[expert] test - please ignore

[Mark Weaver]

I TOLD you to just ignore this message! but no!!! you had to open it,
didn' you. Now you're in BIG trouble. this message had a virus attached
to it that is not only going to delete the entire contents of your hard
drive - the windows side only of course - but it's also going to do the
same to your neighbor's hard drive AND erase ALL the refrigerator art
from the front of your frig!

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[expert] KDEPIM-2.2.2 w/o libpng3?

[Michael Leone]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone had a copy of kdepim-2.2.2-1 built w/o
libpng3? I have KDE 2.2.2, from Texstar, but he doesn't provide kdepim.
And the one in Cooker wants libpng3, which I can't seem to install,
since it seems to conflict with many other things.

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Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

[Robert Goshko]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 19:58, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:04:25 -0500
> Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
> ponder:
> 
> > Mark Weaver wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there any? I can't get my visor working cause there doesn't happen to
> > > be anything to connect to. :(
> > >
> > 
> > What version of Mandrake are you using?
> > 
> > I use 8.0 and USB support is in it.
> > Start Mandrake Control Center
> > click on
> > System  then  Services
> > scroll down the list until you see usb and usbd
> > click on the little box to the left of on boot
> > and the start button for each.
> > Reboot and, as long as USB is enabled in your Bios
> > you should have USB
> > 
> 
> I'm using 8.2beta1 at the moment, although I had been using 8.1 and there
> wasn't any support for usb in that version either. I haven't seen any since
> 7.2.
> 

No USB in 8.1?  I have my Visor Prism working fine under 8.1, syncing
with Evolution 1.0.2.  The actual USB device does not appear unless the
sync button is pressed.

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Re: [expert] usb support in Mandrake?

[daRcmaTTeR]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:04:25 -0500
Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:

> Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
> > Is there any? I can't get my visor working cause there doesn't happen to
> > be anything to connect to. :(
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >   -
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> What version of Mandrake are you using?
> 
> I use 8.0 and USB support is in it.
> Start Mandrake Control Center
> click on
> System  then  Services
> scroll down the list until you see usb and usbd
> click on the little box to the left of on boot
> and the start button for each.
> Reboot and, as long as USB is enabled in your Bios
> you should have USB
> 
> best wishes,
> norm

Hi Norm,

I'm using 8.2beta1 at the moment, although I had been using 8.1 and there
wasn't any support for usb in that version either. I haven't seen any since
7.2.

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Re: [expert] Motherboards - again

[Norman]

Hi,
I picked up your input to the motherboards thread and wondered
how you got everything to work using your K7S5A board.
I haven't got the plug and lead for the onboard video and bought
an nvidia Geforce2 mx 200 card. this works but above 800x600
the display is bigger than the screen area. which is not what I wanted.
tThe NIC is seen but I cannot get it configured and bought  a PCI card.
I am activelly trying to get this to work properly at present with a thread on this
newsgroup and an email to Mandrake support.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
tia
norm

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 10 Feb 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
>
> > The recent discussions of motherboards has raised a question with me.
> > There is always lots of chat about the mid to upper end mobos, but what
> > about the lower end?
> >
> > If I were to put together a budget box, that could still run Linux, and
> > be useable, what mobos would you experts recommend?
> > This is really just a curiosity question. Not everyone can afford to
> > build a box based on the Soyo Dragon+, they may want something resulting
> > in a box half that price.
> >
> > So drag out your calculators, and lets see what can be built on budget
> > hardware (must be current stuff. No 486 boxes).
> >
> I just put together a machine around the ECS K7S5A motherboard and
> Athlon XP1400 (~ 1050 MhZ). Other specs include: Matrox Millenium 4MB,
> 512M SDRAM (it supports DDR too), Initio SCSI card, 30G 7200 RPM Maxtor
> IDE, two extra fans, decent (not the best) case. Everything set me back
> ~ 380 $US.  17" monitor (used) was $80 at a local computer fair. It's
> very fast. If you're more graphics oriented a generic NVidia card will
> set you back another $50 or so. The Millenium works great for regular X
> though and the framebuffer console accelerates well.
>
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Re: [expert] rtl8139 based network card

[Larry Sword]

Lee Roberts wrote:
> 
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> At 08:17 AM 2/11/2002 -0800, Larry Sword wrote:
> >Norman wrote:
> >>
> >> What is in your /etc/modules.conf file?
> >>
> > [root@norman3 /root]# cat /etc/modules.conf
> >
> >pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
> >start alias eth0 rtl8139
> >++
> >options rtl8139too irq=10
> >1. You don't need this line, probably results in conflict.
> >+++
> >alias usb-interface usb-ohci
> >
> 
> As I recall, the driver is 8139too.o, NOT rtl8139.o or rtl8139too.o

You are correct. Should be: "alias eth0 8139too"

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Re: [expert] XFS corruption due to usb mouse/eth0 crash

[J. Grant]

Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
>   Thanx, I stupid, it's right in front of me!
> 
>   But what exactly does [ctrl+alt+SysRq] do?


