[expert] MultikeyBoard Setting

2003-06-13 Thread Saurav Gohain
Hi i am using mandrake 9.1 and am trying to use two keybaords at a time. I have set my keyboard to US English and Bengali and CtRL +Alt for switching between them. But when i use Gedit, there's no display when i try to type in Bengali. Although, it types well when i select only Bengali. Why

[expert] OT LTSP + Mandrake = MDK on Steroids.

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
Thought this might be of interest to some. How to turn dozens of ancient computers into Modern boxes using LTSP and Mandrake 9.1 James http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/11/204.shtml?tid=23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)
Greetings, I've enabled ACPI support on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 running Mandrake 9.1. It seems to work reasonably well, but I can't figure out how to put the machine into suspend/hibernation. The Klaptop applet says Currently ACPI Suspend/standby is not supported. I'm wondering if this is

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Nisco
Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 09:58, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: The Klaptop applet says Currently ACPI Suspend/standby is not supported. I'm wondering if this is something I can fix, by patching the kernel or otherwise. Anyone who can

[expert] Cpu Frequency Scaling

2003-06-13 Thread Cesare
Hi all, I installed a Bamboo on my Acer Aspire 1300XC Laptop a couple of weeks ago and everything runs more than fine :) I managed to manage battery status enabling acpi appending an instruction to the kernel in lilo.conf (by default is set acpi=off it was enough to set it on). I would like to

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:58, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: Greetings, I've enabled ACPI support on my Toshiba Tecra 9000 running Mandrake 9.1. It seems to work reasonably well, but I can't figure out how to put the machine into

[expert] OT LTSP + Mandrake = Mandrake on Steroids.

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
Thought this might be of interest to some. How to turn dozens of ancient computers into Modern boxes using LTSP and Mandrake 9.1 James http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/11/204.shtml?tid=23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)
So, having acpi and apm active at the same time ... have you actually done this? /POL On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 10:18, Nisco wrote: Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 09:58, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: The Klaptop applet says Currently ACPI

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Blomquist wrote: Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage. Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at the beginning of the disk itself, not at the beginning of a partition...

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 02:12, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: 1) My machine should support it; it works perfectly in Windows, both suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk. This doesn't mean acpi... it could be apm 2) What is the path to

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:54, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Blomquist wrote: Yeah, but cdrom.img is only 1.4Mb in size, hardly enough to do much damage. Think about what is sitting in the first 1.4Mb of the hard drive, starting at the beginning of the

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:56, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 02:12, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: 1) My machine should support it; it works perfectly in Windows, both suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk. This doesn't

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 processors (was Pentium 4)

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 June 2003 06:28 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 03:19 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am seriously looking at an Epox 87RD+ nvidia nforce2 board. It has EXCELLENT specs and an truly excellent price...but now I am

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:12, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:58, Technoslick wrote: I brought up some issues here with a particular S3 video card that refused to work well under Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0. It was rather lengthy and probably best searched through the

Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

2003-06-13 Thread Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:19, kb wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 05:18 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D, so I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working. I'm using 9.0 and had to set it up for it. I

[expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread David Hlik
Hi to all, i wanna use both mandrake and linux mandrake, but i do not know which filesystem is best. Because i am using ntfs, but linux can only read ntfs, and fat32 is too old and primitive. David Hlik e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://boss.pod.cvut.cz

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Crawford
Adrian, Here's a link- Noticed he's now up to rc8. I'm running rc7, and it's really good so far. One thing- I recompiled, and added the supermount patch in, but still can't get it to work. It's probably my own mistake or lack of using the correct procedure. Also, the first time, when I used

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Tango Echo
I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm Unfotunately I kept getting the no socket file error every time I tried to start it. A quick google search showed that typing wineserver

[expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread JM5379
I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server. Thanks in advance for all help, Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Distributed computing package

2003-06-13 Thread Ezequiel Martín Cámara
What about integrating some distributed computing system into Mandrake? There are a couple of open-source systems that generalize over the [EMAIL PROTECTED] setup: http://boinc.ssl.berkeley.edu http://qadpz.sourceforge.net I -and, I guess, many other users- would be happy to give my idle

