[expert] Voodoo3 (Generic) Help w/config.

2001-06-26 Thread Sergio P.Korlowsky
I had a nVIDIA TNT2 64 with 32 mb and I was able to run Q3 Tuxracer, most other game... I had move this card to a Pentium-IV that I am building... ;-) Now I am using a Voodoo3 (generic) with only 16 mb in vram, but I am not familiar with the procedure to anable acceleration on a voodoo card.

[expert] urpi'ing cdroms

2001-06-26 Thread andy weir
hi, I have LM8.0 and am trying to add CDROM's to the list of packages in 'software manager' with no sucess. When I urpmi a CDROM, the packages appear in 'software manager', but I have never sucessfully managed to install one of the packages. I'm using:- urpmi.addmedia give the cd a label

Re: [expert] Using GDM

2001-06-26 Thread alexander . skwar
On 25.06.2001 00:17:20 Andrew George wrote: Umm...I think that should be DESKTOP=GNOME My bad, you are definitely right. Thx for correcting me

[expert] Thanks for input on Kword

2001-06-26 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My deep thanks for participating in my informal survey of opinions on Kword. Looks like there is quite a diversity of opinion here. Either way, I do look forward to Koffice 1.1 with the new Kword. Then, we'll be in a better position to judge where Kword is going and how

[expert] test

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Strickland
ping!

[expert] libXt.a not found when relink oracle forms60

2001-06-26 Thread Didier Festers
Hello everybody. Here is my problem: I have installed Oracle Developer 6i on my new Mandrake 8 installation. But ld can't find the libXt.a labrary during the relinking job. I found on Suse it is in xdevel.rpm. But on Mandrake where and how can I find the rpm package containing this library?

[expert] LM 8 Kernels , VIA chipsets UDMA100

2001-06-26 Thread Ivan Powis
I have a MS K7T Pro2-A motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset (VT82C686B bridge). Also with IBM DTLA307030 UDMA100 Drive. Originally I had SUSE 7.0 installed, which ran the disk as a UDMA100 drive with reported (hdparm) transfer rates 35 MB/s. Since my other systems run Mandrake I installed LM8 on

[expert] Known issues with my configuration system

2001-06-26 Thread Stefano Bianchi
Ciao, I wanted to know if there are known issue with my system and Mandrake 8, since it keeps on 'freezing' with no apparent reason. I include in this mail the configuration file for my system created with hard-drake. Thank, Stefano ?xml version=1.0? HARDDRAKE VERSION=0.9.3 DEVICES DEVICE

Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
This is how I burned my MandrakeFreq iso: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 MandrakeFreq-20010619-ext.i586.iso I'm thinking that the -data option you're using is the problem. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 07:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting Folks, First off an apology if this

Re: [expert] Audio CDROM is invisable

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
I didn't think it was possible to look at audio cd's with konqueror in mandrake 8. Isn't that a more recently added feature of koqueror? You should be able to play the CDs though. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 06:12 pm, Andy Weir wrote: Hi for the final time (for now), When I try to

Re: [expert] libXt.a not found when relink oracle forms60

2001-06-26 Thread Didier Festers
Thanks. but I finaly found libXt.a is in XFree86-devel. And libXt.so are in XFree86-libs... Now relink goes wel and forms60 runs on my system. On Tuesday 26 June 2001 14:36, Nick Thompson wrote: XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-7mdk.i586.rpm Didier Festers wrote: Hello everybody. Here is my

RE: [expert] LM 8 Kernels , VIA chipsets UDMA100

2001-06-26 Thread David Paik
So the answer is nothing over UDMA33 works safely on the via board in the 2.4.3-20 kernel? -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:38 AM To: Ivan Powis; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM 8 Kernels , VIA chipsets UDMA100 On

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Nathan Callahan
On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 11:57 PM, Craig Sprout wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, How do I sniff the packets coming thru my network connection? At home, I have a cable modem and last night I noticed some activity on it, though I know I'm not doing anything using the network.

