Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:01, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 07:46, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even

[expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Sevatio
I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:56 pm, Tom Brinkman had this to contribute :- Could a few of y'all with Lite-On's post the results of 'cdrecord --checkdrive dev=0,0,0' Just the ID/Rev, and the last several lines are relevant. Here is

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors. That in turn means that somebody needs to have actually

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-07 Thread R N dev
once, i had the same problem, i don't know if it is related but after having update the gpg (form mdk update) i haven't got it any more. (i deleted ~/.gnupg directory and re-generated the key) Angelo --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Went to this page.

Re: [expert] kernel bug still not fixed

2003-07-07 Thread thomas
Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 05:53, Glenn Burkhardt kirjoitti: I've built a stock 2.4.21 kernel, and applied the patch SGI XFS snapshot-2.4.21-2003-06-23_01:45_UTC and I can run the debugger. There are still a bunch of drivers to get straight, if I want to use it (which is

[expert] ntp problems

2003-07-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi I have an NTP setup for my home network that has always worked fine. I have a Stratum 3 server on FreeBSD to which all clients in my network sync. Yesterday I discovered that the time on my Mandrake 9.1 was 5 minutes off to the server. yet ntptrace reported my desktop still synchronized

[expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Adams
Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. The oggs record at 44khz. On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 23:25:06 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry no, i use lame

Resolved ! : [expert] fonts in gimp

2003-07-07 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It has been a while since I asked about this but I wanted to pass this along in case it helps or enlightens anyone. I finally got the font (flubber) to work. It is a hack, and I still don't understand why some of the fonts won't work the way Mandrake

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-07 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Adams wrote: Grip as supplied (9.0 + 9.1) does ogg vorbis encoding without any addons. Xmms will play the .oggs happily. They are more environmentally friendly (read better license) than mp3. Ogg's are better but I can't put 100 or so on a

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-07 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Montag, 7. Juli 2003 10:44 schrieb Guy Van Sanden: Has anyone gotten Kazaa lite running on mandrake using wine? Kazaa documents this on their website, but the install failed. I' using the stock version of wine that came with Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Hi ! I hope this will help you:

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread charlie
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all supermounts, others have none apparently when reading this

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Thomas Backlund
Viestissä Maanantai 7. Heinäkuuta 2003 09:27, Sevatio kirjoitti: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio I think you would be interested in this mail posted on the Cooker list: --- cut --- From: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread arocho
For my installation the install software wrote the supermount fstab entries incorrectly. It does not seem to be quite fool proof yet. I have been using it since it was first available in the Mandrake distribution and it has yet to deliver on the promises. Perhaps it is a matter of the three

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 06 Jul 2003 21:38:35 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed. Unfortunately the Mdk

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 11:53 am, arocho wrote: For my installation the install software wrote the supermount fstab entries incorrectly. It does not seem to be quite fool proof yet. I have been using it since it was first available in the Mandrake distribution and it has yet to deliver on the

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 07 July 2003 02:27 am, Sevatio wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. Thanks, Sevatio It works without problems for me on 9.1. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:52 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's not so much the difference between the atapi and scsi drives, it's the data bus. Copying a CD on the fly is a much safer and faster thing using scsi. wobo Agreed. Less

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have no problems with

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Mark
Have installed Mandrake 9.1 on many PCs, and and supermount is excellent in Mandrake 9.1.. 9.0 was a disaster.. Cheers Mark On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:27, Sevatio wrote: I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had.

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount in 9.1 or 9.0 (or others). Supermount causes problems, however, if you wish to use k3b, the kde cdburner app. It is a nice looking app but I cannot get it to work with my system setup with supermount, though I have

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 04:59 am, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 07 Jul 2003 4:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like Lite-On. Few things I need to ask, are the Lite-On's made by Lite-On, or are they rebadged from other manufacturers? Can the firmware be flashed from DOS, and are

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday July 6 2003 11:37 am, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] CDRW OK, thanks Ed, same mode supports as my old drive. I don't want burnfree, but it can be disabled. I'm thinkin this old drive has got to be replaced sooner or later ;) Is yours scsi? It might be

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 02:53 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Remember. The vendor can report the correct write modes all he wants; but there is also the small matter of correct EFM encoding. That means actually testing the drive to see if the drive can reproduce exotic conditions like weak sectors.