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:58 am, David Hlik wrote: Hi to all, i wanna use both mandrake and linux mandrake, but i do not know which filesystem is best. Because i am using ntfs, but linux can only read ntfs, and fat32 is too old and primitive. Mandrake can read ntfs, and there are utilies that

[expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)
Greetings, I've attempted to install Acrobat Reader on my 9.1 system, and I get the following error - apparently the installer expects to use a command that isn't available. See below. Can anyone help out? Enter installation directory for Acrobat 5.0.5 [/usr/local/Acrobat5] Installing

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server. Thanks in advance for all help, Joe Joe, I think you can't beat APC for reliability. On this box I have a

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:11 pm, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: Greetings, I've attempted to install Acrobat Reader on my 9.1 system, and I get the following error - apparently the installer expects to use a command that isn't

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)
Strange, There's no Acrobat reader package listed among the packages on the Mandrake CDs. Are you thinking of GhostView? /POL On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:11 pm, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems)

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Nisco
Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 11:14, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) ha scritto: So, having acpi and apm active at the same time ... have you actually done this? /POL Not yet, as soon as I manage to do it I will inform the mailing list :) Cesare

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:23, James Sparenberg wrote: Let me see if I can ping some of my FreeBSD friends and see if this means anything to them. One question are the sshd_config files the same? According to 'diff' the config files are identical (scratching head) One more

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:39 pm, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: Strange, There's no Acrobat reader package listed among the packages on the Mandrake CDs. Are you thinking of GhostView? Ah - I have the Power Pack, so it could be on the

RE: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-13 Thread Tango Echo
I tried logging in as root (vs su -) but still getting the same Bad Signature error. Thing is, if there was no sig, wouldn't it say instead of just saying bad sig ??? What should I do? Must I ignore it now? Seems strange that they would have that error come up if it was normal

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:43, Rolf Pedersen wrote: [..] On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 04:59, Tango Echo wrote: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the error after following your instructions... The gnu pg seemed to install fine. I'm also running mdk 9.1 BTW.

Re: [expert] OT LTSP + Mandrake = Mandrake on Steroids.

2003-06-13 Thread Dave Sherman
James Sparenberg wrote: Thought this might be of interest to some. How to turn dozens of ancient computers into Modern boxes using LTSP and Mandrake 9.1 James http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/11/204.shtml?tid=23 Thanks, James. Not much technical info here, but it brought a smile to my

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Eugene Zesch
Just install the ed editor. I havent upgraded to 9.1 yet but its in 9.0 and probably is in 9.1. Its been on the disks for years, but isnt installed by default. Gene On Friday 13 June 2003 07:11, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote:

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server. Reliable and inexpensive are somewhat relative.. ;-) I use the APC Back-UPS pro series here with apcupsd and

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 13 Jun 2003 09:18:03 -0400 Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really need to evaluate the power requirements of the box, how much battery run time you need, etc... Also be aware of any need for a line conditioner which will maintain the current voltage at a constant level. Not all

Re: [expert] ACPI support in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:46, Nisco wrote: Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 11:14, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) ha scritto: So, having acpi and apm active at the same time ... have you actually done this? /POL Not yet, as soon as I manage to

RE: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-13 Thread Jack Coates
gpg --list-keys if they keys are in the keyring, then the package isn't signed. On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Tango Echo wrote: I tried logging in as root (vs su -) but still getting the same Bad Signature error. Thing is, if there was no sig, wouldn't it say instead of just saying bad sig

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Rob Lindsay
Thanks for the refs to the URLs, Joham. I have nearly got Photoshop 5.5 working - I think! - using the latest SourceForge Wine MDK RPM. Once I'm successful with that I would like to get InDesign 1.5 sorted - the list of working applications suggests that INDD 2.0 does work. There was a great

[expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an 80 gig HD. and usually...some kind of damage is done. This

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 11:49 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: Thanks for the refs to the URLs, Joham. I have nearly got Photoshop 5.5 working - I think! - using the latest SourceForge Wine MDK RPM. Once I'm successful with that I would like to get InDesign

