Re: [expert] k3b & CD writer
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:42 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Guntner wanted us to know: > >Now, when running k3b to try to burn some tracks or whatever, when I start > >the program, I first get a pop-up window saying that it can't find a file > >called /nonemntcdrom2, which I click on OK to get rid of. When going into > > Known issue with k3b. You must disable supermount. > > k3b is not very good as far as I'm concerned. gcombust does everything > I want and more. > And easier too. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems with Wine/WineX
I keep getting this message regardless of the wine version when I try to run any of the more recent games, "turn debugging off and try again". The following error is from trying to run Army Men RTS. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Army Men RTS]$ wineserver && wine amrts.exe Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 fixme:module:CreateProcessA (X:\~f51e43.tmp,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored FIXME:pthread_cond_init Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 err:int:INSTR_IDT_Emulate Evil attempt to exploit win9x system security flaws detected err:int:INSTR_IDT_Emulate UNIX system security is too strong, can't emulate properly fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SICE. Try --winver nt40 or win31 ! fixme:win32:DEVICE_Open Unknown/unsupported VxD SIWVID. Try --winver nt40 or win31 ! err:win:WIN_FindWndPtr window 4002d belongs to other process Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0" after 173 requests (173 known processed) with 0 events remaining. err:win:WIN_FindWndPtr window 5002a belongs to other process Man wine doesn't say anything about turning off debugging, jus gives various options for it's use. Anyone have a cure??? OH, I'm using WineX -> wine --version WineX CVS -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with Wine/WineX
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:37 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:54 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I keep getting this message regardless of the wine version when I try to > > run any of the more recent games, "turn debugging off and try again". > > The following error is from trying to run Army Men RTS. > > Ken, I don't have Army Men RTS to try out under WineX 3.1 here, but I never > run the debugging stuff *unless* I'm trying to find out why it won't work. > Most of the time, I just "winex ". > > What other recent games are you having trouble with? Have you tried > searching the games compatibility list on Transgamings web site? I've found > hints, clues and help there many times. No I haven't looked. Just installed WineX recently and haven't taken time to really get into it.. Some of the other games are, Command & Conquer Red Alert, Yuri's Revenge expansion pack and Command & Conquor Generals. Total Annihilation runs OK and I imagine Star Craft will also. These two are the only games I've ever been able to run under wine or more recently WineX. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Dumbell question on urpmi
On Friday 01 August 2003 10:36 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 09:15, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? > > urpmi.update -a Thanks Jack and Tru64 User. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dumbell question on urpmi
I feel like a fool, but how do you update the urpmi database?? -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 09:35 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:03 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Phooy ! ! ! I like single click mouse action and have yet to find a way > > to get itn the root file manager short of logging in as root and changing > > it in Kcontrol center. There is NO administrative mode in the mouse > > section,so, you can only change for the immidiate user. > > Open a console > SU to root > typer kcontrol and hit enter > > voila, running KDE Control Center with root priviledges while logged in as > a user. Use this method to start any gui program that needs root > priviledge. Yeah, I guess I knew that, I was just irritated that someone would say there was never ANY reason to log into a root GUI.. There reasons, although not the same for every user. The whole reason for my turning to Linux was to have the choice and the options to work with MY computer as I saw fit, not the way the author of the OS wanted/foced me to. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 07:45 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 15:57, Bill Mullen wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > Bill Mullen wrote: > > > >The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full X > > > >session as root?" ... > > > > > > Because they want the convenience of full access to all files as with a > > > console prompt running as root without the need to know how to use the > > > command line. > > > > And su-ing to root in a terminal, and then running konqueror or nautilus > > or drakconf (or whatever) fails to provide this how, pray tell? > > > > Many people want many things which are not good for them in any way; I > > want no part of making those sorts of wishes any easier to satisfy. > > Bill said the same thing and look what we got winders. No it's > like with my little guy. Sometimes I have to let him fall down.. so > that he can learn to get up on his own again. If the user knows root. > They can do the same damage no matter how they get to it. period. Tell > them "If you do this you can hose your box." and walk away. If you > don't want to help them in the first place... don't offer. In for a > penny in for a pound. Just don't ever tell me what I can or cannot do > with my computer. > > Rules I remember. > > 1. If I offer to help and you say yes I don't get to complain > about helping you. > 2. Stupidity in users is a 1 to 1 relationship with how far to the edge > of my knowledge they push me. > 3. The person you are helping isn't that stupid... they got you to do > it for free didn't they. > 4. Don't do it for them, tell them how to do it themselves, then when > they break it, show them how to get out of it. They will never ask you > again to do something like this because they will either know how, or be > so lazy they don't want to go through doing it themselves again. > 5. Whenever you idiot proof something the number one idiot you expose > is usually yourself. > 6. If that idiot was so stupid he/she wouldn't have gotten around your > magnificent idiot proofing in the first place. > 7. Never argue with a man carrying dynamite and a lit cigarette ... All > the no smoking signs in the world won't stop him from blowing himself > up. Run instead, and hope he doesn't follow. > > james Yay, Hooray, Clap Clap, Cheer, Whistle, Shout. Glad to see some good sense instead of another Microsoftisim. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 04:09 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 23:43 schrieb Brant Fitzsimmons: > > Bill Mullen wrote: > > >On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > >>Felix Miata wrote: > > >>>Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell > > >>>mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. > > >> > > >>As far as I know there is no way to do so. This was the subject of > > >> very heated discussions during 9.0 development. > > > > > >It *can* be done, and fairly easily, as well. > > > > > >The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full X > > > session as root?" ... > > > > Because they want the convenience of full access to all files as with a > > console prompt running as root without the need to know how to use the > > command line. > > Bad reason under K-menu => applications => file tools or whatever it is > called in english you can start konqueror in root-modus. The mandrake-tools > can be accessed to from a normal login in various ways. >There is no reason to start X as root. > ^^^ > Steffen Phooy ! ! ! I like single click mouse action and have yet to find a way to get itn the root file manager short of logging in as root and changing it in Kcontrol center. There is NO administrative mode in the mouse section,so, you can only change for the immidiate user. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash & mdkKDM?
On Thursday 31 July 2003 03:36 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > Bill Mullen wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > >Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell > > > >mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. > > > > > > As far as I know there is no way to do so. This was the subject of > > > very heated discussions during 9.0 development. > > > > It *can* be done, and fairly easily, as well. > > > > The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full X session > > as root?" ... > > I just explained that in my last post, so how about sharing the secret > how it's done? The simpelest way is to go to Kcontrol -> System -> Login Manager -> Users -> Administrative Mode and change the setting to let the root user be visible in the login window. -- Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...
