Re: [expert] 9.1: Icons for Removable Devices

2003-04-03 Thread Marc Berenschot
on desktop. Or make a choice there. Marc. On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 11:51 pm, Norman Carver wrote: Using KDE with 9.1, I have some questions about the new approach for automatically creating desktop icons for removable devices. I

Re: [expert] class hash not available

2003-04-02 Thread Marc Berenschot
authinfo: class hash not available Another way to solve this (depending on the size of your mailserver) is not use hash on these two lines but dbm. Do this by putting FEATURE(`access_db', `dbm -TTMPF /etc/mail/access')dnl in your sendmail.mc (and the same for the authinfo). Marc. Want to buy your

[expert] Is it possible to run a webserver with a stealth port 80??

2002-11-11 Thread Marc
tighten up security, or should I just choose another port number for the 2 services currenly open to the internet? Regards, Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Anonymous ftp server with restricted area how to handle this??

2002-11-10 Thread Marc
that it wants 2.x) Marc - Original Message - From: Salane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Anonymous ftp server with restricted area how to handle this?? do your self a favor check out pure-ftp. It can do anon as well

[expert] Anonymous ftp server with restricted area how to handle this??

2002-11-09 Thread Marc
to create unix users at all but I guess I have to, dont see how else it is possible. Anyone have experience setting up such a server or know where to find good documentation on it. BTW I run WU-FTP with (anonftp installed of as well ofcourse) on Mandrake 9. Marc Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] ISP specific list

2002-09-25 Thread Marc
I guess you can take a peek in the newsgroups of the particular ISP?? - Original Message - From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: [expert] ISP specific list Does anyone know if there is an ISP specific list for

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 and trying to kill init, kernel panic during installation

2002-08-29 Thread Marc
how to "cleanly" install 8.2 with a 2.4 kernel? I am sure there must be some kind of woraround or kernel option at the bootloader to make it work. Any ideas?? Marc

[expert] lost sound on iBook 600

2002-05-27 Thread Marc J. Bruell
Hey Gang, The first time I booted up my iBook with Mandrake 8.2 on it, I got a loud (distorted) opening theme. I opened up the sound server (Config-KDE-sound server). I didn't see any volume there, but I did see a place to tweak the buffer. I increased it, and had to restart the sound server.

Re: [expert] no job control errors during compile src.rpm

2002-02-08 Thread Marc
Do you think an upgrade of RPM and RPM-BUILD would solve the problem as well? Sometimes rpm changes some things, for whatever reason, including incompatibility with certain packages. Regards, marc Brian Schroeder wrote: I have found this by trial and error, so I don't know if my solution

[expert] no job control errors during compile src.rpm

2002-02-07 Thread Marc
. Any one seen this during compiling. BTW I am running MDK 8.1 with gcc-2.96-0.74 regards, marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 is eating memory

2002-01-16 Thread Marc
marc 9 0 5872 4888 3972 D 0.0 1.2 0:30 xmms Eventhough VMware uses 161MB of ram it is still bizar that linux consumes that much RAM? is there a known memory leak somewhere? Greetings Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
anymore lately. Marc On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:31 pm, you wrote: On Monday 17 December 2001 09:54 am, Larry Sword wrote: Tobias Marx wrote: imho mplayer can play wma files, too (besides divx, mpeg, avi and mostly everything you throw at it). you can get rpms for mandrake 8.1 here

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
Marc, are you sayin currnet xine will play .wma and .mov files? Tho I haven't tried it in a few weeks, it wouldn't then. I really only care about .mov's. I've been using wine to play them, sort'a kludgy. Why don you just download quicktime for linux if all you need is .mov http

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
I believe Xmovie also supports quicktime. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-09 Thread Marc
!!! The best way to get help on this list is to be polite and cordial. A member. Original Message: - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:03:01 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my

[expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-08 Thread Marc
What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV In other words. Which video card has the best tv-out support in Linux? Please do not reply with theoretical bullshit, but would like to hear some practical examples. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-08 Thread Marc
Apperently it is very hard for some people on this list to answer a simple question. On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote: --- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV In other words. Which video card has the best tv-out

Re: [expert] offset on system clock

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Well although you don want to. NTP is the answer to all problems regarding time. It works perfect. On Saturday 05 January 2002 08:48 pm, you wrote: I must be missing something obvious, but I'm at my wits end. My hardware clock (in BIOS) is set to local time. When system boots up, it

Re: [expert] Config for ADSL and SNF 7.2

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
servers and your login name and password. I believe this is all you need, since the modem is directly connected to the ethernet card I don think you have to fill in the ip adress of the modem (10.0.0.138 in my case). Marc On Monday 07 January 2002 01:36 pm, you wrote: Hi ! I'm trying to get my

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Unstable?? Are you kidding? My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any prblem at all. So MDK 8.1 is very stable. marc On Monday 07 January 2002 06:59 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor

Re: [expert] I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-07 Thread Marc
Yeah, I bought Matrox. Also was impressed by their website and thought that they had support for Linux. In practice it is only half as good as it seems to be. i.e. My G450 does not have tvout support in Linux. You only can find that out after surfing for hours on the internet, because

Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

2002-01-04 Thread Marc
then is that you can only login on a predefined remote machine and not on a random machine. But as I said. Don know if this is possible because I never tried, and probably never wiil. marc On Friday 04 January 2002 05:48 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, pesarif wrote: Hello again

[expert] gcc-2.96 vs gcc3.x

2002-01-03 Thread Marc
Hi, I am not a developer but reguralarly compile src.rpm packages on my Mandrake 8.1 system. I was wondering what the difference is between gcc-2.96 and gcc 3.0. Is it save to remove gcc-2.96 and install gcc3. Or is it saver to stick with the old gcc-2.96. Marc Want to buy your Pack

[expert] PLEASE HELP! Bad bridge mapping

2001-06-22 Thread Marc Audard
probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f etc... Thanks for any help, Regards, Marc

[expert] PCMCIA not mounted after memory upgrade

2001-06-20 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, Could somebody help me? I upgraded my laptop's memory from 192 MB to 512 MB, and this has the effect that the PCMCIA card is not mounted anymore! cardmgr complains not finding the driver in /proc/devices, which is true. How can I deal with this??? Thanks a lot, Marc

[expert] cardmanager doesn't find PCMCIA

2001-06-19 Thread Marc Audard
, Marc

Re: [expert] temporary lines in Nedit when DRI enabled

2001-05-31 Thread Marc Audard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to update tk and tcl, you can find the updated files in cooker Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Marc Audard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 30, 2001 8:35 am Asunto: [expert] temporary lines in Nedit when

Re: [expert] ping from outside to my laptop

2001-05-31 Thread Marc Audard
reconfigure the firewall. Marc

[newbie] multiple network environment

2001-05-31 Thread Marc Audard
. Could somebody give advices? Thanks, Marc

[expert] Login problem when DRI enabled

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
module binfmt- May 29 22:37:46 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- May 29 22:37:53 localhost gnome-name-server[1224]: starting One can see that the first session is closed after 2 seconds. Actually, where can I get the apparently missing modules? Marc

[expert] temporary lines in Nedit when DRI enabled

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, When DRI is enabled and I use a Nedit window, every time I click (with my touchpad) in the Nedit window, the line is underlined (for a very short time). This behaviour disappears when DRI is disabled. Graphic card: ATI Rage Mobility 128 M3 (8MB), DefaultColorDepth 16. Marc

[expert] Floppy device: mount/umount

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
, and then mount -t vfat /dev/fdo0 /mnt/floppy, the FD is not detected. However, if I remove the noauto keyword in /etc/fstab, it is detected. This is a bit annoying to always change the /etc/fstab file (though I rarely use the FD). However, is there a cleaner way to do? Marc

