Re: [expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[Viktor Lakics]

You are rightdave, I overlooked that. I do not have "digest"
subscription.
Viktor
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:31:40PM -0500, b5dave wrote:
> Bob is talking specifically about the *digest* version of the list. My
> "reply-to's" work fine, but I *don't* get the digest version. Is there
> anyone here with the digest version with the same problem as Bob? I may
> be wrong, but I'm assuming that Viktor didn't catch the *digest* aspect
> of Bob's complaint. If I'm wrong, Viktor, please accept my apologies.

[expert] Upgrading to X v4

[Michael Leone]

I'm interested in upgrading from my current 3.3.6 (which came with LM
7.2), and moving up to the latest X 4.0.2.

1. I'm using a Diamond Viper V770 video board (i.e., Rvia TNT2 chip).
I've heard both - that it doesn't work well (causes slow downs), and
that it works well. :-)

2. If I do decide to upgrade, am I correct in assuming that all I would
need to do is use Mandrake Update, and choose anything that says
"XFree", v4?

2a. Does Xconfigurator still work? Or has it been replaced with a
different config tool?

-- 
 
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Registered Linux user #201348 

"Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing
and dreadful idolatry took place there!"
Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century

Re: [expert] Tape drive Question(s)

[David Boles]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:59:20 -0500, Mark Weaver said:

> On Monday 15 January 2001 10:36 am, you wrote:
>  > While going through some boxes of "old stuff" I came across an Iomega
>  > parallel port Easy 800 tape drive and some old tapes. The tapes conform
>  > to Travan (TR-1) format and QIC-80 format.
>  >
>  > Is there any way to use this tape drive, with Linux, long enough to get
>  > some files written with Iomega Windows 3.1 software? My son used this
>  > drive to store some graphics files when he was in high school and I was
>  > just wondering if I could retrieve them.
>  >
>  > Where do I go, what do I read, what software do I need? Preferably
>  > something GUI.
>  
>  David,
>  
>  Theres a cool little DOS like GUI on Mandrake called Taper. You start it from 
>  a command line like this:
>  
>   taper -T 
>  
>  My tape drive is SCSI so I use a command something like this;
>  
>   taper -T st0
>  
>  I'm not real sure exactly what the device name for a paralell port device 
>  such as yours, but I'm sure the program info might be able to tell you a 
>  little more about it.

Thanks Mark. I'll give it "look at" tomorrow.

-- 

David Boles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[Praedor Tempus]

I'm still trying.  I DID download and apply the latest heretic2 update/patch 
but this caused more problems - I cannot even get to the game menu now, it 
crashes immediately.

On Monday 15 January 2001 14:07, you wrote:
[...]
>
> > or Loki is not keeping up with linux.
>
> No, Loki have updates the game since its original release quite
> significantly. I think Loki do a brillaint job and have stacks of

[...]

-- 
Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain

Praedor

Re: [expert] Xfce

[William Bouterse]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:11:05 rob wrote:

> I have recently been using Xfce as my window manager and am very happy
> with 
> its zip and economy of resource usage.  However, I am starting to become 
> quite irritated with a recurring appearance of a box that pops up
> entitled: 
> Subprocess Diagnostic
> If anyone has a clue as to what the above is all about and how to prevent
what is happening, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob

Rob!

I have been using xfce for several years as my main WM.

Click on the "pallette looking icon on the main-panel above
the "quit" button.
Click the XFce tab
Unclick the "Show subprocess diagnostic dialog"
Click "Apply" then "okay"

That "should" take care of it.

William Bouterse
Talkeetna Alaska
 

Re: [expert] Tape drive Question(s)

[Mark Weaver]

On Monday 15 January 2001 10:36 am, you wrote:
> While going through some boxes of "old stuff" I came across an Iomega
> parallel port Easy 800 tape drive and some old tapes. The tapes conform
> to Travan (TR-1) format and QIC-80 format.
>
> Is there any way to use this tape drive, with Linux, long enough to get
> some files written with Iomega Windows 3.1 software? My son used this
> drive to store some graphics files when he was in high school and I was
> just wondering if I could retrieve them.
>
> Where do I go, what do I read, what software do I need? Preferably
> something GUI.

David,

Theres a cool little DOS like GUI on Mandrake called Taper. You start it from 
a command line like this:

taper -T 

My tape drive is SCSI so I use a command something like this;

taper -T st0

I'm not real sure exactly what the device name for a paralell port device 
such as yours, but I'm sure the program info might be able to tell you a 
little more about it.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail

[Mark Weaver]

To tell you the truth I much rather Sendmail over postfix. It's a much more 
robust program, and Majordomo won't run with Postfix. Now about this insecure 
stuff. Where? As far as I know Sendmail is a mail program. It's job is to 
send and receive mail not provide for system security. Thats a job better 
suited for Portsentry and Ipchains.
-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds
On Monday 15 January 2001 01:04 pm, you wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb questions.
>
> I once tried postfix and I think I must have cocked it up
> horribly.
>
> It was the version from Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 I think,
> does the new version work better or did I schplum something
> up when setting it all up?
>
> What happened was, I noticed that pine and any other
> e mail app would not be able to pick up e mail,
> does the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail as in sendmail
> or another folder and is it in the same plain text format?
>
> Where might I have gibbled up the config for postfix,
> as I would like to try it again and see if I can have a
> little newer running system and make some improvements,
> and what would be a safe way to migrate from sendmail
> to postfix without losing any mails?
>
> Many thanks for your patience.
>
> Vic
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if
> > not, its easy to compile. Almost scary easy.
> >
> > Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated,
> > insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be
> > able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to
> > configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.

Re: [expert] kernel compile hangs machine and cups problems in LM 7.2

[Mark Weaver]

Here's an idea...While you've got the computer running start kpm and watch to 
see what else is running. You should be able to spot the offending program 
draining system resources and put a stop to it. It sounds though like 
something is threading out of control.

On Monday 15 January 2001 02:39 am, you wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I just installed LM7.2 in my PC, and after the install I wanted to
> compile a custom kernel, but something bad happened. After doing 'make
> bzImage', the computer gets slower and slower to respond, and after some
> 2 minutes it freezes, but there a lot of HD activity. I left the
> computer overnight, and in the morning it was still 'locked' and with
> heavy HD activity, so I had to reset it. I've reinstalled LM 7.2 twice,
> but the problem persists. I tried with kernel 2.2.18, and got the same
> result. If I make a 'make modules' before 'make bzImage', it takes like
> 20 minutes to complete, which is way too long in my opinion. My PC is a
> Celeron566 with 96MB RAM and a VIA mobo.
>
> My other problem is with cups. During instalation, the printer setup
> went flawlessly, and the test print page was ok. Then, after the first
> login, i wanted to print a document, and nothing happened. I opened
> 'kups', and it reported the no rpnter was installed, so I proceeded to
> add a printer, but it reported that no printer port was found. Then, I
> loged in as root, but couldn't print either. 'kups' still reported no
> installed printers and 'qtcups' gave me this erros message: "couldn't
> connect to cups server". I checked, and 'cups' was initialized at
> bootup. Then I launched the printer utility in DrakConf, and there the
> printer was present, and the test page was printed. Now 'kups' reported
> the printer as installed, and I could print from within any X
> application. After rebooting the system, the problem came up again, and
> only after just opening and closing the printer utility in DrakConf did
> the printer work (There's no need to set up the printer again).
>
> Has anyone else experienced these problems? Is there a fix?
>
> Thank you.

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," 
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

[expert] error running pppd

[Tib]

Ok, after a bit of running around, I worked it out to this now. when I run
'pppd noauth', I get this error and then it exits:

Jan 15 19:10:48 unica pppd[24573]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jan 15 19:10:48 unica modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3
Jan 15 19:10:48 unica pppd[24573]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Invalid argument(22)
Jan 15 19:10:48 unica pppd[24573]: Exit.

Make sense to someone other than me? I can't find where that module is in the
kernel (2.4.0). 

   
Tib 

Re: [expert] Printing problem with Netatalk-1.5pre3-1 / CUPS

[Michael O'Henly]

Hi Alex...

Thanks very much for your reply! I've followed your first step...

> To get it working the first thing that I did was create the following
> file as /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd  This lets things that want to print to
> lpd find something that simulates lpd

> #
> # cups-lpd -- print from mac
> #
> service printer
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> user = lp
> server = /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
> }

...but I'm getting stuck (although closer) on the second step.

> then tweaked papd.conf to look like this to print on the "Basement"
> printer attached to Homer

> Basement:Basement@Homer:\
>  :pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d Basement:\
>  :op=daemon:\
>  :pd=/etc/cups/ppd/Basement.ppd

In my setup, pravda.tenzo.net is the linux box that the printer hp4050 is 
connected to. As you can see, I'm stumbling a bit on syntax. I've tried 
various permutations of your papd.conf, including:

hp4050:\
  :pr=lp:\
  :op=nobody:\
  :pd=/etc/atalk/ppds/hp4050.ppd:

This was the original papd.conf I used with Red Hat / lpr. 

hp4050:hp4050@pravda:\
  :pr=lp:\
  :op=daemon:\
  :pd=/etc/atalk/ppds/hp4050.ppd

In both of the above cases, when I print from a Mac, I get the original error 
messaage: "The document [doc_name] could not be printed. A connection was 
made to the printer, but the printer is currently not responding to queries." 
(MacOS Error -8993)

hp4050:hp4050@pravda:\
  :pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d hp4050:\
  :op=daemon:\
  :pd=/etc/atalk/ppds/hp4050.ppd

hp4050:\
  :pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d hp4050:\
  :op=daemon:\
  :pd=/etc/atalk/ppds/hp4050.ppd

In both these cases, the print job spools and then clears in the LaserJet 
status window. It's as though it has spooled and gone to print, but never 
does. No error on the Mac end.