On Saturday 26 July 2003 02:53 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:17:16 +1000 charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned > > > > :- > > : > > > If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or > > > I'm too pissed to find it... > > > > I am uncertain if I understand your problem Pierre but I am using > > Mozilla-1.3-1mdk and have done in :- Edit/Preferences/Downloads enabled > > Open download manager. Is that what you want? That way every time that I > > download anything I have choice of any partition and directory. Select > > it and leave it do its work. > > > > It is done manually of course, Download Manager does choose the last > > partition or directory that I downloaded into as default but just a > > quick click and another is selected. Give the file or image it any name > > that you choose with or without the file extension, thus allowing you to > > better find it if you really do forget where you placed it. > > > > HTH > > > > Charlie. > > I salvaged my downloads, except for the 330M that died, by stopping one of > the remaining downloads and resuming it with ftp's reget. > > When the download manager opens, no matter what you tell it, it still > insists on using /tmp for the download, and IF that completes, it's moved > to the specified location -- *that* is the STOOPID problem; not to mention > that it totally misses the fact that *it* is doing multiple downloads and > fails to realize that 1G+ just won't fit into 900M even if each d/l would > on its own... > > The only reason I'm using moz is that galeon totally lost my respect when > its config was moved out of the app into gnome IIRC. > > Been playing with opera; but I still haven't decided which browser sucks > the least -- none are good. Pierre, Have you tried Kget integrated into Konqueror??? Pretty durn nice.. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Dumb URPMI question
Mandrake 9.2 beta borked on CD#2 so I wanted to do a system upgrade from cooker. But, I can't seem to find anything for urpmi to make it do that, is it possible? Something like urpmi --update --auto-select --whatever??? -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] nVIDIA driver breaks X in 9.1
On Friday 25 July 2003 10:38 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 10:59 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Howdy folks, > > I installed the 4349 nVIDIA drivers yesterday and poof, no X. The Xserver > > just cycled through opening to a background to console and back. After it > > finally gave up there was a message about not being able to load > > glx.something-or-other.o > > Any clues as to why?? I installed it just fine in 9.0. This 9.1 is a > > standard install with updated through mandrake-update. > > I've got the 4349 drivers working fine here with v9.1 and an Nvidia Geforce > Ti4200. > > You'll probably need to post the -exact- text from the error message so we > can see what is happening. > > Did you do all the usual? I mean, after installation, setting the nvidia > stuff in XF86Config-4, modules, and modules.conf. Did you also do a "depmod > -a" after all that? > > Here are my files (only showing relevant Nvidia stuff though): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]$ cat /etc/modules > # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. > # > # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are > # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with > # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. > nvidia > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]$ cat /etc/modules.conf > alias char-major-195 NVdriver > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] X11]$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > Section "Module" > Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension > Load "v4l" # Video for Linux > Load "extmod" > Load "type1" > Load "freetype" > Load "glx" # 3D layer > > Section "Device" > Identifier "NV AGP" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce (fbdev)" > Driver "nvidia" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen AGP" > Device "NV AGP" > Monitor "monitor1" > DefaultColorDepth 16 > > Hope this helps ya! I'll go back through it again later this afternoon and make sure.. I did look over the XF86Config-4 and it looked OK except for replacing nv with nvidia, which I did.. I didn't look at modules.conf as there was no need the last time I installed these drivers.. The sh script name is 4349 but I'm sure it was 4363 that came up when I was installing.. Like I said, I'll give it another go later today and then post the result of my trials.. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] nVIDIA driver breaks X in 9.1
Howdy folks, I installed the 4349 nVIDIA drivers yesterday and poof, no X. The Xserver just cycled through opening to a background to console and back. After it finally gave up there was a message about not being able to load glx.something-or-other.o Any clues as to why?? I installed it just fine in 9.0. This 9.1 is a standard install with updated through mandrake-update. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Wine troubles
Hi all, I'm using -- Wine 20030115(stock install from 9.1) to try to run TotalA, it starts and the mouse is usable but there is no keyboard recognised. O/S is Mandrake 9.1 with updates Video is nVIDIA Gforce2 32Mb RAM Memory 512Mb. TotalA ran fine using Codeweavers 20020904 under Mandrake 9.0.. If more info is needed to help me find the problen, ask and I'll get to the list. Thanks, -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 11:26 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 20:15, Ken Thompson wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them > > > > but to no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either > > > > incoming nor outgoing. > > > > Just using the "out of the box" theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. > > > > Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger > > > > protocol and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. > > > > In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts > > > > in ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change > > > > can be made to them either. > > > > SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as > > > > advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be > > > > interesting > > > > Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of > > > > 9.1 betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to > > > > 4.3.x.. There has to be some place that controls the font rendering > > > > in these two applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the > > > > system is perfectly OK. No font issues at all with any other app's > > > > just these two... > > > > > > As for the out of the box theme. It's galaxy. And now I see that we > > > do notice the same things. As for ymessenger. It was built for MDK > > > 8.0. This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1. On > > > the other... Seems to be a yahoo thing. > > > > > > James > > > > Yeah, I'd about come to that conclusion too. > > It does seem kinda strange that ymessy works OK on SuSE 8.2, though.. > > Tried it out and came right back "home" .. If I was smart enough to > > find what SuSE did (or didn't) do I'd try making the changes and see if > > it would work on MDK. > > Mandrake kernel: 2.4.21-0.13mdk > > SuSE kernel: 2.4.20-4GB > > Both running Xfree 4.3x > > It's gotten to be kind of a challenge no to find out why if I can... > > I think it has something to do with the attempts MDK is making at > anti-aliased founts. Not sure. Very possible, I see there is a directory under /usr/X11R6 for mandrakefont (or some such), may have a look in there and see what I see. On the other hand, Slacware and Knoppix will show the correct font until the Xserver is restarted then the fonts get tiny again, sometimes running fc-cache will make it show the fonts correctly again, might be a clue.. It doesn't seem to have any affect in MDK. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to > > no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor > > outgoing. > > Just using the "out of the box" theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. > > Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol > > and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. > > In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in > > ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be > > made to them either. > > SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as > > advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting > > > > Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 > > betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x.. > > There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two > > applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly > > OK. No font issues at all with any other app's just these two... > > As for the out of the box theme. It's galaxy. And now I see that we do > notice the same things. As for ymessenger. It was built for MDK 8.0. > This alone should explain why it doesn't work at all on 9.1. On the > other... Seems to be a yahoo thing. > > James Yeah, I'd about come to that conclusion too. It does seem kinda strange that ymessy works OK on SuSE 8.2, though.. Tried it out and came right back "home" .. If I was smart enough to find what SuSE did (or didn't) do I'd try making the changes and see if it would work on MDK. Mandrake kernel: 2.4.21-0.13mdk SuSE kernel: 2.4.20-4GB Both running Xfree 4.3x It's gotten to be kind of a challenge no to find out why if I can... -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 12:51 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:08, Ken Thompson wrote: > > On Monday 21 July 2003 05:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:10, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > > I just upgraded to gaim 0.66 (thanks James) and am still having the > > > > same trouble with the font configuration, can't change size, color or > > > > face in pref's and make it take. > > > > I make the changes and close the window, restart gaim (just because > > > > ) and there are no changes made. Looking in pref's shows the > > > > changes I had made, they just don't make it into the IM window. The > > > > font stays Black, Sans, Size 10 no matter what I do. > > > > I removed the ~.gaim, urpme'd the older version of gaim, init 1 -> > > > > init 5 and urpmi'd gaim 0.66. > > > > Any other config files I need to remove/edit or whatever > > > > > > Total pull from my rear end here. But Have you tried changing the > > > universal setting in gnome-control-center? Could be that it's helping > > > you be changing your changes > > > > > > James > > > > I changed evrything in Gnome -> Fonts that even remotly looked like it > > would help, still no change ... > > Bummer The problem is... is that I can't duplicate what you are > seeing. One question would be are you using galaxay or some other > universal theme? I'm not. Perhaps this is what is messing with your > head. Quite honestly.. when I change settings they stay changed... > Nothing happens, but whatever I put in stays that way. (kind of a > exercise in futility.) Never noticed this because I didn't make any > changes before. hm. > > James Regarding changes in gaim, yes the changes stay as I have set them but to no effect, nothing is changed in the message window, either incoming nor outgoing. Just using the "out of the box" theme for 9.1 (Keramik, I think).. Another thing that may be related, I'm using the Yahoo Messenger protocol and am also having font problems with ymessenger under 9.1. In fact, that is why I changed to gaim in the first place, the fonts in ymessenger are extremely tiny - totally unreadable and no change can be made to them either. SuSE 8.2 treats Ymessenger the same as Mandrake 9.0 did, it works as advertised. Haven't tried latest gaim on SuSE yet, might be interesting Strangely enough, ymessenger worked just fine in the first couple of 9.1 betas, XFree 4.2.99, but went totally bonkers after the change to 4.3.x.. There has to be some place that controls the font rendering in these two applications aside from all the rest. The rest of the system is perfectly OK. No font issues at all with any other app's just these two... -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
