[expert] Connection sharing

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am running into a bit trouble trying to setup connection sharing on an 8.2 system. I have tried using the DrakConf connection sharing wizard but it fails to work for me. In any case, I cannot share the connection in the way it wants to set it up. I have a modem connection to the internet

[expert] Odd network behavior and slow kde apps

2002-11-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been trying to get connection sharing working between my desktop and laptop computers. I was misinformed about not being able to do this via a wlan ad-hoc connection and am trying it that way. My desktop (Mandrake 8.2) has a WUSB11 v2.6 wlan device and my laptop a prism2-based card,

Re: [expert] Connection sharing - Wierdness

2002-11-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 22 November 2002 07:30 am, Manuel Soto wrote: This wizard does not for me too, try w/ this: Install iptables set up this with the following settings: == cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.2 on Sat May 4

[expert] iptables help?

2002-11-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am having problems with a internet connection share. Oddly, I had it working for a while last evening but then, suddenly, it died and I was unable to communication computer to computer via wlan (sharing a modem connection on one of them). Running Mandrake 8.2, I have a usb wlan device on my

[expert] Problems with wireless...unknown source (long)

2002-11-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am having problems with wireless connectivity between an IBM Thinkpad with prism2-based wireless card using hostap_cs and my desktop with a wusb11 v2.6 wireless device using the atmel driver. Both systems are running Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18-6mdk. I am posting this to three lists

Re: [expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 25 November 2002 01:14 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I

[expert] Does Cooker 9.1 kernel correct supermount problems and wireless problems?

2002-11-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Subject asks it all. Anyone jump on the latest cooker kernel and find any improvement in the situation vs 8.2/9.0? I have 8.2, self-built kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. I had hoped that upgrading to this kernel from stock would correct a wireless problem I have been having. On my laptop, stock 8.2

[expert] Re: Problems with wireless...unknown source (long)

2002-11-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
on your client. [...] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:00 AM To: Mandrake-expert Cc: Atmel-driver-usb; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with wireless...unknown source (long

[expert] Heretic2 and NVIDIA

2002-11-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Anyone here know how to get heretic2 working with hardware rendering for NVIDIA cards beyond the tnt? I have a Geforce 4 Ti4200 and can't find a suitable GL lib to use. The game came with libMesa31.so and libMesa30tnt.so (for TNT cards) but neither is usable. I do have Mesa 4.0.3 built but

[expert] logs filling with wireless info

2002-12-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
My system logs are filling with basic wireless lan traffic information, ie: vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b29 StationState 5 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: unknown ioctl x8b29 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b01 StationState 5 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b0b StationState 5

[expert] remote cups printer

2002-12-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an HP deskjet, USB, connected and working via cups on my desktop. I also have a working ad-hoc wireless connection between my laptop and desktop. I have been trying to add a remote cups printer to my laptop (the above printer) but my

Re: [expert] remote cups printer

2002-12-03 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nevermind. For some reason, seemingly out of the blue, my laptop is seeing and now printing thru my desktop cups server. praedor On Tuesday 03 December 2002 11:42 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have an HP deskjet, USB, connected and working via

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Good Shiva! What a massive pain. Might you consider producing a perl script that would handle all the steps you mentioned as a last-ditch rpm db recovery tool? I have lost my rpm db a few times but always got it back with the rebuilddb command but I can say I would HATE to have to go through

Re: [expert] RPM trouble

2002-12-04 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:30 pm, Luca Olivetti wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: [...] I have lost my rpm db a few times but always got it back with the rebuilddb command but I can say I would HATE to have to go through all the steps you mentioned to get the db back if the normal

Re: [expert] Samba

2002-12-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 December 2002 12:40 pm, Marek wrote: Hi When the new samba packages are installed from Mandrake updates, there is an option to keep the smb.conf file or use the smb.conf.rpmnew file. Which would be the correct one to use ? I choose

Re: [expert] Geheimnis

2002-12-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 December 2002 01:52 pm, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Thanks Martin and Jim I've got both kgpg and seahorse running now, I'll see which one I like best. Running Mandrake 8.2: Seahorse runs great for me...kgpg is useless (to me). The cooker

[expert] Crossover plugin not doing anything?