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 06:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm Unfotunately I kept getting the no

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 06:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm Unfotunately I kept getting the no

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread Philip Webb
030612 Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) i make it a strict rule before any command of the form 'rm -rf

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
You're probably running an old version of winex. MDK 9.1 uses NTPL (a new and improved threading system) that older wine systems can't handle. The symptoms your seeing (especially the lockups) are common when you are running an old wine with a newer distribution. If you have a subscription to

RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
Partition tables are very small things. :) -Original Message- From: Rob Blomquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root? On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry

Re: [expert] Cpu Frequency Scaling

2003-06-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 13 Juny 2003 10:13, en Cesare va escriure: I would like to enable cpu frequency scaling,to sabe batteries and to lower cpu temperature, which should be already compiled in the standard 2.4.21-0.13mdk kernel shipped with bamboo. In

Re: [expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...

2003-06-13 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Jun 13, 2003 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Mark Watts wrote: Thats the output from a Dual HT capable 2.4Ghz Xeon. HT isnt running though for other reasons. This is the same system running 2.4.21-rc6-ac2 (again, HT isnt working so these are physical processors): [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread Steven Broos
I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary. I'm thinking about purchasing VMware. It's no freeware, but I know it's worth the money *wink* I can access the files on ext3 through samba file sharing. It looks like you're working on 2 different computers (with the same

Re: [expert] lilo ?? install 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Steven Broos
I think the MBR can't be of any trouble, because it is completely overwritten by the bootloader (as far as I know) It's only a small space, where a link to the rest of the booting files resides. Is it really possible to manipulate the MBR so that it can cause troubles with other OS' ? I know some

Re: [expert] Cpu Frequency Scaling

2003-06-13 Thread Nisco
Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 17:15, Joan Tur ha scritto: /proc/cpufreq What does cat /proc/acpi/processor/performance show? ]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance not supported and ]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info processor id:0 acpi id: 1 bus

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote: 030612 Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... it wasn't fun to recover...the box was in a different country :) i make it

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:23, James Sparenberg wrote: Let me see if I can ping some of my FreeBSD friends and see if this means anything to them. One question are the sshd_config files the same? According to 'diff' the config files

Re: [expert] Cpu Frequency Scaling

2003-06-13 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 13 Juny 2003 18:46, en Nisco va escriure: Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 17:15, Joan Tur ha scritto: /proc/cpufreq What does cat /proc/acpi/processor/performance show? ]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance not supported and

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:39, Steven Broos wrote: I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary. I'm thinking about purchasing VMware. It's no freeware, but I know it's worth the money *wink* Note here. If you don't need a winders product newer than ME (Munged Edition)

Re: [expert] 2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1 - IRQ Balancing still not fixed...

2003-06-13 Thread Guillaume Marcais
So, does anyone know why it si balanced sometimes and not other times? Does it depend on the overall load of the machine? On the hardware? On the astrological ascendent of the sys admin? Guillaume. On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:26, Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Jun 13, 2003 at 09:46:51AM +0100, Mark

Re: [expert] Cpu Frequency Scaling

2003-06-13 Thread Jack Coates
Hopefully you've already done this, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ lsmod | grep processor processor 10904 0 [thermal] On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:46, Nisco wrote: Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 17:15, Joan Tur ha scritto: /proc/cpufreq What does cat

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:49, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:39 pm, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Web Services - Nordic/Baltic - Sun Microsystems) wrote: Strange, There's no Acrobat reader package listed among the packages on the Mandrake CDs. Are you thinking of

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 06:18, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server. Reliable and inexpensive are somewhat relative.. ;-)

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:05, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:23, James Sparenberg wrote: Let me see if I can ping some of my FreeBSD friends and see if this means anything to them. One question are the sshd_config files

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Steve Cox - dig
On Friday, 13 June 2003 19:31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 06:18, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and relatively inexpensive UPSs for a single Linux server.