On Monday 21 July 2003 05:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:10, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I just upgraded to gaim 0.66 (thanks James) and am still having the same > > trouble with the font configuration, can't change size, color or face in > > pref's and make it take. > > I make the changes and close the window, restart gaim (just because ) > > and there are no changes made. Looking in pref's shows the changes I had > > made, they just don't make it into the IM window. The font stays Black, > > Sans, Size 10 no matter what I do. > > I removed the ~.gaim, urpme'd the older version of gaim, init 1 -> init > > 5 and urpmi'd gaim 0.66. > > Any other config files I need to remove/edit or whatever > > Total pull from my rear end here. But Have you tried changing the > universal setting in gnome-control-center? Could be that it's helping > you be changing your changes > > James I changed evrything in Gnome -> Fonts that even remotly looked like it would help, still no change ... -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
On Monday 21 July 2003 05:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:10, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I just upgraded to gaim 0.66 (thanks James) and am still having the same > > trouble with the font configuration, can't change size, color or face in > > pref's and make it take. > > I make the changes and close the window, restart gaim (just because ) > > and there are no changes made. Looking in pref's shows the changes I had > > made, they just don't make it into the IM window. The font stays Black, > > Sans, Size 10 no matter what I do. > > I removed the ~.gaim, urpme'd the older version of gaim, init 1 -> init > > 5 and urpmi'd gaim 0.66. > > Any other config files I need to remove/edit or whatever > > Total pull from my rear end here. But Have you tried changing the > universal setting in gnome-control-center? Could be that it's helping > you be changing your changes > > James No, I don't use gnome so I never even thought about it.. I'll give it a try and get back to you. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] No keyboard in wine
Hi all, I'm using -- Wine 20030115 to try to run TotalA, it starts and the mouse is usable but there is no keyboard recognised. O/S is Mandrake 9.1 with updates Video is nVIDIA Gforce2 32Mb RAM Memory 512Mb. TotalA ran fine using Codeweavers 200209xx under Mandrake 9.0.. If more info is needed to help me find the problen, ask and I'll get to the list. Thanks, -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Gaim 066 Fonts
I just upgraded to gaim 0.66 (thanks James) and am still having the same trouble with the font configuration, can't change size, color or face in pref's and make it take. I make the changes and close the window, restart gaim (just because ) and there are no changes made. Looking in pref's shows the changes I had made, they just don't make it into the IM window. The font stays Black, Sans, Size 10 no matter what I do. I removed the ~.gaim, urpme'd the older version of gaim, init 1 -> init 5 and urpmi'd gaim 0.66. Any other config files I need to remove/edit or whatever -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Gaim 0.64 & MDK 9.1
Has anyone had success with making font color, face and size change in the preferences with GAIM?? Mine accecpts the settings but makes no changes. -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Kernels, what's the difference
I have MDK 9.1 installed with the regular supplied kernel, something called x-13 and and I installed the RPM for the MM kernel.. I don't see any difference in any of them, what's the difference and what should I expect? -- Ken Thompson - WA7SYR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ethernet -cable modem
On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:44 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 22:39, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 14:03, Jack Coates wrote: > > > sorry -- I should clarify that I hardly ever type more than three > > > letters of a given command before hitting tab :-) > > > > Yeah... know that one... gets to be a real bear when you have to move to > > a cshell no tab. > > > > James > > that right there is my number one problem with Solaris. If I'm going to > be on a Solaris box for more than an hour or so, I'm installing bash :-) Same goes for FreeBSD -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question about networking
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 04:48 pm, Jim C wrote: > >>I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch > >>out there that will do DHCP relaying? > >> > >> > >>Jim C. > > > >If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at > >www.smoothwall.org > > I have an old K6 III but I can't get it to work with anything. Think > there might be something wrong with it. Was going to try and use MNF but > couldn't get it to recognize more than one card. Tried smoothwall. > Couldn't figure it out. The trick to smoothie is to put in the NIC that you want for the RED (outside/internet) interface first. Configure as RED - GREEN and then add your other (GREEN /LAN) NIC and configure it through the setup user. I normally use the slower of the two, IE 3COM 3C905, as the RED interface. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question about networking
On Wednesday 09 July 2003 09:25 am, Jim C wrote: > I don't suppose there is an inexpensive hardware router/Firewall/switch > out there that will do DHCP relaying? > > > Jim C. If you have an old machine around (486 is OK) have a look at www.smoothwall.org -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
On Sunday 29 June 2003 09:08 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 28 June 2003 11:00 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Praedor, > > Take a look at Smoothwall --- http://www.smoothwall.org > > It just works. > > As for mandrake, did you set your default gateway on the laptop to the > > address of your desktop?? It should have done this when ya set up DHCP > > but I have had to go in and add the default gateway in order to make it > > work. > > Eieew, 20+ megs...I have a dialup and don't see downloading smoothwall in > this lifetime. I downloaded it via a dialup the first time I tried it, it wasn't so bad. If you want to try it, I can see two alternatives: 1) Download the ISO on the University's big pipe, or 2) I'll burn you a copy and send to you.. I use GPL1.0 here and have a VPN open to a friend also using GPL1.0. Regular scans always show it to be very secure and it works with no fuss "right out of the box". -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Connection sharing hell
Praedor, Take a look at Smoothwall --- http://www.smoothwall.org It just works. As for mandrake, did you set your default gateway on the laptop to the address of your desktop?? It should have done this when ya set up DHCP but I have had to go in and add the default gateway in order to make it work. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Coreldraw files to?
On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:05 am, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > Does anyone know any tool to translate coreldraw files to other more > general format (jpg, ps, pnm)? > > Thanks so much in advance I seem to remember something about an export feature in 3, 4, 5 & 8.. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine
On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:01 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 12 June 2003 01:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:30, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: > > > I've tried dozen of times to install wine successfully on mandrake to > > > run half-life and its mods. The last try, i could install half-life. > > > but i could not run it. So, I'd give up. > > [...] > > > Lot of people who game have had nice luck with the transgaming version > > of wine. At least they tell you up front what will/won't work. As for > > Alpha... shoot wine has been in alpha for what, 10 years now *grin*. > > (dang hard to shoot a moving and invisible target.) > > I have played Half-Life and Deus Ex twice each through wine. I got > Half-Life working the first time with regular old wine. I've had better > success with winex since. > > praedor > > - -- > Patriotism as practiced in the USA is blindly accepting, noncritical, and > silently following along. It is very fascist in form, not democratic at > all. - --Ani DeFranco > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+6M4FaKr9sJYeTxgRAvD6AKC2M/AgVWGy22tnnG+jZXTTZK8AeQCfVsmi > eLQz1pqVO6RjRR9LRU701EY= > =0b9B > -END PGP SIGNATURE- I play StarCraft and Total Annhilation on MDK 9.0 using CodeWeavers wine. It's a bit hard to find on their site now that they've gone commercial but I believe it's under "Technology" . -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Web site guru needed