2002-12-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1 and have the latest crossover plugin. Recently, I downloaded/installed the shockwave 8.5 and flash 6 installed plugins. I have run the plugin checker for konqueror and checked the mimetypes. They are correct.

Re: [expert] Crossover plugin not doing anything?

2002-12-06 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 December 2002 03:58 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am running 8.2 with KDE 3.0.1 and have the latest crossover plugin. Recently, I downloaded/installed the shockwave 8.5 and flash 6 installed plugins. I have run the plugin checker

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:35 am, flacycads wrote: Thanks to everyone for the amazing fast and informative info! I should have no problem in fixing my problems. However, I'm still curious as to how or why a Linux nvidia driver install can foul up win98 beyond repair, and necessitate a

[expert] kde 3.0.3 konqueror problems

2002-12-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am finding konqueror to be extremely broken in kde 3.0.3 mdk rpms (I assume that it acts equally poorly with other rpms or tarballs too). Javascript doesn't work. I have it enabled but javascript applets NEVER start or work but in galeon or mozilla they do. Shockwave doesn't work even

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-10 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Is this camera the only USB device you have? If it is then I suspect you lack any mention of USB in your modules.conf file. You could enter alias usb-interface usb-uhci and that should lead your usbcore and usb-uhci modules to load next reboot. In the meantime, do a modprobe usb-uhci (I

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:17 am, Simon Naish wrote: Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware acceleration available from the nv driver. 340 fps is seriously poor for the small window of gears, and bout right for no hardware accelertion, try 6000 (yup 6000) fps

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:27 am, flacycads wrote: Yes, I only have the camera on USB right now. Here's my output from lspcidrake, and my /etc/modules.config. Do I need to create a /mnt/camera directory, and I read somewhere I need a line in fstab also? Is that correct? I have the

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:51 am, flacycads wrote: Praedor, Do you mean what I have now with no changes, just the Mandrake install parameters, should be working? Here's the relevant lines from lsmod output. Apparently, some usb items are loaded, but there is no reference to usb-storage.

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Gah. If you have a normal Mandrake install, you shouldn't need to create any device as devfs SHOULD create devices on the fly for you as a device comes on line. I just spotted a link that may get you on your way...try http://wendy.seltzer.org/vaio/camera.html Short list of how a G2 was made

Re: [expert] kde 3.0.3 konqueror problems

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
, on the other hand, is retarded and broken. Anyone have any suggestions other than dumping konqueror forever? praedor On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:08 am, Jarmo wrote: On Wednesday 11 December 2002 00:38, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have checked my mimetypes and just cannot find any reason why

Re: [expert] kde 3.0.3 konqueror problems

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:42 pm, Jarmo wrote: On Wednesday 11 December 2002 19:11, Praedor Atrebates wrote: damn konqueror! I tried what you indicated and STILL cannot do any swf with konqueror. I always get the braindead message about unable to load netscape plugin for url

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
The kernel config stuff shouldn't matter unless you are going to rebuild your kernel. As it is, having the usb drivers as modules should be OK. The parts that likely apply (from the website) are the fstab part (or the mount command in lieu of fstab editing). Let me know if you get it

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:24 pm, flacycads wrote: Praedor, Well- I tried all that page suggested, as root, from command line, or gui, every way possible, and it doesn't work. The camera is obviously connected and detected, as the personal info from the owner and the model comes up. The

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Todd Lyons, in a previous post, indicates that /proc/bus/usb should already exist if your modules.conf file is properly setup. The thing to try before going through a reinstall is to undo what you last did that led up to the current problem: remove the fstab entry you added. In this case it

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-11 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:28 pm, flacycads wrote: I had already removed the fstab entry, and did a shutdown, reboot- problems still remain- no rpmdrake functionality, and the weird no access to text files- even new ones, except by right clicking and open with. Here's the mount output-

[expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Failing to find src rpms for KDE 3.0.5 for mandrake, I had to resort to Redhat 8.0 src rpms. I can get around the differences without too much difficulty except for one brain-dead feature of RPM. A feature that I hope I am wrong about and someone will correct me. I just spent about an hour

[expert] Game Uplink do anything?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Before I replaced my Radeon graphics card with an NVidia, I was unable to run many games (Tuxracer, uplink, bzflag, and the like). Now I can however, now that I can start uplink, I get no where and have no idea what it is supposed to do. I start uplink, the screen blanks for a moment, I get

Re: [expert] Mandrake and USB camera confusion

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did you see/try Fransisco's methods/suggestions? He indicates success with multiple cameras. Your db is probably OK. Another post from Todd(?) indicated the urpmi problems might be associated with a hung mount. Is there anything of interest in

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 December 2002 10:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Failing to find src rpms for KDE 3.0.5 for mandrake, I had to resort to Redhat 8.0 src rpms. I can get around the differences without

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex Bennee wrote: Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. I understand what you're saying, but how much should it check? The source package was

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5 Thanks. I looked all over the place for kde src rpms so I could build them on 8.2. Next question.

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5 Do you know where one can find the kdegraphics rpm for 3.0.5? The source rpm for kdegraphics is

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:26, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5 Do you know where one can find

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5 Since there isn't a kdegraphics-3.0.5-1mdk.src.rpm to go with all the other 3.0.5 rpms, I am going to

[expert] konsole-noxft...STILL!?

2002-12-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I finally managed to get kde 3 back...my 3.0.3 install was dorked in some unknown way so I went to kde 3.0.5 only to find that one mandrake src rpm was missing from this security fix version (to at least 3.0.4): kdegraphics was missing. I ended up building all the mdk rpms that I did have plus

[expert] Plugins and javascript problems.

2002-12-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I don't know where to start in order to fix this problem. On my laptop I have kde3.0.3 on Mandrake 8.2 working perfectly. Shockwave flash works, javascript works. On my desktop 8.2 system with first kde 3.0.3 and now 3.0.5, neither shockwave nor javascript work in konqueror but they DO work

Re: [expert] Plugins and javascript problems.

2002-12-13 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 December 2002 16:41, James Sparenberg wrote: Praedor, Just got it activated in mine ... what I did (on 9.0) is Went into settings -- Configure Konqueror then under Netscape Plugins the first thing I did was remove all

Re: [expert] Plugins and javascript problems.

2002-12-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
attention because I was OK with konqueror before now. How do I set the default kde browser to NOT be konqueror anymore? I think mozilla wins the contest hands down and I'd like to default to that. praedor On Friday 13 December 2002 20:55, ken wrote: On Friday 13 December 2002 02:56 pm, Praedor

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:32, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:26, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0

[expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been trying and trying and trying to build a functional KDE 3 system for days now. I have tried with mandrake 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 src rpms and have managed with varying success to get most of kde built. The latest problem is that though I have gotten ALL src rpms built except

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:37, Jason Greenwood wrote: Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be easier?? Cheers Hello, I cannot use the prebuilts because I am not running MDK 9.0. I am still using 8.2 so I must rebuild for my system. It seems rather

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Sunday 15 December 2002 16:13, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who already has them) and upgrade the lot (or just upgrade KDE by adding the 3 9.0 CD's as sources in URPMI).

[expert] what permissions should be assigned to /dev/dsp?

2002-12-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have built and installed the alsa drivers (and libs) for alsa 0.9.0. Upon starting my newly rebuilt kde 3.0.3 for the first time, I get an arts error message about an inability to open /dev/dsp (permission denied). What permission is supposed to be assigned to /dev/dsp to make it usable by

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Sunday 15 December 2002 05:15 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Ok, I'm with you now. I know plenty of people who have 9.0 and would burn it for you for free (if you replaced the CD's for them). I am sure you do as well. If not, I suggest giving your location (roughly) to the list to see if there

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Thanks, Well...I'll relent and go with 9.0 as the kde rpms I've built don't work properly vis a vis alsa. As a matter of fact, one of the things I had to do to get one of the rpms to build (arts? I don't recall) was update my kernel alsa-driver from 0.5.12a to 0.9.0rc2. I got everything

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:57 am, Simon Naish wrote: Hey, ace, lots of points of view on this, just thought I'd get back to everyone, my initial faded memory of 6000fps _was_ wrong, its about 6000 frames in 5 secs, sorry BLUSH oops, only a factor of 5 out eh! That's better. I have a newer

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL - which cooker kernel?

