Well, I have the same card, running with a Gateway 17 monitor and
Mandrake 8.1 at home. I haven't yet tried 8.2. I can send you a copy
of my XF86Config file later if you wish. Send me your private e-mail
if you want me to do this.
-Cheers,
-sen
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Chad
I just installed 8.2 on a system with the ATI All-IN-Wonder 128 (Rage
Pro). No problems at all. I did the install, not the upgrade and
chose the XFree-4.2 3D-Accelerated version.
I suggest that you do the fresh install, not the upgrade. Save your
config files and don't reformat.
Good luck!
I have this kind of setup with only one nic in each machine. But I
have a static connection to the internet. Maybe with DHCP you want
one card for the local lan and another for the DHCP.
In any event, here is my setup, including WIN XP.
I have a multiport switch which is connected to the
Hello,
In Mandrake 80, I had no problem with remote printing via cups
After upgrading to 81, I can't print from remote hosts Local
printing is fine
I don't even know what the queue is called
I have a simple default setup on the parallel port on my new
system Is it on /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1?
I put the commands at the end of /etc/rcd/rclocal
I'm sure there is a way using the network management tools
-Cheers,
-sen
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, [iso-8859-1] Francisco Suárez wrote:
Hello:
I have a question I'm doing tests with route add command, but when I reboot
the computer theese
Hello,
I recently upgraded an 8.0 box PII-300 to 8.1 on a P4-2GHz.
There are two problems.
1. When I try to load xemacs, it takes around 20 seconds to come up.
This did not happen with 8.0 and it does not happen with emacs.
2. When I try to play some mpeg-1 files with mtv the video
is
I have had the following problems in installing 8.0
1. the mkbootdisk is skipped (I have no choice in the matter)
2. there is no choice to boot either of Win98 and linux. Lilo sets things
up to only boot linux.
I know how to fix the above things, but IMHO the installation should
give the
Hello,
My system lost power last night, and now I can't get X to run. Says
something like can't find fixed fonts.
Is there a simple fix, or do I have to reinstall X again?
TIA,
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
again?
TIA,
-sen
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| Michigan State University
Hello,
I'm hoping that there is someone who can help. I sent this message
several times and got some suggestions which did not work.
After a system crash I lost the capability to start X.
I get the error messages
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
could not open default font 'fixed'
?
TIA,
-sen
Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
Moved to:
/usr/share/man
Ric
Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
Where have the man pages gone? e.g. /usr/man etc?
TIA,
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services
OK, It's just setting MANPATH. I now feel better.
I guess after upgrading many systems, I just expected, say a link from
/usr/share/man to /usr/man
Thanks for the info.
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Where have the man pages gone? e.g. /usr/man etc?
TIA,
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
I would simply remove /etc/ptmp (that is what you meant, right?)
If you are worried about removing it, simply move it to another name first
to be safe.
mv /etc/ptmp /etc/ptmp.orig
and see if that fixes your problem.
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
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| Mathematics Department ||
| Michigan State University | telephone: 517-355
Hello,
I am using Mandrake 8.0. When I print a postscript file with graphics as
well as text, pages subsequent to the page with graphics all print on the
same page. The form feed does not seem to work. I tried this on several
Mandrake 8.0 installations and the problem seems to be there. With
Hello,
Anyone able to burn multi-write CDRW's with an ide RW drive in Mandrake
8.0? I can burn CD-R's just fine, but CDRW disks fail each time.
cdrecord -scanbus reports the drive at address 0,0,0 and that is what I
try to use.
TIA,
-sen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
Hello,
I have several machines with Mandrake 8.0. On the newer ones, netscape
works fine, but on the older PII-300 I am getting bus errors and netscape
won't load. This is with the standard netscape-comminicator-4.77-4mdk
which is shipped with the system.
Any ideas?
TIA,
-sen
Want to
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| Mathematics Department ||
| Michigan State
Ok, you have /boot/vmlinuz as the image for both kernels. You should
have the two different images listed separately.
