Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-07-02 Thread Todd Lyons
James wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:32:44PM + : I've now got another box doing the same thing but not as often. It too has an intel all in one Mobo. What kind I'm not sure as this box is an service apmd stop chkconfig apmd off Install another fan (ie keep the CPU/HD cooler than

Re: [expert] NFS Permissions on Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-02 Thread Todd Lyons
Kayne McGladrey wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:54:32PM -0700 : Hi, Here's that output. I appreciate the continuing help. np Back to basics. What is in /var/lib/nfs/xtab? Is it what you expected? If you run 'exportfs -r' does it stay the same? I don't expect this to solve the problem,

Re: [expert] Bug.... maybe maybe not.

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:41:36 -0700 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority James wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:32:44PM + : I've now got another box doing the same thing but not as often. It too has an intel all in one Mobo. What kind I'm not sure as this box

Re: [expert] kdm remote login

2002-07-02 Thread pesarif
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:21, bascule wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 2:14 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:34, bascule wrote: is it possible to run kdm on two machines and have a local X console on one AND login remotely from the other machine and run X? i want to be able to login

Re: [expert] unable to read write enabled floppy disk

2002-07-02 Thread pesarif
Try removing the disk, then as root: umount -f /floppy (if you get any busy messages, get rid of the offending processes) And then everything might be back to normal (quirk with linux) Checking your / filesystem may help as well (e2fsck or reiserfsck or other). Does that work? pesarif On

Re: [expert] kdm remote login

2002-07-02 Thread bascule
thanks for still taking the trouble to help me! i will follow your troubleshooting but very quickly: Xnest is something a friend told me about which meant i could open a konsole in kde on my workstation and type 'Xnest -query :1 servername/ip' or similar and a window would open, this would give

[expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread Scott
Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to covert them over to Linux. I have been using Mandrake for home use, but have never used it in an heavy production environment. I

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread K Montgomery
There was a thread on this very problem a while back. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and search for the subject cannot set gnome as default session. In one of my posts, I described what I thought to be the problem, but I don't remember whether my suspicions were confirmed or denied. I do believe it's

[expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread Darren King
I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am Die, 2002-07-02 um 16.44 schrieb Darren King: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Fire up as many applications as you could possible use at the same time (mozilla, Star Office, etc.) and see what happens with RAM and SWAP Jan

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-02 Thread kwan
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia drivers. Yes -- acceleration works perfectly and gears is a blur. :) Framebuffer is not well supported by NVidia or their drivers. All I see on booting framebuffer with an NForce chipset

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread Jim Tarvid
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:01 am, you wrote: Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to covert them over to Linux. I have been using Mandrake for home use, but have never

[expert] A little network help?

2002-07-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a setup question in getting a home network going. I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - whichever I can get working first stays. I also have a laptop with a wlan card. What I

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Darren Darren, with 1/2 GB of RAM, unless you're doing real heavy graphics or audio processing, then you shouldn't need to do anything with your swap

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread Richie de Almeida
On July 2, 2002 10:44 am, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Darren I'm using 512Mb with 256Mb swap at the moment and precisely zero of my swap is being used at the moment and this is the typical state of

[expert] ipop3d Connection Refused

2002-07-02 Thread Ryan
Every once in a while there comes the time for me to vainly try and get this working again in the hopes that there will be fresh blood that will think of the test no one thought of before. So here goes. The problem is this: I am trying to run a pop3 daemon so I can send and receive my email

Re: [expert] A little network help?

2002-07-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have a setup question in getting a home network going. I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - whichever I can get working first stays.

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread kwan
On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. This is one of those questions that if you asked five people, you'd get five (or more) answers. I know that some versions of the kernel could have major

Re: [expert] How to request packages?

2002-07-02 Thread Jason Bowman
If you have to build from source (or just want to) use checkinstall and get all the advantages of an rpm's install/uninstall/file tracking! aka: tar xvzf something.tar.gz make make test su root checkinstall make install It works for almost all programs, bind from sources is one of the few

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-02 Thread Clayton Knight
I had a friend who was having problems such as this, i.e. somewhat random lockups of the system. What he found out was that he had an older Western Digital drive on the IDE bus that he originally was using for swap and later wasn't even using the drive. As long as the drive was on the IDE bus

Re: linux subsystems testing WAS: Re: [expert] is 'nopentium' same as'mem=nopentium'?

2002-07-02 Thread bascule
i have a brand new seagate drive and an older quantum scsi and now that i've posted a few times on this the box hasn't hung for 36 hours, though saying that is probably the kiss of death - determinism, what's that? - cheers bascule On Tuesday 02 July 2002 7:31 pm, you wrote: I had a friend

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:01:41 -0400 Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to covert them over to Linux. I have been

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia drivers. Yes -- acceleration works perfectly and gears is a blur. :) Framebuffer is not well

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, daRcmaTTeR wrote: don't ya think thats a bit ridiculous though when you stop to think about just how stinkin big that swap space is gonna be? unless this machine is going to be doing heavy graphics or audio processing it's never even oging to use the swap space. it'll

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:06:54 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. Darren Darren, with 1/2 GB of RAM, unless

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:45:29 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB.