2002-12-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 December 2002 06:29 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: Yes, you are right, 9.0 totally F***ed up Supermount, even for me (I disable it on all vanilla 9.0 installs). It was broken on every install I tried (probably 5 or so, including and

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thursday 19 December 2002 02:31 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: That is very strange... Although I use Evolution, both my wife and my mother are running Kmail, my wife has to see a crash yet. My mother did have prolbems with the kmail package build by SuSE (it was the KDE 3.0.4 upgrade). The

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:22 am, Narfi Stefansson wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:00, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thursday 19 December 2002 02:31 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: That is very strange... Although I use Evolution, both my

[expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running a security check against my system (Nessus) and among the messages in my attacked system are messages indicating an error in my /etc/hosts.allow: Dec 19 10:31:10 localhost xinetd[28607]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 7:

Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man /etc/hosts.allow should give you everything you need Err...all that does is display my current hosts.allow file in man format. A simple man hosts.allow produces the message that

[expert] image editor for postscript?

2002-12-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having a major problem trying to edit a postscript image. I have a journal article, pdf format, that I've converted to postscript. There is a figure in this paper that I need. I cannot extract it with tools like pdfimages (don't know why

Re: [expert] image editor for postscript?

2002-12-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 06:56 pm, H. Narfi Stefansson wrote: Quoting Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] I am having a major problem trying to edit a postscript image. I have a journal article, pdf format, that I've converted

Re: [expert] DVD wierdness - An even wierder solution

2002-12-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 20 December 2002 04:03 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: Now it is working, and the solution doesn't make complete sense: I checked around on the web to see if there awas a Firmware upgrade for my DVD/CD-RW drive, I didn't find one, but I did find a firmware hack that disabled the region

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-22 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. I bought it when it was first released but quickly cancelled the order when the list of problems began quickly stacking up. Then with some of the difficulties I was having with a few items (mainly kde 3.0.x) on 8.2, I was

Re: [expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
By soundwrapper I take it you mean artswrapper? If so, I would think that running a wine/winex app would merely require that you prepend the wine command with artswrapper: artswrapper winex game Have you tried this already? On Monday 23 December 2002 12:36 am, PlugHead wrote: [...] I've got

Re: [expert] Somebody with a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK9.0 ?

2002-12-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 23 December 2002 09:28 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: If someone has a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK 9.0, could you please help me in configuring mine? So far, 9.0 has been great for me except for this annoyance. I don't have that sound device but what have you tried doing so

Re: [expert] Somebody with a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK9.0 ?

2002-12-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 23 December 2002 10:08 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: I have tried to make it working as it was in 8.2. In 8.2 it was simply to add the following line to modules.conf: First, try running harddrake. When it comes up after doing its detection stuff, select the sound card and then select

[expert] return to castle wolfenstein

2002-12-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Does anyone have a functional linux version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein? I just recently picked it up, upgraded the linux binary to 1.33, but it doesn't work. I can get to the intro screen and settings with sound OK but as soon as I try to start the actual game, the screen goes black and

Re: [expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 23 December 2002 05:31 pm, PlugHead wrote: Hmmm. I meant soundwrapper (which I tried both with the winex command and wineserver--which I assume actually runs the program...) Soundwrapper, btw, does work for other non-KDE apps, like Doom Legacy. I just tried artswrapper, and it

Re: [expert] Postfix is braindead!