Try putting a different image e.g.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-new
in your /etc/lilo.conf file
where /boot/vmlinuz-new is a link to your new kernel image.
-sen
On Mon, 13 Aug
Hello,
I am thinking of upgrading the RedHat 6.1 on my laptop to Mandrake 8.0.
However, with the RH I could not get X working properly without a lot of
trouble. The laptop is a Gateway 9300XL. It supports the same X as the
Dell inspiron 7500. Anyone out there running Mandrake 8.0 on one of
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Hello,
Anyone get kdvi to work in Mandrake 8.0. It worked just fine in 7.2.
Here is what I get
Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display pokie.tcimet.net:10.0.
QObject::connect: No such slot KViewPart::slotSave()
QObject::connect: (sender name: 'file_save_as')
QObject::connect: (receiver
Hello, --
Anyone get kdvi to work in Mandrake 8.0. It worked just fine in 7.2.
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| Sheldon E. Newhouse | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Here is what I get |
Mathematics Department | |
| Michigan State University
Hi,
Sorry for the junk in the previous post. I had a mailer daemon problem
and inserted it into pine which I found doesn't like new lines.
Here are the date from trying kdvi
Xlib: extension RENDER missing on display pokie.tcimet.net:12.0.
QObject::connect: No such slot KViewPart::slotSave()
I haven't kept up with the recent developments, but in the old days,
one would only need the .config file that is used to make the kernel
that is shipped with the distribution.
Is this available somewhere?
-sen
pablito writes:
is there some program that compiles the kernel source and
Hello,
I am trying to configure iptables.
When I run InteractiveBastille, it bombs out with the following error
message.
InteractiveBastille
Using Tk user interface module.
Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
Can't locate Bastille_Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
Hello,
What has happened to ip_masquerade in 8.0? I can't find the
modules. Is there a substitute? Do I have to make a new kernel and
build the modules myself?
TIA,
-sen
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
suppose I should set it as /dev/sda or
/dev/sda5. Which one and why?
TIA,
-sen
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| Sheldon E. Newhouse|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Mathematics Department
Hello,
I seem to have a corrupted bootloader, so I booted up the
installation cdrom with
linux rescue
The aic7xxx.o module gets loaded, but I don't know how to mount my
root partition and re-run lilo.
The partition is on /dev/sda5
I tried
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /tmp
lsmod shows that
Hello,
I just installed 8.0 and can't telnet into the host. I am running
both the telnet server and client. It gives me a connection
refused. I looked for /etc/inetd.conf and there is none. What
should I do?
TIA,
-sen
Well,
I just had to start xinetd in /etc/rc.d/init.d
Is this written in the documentation somewhere? If not, it should be.
Also, I really miss an index in the manuals included with the distribution.
-Cheers,
-sen
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
thought that I could change to
a group that I am not in if I have the group password. What's wrong or am
I doing something incorrect?
Sheldon.
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... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack
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.
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Cheers,
Sheldon Lee-Wen
Systems Analyst
Design
nice tools.
However, maintainability is a s.o.b. This is debian's great strength and it
would be nice to have an OS that's both easy to install and easy to
maintain.
Anyone else like to see apt on mandrake?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
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"..
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.
off XFree4's tdfx and dri modules?
I'm also assuming the config file is /etx/X11/XF86Config-4
is that correct?
Cheers,
Sheldon.
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"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of wisdom
Does anyone know if the kde2 rpms in cooker can be redirected
to /opt/kde2 instead of /usr?
Hi,
Question. In alot of burning frontends they recognise
my scsi-3 burner but not my ide cdrom drive for the reader.
Any idea how I can configure the system so that it'll be
recognised? I belive that most of them are getting the
device information from cdrecord -scanbus
Cheers,
Sheldon
Mallard wrote:
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
How do I filter out Mallard's hot wind using qmail?
