[expert] Fonts in KDE 3.1 (MDK 9.1)

2003-04-04 Thread maxxik
Hi ppl ! Another one trouble : I installed TTF fonts from windows in my system and discovered that thing : when i try to connect remotely to my X, logged in and try to select Microsoft Sans Serif font in Control Center (LokkAndFeel, Fonts), i see that all

[expert] System freeze, blinking keyboard LEDs

2003-04-04 Thread Pietro Piutti
Yesterday my sytem freezed (again!) while I was performing such a simple task like browsing the contents of a data cd with Konqueror (kde 3.1, mdk 9.1 fresh install). It was upsetting 'cos I had to perform an hardware reset as the machine wasn't responding at all (this is the kind of things

Re: [expert] System freeze, blinking keyboard LEDs

2003-04-04 Thread Jure Repinc
Pietro Piutti wrote: Does this strange behaviour (I mean, the blinking) have any specific reason? Is it some message I have to interpret or what? If I'm not wrong it means a kernel panic. I always get this with Mandrake 9.1 when I boot my computer in framebuffer mode. If I boot it in NonFB mode

Re: [expert] System freeze, blinking keyboard LEDs

2003-04-04 Thread Oscar Santacreu
El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2003 11:36, Pietro Piutti escribió: Yesterday my sytem freezed (again!) while I was performing such a simple task like browsing the contents of a data cd with Konqueror (kde 3.1, mdk 9.1 fresh install). It was upsetting 'cos I had to perform an hardware reset as the

Re: [expert] Fonts in KDE 3.1 (MDK 9.1)

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 00:44, maxxik wrote: Hi ppl ! Another one trouble : I installed TTF fonts from windows in my system and discovered that thing : when i try to connect remotely to my X, logged in and try to select Microsoft Sans Serif font in Control Center

Re[2]: [expert] Fonts in KDE 3.1 (MDK 9.1)

2003-04-04 Thread maxxik
server (Like Evolution) ... how i can repair this ? in MDK 9.0 everythind was ok JS I've had good luck with Verdana so how i can play with MS sans serif ? ^) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] HP LaserJet - help needed

2003-04-04 Thread Oscar Santacreu
El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2003 06:49, Mark Weaver escribió: Hi list, this evening I bought a new HP LaserJet 1000 and I'm having a bit of trouble getting it working. it connects via USB. Any suggestions? thanks Hi, I bought a HP LaserJet 1000 last christmas, and now it is working ok here.

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:07 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Just curios... can you tell the difference between the AA compiled in and the AA not compiled in fonts? I can't. I can't. Tex says he can. Those with a sensitive eye for this stuff will probably notice, but most people will

Re: [expert] HP LaserJet - help needed

2003-04-04 Thread Oscar Santacreu
El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2003 13:35, Mark Weaver escribió: Oscar Santacreu wrote: El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2003 06:49, Mark Weaver escribió: Hi list, this evening I bought a new HP LaserJet 1000 and I'm having a bit of trouble getting it working. it connects via USB. Any suggestions?

[expert] fbtv under non-fb console

2003-04-04 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List! I use GDM, and when booting in fb mode, changing user via GDM make my console (ctrl+alt+Fx) lost. It looks like that my GDM is restarting X. Anyway. I just use fb mode to watch, sometimes, tv on console. Is there a way of booting in non-fb mode and have the option to

[expert] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 03 Abril 2003 23:07, en Kwan Lowe va escriure: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:35, Joan Tur wrote: Well there's something that's going to happen: the memory the kernel uses is lower if you compile it with only the options you're going to need.

[expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on Chrystmas (Fuji Finepix S02 Zoom), I have taken lots of pictures of landscapes, minerals, plant communities and plants (the macro function is runing like a charm). With Mandrake 9.1 a harddrive icon appears on my kde desktop as soon as I

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Fonts in KDE 3.1 (MDK 9.1)

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 02:09, maxxik wrote: server (Like Evolution) ... how i can repair this ? in MDK 9.0 everythind was ok JS I've had good luck with Verdana so how i can play with MS sans serif ? ^) one thing I didn't catch the first time... Evolution is a

Re: [expert] vmware 2.0.4-1142 on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 23:12, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:13, Jack Coates wrote: getting some video corruption in Visio 2000 on Windows 2000 in the VMWare screen after going full-screen and back, i810 video on Sony Vaio

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 04:10, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:07 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Just curios... can you tell the difference between the AA compiled in and the AA not compiled in fonts? I can't. I can't. Tex says he can. Those with a sensitive eye for

Re: [expert] vmware 2.0.4-1142 on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 6:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:10, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 23:12, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:13, Jack Coates wrote: getting some video corruption in Visio 2000 on Windows 2000 in the VMWare

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Install digikam! Ralph :-) On Friday 04 April 2003 12:58 pm, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on Chrystmas (Fuji Finepix S02 Zoom), I have taken lots of pictures of landscapes, minerals, plant communities and plants (the macro function is runing like a

