Hi,
I updated XFree86 to 4.1 from cooker, (as well as Mesa,
Glide_V3-DRI-cvs-3mdk, and the SDL), however, I still do not get direct
rendering. When I run dri games I get indirect rendering. Is there something
I missed?
Sheldon.
--
Hi,
I'm writing a program where I need to validate a users password.
Right now I'm using crypt and code like the following:
pentry is a pointer to a passwd struct obtained by using the users
userid.
err is in a int initialized to 0;
userpass is a c string containing the users plaintext
Hi,
I'm looking at getting an ABit KT7A and AMD 1.3 GHz (both 266mhz fsb)
Now, I know that there have been problems with via chipset boards in linux.
However, this is a second revision of the board, and I'm always running the
latest kernel. Can anyone comment on whether these are ok under
Hi,
I have a question regarding the gpasswd and newgrp commands.
I created a new group called test, then set the group administrator
to be my local userid, (call it foo). Then from my foo account I did
gpasswd test and changed the group passwd. Then I added the user
user1 to the group test.
Hi,
I ran into this error while compiling version 2.4.4 of the kernel:
look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same
of the initrd
Then it errors. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do I have to have an
updated mkinitrd package?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
are different and not
compatible.
--
Cheers,
Sheldon Lee-Wen
Hi,
I'm wondering if someone here knows what patches were applied to the
kernel in mandrake 7.0 . rpm -q reports kernel-2.2.14-15mdk I'm owndering b/c
I'm in the middle of trying to debug some bad nfs problems with auspex and
netapps.
--
Cheers,
Sheldon Lee-Wen
Systems Analyst
Design
Hi,
I was wondering that now that apt has RPM support if there are any plans
to incorporate apt and dselect into Mandrake? This, in my estimation would
be the last good reason to switch to debian. The reason I'm asking is that
redhat and mandrake esp. have great install programs with really
On March 9, 2001 11:51 pm, you wrote:
It ain't a hardware thing, and the 3dfx already has a heatsink.
Various 16 bit resolutions and configured and I have Q3 UT SOF
etc. all working fine in runlevel 3.
I recently noticed the same thing, whenever i'd start railroad tycoon
X would crash, this
Hi,
My recommendations for LM, move mandrake update to apt now that
apt has rpm compatability. I'd love to just do something like
apt-get update , or however it works :)
Sheldon.
Hi,
I have some machines that can only operate via
bootp. However, I can't seem to find a current package
for bootp. I did find bootparamd but the man page
is really not that helpful and there seems to be
nothing on linuxdoc. Does anyone know how to go
about this? It's my first foray into
Hi,
I think you should be able to do this:
1. Make the new partition of sufficient size. /dev/hd? whatever,
2. init 1
3. mount /dev/hd? /mnt
4. mv /usr /mnt (I'm not 100% sure this will preserve softlinks)
5. umount /mnt
6. umount /usr
7. mount /dev/hd? /usr
8. edit /etc/fstab to reflect
On January 3, 2001 10:03 pm, you wrote:
Hi guys,
I did a stupid thing. I tried to update the Kernel from 2.2.X to
2.2.16 using the Update manager. Little needs to be said -- it didn't work.
In fact my system won't boot anymore. I get a System Panic can't mount root
fs on 08:05. Anyway
But I can't remember what the file is I just know after modifying it
ages ago, and upgrading to 2.01, it works now.
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
And the section should look like this:
if [ -x $KDEDIR/bin/kdmdesktop ];then
/usr/bin/kdmdesktop
# Commented above line and added next line
On December 9, 2000 02:47 pm, you wrote:
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
You got the 3dfx kernel module driver to work with 4.0.1?
I tried it and it would work, but after I exited from a game X would be
hosed. I got weird screen artifacts.
Hmm. I sounds like the module isn't loaded. Try
On December 5, 2000 05:14 pm, you wrote:
I've have being trying to get my Voodoo 3 working under XFree86-4.0.1
with the Glide drivers.