On Thursday 05 June 2003 01:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hit and miss hunting is not helping me with my problem, so I need > someone who is actively engaged in web site contruction to help me. > Not that I am trying to construct one - just to understand what my > problem is so that I stand a chance of dealing with it. > > I use on-line banking from a browser. I can use Konqueror without > problems, but if I want to access it whilst in Mozilla a problem > arises. > > For the most part, all is well. However, one funcion is to be able to > set up transfers between accounts. You can, for instance, set up to > transfer cash from your current account to your credit card account > on a specific date. All this works, until you want to check just > what transactions are pending. Then, you can see the account number, > and all the relevant details except the amount to be transferred. > > I'm guessing that the missing amount is from some secure server, > possibly different from that which stores the other details. I'm > also guessing that I have set something that is not allowing it to > function properly. I have no idea what that could be, though. I > thought I had reversed everything I have set in the way of security > settings. Can anyone guess what the problem is likely to be? > Anne, I'm not a GURU but the most likely suspects are: JAVA, ASP and Browser ID.. A good many sites are written to work only with IE5.5 and above. My educated guess is the JAVA plugin either missing or wrong version.. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 5:31 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > Hi List! > > > > I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors > > (just terminals). > > > > I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off > > monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. > > > > TIA > > Cheers, > > It's a while since I had 8.x, so I can't give you specifics. However, > I do remember that somewhere on the menu I found an entry for power > control (can't remember exactly what it was called). I used x, but > had the monitor blanking (as does this under 9.0) just as you > describe. > > Anne I believe it's in Kcontrol under Energy It's Power Control in9.0.. Might be just a bit different in 8.x but you can also go to he XFree86Config-4 and either uncomment the "Option 'DPMS'" or add it as needed. Hope I'm right my memory of 8.x is a bit rusty. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Friday 30 May 2003 12:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 30 May 2003 11:18 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I'll drink to that ... > > As long as its not home-brewed from the vegetable that Idaho is most famous > for! (and ducking!!!) :-) I do like me spuds, but my drink is usually a 17oz cup of coffee and it's a national emergency when it goes dry. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:26 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > The easiest way is to right click the desktop -> Run Command -> then type > > kcontrol in the text box. > > Even easier (well, opinion varies but its close) is to > > > > and type in what you want to run. :-) I'll drink to that ... -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:16 pm, elPunishar wrote: > i have no > -> pheripherals -> mouse > in control center. i only have > -> hardware -> MouseDrake > > and there are absolutely no options for the mouse... the only thing i can > chose is WHAT mouse. > > concerning the harddisk, i don't know if i tried the harddisk alone.. think > i did, but i'll try that again to be sure > (but anyway, this can't be true.. this is a nightmare) > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 20:26, Tru64 User wrote: > > Yes...he meant Mandrake control center. > > > > Also (no insults, not sure how much u r into linux) > > but, with winblows, cable select works OK for multiple > > drives. For linux, Gotta specify explicitly which is > > master, which is slave with the jumpers. > > > > Coming to think of it, i tried adding a third drive to > > mandrake 8.2 a while back (on a temporary measure, to > > move installation from one drive to next), and i was > > not able to. It simply did not work...having it as > > either hdc or hdd. With urgency, i simply did unplug > > the cdrom and hooked the drive, and moved my files. > > Never tried it again. But all sorts of combination > > btwn the drive & cdrom on IDE1 (not IDE0) did not > > work. I could only get each working, but not together. > > So it might be something wrong somewhere > > there...please make sure u post ur resolution. > > > > _Thanks > > > > Richard Mollel > > > > --- elPunishar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sorry, i forgot to say, i'm running mandrake 9.1. > > > > > > where would i find the KDE control center ? you > > > don't mean the mandrake > > > control center ? > > > > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 15:43, Ronald J. Hall > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:39 pm, elPunishar > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > can anyone tell me how i can change the mouse > > > > > > sensitivity? > > > > > > > > maybe i'm blind but i can't find any such option > > > > > > in MouseDrake... > > > > > > > > tnx & greetings, > > > > > le stu > > > > > > > > Have you checked the settings in: > > > > > > > > KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse > > > > > > > > with tabs for General and Advanced? The easiest way is to right click the desktop -> Run Command -> then type kcontrol in the text box. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 (login problem SOLVED)
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:07 am, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote: > On Monday 26 May 2003 05:30 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Monday May 26 2003 11:33 am, dfox wrote: > > > Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 > > > > > > >I have to enter into a console as root, change to init 3, then > > > > login as my user and do startx. > > > > > > In a different context, this has happened a couple of times for > > > me, although not necessarily because of a KDE upgrade. I am not > > > sure what causes this but it may be that kdm is out of sync. The > > > few times this has happened, later updates cure the problem. > > > > > > I usually prefer to login in init 3 and login from console. > > > > Well, runnin cooker all the time, lately it's gotten to be a > > problem for me too. Usually due to a bad .kdmrc after updates. Not > > corrupt, just stuff missing. Since I seem to have lost my only good > > backup copy of .kdmrc due to a user error (me ;), I just switched > > to usin GDM instead. No more more problems, tho I don't like GDM as > > well, at least it works ;) OTOH, booting to my user desktop was > > never affected. > > Well, the problem was that the new rpms deleted the kdmrc file, and didn't > install a new one. But hopefully the previous one was saved with .rpmsave > extension, so I only had to rename it. > > > Cheers, Will the 9.1 KDE 3.1.2 RPM's work on 9.0 with KDE 3.1.1a or will I have to move up to 9.1?? -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work
On Sunday 16 March 2003 02:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:08 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at > > all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying the test > > sound in the KDE control center: > > Sound server informational message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > = > > After using "modprobe emu-10k1" and "lsmod" here's the output: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > snd-emu10k156592 0 (unused) > > snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-emu10k1] > > snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] > > snd-util-mem1280 0 [snd-emu10k1] > > snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-emu10k1] > > snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] > > snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1] > > snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1] > > snd24804 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer > > snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep] > > soundcore 3780 0 [snd] > > === > > Before the "modprobe" command there are no sound modules loaded at all. > > MCC seems to want OSS sound drivers with Audigy as an alternative but I > > don't see either of them on the CD. > > I know this has come up before but can't seem to locate the article, > > anybody have a fix?? > > PS > > After the "modprobe" I don't get the error message shown above but still > > have no sound. > > Ken, Can't help much on the tech side, but I can confirm that the card > works with 9.0. I haven't succeeded in getting the front panel to work, > yet, though. > > Anne Thanks Anne, I guess this is just the excuse I needed to try 9.1 RC2 . -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work
Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying the test sound in the KDE control center: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. = After using "modprobe emu-10k1" and "lsmod" here's the output: Module Size Used byNot tainted snd-emu10k156592 0 (unused) snd-pcm55808 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-util-mem1280 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi12864 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-hwdep 3840 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd24804 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-util-mem snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-hwdep] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] === Before the "modprobe" command there are no sound modules loaded at all. MCC seems to want OSS sound drivers with Audigy as an alternative but I don't see either of them on the CD. I know this has come up before but can't seem to locate the article, anybody have a fix?? PS After the "modprobe" I don't get the error message shown above but still have no sound. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Zip disk question
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 01:51 am, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 02:32, Alan wrote: > > I upgraded a system from 8.0 to 9.0. > > > > Now I cannot find the Zip disk device. My old /dev/zip symlink has been > > blown away and I cannot find the scsi->ide device it is supposed to be. > > Some thoughts ... > > Is the ide-scsi module being loaded at boot time (places to look: output > of lsmod and dmesg, proper "append=" line(s) in /etc/lilo.conf and/or > "kernel" line(s) in /boot/grub/menu.lst)? > > If not, add in the appropriate entry in whichever of the above two files > pertains to your bootloader, run /sbin/lilo (if it's lilo that you use), > and reboot. If your Zip is connected as hdc, let's say, you'll want: > > /etc/lilo.conf: > >append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi" > > /boot/grub/menu.lst: > >kernel blahblahblahblahblahblah devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi > > (Care to guess which loader I've used more frequently? ) > > If the above is in order, is the drive being properly detected (output > of "cdrecord -scanbus" should be useful here)? > > If all that checks out, then your symlink target is probably something > like /dev/sda4 or /dev/sdb4 (which would in itself be a symlink to one > of those cryptic /dev/scsi/blah/blah/blah/blah/part4 type of entries). > > This is off the top of my head, I'm afraid, as I have no scsi-emulated > devices here on the 9.0 box to use as a reference ... :( > > HTH! Some more thoughts: I had real problems with getting my ZIP internal 100 to work in 9.0, here's what finally fixed it for me. Changed the internal cables to put the zip as primary on the second channel IDE, from that point on the ZIP has worked as advertized. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:31 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:25 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 > > betas and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. > > A google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up > > nVidia kernels and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message > > saying that an nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, > > src.rpm and tar.gz methods all with the same results.. Where can > > libGLcore be found?? Thanks all, > > It is actually a bogus error created when somebody with an nVidia card > compiles on their machine. There is a fix to apply, but if that is your > only error, I have found it is safe to install with --nodeps. What package > are you trying to install? Komba2 and Knoda 0.55... -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??