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust the swap? I have 256MB. This is one of those questions that if you asked five people, you'd get five (or more) answers. I know

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread Bill Randle
I'm using Mandrake in an ISP as one of the main servers and as one of the backup servers. One is running 8.1, the other is just being configured now, and is loaded with 8.2. One of the reasons I like Mandrake, is that Apache comes pre-configured for servers with all the modules I need (Perl,

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread et
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:02 am, you wrote: On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:01:41 -0400 Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread et
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:29 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:02 am, you wrote: On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 10:01:41 -0400 Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP

[expert] talk, ytalk don't work

2002-07-02 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This has to be something simple: 1. I installed the talk client, ytalk, and the talk server on my LM 8.1 system, using the RPMs on CD #1. 2. I set talkd to start at boot time (under xinetd) 3. The xinetd.d/talk entry looks like this: disable =

[expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread James
All, In my continuing effort to solve other problems on my box I found something interesting. for the first time the box had started to slow down. Dramatically. So I checked the term window running top and sure enough a program that I had running in a tty window was now using 98% of my

Re: [expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, James wrote: All, In my continuing effort to solve other problems on my box I found something interesting. for the first time the box had started to slow down. Dramatically. So I checked the term window running top and sure enough a program that I had running

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Scott wrote: Has anyone heard of or using Mandrake in an ISP environment? I have taken over operations for an ISP and the servers in place are running FreeBSD and I want to covert them over to Linux. I have been using Mandrake for home use, but have never used it in

Re: [expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:38:58 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, James wrote: All, In my continuing effort to solve other problems on my box I found something interesting. for the first time the box had started to slow down.

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:07, K Montgomery wrote: There was a thread on this very problem a while back. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and search for the subject cannot set gnome as default session. In one of my posts, I described what I thought to be the problem, but I don't remember whether my

[expert] Diskdrake has a mind of it's own?

2002-07-02 Thread Richie de Almeida
OK, what sort of voodoo must I do to get DiskDrake to make two new ReiserFS partitions? I have tried three times now, each time I set the partition sizes and select ReiserFS as the type, DiskDrake tells me to reset the computer-- being an ex-Windows user, I don't blink twice at this...! The

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
James wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia drivers. Yes -- acceleration works perfectly and gears is a blur. :) Framebuffer is not

Re: [expert] GDM doesn't remember default/last desktop

2002-07-02 Thread J. Craig Woods
Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 09:07, K Montgomery wrote: (Just read my posts for clarity on that. Try at your own risk. :D) - Kathy I went to the archives and followed what you did, Kathy. GDM defaults to Gnome now :-) Thanks! -- Dave Sherman Kathy you are the

Re: [expert] A little network help?

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
Praedor Tempus wrote: I have a setup question in getting a home network going. I have a desktop system which connects to the net by dialup (at the moment). I have a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor for a pcmcia wlan card and a USB wlan - whichever I can get working first stays. I also have a laptop with

Re: [expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
James wrote: All, In my continuing effort to solve other problems on my box I found something interesting. for the first time the box had started to slow down. Dramatically. So I checked the term window running top and sure enough a program that I had running in a tty window was now

Re: [expert] Watching DVDs with Xine?

2002-07-02 Thread Theo Brinkman
Ok. This thread switched over to Ogle. Any help on the Xine front? - Theo Theo Brinkman wrote: Cool. I needed the d5d rpm, but its working now! Thanks. :) One small problem. I get jumpy sound (also sometimes with avi clips). Any tips? The terminal shows a bunch of lines like

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread dfox
No, I wouldn't say it's all that ridiculous. Of course these things are relative: what you do with your machines may not require you to ever It's not ridiculous either, unless you're thinking of emailing it somewhere :). drop into swap. Kernels around 2.4.10 and earlier had serious problems

Re: [expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread dfox
The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or vi? I find that odd. Was it related to the size of the file you were editing? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] RAM increase...swap too?

2002-07-02 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, dfox wrote: No, I wouldn't say it's all that ridiculous. Of course these things are relative: what you do with your machines may not require you to ever It's not ridiculous either, unless you're thinking of emailing it somewhere :). :D drop into swap. Kernels

Re: [expert] Memory Leak?

2002-07-02 Thread James
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:52:35 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) said with temporary authority The program .. VI yep it had been up for about 2 hours and was slowly consuming all my cpu power. Has anyone else noticed this or vi? I find that odd. Was it related to the size of the