[expert] USB, from SmartMedia to webcam

2003-04-04 Thread Miark
I have only two USB ports. I like to keep my printer plugged in to one port, and on the other port alternate between a SmartMedia reader and a webcam. Now, if I start the machine with the SmartMedia reader plugged in, and then unplug it and plug in the webcam, Linux knows the webcam is there and

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Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 5:43 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: Francisco Alcaraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04/04/03 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Is good!, but it lakes some kind of data base to easyli find wheres is an specific picture you need. Perhaps an OpenOffice calc could solve the problem, but first of all I am trying to find if there are more complete applications to do that in linux. Thanks so much for the help El Viernes, 4

Re: [expert] xsane

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 10:09 pm, richard bown wrote: Has anyone had any success with running a HP Scanjet 3200C scanner with sane. There is a manual set up from the control center, but sane is not finding it, either evoked directly or from gimp. maybe time to buy another as its not supported

Re: [expert] Say Y to RTC..?

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:09, Damian Gatabria wrote: Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems with it. If i just go straight ahead and type make modules (yes,

Re: [expert] USB problems

2003-04-04 Thread J. Grant
could try the other usb kernel module if you are using uhci etc, try lsmod to see which you are using. See kernel HOWTO and modules config if you are unsure how to procede. Cheers JG on the 04/04/03 21:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I posted this message (similiar) twice to the newbie list and got

Re: [expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 10:50, Norman Carver wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:02 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:40, Norman Carver wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:52, Norman Carver wrote: Thanks, but

Re: [expert] [OT]9.1 pre-order status?!?

2003-04-04 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 04 April 2003 07:08 pm, stefmit wrote: Just checked today my 9.1 pre-order placed on March the 20th, through Mandrakestore, and the status of it is still waiting to be processed, which is level 0. Does anybody know what the status of these orders is? Should I have waited for it to

[expert] re:samba~ thanks :)

2003-04-04 Thread richard bown
Hi all Thanks to those who replied with some useful help. Both machines are now talking to each other now, changing netmask formats had absolutely no effect on the 90.0 subnet. So I now have three NIC 's in the linux machine, with a dedicated link to the windows machine using one of the public

Re: Wine and 9.1 (Re: [expert] crossover plugin?)

2003-04-04 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
On Friday 04 April 2003 09:03 pm, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I just want to make sure that I get this right: It is currently not possible to run wine under 9.1 In particular, the RPM package of Codeweavers Wine available from MandrakeClub is useless?? Thanks /Peter When Crossover

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
There is compupic for linux. I just use KDE's konqueror for pic renaming, and storing. There Speaking of KDE and Konqueror, did anyone else notice some of the new features in 3.1? There's a number of new tools available specifically for image gallery and related applications. FWIW. I haven't

Re: Wine and 9.1 (Re: [expert] crossover plugin?)

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 13:03, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:05:59PM -0500, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Crossover (and wine in general) are currently broken on all distros that use glibc 2.3.x with the native pthreads stuff. I just want to make sure that I

Re: [expert]

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
Troy Arnold Network Specialist gag, not another blatant web spam. Kick it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
But I am starting to have too many pictures and I need to organize them. In= the windows environment is known the ACD-See package to do that, including= Dunno what ACD-See does, as I've never used it. But you might try using the new Konqueror in 9.1 - it's got some features that might be of

[expert] MDK 9.1 it's much slower than 9.0 and xfree freezes everything

2003-04-04 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
[I sent this message some days ago but I did not see it in the ML. I send it again.] I downloaded two days ago the ISOs and yesterday I installed them in the following PC: Mobo PCChips 748lmrt, 128+64+32 ram, chipset sis620 (with onboard audio cmi8738, lan davicom 901a, video sis 620 agp

[expert] xsane

2003-04-04 Thread richard bown
Has anyone had any success with running a HP Scanjet 3200C scanner with sane. There is a manual set up from the control center, but sane is not finding it, either evoked directly or from gimp. maybe time to buy another as its not supported in win2000 . I'm interested in any reports of successful

Re: [expert] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 06:43, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having

[expert] USB problems

2003-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I posted this message (similiar) twice to the newbie list and got zero responses: This is the first time I've ever used USB and its been rock-solid up to a little while ago. I've got a Logittech USB mouse and a Epson C62 USB printer. Both were found and installed flawlessly by 9.0 of

Re: [expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
The most likely culprit is Mailman and Python, and memory is the quickest and easiest fix. I'd run top in a terminal, then sit and watch One thing is supposedly postfix is better at this than sendmail is. There was one time I sent off a (non-spam!) mailing to 200+ addresses, basically at once

Wine and 9.1 (Re: [expert] crossover plugin?)