I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia kernels and drivers. When trying to install these I get a message saying that an nVidia card is required. I have tried both the rpm, src.rpm and tar.gz methods all with the same results.. Where can libGLcore be found?? Thanks all, -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho - USA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Contribs
On Friday 28 February 2003 11:06 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > >HTML e-mail is always more than likely to be spam than a real message. In > >fact, I typically have a filter set up to automatically send mails with > > html to the trash. After I saw civileme's post, I had to go retrieve > > this one to reply to it. You'll notice how hard it is to read your post. > > > >And yes many still use text-only browsers, for many reasons, not the least > > of which is a security one > > You used kmail. Does it not handle html messages? Ron, It's not a matter of whether or not the mail program will read html, it's that the folks on *this* list DON'T want to read html. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 attempt #2
On Sunday 23 February 2003 12:34 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Well, that was fun. > Per the suggestions here, and on the errata, I unplugged the printer, > and tried it again. > And as expected, it made it past that. > > So, with the load finished, I logged in as a regular user. > Yup. Worked fine. > > So, then do the cursory reboot, just to be sure all is well, and .. > > Klank.. klunk.. ppffft nada > > I dies on starting up logical volume management... It just hangs there. > So, time to put a reliable system back on it. > > Maybe rc2. ;) > > Ric Ric, Here's what I've done to get it installed and running in a pretty stable mode: Pentium II 400 256MB RAM Matrox Millenium 400 Dual Head 32MB 17" Pixie Monitor setup as ADI MicroScan 17X Logitech USB wheel Mouse setup as generic USB wheel RTL-8139 NIC setup with DCHP to a smoothwall firewall and cable internet connection. 1)Expert install up untill the lock out in Summary. 2) Reboot into runlevel 3 and run drakconf to set up Xwindows, networking and KDE 3) add other items after login using either urpmi or MCC software installer. 4) Use printerdrake to set up cups. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm
On Friday 21 February 2003 12:13 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 09:43, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Can someone refresh my memory? I want to build an rpm from a src.prm and > > have forgotten the command. > > rpm --rebuild some.src.rpm Thanks all, got it now.. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] List Problem
On Friday 21 February 2003 10:41 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 21 February 2003 12:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > Is anyone receiving a bounce message from this e-mail address > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > For every message posted to expert? Or is it just me? > > About 21 of them so far > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+VmSzwDUPEkSvRHERAnNqAJ4zW4NVwhh0TqOclO4ddXuebzot1wCeIY+Y > oM2DuRquk870hMlAKRJslF4= > =NVh9 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Yep I just go 4 or 5 from over a week ago.. Funny part is, they've already shown up on the list.. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Building from .src.rpm
Can someone refresh my memory? I want to build an rpm from a src.prm and have forgotten the command. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] email component
On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:06 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: > In a M$ environment, I developed a web application that sends emails using > a component from Dundas. Basically, someone submits a web page and asp > formats the email and then sends it through the component. I want to do > something similar in mandrake 8.2, apache 1.3 (I think), and perl. > > Could anyone tell me what would be needed to do something similar in the > better environment? Look into PHP, it's a lot like ASP and is included in Mandrake Distro's. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1RC1 install problem " undefined subroutine &main:: called."
On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:25 am, tarvid wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:17 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > While trying to install 9.1RC1 I get the above error message, has anyone > > else run into this and know a work around? > > I had exactly the same experience. > > Finished up the install with drakconf after a reboot and got an almost > functioning install.. > > I still have several glitches which are really irritating. > > I've been pleading for a url for a list of quick fixes to no avail. > > Jim Tarvid If ya get one forward to me please. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1RC1 install problem " undefined subroutine &main:: called."
While trying to install 9.1RC1 I get the above error message, has anyone else run into this and know a work around? When it reaches the summary page the error comes up in a box, when I click OK it just loops. Now after a reboot, setting up Xwindows with drakxconf everything seems to work pretty good except networking and DHCP. I have installed all the DHCP rpms with urpmi, set the gateway in Linuxconf and tried to start DHCP, no joy. MCC won't let me set a default gateway either. Issuing the command /sbin/dhcpcd results in an error message about no /etc/dhcp.conf file and then goes into a 60 second DHDISCOVER loop . Any ideas or fixes?? As always,Thanks, -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Stand-alone Firewall
On Monday 17 February 2003 09:49 am, Jim C wrote: > Can anyone point me towards a HOWTO that will allow me to set up a box > without a hard drive as a stand-alone firewall for my home network? > I have an old K6-III box I want to use for this. I figure I'll create > an OS and firewall on a cdrom and leave it at that. > > Jim C, Smoothwall is easy to put together but does require a hard drive. I have one set up on an old P60 with a 240MB hard drive,32MB memory and it works just fine. http://www.smoothwall.org -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
On Thursday 13 February 2003 12:33 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > Ken, > > > > I notice you have cableone which I assume that means you have a > > cablemodem? I live in Boise and have the same service > > > > The reason I bring that up is that I'm curious if you could download > > Mozilla/Netscape with the Java JRE and see if that applet works in that > > browser. With a cablemodem, that shouldn't take too long. Also, is there > > any chance that you could go back to 3.05 and compare the output of the > > java consoles? > > > > Best regards, > > > > David > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:12 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] Java problems > > > > > > Comment inline. > > > > On Monday 10 February 2003 10:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > >>edit ~/.bash_profile > >>find the line beginning PATH = > >>put this under it: > >>JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0 > >>export JAVA_HOME > >>PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin > >> > >>source .bash_profile in the shell you will run java from. > >> > >>these instructions may sound familiar from the README that came with the > >>Sun RPM > > > > Jack, > > Java as such works OK on this machine, what does not work after the > > KDE3.1 upgrade is the java applet in the firewall's "shell" portion of > > the web interface. It was working just fine under KDE3.0.5... > > I've set up java in konqueror and double checked to make sure, works OK > > on websites & etc .. > > I honestly fail to see what/how a desktop manager could/would influence > the way java behaves inside an unrelated application such as a web browser. That makes two of us, but the fact remains that it does. Using MDK 9.1b3 and Mozila I am able to use the java interface on my smoothwall but not with Konqueror. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:18 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:12, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Comment inline. > > > > On Monday 10 February 2003 10:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > > edit ~/.bash_profile > > > find the line beginning PATH = > > > put this under it: > > > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0 > > > export JAVA_HOME > > > PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin > > > > > > source .bash_profile in the shell you will run java from. > > > > > > these instructions may sound familiar from the README that came with > > > the Sun RPM > > > > Jack, > > Java as such works OK on this machine, what does not work after the > > KDE3.1 upgrade is the java applet in the firewall's "shell" portion of > > the web interface. It was working just fine under KDE3.0.5... > > I've set up java in konqueror and double checked to make sure, works OK > > on websites & etc .. > > I don't know what might have changed, as I don't use KDE. I find it very > implausible that upgrading KDE screwed up your $PATH. The snippet you > posted here: > ... > > > > > > > > > [ken@localhost ken]$ java -version > > > > bash: java: command not found > > > > [ken@localhost ken]$ su > > > > Password: > > > > [root@localhost ken]# java -version > > > > bash: java: command not found > > > > [root@localhost ken]# > > > > = > > > > Java is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.0.. > > > > SUN binary RPM.. > > shows a pathing problem. That's typically not an issue for java running > in a browser because you've told the browser where to find java; so I > don't know what you're running into with this particular applet; > however, I would certainly want to look at konq's equivalent of Help | > About Plugins and make sure that the java you're using is the one you > think it is. $PATH is a problem when running java programs from bash as > in the snippet you posted. > ... Yep, it's driving me up the wall.. One thing tha has been suggested I haven't tries yet is to use Mozilla or Netscape and see what they do. OK, just tried that and the applet loads so it looks like a Konqueror problem. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:18 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > Ken, > > I notice you have cableone which I assume that means you have a cablemodem? > I live in Boise and have the same service > > The reason I bring that up is that I'm curious if you could download > Mozilla/Netscape with the Java JRE and see if that applet works in that > browser. With a cablemodem, that shouldn't take too long. Also, is there > any chance that you could go back to 3.05 and compare the output of the > java consoles? > > Best regards, > > David = I reinstalled a fresh 9.0 on the main system (athalon 1200, 256Mb mem) and the output of the java console just basically gives the version of java when I load the ssh applett from the firewall in Konqueror. No error messages. I installed from the java bin file from SUN and that un-tars to an RPM from which I installed the java. Kaffee wasn't installed on the 1200 and I removed it from the 9.1b3 machine.. It almost seems to be KDE related. Again it was/is working just fine under 9.0 and KDE 3.0.3, I had upgraded to 3.0.5 before upgrading to 3.1 and it worked there also. Not until I installed KDE 3.1 did I have any problems.. The funny thing is, I installed KDE 3.1 on a friends machine with the same java version and it put it in /usr/lib/java, on mine it goes to /usr/java. WTF?? Both my machines are in /usr/java Thanks for sticking with me on this. Oh, Yes I do have a cable modem, another story for another day ========== > -Original Message- > From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Java problems > > > Comment inline. > > On Monday 10 February 2003 10:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > > edit ~/.bash_profile > > find the line beginning PATH = > > put this under it: > > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0 > > export JAVA_HOME > > PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin > > > > source .bash_profile in the shell you will run java from. > > > > these instructions may sound familiar from the README that came with the > > Sun RPM > > Jack, > Java as such works OK on this machine, what does not work after the KDE3.1 > upgrade is the java applet in the firewall's "shell" portion of the web > interface. It was working just fine under KDE3.0.5... > I've set up java in konqueror and double checked to make sure, works OK on > websites & etc .. > > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:36, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:30 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > > > > What happens if you type java -version from the command line? Or > > > > from a KDE run dialogue? > > > > > > > > Damon > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:16, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > > > I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my > > > > > firewall in KDE 3.0.5 on Mandrake 9.0. I upgraded to KDE3.1 and now > > > > > it says applet is loaded but I can see nothing. On another machine > > > > > running mandrake 9.1b3 and KDE3.1 I get the same thing. The java > > > > > version is SUN's JRE-1.4, anyone know why or what I can change to > > > > > make it work again? > > > > > Ken Thompson > > > > > Payette, Idaho > > > > > > > > > [ken@localhost ken]$ java -version > > > bash: java: command not found > > > [ken@localhost ken]$ su > > > Password: > > > [root@localhost ken]# java -version > > > bash: java: command not found > > > [root@localhost ken]# > > > = > > > Java is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.0.. > > > SUN binary RPM.. > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
Comment inline. On Monday 10 February 2003 10:56 am, Jack Coates wrote: > edit ~/.bash_profile > find the line beginning PATH = > put this under it: > JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.0 > export JAVA_HOME > PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin > > source .bash_profile in the shell you will run java from. > > these instructions may sound familiar from the README that came with the > Sun RPM > Jack, Java as such works OK on this machine, what does not work after the KDE3.1 upgrade is the java applet in the firewall's "shell" portion of the web interface. It was working just fine under KDE3.0.5... I've set up java in konqueror and double checked to make sure, works OK on websites & etc .. > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 09:36, Ken Thompson wrote: > > On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:30 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > > > What happens if you type java -version from the command line? Or from > > > a KDE run dialogue? > > > > > > Damon > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:16, Ken Thompson wrote: > > > > I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my > > > > firewall in KDE 3.0.5 on Mandrake 9.0. I upgraded to KDE3.1 and now > > > > it says applet is loaded but I can see nothing. On another machine > > > > running mandrake 9.1b3 and KDE3.1 I get the same thing. The java > > > > version is SUN's JRE-1.4, anyone know why or what I can change to > > > > make it work again? > > > > Ken Thompson > > > > Payette, Idaho > > > > > > [ken@localhost ken]$ java -version > > bash: java: command not found > > [ken@localhost ken]$ su > > Password: > > [root@localhost ken]# java -version > > bash: java: command not found > > [root@localhost ken]# > > = > > Java is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.0.. > > SUN binary RPM.. > > > > > > __ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:42 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > If you are still having problems, can you enable the java console and post > what it says here? > > David > > -Original Message- > From: Ken Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Java problems > > > I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my firewall > in > > KDE 3.0.5 on Mandrake 9.0. I upgraded to KDE3.1 and now it says applet is > loaded but I can see nothing. On another machine running mandrake 9.1b3 and > KDE3.1 I get the same thing. The java version is SUN's JRE-1.4, anyone know > why or what I can change to make it work again? > Ken Thompson > Payette, Idaho = Here's what I get.. Java VM version: 1.4.0 Java VM vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc. Class could not be loaded: mindbright.application.MindTerm Backtrace: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: mindbright.application.MindTerm at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:198) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.findClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:233) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletClassLoader.loadClass(KJASAppletClassLoader.java:274) at org.kde.kjas.server.KJASAppletStub$2.run(KJASAppletStub.java:163) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) = Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Java problems
On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:30 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > What happens if you type java -version from the command line? Or from a > KDE run dialogue? > > Damon > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:16, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my firewall > > in KDE 3.0.5 on Mandrake 9.0. I upgraded to KDE3.1 and now it says applet > > is loaded but I can see nothing. On another machine running mandrake > > 9.1b3 and KDE3.1 I get the same thing. The java version is SUN's JRE-1.4, > > anyone know why or what I can change to make it work again? > > Ken Thompson > > Payette, Idaho [ken@localhost ken]$ java -version bash: java: command not found [ken@localhost ken]$ su Password: [root@localhost ken]# java -version bash: java: command not found [root@localhost ken]# = Java is in /usr/java/j2re1.4.0.. SUN binary RPM.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Java problems
I have java installed and it was working to let me administer my firewall in KDE 3.0.5 on Mandrake 9.0. I upgraded to KDE3.1 and now it says applet is loaded but I can see nothing. On another machine running mandrake 9.1b3 and KDE3.1 I get the same thing. The java version is SUN's JRE-1.4, anyone know why or what I can change to make it work again? Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lyx with QT...more
On Friday 07 February 2003 07:19 pm, civileme wrote: > On Friday 07 February 2003 01:56 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > Oh yeah, because of the way lyx with qt needs to be built, I installed it > > with --nodeps. If you have kde 3.0.3 installed and qt3, then that is all > > that is necessary and you can ignore the dependency. It works. > > > > praedor > > Hmmm the URI doesn't work > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.0 > > Seems to be the one > > Thanks for the info > > Civileme Might have just been a local problem, URL opens OK for me. Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Postfix nonsense
On Friday 24 January 2003 10:35 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I am running into ridiculous problems with postfix that I do not > understand. I have a valid fully qualified hostname > (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I have DNS setup (right now by kppp with > entries for my proper DNS's in my resolv.conf file. > > If I ping yahoo.com, no problem, it pings as expected. If I send an email > to myself at yahoo.com via my local postfix, however, I get a messages > thus: > > Jan 24 17:29:20 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3701]: 95785402248: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=none, delay=1565, status=deferred (Name > service error for yahoo.com: Host not found, try again) > > What?! Is postfix retarded? Why is it not able to use the DNS like every > other net app on my system? Why can't it "find" yahoo.com? I have also > run into this with a few other email addresses that DO exist yet postfix > refuses to send because the hostname couldn't be found. > > What does it take for postfix to accept DNS reality? I am not sure that > this message will get out either but on the off-chance that it does...Help > please? > > I have a number of other problems I need to work out via other mailing > lists and this inability to mail extant domains is killing me. > > praedor praedor, I can't get to your website, message from browser below. An error occured while loading http://stonekeep.ravenhome.net: Could not connect to host stonekeep.ravenhome.net Maybe that's the problem.. I can ping the address and get a return, though. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Staroffice setup
On Friday 17 January 2003 09:57 am, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > It has been a while since I last had to do this and now I don't recall the > procedure for installing staroffice for EVERYONE. What is the command > after initial rpm install to install staroffice 6.0 such that everyone can > use it? > > praedor > - -- > Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. > - - Friedrich Nietzsche. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) /net or -net one should work. I've seen it used both ways. ./soffice -net -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Preliminary HOWTO... Zip Disks
On Thursday 16 January 2003 09:23 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:44 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > > Good afternoon, everyone... > > > > Once I ignored the instructions from Iomega (and consequently from > > Mandrake) and simply began treating an Iomega Zip Disk drive as I would > > any other drive with removable media, the process of formatting and using > > a Zip Disk (with the user and group ID's set to where anyone on the local > > network is given access) the rest of it is a piece of cake, with only one > > possible exception. Here is a bit of mini-documentation I just wrote on > > the fly to explain how this works, if you're having problems. > > I have a question. Why master on the 2nd IDE channel? I've used my Zip > drive just about everywhere and it works fine from any place in the IDE > chain... > > Just curious... :-) I really can't say.. I have also used it at nearly every position, in fact it was secondary on the second channel when I installed 9.0 and the CD/RW was primary. I never could get it to work in that spot and always got either "not a block device" when trying to mount without SCSI emulation or I/O failure of somesort when using SCSI emulation. Both with and without supermount enabled, of course. It worked just fine from 7.2 onward in the above mentioned spot, that is until 9.0... I have everything working now except LICQ which only works as root.. 'Nother story, 'nother day . -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Zip Drives...