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely

2003-07-07 Thread Mark Belanger
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 15:46:09 +0100 Peter Møller Neergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now been running Mandrake 9.1 with the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel for about 3 weeks. At this point it is starting to be annoying that this kernel locks up more often than even Micro$oft Windoze. The lock up

[expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk and -0.13mdkcustom but cannot begin to

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I am one who hasn't had problems, per se, with supermount

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs one time for me...only thing I had on 3 comps that would read'em was my good 'ole Plextor CDRW. :-) --

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread Jack Coates
are you trying to use a frame buffer? vga=normal? On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 July 2003 06:18 am, charlie wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:27 pm, Sevatio had this to contribute :- I'm preparing to install LM9.1. I was just wondering if LM9.1 still has supermount problems like LM9.0 had. It seems to depend who you talk to. I have trouble with all

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
Praedor Tempus wrote: Hmpf. My supermount setup has both my CDROM and CDRW setup as scsi-ide. If I try k3b, it fails to see them. All the other cdburner apps work fine with this. praedor In fstab, my cdrom mount point is setup for supermount, but my cdrecorder mount point is *not* setup for

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 12:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs one time for me...only thing I had on 3 comps that would

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I had thought that allowing k3b to install new lines into fstab, redundant entries for my /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2, would cause problems. I thought that these k3b-added lines needed to be in replacement for the supermount entries. Having semi-redundant lines in fstab with and without

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 07 July 2003 12:38 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, Went to this page. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 following the instructions I created the .rpmmacros file edited it as it outlined. then I did gpg --gen-key filled in the blanks ... generated a key.

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 July 2003 02:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I can't find any 800mb CDr's in the stores ;( Where do y'all get 'em? USEnet's got some 715 to 775 movies. I can use mencoder to reduce their size to fit on 700mb CDr's, but at a loss of a little video quality.

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-07 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Thanks Steffen It didn't work however... I followed the instuctions to the letter, but it keeps complaining about not being able to move exe files... Yet the permissions are correct. It only copies non-exe files??? Guy On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Montag, 7. Juli

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
My lilo entry have vga=788. I don't recall the failsafe entry (whatever default the system makes it as during install). I haven't tried starting throught the no-framebuffer entry as yet. I could try that this evening. Is there a framebuffer issue with the 0.18 kernel? praedor --- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Richard Bown
I'm running supermount with 3 cdroms, two burners , no problems with K3b as long as you tell it to eject after burning. But I must admit there is the occasional time when something crashed that no matter what you try that damn drawer just wont open. Not even starting one of the cd players and

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might be a good idea to investigate the cheap ones like

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Dave Sherman
Praedor Tempus wrote: I had thought that allowing k3b to install new lines into fstab, redundant entries for my /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom2, would cause problems. I thought that these k3b-added lines needed to be in replacement for the supermount entries. Having semi-redundant lines in fstab with

[expert] LM9.1/9.0: Huge number of errors for eth0 RX packets

2003-07-07 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi I am experiencing a lot of errors on RX packets on several boxes running LM9.1 or LM9.0. They are all identical Dell 4100 workstations with the same network cards using the tulip module. note: using kernel from installation, no recompilation. [ 20:42:52 ::root#wallaby ::~ ] ifconfig eth0

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you for the in-depth information. I never fool around with the more esoteric uses so I have remained ignorant and blissful. I started using Yamahas years ago when I got a SCSI one and just stuck with them. I have suffered with some of the

Re: [expert] LM9.1 Supermount - Reliable?