Re: [expert] Can't create a database with Oracle

2001-04-20 Thread Marc Tremblay
. -- Marc - Original Message - From:Zelck, Guy Sent:April 20, 2001 5:15 AM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: [expert] Can't create a database with Oracle Marc,Its easier to use dbassist cause the scripts they make sometimes containerrors.You did start svrmgrl and connected

Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1

2001-04-18 Thread Marc
Problem is that kdesu is needed by some packages, but kdesu application is already included in kdebase as well. Ans there some other packages that overlap eachother. You should upgrade the packages with the options: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm I worked for me. Althoug it is not the most

[expert] Can't create a database with Oracle

2001-04-18 Thread Marc Tremblay
Hi, I've been trying to get Oracle 8.1.7 working on Mandrake 7.2 for the past few days and I can't seem to get past the problem I'm having. I installed Oracle without creating a database at install time, and everything appeared to work fine. The problem is when I run the database creation script

[expert] problems with compiling kde

2001-04-15 Thread Marc
it said it could not find the important file kde-config. When I check my harddisk I noticed the file was there. It is located in /usr/share/config/kde-config. Can someone explain to me why it cannot find the kde-config file? Regards, Marc

[expert] Apache and Security high level in Mandrake.

2001-04-04 Thread Marc
not load any servers during boot inits?? I am totaly lost here. I am sure there are other people with a server up and running in secure mode out there so can someone explain to me what I do wrong? Thanks Marc

Re: [expert] where to get kernel upgrades for 7.2

2001-03-28 Thread Marc
ce Dave. On 28-Mar-2001 Marc wrote: I do not agree with your statement that kernel loads them all... Most kernels that are in the binary RPM use modules. I tried to make my ownb kernel a few times but it only saved me about 50k or so. It's not worth all the trouble (unless you r

Re: [expert] Can't Login as ROOT!, Can SU to ROOT

2001-03-28 Thread Marc
Did you check your pam configuration (personal authentication modules). Correct version? Is something changed iin the configuration?? - Original Message - From: "David Rankin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Andrew Bartlett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March

Re: [expert] where to get kernel upgrades for 7.2

2001-03-27 Thread Marc
when you need something really special. In 95% of the cases you can just install the kernel rpm and load the system. I don't believe that a custom kernel is really faster then a customized kernel. Marc - Original Message - From: "FreezeR" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [expert] XF86 Mdk 8.0 - OOOPS!

2001-03-19 Thread Marc
The so called autoupdate tool from mandrake is pretty dangerous if you ask me. Some of my updates screwed up as well. I stick with the manual updates. Marc - Original Message - From: "Ron Heron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 7:00

Re: [expert] Linux RAID capabilities

2001-03-19 Thread Marc
or Mandrake it is fairly easy to set it up. Marc - Original Message - From: "Lyric" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Expert Linux Mandrake Mailing List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:31 PM Subject: [expert] Linux RAID capabilities Sirs, I am currently pl

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 Beta???

2001-03-15 Thread Marc
I installed it from scratch. Or I should say, I made the effort. But installation failed over and over again. I downloaded the two ISO images from Mandrake 8 beta1 but with installation of the packages I got several interrupt at instalation stating: "Some important packages could not be

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread Marc
Simple quetion? Where can I download mandrake 8 Beta? And are there different BETA versions? Greetings Palito - Original Message - From: "piritta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:57 PM Subject: [expert] 8Beta Ok i got the beta running for a few

Re: [expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-11 Thread Marc Siegel
Drakfont won't run - when I run it from a terminal, I get [msiegel@static-243 msiegel]$ drakfont Gtk-ERROR **: Unable to load default font. aborting... Aborted What the hell? What is wrong with my fonts? -Marc On Saturday 10 March 2001 07:39 pm, you wrote: Marc Siegel wrote: Hi all