[expert] Limiting memory use by users

2001-06-26 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I have an ill-behaved application that sometimes takes all available memory and totally freezes up my machine. Is there anyway to limit user memory? I would like to keep at least 32 MB available at all time by the root user so that I can at least switch to a VC to kill the offending program.

[expert] chattr: Inappropriate ioctl

2001-06-26 Thread cb
I've experienced this in 7.2 as well as 8.0, but it's worked fine in every RH distro I've tried. When I try to run chattr on a particular file, it always returns the following error: chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on /etc/lilo.conf (This time the file being

[expert] lucent orinoco pc cards

2001-06-26 Thread Amaresh Bikki
Hai All, Had anyone used lucent orinoco cards on linux 2.4? I am unable to compile the drivers. Help! Thanks, Amaresh.

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Praedor Tempus
Look for snort. This is perhaps one of the best sniffers/security tools available. It is not difficult to learn, has many switches and configuration possibilities. Just mentioning it is bringing a tear to my eye, I'm getting so choked up... Get snort. You will not be sorry. On Tuesday 26

[expert] passwd verification problem.

2001-06-26 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
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

RE: [expert] LM8.0 Kernel Compile error

2001-06-26 Thread David Paik
Thank you for the assistance! I added the mrproper and install and it worked flawlessly! Thanks for the info! -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] LM8.0 Kernel Compile error On

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Piritta
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 13:26, Praedor Tempus wrote: Look for snort. This is perhaps one of the best sniffers/security tools available. It is not difficult to learn, has many switches and configuration possibilities. Just mentioning it is bringing a tear to my eye, I'm getting so choked

Re: [expert] Linux'ifying Hotmail

2001-06-26 Thread Oscar
The easiest is to use it as webmail (www.hotmail.com) I don't know how to configure mail clients for this kind of account. Salu2, Oscar. El Mar 26 Jun 2001 01:04, escribiste: Hi again-again, at the moment, I use 'the other operating system' for my email. I have LM8.0 and a Hotmail account

[expert]Can't configure network using Draknet

2001-06-26 Thread C. H. Close
Hi All, I am trying to configure an NE200 network card using Draknet. The card is an old ISA jobby and was not rcognised at install time. When I run Draknet it will configure my modem quite happily but when it comes to configuring the network card I select the proper driver but the card

[expert] Fwd: Problems with USB - ACER 620U scanner

2001-06-26 Thread Oscar
Excuse me for re-sending this mail. It's very important for me. Thanks. Salu2, Oscar. -- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: Problems with ACER 620U scanner Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:40:13 +0200 From: Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I have a problem with the USB

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2001-06-26 Thread Lyric
Hey all, I'm trying to set up an ftp site, very basic and running only when I am here, but it's giving me a lot of grief. Now, I've added user myftpuser and selected that user's group to be ftp, but when I try to ftp in I get an error in my syslog that states that PAM_listfile: Refused user

Re: [expert] Linux'ifying Hotmail

2001-06-26 Thread Robert B
I'm able to access yahoo email account with Kmail, but I've never tried hotmail. Robert On Tuesday 26 June 2001 01:57 pm, Oscar wrote: The easiest is to use it as webmail (www.hotmail.com) I don't know how to configure mail clients for this kind of account. Salu2, Oscar. El Mar 26 Jun

[expert] LM 8.0 install problem

2001-06-26 Thread Karl Davenport
Hello all, I have a bit of a problem. My company has several high-volume servers running Mandrake Linux, and all have been recently upgraded to 8.0 with no problems. However, on the two Compaq 1850r (Pentium III 550, Intel chipset) I was just sent, 8.0 will not install. 7.2 installs

Re: [expert] Linux'ifying Hotmail

2001-06-26 Thread Brian J. Burke
Someone posted this to the KDE-USER mailing list a while ago and the consesus was that it can't be done with hotmail. The _only_ utility that can read mail remotely from hotmail is. (drum roll please) .. MS Outlook Express... Go figure. On Tuesday 26 June 2001 18:56, Robert B

