Re: [expert] Installing apps using gcc-2.96 with 9.0

2002-10-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
jipe wrote: On 02 Oct 2002 17:16:41 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I have installed gcc2.96-2.96-0.80mdk.i586.rpm (along with 3.2) under 9.0 as some 3rd party application requires it. To run the install script I: # su # cd /mnt/cdrom # ./install-unix At present it

Re: [expert] Woo Hoo! 9.0 installation woes - Thanks to all forthe help!

2002-10-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David Guntner wrote: Thanks to Todd and everyone else who offered helpful suggestions for the problems I've been having as a result of the CD 2 ISO being too large. I might actually be able to install a working system tonight when I get home from work. :-) I've created a /var/mandrake

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Toshiro wrote: I can't see the contents of the packages as I could in version 8.2. For the files list and changelog, right-click the right pane and select 'Maximum Information'. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi ...howto ...

2002-10-08 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:30 +0200, hans privat wrote: here the output : [root@hanna mdk9.0]# urpmi rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Installiere ./rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Fehler: fehlgeschlagene Paket-Abhängigkeiten: (Translation: Installing ./rpm-4. Error:

Re: [expert] Feeling good about 9.0 now for the small problems

2002-10-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
James Sparenberg wrote: 2. How in the heck can I stop kde from asking if I want to open a url or file path in konqueror or mozilla etc etc every time I type one out or highlight one for cut and paste. Thanks all. James You can click on the klipper clipboard icon and deselect

Re: [expert] MDK9.0: More user icons and screensavers

2002-10-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Robert Goshko wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 09:04, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi you all experts... i need a little help here, i would like to get more user icons(because there are like 3 tux, and all the others are flowers and something like that) and screensavers, because i only found 3

Re: [expert] Printing under Security level Higher

2002-10-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Angus Beath wrote: Hey guys/gals, I've got a machine in a uni that needs as much security as it can get. But, I also need it to be able to print and with the security permissions set to higher it won't work. Can someone give me a tip on what I need to change to allow printing? This is a

Re: [expert] SDL problems

2002-10-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 12:06 pm, you wrote: Do Chromium and Armagetron use SDL? I know frozen-bubble and tower toppler do. Do those work for you? That will tell you if you have the normal libs. By default, I don't think Mandrake installs the dev libs, which is what

Re: [expert] auto-login doesn't automatically log me in

2002-10-18 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Nÿco wrote: In Mandrake Control Center Startup Startup Configuration, I select : - launch graphical interface at boot - automatic connection (right user, right Desktop Environment But at each boot, I have the *DM inviting me to type my login name ans password... Any idea ? What files are

Re: [expert] RE: LM9.0 gdb, threads and SIG32

2002-10-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Colin Walker wrote: Hello I posted this message a couple of weeks ago without a response. I would really like to move on to mandrake 9.0 on my development machine but am unable to debug threaded applications, seemingly due to stripped libraries. LM8.* works fine Can anybody help. Its all

Re: [expert] 9.0 impressions and requests

2002-10-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
mike wrote: [..] I really want to have a viable firewall set-up first. at least then I could continue to look for help without compromising my home network. any advice is very much welcomed, as I really really want to move on to 9.0 and beyond. Mike McNeese I went from the tinyfirewall to

Re: [expert] hardware troubleshooting questions

2002-10-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jack Coates wrote: Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot. FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. Athlon 900 MHz 768MB PC100 RAM Voodoo3

Re: [expert] Printing problem with Gimp and Mdk 9.0

2002-10-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil wrote: Hello All, Since installing Mdk 9.0 I am experiencing a problem with printing from the Gimp. I have not had this problem before and all other applications (and the test page from the Mandrake control centre) print correctly. When I try to print a picture kprinter displays an error

Re: [expert] Weird problem with rpm database

2002-10-31 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: I got memtest for testing RAM, but what do you use for harddrive testing? Miark Also, ide-smart is in contribs: [..] Description : The ide-smart program enable to monitor a SMART capable hard-disk. The SMART protocol define several items. When one of these items is under a

Re: [expert] thinkpad 600e

2002-11-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Michael Holt wrote: Hey all! I've got two questions: 1) [..] 2) Though I've been using Linux for about 4 years, I've never been very successful at compiling my own kernels. I'm interested in simply making changes in my existing kernel. I've loaded the kernel sources and followed the

Re: [expert] How to access Mandrake Club team?

