 04 March 2001 06:09, you wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2001 09:19 pm, Collins Richey wrote: create a directory to d/l the rpms to, then paste the URL with *.rpms added into nt (Webdownloader) or your favorite other. eg,

[expert] MandrakeUpdate fails under XFCE

2001-03-04 Thread Collins Richey
I run XFCE 99% of the time now (7 sec to start, vs. 30-40 for KDE), and almost everything I've tried in the KDE/GNOME menus works AOK with XFCE as the WM, except for MandrakeUpdate. When MandrakeUpdate opens, it displays a dialog box for entering the root password. Under KDE, the next panel

Re: [expert] sylpheed mailer configure problem

2001-03-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Mar 03, 2001 at 12:08:10PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: I'm trying to install sylpheed-0.4.61 on Mandrake 7.2 (the sylpheed home page lists Linux Mandrake 7.2 as supporting the product). When I attempt to run ./configure the autoconf stuff chokes looking for something called

[expert] Re-installing grub

2001-03-04 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi All: Went thru drakeconf to configure grub. What rewrites the configuration to hdax. Using linuxconf will write LILO. Thanks, -bill __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: [expert] directories

2001-03-04 Thread John Wolford
[john@homer john]$ rpm -qa |grep -i mysql MySQL-shared-3.23.31-1.1mdk MySQL-client-3.23.31-1.1mdk MySQL-devel-3.23.31-1.1mdk perl-Mysql-1.22_15-3mdk MySQL-3.23.31-1.1mdk MySQL-bench-3.23.31-1.1mdk [john@homer john]$ rpm -ql MySQL /etc/logrotate.d /etc/logrotate.d/mysql /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d/init.d

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread John Wolford
That's true, Mark. And you know, i'm much less of a Windows basher than i used to be, especially with 2000, but still i just don't want to have to move from one computer to the other. Plus, i would just like to know how to do it with my Linux box (i like being able to say to my Windows buddies

Re: [expert] libqt2-devel

2001-03-04 Thread John Wolford
You can always TRY installing libqt2-devel with --nodeps, and hope it works. j --- Lars Roland Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to install kde21 from unsupportet and all seems to be going fine (i diden have kde before) until i have to installe kdelibs-devel ... it

Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Qcad worked fine before but now segfaults. I was using glibc2.1.3, qt2-2.2.3, XFree86-4.0.1. Now I have glibc2.2.2, qt-2.2.4, and XFree86-4.0.2-7mdk. There is also the glibc2.1 compat libs installed. Qcad build just fine, without complaint, but trying to run it...sometimes I will get the

Re: [expert] Logrotate question

2001-03-04 Thread jarmo
On Sunday 04 March 2001 15:04, you wrote: jarmo wrote: Hi I have now lost my red line how logrotate should work. Have one comp. running there vers.7.1 of mandrake. Have updated latest logrotate version from 7.1 updates. Um, can you tell me the name of the package that you used to

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Weaver
John Wolford wrote: That's true, Mark. And you know, i'm much less of a Windows basher than i used to be, especially with 2000, but still i just don't want to have to move from one computer to the other. Plus, i would just like to know how to do it with my Linux box (i like being able to

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Michael O'Henly
Update-menus normally takes only a minute or so to run. What you want to do is hit Enter after it _appears_ to hang. I don't know why this is (sigh...) M. On Sunday 04 March 2001 07:50, Collins Richey wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2001 06:09, you wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2001 09:19 pm,

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Vic
Another reason I love linux, I can have my point and click environment, and my commandline too. On Sunday 04 March 2001 06:55 am, Mark Weaver wrote: you use gFTP to grab'em from the mirror then put them in their own dir on your hard drive, when they're all done open a terminal window and

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Perhaps I am misunderstanding here but don't you get the information you desire by using nslookup? On Sunday 04 March 2001 09:43, you wrote: That's true, Mark. And you know, i'm much less of a Windows basher than i used to be, especially with 2000, but still i just don't want to have to move

[expert] kernel 2.4.2-4

2001-03-04 Thread Eric MC D.
Have some pbs with kernel 2.4.2-4. On 'make modules', following WARNING occurs: WARNING: 12 of 12 computed checksums did NOT match. There is no pb to load and work with this kernel, but my ISDN connection no longer works. So can't connect to my ISP. Had also a message on boot : hisax:

[expert] L-M KDE2.1 Final - Install Dependency Problem

2001-03-04 Thread George Czerw
In attempting to install what I presume are the L-M KDE2.1 final RPMs (dated 3/2/01), which are posted in any mirror's: "/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde-2.1/" directory. I'm noticing that I'm getting 2 dependency errors: libkdefakes.so.0 is needed by quanta,

RE: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Nima S. Panahi
It could be that you selected too many packages and you are running out of space. I had a similar problem with my old laptop. Quoting Ben Keed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: come to think of it, it was towards the end of the install, and i was prompt a few times because it couldn't install some