I'm thinking it has to do with authentication but I don't know enough about 
how that works. Would you have any suggestions?

Thanks again.

M.

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

Re: [expert] wu-ftpd problems

[Vincent Danen]

On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 07:41:05PM -0600, Terry Tremaine wrote:

> I'm having problems with wu-ftpd. When users attempt to login they get a
> message "Connected to my.domain.com" and then nothing. I think this indicates
> inetd is working but cannot hand off the task to wu-ftpd. I have installed the
> latest version. In fact, I had no problem with the old one. When I tried
> reinstalling the old one it didn't work. I think a config file has been changed
> but WHAT? and WHERE?
> 
> When I run a local port scan it shows port 21 up and running (again indicating
> inetd is working fine ). 

Which version of wu-ftpd?  If you're using the updated version via
MandrakeUpdaet, please upgrade again if this is for any version of
Mandrake less than 7.2.  The pam configuration files (/etc/pam.d/ftp)
are different between 7.2 and 7.1 and the 7.2 file was mistakenly used
in all of the updates instead of just the 7.2 update.  This was
corrected today, so please try to update to the .6mdk for 6.x and
7.0/7.1 if that is what version of Mandrake you are using.

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Current Linux uptime: 5 days 8 hours 17 minutes.

[expert] Xfce

[rob]

Greetings all,

I have recently been using Xfce as my window manager and am very happy with 
its zip and economy of resource usage.  However, I am starting to become 
quite irritated with a recurring appearance of a box that pops up entitled: 
Subprocess Diagnostic

The last message that appeared in this box was: "unknown child process 2904 
died"

Just a few minutes ago, it popped up with: usr/bin/xfhelp:/usr/share/xfce=:No 
such file or directory netscape-communicator:not running on display:0.0

[I was running Netscape at the time with no problems]

More typically though, this i the message I seem to be getting with an 
irritating regularity: QObject::connect:No such signal KIO::DeleteJob::data 
(KIO::job*, const QByteArray&)
QObject::connect:(sendername: 'job')
QOjbect:: connect:(receivername "unnamed')

If anyone has a clue as to what the above is all about and how to prevent 
what is happening, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,
Rob

[expert] wu-ftpd problems

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello

I'm having problems with wu-ftpd. When users attempt to login they get a
message "Connected to my.domain.com" and then nothing. I think this indicates
inetd is working but cannot hand off the task to wu-ftpd. I have installed the
latest version. In fact, I had no problem with the old one. When I tried
reinstalling the old one it didn't work. I think a config file has been changed
but WHAT? and WHERE?

When I run a local port scan it shows port 21 up and running (again indicating
inetd is working fine ). 

--Terry Tremaine 

Re: [expert] Printing problem with Netatalk-1.5pre3-1 / CUPS

[A V Flinsch]

On Monday 15 January 2001 18:45, you wrote:
> Hi there...
>
> Are there any significant issues with this version of Netatalk that
> would make it preferable to fall back to an earlier release?
>
> My network is a linux box with two Macs on an internal network (eth0)
> and a cable internet connection (eth1). Connected locally to the linux
> box is an HP LaserJet 4050. Previously, I have run
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4 under Red Hat 6.2, which allowed the two
> Macs to print to the 4050 with no problems.
>
> I'm now using Mandrake 7.2 on the linux box and I've installed
> Netatalk-1.5pre3-1. Some of the complicating factors are (1) that I'm
> running a firewall, and (2) that I'm running CUPS (versus lpr under Red
> Hat).
>
> When I print from either Mac (running different versions of MacOS, both
> of which printed correctly using etatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4), I get an
> error that says, "The document [doc_name] could not be printed. A
> connection was made to the printer, but the printer is currently not
> responding to queries." This is MacOS Error -8993.
>
> I definitely have connectivity -- i.e., I can ping both ways and the
> Macs can get to the internet. I've temporarily taken down the firewall
> and this has had no visible effect (plus I've added a rule which gives
> the two Macs full access to the linux box when the firewall is
> running).
>
> So I've concluded that this is a problem with my CUPS configuration and
> I'm kinda dreading troubleshooting it.
>
> If you have any experience with CUPS in a Mac/Linux environment , I'd
> be really pleased to hear from you. (In the meantime, I'm going to
> remove this version of Netatalk and install the older one.)
>


I have the older version of netatalk, but I had the same problem when 
first using cups

To get it working the first thing that I did was create the following 
file as /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd  This lets things that want to print to 
lpd find something that simulates lpd
 
#
# cups-lpd -- print from mac
#
 
service printer
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = lp
server = /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd
} 



then tweaked papd.conf to look like this to print on the "Basement" 
printer attached to Homer

Basement:Basement@Homer:\
 :pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d Basement:\
 :op=daemon:\
 :pd=/etc/cups/ppd/Basement.ppd 


Restarted xinetd, cups & atalk and everything worked OK. I assume that 
you had a working papd & ppds configs previously. I did not need to 
change mine


-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

[expert] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

[Christopher Molnar]

Hello,

I have just uploaded RPM's for KDE 2.1 CVS as of 2001-01-15. These RPM's are 
available on any Mandrake-devel (cooker) mirror site. You can find a list of 
the mirror sites on: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/. These RPM's are 
for Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 7.1 users.

The files are in the Mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1 directory on 
these mirrors. The files where placed on the master internal site at 20:11 
EST (-05:00) so they may take a while to distribute. These will be the last 
Mandrake 7.2 Update RPM's prior to Beta 2 (I'll be out of town).

Please report packaging bugs to me. All code and functionality related bugs 
should go to: http://bugs.kde.org, or choose Help--> Report Bugs from any KDE 
2 application.

These updates are not supported by Mandrake, which is why they are in the 
unsupported directories.

Also, New England Business Services, LLC,  at http://www.nebsllc.com , is 
making a limited number of KDE 2.1 update CD's available to U.S. customers. 
Advance ordering is required and the profit from these CD's helps defray the 
expenses of creating and distributing updates.

-Chris

Re: [expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[b5dave]

Bob is talking specifically about the *digest* version of the list. My
"reply-to's" work fine, but I *don't* get the digest version. Is there
anyone here with the digest version with the same problem as Bob? I may
be wrong, but I'm assuming that Viktor didn't catch the *digest* aspect
of Bob's complaint. If I'm wrong, Viktor, please accept my apologies.

On 15-Jan-2001 Viktor Lakics wrote:
> This is a *REPLY* to your message. It goes to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think your email client does not
> handles that correctly...FYI, I use mutt under LM7.2.
> 
> Viktor
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:28:02PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
>> Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this
>> list?!  Replies get sent to "expert-request", which then fail.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 

Re: [expert] Bt 878, bcast2000 et al

[Ajmal Ali]

I am using Hauppauge Wintv Go BT 878 and it works great with both picture and 
sound. If you are not getting sound .. then try using the audio mixer  
program and turn up the line input setting .. the Kwintv shipped with 
mandrake 7.2 doesn't have sound mixer enabled in it .. try Kwintv 0.8.5 .. :)

If that doesn't work .. let me know .. and i'll send over all the settings I 
use

Regards

Ali

On Monday 15 January 2001  7:27 am, you wrote:
> When our kernel is compiled right (i2c, video4lin,  msp3400, bt878 (in new
> 2.4 or bt804) as modules, you have to make folowing changest to
> /etc/modules.conf:
>
> # i2c
> alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
> options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
> options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
>
> # bttv
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-1 bttv
>
> # make alsa + msp3400 play nicely
> # options snd-card-ens snd_index=0
> # options msp3400 mixer=1
>
> pre-install bttv; /sbin/modprobe -k msp3400; /sbin/modprobe -k tvmixer;
> /sbin/modprobe -k tuner type=5
>
> options bttv card=10 radio=1 pll=1
> options tuner debug=1 type=5
>
> post-install bttv /sbin/modprobe -k msp3400; /sbin/modprobe -k tvmixer
>
> this works well for me
> maybe you have to change your tuner type
>
> Let me now if it works for you to
>
> Luk
>
> Op maandag 15 januari 2001 05:11, schreef u:
> > Thats why my Bt-878 is in a windows box right now, because I never could
> > get it to work with linux. Bt-848 support is in linux and it works. But
> > I have never had anyone else with a Bt-878 confirm that theirs is
> > working either.
> >
> > Tom Berkley
> >
> > William Bouterse wrote:
> > > WinTV-Go model 190
> > > Harddrake identifies it as Bt 878
> > > LM7.2 -- kernel-2.2.17-21mdk
> > > video yes sound no
> > > I have video working
> > > I Cannot get a squeak from sound.
> > > xawtv gives static,
> > > bcast2000 give silence.
> > > I do have the little audio patch cord in place
> > > between tv card audio out and sound audio in.
> > >
> > > Sound card works great for everything else!
> > >
> > > Any help would be appreciated
> > >
> > > William Bouterse
> > > Talkeetna Alaska

-- 
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
-- Cary Grant

Re: [expert] Gnome theme Stuck and won't leave!

[Mark Weaver]

Awesome! thank you Michel.

-- 
Mark

"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."

Linus Torvalds

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Delete your ~/.gtkrc - perhaps for some reason the thing is stuck (no write
> permission?)
>
> Michel
>
> On Monday 15 January 2001 01:08, you wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Last week I was running Gnome for a bit, and I loaded a theme with the
> > theme manager for Gnome. Now I can't get the darn thing to unload. No
> > matter what I do with the darn thing some attributes of that theme are
> > being loaded when the GUI loads for certain apps. Most heavily effected is
> > Mozilla. It's driving me crazy. What can I do to clear this theme from
> > where ever it's hiding so I can get Gnome's default appearance back? I
> > don't run it often but when I do I like to have it look normal. Not to
> > mention that this effects every app that makes use of Gnomes libraries and
> > widgets.
> >
> > Help!
>
> - --
> To err is humor.
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Re: [expert] Create new devices is BIGTIME broken in KDE 2.1

[Kelley Terry]

Sorry about that.  The way I did was to go to that directory and right click 
and creat a link to new application.  I just tried it the way I told you and 
it doesn't work.  But, you can go to that directory, right click, create link 
to application, change the name to konqueror and save it by exiting.  Then 
open that file with an editor and replace all the text with the text I gave 
you and then save it.  I just tried that and it works fine.  Let me know if 
that works.  If not we'll get another work-around for you.