2002-11-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Manuel Soto wrote: I did purchase one year Mandrake Club's subscription more that a month ago and never receive an feedback or access key. As far as I can see mandrake store does not have links to customer service that solve or advice how to solve problems after purchase. The only way to access

Re: [expert] kernel recompile

2002-11-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Michael Holt wrote: Hello, I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure I followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it manually as the error message suggests and I get:

Re: [expert] How to disable error bell in konsole?

2002-11-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Dan Axtell wrote: Hi, I'd like to turn off the beep that happens in konsole when an error occurs, e.g. hitting BACKSPACE too many times. I've tried configuring konsole through the KDE control panel, as well as the sounds options, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Any ideas? Thanks,

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update Won't

2002-11-12 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Felix Miata wrote: Upon trying to run for the first time after install, I accepted its auto selection of server to install from. Then it proceeded to Error: couldn't connect on over half the packages. Practically nothing got installed because of the resulting dependency failures. I tried again

Re: [expert] How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Toshiro wrote: El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 16:50, Todd Lyons escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:04AM -0800 : There doesn't seem to be a recover option for rpm. rpm --rebuilddb gets that same error message. Anyone know

Re: [expert] IDE cd-rom burners

2002-11-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Dan Axtell wrote: I'm trying to configure my LM 9.0 to work with an IDE CD-ROM burner. Hardrake2 lists the burder as /dev/hdc under CD/DVD burners. However, eroaster won't work with that. I've loaded the ide-scsi kernel module, but I'm not sure what to do next. My /dev directory contains no

Re: [expert] IDE cd-rom burners

2002-11-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Dan Axtell wrote: Ro You should have hdc=ide-scsi in your grub menu.lst entries or in the append= statements in lilo.conf (then run lilo) for scsi emulation to work at boot. Then, as root, you can run cdrecord --scanbus to detect the drive's connection. GCombust has detection buttons and

Re: [expert] md5sum

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the md5sum embedded in the iso so that the -c switch will work? No. You need to run md5sum -c MD5SUM.txt in other words, run it against the md5sum text file for the iso's in the same directory on your download mirror (in your local directory where you have the

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? urpmf libglut.so.3

Re: [expert] Install of 'unsupported'

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ron Stodden wrote: Rolf Pedersen wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: A software install to 9.0 of the entire unsupported/kde3.1-rc3 directory produces errors: libglut.so.3 is needed by kdegraphics-3.1-0.rc3.1-mdk htdig is needed by kdebase-3.1-0.rc3.6-mdk Install aborted. What to do? urpmf

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no package named ethereal is the answer I get. It's a contrib RPM. Sounds like you need to add some RPM sources, such as RPMFind, PLF, Texstar, etc. For now, at least, add RPMfind as follows: urpmi.addmedia rf

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys girls, I recently got a Sony cd rw drive and I am trying to use xcdroast with it. The first time I run this program, it gave me the error: Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic scsi devices of no SCSI support enabled in the

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: In lilo.conf, there is already one append statement set to quiet devfs=mount Should I add the line you suggested before or after this append statement? Just add it as one of the space-separated items within the quotes . Then, save, run lilo and reboot. Want to buy

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: Thanks Rolf, I got that setup now. One last question though, once I start xcdroaster, I can setup the recorder the sony recorder with no problems, but when I go to set up the reader, only the sony cdrw drive appears, instead of my LG cdrom. I want a setup that will

Re: [expert] System clock slower in Linux than in Win

2002-12-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I noticed that my systm clock is slower when I use linux, a problem I never had before (when I used windows 98 and then 2000). I thought the cause could be the operation where linux set the system clock to GMT and then revert it back to local time, so I told Mandrake

Re: [expert] Mandrake and URPMI/Mandrake software manager has problems!

2002-12-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: So what would be the exact syntax to simply install minicom from /mnt/cdrom? I've tried what seems logical but not mentioned above, including the exact path to the package. Sorry, I'm having a brain fart I guess. With CD2 in the reader, mounted at /mnt/cdrom, it would be:

Re: [expert] Mandrake and URPMI/Mandrake software manager has problems!