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 10:40, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:05, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:23, James Sparenberg wrote: Let me see if I can ping some of my FreeBSD friends and see if this means

[expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have inched up my clock freq now to 133MHz so that my Athlon XP2700+ is up to XP2100+ speed. To do this I had to remove my soundcard, otherwise the system wouldn't even post to bios. To refresh: I have an MSI KT333 Ultra and recently upgraded

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:16, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:31, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 06:18, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 09:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for recommendations to present to management for reliable and

[expert] EXCELLENT Linux laptop resource

2003-06-13 Thread Jonathan I. Nori
Hi all! I stumbled across this today while searching for some information on my ancient Gateway Handbook 486 laptop. Given the number of posts on the list about installing Linux on various laptops, I figured this page would be of use to some people: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Have fun! Jon

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 01:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have inched up my clock freq now to 133MHz so that my Athlon XP2700+ is up to XP2100+ speed. To do this I had to remove my soundcard, otherwise the system wouldn't even post to bios. To

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Sparenberg wrote: Is there anyone here capable of writing up how they got apcupsd working (hookups as in wiring/ configs etc.) so we could add this to the twiki? I know I for one had lousy luck (but that may be because this box is running

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Tango Echo
Yeah, fortunately I was able to break out of both lock ups with a CTRL+ALT F1, login as root, and kill all wine processes... You mentioned that Battle net has been a problem for a while, and I also recall talk about Broodwars being a pain. Well, I was doing both, so I guess this behavior was

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Tango Echo
Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not aware. However, I when I did a compile of the CVS it was the most recent. That is unless that link told me to download from a directory other then the most recent release... Im really considering subscribing to Transgaming for at least the 3 mo period

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: Hi, P-O. Did you use the version on the Mandrake disks? It installed on mine without any problems. If you used a different one, I suggest that you try the included version. Two of our MDK 9.1 boxes have Acrobat 5.05

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:00, Tango Echo wrote: Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not aware. However, I when I did a compile of the CVS it was the most recent. That is unless that link told me to download from a directory other then the most recent release... Im really considering

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 6:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:39, Steven Broos wrote: I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary. I'm thinking about purchasing VMware. It's no freeware, but I know it's worth the money *wink* Note here. If you don't

Re: [expert] Acrobat Reader installation fails

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 6:23 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:49, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:39 pm, Per-Olof Litby (Reg'l Mgr - Java Ah - I have the Power Pack, so it could be on the Commercial disk - but it seems unlikely, as Reader is normally free.

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 02:00 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not aware. However, I when I did a compile of the CVS it was the most recent. That is unless that link told me to download from a directory other then the

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread JM5379
thanks all who responded. between 2 mailing lists, there were 7 votes for APC, 1 for Tripp-Lite... if anyone's interested. joe --- Original Message --- From: KevinO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] UPSs -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Jack Coates
w00t!! My daughter's been pining for Reader Rabbit ever since I smacked down Win2K on the kiddy box. My son is addicted to Rocks'n'Diamonds though :-) On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:08, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:00, Tango Echo wrote: Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not

Re: [expert] EXCELLENT Linux laptop resource

2003-06-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 7:35 pm, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: Hi all! I stumbled across this today while searching for some information on my ancient Gateway Handbook 486 laptop. Given the number of posts on the list about installing Linux on various laptops, I figured this page would be of use to

[expert] Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is now official that kernel 2.4.21 is out in the wild in final form. Is there a mandrake src rpm (ie, kernel-source) that is essentially the final released version of 2.4.21 with usual Mandrake mods? Perhaps in cooker? I just want to know if

[expert] kernel error

2003-06-13 Thread Stephlub
I just rebuild kernel and when I run lilo it says skipping what 's the matter? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lilo ?? install 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread richard bown
Its all very well Steven but., I 've installed many times all the way from Redhat 4.5 upwards, the first version of Mandrake was 7.0 then onward to MDK9.1. Not only on my machines,also on other peoples to get them started on Linux, and on numerous HD's with all sorts of variations of windows and

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-13 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3572 days James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 07:29, Philip Webb wrote: 030612 Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3569 days DAVID JOHAM wrote: rm -rf /path/to/some/dir /* Yup...that's a space between the last dir and the last slash... it wasn't fun to