I compiled and installed Device3Dfx-2.3-5. I then removed the
Glide_V3-DRI packages and installed the Glide_V3-2.60 packages. Now,
when I attemp to run
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom
X server on the website?
Anthony Russello wrote:
I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite
a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV tuner drivers for the
card, but it was
Why are there no kde 2.0.1 packages?
I know there are ones in cooker, but if I'm correct, those are linked against
qt2.2.2, which is linked against glibc-2.2 which alot of stuff depends on and
the update tool isn't exactly as swift as apt (and I don't want to update to
everything in cooker that
Hi,
I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and
headers
configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on
an
smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you
need
to do is get the .config from
Are you using the 3dfx.o kernel module with XFree 4.0.1? or with the custom
X server on the website?
Anthony Russello wrote:
I just recently swapped a Voodoo3 3500TV AGP into my Linux machine (quite
a waste seeing as how there don't seem to be any TV tuner drivers for the
card, but it was
Hi,
I've found in the past that Mandrake has shipped the kernel source and
headers
configured for the uni-processor kernel. Then, when you go to use vmware on
an
smp system you get errors installing it about mismatched headers. What you
need
to do is get the .config from
/usr/share/doc/kernel-2.2.17/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk-i586.config
/usr/share/doc/kernel-smp-2.2.17/kernel-2.2.17-21mdk-i586-smp.config
Alex Yung wrote:
Thanks Andrew. I was under the impression that installing the kernel
source would also include the SPEC file. This is how Debian works.
Hi,
I have a clean, normal installation. I just "upgraded" from
mdk7.0 and I want to play myth2. So I downloaded the kernel
module driver from linux.3dfx.com, compiled, replaced glide
with the glide from the website and installed myth2.
Myth2 runs great. However, the problem is (this may
#2. Since I am using NAMED from BIND, is there any need of having the YPBIND
package installed?
No ypbind is for NIS.
#3. I posted this one last week and got 0 replies.
Probably b/c you are asking too many things at once. You may have better
success if you post each seperate problem
What about kicq-1.0.0 ? I use it and it seems pretty good.
Alexander Skwar wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:31:13AM -0400, Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root wrote:
Does anyone know of a good ICQ client for Linux? I'm running LICQ at
Hmm, LICQ is supposed to be quite good.
Hi,
I'm looking to pick up a CD-R or CD-RW drive soon
and I'm looking for suggestions on a really nice and fast
unit. I know it's best to go for scsi so that's what I'm
looking at. Any suggestions on models from those of you
with scsi burners?
Cheers,
Sheldon
--
I don't think make oldconfig is what this person is after.
From: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
`make oldconfig' will attempt to configure the kernel from an old
configuration file; it will run through the `make config' process
for you. If you haven't ever compiled a kernel
I believe that you can change the security level from drakconf.
--
===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... "
- Buddha
For an awsome fantasy role playing game
Mark Weaver wrote:
Hi List,
Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to
go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use
it, nor where the documentation is for it. The `man' page is really no
help at all. Anyone have any suggestions
Hi,
I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns
ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although
you could modify it to use something else and update a static
one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the
ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you
Here is the conf file.. pretty simple.
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===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom ... "
- Buddha
For an awsome fantasy role playing game checkout:
Hi,
I put together a quick script that will use the dyndns
ddns client to update a dyndns dynamic hostname (although
you could modify it to use something else and update a static
one too.) It does two things. 1st it checks to see if the
ip dns has matches the ip your service provider gave you
Hi,
Just wondering from you mandrake guys in the magic sysrq keys
option was enabled for the stock kernel on LM7.0
Is so is there anything that needs to be done configuration
wise to enable it?
Thanks.
Sheldon.
--
===
"... all
[snip]
Why don't you contribute your stuff about DoD to the
mandrakeuser.org and merge it with the stuff Tom has already
gathered there?