2002-12-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: On Monday 09 December 2002 07:22 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lorne wrote: So what would be the exact syntax to simply install minicom from /mnt/cdrom? I've tried what seems logical but not mentioned above, including the exact path to the package. Sorry, I'm having a brain fart I

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-10 Thread Rolf Pedersen
flacycads wrote: [..] My Linux question: When I reinstall windowsSE on a dual boot Linux box, will that overwrite my Linux MBR, and what should I do to prevent, or correct that? Or, will I have to reinstall Mandrake 9.0 after I reinstall windows 98 to get the original lilo mbr reinstalled? Is

Re: [expert] Java

2002-12-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Felix Miata wrote: #rpm -qa | grep j2 # Any more ideas? What I have done is to download the proper rpm that is wrapped in some sort of .bin license agreement from Sun. Follow their instructions on the website. There is a howto in MUO Docs that has worked for me:

Re: [expert] mplayer and software manager

2002-12-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David Robertson wrote: Hi I posted this query to the newbie list but have had no takers so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful: I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damian Gatabria wrote: Hi. Does anybody know which file permissions i need to change so CUPS let's me change my printer settings? Currently i cannot do it (permission denied even as root) Thanks much. Damian I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused

Re: [expert] Problem with X and mandrake

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Xingyuan Zhang wrote: Dear Mandrake experts, I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC. It is an old RM machine, with ATI display card and Taxan Ergovision 730 display. After restarting X, the display begin to flick on and off at a frequency of once 2-3 seconds. I can hear click sounds

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damian Gatabria wrote: I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused this is an initscripts security update, which was fixed by a subsequent update. Some people had problems that were fixed by a new foomatic. These are the current versions where CUPS works for

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 07:30 pm, Simon Ree wrote: David Robertson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:19, Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Just recently got a Compaq

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:52 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Do you make mrproper as the first step? Move .config out of the way if you want to use it or use /boot/config but mrproper should be the first step. Sorry but I

Re: [expert] Installation Problem

2002-12-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Laurent Mesuré wrote: Hi, when i try to install Mandrake 9.0 on a IBM Thinkpad 390X with a 20 Gb hard drive i get the following error messages: Hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mcleod, Ian wrote: too right - I just gave up waiting around for Mandrake to make it easy for them to receive $$$ and just stuck with the download version - because by the time it finally arrives in Australia it's probably out of date anyway. And I never received a reply to my 15 or so emails

Re: [expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Okay, I still have a strange problem. I just copied 97 mb in a test folder on two systems. One is a Pentium III 750 laptop with a 10 gig 5400 rpm hard disk. The other is my new Pentium 4 2.66 GHz desktop with

Re: [expert] Odd Hard Disk Slowdown on new MDK 9.0 install

2002-12-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Timothy R. Butler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rolf, I checked, and it does seem to be the fact that DMA is off on this system vs. on on the laptop. However, when I try to enable DMA, I get HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. This was while I was booted

Re: [expert] cdrom fstab entry

2002-12-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Tom wrote: I upgraded my machine from ML8.1 to ML9.0. Overall, the upgrade went smoothly, however, the CDROM dropped out an I have been unsuccessful in getting it to register. Harddrake sees the drive, a HP IDE CDROM burner, and lists it in the cdrom lists. ide-scsi kernel module is loaded at

Re: [expert] lack of ethereal

2002-12-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: Does anybody know why ethereal has dropped from Mandrake? The author of Ethereal seems to be of the impression the file is available from cooker and it is not. If I recall it used to be part of the cdrom install set. Sure is a handy tool and I'm having some dependancy problems to

Re: [expert] lack of ethereal

2002-12-30 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: On Monday 30 December 2002 03:47 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Lorne wrote: Does anybody know why ethereal has dropped from Mandrake? The author of Ethereal seems to be of the impression the file is available from cooker and it is not. If I recall it used to be part of the cdrom

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2002-12-31 Thread Rolf Pedersen
richard bown wrote: Hi All I've been running Mdk 9.0 for a few weeks , and now find mdk update refuses to work. I've noted there is an update for mdkonline, which I've attempted to update...without success. Ive downloaded gurpmi-4.0-20_82.2mdk.noarch.rpm perl-URPM-0.70-10_82.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Has anybody had a problem with Open Office not installing in English? Other than me? I completed my first LM90 install over the weekend; everything went well except for that. Will probably post the dirty details later. But for now I'm wondering how to get Open Office out