Its a key combo that goes to the kernel, so if everything else is broken 
you can dump registers, unmount hd and reboot safely

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Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

[Praedor Tempus]

You are wanting to use a scsci driver, yes?  Perhaps someone else could get 
in and address/confirm this?..I believe that a scsi parameter must be passed 
to the kernel via the "append=" entry (in lilo.conf) besides adding an alias 
to modules.conf.  I would assume that since simply adding the alias to the 
modules.conf doesn't do it, that passing a scsi-related append statement is 
called for.  I must do this to get my CDRW to work (IDE).

praedor

On Friday 08 February 2002 09:53 am, mike wrote:
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > In this case, and until a real fix could be found, it would be better to
> > have the function of the module as it SHOULD be working (but isn't) than
> > to do it the "proper" Mandrake way. The proper way seems to be failing in
> > this case for some reason.
> >
> > Until figuring out why this is the case, there is no need to go without
> > the module and its functionality nor is it necessary to manually install
> > the module every time you bootup.  It is a workable temp fix until the
> > real problem can be determined.
>
> How can the real problem be determined ?
>
> What steps can I take?
>
> Or would it be better just to recompile the module into the kernel?
>
> Mike



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Re: [expert] Totally lost here

[Praedor Tempus]

Bah!  Sound problems continue.  I finally got alsa to actually work with my 
laptop's Solo1 card but there are still artsd/KDE problems with sound.  
  After the initial fix and bootup, sound worked fine.  On all subsequent 
bootups sound fails upon loading KDE with a bunch of messages:

"MCOP authority file is wrong size (just starting?)"

"Soundserver warning message:
Can't register Arts::Midimanager" (repeated 2 times)

and 

"Soundserver warning message:
_useRemote without prior_copyRemote() - this might fail sometimes" (repeated 
11 times)

The end result is no sound in KDE until I open up kcontrol and restart artsd. 
>From there, sound works until the next reboot.  I once deleted all my 
"temporary" mcop-/ksocket- entries in /tmp and deleted all the .DCOP* and 
related entries in my home directory and rebooted.  Sound worked fine then 
but on the next reboot, same old errors and the need to manually restart 
artsd.

Anyone have a clue?  I'd like to dispense with this problem once and for all 
and stop manually restarting artsd every time I login.

On Wednesday 06 February 2002 11:39 am, Chris L. Gray wrote:
> I am NOT going to pretend I know all the ends and outs of your problem,
> BUT, I successfully got my soundcard to work on my Presario laptop
> (using the same driver you are using.) and I noticed no conflicts once I
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[expert] Can't play audio CDs - Mdk8.1

[D. D. Brierton]

My sound card seems to be configured correctly - I can play MP3s in
Nautilus and XMMS, and both GNOME and Sawfish sound events are working
correctly. However, if I put an audio CD in the CD drive and attempt to
play it either with Grip or with the CD Player applet then I hear no
sound, even though the CD is spinning and the track time counter is
turning in both apps. I have checked that the CD volume isn't at zero or
muted in the Audio Mixer.

I had been having enormous problems with devfs in Mandrake 8.1, and I
have just disabled it. Audio CD playback wasn't working before or after
disabling devfs however. I suspect that it didn't work before because
devfs is pants, and isn't working now because some crucial symbolic link
or device file is missing from /dev. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm using a simple analog cable connection between my CD-ROM drive and
my soundcard. (Playing audio CDs worked on this machine with Mdk7.x.)

I can send anyone detailed listings of /dev but at the moment I'm not
sure what to look for.

One final thing: having disabled devfs everything else is working fine,
and so I think that this must be one of those "make this symbolic link
to that" type issues, or a "check the permissions on this" one. I did
read over everything I could find at MandrakeUser, MandrakeForum and
MandrakeExpert, but nothing helped.

TIA, Darren

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Re: [expert] rtl8139 based network card

[Darwin Gottfried]

On Monday 11 February 2002 17:58, you wrote:
> At 08:17 AM 2/11/2002 -0800, Larry Sword wrote:
> >Norman wrote:
> >> What is in your /etc/modules.conf file?
> >
> > [root@norman3 /root]# cat /etc/modules.conf
> >
> >pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
> >start alias eth0 rtl8139
> >++
> >options rtl8139too irq=10
> >1. You don't need this line, probably results in conflict.
> >+++
> >alias usb-interface usb-ohci
>
> As I recall, the driver is 8139too.o, NOT rtl8139.o or rtl8139too.o

rtl8139 can be confusing.  The old driver was named as such and there is 
still much out there referencing same.  The driver to use is actualy 8139too 
as Lee suggested as it's the current incarnation, and it works, unlike it's 
predicessor which didn't work all that well.