On Thursday 16 January 2003 02:53 pm, Dave Laird wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good afternoon, everyone... > > Has anyone written a succinct HOWTO for ironing the kinks out of an > installed Iomega Zip Disk installed as an ATAPI drive? The BIOS recognizes > the zip disk, but when it gets installed by HardDrake, it comes up only as > useable by root. I *love* using Zip Disks for a variety of reasons, and if > I could do so, I'd simply make the Zip Disk shared by everyone on the > internal network. > > BTW, there is also a SCSI Jazz Drive already on the system which is not > root-only. I wondered if that might have some possible relationship. > > Dave > - -- > Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project > Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/02/2003 > Music Calendar & Website: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html > Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net > > An automatic & random thought For the Minute: > You will be imprisoned for contributing your time and skill to a bank > robbery. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+JynIaE1ENZP1A28RAt1AAKCIFzTuN9sZiMm0qT/7EjEOnIbbAQCfc+Cs > Z2w8vAaWsqFi9hdcctdh8lw= > =elo/ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Hi David, I went through hell trying to get my ZIP working under 9.0, too.. What I came up with was to make sure it was master on the second IDE channel and then make a link to /mnt/zip. Ken Thompson 9.1 Beta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Recognition of Todd Lyons
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:49 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep > Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current > events regarding the Chapter 11. > > Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping > countless users with their problems and concerns. It would be a > terrible loss to Mandrake and an even more terrible loss to all Mandrake > users were anything to happen that would force him to seek other > employment. We want him around and we want him to stay. > > Civileme was a huge asset to all of us here in North America, as well as > the rest of the world. We don't want the same thing to happen to Todd > Lyons. If this concerns you now is the time to make your support known. > > Thank you, Todd. > > LX I'd like to add my Nickles worth also. I Cast a vote to keep Todd onboard. Thanks for all your help Todd. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LICQ Not working <> Follow up
FWIW, LICQ does work if I am root, su, or kdesu. Just refuses to work as normal user. I have even shut msec clear off with no change.. Sure would like to solve the puzzle.. More info that I just thought of: My buddy's system is using the CheapBytes CD's and this one is loaded from Edmunds Enterprises CD's.. I did get the ZIP problem I was having figured out and fixed. Has to be master on the second IDE channel in order to work. Thanks to all who gave advice on that one. OH, I did download and compile licq from source but dependencies were a problem, it wanted QT 2.xx to finish the plugin compile. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LICQ not working
On Monday 13 January 2003 07:25 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > == > > [ken@spooky ken]$ licq > > 20:43:59: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 5754) > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > "bad file descriptor"... :o? > > did you format your /home partition when > reinstalling your system? If not, try rm -rf ~/.licq Hm, well, I *think I did* but I did have another partition mounted under home too.. > Also, if you go get the newest Licq, do not > download a precompiled package, download the > source and built it. OK, I'll give this a try and see what goes. > HTH > > Damian -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] LICQ not working
On Monday 13 January 2003 04:34 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:41, Ken Thompson wrote: > > The subject sez it all. Both 9.0 and 9.1b1 will not let LICQ or LICQ(kde) > > load and run.. Different systems entirely, funny thing is, it works on my > > buddy's system with no trouble. > > Also, it works on my Pentium II 400. It worked OK from 8.0 up untill 9.0 > > too. Hmm, VIA chipsets again > > If anyone knows how to make this durn thing work I'd be happy to know. > > It will be a lot of help if you can run licq from a console window > and tell us what the error message is. > > Damian == [ken@spooky ken]$ licq 20:43:59: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 5754) fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor Licq Segmentation Violation Detected. Backtrace: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40129e55] Attempting to generate core file. [ken@spooky ken]$ I can never find a core for it either. Much the same message shows up in 9.1b1 also. As a matter of fact, I get this message when I try to run nearly anything from KDE or Gnome from the term. BUT, most apps will still run... This is the second or third install of the download version, once and only once did licq(kde) work for a short period of time on this machine, the regular licq has not worked at all since 8.2.. I have even downloaded the latest (as of then) release, removed the MDK version and installed the tar file version, same result. The two machines that are working are both intel chipsets if that makes any difference. (1) BX440, I think and the other is an eMachine Celeron 400. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] LICQ not working
The subject sez it all. Both 9.0 and 9.1b1 will not let LICQ or LICQ(kde) load and run.. Different systems entirely, funny thing is, it works on my buddy's system with no trouble. Also, it works on my Pentium II 400. It worked OK from 8.0 up untill 9.0 too. Hmm, VIA chipsets again If anyone knows how to make this durn thing work I'd be happy to know. Thanks in advance. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Re: [becoming OT] SSH ... and smoothwall
On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:46 am, stefmit wrote: > Does anybody know what is - then - the difference between smoothwall and > ipcop (i.e. who is doing more development and update work)? I got ipcop > (www.ipcop.org), and I like it ... never tried smoothwall, though. One of the developers of Smoothwall is passionately against ipCop.. Worth reading their list to see what others think. For the most part, the users are totally pleased, as am I, with the product. > On Saturday 11 January 2003 03:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > >I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. > > > >http://www.smoothwall.org > > > >Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's > > > > there except for frequent log checks. > > > > > > I've heard about this one before but have never seen it. I'm > > > downloading the ISO now. Is this an actual installable OS/Firewall, or > > > just firewall software? > > > > It's a full installable OS/Firewall with DHCP, VPN, etc. We're running > > 0.99SE with the patches in on an old 486 with 8Mb of RAM (I had to move > > the HD to another machine with more memory to install it, but after that > > it runs fine on old hardware). We have 17 clients and it is great. > > > > There's a corporate and GPL version. The guys at > > smoothwall.org/smoothwall.co.uk are very... passionate about it and > > have a very clear idea about what should and should not be in the GPL > > version. The mailing list can be very exciting :). I read it, but don't > > know enough about networking and firewalls to even frame a sensible > > question. And, whatever you, don't ask if there is an online archive of > > the mailing list. > > > > The installation docs are very well written. So, from someone who is > > mostly a desktop user and knows little sysadmin it is great. > > > > Dave -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH
On Friday 10 January 2003 08:30 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > Ken Thompson wrote: > > On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:14 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > >>Pierre Fortin wrote: > >>>Stop or remove "shorewall" -- sure wish Mdk would have made it more > >>>obvious during install/upgrade that it was going to add a firewall > >>>without asking... > >>> > >>>:^Pierre > >> > >>problem is...what does one use on a Mandrake 9.0 box if not shorewall > >>because I've had a terrible time in the past trying to get Bastille to > >>work on an MDK 9 box, which led me swiftly back to an 8.2 installation > >>for server use. > >> > >>and I did take a look at gShield. The little bugger liked to drove me > >> nuts! > >> > >>Mark > > > > I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. > > http://www.smoothwall.org > > Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's there > > except for frequent log checks. > > I've heard about this one before but have never seen it. I'm downloading > the ISO now. Is this an actual installable OS/Firewall, or just firewall > software? Total installable O/S.. I am using 2.0b2 Right now.. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] SSH