Re: [expert] Open Office installs in German

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Thank you, Rolf. And thanks for all the other help you've supplied to You're welcome. Why do you like grub over lilo? It was default when I installed 7.1 and I've stuck with it. There was a time when grub overcame the 1024 cylinder limit for placement of the boot

Re: [expert] Nautilus symbol stripped binaries

2003-01-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Simon A Watts wrote: Nautilus is regularly producing core dumps in my (non-root) user account. This occurs most often when logging in, though has happened at other times (when Nautilus was not being used directly, other than for the desktop). I have tried to analyse these files, and report

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:05

2003-01-03 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mike Ramsey wrote: Hello, I have been using Mandrake Linux since version 7 and have loved all but one thing about it. I have yet to be able to compile a kernel on Mandrake. I have successfully compiled kernels on Debian, Slackware, Red-Hat, and various other systems but never successful on

Re: [expert] Running apps as root from the KDE menu

2003-01-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
stefmit wrote: While easy to launch root apps from the CLI, I would like to have some of them launched directly from the KDE menu ... something similar to how drakconf or mcc are launched (i.e. detecting the fact that another user is launching them, and prompting for the root password). I

Re: [expert] redirecting to a port. Minor Modification.

2003-01-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark Weaver wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: Blue skies...Todd Hey Todd? What is it about your message (including the gpg sig) that causes Mozilla to crash every time I attempt to open one of your messages? I can open other signed message no problem but yours consistantly cause

Re: [expert] SSH

2003-01-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark Weaver wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: Stop or remove shorewall -- sure wish Mdk would have made it more obvious during install/upgrade that it was going to add a firewall without asking... :^Pierre problem is...what does one use on a Mandrake 9.0 box if not shorewall because I've had a

Re: [expert] Unbootable kernels after upgrade

2003-01-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Svante Signell wrote: BTW: How do you find to which package a file belongs using rpm? Like dpkg -S file in Debian. rpm -qa|grep file works but does not easily give the packege information. For example: [rolf@localhost rolf]$ rpm -qf gunzip error: file gunzip: No such file or directory

Re: [expert] What it's like trying to update 9.0 over a modem...

2003-01-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Pierre Fortin wrote: What it's like trying to update 9.0 over a modem... or why I complain about issues that will cause potential users to not adopt Mdk... :^( I can't do justice to the totality of the underlying issue of your post, however, I wonder if you know of the workaround when

Re: [expert] What it's like trying to update 9.0 over a modem...

2003-01-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:47:02 -0800 Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Fortin wrote: What it's like trying to update 9.0 over a modem... or why I complain about issues that will cause potential users to not adopt Mdk... :^( I can't do justice

Re: [expert] RPM screwed and worthless

2003-01-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Azrael wrote: Do you have the rpm database locked by a zombie/dead/half-dead/forgotton rpm process somewhere? check all your processes and kill off rpm related ones? Also, rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* (after rpm processes are killed)? Then, --rebuilddb. On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:18, Praedor

Re: [expert] rpmdrake: what's broke now...??

2003-01-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Pierre Fortin wrote: Here's the latest... Tried to get at one of the new kde upgrade packages and this is the last exchange with the server(tricia.cc.gatech.edu (130.207.108.134)): S: CWD pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS R: 550 pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS:

Re: [expert] sources management options

2003-01-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I initially installed Mdk 9.0 from the three CDs of the Mandrake Download Edition. A friend has now given me the full Mdk. 9.0 Power Pack with 7 CDs. I would like to now add to my source manager (in the Mandrake Control Center) the extra CDs, in particular the two

Re: [expert] sources management options

2003-01-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rolf Pedersen wrote: Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I initially installed Mdk 9.0 from the three CDs of the Mandrake Download Edition. A friend has now given me the full Mdk. 9.0 Power Pack with 7 CDs. I would like to now add to my source manager (in the Mandrake Control Center) the extra CDs

Re: [expert] Perldoc?