Re: [expert] 8Beta

2001-03-11 Thread Marc
Found the correct link. It should be: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/80beta.php3 Marcus - Original Message - From: "piritta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 8Beta This is the first beta you can get it from all

[expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-10 Thread Marc Siegel
already looked a lot of places like xfs config and whatnot, and I have no clue how to get the rest of the fonts back into Qt. In addition, does anyone know how to use true-type fonts from the windows partition in this setup, or even if this would still be desirable? Thanks for any help, Marc -- Ten

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-03 Thread Marc Siegel
? What program do you use to upgrade? -Marc -- Why would anyone want to be called "Later"?

Re: [expert] urpmi, apt-get

2001-02-28 Thread Marc Siegel
or other auto-dependance-resolution installer up to speed to make this sort of thing easier. Cmon, SOMEONE here must use such a program, instead of manually resolving all dependencies? Thanks -Marc

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-02-27 Thread Marc Siegel
I think this will be a short-lived policy, I think. KDE 2.1 is the sort of important enough component of a system that, unless a Mandrake 7.3 comes out soon, thousands of users will be installing it or switching distros or what-have-you. I imagine a support-KDE-latest-stable policy will emerge

Re: [expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1

2000-12-08 Thread Marc van der Stap, xs4all
- Original Message - From: "palito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1 Mandrake 7.1 is made for i586 and higher only. However you can compile your sources again, and then

Re: [expert] modify the boot.img

2000-11-12 Thread marc
Well, That is not that difficult as it looks like. One can mount one of the images located on the installation cdrom as a loopback filesystem. You do this like this: Create a temporary directory. (I.e. mkdir /mnt/loopback ) copy an installdisk images to your harddisk from the install cdrom

[expert] using a parportide device to install

2000-10-06 Thread Marc Britten
for about 4 years so I can figure it out if you can just give me a few pointers. thanks, marc britten Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.75 plugin

2000-09-02 Thread Marc Handelman
information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- Marc Handelman MSCS, OCDBA, MCSE, MCDBA, SCDBA

Re: [expert] Netscape Corrupting the mailrules file?

2000-08-21 Thread Marc Handelman
Netscape 4.74 appears to contain a bug in the mail filter configuration function. I have experienced this, when an exception is thrown by the calling of the mail filters dialog. The error specifically relates to an invalid parameter in the child process when calling the dialog. The only fix I

Re: [expert] Anti-Virus for Linux

2000-08-04 Thread Marc Handelman
Kikta LCpl Jason M wrote: This may be a stupid question, but are there any anti-virus programs avalible for Linux? I've looked but never found any and never seem to even hear mention of any. Is it necessary? If not, why? Thanks. Jason Jason, Try:

Re: [expert] Oracle Installation

2000-07-28 Thread Marc Handelman
ver with RedHat 6.2 to make this thing work quickly, rather than taking the time to make the Oracle install on Mandrake 7.1 function correctly. Oh well, and so it goes. Marc Handelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using glibc 2.1.3-4mdk and I have also

Re: [expert] Oracle Installation

2000-07-26 Thread Marc Handelman
What version of glibc are you utilizing? The following was gleaned from technet.oracle.com, and I quote: "Note: Use only glibc 2.1for both Oracle 815 SE and Oracle 815 EE.". Have you examined any orther error logs? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Oracle 8.16 enterprise edition

[expert] Upgrade on Software root RAID

2000-06-24 Thread Marc Bourget
it automaticly or even manually. I wold really apreciate some help on this thing since the only other way I have is to reinstall everything from scratch. (We all know this is a bad thing!) -- _ Marc Bourget

[expert] Fwd: help: PCMCIA modem trouble

2000-04-12 Thread marc persuy

[expert] What about upgrades

2000-04-03 Thread meier . marc
Hello, I am currently using Debian/GNU-Linux and may switch to Mandrake. Mandrake seems to be easy to update, but what about upgrades from 7.0 to its successor. Debian provides a very elegant way to do this. Is upgrading Mandrake a easy job or complicated. Marc -- Sent through GMX FreeMail