We try to show the MUO as a part of our support system and it
would be great if this site would get more of the excellent
solutions I often see on this
- Emacs and the fb impact performances. Specifically, do we
want to load emacs just to see two windows side by side? what
would the VI guys say?
- we say something like windows who need windows?
gui's are for sissys. ;)
sheldon.
--
Hi,
Being adventurous I upgraded my glibc to 2.1.3 from the
cooker rpms. Anyhow, now that I'm trying to compile I'm
getting the message:
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC
-D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o registry.o registry.c
perl: warning:
Hi,
I'd basically like to see all of the packages updated. There are some
packages that seem never to have gotten updates. I'd like to see all of
the
helix-gnome stuff. I'd like to see some of the linux4kids stuff.
realplayer, java 1.2.2, updated xmms stuff and all the plugins (pretty
much)
Or possibly did you recently add any font's such as true type fonts
during
your last x session?
Civileme wrote:
giancarlo wrote:
Hi
Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I recive the
follow message:
-FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =
Hi,
I've got a question. In the 7.1 beta XFree86 4.0 is included. Does anyone
have the status on:
a) It's stability
b) If it's DRI or not. I 'm guessing not b/c I'm assuming they are using a
2.2.x kernel.
c) How will it work with a voodoo3. I know that there are special drivers
for a voodoo3
4 should work, because 3.0 did. Actually, I don't know if it worked for
PM3.0 did NOT have linux support. It recognized linux partitions for
what
they were but you could not manipulate linux ext2 partitions.
PM4.0 supposedly had linux ext2 support but I'm warning you as one who
has
tried it
Hi,
Just to let you mandrake guys know that you are missing some useful
softlinks that really should be there:
librpmbuild.so.0 - librpmbuild.so
librpm.so.0 - librpm.so
and in /etc/X11R6/lib/
libglut.so - libglut.so.3.7.0*
libMesaGL.so - libGL.so.1.2.0*
libMesaGLU.so -
John Aldrich wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, you wrote:
What I meant is that novice users use the distro too, and they are not
so smart in figuring out,
what is not working correctly...And that is...
MY question is, what the heck would a NOVICE be doing
setting up a server If
Well, now that Adobe owns it, the UI might improve -- they're on version
6, is that what you have installed?
Whatever version there is for linux. I think it's 5.5.6 beta 2.
Anyhow, for some reason yesterday it stopped working. My luck eh.
Sheldon.
"Stephen",
Yes, I have used word for large files
and I've used it since msword version 6.0
I'm the author of an open content FRPG,
http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
it's split into two word docs which combined
total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke
on them. I've had msword for some
Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they
do under an MS API implementation.
I just installed a cvs snapshot of wine (last night) that was
made into a stripped rpm. I must say that while it still isn't
stable it is damn fast. It is at least as fast as running under
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
Hmn... well, you might try Adobe Framemaker (as I mentioned earlier on
the list). Apparently there is now a Linux beta available (and as a note
to others: Framemaker was originally a Unix app, it was ported to
Windows) and it already runs in Solaris.
It's
Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
It might have been a virus but there is a much more direct
reason:
During editing a Word doc Word doesn't erase parts you erase and
replaces them with the new text. It just adds the new text and
hides the old. If you look at a doc which has been edited
several times
Is there a download/trial version of Applixware I might
try? I don't think I'll ever get wpoffice2000 unless
they offer a download/trial version so I'm looking
for other options.
Thus spake Deryk Barker:
Thus spake Sheldon Lee Wen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Sun has released a preview of 5.2
Sun has released a preview of 5.2 (~80-100 MB and available for Windoze and Linux).
Yes and it chokes on large complex msword docs.
I wonder how good CorelOffice2000 is? Last time I used corel wp
to import a word doc it choked too, but that was a much older version.
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I had the same problem with an isp that assigned me an invalid
hostname on connection. If I opened an xterm before I dialed
and then once connected used the xterm to set my hostname back to
what it was then everything "unfroze." Wierd I know.