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Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 13:51, daRcmaTTeR wrote:

> If you Really want to be able to effectively and painlessly be able to run
> windows apps in from your Linux installation the only sane way of doing
> this reliably is with Win4Lin. It is, without a doubt, the best thing
> since sliced bread, for running "anything" that has anything to do with
> Windows on a Linux platform. Wine is for small things. Even codeweavers.
> it will not handle heavy apps correctly and reliably. Win4Lin is a little
> pricey, but you really do get what you pay for. And it does work. I've run
> all of the M$ Office apps with it; I've installed Windows in /var/tmp
> using it; I'm even willing to bet I could run something as resource
> intensive as Quark Xpress with it.

I've run Office 2000, Money 2000, Photoshop 6 and QuickTime Player in my
Win4Lin (not at the same time, of course :-). Win4Lin is GREAT. Don't
expect to run games, or things that require Direct X video calls (such
as the latest Windows Media Player, or RealOne. Otherwise, great stuff.


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Re: [expert] rtl8139 based network card

[Lee Roberts]

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At 08:17 AM 2/11/2002 -0800, Larry Sword wrote:
>Norman wrote:
>> 
>> What is in your /etc/modules.conf file?
>> 
> [root@norman3 /root]# cat /etc/modules.conf
> 
>pre-install pcmcia_core CARDMGR_OPTS=-f /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
>start alias eth0 rtl8139
>++
>options rtl8139too irq=10
>1. You don't need this line, probably results in conflict.
>+++
>alias usb-interface usb-ohci
>

As I recall, the driver is 8139too.o, NOT rtl8139.o or rtl8139too.o

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[expert] Cryptographic File Systems

[Robert Goshko]

Greetings All, 

I am trying to find a Linux equivalent to the program PGPDisk under
windows.  I found TCFS (Transparent Cryptographic File System), which
looks really good, but the last update to a beta that I see is almost a
year old, and it is geared to the 2.2.x kernal.

Anybody use something like this out there?

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Re: [expert] vim and tilde

[Darwin Gottfried]

On Sunday 10 February 2002 23:53, you wrote:
> !,
>
>   Seems as though vim is leaving temporary files whenever I edit anything
> ie: I edit 'test.txt' and it leaves 'test.txt~' in the current directory,
> no matter what I do.   Anyone know how to fix this?  A couple hours of
> google searching turned up nothing (but I am tired, so you never know)

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Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

[Ronald J. Hall]

Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> 
> I'd be ecstatic if you could let me know about your network escapades
> regarding Baldur's Gate 2.  I'm dying to know if that part of it is working
> ok.
> 
> I've got another machine here, but it's going to take me a bit to get that
> system up and configured on the net.  I guess I'm assuming that you yourself
> have more than one linux box already.  Is that right?
> 
> Anyways, good luck with BG2.  You might be interested to know that there's a
> guy on Transgaming that got Icewind Dale to work too; even though that is
> considered technically to be an "unsupported" game.  I haven't tried that
> yet, but I'm going to...
> 
> Have phun.   ;)

Oh, just to make something clear, I've not even tried Battlenet with Diablo 2:
LOD...I've only used it on a LAN, with 2 Windoze boxes. Hope I didn't mislead
ya there.

I've not gotten Starcraft to work with Battlenet (although I read that its
supposed to be possible) or across my LAN. I think this is because Starcraft
uses IPX, and Diablo 2 uses Tcp/ip. Its my understanding that getting net-
working going with Starcraft is gonna be worked on as well (by Transgaming).

BTW, if you don't mind, what version/release/chapter of Baldurs Gate did you
get to work?

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Re: [expert] About Windows special keys

[Robert]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 08:56, you wrote:
> Hi :
>
>   I want to know how to use Windows Special (Meta) keys on KDE 2.2. By
> default it is well configured on Mandrake 8.1 but I had a problem with
> my little brother that change many files.
>
> Best regards
>
> Alfonso
Have you tried  configuration / KDE  / look and feel /keybindings
there you will find keyboard settings to activate windoze meta keys

Hope this helps

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Re: [expert] [kind of OT] Bug of the CD-RW, poor hardware problem or just a bad configuration?!?!?!?!?!?