On Sunday 14 January 2001 10:33 am, you wrote:
> I gave it a shot as you indicate but it failed utterly.  I create the file
> containing the text you specify and place where you specify.  It is there.
> I then run update-menus and...it vanishes.  It ceases to exist.  It's
> deleted.
>
> On Saturday 13 January 2001 23:56, you wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 January 2001 10:44 am, you wrote:
> > > I once thought I had this fixed but it isn't so.
> > >
> > > I ask you to indulge me here if you are using KDE 2.1.  Delete the
> > > desktop icon for your CDROM device.   Now try to re-create it using the
> > > desktop menu for Create new.
>
> [...]
>
> > This fix hopefully will work without kde writing over it.  It wrote over
> > my last fix.
> >
> > Create a file with an editor with the following contents:
> >
> > [Desktop Entry]
> > Comment=
> > Comment[C]=
> > Exec=/usr/bin/kfmclient openProfile filemanagement
> > Icon=kfm
> > InitialPreference=2
> > MimeType=inode/blockdevice;inode/directory
> > Name=File Manager
> > Name[C]=File Manager
> > ServiceTypes=
> > SwallowExec=
> > SwallowTitle=
> > Terminal=false
> > TerminalOptions=
> > Type=Application
> > X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
> > X-KDE-Username=
> >
> > Save it as:
> >
> > /root/.kde/share/applnk/Applications/File tools/konqueror.desktop
> >
> > Then do an update-menus.
> >
> > Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[expert] DRI direct sloow, how to debug/trace (please)?

[Svante Signell]

Hello list,

I've been trying for a while now to get my 3dfx Voodoo Banshee to work
in openGL mode together with X4/DRI and 2.2/2.4 kernels. Starting with
MDK 7.2 (X-4.0.1, kernel-2.2.17, glibc-2.1) and upgrading to the
cooker distribution (X-4.0.2, kernel 2.4.0/2.2.18, glibc-2.2) still
some games (such as UT) don't run fully HW accelerated :( For X-3.3.x
Glide was a usable alternative for those games supporting glide2x/3x.

The situation is as follows:

glxinfo reports direct rendering
gears: OK around 600 fps

Q3A: OK, no problem, using libGL.so.1,2 from Mesa-3.4
HG2: OK
Heretic 2: OK after full screen patch 1.06a
sof-demo: OK
descent3-demo: not OK
ut(436): not OK. The introductory video 'never' finishes. Sound hacks
on and off and video runs at normal speed, the suddenly slows down,
normal speed again, slows down, creeps Same when in game mode.
Since the Glide libraries in UT requires libglide.so.2 and this is not
supported in X4, this option is no alternative!? 

The following list is what I'm suspecting to be problematic: 

1. IRQ?
Both the sound card and the Banshee (AGP) card share the same
interrupt, 5. Earlier a 100MB Ethernet card was in the slot, _also_
sharing IRQ 5. Removing the NIC did not change anything, now the NIC
is on IRQ 3 and the slot with IRQ 5 occupies a pcTV card.

2. Sound card?
The sound card (on board) shares the same IRQ 5 with the Banshee
card. Unloading all sound drivers before starting X did not change
anything.

3. Memory/disk swapping?
For the problematic games more than 100 % of total memory (128 MB) is
used. If virtual memory is used swapping to disk slows down?? Also two
processes are running, is this normal (single CPU, 450MHz)?

4. AGP?
It it normal for the 4.0.2 Banshee driver not to use agpgart?

# /sbin/lsmod

ModuleSizeUsed by
tdfx  37360   2
agpgart   18960   0 [tdfx]
  |
not used??

Please, anyone give me a hint how to proceed the tracking down the
causes of problems. More info on request.

Thanks in advance,
Svante

[expert] Printing problem with Netatalk-1.5pre3-1 / CUPS

[Michael O'Henly]

Hi there...

Are there any significant issues with this version of Netatalk that would 
make it preferable to fall back to an earlier release?

My network is a linux box with two Macs on an internal network (eth0) and a 
cable internet connection (eth1). Connected locally to the linux box is an HP 
LaserJet 4050. Previously, I have run netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4 under Red 
Hat 6.2, which allowed the two Macs to print to the 4050 with no problems.

I'm now using Mandrake 7.2 on the linux box and I've installed 
Netatalk-1.5pre3-1. Some of the complicating factors are (1) that I'm running 
a firewall, and (2) that I'm running CUPS (versus lpr under Red Hat).

When I print from either Mac (running different versions of MacOS, both of 
which printed correctly using etatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-4), I get an error that 
says, "The document [doc_name] could not be printed. A connection was made to 
the printer, but the printer is currently not responding to queries." This is 
MacOS Error -8993.

I definitely have connectivity -- i.e., I can ping both ways and the Macs can 
get to the internet. I've temporarily taken down the firewall and this has 
had no visible effect (plus I've added a rule which gives the two Macs full 
access to the linux box when the firewall is running).

So I've concluded that this is a problem with my CUPS configuration and I'm 
kinda dreading troubleshooting it. 

If you have any experience with CUPS in a Mac/Linux environment , I'd be 
really pleased to hear from you. (In the meantime, I'm going to remove this 
version of Netatalk and install the older one.)

Cheers.

M.

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

Re: [expert] Oracle on Mandrake

[A V Flinsch]

On Monday 15 January 2001 10:43, you wrote:
> I have also installed Oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on mandrake 7.0 & 7.2
> the only issue I came across where that the install had to be done from
> Gnome.
> I could not get past the "next" button in KDE.


I forgot about that problem. I think I ended up doing the install from 
BlackBox.


-- 
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [expert] test, sorry

[Rusty Carruth]

Rusty Carruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a theory, which I'm testing, sorry...

here's part two of that test, which I will report on in a moment.

thanks for bearing with me.

rc

[expert] test, sorry

[Rusty Carruth]

I have a theory, which I'm testing, sorry...

rc

Re: [expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[Anthony Russello]

I don't seem to be hacing any problems with it either.  The reply to
address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I am currently using pine for all of my email

> This is a *REPLY* to your message. It goes to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think your email client does not
> handles that correctly...FYI, I use mutt under LM7.2.
>
> Viktor
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:28:02PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> > Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this list?!  
>Replies get sent to "expert-request", which then fail.
> >
> > Bob
> >
>

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- Douglas Adams

Re: [expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[Bill Kenworthy]

I have found that sometimes (I have not looked as to why) that the
reply-to on this list sometimes defaults to the list, or often to the
original poster of the message.  This is the only list I know of that
does this.  It seems that the dulpicate message problem has been fixed
(well, I havent had anywhere near the number of dups as before) so maybe
the list manager could look into this as well.

BillK

Viktor Lakics wrote:
> 
> This is a *REPLY* to your message. It goes to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think your email client does not
> handles that correctly...FYI, I use mutt under LM7.2.
> 
> Viktor
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:28:02PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> > Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this list?!  
>Replies get sent to "expert-request", which then fail.
> >
> > Bob
> >

Re: [expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[Viktor Lakics]

This is a *REPLY* to your message. It goes to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think your email client does not
handles that correctly...FYI, I use mutt under LM7.2.

Viktor
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:28:02PM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
> Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this list?!  Replies 
>get sent to "expert-request", which then fail.
> 
> Bob
> 

[expert] cups config

[Bill Kenworthy]

Hi,
can someone post the active parts of their cups configuration files - I
am particularly after cupsd.conf?  In trying to get another linux
machine to print to mine using various graphical clients (kups etc), I
have managed to deny printing to everyone except root!  After install,
at least I could print from a user on the same machine, but no others
would connect to it.  What I am after is something that uses no
password/authorisation etc (behind firewall) for two machines.  cups
seems a dead loss - way too complex and flaky compared to lpr - seems
designed for a large group of machines not a single desktop/small home
network!

BillK

Re: [expert] More on the Gnapster thing

[John J. LeMay Jr.]

** Reply to message from Laurent Duperval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:50:23 -0500 (EST)

> Hi,
> 
> Just now I was trying to get gnapster to work and I got a popup saying that
> I have an invalid password. Seems as though my user isn't registered to the
> service... Hmmm...
> 


Same here with Gnapster as of five minutes ago. I saw here that knapster was
still working, but that link is dead at freshmeat. gnome-napster has been killed
at sourceforge as well, not that it was anything special judging by the comments
of the author.

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.

Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Zeljko Vukman]

On Monday 15 January 2001 20:51, you wrote:
> On 15 Jan, Zeljko Vukman wrote:
> > On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote:
> >> Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on
> >> 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the
> >> required rpms?
> >> I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but
> >> I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something
> >> like "failed installed". No shi!t.
> >> Thanks
> >
> > Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to
> > download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some
> > Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies.
>
> So how cool is it? It seems to be pretty large so I kinda hesitate to
> install it.
>
> L

I installed Nautilus just too see what kind of progress Gnome comunity made. 
I must admitt that I am Konqueror  freak. Nautilus looks nice and it is cool, 
but IMHO nothing can replace Konqueror. That's because I use Linux for work 
not for fun.

Regards,

[expert] More on the Gnapster thing

[Laurent Duperval]

Hi,

Just now I was trying to get gnapster to work and I got a popup saying that
I have an invalid password. Seems as though my user isn't registered to the
service... Hmmm...