2003-07-07 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:59 pm, Richard Bown wrote: I'm running supermount with 3 cdroms, two burners , no problems with K3b as long as you tell it to eject after burning. But I must admit there is the occasional time when something crashed that no matter what you try that damn drawer just

[expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-07 Thread Pierre Fortin
Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work if connected to the laptop's builtin USB1.1 port. CUPS

[expert] Nokimichi cd changer

2003-07-07 Thread Mike Grello
Hi, I have a Nokimichi MBR-7.4 7 disk cd changer. Mandrake 9.0 knows it exists and recognizes the first two luns. I have mknod'd the remaining luns replicating permsissions and ownership and incrementing major number for each lun (11,00-11,06; 00 and 01 already existing) then linked devfs

[expert] Savage 4 video adapter and Xine

2003-07-07 Thread Mike Grello
My motherboard has an S3 savage4 video adapter and I thought I would save a few bucks and use it. I have 32MB put aside for video memory. The adapter, first of all, won't do 24 bits at 1280x1024 (should require about 8MB), it breaks up, so I have it set for 16 bits (probably no whoop, it's

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 06:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 00:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:52 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It's not so much the difference between the atapi and scsi drives, it's the data bus. Copying a CD on the fly is a much safer and

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezesroutinely

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:59, Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 04:33, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 06 Jul 2003 21:38:35 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the key-gen phase.. and I get

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.21-0.18mdk woes

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 09:54, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have built and installed the 2.4.21-0.18mdk kernel three times now without error. I have also generated the initrd and run lilo with success post build. Thus far it has been impossible to bootup the kernel, however. I can bootup my stock

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-07 Thread Juan Luis Baptiste
Hi, This is a little guide I published on: First of all, mdk's 9.1 wine rpm's ARE BROKEN. Any installer fails to install, with this error: file_set_error: No such file or directory fixme:ntdll:RtlNtStatusToDosError no mapping for 0001869f I had this problem in three different machines,

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the SIIG USB PCMCIA 4-port hub; but the printers will only work

Re: [expert] Savage 4 video adapter and Xine

2003-07-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 18:15, Mike Grello wrote: My motherboard has an S3 savage4 video adapter and I thought I would save a few bucks and use it. I have 32MB put aside for video memory. The adapter, first of all, won't do 24 bits at 1280x1024 (should require about 8MB), it breaks up, so I

[expert] wierd probs with tape drive

2003-07-07 Thread David E Fox
Hey, I am trying to recover files off of a tape - I did a backup last night, and the machine hung at the end of the backup. So I rebooted, and now (with another tape) am trying to bring in some files I had saved previously - these had reading troubles before. I usually so far haven't had issues

Re: [expert] wierd probs with tape drive

2003-07-07 Thread David E Fox
I usually so far haven't had issues with the tape drive, which is an HP Surestore DAT - SCSI using an Adaptec 2910C controller. Bad form I know but it's starting to read the files. Dunno waht happened. I reset the machine, tried 2.4.16 older kernel, couldn't even get into the drive,

Re: [expert] HP printers on USB

2003-07-07 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 16:13, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just a heads up... I have not fully analyzed this; but my HP 5550 (USB2.0) printers will not work if connected to a USB/PCMCIA port. My camera, external HDs, etc, all work off the

Re: [expert] CD Burner

2003-07-07 Thread Joseph Loo
I believe it is/ Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:53, Joseph Loo wrote: I tried looking around for some information on burning CD's. I have a Plextor 12/10/32 scsi on a ultrawide scsi card. When ever I try to burn a cd on the burenr, I can only get reliable burns if the write

Re: [expert] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 22:18, John McQuillen wrote: Hi everyone, I have just moved my Mandrake 9.1 installation to a larger hard drive. I created partitions on the new drive with larger sizes to fill the new drive, then cloned the partitions from the old drive one at a time with Norton