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Piero Piutti
On Friday 13 June 2003 21:18, Jack Coates wrote: If it makes you feel better I installed the Transgaming WineX the other day (Reader Rabbit for my son if you must know) and it went in/on without a hitch. They just recently introduced the fix for 9.1 and RH 9 excuse me, but, what version

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-13 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
There seems to be one on the cooker servers: kernel-source-2.4.21-1mdk.i586.rpm Also the boot kernel and compiled one. Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:33 PM Subject:

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 01:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dark, Sounds like somehow slocate didn't install right. Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages or possibly but less likely /var/log/kernel/errors left behind. Also what is in /var/lib/slocate? you may need to remove

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-13 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
BTW, I use openmosix kernel, which is based in linus kernel, with some boxes. Now I got a new computer, kernel in MDK 9.1 works pretty fine with via KT400 chipset, however, openmosix does not work at all. Is MDK 9.1 linux kernel patched for this chipset? And will linus 2.4.21 be? How may check

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Crawford
Praedor, Glad you got the FSB up to 133- have you got the multiplier setting maxed out? I assume it's set at about 133x13? If you have good cpu cooling, you might try upping the cpu voltage a hair and see if you can get closer 2600+ rating. That might be a limiting factor. I've never been

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 04:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: slocate.db.tmp, size 1.6mb. I renamed it, will run the command again. Wish me luck! :-) Well, (hate replying to myself - sound psycho) but... Ran updatedb as root (single user mode), and it recreated that file, made it as far as 1.8 megs

Re: [expert] kernel error

2003-06-13 Thread Robert Crawford
Sounds like you forgot to save lilo.conf after you edited it- that's what happened to me one time, and I got that message. Just go back, and save /etc/lilo.conf, then rerun lilo as root. Robert Crawford On Friday 13 June 2003 15:34, Stephlub wrote: I just rebuild kernel and when I run lilo it

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there but no sound

2003-06-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 03:11 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Praedor, Glad you got the FSB up to 133- have you got the multiplier setting maxed out? I assume it's set at about 133x13? If you have good cpu cooling, you might try upping the cpu voltage a

Re: [expert] filesystem for Linux and Windows XP

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 6:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:39, Steven Broos wrote: I barely use windows any more, but in some cases it's necessary. I'm thinking about purchasing VMware. It's no freeware, but I know

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 01:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Dark, Sounds like somehow slocate didn't install right. Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages or possibly but less likely /var/log/kernel/errors left behind.

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:32, James Sparenberg wrote: question here. Is there anyone here capable of writing up how they got apcupsd working (hookups as in wiring/ configs etc.) so we could add this to the twiki? I know I for one had lousy luck (but that may be because this box is

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:27, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 10:40, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:05, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:23, James Sparenberg wrote: Let me see if I can

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:17, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 04:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: slocate.db.tmp, size 1.6mb. I renamed it, will run the command again. Wish me luck! :-) Well, (hate replying to myself - sound psycho) but... Ran updatedb as root (single user

RE: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:08, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:00, Tango Echo wrote: Very Interisting about the NTPL - I was not aware. However, I when I did a compile of the CVS it was the most recent. That is unless that link told me to download from a directory other

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 12:59, Piero Piutti wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 21:18, Jack Coates wrote: If it makes you feel better I installed the Transgaming WineX the other day (Reader Rabbit for my son if you must know) and it went in/on without a hitch. They just recently introduced

Re: [expert] Was Problems after bios upgrade ... almost there butno sound

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:21, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 03:11 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Praedor, Glad you got the FSB up to 133- have you got the multiplier setting maxed out? I assume it's set at about 133x13? If you

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Piero Piutti
On Friday 13 June 2003 22:41, James Sparenberg wrote: Subscription version... Ah! The wrong answer... :-) Do you know if the cvs works fine as well? -- Piero Piutti Powered by Kmail 1.5.2 - KDE 3.1.2 - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] lufsmount

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:37, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:27, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 10:40, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:05, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 13:35, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:32, James Sparenberg wrote: question here. Is there anyone here capable of writing up how they got apcupsd working (hookups as in wiring/ configs etc.) so we could add this to the twiki? I know I for one

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