L

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MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED --> UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK

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Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it."
Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228   -Doug Camilli
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Re: [expert] Quake III Areana w/ LM7.2 and 3dfx VooDoo 3000

[John J. LeMay Jr.]

** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:06:41 +0100

> Have you tryed to run Tuxkart, Tuxracer or Chromium?

Tux* ran, but slowly.
 
> Note: be sure that the color dep is 16 bit, the Voodoo acceleration 
> doesn'r run at 24 or 32 bits.
> 

This was the problem. I had originally setup X to run at 24. However, I found a
new problem. A few of the DrakConf modules die here looking for Gtk.pm. Turns
out this is a Helix related issue. Helix replaced
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Gtk.pm (and a few others) with
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Gtk.pm thus killing a lot of the DrakConf modules.

I manually edited /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and set the
default to 16 bpp. This gets tux* and Q3A up and running. However, I also added
a "1280x1024" res to the list for 8, 16, 24, and 32 bpp, but I don't get it -
10x7 is the max in X. 

Once I figure these last couple of issues out I should be up and running.

Thanks!

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.

Re: [expert] Samba leaving files in /var/spool/samba?

[Alen Salamun]

Hi!

Did you report that as a bug yet?

Bye,
Alen
- Original Message -
From: "Buchan Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Samba leaving files in /var/spool/samba?


I was wondering when someone else would experience this.

There is a problem with the supplied /etc/smb.conf file. Edit the file
and add the "-r" switch to the "print command =" line, which will force
cups to delete the file afterwards.



>> Original Message <<

On 1/15/01, 9:39:40 AM, Alen Salamun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
[expert] Samba leaving files in /var/spool/samba?:


> Hi!

> I have installed samba 2.0.7 on a server and I am using CUPS for
printing.
> Suddenly my server's disk was full and I discovered that there was a lot
of
> files in /var/spool/samba! They were all postcript files ready for
printing.
> Filename was in this form:

> MicrosoftWord-document.doc

> As I said, when looked at content is was postscript version of the file.
> Printer is working OK, but this files are staying behind and after a
while
> directory size  grows over 400Mb...

> Any ideas?

> Thank you,
> Alen Salamun

Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Michael O'Henly]

On Monday 15 January 2001 13:18, you wrote:
> My personal opinion was that it wasincredibly dissappointing. it also
> doesn't work with latest version of bonobo [stupid hard coded
> dependency]. Eazel also have a really bad attitude on eazel services -
> they review and let you downl;oad all sorts of apps, just as long as
> they're nothing to do with QT/KDE. I think that's childish. GNOME people
> use KDE apps. KDE people use GNOME apps.

I'd been using GNOME for about eighteen months before switching to KDE a 
month or so ago. There are still a lot of things I like about GNOME but KDE 
strikes me as being much better orchestrated: things work seamlessly and very 
economically. 

Konqueror is an absolute gem! It's the first application I've seen that 
really breaks down the barriers between the desktop and the net by 
transparent and intuitive.

I wish Eazel well but Konqueror rules on my desktop.

M.

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Mike MacCana]

My personal opinion was that it wasincredibly dissappointing. it also 
doesn't work with latest version of bonobo [stupid hard coded 
dependency]. Eazel also have a really bad attitude on eazel services - 
they review and let you downl;oad all sorts of apps, just as long as 
they're nothing to do with QT/KDE. I think that's childish. GNOME people 
use KDE apps. KDE people use GNOME apps.

I'm waiting for the release of Windows where the Start Menus is divided 
into: MFC Apps, VCL apps, etc. Because *REALLY USERS CARE ABOUT TOOLKITS! 
THEY DO!* 

Mike

--
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  C Y B E R S O U R C E
   Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000
Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Laurent Duperval wrote:

> On 15 Jan, Zeljko Vukman wrote:
> > On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote:
> >> Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on
> >> 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the
> >> required rpms?
> >> I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but
> >> I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like
> >> "failed installed". No shi!t.
> >> Thanks
> > 
> > Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to
> > download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some
> > Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies.
> > 
> 
> So how cool is it? It seems to be pretty large so I kinda hesitate to
> install it.
> 
> L
> 
> -- 
> MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED --> UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK
> 
> Laurent Duperval   "Montreal winters are an intelligence test,
> Netergy Networks - Java Centerand we who are here have failed it."
> Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228   -Doug Camilli
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   Penguin Power!
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[Mike MacCana]

> True enough, but then 6.1, 6. 2, et al are "old" and not in stores.  Linux 
> has moved on and it is bad business to expect that everyone will stay with 
> older distros simply to play your games.  

Red Hat 6.2 are still more popular than 7 wil ever be, and will likely 
remain so. Red Hat fucked up *royally* with version seven, and the 
reputation of Linux as a whole is suffereing now that Red Hat have a 
release thats binary incompatible with ALL other distributions.

Nobody has to stay with older distros apart from Red Hat users [like my 
Red Hat based workplace].

> I would have thought that compiling 
> monolithic binaries would go a long way towards avoiding distro differences.  
> It is foolish to believe that everyone will stick with an old version of 
> glibc, for instance, and thus base a software package off this false premise. 

Totally. Glibc isn't the problem. Veryhting works fine with newer 
versions of glibc. *Red Hat aren't using a new version of anything. 
They're using a BETA version*. That's why everyone is annoyed.

>  If you want to avoid the problem, make it monolithic and avoid dynamic at 
> all costs.  
> 
> On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:21, you wrote:
> > Did you ask Loki what versions of linux they compiled their game for. I
> > have been testing a commercial structural analysis program that is
> > certified for redhat 6.1 and 6.2. It runs under 6.2 just fine and under 7.0
> > it does some major hiccups. Next I have to try it with Mandrake, but the
> > purpose of this conversation is to let you know that all flavors of "linux"
> > are not the same. Ask the vendor and make your system comply with his specs
> > if you expect to have it run properly. Even within a revision of a given
> > distro there are problems that you have to deal with and when you expect
> > every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a
> > fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling,
> > smashing 
> >
> > Tom Berkley
> >
> > Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > > to work on Mandrake 7.2?  On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> 
> Praedor
> 
> 

Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[Mike MacCana]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:

> On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:12, you wrote:
> > Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > > to work on Mandrake 7.2?  On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
> >
> > I have, but I can't remeber if it was vbefore I installed X 402 or not.
> >
> > > I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this.  Linux will NEVER
> > > make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and
> > > run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake.
> >
> > I hope that isn't the case. Remember how fast things are advancing in the
> > Linux world compred to Windows - and they have groud to make up on us too.
> 
> Either Mandrake has drifted "too far" from Redhat, which tends to be the 
> distro most test against, 

That's already happened. I don't consider Mandrake to be Red Hat 
compatible, and that's great. Red Hat 7 pissed off a lot of people. Most 
test against Red Hat 6.2, comaptible with all other distributions ont he 
market.

> or Loki is not keeping up with linux.  
No, Loki have updates the game since its original release quite 
significantly. I think Loki do a brillaint job and have stacks of 
resources on their site for helping you out. Try downloading the update 
and checking before condemning Loki so much! There's stacks of Windows 
games that were basically unplayable on certain machines before updates 
came out.

 > It would 
> rather suck if one had to go to Redhat installs if one wants to play games. 
Yes it would.

> Another nice thing...I DID manage to play the game for a while when I got it 
> - as root.  I cannot recall if that was before or after I went from 
> XFree86-4.0.1 to 4.0.2 or not.  Anyway, Loki has an update for heretic2 which 
> purports to fix some bugs.  Upgrading your heretic2 binary, however, makes it 
> incompatible with any saved games you might have.  You lose all of them, not 
> that it mattered much.  

True. Its bad, but its also not uncommon or Linux specific.

> Trying to start a new game either crashes the game or 
> wrecks X, requiring a restart of the X server.  
> 
> > > Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session.
> >
> > Do other OpenGL apps run? It sounds like your in software mode...
> 
> Yes.  Unfortunately, the readme with the games indicate that they will not 
> work with hardware acceleration if you are using XFree86-4.0.x.  I would 
> expect them to fix this soon as it will certainly become THE X server for all 
> quite soon.  Surely it is just a recompile against the new xfree libs, etc?

That's *really* unusual. The only games I know which don't run with X4 
[they shouldn't need to be recompiled] are the original release of UT 
[before updates] and Myth II: SoulBlighter.

Try the latest Unreal Tournament release.

If you still have problems, check out the Linux Gamers League on 
IRC sydney.oz.org#lgl, and ask your questions there.

Mike

 > -- 
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> 
> Praedor
> 
> 

Re: [expert] KNode in KDE 2.1 screwy

[Michael O'Henly]

I'm running the 20001229 beta version of KDE 2.1 and using Knode. But I 
haven't seen the problems you're reporting.

M.

On Monday 15 January 2001 08:54, you wrote:
> I find that EVERY time I try to use knode, it royally screws up KDE. 

-- 
Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design

Re: [expert] updating a file within a script

[Rusty Carruth]

"Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to have a shell script (and/or CGI) be able to modify the 
> contents of an existing file (to which it has permission).  Let's say 
> that somewhere in the file "test.conf", there is a line that says 
> "test=on".  I would like to be able to change that one line to 
> "test=off" or "test=something else".  I don't want anything else in the 
> file modified - stuff before or after this line.
> 
> How do I do it?
> 
> Bob
> 

#!/bin/bash

THEFILE=/where/ever/it/is

mv $THEFILE $THEFILE.orig
sed 's/^test=on$/^test=off$/' $THEFILE.orig > $THEFILE


# test this script before putting in production.
# all warranties null and void, including fitness for a particular
#  purpose.
# yadda yadda yadda.

;-) hope it helps, anyway

(and again, there are a million ways to skin that cat also...)

rc


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[expert] PLEASE FIX REPLY-TO in this list!!!

[Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Would someone PLEASE fix the REPLY-TO address for the digest of this list?!  Replies 
get sent to "expert-request", which then fail.

Bob

[expert] updating a file within a script

[Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hello,

I need to have a shell script (and/or CGI) be able to modify the 
contents of an existing file (to which it has permission).  Let's say 
that somewhere in the file "test.conf", there is a line that says 
"test=on".  I would like to be able to change that one line to 
"test=off" or "test=something else".  I don't want anything else in the 
file modified - stuff before or after this line.

How do I do it?

Bob

Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail

[Andrew George]

Hi
I think you did something gaga when you used it last time, Postfix delivers 
to /var/spool/mail/ and I've never had a hassle with using pine 
with it.
Tom's got a very good article on setting it up at Mandrake-User.org, theres 
also a very nice howto on the Redhat site (which put me on to 
sender-canonical maps). Most of the time it will work straight out of the box 
and only need a bit of config tweaking.

Andrew

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 05:04, you wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb questions.
>
> I once tried postfix and I think I must have cocked it up
> horribly.
>
> It was the version from Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 I think,
> does the new version work better or did I schplum something
> up when setting it all up?
>
> What happened was, I noticed that pine and any other
> e mail app would not be able to pick up e mail,
> does the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail as in sendmail
> or another folder and is it in the same plain text format?
>
> Where might I have gibbled up the config for postfix,
> as I would like to try it again and see if I can have a
> little newer running system and make some improvements,
> and what would be a safe way to migrate from sendmail
> to postfix without losing any mails?
>
> Many thanks for your patience.
>
> Vic
>
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if
> > not, its easy to compile. Almost scary easy.
> >
> > Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated,
> > insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be
> > able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to
> > configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Andrew George]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 04:58, you wrote:
> On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> > >> I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working
> > >> here. You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round
> > >> robin for loab balancing, so if one of the servers was down a timeout
> > >> could occur that may not happen the next time you try.
> > >
> > > Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
> > > disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(
> >
> > Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll
> > get kicked out. That would be a bummer.
>
> If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because
> this was working about 3 weeks ago.  Jerks.  =(

Having the same problem with Gnapsteroddly when I user KopenNap (KDE2.1) 
it worked - hassle is KOpenNap is a little ugly to use right now (IMO) YMMV

Re: [expert] Gnome theme Stuck and won't leave!

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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Delete your ~/.gtkrc - perhaps for some reason the thing is stuck (no write 
permission?)

Michel

On Monday 15 January 2001 01:08, you wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Last week I was running Gnome for a bit, and I loaded a theme with the
> theme manager for Gnome. Now I can't get the darn thing to unload. No
> matter what I do with the darn thing some attributes of that theme are
> being loaded when the GUI loads for certain apps. Most heavily effected is
> Mozilla. It's driving me crazy. What can I do to clear this theme from
> where ever it's hiding so I can get Gnome's default appearance back? I
> don't run it often but when I do I like to have it look normal. Not to
> mention that this effects every app that makes use of Gnomes libraries and
> widgets.
>
> Help!

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Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Felix Miata]

Laurent Duperval wrote:
 
> On 15 Jan, David E. Fox wrote:

> > On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:39, you wrote:

> >> Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
> >> disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(

> > I too am finding this happening if I tell gnapster to connect to the official
> > server. However, if I browse OpenNap servers I can choose one at random and
> > get in that way. (Of course, the content will be different - it's kind of
> > like IRC that way.)
 
> Hmmm... I get "failure connecting to napster server". Maybe I'm not
> subscribed or something? I dunno much about this.
 
> At any rate, I sent a note to the author to make sure he was aware of this.
> I haven't had a reply yet.

FWIW, I haven't tried to boot Linux nor download music since around
Thanksgiving. I just cranked up Warpster for OS/2, and find no apparent
problems logging in, searching, or downloading.
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Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Laurent Duperval]

On 15 Jan, Zeljko Vukman wrote:
> On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote:
>> Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on
>> 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the
>> required rpms?
>> I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but
>> I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like
>> "failed installed". No shi!t.
>> Thanks
> 
> Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to
> download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some
> Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies.
> 

So how cool is it? It seems to be pretty large so I kinda hesitate to
install it.

L

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Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Zeljko Vukman]

On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote:
> Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on
> 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the
> required rpms?
> I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but
> I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like
> "failed installed". No shi!t.
> Thanks

Yes, I run Nautilus PR2 on Mandrake 7.1. You have to
download RPM packages provided on Eazel's site + install some
Mandrake 7.2 packages required for dependencies.

Regards,

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Laurent Duperval]

On 15 Jan, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:39, you wrote:
> 
>> Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
>> disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(
> 
> I too am finding this happening if I tell gnapster to connect to the official 
> server. However, if I browse OpenNap servers I can choose one at random and
> get in that way. (Of course, the content will be different - it's kind of 
> like IRC that way.)
> 
> 

Hmmm... I get "failure connecting to napster server". Maybe I'm not
subscribed or something? I dunno much about this.

At any rate, I sent a note to the author to make sure he was aware of this.
I haven't had a reply yet.

L

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Re: [expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Zeljko Vukman]

On Monday 15 January 2001 20:11, you wrote:
> Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on
> 7.2? If so, did you use their installer or by installing the
> required rpms?
> I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but
> I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like
> "failed installed". No shi!t.
> Thanks

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[David E. Fox]

On Monday 15 January 2001 09:58, you wrote:

> If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because
> this was working about 3 weeks ago.  Jerks.  =(

Well, if they expect you to use winblows to pirate music, maybe they should 
lose the lawsuit :).

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Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[David E. Fox]

On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:39, you wrote:

> Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
> disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(

I too am finding this happening if I tell gnapster to connect to the official 
server. However, if I browse OpenNap servers I can choose one at random and
get in that way. (Of course, the content will be different - it's kind of 
like IRC that way.)


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[expert] Nautilus Preview 2 on Mdk7.2?

[Kim TK]

Has anyone tried and had success installing Nautilus PR2 on 7.2?
If so, did you use their installer or by installing the required rpms?
 
I tried installing the installer but faile almost immediately but I can't make much sense out of its message for the failure..something like "failed installed".  No shi!t.
 
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Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Laurent Duperval]

On 15 Jan, Vincent Danen wrote:
>> Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get
>> kicked out. That would be a bummer. 
> 
> If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because
> this was working about 3 weeks ago.  Jerks.  =(
> 

It was working Friday, for sure.

L

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Re: [expert] (Dumb question time) to improve the yield from my sendmail

[Vic]

Sorry for the dumb questions.

I once tried postfix and I think I must have cocked it up
horribly.

It was the version from Mandrake 6.0 or 6.1 I think,
does the new version work better or did I schplum something
up when setting it all up?

What happened was, I noticed that pine and any other
e mail app would not be able to pick up e mail,
does the mail arrive in /var/spool/mail as in sendmail
or another folder and is it in the same plain text format?

Where might I have gibbled up the config for postfix,
as I would like to try it again and see if I can have a
little newer running system and make some improvements,
and what would be a safe way to migrate from sendmail
to postfix without losing any mails?

Many thanks for your patience.

Vic
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if not, 
> its easy to compile. Almost scary easy.
> 
> Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated, 
> insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be 
> able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to 
> configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Vincent Danen]

On Mon Jan 15, 2001 at 08:40:23AM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:

> >> I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working here.
> >> You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round robin for
> >> loab balancing, so if one of the servers was down a timeout could occur
> >> that may not happen the next time you try. 
> > 
> > Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
> > disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(
> 
> Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get
> kicked out. That would be a bummer. 

If that's the case, then they must have just implemented it because
this was working about 3 weeks ago.  Jerks.  =(

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[expert] What is XFree86-compat-3.3.6?

[Praedor Tempus]

I am presently downloading the XFree86-4.0.2-4mdk.src.rpm which I will build 
and install in hopes that it will fix some problems with my current 
4.0.2-1mdk.  I see in the directory that there is an XFree86-compat-3.3.6 rpm 
as well.  I seem to recall building such a beast before - and as I recall, it 
produces, essentially, a full 3.3.6 set of rpms.  Installing them bumped my 
XFree86 4.0.x setup off, running 3.3.6 instead.

Is this that same beast or is it REALLY a set of compat libs/apps, that will 
not takeover from 4.0.2?

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Re: [expert] port forwarding for email

[Wayne Stout]

Are you talking about local mail or outbound smtp mail?

If you want to forward local mail, it's not too difficult.

Here's my setup:
RH 6.2
Sendmail 8.9.3-20
Webmin 0.82-1

Bring up Webmin, go to the Servers tab, click on Sendmail. Under
Sendmail options, the first three listed options are for forwarding.
Since I only needed to forward local mail, I simply specified the name
of the server that I needed to forward to.

I would think that the other forwarding options would cover smtp mail as
well, but I personally have no experience with them.

Keep in mind that this is what worked for me, YMMV.

HTH,

Wayne

Eric Mings wrote:
> 
> I would like to setup my linux webserver to forward on all mail to
> another machine on my LAN. I have a static ip for the webserver but
> would use private ip (192.168) for my other machine. The
> webserver machine also serves as a gateway to the net and already has
> ip masquerading on it. Can someone tell me what I need to do in order
> for all mail to be forwarded on to my other machine? Thanks much!
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Eric Mings Ph.D.

[expert] error message

[chronos .]

Hi all,
Everytime I start firestarter (firewall) I get the following error message 14 times. 
/sbin/ipchains: invalid mask " specified try '/sbin/ipchains -h' or 'sbin/ipchains 
--help' for more information. So then what does this mean ? The firewall works 
perfectly no complaints at all. If there really is no reason for this is there a way 
to just supress the error message so I dont see it ?
Thank you, Chronos.