2003-01-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 24 January 2003 12:52 pm, Franki wrote: if memory serves,,, postfix on mdk9 is run in a chroot jail, meaning it can access nothing not inside its jail.. have a look in /var/spool/postfix/etc all the files in there must match their counterparts in /etc that is most likely your

[expert] just testing pgp

2003-01-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 testing pgp - pay no mind. email up and running again. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+MYF9wDUPEkSvRHERAkiaAJ9BQ+6avJ3M0QngybMHfwI2HlIuWACfRpPk XPkTNIIvWV03RsdRBrdcIqI= =VGSs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want

[expert] Postfix nonsense

2003-01-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am running into ridiculous problems with postfix that I do not understand. I have a valid fully qualified hostname (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I have DNS setup (right now by kppp with entries for my proper DNS's in my resolv.conf file. If I ping yahoo.com, no problem, it pings as

[expert] Cannot build ANY kernels with xfs support in 9.0

2003-01-24 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running into a critical problem as my system is entirely XFS-based. I have a currently functional 2.4.18 kernel on my 9.0 install (I don't use the 2.4.19 kernel, too many problems). I have tried to build 2.4.19, 2.4.20, and now just tried

Re: [expert] Postfix nonsense

2003-01-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 January 2003 10:57 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: On Friday 24 January 2003 10:35 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I am running into ridiculous problems with postfix that I do not understand. I have a valid fully qualified hostname

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 kernel and gcc

2003-01-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So a major part of the xfs problem in kernel building (perhaps THE problem) is gcc3.x. The stock 2.4.19-16mdk kernel works with xfs, however...does this mean that the stock kernel was built with gcc-2.96 instead of the 3.x series? praedor

[expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been having a hellish time trying to get my WUSB11 v2.6 (atmel) working with Mandrake 9.0. I had it working under 8.2 with kernel-2.4.18-16mdk but it refuses to work in 9.0 no matter what. I tried rebuilding 2.4.18 (with gcc 3.2) before trying 2.4.19 (stock and custom) to no avail. I

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:17 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have been having a hellish time trying to get my WUSB11 v2.6 (atmel) working with Mandrake 9.0. I had it working under 8.2 with kernel-2.4.18-16mdk but it refuses to work in 9.0

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 January 2003 12:18 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:37 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: All fixed, so it seems. I had to rebuild the 2.4.19 kernel again and deselect all the APIC support. I then disabled APIC

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 January 2003 02:22 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Praedor, wonder if it 's related to the fun I'm having with wireless cards all being thrown onto IRQ 11 and then having USB (which is also there) trying to initialize them instead of

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll try that in the future. Does this work alright with wireless devices though? If it first sets thing up via apic which is anathema to functional wlan devices, does it undo itself and does the system (usb or pcmcia) reset to correct the

[expert] Staroffice/Openoffice problem

2003-01-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone here make much use of either package? I am generating a powerpoint presentation with Staroffice 6.0 and even though it indicates that it can import/understand eps format, if I try to import an eps into a slide or graphic, all it ever

[expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !

2003-01-27 Thread Praedor Atrebates
What. The. F*CK?!!! Last night I had my WUSB11 v2.6 FINALLY working in Mandrake 9.0, kernel-2.4.19. This morning...nope. Wont work. I've even rebuilt and reinstalled the kernel and the drivers. During bootup I now, magically, get this: usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x77b/0x2219) is not

[expert] Lyx with QT frontend is out

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
If any of you are interested, an individual on the lyx-users list build a Mandrake 9.0 version of Lyx with a QT frontend today and posted to the web. It is lovely. If any of your are lyx users you may want to have a look. It can be downloaded at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/1.3.0 I just

[expert] Lyx with QT...more

2003-02-07 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Oh yeah, because of the way lyx with qt needs to be built, I installed it with --nodeps. If you have kde 3.0.3 installed and qt3, then that is all that is necessary and you can ignore the dependency. It works. praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] wireless pain

2003-02-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I finally went ahead and upgraded from MDK 8.2 to MDK 9.0 on my laptop (IBM Stinkpad 1412, Celeron). It installed just fine and everything is working OK except for wireless. I have 2 devices to play with: an Orinoco Gold and a Zoomair. Under 8.2 I had the Zoomair (prism2) working just