RE: [expert] A new problem with linux (all of 'em)

1999-11-26 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Yes but Mr Virus would say exactly the same thing to Mr BIOS! -Message d'origine- De: Denis Havlik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] :~ It doesn't label LILO a virus, per se. It labels anything it doesn't :~recognize as a virus. Granted, that's sloppy of them, but there's about a

RE: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

1999-11-26 Thread Marc . MOURIER
I have "upgraded" netscape with the mk6.1 package and now, it segfault every time!!! good luck for me...i only use kfm ;) :it's already zombied... : : netscape (still) works OK. Let's kill it ;- : And further along the same line... shout I KNOW THE GOD DAMN NETSCAPE IS

RE: [expert] Keeping correct time?

1999-11-24 Thread Marc . MOURIER
I have the same problem. i think that it is because my PC is dual boot with Win95 Is yours dual boot too? -Message d'origine- De: Clyde J. Kell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mercredi 24 novembre 1999 09:57 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: [expert] Keeping correct time? Hello

RE: [expert] kfm problems

1999-11-22 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Yes i have that problem too with kde 1.1.1, i guess that switching to kde 1.1.2 could lessen it but i think that kde 2.0 will be the real solution ... -Message d'origine- De: webmedic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 22 novembre 1999 02:08 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: [expert]

RE: [expert] PPP over serial line (without a modem)

1999-11-22 Thread Marc . MOURIER
As X can be exported over IP networks i cannot see wait this shouldn't work... you just have to set up pppd + inet in the notebook and the PC , and configure the adress of the net in both ... The PC should be configured to accept incoming connection of course -Message d'origine- De:

RE: [expert] Switch Hub

1999-11-16 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Hello ! It might just be marketing s..t! I mean, every corp. is trying hard to find out new concepts, but more than often they find new names for old ones! A Hub may be able to switch Layer 2 (ethernet) frames. For that purpose it analyses either the IP destination address (layer 3 say)of the

[expert] Update: Helios TNT2

1999-10-23 Thread Marc Hudson
the nvidia glx module against 3.3.5, and if so could I have a copy. Marc OK, I've got it working now. I got an srpm from http://bismarck-ent.com/~stiletto/ and modified it for TNT hw accel, and I've been running the stock Mandrake XF86_SVGA with the newly compiled glx.so libGL.so.1.0. I've

Re: [expert] TV PCI

1999-10-20 Thread Marc Hudson
STB PCITV card with a Brooktree 878. It also has an FM tuner that I would like to get working after I tackle the TV's sound problem! Thanks again, Marion, and may God bless you! John To get radio to work change: options -k bttv card=3 to: options -k bttv card=3 radio=1 Marc

RE: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine

1999-10-19 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Well, quite frankly, if the T1 is located in front of the firewall (as it should be ;-)) I can't see how this firewall could prevent that T1 from being saturated...The best thing to do would, IMHO, be to act on the source(s) of the ping... -Message d'origine- De: Lee Wilson

Re: [expert] TV PCI

1999-10-19 Thread Marc Hudson
site, I believe it's in the contrib area. modrpobe bttv and start up xawtv, and you should be set to go. Marc

[expert] Helios TNT2

1999-10-16 Thread Marc Hudson
could I have a copy. Marc

RE: [expert] Mandrake as a Server?

1999-10-12 Thread Marc . MOURIER
OK but what's the use of FPU for a server ??? -Message d'origine- De: Mark Holloway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: lundi 11 octobre 2027 16:14 À: Mandrake Expert Objet: [expert] Mandrake as a Server? Ok, this is going to sound lame, but since I was using OpenVMS for a while I'm not

RE: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility

1999-10-11 Thread Marc . MOURIER
I've been told that the price rise has something to do with the earth quake in taiwan a few days ago... -Message d'origine- De: Alex ZIJDENBOS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: samedi 9 octobre 1999 13:55 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] vmware hardware

RE: [expert] 6.1: KMP3 - what happened to X11AMP?