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Re: [expert] KNode in KDE 2.1 screwy

[Praedor Tempus]

Hello,  I am using Mandrake 7.2 with a few caveats.  I am also using 
XFree86-4.0.2-1mdk.

rpm -qa|grep kde:
kdegraphics-devel-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdesupport-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk
kdepim-2.0-1mdk
kdenetwork-devel-2.1-0.20001213.2mdk
kdebase-devel-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdesupport-devel-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kde-i18n-British-2.0-1mdk
kdemultimedia-devel-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kde1-compat-devel-1.1.2-7mdk
kdebindings-2.1-0.20001214.1mdk
kdeadmin-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdegraphics-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdelibs-sound-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdenetwork-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdeaddutils-devel-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdegames-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdemultimedia-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdesdk-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdetoys-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdebase-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdelibs-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdelibs-devel-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk
kdeutils-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk
kdevelop-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk

rpm -qa|grep qt:
libqtcups1-1.1-2.1mdk
qt-1.44-28mdk
libqtcups1-devel-1.1-2.1mdk
qtcups-1.1-2.1mdk
qt-qgl-1.44-28mdk
qt2-2.2.3-1mdk
qt-qimgio-1.44-28mdk
qt-devel-1.44-28mdk
qt2-doc-2.2.3-1mdk
qt2-devel-2.2.3-1mdk

I must say that this problem existed before I went to qt2-2.2.3 or the latest 
kde 2.1 (I was using the previous version of each until 3 days ago - I was 
hoping that this problem would vanish with the upgrade).


On Monday 15 January 2001 10:02, you wrote:
> Please do a:
>
> rpm -qa|grep kde
> rpm -qa|grep qt
>
> And put the results into the message. I am wondering what versions you
> have. Also, are you running Cooker or 7.2?
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Re: [expert] port forwarding for email

[Rusty Carruth]

Eric Mings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to setup my linux webserver to forward on all mail to 
> another machine on my LAN. I have a static ip for the webserver but 
> would use private ip (192.168) for my other machine. The 
> webserver machine also serves as a gateway to the net and already has 
> ip masquerading on it. Can someone tell me what I need to do in order 
> for all mail to be forwarded on to my other machine? Thanks much!
> 

Well, as usual, there is more than one way to skin the cat.

One possiblity is to run Postfix (or sendmail) on the 'other machine'
(thus making it your mail server machine), then simply forward requests
for smtp from outside your internal network to that machine's smtp port
(25).

So, what you need to do is to set up ipchains to forward that port.
(See the many ipchains howtos for details)  (assuming you are using
ipchains!)

Or, you could let the mail stop on your firewall, and have your
'other machine' transfer the mail over to itself periodically,
using a cron job or so forth

Or, just let everyone use the firewall to get email from using
pop or whatever.

rc


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RE: [expert] Quake III Areana w/ LM7.2 and 3dfx VooDoo 3000

[falcaraz]

Are you sure you have the 3D acceleration running?
Have you tryed to run Tuxkart, Tuxracer or Chromium?
In fact there is a problem with Mandrake 7.2 and Voodoo3 3000 
acceleration. In fact I had to installa acceleration using specific 
tdfx modules. If Tuxkart, Tuxracer or Chromium doesn't run, QuakeIII 
neither.
If this is your case, say me and this afternoon I will send you the 
solution I used!!!

Note: be sure that the color dep is 16 bit, the Voodoo acceleration 
doesn'r run at 24 or 32 bits.


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Fecha: Lunes, Enero 15, 2001 4:47 pm
Asunto: [expert] Quake III Areana w/ LM7.2 and 3dfx VooDoo 3000

> Can anyone point my in the right direction to get Quake III Arene 
> running on LM
> 7.2 with a 3dfx VooDoo 3000 card? I installed LM with X 4.01 with 3D
> acceleration, and I installed Q3A, however when I run it I get the 
> common 1 fps
> problem. Now that 3dfxgamers is gone, I'm not sure where to look 
> for tips and
> support.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John LeMay Jr.
> Senior Enterprise Consultant
> NJMC, LLC.
> 
> 
> 

Re: [expert] KNode in KDE 2.1 screwy

[Christopher Molnar]

Please do a:

rpm -qa|grep kde
rpm -qa|grep qt

And put the results into the message. I am wondering what versions you have. 
Also, are you running Cooker or 7.2?

-Chris

On Monday 15 January 2001 11:54, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I find that EVERY time I try to use knode, it royally screws up KDE.  I can
> set it up fine, add a news server, etc, and I can download message headers
> OK but the moment I try to view a message, KDE is wrecked and only a reboot
> seems to get it back.  I cannot start ANY KDE apps after this.  Konsole,
> kap, etc, etc...nothing KDE-related will work.  Trying to do so produces
> error messages about the DCOP server not finding any useable fonts in
> .xsession-errors.
>
> What I see as I start the reboot is a message indicating that a "could not
> find default font 'fixed' " and that it couldn't find any usable fonts.
>
> Of course this is bullcrap as all the fonts on my system are usable - it's
> just that something about knode wrecks everything, having a problem with
> the perfectly fine fonts on my system.
>
> Here is my chkfontpath:
> Current directories in font path:
> 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
> 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk
> 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont
> 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled
> 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttfonts
> 10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> 11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western
> 12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives
>
> ALL of these paths contain valid, working fonts.  ALL of them.
> I fear messing with knode any more since everything I have tried to get it
> configured to, hopefully, avoid this problem fails and I end up rebooting.
>
> What is this default 'fixed' font that knode can't live without?  Why is it
> that magically, all the other fonts become invisable to KDE after using
> knode?

Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[Praedor Tempus]

True enough, but then 6.1, 6. 2, et al are "old" and not in stores.  Linux 
has moved on and it is bad business to expect that everyone will stay with 
older distros simply to play your games.  I would have thought that compiling 
monolithic binaries would go a long way towards avoiding distro differences.  
It is foolish to believe that everyone will stick with an old version of 
glibc, for instance, and thus base a software package off this false premise. 
 If you want to avoid the problem, make it monolithic and avoid dynamic at 
all costs.  

On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:21, you wrote:
> Did you ask Loki what versions of linux they compiled their game for. I
> have been testing a commercial structural analysis program that is
> certified for redhat 6.1 and 6.2. It runs under 6.2 just fine and under 7.0
> it does some major hiccups. Next I have to try it with Mandrake, but the
> purpose of this conversation is to let you know that all flavors of "linux"
> are not the same. Ask the vendor and make your system comply with his specs
> if you expect to have it run properly. Even within a revision of a given
> distro there are problems that you have to deal with and when you expect
> every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a
> fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling,
> smashing 
>
> Tom Berkley
>
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > to work on Mandrake 7.2?  On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
[...]

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Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[Praedor Tempus]

On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:12, you wrote:
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it
> > to work on Mandrake 7.2?  On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
>
> I have, but I can't remeber if it was vbefore I installed X 402 or not.
>
> > I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this.  Linux will NEVER
> > make it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and
> > run a freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake.
>
> I hope that isn't the case. Remember how fast things are advancing in the
> Linux world compred to Windows - and they have groud to make up on us too.

Either Mandrake has drifted "too far" from Redhat, which tends to be the 
distro most test against, or Loki is not keeping up with linux.  It would 
rather suck if one had to go to Redhat installs if one wants to play games. 

Another nice thing...I DID manage to play the game for a while when I got it 
- as root.  I cannot recall if that was before or after I went from 
XFree86-4.0.1 to 4.0.2 or not.  Anyway, Loki has an update for heretic2 which 
purports to fix some bugs.  Upgrading your heretic2 binary, however, makes it 
incompatible with any saved games you might have.  You lose all of them, not 
that it mattered much.  Trying to start a new game either crashes the game or 
wrecks X, requiring a restart of the X server.  

> > Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session.
>
> Do other OpenGL apps run? It sounds like your in software mode...

Yes.  Unfortunately, the readme with the games indicate that they will not 
work with hardware acceleration if you are using XFree86-4.0.x.  I would 
expect them to fix this soon as it will certainly become THE X server for all 
quite soon.  Surely it is just a recompile against the new xfree libs, etc?

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[expert] KNode in KDE 2.1 screwy

[Praedor Tempus]

I find that EVERY time I try to use knode, it royally screws up KDE.  I can 
set it up fine, add a news server, etc, and I can download message headers OK 
but the moment I try to view a message, KDE is wrecked and only a reboot 
seems to get it back.  I cannot start ANY KDE apps after this.  Konsole, kap, 
etc, etc...nothing KDE-related will work.  Trying to do so produces error 
messages about the DCOP server not finding any useable fonts in 
.xsession-errors.

What I see as I start the reboot is a message indicating that a "could not 
find default font 'fixed' " and that it couldn't find any usable fonts.

Of course this is bullcrap as all the fonts on my system are usable - it's 
just that something about knode wrecks everything, having a problem with the 
perfectly fine fonts on my system.

Here is my chkfontpath:
Current directories in font path:
1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk
7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont
8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled
9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttfonts
10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western
12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives

ALL of these paths contain valid, working fonts.  ALL of them.
I fear messing with knode any more since everything I have tried to get it 
configured to, hopefully, avoid this problem fails and I end up rebooting.

What is this default 'fixed' font that knode can't live without?  Why is it 
that magically, all the other fonts become invisable to KDE after using knode?

-- 
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Praedor

[expert] port forwarding for email

[Eric Mings]

I would like to setup my linux webserver to forward on all mail to 
another machine on my LAN. I have a static ip for the webserver but 
would use private ip (192.168) for my other machine. The 
webserver machine also serves as a gateway to the net and already has 
ip masquerading on it. Can someone tell me what I need to do in order 
for all mail to be forwarded on to my other machine? Thanks much!
-- 
Regards,

Eric Mings Ph.D.

RE: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

[falcaraz]

I forgot to say you that I am using XFree86-4.0.1; my Xwindows crashed 
using 4.0.2; remember that it is not stable.