Go to your options menu and set it to move messages with "Mallard" in
them to another mail directory. That should do it.
yup - under netscape edit-message filters-new- ... you get the idea.
While you are filtering Mallard,
PLEASE filter those GOD DAMN out of office replies!
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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
Ralph wrote:
Hey All,
I use grip to make my mp3's. Is there a program for Linux
that will convert them back so I can burn cd's to work in reguler
cd players??
Hmm. I'm not sure but checkout sox,
or there is a gui tool called eroaster:
http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/projects/eroaster/
that
Hi,
I made rpm's for kisocd-0.6.3-1 both src and binary.
Anyone want them, or is there a place I can upload them?
Sheldon.
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"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will, hatred and
violence are the result of a lack of w
in the shadows
watching this list but they are silent as are many of the sys admins and
networking guru's who used to be very active.
Unfortunately a lot of us are really busy too. We help when we can,
with what we can off the top of our heads.
Sheldon.
checkout:
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~robbie/linux/itouch.html
Ralph Day wrote:
Check the Newbie list archives. This has been discussed a few times there.
- Ralph
- Original Message -
From: "Joe Chen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000
Ditto for everything that Ellick said.
I do EVERYTHING in vi, including programming, etc.
It's fast, reliable, works over telnet, etc.
You are most surely asking for flames if you are posting
that kind of stuff here. Alot of us, incl. me are
unix/linux sysadmins. When you are doing remote
#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.
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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
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
uot;
/root/bin/up-dyndns $DEVICE #this is the script!
else
echo " failed."
exit 1
fi
Hope this can help someone :)
Sheldon.
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===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will,
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:
uot;
/root/bin/up-dyndns $DEVICE #this is the script!
else
echo " failed."
exit 1
fi
Hope this can help someone :)
Sheldon.
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===
"... all thoughts of selfish desire, ill-will,
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.
--
===
"..
[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:
)
and all of the skins (pretty much). Definately a solid dist of the
kdevelop
tools, the new gdb and insight, blender, more themes, Geheimnis,
Acroread4,
portsentry, logcheck, hostsentry.
You know lots of stuff.
Well, you asked. :)
Sheldon
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 =
,
Sheldon.
it not to use it. It is VERY good at mangling your files. Just try
it
on a partition that holds a relatively large file. It's very risky at
best,
especially if you run VMWare, count on your vmdisk being totally hosed.
Sheldon
.1.2.0*
Alot of programs assume you have mesa installed as libMesa** I believe
that that's the way mesa installs if you compile it from source. (At
least
last time I did it a while ago it did).
Sheldon.
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==
"Com
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.
an port my
document over. I'd REALLY like it if it had an open,
sane file format but I think right now that would be asking too
much. (Hopefully KWord will mature to the point where
I can import my docs to a reasonable extent).
Cheer
windows. I ran starcraft and msword.
However, like I said its still really unstable.
Sheldon.
--
==
"Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply."
-Jon katz
==
s.
It's *excellent* for large documents.
I've already got it installed. I've used it before when I worked
at Nortel. However, it's VERY not-user-friendly. I think the UI
sucks. Although, it does produce VERY nice output.
Cheer
you'll see all the old contents in it (if you look
at it with a "normal" editor. That behaviour caused some
embarrassing moments.
That makes sense. It was a file that I had had for a long time,
many years, so I'm not surprised
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.
--
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
for
2.3.x most likely
won't work with a 2.2.x kernel.
Sheldon.
tar writer it'll segfault. The solution? Remove the users .netscape
directory. I don't know why but this seems to fix it every time.
Go figure. Crappy product. Can't wait for KDE2's Konquorer or
maybe Mozilla under Linux will shape up
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)
,gid=100,umask=002 0 0
change uid, gid and umask to whatever you want or just remove them.
If you have problems let me know.
(I'm gzipping it to avoid those problems I was talking about).
Sheldon.
--
==
"Defini
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
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