2003-01-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Kevin Old wrote: Hello all, I've just recently wiped my drive and did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0. I installed everything on all 3 of the downloadable iso images and have noticed that the perldoc command isn't availableI've looked for rpms and source and can't figure out how to get the

[expert] MandrakeUpdate quits with curl: (7) Connect failed

2003-01-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Going after the latest cvs and libpng3 security updates for 9.0 and calling MandrakeUpdate from the root prompt to see the messages, the gui returns 'package list is void' and the console shows the above message, with no bits transferred, at sunet, which is available in Mozilla. I remove

Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?

2003-01-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Eric Fernandez wrote: Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.20-2mdk

2003-01-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Jim C wrote: Try http://www.kernel.org/ maxxik wrote: hi everybody ! Pls tell me - where i can to download kernel-2.4.20-2mdk ? That was a cooker kernel that has been left behind for newer kernels. I don't know where you can find an rpm for that. Out of curiosity, I

Re: [expert] Finding Module Dependencies

2003-01-28 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.0beta on an apple power mac(ppc). upon booting I received the following message: Finding Module Dependencies modprobe:modprobe: Can't locate module keydev The system hangs at this point and will not boot up, it just sits there. I will

Re: [expert] Highpoint HTP372 not detected under Mdk9.0

2003-01-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark Stewart wrote: So I'm a bit disappointed. I finally installed 9.0 on my monster box (nforce board, athlon 2000) expecting that, as reported by various mandrake users, that the Highpoint HPT 372 controller would be detected and I could use it as an extra IDE controller. Alas, HardDrake

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Tom Brinkman wrote: Yep, but I've yet to find a md5sum file on the mirrors for these iso's. I got the iso's yesterday just as they were being posted, but as of today still, no md5sum file. I got these. I'd appreciate if somebody would confirm them as what they got. tom$ md5sum

Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0

2003-02-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
. wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors to urpmi. When I went to install it, it failed on dependencies: Installation failed: libdv2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-0.rc3.2plf

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] mplayer and mencoder on 9.0]

2003-02-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
on 9.0 Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 18:37:24 -0800 From: Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] . wrote: Thanks for the help. I was not aware of the PLF website. I added one of the mirrors

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:12:59PM +1100 : Todd Lyons wrote: Not quite. See the prompt above? It had already exited. The messages you see afterward are from kdeinit killing itself and its child processes

Re: [expert] KDE in 9.0

2003-02-04 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Pedersen wrote on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:05:28AM -0800 : second barrage of stderr messages edited into my attempt. Is there not some way in the program's code to exclude these messages from the terminal, once the prompt

Re: [expert] Module help?

2003-02-06 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I posted this message (close, anyways) to the newbie list but didn't get the help I needed so... I have a Logitech Wingman USB joystick. I've searched the msg list archives and googlized it as a subject header but still need help. Most of the modules needed for this

Re: [expert] Kernel upgrade failure :(

2003-02-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
stefmit wrote: Hi, everyone, Please bare with me - have not compiled a new kernel since the days of 1st edition of Yggdrasil ;( - so - just recently got the new ...-24mdk source from the updates, happily installed the source from the rpm, and - confident in my ability of getting in trouble -

Re: [expert] Module help?

2003-02-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 11:02 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Look at /etc/modules. I think it would be ok to put them there, one per line, as the comments say. Hi Rolf, thanks for the reply. Well, I tried that it with /etc/modules.conf. At least, I tried it with adi

Re: [expert] Where do I get rpm for MDK9 of kernel ?

2003-02-07 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Emerson de Mello wrote: Hi, I'm sorry, but I don't find the rpm of kernel without bugs in supermount. I try locate in http://plf.zarb.org/, but I don't have sucess too. Where do I get this ? Thanks, Emerson BRAZIL There is a 9.0 kernel update that has some fixes, including for

Re: [expert] mozilla and printing

2003-02-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Lorne wrote: Okay, I was sure this was discussed here before, but I can't find it. I use 9.0 and mozilla. I am using cups printing. From Kmail I can print just fine. But from within Mozilla I can not. It has a funky lpr syntax and I don't know how to configure this so I can print to my

Re: [expert] wireless pain

2003-02-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd

2003-02-17 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Support for HP Photosmart 320 camera?