Francisco Alcaraz
Murcia (Spain)
- Mensaje Original -
Remitente: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Lunes, Enero 15, 2001 6:03 am
Asunto: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

> Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to 
> get it to 
> work on Mandrake 7.2?  On a 7.2 system with XFree86-4.0.2?
> 
> I must say I am becoming disgusted with Loki on this.  Linux will 
> NEVER make 
> it with the general user if it is impossible to simply install and 
> run a 
> freakin' game that is LINUX NATIVE, fer shit's sake.
> 
> Anyway, trying to run the game totally dicks up my X session.  The 
> game 
> doesn't run, just get to the game menu, but trying to actually 
> start a game 
> crashes it and this totally screws up X - resolution goes to 
> virtual, mouse 
> quits working, and I have to do a Ctrl-Bkspc to get it all back 
> into working 
> order.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> 
> Praedor
> 
> 

[expert] Quake III Areana w/ LM7.2 and 3dfx VooDoo 3000

[John J. LeMay Jr.]

Can anyone point my in the right direction to get Quake III Arene running on LM
7.2 with a 3dfx VooDoo 3000 card? I installed LM with X 4.01 with 3D
acceleration, and I installed Q3A, however when I run it I get the common 1 fps
problem. Now that 3dfxgamers is gone, I'm not sure where to look for tips and
support.

Thanks!

John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.

Re: [expert] Oracle on Mandrake

[dany allard]

I have also installed Oracle 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on mandrake 7.0 & 7.2
the only issue I came across where that the install had to be done from
Gnome.
I could not get past the "next" button in KDE.

Hope that helps

  Dany Allard

A V Flinsch wrote:

> On Saturday 13 January 2001 11:21, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A colleague of mine was trying to install Oracle on his Mandrake 7.2
> > box, but it appears there's some issues with the glibc version that
> > Mandrake uses. Works perfectly on a RedHat 7.0 box though...
> >
> > I was wondering, since I'm about to buy a new harddrive and was
> > planning on installing Oracle myself, are there any known issues with
> > Oracle on Mandrake, and if so: what are the workarounds?
> >
> > Any suggestions from veterans who been trough this before are greatly
> > appreciated; saves me & my colleagues the work of reinventing the wheel
> > again... If possible, incluede [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the cc-field of your replies as well. Thanx.
>
> This might depend on which version of Oracke that you are trying to
> intsall. The latest & greatest (8.1.7, Oracle8iR3) installs without a
> problem on Mandrake 7.2. I have heard of 8.1.7 having problems with the
> glibc version shipped with Redhat 7.0 however.
>
> Oracle products on my system include
> Oracle 8i R3 (8.1.7)
> WebDB
> Developer6i
>
> Of these, the only one that gave me any problems during the install was
> Developre. It seems that lesstif is not completely compatible with modit,
> to solve the Developer installation problem, I needed to uninstall
> lesstif and install openmotif. Since then everything works great.
>
> Prior to installing 8.1.7, I had 8.1.6 installed. This also went in
> without any problems also.
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

[expert] Tape drive Question(s)

[David Boles]

While going through some boxes of "old stuff" I came across an Iomega
parallel port Easy 800 tape drive and some old tapes. The tapes conform
to Travan (TR-1) format and QIC-80 format.

Is there any way to use this tape drive, with Linux, long enough to get
some files written with Iomega Windows 3.1 software? My son used this
drive to store some graphics files when he was in high school and I was
just wondering if I could retrieve them.

Where do I go, what do I read, what software do I need? Preferably
something GUI.

-- 

David Boles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] No WM with LM 7.2 VNC Package

[Mark Belanger]

John - some wild guesses here:

I've seen vnc have trouble if you are hardcoding your
DISPLAY variable i.e. DISPLAY=`hostname`:0

Do you have execute permission on ~/.vnc/xstartup?
Try using the full path to the window manager in xstartup.
It might be helpful if you included your ~/.vnc/xstartup file.

-Mark

"John J. LeMay Jr." wrote:
> 
> I cannot seem to get a window manager to start with the VNC package that
> shipped with LM 7.2. I've tried using gnome-session and twm & in
> ~/.vnc/xstartup, but neither will start. Ever tried starting gnome-terminal,
> that didn't work either. Here's a copy of the log:
> 
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Xvnc version 3.3.3
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 All Rights Reserved.
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Desktop name 'X' (cyclops:1)
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Protocol version supported 3.3
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
> 13/01/01 19:03:30 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
> 13/01/01 19:03:30   URL http://cyclops:5801
> X connection to cyclops:1.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> 13/01/01 19:03:57 Got connection from client 192.168.2.51
> 13/01/01 19:03:57 Protocol version 3.3
> 13/01/01 19:04:00 Pixel format for client 192.168.2.51:
> 13/01/01 19:04:00   32 bpp, depth 24, little endian
> 13/01/01 19:04:00   true colour: max r 255 g 255 b 255, shift r 16 g 8 b 0
> 13/01/01 19:04:00 Using hextile encoding for client 192.168.2.51
> 13/01/01 19:04:04 Client 192.168.2.51 gone
> 13/01/01 19:04:04 Statistics:
> 13/01/01 19:04:04   key events received 1, pointer events 45
> 13/01/01 19:04:04   framebuffer updates 47, rectangles 96, bytes 410268
> 13/01/01 19:04:04 hextile rectangles 96, bytes 410268
> 13/01/01 19:04:04   raw bytes equivalent 3225900, compression ratio 7.862909
> 
> Looks like X is lost right after starting the http listener.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John LeMay Jr.
> Senior Enterprise Consultant
> NJMC, LLC.

-- 
Mark Belanger
LTX Corporation

Re: [expert] to improve the yield from my sendmail

[dmstark]

How? Replace it with Postfix. I believe 7.2 COMES with postfix, and if not, 
its easy to compile. Almost scary easy.

Really, sendmail contains so much legacy code that it's become a bloated, 
insecure horrible horrible service. Postfix is MUCH faster (you should be 
able to push a million email a day on that box of yours), and its easy to 
configure. If you can configure apache, then you can do postfix.

That's my advice, anyway. If you feel compelled to keep sendmail for some 
reason, well, good luck to you.

Dirk.

> How i make to improve the yield from my sendmail 8.10.x i have P200 mmx
> 64mb ram 
> Thanks
> 
> Maximo Monsalvo
> Guspamar S.A
> Responsable Sistemas

[expert] to improve the yield from my sendmail

[Maximo Monsalvo]

How i make to improve the yield from my sendmail 8.10.x i have P200 mmx 64mb
ram 
Thanks

Maximo Monsalvo
Guspamar S.A
Responsable Sistemas

Re: [expert] Samba leaving files in /var/spool/samba?

[Buchan Milne]

I was wondering when someone else would experience this.

There is a problem with the supplied /etc/smb.conf file. Edit the file 
and add the "-r" switch to the "print command =" line, which will force 
cups to delete the file afterwards.



>> Original Message <<

On 1/15/01, 9:39:40 AM, Alen Salamun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding 
[expert] Samba leaving files in /var/spool/samba?:


> Hi!

> I have installed samba 2.0.7 on a server and I am using CUPS for 
printing.
> Suddenly my server's disk was full and I discovered that there was a lot 
of
> files in /var/spool/samba! They were all postcript files ready for 
printing.
> Filename was in this form:

> MicrosoftWord-document.doc

> As I said, when looked at content is was postscript version of the file.
> Printer is working OK, but this files are staying behind and after a 
while
> directory size  grows over 400Mb...

> Any ideas?

> Thank you,
> Alen Salamun

Re: [expert] Problems compiling and booting 2.4 kernel

[Michael Leone]

> > > Enjoy, and by the way 2.4.0-0.31 is not the real 2.4.0 version. Might
> > > want to try downloading the real package from Cooker.
> >
> > Hmmm. OK; from where, exactly? What is the ftp addrees and directory? Or
> > can I do it via the Mandrake Update?
>
> Might be able to use Mandrake Update - you have to enter the address for
the
> Cooker distribution. The main mirror's
> ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker. I suggest you do
this
> manually though - won't want to install many weird stuff. Perhaps download
> the SRPM instead from ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/SRPMS
> might be a good idea... they are switching from Redhat-style package
naming
> (e.g. gtk+-devel) to Debian-style (e.g. libgtk+1.2-devel).

The "append=2" didn't work. So I uninstalled the kernel 2.4.0 RPMs; and
installed the latest 2.4.0-4 RPMs from Mandrake Update.
Worked fine; boots up properly and everything. The compile is a bit odd - I
get these unresolved errors, referencing PCMCIA, when I do a "make
modules_install".

Since I don't use PCMCIA (it's not a laptop), and have turned off all PCMCIA
options in the config, I ignored it and went on my merry way. :-)

It was a bit disconcerting, tho - not seeing the usual "Installing modules
under /lib/modules ... " statements.

End result - I'm running 2.4 now. Don't notice any difference between this
and my 2.2.17 yet, but 

> All the best :)

And you.