[Randy Kramer]

ngn wrote:
> The trouble is: I have a HP 9300 CD-RW 8x4x32 with a Celeron Pentium II 266
> Mhz and a Seagate of 40 gb of 5600 RPM, I can CREATE cd's without any
> problem [*Only in LINUX* due to in Windows I get a "buffer underrun" error].
> So, the fact is: In both Windows and Linux I CAN NOT make cd-to-cd copying
> by any way. No matter how hard I've tried, I couldn't. The only result I get
> is the ejection of the Burner with a considerable amount of lost cd's.
> Furthermore, recently I visited the HP cd recording website when they showed
> the release of the latest Burner with a "buffer underrun" bug solved.
> So, I am among three possibilities : Bug of the CD-RW, poor hardware problem
> or bad configuration.

Do you have a CD reader in the machine (in addition to the writer)?  Are
you copying the CD to the hard drive first?

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Re: [expert] vim and tilde

[J.P. Pasnak]

On Monday 11 February 2002 01:36, you wrote:
> add this line to your "$HOME/.exrc" file
> set nobackup
>
> in vim or gvim, try the foll command for more info
> help backup
>
> a word of advice though, if you are doing any sort of coding and are
> turning off this feature of autobackups, please use some sort of
> version control, so that you can roll back to previous code in case
> you make a mistake and then save that file. i speaketh thus from my
> past experiences.
>

Thanks, and your warning is taken to heart.


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Re: [expert] fetchmail / sendmail -- still no love, i got more work to do

[Randy Kramer]

Skippi wrote:
> I am running fetchmail as the user (skippi) not as root.  I am running it
> either by typing "fetchmail" at the prompt or via pygmy, which simply calls
> fetchmail (if I start pygmy from an Eterm I can watch the fetchmail output
> in that terminal.
> 
Have you looked in your home directory (skippi).  Do an ls -al | less
and look for directories named Mail or mail -- then check them out.  I
have experimented with mail (fetchmail, postfix, Elm, Pine, etc.) and I
have stuff in each of these directories, but can't tell you which
programs put them there (Mandrake 7.2).  I also have a symbolic link
from /var/mail to /var/spool/mail, with other stuff in there.  

Since you are running fetchmail as skippi, my guess is you'd find your
mail somewhere under your home directory.

Just a stab in the dark.

> /var/spool/mail and /var/mail were both empty.  I recently used touch to
> create an empty file called skippi in /var/spool/mail as that was a
> suggestion I received.
> 
> when I start up the computer I see the messages:
> starting postfix
> starting sendmail
> Now, should I have both of those running?  Is that part of the problem?

AFAIK, you don't need both of these -- they both perform basically the
same functions.  This could be part of the problem.  On the other hand,
postfix actually has some commands (links) named sendmail so that
programs that send email by calling sendmail will work under postfix,
but I don't believe you should see both of these starting.

Which do you intend to run, postfix or sendmail?  (I keep hearing that
postfix is easier to configure -- since I don't have either running
successfully, I can't confirm this.)

> Just taking shots in the dark at this point.

Me too, hopefully something will help.


> and trying to figure out that HUGE sendmail configuration file  ugh
>



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Re: [expert] Motherboards - again

[ed tharp]

damn, just about any _old_ board, better if you can find one without onboard 
anything. 


On Monday 11 February 2002 02:32, you wrote:
> The recent discussions of motherboards has raised a question with me.
> There is always lots of chat about the mid to upper end mobos, but what
> about the lower end?
>
> If I were to put together a budget box, that could still run Linux, and
> be useable, what mobos would you experts recommend?
> This is really just a curiosity question. Not everyone can afford to
> build a box based on the Soyo Dragon+, they may want something resulting
> in a box half that price.
>
> So drag out your calculators, and lets see what can be built on budget
> hardware (must be current stuff. No 486 boxes).
>
> Thanks!



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RE: [expert] Motherboards - again

[Franki]

duron 900 or more on a KT133A motherboard..

quite zippy and really very good value..

although the Celerons are now gettin pretty good to.
All new Celerons over 1.2 gig now have double sized L2 cache...
which makes them very close to PIII's in performance. in fact the only
difference between a PIII and a celeron at that sort of speed is the buss
speed. (133 for PIII 100 for celeron) so they are very close..

Celerons used to be crap compared to Durons, but they are a good deal too
now.



rgds

Frank

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To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: [expert] Motherboards - again


The recent discussions of motherboards has raised a question with me.
There is always lots of chat about the mid to upper end mobos, but what
about the lower end?

If I were to put together a budget box, that could still run Linux, and
be useable, what mobos would you experts recommend?
This is really just a curiosity question. Not everyone can afford to
build a box based on the Soyo Dragon+, they may want something resulting
in a box half that price.

So drag out your calculators, and lets see what can be built on budget
hardware (must be current stuff. No 486 boxes).

Thanks!


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