[expert] USB Storage problem

2001-06-26 Thread Andrés Villaveces
Dear all, I tried to install an external floppy driver on a LM7.2 machine and on a Red Hat 7.1. The floppy driver is a USB device. It seems to detect correctly the USB part on both distros, but for some reason when I try to mount /mnt/floppy, the system is unable to assign automatically the

Re: [expert] Known issues with my configuration system

2001-06-26 Thread Fran Parker
was wondering a question along these same lines. ML8.0 and KDE2 is absolutely beautiful, at least for the length of time I was able to see it. I could use either xfree 3.x or xfree 4.x with no change to the following problem. I too have locking or freezing on 8.0 I have a KA-6100 viachipset

[expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
Has anyone gotten bad fonts after upgrading to MandrakeFreq for LM8? How can you fix this. I have anti-aliasing turned on, and am using NVidia's drivers for the geforce2. -- Stephen

[expert] URL for moina

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
http://www.santafefish.com

RE: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Some activity? Wow are you lucky. Cable modems are a shared resource. As such you basically share a fat pipe with everyone in a several MILE radius. I frequently use iptraf (set to promiscuous mode) to find out who is hogging the bandwidth. Since it displays the sites (it does DNS resolves

Re: [expert] USB External CDRW

2001-06-26 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 01:27, Julia A. Case wrote: Quoting civileme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It has to be set up as usb-storage (autoload as soon as you connect). cdrecord -scanbus will then see it. Ok, I got usb-storage to load (after loading scsi_mod), but a lsmod shows it as unused)

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-06-26 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 31 May, Sarang Lakare wrote: You are indeed missing something--look at the amount used for buffers and cache. This can be freed by the system when a program issues a malloc() call. It can be grabbed again from the free memory pool when the program releases it and turned to the same

Re: [expert] Known issues with my configuration system

2001-06-26 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 13:04, Stefano Bianchi wrote: Ciao, I wanted to know if there are known issue with my system and Mandrake 8, since it keeps on 'freezing' with no apparent reason. I include in this mail the configuration file for my system created with hard-drake. Thank, Stefano

[expert] Info on iptables?

2001-06-26 Thread Nick Thompson
Can anybody point me to a good source of info on setting up iptables? Thanks, Nick.

Re: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

2001-06-26 Thread Craig Sprout
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, How do I sniff the packets coming thru my network connection? At home, I have a cable modem and last night I noticed some activity on it, though I know I'm not doing anything using the network. How can I sniff what's going on there? Ethereal is a packet

Re: [expert] LM 8 Kernels , VIA chipsets UDMA100

2001-06-26 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 13:46, Ivan Powis wrote: I have a MS K7T Pro2-A motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset (VT82C686B bridge). Also with IBM DTLA307030 UDMA100 Drive. Originally I had SUSE 7.0 installed, which ran the disk as a UDMA100 drive with reported (hdparm) transfer rates 35 MB/s.

Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 25 June 2001 07:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a devil of a time burning the 8.0 ISO's. The command I am using is: cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data Mandrake80-inst.iso and what end up with on the cd is unbootable garbage. The burner works fine using kioscd. Any

Re: [expert] Audio CDROM is invisable

2001-06-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 25 June 2001 06:12 pm, Andy Weir wrote: When I try to access an audio cdrom in Konqueror, I'm locked out (data cdrom's automount fine). Audio CD's can't be mounted, so you can't see them in a file manager. Windoze's uses a brute kludge to do it, but Linux doesn't bother.

[expert] modem connection woes

2001-06-26 Thread syed irfan
hello i have used this isp in NZ with mandrake 7.2 with a hardware internal modem, it woked like a breeze, now when i have switched to mandrake 8.0, it connects but the connection is very slow, eg. i get like 0.5 kbps when i was getting about 5.5kbps in LM 7.2 especially for ftp downloads and

[expert] PCMCIA Cd-Writer woes

2001-06-26 Thread Andrés Villaveces
Hi all! I have difficulties with recognition of a CD-writer from LM7.2 and RH7.1. The problem is as follows: the CD-writer is a PCMCIA. The card itself seems to be recognized (it beeps, but I do not know what log file should keep track of this). But when I try to burn the CD, xcdroast complains