Civileme wrote:
Stephen F. Bosch wrote:
Okay,
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
[snip]
If you don't use "init", lilo doesn't know what to do with the parameter.
Yes it does. I use "linux 3" at the lilo prompt all the time. No
problems.
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"Definitions involving
2) After the server is found I log off and try to log on with the
username/password entries of the server's maps. I do not get an
authentication failure, which means that the entries were found, the
username/password form disappears for a couple of seconds but then appears
again. I never
I've had the same problem. If someone can find a solution
please post it.
--
==
"Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply."
-Jon katz
Hi,
If I install the kde2 and qt2 rpm's on the contrib disk will it blow
my existing kde installation away or will they coexist? It'd be nice if
it
added it to the chooser for kdm and let me switch back and forth. Does
it do this?
Sheldon.
--
Now, there is a "tdfx.o" module in the 2.3.x tree, but _not_
in the 2.2.x
Does that mean that XFree 4.0 might be usable on a 2.2.x kernel
(at least the docs say so) but that the DRI component (3D hardware
acceleration) is usable only on 2.3.x ???
I believe that is correct. I don't know for
Civileme
A user comes to me and says, "StarOffice won't SAVE! What am I supposed to do?"
[snip]
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Well, yes, but on HP-UX Netscape would do that occasionally.
On a different netscape rant I have had a myrid of problems with
netscape and StarOffice
Hi,
I have a few requests for updates.
indent 2.2.5
2.2.4 is buggy and doesn't always work. Also it's needed for the CADP
toolset
(Linux LOTOS CASE tool) to function properly.
Please put the HOWTO's in. There is no reason for this omission as far
as I can see.
(or make them available)
Andrew,
See my script attached below. If you get errors running it cut and
paste it into a new file. For some reason I've run across wierd errors
mailing scripts to people. I think some hidden control characters get
let lying around or something.
The script will start an older zipdrive, the
Vincent,
Has anyone tried out the HelixCode GNOME? Wow! I was (and still
am) severely impressed.
I tried it. At first I had problems but as soon as I deleted my
old gnome and enlightenment dir's (and other related ones), it
worked fine. I still get problems with it starting more than
one
Any idea when we'll see xfree86 4.0 rpm's and the corresponding updated
kernels?
--
==
"Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply."
-Jon katz
Mage,
I installed 6.1 a couple of weeks ago and liked it so
Why not 7.0 ?
Is there a utility (like the commercial product
PartitionMagic) that will allow me to resize the
partition without having to reinstall?
DON'T use PM to resize a linux partition. While they
apparently have ext2
Yup, I noticed too. I took out the stupid word wrap thing now I
get a c. Go fig.
"Sang Y. Yum" wrote:
Has anyone noticed this? After editing a file with
vim, I get a "c", like this:
[sang@pikatsu sang]$ vi test.txt
c[sang@pikatsu sang]$ vi test2.txt
c[sang@pikatsu sang]$
What gives?
"David G. Thiessen" wrote:
This all worked.
I think the problem is the fonts I dl'ed for the gimp.
They dont have the .ttf extension, but .pfb. The fonts
are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont and
.. .. .. .. .. /sharefont and
/URW.
My
"David G. Thiessen" wrote:
yes, i have the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files.
i also did run ttmkfdir.
You can't use that b/c those are not truetype fonts.
run mkfontdir instead. If you ran ttmkfdir then you
fonts.dir and .scale files may very well be empty or
invalid. If they are empty you
David,
I have tried adding more TTF fonts as detailed on the
MandrakeUser.org
website and according to the instructions posted on the
gimp.org
website, but I still cant seem to use these fonts in any of
my apps.
The fonts FAQ is wrong. I have sent them this updated one but
they haven't
Hi,
I'm having a problem with ghostscript opening some postscript files.