2003-04-04 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:05:59PM -0500, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Crossover (and wine in general) are currently broken on all distros that use glibc 2.3.x with the native pthreads stuff. I just want to make sure that I get this right: It is currently not possible to run wine under

Re: [expert] USB problems and USB, from SmartMedia to webcam

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
To both you guys I highly recommend opening a console window as root, and tail -f /var/log/messages this will allow the kernel messages to scroll by as you work on this stuff. And you can check out the complaints, sucesses, and disasters of the various pieces of the programs running. Another

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 it's much slower than 9.0 and xfree freezeseverything

2003-04-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:22, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: [I sent this message some days ago but I did not see it in the ML. I send it again.] I downloaded two days ago the ISOs and yesterday I installed them in the following PC: Mobo PCChips 748lmrt, 128+64+32 ram, chipset sis620 (with

[expert] DHCP and /etc/hosts

2003-04-04 Thread stefmit
Mandrake 9.0 (still) - laptop moving all over the place (i.e. IP address obtained via DHCP) - having built some tools (phpMyAdmin, mysqlnavigator, etc.) while connected in one place, with the FQDN (instead of localhost) I am having now problems when trying to use those tools from different

Re: [expert] Unknown processes...

2003-04-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:52, David E. Fox wrote: The most likely culprit is Mailman and Python, and memory is the quickest and easiest fix. I'd run top in a terminal, then sit and watch One thing is supposedly postfix is better at this than sendmail is. There was one time I sent off a

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Joe Braddock
---Original Message--- From: Francisco Alcaraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04/04/03 11:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer I am very glad with the digital camera I bought on Chrystmas (Fuji Finepix S02 Zoom), I have taken lots of

[expert] Say Y to RTC..?

2003-04-04 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems with it. If i just go straight ahead and type make modules (yes, i've done mrproper first) i get a compilation error

[expert] font problems in MDK 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Toshiro
I am experiencing a weird problem: I´ve installed MDK9.1 I use KDE, I´ve configured the fonts (with KDE Control Center) to be of size 8 antialiased, I´ve also configured the gnome applications to use the same font type and size (using gnome-font-properties) and they look OK, but when I log off

RE: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
There is compupic for linux. I just use KDE's konqueror for pic renaming, and storing. There used to be (haven't checked 3.1) to save dir as index.html, thus a web based photo gallery of sorts Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: Francisco

Re: [expert] vmware 2.0.4-1142 on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 23:12, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:13, Jack Coates wrote: getting some video corruption in Visio 2000 on Windows 2000 in the VMWare screen after going full-screen and back, i810 video on Sony Vaio VX88. I probably shouldn't be using such an

[expert] [OT]9.1 pre-order status?!?

2003-04-04 Thread stefmit
Just checked today my 9.1 pre-order placed on March the 20th, through Mandrakestore, and the status of it is still waiting to be processed, which is level 0. Does anybody know what the status of these orders is? Should I have waited for it to show up in my favorite store, instead (like I

Re: [expert] [OT]9.1 pre-order status?!?

2003-04-04 Thread eric huff
If you dig enough, the website says they'll ship when the get them, and to expect to get them the end of april. So maybe it will show as processed when they get the packs in? - Original Message - From: stefmit [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:08 PM

Re: [expert] [OT]9.1 pre-order status?!?

2003-04-04 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eric huff wrote: If you dig enough, the website says they'll ship when the get them, and to expect to get them the end of april. So maybe it will show as processed when they get the packs in? - Original Message - From: stefmit [EMAIL

Re: [expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices

2003-04-04 Thread Norman Carver
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:02 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:40, Norman Carver wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 08:22 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:52, Norman Carver wrote: Thanks, but 9.1 does not work the same as 9.0. In particular, you

[expert] Compiling qmail in LM 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, When I try to compile qmail-1.03 in Mandrake 9.1, I get the following error: ./load auto-str substdio.a error.a str.a substdio.a(substdo.o)(.text+0x47): In function `allwrite': : undefined reference to `errno' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [auto-str] Error 1 I get this

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread et
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:52 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: No I did not try the blackdown java. My experience with blackdown java from that time period was not good -- probably I had too many crashes from the boxed IBM version, which required it (the Mandrake 7.2 version required IBM's own java,

Re: [expert] DHCP and /etc/hosts

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 20:28, stefmit wrote: Mandrake 9.0 (still) - laptop moving all over the place (i.e. IP address obtained via DHCP) - having built some tools (phpMyAdmin, mysqlnavigator, etc.) while connected in one place, with the FQDN (instead of localhost) I am having now problems

Re: [expert] xsane

2003-04-04 Thread richard bown
Thanks Anne I suspected that Epsom would have something, as their printers drivers are well supported. I use a C82 which has a higher definition print quality with Gimp, than can be used from winblows. Richard On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:53, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 10:09 pm,

Re: [expert] Advertisment about a digital pictures organizer

2003-04-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:21, David E. Fox wrote: But I am starting to have too many pictures and I need to organize them. In= the windows environment is known the ACD-See package to do that, including= Dunno what ACD-See does, as I've never used it. But you might try using the new