1999-10-06 Thread Marc . MOURIER
So what ? this is still random... but the probability of that to occur is just really weak (just joking... ;) -Message d'origine- De: Vanco, Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mercredi 6 octobre 1999 13:31 À: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet: [expert] 6.1: KMP3 - what happened to

RE: [expert] bugs in 6.1 ?

1999-09-23 Thread Marc . MOURIER
This is true for me too, i always get the message (Power down) but no error afterwards...the fact is that is have suppressed apmd from the init files...quite strange... -Message d'origine- De: Jean-Louis Debert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: jeudi 23 septembre 1999 07:16 À: [EMAIL

[expert] Problem with kdsu

1999-09-23 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Hello! I am (still!) running M6.0. When i select kdsu from the KDE menu, i get a dialog box that tells me to enter the root password...unfortunately, it seems that each character is echoed three (!) times ...the result is that it is never accepted and that i must su through a console... Does

[expert] Error message at boot time

1999-09-17 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Hello there! When I run lilo, i have the following messages "partition check hdb : set multimode : status=0x51 (Drive ready SeekComplete Error) hdb : set multimode : error=0x04 (drive status error) hdb1, hdb2 (the drive is an ST 34321A, 4.6 Gb w/128kb cache, CHS=523/255/62) I must say that these

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Indeed for a private desktop user (mono-user home station if you like) it is a real pin in the A.. to have to make a complete reinstall...I mean, when you have to recompile all the apps you didn't find in the the distro (or that were not working ;)) or make a complete backup of your files and the

RE: [expert] Bug Reports...

1999-09-14 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Quite true! I issued the same remark on the french list and I got the reply that :"Not every body uses KDE after all..." (dixit) Personnaly, i'd rather wait a few days and get the final release of KDE rather get a pre-something Too bad -Message d'origine- De: Ron Stodden

RE: [expert] Boot Managers

1999-09-14 Thread Marc . MOURIER
Hello ! I am presently using OS/2 Boot manager for a PC with Win95 and Linux...it calls either Win$ or Lilo... that one handles Linux afterwards...everything works quite well!!! Happy Boot! -Message d'origine- De: Felipe Almeida [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 14 septembre 1999

RE: [expert] just wondering...

1999-09-13 Thread Marc . MOURIER
programming for Linux... ThanX Marc

[expert] egcs

1999-08-18 Thread Marc Indekeu
hi, does anyone know what the story is about pgcc, I saw that gcc en egcs are reunited. Does this mean that all the pentium opitimizations are support in the new gcc on cooker ? thx

Re: [expert] Emergency exit ??

1999-08-13 Thread Marc Indekeu
always compile a new one. marc

[expert] compiling for pentium

1999-08-12 Thread Marc Indekeu
Hi, can anyone point me to a doc or howto about compiling a tar ball for pentium ? Lets say I want to compile the latest Alan Cox patch 2.2.11-ac3. What do I need to change ? I'd rather not dowload all the new rpm's. thx

Re: [expert] compiling for pentium

1999-08-12 Thread Marc Indekeu
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Marc Indekeu wrote: Hi, can anyone point me to a doc or howto about compiling a tar ball for pentium ? Lets say I want to compile the latest Alan Cox patch 2.2.11-ac3. What do I need to change ? I'd rather not dowload all the new rpm's. thx That's a pretty big question

[expert] unknown host and dns

1999-07-22 Thread Marc Indekeu
hi, when switching to Mandrake 6.0 from RH 6.0 the dns isn't working properly anymore (I think). A nslookup works fine, but a ping, or telnet give's me an unknown host ... I changed in /etc/nsswitch the line with host: dns files I've got still one pc with Rh 6.0 wich does the job the right