2003-02-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Daniel Axtell wrote: Does anyone know if the HP Photosmart 320 camera works via USB on LM 9.0? I can't find any information about this. Thanks, Dan I don't see your camera at present but maybe, if you look in the following direction, you will find something:

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-19 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:09 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as copying the new packages

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
J. Grant wrote: Hi, I've got one Abit KT7 RAID MB system running stock mdk9 kernel. Its running, however, the hd speed is slow because it only works with no dma etc. I am using the correct ata100 cables with only a single drive on each channel. Has anyone else experienced this with this

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-20 Thread Rolf Pedersen
J. Grant wrote: Hi, Thanks for the info. I did download the propreitary hpt370 kernel module, but it was only binary and I could not get the root disk to work. Perhaps I should try a newer kernel than 2.4.19-16mdk, have you tried with the default mdk9 kernel on your board at all? I have the

Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
J. Grant wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to exract a .spec file from a compiled rpm? I tried using cpio and some other stuff, but cant get it. rpm --rebuild sss.src.rpm is meant to put it in the SPECS dir, but it isnt there either. Also there is one in the tgz of the soft, but thats generated

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 Take 3

2003-02-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ric Tibbetts wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 February 2003 03:48 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: That's as far as it gets. I suppose I could re-load it (again), and look through the startup scripts while it's booted the first time, and find the

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:19:24 +, you wrote: in the hpt bios I noticed some strange config. WD80GB can be set upto UDMA2 only. DTLA 60GB can be set upto UDMA5 max, DTLA 10GB can be set upto UDMA2 max. So it seems strange that the WD can not go upto a faster speed as its

Re: [expert] voice messaging

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
mycal62 wrote: are there any voice messenger clients for linux like msn messenger? or any tools to talk to another pc via the internet? Voice messaging is in vocp but I have not used it. It requires mgetty-1.30, which has just been added to cooker and will be in 9.1 or you could compile it

Re: [expert] Re: Fixing urpmi - correcting botched sources in 9.0

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 February 2003 03:38 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had much problems with urpmi on my desktop system. Virtually any package name or fragment I pass through urpmi fails. My latest failure was in trying to

Re: [expert] DMA on new Maxtor hard drive

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
diego wrote: If I'm right HighPoint HPT372 is only supported through a kernel patch you should download from their homepage. If it is a HPT370 one, then kernel 2.4.20 and above support dma in it (not sure about 2.4.19). Good Luck! Alan Cox's ide patches from 2.4.20-ac1 were merged in the cooker

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
John Haywood wrote: I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver,

Re: [expert] Remote Linux printer problems:

2003-03-02 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, with the 9.0 Powerpack, I setup 2 comps on my 3 comp lan to use my one and only Epson C62 printer on my main comp. Using CUPS on the 2 comps worked just fine. I could print with no problems. I've not a clue as to what I've done but now, I get this message when I

Re: [expert] ATX power source x Linux Power Down

2003-03-03 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I bought a mobo with via chipset KM266. Under WinXP power down works ok and my computer switch off. However, under Linux, shutdown process stop in the screen with Power down... message. I know I can safely press switch off power button

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-09 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Anne Wilson wrote: In another thread, Mark Watts wrote: I do have these lines in the global options of my lilo.conf though: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 This reminded me of another unsolved puzzle on my machine. In my lilo.conf there is the following stanza:

Re: [expert] Where does the make oldconfig get it's values from?

2003-03-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: From the distribution configuration, the current running kernel, the last kernel you compiled on the machine or the last kernel you ran make oldconfig on? I ask this cause I did a lot of recompiling trying to find the right kernel for my hardware and now I am a bit

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rob Blomquist wrote: The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can really do to fix this? One popular

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread Rolf Pedersen
J. Grant wrote: Hi, I have been searching for a newer kernel on: ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS rpmfind.net However, I can not find a 2.4.20 rpm. Are there rpms for mdk anywhere on the net? I found the

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
J. Grant wrote: I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in lilo.conf and /boot eg image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-2.4.19mdk root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only but in /boot

Re: [expert] Problems after uipgrading via cooker

2003-03-22 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Gary Hodder wrote: On 22 Mar 2003 10:56:15 -0800, you wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:09, Gary Hodder wrote: I am downloading 9.1 from cooker. I have about 1/3 the files from the rpms directory and thats 865mb. Why so many files in rpms, then theres rpms.cooker and rpms2. How big is 9.1? Thanks

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