I get the error: unknown device x11alpha
Anyone know what this means and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Sheldon.
--
==
"Definitions involving chicken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Is it possible to merge partitions from separate disks so that they are view as one
partition?
you may want to look into the logical volume manager for linux. It will let you do
this.
I know it was under
Hi,
Quick question. I'm using my machine for sending email (smtp) but
I always get mail bounced back from hotmail, no one else.
Here is what I get:
The original message was received at Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:45:25 -0700
from IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [139.142.203.140]
- The following
I'm not sure about the status of a logical volume
manager for linux (I know one is/was in development)
but with an LVM you can resize any volume or
stretch it over multiple disks/paritions. Under
linux however you may have to format to do the initial
setup. Not sure, under HP-UX and some other
Hi,
I'm having a hell of a time with star office51 that I downloaded from
sun. Everytime I run it it shows the splash screen and then pops up a
dialog
box saying that an unrecoverable error occurred.
So I deleted the .sversionrc file and my Office51 directory. Initially I
had
it network
to reply so I'm sending
it to you guys.
Gael- maybe you can beat him over the head with it "s'il vous plait"
--
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Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word t
Ooops. Wrong one. Don't worry bout this one. Let me
find the right one. Sorry.
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
Hi,
I've fixed and expanded the FAQ that was here:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html
There were some errors in the steps and I expanded it
for people who have broken
Hi,
Here is the actual fixed xfont.html file for mandrake-user.org
--
==
Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack away
on a
complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
.
OK. I ran the ram check and your right. The ram has gone bad. Sucks.
Thanks,
Sheldon.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to des
?
Sheldon.
--
======
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
nything up.
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
======
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
something
else is there a way that I can specifically test this?
Sheldon.
--
======
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
something
else is there a way that I can specifically test this?
Sheldon.
--
======
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
Svante,
q3demoTEST-1.10-5 works OK on a rawhide/Matrox Millenuim/Voodoo 2 PC using
libMesaVoodoGL.so.3.3, as well as q3test-1.0.8 with libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1.
Where do you get libMesaVoodoGL ??
--
==
Sheldon Lee
running
:~occassionally. Isn't it a library file? Should it be running as a process??
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ign
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
Sheldon Lee Wen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Steve,
Even IF you turn on MD5, you can still have legacy passwords in
/etc/passwd. There's also a conversion utility to convert a legacy
passwd file to shadowed.
What would that be? I've enabled the MD5
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
Lee Wenhttp://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
.
There is a newer version of glibc out but I haven't tried it b/c I don't
want to break my system. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
filesystem on every occasion I
tried
it. I ended up reinstalling linux.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
0.5 0:00 rm
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
USER
Hi again,
(Hi Andrew. Long time no talk?) :)
Anyways, for alot of netscape fixes including the bookmarks problem
see my netscape FAQ
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/cnetscap.html
If it isn't any of those problems check your preferences.js file like
Andrew said. If you get confused you can
It can be found at http://www.leeloo.org/nsfaq/
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignorant use to describe their ignorance."
-- Sifu.
==
Andrew Morton wrote:
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html
Thanks andrew. I couldn't remember where it was and didn't have the
time to search for it.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a
never tried it. Also the DVD may not work. I'm not sure what the
current
status of DVD drivers for linux are.
Cheers,
Sorry I'm not that helpful.
Sheldon.
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
"Superstition is a word the ignoran
This is great news. One question that is on my mine is:
Does this kernel blow up VMWare?
If not I'll start the download ASAP!
cheers,
Sheldon.
Darin wrote:
The official announcement is on the main site, theres an ISO on the primary and
seconday mirrors! WooHoo!
I'm glad I've been using
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
#include disclaimer.h
"My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer"
==
]
--
==
Sheldon Lee Wen
#include disclaimer.h
"My opinions are not necessarily those of my emp
s,
Sheldon.
--
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Sheldon Lee Wen
#include disclaimer.h
"My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer"
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