[expert] Kernel headers and inability to build wlan drivers

2003-02-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of the many problems I am having getting wireless device drivers to build is because of the Mandrake/Redhat business recently of FORCING any new kernel build to be appended with mdkcustom. Big problem. I do NOT want to rebuild my kernel at

[expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd

2003-02-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On two separate systems, totally different, I find that the kernel build process fails to produce an initrd. When one runs make install on the kernel build, part of the process is supposed to be creation of the appropriate initrd but 9.0 fails in this regard every time, regardless of kernel,

[expert] Forcing laptop to use i82365 instead of yenta

2003-02-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have never had any use for the yenta_socket driver that most distros seem to default to. It screws up my ability to use wireless cards. I have found that if I use i82365 instead of yenta, my wireless pcmcia cards just work. In Mandrake 8.2 and all previous, I would simply edit the

[expert] What does ambassador atm do?

2003-02-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
This drives me frickin' NUTS. I build a kernel, shutting off all RAID support, all Old CDROM driver support, all ISDN support (not needed in the least on my laptop) and somewhere amongst this, it kills my ability to build a kernel because some ATM-related module gets lost (ambassador). There

Re: [expert] Forcing laptop to use i82365 instead of yenta

2003-02-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 17 February 2003 03:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:08, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have never had any use for the yenta_socket driver that most distros seem to default to. It screws up my ability to use wireless cards. I have found that if I use i82365

Re: [expert] Forcing laptop to use i82365 instead of yenta

2003-02-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 17 February 2003 04:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: It's possible that the yenta socket module isn't getting removed when you restart pcmcia. Pull the card stop pcmcia then rmmod yenta_socket. The other possiblity is that the module you use for your card only works with yenta (I

[expert] spastic messages during bootup

2003-02-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been struggling to get a usb wireless device (under NO circumstances should anyone buy linksys devices, particularly linksys usb wireless devices - they are useless in linux). As part of the attempt to get it to work consistently and properly, I have altered bios settings: I either set

Re: [expert] making modules fails in 9.0

2003-02-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 10:04 am, David McGlone wrote: Hello all, I am having a problem trying to make modules on my 9.0 box, I keep getting this error make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/drivers' make -C atm modules

[expert] Serious problem with files system/hardware use in 9.0

2003-02-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know where the problem is coming from but I am finding it virtually impossible to use either of my cdroms or my zip drive for any length of time. I have a CDROM, a CD-Burner, and an internal zip drive. They started out using supermount,

Re: [expert] Serious problem with files system/hardware use in 9.0

2003-02-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 01:53 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 09:21, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know where the problem is coming from but I am finding it virtually

Re: [expert] Serious problem with files system/hardware use in 9.0

2003-02-19 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 02:31 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote on Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:21:39PM -0500 : I have a CDROM, a CD-Burner, and an internal zip drive. They started out using supermount, which I understand has had

[expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Well, at the suggestion of someone on the list, I downloaded, built, and installed the 9.0 update kernel 2.4.19-24mdk. Doesn't work. Not at all. I also built 2.4.18 from MDK 8.2 (and have been using my own build of the default MDK 9.0 kernel) and can use each without problems. 2.4.19-24mdk,

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:58 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are you simply using the binary version. What did

Re: [expert] making modules fails in 9.0

2003-02-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:19 pm, James Beam wrote: I got the same problem. I need to compile a new kernel because of my mainboard not supported by 2.4.19. I compile the kernel, but alway fails in compiling the modules. My time is precious

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:58 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are you simply using the binary version. What did MandrakeSoft do to get it to build and actually work

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:14 pm, Robert Crawford wrote: Praedor's problems must be system related. Admittedly, I'm not running any peripherals that could cause problems. With a stock 9.0 install, kernels 2.4.19-16mdk, 2.4.-19-24mdk,

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:07 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Thu Feb 20, 2003 at 10:58:03AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: [...] Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are you simply using the binary version

Re: [expert] List Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 12:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anyone receiving a bounce message from this e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every message posted to expert? Or is it just me? About 21 of them so far -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

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