[expert] installing off HD or Network

2001-03-04 Thread jeff lang
I've been having the problem with install mandrake 7.2 and the 8.0 Beta. There is a bug in the distros with my VIA Apollo IDE controller. This means i can't install off of the CD-ROM. I've installed many other linux distros on my system including mandrake 7.0, but there must be some problem with

[expert] ssh, ssh1, ssh2 and openssh

2001-03-04 Thread Larry Blodgett
I am trying to set up secure shell access to my 7.2 box. I have installed open ssh with errors during the openssl make. So I gave up on openssh and openssl. I am now in the middle of installing ssh2. The make has not completed but I thought I would ask this question. My Mac client asks

[expert] Backspace problems in Konsole

2001-03-04 Thread learning user
I just installed Mandrake 7.2 with KDE. It offers four terminal programs. In eterm, the backspace and delete keys work correctly (backspace sends a backspace, and delete sends a non- ascii delete). In the gnome terminal, I can set the backspace key correctly with a simple option on the menu.

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-04 Thread Karl Cunningham
Thought I'd post an update... I had already removed a few packages and XWindows wasn't working, so I couldn't start it to remove some of the optional packages from there. So I started with a list from rpm -qa | grep X and proceded to remove things by manually recursing the dependency tree

RE: [expert] installing off HD or Network

2001-03-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jeff lang Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] installing off HD or Network I've been having the problem with install mandrake 7.2 and the 8.0 Beta.

Re: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Ben Keed
well i don't know if that was the problem, i gave the linux partition just over 4Gb the install was just over 2Gb thanks "Nima S. Panahi" wrote: It could be that you selected too many packages and you are running out of space. I had a similar problem with my old laptop. Quoting Ben Keed

Re: [expert] Re-installing grub

2001-03-04 Thread mike ryder
I think it depends on finding /etc/lilo.conf If that exists then lilo will be used - otherwise grub hth mike - Original Message - From: "Bill Barnes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "mdk-expert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 4:23 PM Subject: [expert] Re-installing grub Hi

[expert] CUPS Help

2001-03-04 Thread Theo Brinkman
I'm having a bit of trouble getting my printer set up properly using CUPS. The printer in question is an HP 855c running off the parallel port attached to my server. I've used this same machine as a print server in the past with lpr, and I can currently print FROM the server, but I can't

[expert] NIS Help

2001-03-04 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've got a small home network with the IP addresses assigned by DNS running on the Cisco 675 ADSL router I use for net access. It's getting to be a bit of a hassle to keep updating the /etc/hosts file on all 4 systems, as it seems to occasionally switch the C-level of the IP addressess it

[expert] [Fwd: Acrobat Reader bug?]

2001-03-04 Thread Leopold Palomo
Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi list, I have realize that with the same pdf file, I have different result viewing it in win reader version than a linux reader version. In the linux version when I open the file I have a message saying that ... "unable to extract the embedded font X. Some

[expert] [Fwd: I sent messages but they never come back]

2001-03-04 Thread Leopold Palomo
Leopold Palomo wrote: Hi, I have sent 2 message to the list and they never have been in the list. Are there something wrong? Well, I hope that this would be a little thing. Best regards, Leo -- Leopold Palomo Avellaneda Linux User 152692 Catalonia -- Leopold Palomo Avellaneda

RE: [expert] Backspace problems in Konsole

2001-03-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
uhhh... stty erase backspace used to work for me regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of learning user Sent: 03 March 2001 07:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Backspace problems in Konsole I just installed

RE: [expert] NIS Help

2001-03-04 Thread Daryl Johnson
There's a very good FAQ on this available on the NetBSD site. I'm sorry I can't remember the site address but a search will show it up. regards Daryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theo Brinkman Sent: 04 March 2001 22:57 To:

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Bug Hunter
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, John Wolford wrote: This might be a bit off-topic (well ok it is). If i have the ip address of a host that has been, say, port-scanning me, and i want to find out what "ip block" it belongs to, how do i do that? I don't neccessarily mean class A, B or C. For

Re: [expert] MP3's are not working

2001-03-04 Thread Stephen Carville
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Vic wrote: - Uh oh dude sounds like somehow the diskwriter plugin got - activated instead of it just playing mp3s it is now converting them - back to a wav fle. That was it! I set the output in preferences to the OSS driver and everything works correctly in xmms. - I think

[expert] ALT-GR in MDK 7.2, XFree86 4.0.1

2001-03-04 Thread Gerry
I have a problem.. The ALT-GR key behaves as the ALT key! So i can't type any alt-gr-only chars, such as @ (got that one by copy/paste).. I had the same problem in XF86 3.3.6, then i could solve it by typing a line with something like "Alt_R = ModeShift" (don't remember the exact line) in the

Re: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Gerry
I installed the 2-cd-version of mdk 7.2 with all options in about 30 mins.. (Pentium III 500, 192 mb ram, 6xDVD drive, 5600rpm 20gb hd..) (tower, not laptop) I installed windows 98 first on the laptop. Then i tried installing mdk 7.2 on the second partition, with basically all options to see