Re: [expert] Oracle on Mandrake

[Larry Tobos]

Oracle uses the old glibc libraries, and Redhat installs these old libraries
by default; in Mandrake, you need to install them yourself. Do a search on
google,
there are a few pages worth reading about "Oracle install mandrake"

- Original Message -
From: "A V Flinsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Oracle on Mandrake


> On Saturday 13 January 2001 11:21, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A colleague of mine was trying to install Oracle on his Mandrake 7.2
> > box, but it appears there's some issues with the glibc version that
> > Mandrake uses. Works perfectly on a RedHat 7.0 box though...
> >
> > I was wondering, since I'm about to buy a new harddrive and was
> > planning on installing Oracle myself, are there any known issues with
> > Oracle on Mandrake, and if so: what are the workarounds?
> >
> > Any suggestions from veterans who been trough this before are greatly
> > appreciated; saves me & my colleagues the work of reinventing the wheel
> > again... If possible, incluede [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the cc-field of your replies as well. Thanx.
>
>
> This might depend on which version of Oracke that you are trying to
> intsall. The latest & greatest (8.1.7, Oracle8iR3) installs without a
> problem on Mandrake 7.2. I have heard of 8.1.7 having problems with the
> glibc version shipped with Redhat 7.0 however.
>
> Oracle products on my system include
> Oracle 8i R3 (8.1.7)
> WebDB
> Developer6i
>
> Of these, the only one that gave me any problems during the install was
> Developre. It seems that lesstif is not completely compatible with modit,
> to solve the Developer installation problem, I needed to uninstall
> lesstif and install openmotif. Since then everything works great.
>
> Prior to installing 8.1.7, I had 8.1.6 installed. This also went in
> without any problems also.
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
>
>

Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Laurent Duperval]

On 14 Jan, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Sun Jan 14, 2001 at 03:04:21PM -0500, John LeMay wrote:
> 
>> I was on with Gnapster last night myself, so it seems to be working here.
>> You could try logging in a few times - Napster uses dns round robin for
>> loab balancing, so if one of the servers was down a timeout could occur
>> that may not happen the next time you try. 
> 
> Just tried connecting six times right now.  It connects and then
> disconnects.  No reason, but I can't maintain a connection.  =(
> 

Hmmm... Makes me think that unless you have an "approved" client, you'll get
kicked out. That would be a bummer. 

L

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Re: [expert] Adaptec 2100 RAID

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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Isn't Adaptec synonymous with SCSI?

Michel

On Monday 15 January 2001 08:10, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Is this an IDE raid or a SCSI raid card ? IDE raid isn't going to be
> supported any time soon, except for the 3ware cards. But IDE raid isn't
> really hardware raid like SCSI raid. Apparently software raid in linux
> is faster than ide raid under windows anyway ...
>
> You might want to look at the linux ide webpage

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Re: [expert] Problems compiling and booting 2.4 kernel

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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On Sunday 14 January 2001 22:10, you wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > For booting into runlevel 2, when selecting the boot options from LILO's
> > menu just add 2 at the back so instead of '2.4.0' you type '2.4.0 2'. Or
> > just add it to lilo.conf - the line 'append=2'
>
> OK; I'll give that a try,thanks.
>
> > Enjoy, and by the way 2.4.0-0.31 is not the real 2.4.0 version. Might
> > want to try downloading the real package from Cooker.
>
> Hmmm. OK; from where, exactly? What is the ftp addrees and directory? Or
> can I do it via the Mandrake Update?

Might be able to use Mandrake Update - you have to enter the address for the 
Cooker distribution. The main mirror's 
ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker. I suggest you do this 
manually though - won't want to install many weird stuff. Perhaps download 
the SRPM instead from ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/SRPMS 
might be a good idea... they are switching from Redhat-style package naming 
(e.g. gtk+-devel) to Debian-style (e.g. libgtk+1.2-devel).

All the best :)
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Re: [expert] Having problems with Napster clients

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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A case of different programs using different subsets of the protocols it 
seems? Considering that the Jnap program I was using was released in 
December... and still works

Michel

On Sunday 14 January 2001 23:03, you wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing.  I tried a console based napster client last
> night and it worked fine but I don't care for the interface.  I've had
> terrible luck with knapster, I couldn't download or upload only search. 
> The console client will get my by until gnapster evolves to handle the new
> changes.

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or dogma.  It is simply an approach to the problem of telling what is
counterfeit and what is genuine.  And a recognition of how costly it may
be to fail to do so.  To be a skeptic is to cultivate "street smarts" in
the battle for control of one's own mind, one's own money, one'w own
allegiances.  To be a skeptic, in short, is to refuse to be a victim.
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[expert] ecasound and arts in kde2

[Bill Kenworthy]

Hi,
has anyone been able to use arts (Mandrake 7.2/kde2) and ecasound and
its arts i/o module as input?  If I try and use arts as the input to
ecasound, it creates a 44 byte file only (wav header I presume).  I need
to use a mixer to attenuate the output from kwintv to stop it distorting
due to overload on input to ecasound using /dev/dsp.

BillK

[expert] Re: BIND File Missing

[SoloCDM]

duane voth stated the following:
> 
>  > My dnskeygen file is missing in the following RPM:
>  >
>  >bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk.i586.rpm
>  >
>  > Would someone send me a match?
> 
> A match?
> 
> What release are you running?

Mandrake 7.0.

> Mandrake 7.2 uses bind-8.2.2P5-12mdk and it's on the main install cd.

The installation of 8.2.2P5-12 would require the installation of all
the bind files.

Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing
  list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:.

*
Signed,
SoloCDM

Re: [expert] RAID for mandrake

[civileme]

On Monday 15 January 2001 08:20, you wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>   I'm currently using Redhat 7.0 on one of my computers because I have the
> Promise Fasttrak 66 RAID controller installed and I don't have a driver for
> Mandrake.  I like using Redhat, but I would like to be able to install
> Mandrake on this computer so that my computers will be using the same
> versions of Linux.  The README that came with the drivers that I loaded for
> Linux said that I could use these modules with any version as long as I
> compiled that kernel against those modules; what does that mean?  I've
> recompiled kernels in the past, but what does it mean to compile the kernel
> AGAINST a certain module?  Anyone feel like giving detailed directions?
>
> Thanks in advance, Mike
>

Are they binary-only drivers?  If you have source you need to recompile the 
kernel with the source included in the source tree, and include it in the 
config, probably with a "Yes" not a "module."  

Civileme

Re: [expert] Asus P2B-D SMP and Promise UDMA66

[civileme]

On Sunday 14 January 2001 16:32, you wrote:
> Addressed to Civileme:
> Once I looked at what you posted in your article, re-read some of the
> hdparm info page, and did some experimentation I became somewhat confused.
>
> Here is the except out of the info page:
>
>
>-i Display  the  identification info that was obtained
>   from the drive at boot time, if available.  This is
>   a feature of modern IDE drives, and may not be sup­
>   ported by older devices.  The data returned may  or
>   may  not  be  current,  depending on activity since
>   booting the system.  However, the current  multiple
>   sector  mode  count  is  always  shown.  For a more
>   detailed interpretation of the identification info,
>   refer  to  AT  Attachment Interface for Disk Drives
>   (ANSI ASC X3T9.2 working draft, revision 4a,  April
>   19/93).
>
> Version 3.9   February 2000 2
>
> HDPARM(8)   HDPARM(8)
>
>-I Request   identification  info  directly  from  the
>   drive, which is displayed in its raw form  with  no
>   endian  changes  or corrections.  Otherwise similar
>   to the -i option.
>
> When I ran through both options I got this:
> [root@tick /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hdg
>
> /dev/hdg:
>
>  Model=IBM-DTLA-307045, FwRev=TX6OA50C, SerialNo=YMDYMM67566
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
>  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=90069840
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
> [root@tick /root]# hdparm -I /dev/hdg

That's a udma 100 setting
>
> /dev/hdg:
>
>  Model=TDAL3-7040 5o?, FwRev=5AC0BI-M, SerialNo=   
> Y DMMY6M5766b
>  Config={ NotMFM Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>5Mbs DTR>10Mbs dStbOff
> TrkOff } RawCHS=16/0/0, TrkSize=63, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=13903
>  BuffType=40, BuffSize=10796kB, MaxMultSect=0
>  (maybe): CurCHS=63/64528/251, CurSects=1531969808, LBA=yes,
> LBAsects=458752 IORDY=no
>  PIO modes: pio0
>  DMA modes:
>
> My understanding is that the -i option is showing what the kernel sees at
> boot time when it auto configures the drive.  When I have the auto
> configure option set for /dev/hde and /dev/hdg, the system hangs on
> /dev/hdg with a Promise Utra100 controller. Tracing this further, after
> boot I typed in 'hdparm -u1 -c1 /dev/hde; hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 /dev/hdg'. 
> This seemed to execute, but when I typed in 'hdparm -t /dev/hdg' the system
> complained about a DMA time-out and hung.  (Console did not respond to
> anything.)  When I hit the reset switch and brought the system back up I
> did the following. At the prompt I typed in 'hdparm -u1 -c1 /dev/hde;
> hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 -X69 /dev/hdg'.  (Note the -X 69 option).  When I typed
> in 'hdparm -t /dev/hdg' I got:
>
> [root@tick /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hdg
>
> /dev/hdg:
>  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.79 seconds = 35.75 MB/sec
>
> Now if the highest defined rate so far in the IDE world is UDMA mode 5 and
> the kernel seems to detect that that is the highest mode available and the
> controller supports UDMA mode 5, then how can your why be true? ("Some Hard
> disk drives advertise to the software that they are capable of higher data
> rates than they actually can do.")

Crappy drives outside of specs--sorry but it even happens with IBM despite 
their care.  Thus the drive advertises to the software that it can run 
udma100 and the kernel tunes to that and times out because the tolerances of 
the kernel are tighter than the drive.  Mostly this is restricted to a few 
brands, and works better with the running kernel than the install kernel.

And just because it reads OK on one speed test does not mean the drive is 
running reliably.  I wish there were better explanations, but we seem to be 
more in the area of plumbing than of science here.

Also, most people do not check or develop a REGULAR schedule of cable 
rotation  (Put in new and throw away old)  There's vibration and we are 
counting on cheap plastic to maintain tight connections of metal to metal in 
the insulation displacement configuration.  

Naturally, in those short articles, I am asked to condense the full 
explanations greatly, most users don't want to be bothered with that much 
detail.  Here you will find a much more thorough explanation:

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001213074438

As to why this works with Windows but not with Mandrake--remember windows has 
no native ATA/100 drivers--They are by the interface 
manufacturers and are far less efficient (read sloppier and m