[expert] Sendmail problem

2001-03-04 Thread Robert Boggs
I cannot get sendmail to configure. I tried runningdrakeconfig in x, and it cannot find it on either of my two cd's. I can get the man to sendmail, so it must be on there somewhere. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running Mandrake 72. Thanks in advance Robert Boggs PS if you want to respond

RE: [expert] Ethernet LAN not working

2001-03-04 Thread Bill Barnes
Have been working on this same problem and just solved it. My configuration is a firewall on a 486 using CoyoteLinux, 2 Mandrake 7.2 boxes and a Win95 box. Had not tried the ifconfig command until I read this email and here are the results: eth0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:B 8:75:10

Re: [expert] cd changer

2001-03-04 Thread Stew Benedict
Should - It's a kernel option - enable multiple LUNS. I've got a Nakamichi/Nec here that's worked since my old Slackware days. Stew On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Bruce Endries wrote: Does anyone know whether or not Mandrake will work with SCSI CD-ROM changers, able to mount all the different CDs in

Re: [expert] NIS Help

2001-03-04 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hi Theo, You can look for the NIS tutorials at http://www.mandrakecampus.org and http://www.mandrakeuser.org I followed those tutorials tu set up NIS on my local area network and it is working fine. I hope this helps. Greetings from Mexico.

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Don
On Sunday 04 March 2001 16:24, you wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, John Wolford wrote: This might be a bit off-topic (well ok it is). If i have the ip address of a host that has been, say, port-scanning me, and i want to find out what "ip block" it belongs to, how do i do that? I don't

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
What happens if you run traceroute on that ip address? The next to last hop should be the nameserver or router under which your target resides. On Saturday 03 March 2001 10:47, you wrote: This might be a bit off-topic (well ok it is). If i have the ip address of a host that has been, say,

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 04 March 2001 09:50 am, Collins Richey wrote: run 'rpm --rebuilddb' and 'update-menus -v' Yep, that worked, at least partially. The KDE panel now has the appropriate icons. Two further questions: 1. Where would I RTFM to know that this was needed? 'apropos menus',

Re: [expert] NEC Laptop Problems

2001-03-04 Thread Gerry
I installed the 2-cd-version of mdk 7.2 with all options in about 30 mins.. (..) Eh, that should be 1h, 30 min :) Gerry

Re: [expert] CUPS Help

2001-03-04 Thread William Bouterse
Theo Brinkman wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble getting my printer set up properly using CUPS. The printer in question is an HP 855c running off the parallel port attached to my server. I've used this same machine as a print server in the past with lpr, and I can currently print FROM

RE: [expert] i just don't want to have to move from one computer to the other

2001-03-04 Thread Sean, Sharon Kyle Harbour
Of course, there is always SSH for command line and VNC for X, plus VNC works on Windows too. Just think, all the functionality of Windows Terminal Server running on Linux, and you don't even need a client installed on the desktop computer to access it, just an ordinary Java enabled browser.

RE: [expert] i just don't want to have to move from one computer tothe other

2001-03-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Hey! now there's a thought. I hadn't thought of that option before, but it's true. VNC would work real nicely in this situation. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Sean, Sharon

Re: [expert] installing from an iso...

2001-03-04 Thread Steelhead
ok, I was just hoping I could read the ISO directly... but I will just dump them to a spare drive. thanks. - Original Message - From: Expert User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [expert] installing from an iso... brk wrote:

[expert] installing from an iso...

2001-03-04 Thread brk
I want to do the beta iso for mandrake 8, and am limited here at the house. I have a single cable modem connection here at the house, and no cd burner.I want to dl the iso from windows, copy it to a partition, . I then wish toboot from a mandrake 7.1 cd and run the install from ther. Can

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-04 Thread Stephen Carville
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Karl Cunningham wrote: - There were a few circular dependencies where I used --nodeps. Then went in - and cleaned up the deadwood subdirectories left after the process. - Unfortunately, rpm listed four libraries contained in XFree86-libs as - needed by openssh-askpass, which

Re: [expert] CUPS Help

2001-03-04 Thread Stephen Carville
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Theo Brinkman wrote: - I'm having a bit of trouble getting my printer set up properly using - CUPS. The printer in question is an HP 855c running off the parallel - port attached to my server. I've used this same machine as a print - server in the past with lpr, and I can

Re: [expert] ssh, ssh1, ssh2 and openssh

2001-03-04 Thread Stephen Carville
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Larry Blodgett wrote: - I am trying to set up secure shell access to my 7.2 box. I have - installed open ssh with errors during the openssl make. So I gave up - on openssh and openssl. Openssh comes with 7.2. The binary RPMS are not the latest version but they

Re: [expert] installing from an iso...

2001-03-04 Thread Pedro Del Medico
On Mon Mar 05 2001 02:06, You wrote: ok, I was just hoping I could read the ISO directly... but I will just dump them to a spare drive. As root: # mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/directory/where/you/want then go to that mount point and voil, you will see all files -- Best Regards, Pedro Del