On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:14 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > Stop or remove "shorewall" -- sure wish Mdk would have made it more > > obvious during install/upgrade that it was going to add a firewall > > without asking... > > > > :^Pierre > > problem is...what does one use on a Mandrake 9.0 box if not shorewall > because I've had a terrible time in the past trying to get Bastille to > work on an MDK 9 box, which led me swiftly back to an 8.2 installation > for server use. > > and I did take a look at gShield. The little bugger liked to drove me nuts! > > Mark I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. http://www.smoothwall.org Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's there except for frequent log checks. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question
Gcombust has always been the best for me, easy to setup and easy to use for all your burning needs. On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:34 am, Phil wrote: > Hello All, > > While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to > burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles > started. > > Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would > only burn the mp3 file as a data file no matter what setting I tried. > > I tried mpg123 to convert the mp3 file to a wave file but that failed also. > mpg123 -w mp3file wavefile does nothing except display the help screen. > mpg123 --wav mp3file wavefile at least does something if only to create an > empty file named wavefile. > > This has been an exercise in frustration compounded by the fact that I was > able the create an audio CD under MS Windows using Nero in a couple of > minutes and I have never used Nero before! > > I use cdrecord to create back-ups but I have never had a need to create an > audio CD. How do I do this? Past messages suggest the Gnome Toaster is the > answer. Maybe the version supplied with Mandrake 9 is not working > correctly? -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] ZIP drive not working
After a lot of research, question asking and heartaches I finally figured out what the trouble was. Recap: ZIP worked fine in 7.2 and up to 8.1 but is not mountable under 9.0. Tried all the tricks in Mandrake forum and Mandrake users plus what I could get from Google. Nada, nothing worked. Solution: I made the ZIP the primary drive on the second channel of the IDE controller. Makinkg the CD-RW slave, CD-RW seems to work OK as I just burned a CD with it. and thanks to all who gave their time to try to help me figure this out. Another subject: The most recent downloaded version of 9.0 that I have seems to mount everything read only during the install and never changes it back when install is finished. System will simply not complete loading.. Reaches a point where Mandrake Interactive starts looking for the USB and goes into a loop.. I may have gotten a bad download and am not going to persue this one any farther but am throwing it out for bait Someone *may* want to try to figure it out. Thanks again to all who jumped in and tried to rescue me, -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Read only after install.
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 05:55 pm, Tom wrote: > Is the partition being mounted as "read-only"? I'll have to re-install and look. I gave up after 2 flops.. I did get in far enough with a rescue CD to see that every file I looked at was read only.. I don't recall seeing the "mounting fs in read write" message during boot. > On Wednesday 01 January 2003 12:45 am, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or > > read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked > > it the first time.. > > Ken Thompson. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Read only after install.
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 11:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Ken, > >Seen you around here long enough to know you know what you are > doing But I must admit.. You've come up with one I didn't even know > was possible Not this will help but I've definitely been stumped > before ... and this one is the winner, hands down... Just out of > curiosity... what does your fstab look like? ie are the partitions > mounted ro? If so maybe something is getting auto borked during the > install and creating all of your partitions as read-only. This is the > only thing that strikes me at the moment.. Hi James, well, I can't even get that far.. Not even using the rescue mode.. I'm like you, I've never seen anything like this.. What I may do is try burning the DC's again and see if I just got a bad burn the first time. > James > > On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:45, Ken Thompson wrote: > > I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or > > read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked > > it the first time.. > > Ken Thompson. > > > > > > __ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Read only after install.
I booted into rescue mode and every file I looked at was either read or read execute, none have write.. WTF?? Installed twice thinking I'd borked it the first time.. Ken Thompson. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Read only after install
Hello all, I just tried to install the download version of LM9.0 - everything went without a hitch until the reboot after installation was finished. During boot it hits a spot trying to detect the USB and goes into a loop, I can catch "read only file system" at the end. At one point I tried Ctrl - c and then it tried to touch a file in var with the same results, read only file system. This is probably the 100th install I made with LM from 6.1 on and have never run into anything like this before, any ideas anyone? Ken Thompson PS: also tried the boot disk made during install, same thing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Merry Christmas to all.
Just a note of THANKS to all the members who have given help to noob's and old hand's alike throughout the past year. -- Ken Thompson Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work, possible permission probs..
Hello all and may I pull my hair out here? For the past week and a bit I've been trying to get my Zip drive and Licq to work. Licq will open and run OK from a root term window but nothing I can do or have done will allow it to run as normal user. I've reduced the security level, removed msec totally (and reinstalled when that made no difference), removed and reinstalled licq from the licq.org's rpm's changed perms on the executable in /usr/bin to rwx for everybody, removed and reinstalled from mdk rpm's and finally reinstalled the entire O/S. Result, same problem throughout. The Zip problem seems to be related, it won't allow me or any user access to the /mnt/zip folder.I've read all I could find and tried all the "fixes", disabled supermount, disabled devfs, changed the fstab entry all to no avail. My Zip is an iOmega IDE internal Zip 100 and worked OK with 8.2 and back. During some changes to the mount point and fstab I'd get a bad superblock, or too many mounted file systems type of error, changing back to original configuration results in "you don't have permissions to enter /mnt/zip".. These two thing are show stoppers for me and 9.0, anybody able to rescue me before the guy's with the white dinner jackets show up?? Thanks, -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Still having problems with desktop links
Licq, Everybuddy and most near anything I try to make a link to refuses to run. Licq will run as root. I've downloaded ant tried Yahoo Messenger and it works OK as user.. I can send a "strace" of licq if it will help.. One thing I've noticed with all programs starting from the CLi is this error: fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor Anyone have a cure.. ? ? ? ? ? Machine is Epox 8KTA3L Athalon 1200 512Mb mem Maxtor 80Gb Hdd Matrox G450 Dual Head vid Mandrake 9.0 (D/L) -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't start licq as normal user.
On Monday 14 October 2002 07:33 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Ken Thompson wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:45:43AM -0600 : > > [charles@chuck charles]$ licq& > > [1] 9909 > > [charles@chuck charles]$ 09:44:44: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile > > (pid 9776) > > Check to see if 9776 is already running (someone else mentioned that > too). > > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > Licq Segmentation Violation Detected. > > mv ~/.licq ~/.licq.sav > licq & > > > Backtrace: > > /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40129e55] > > Attempting to generate core file. > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't start licq as normal user.
On Monday 14 October 2002 07:33 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Ken Thompson wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:45:43AM -0600 : > > [charles@chuck charles]$ licq& > > [1] 9909 > > [charles@chuck charles]$ 09:44:44: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile > > (pid 9776) > > Check to see if 9776 is already running (someone else mentioned that > too). > > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > fcntl: Bad file descriptor > > Licq Segmentation Violation Detected. I see a lot of this when starting programs from a term window, not just LICQ.. I found a work around, though.. Made a link from the "K" menu entry to the desktop and from there to the kicker.. Not a solution by any means but it does give me the functionality I was looking for. > mv ~/.licq ~/.licq.sav > licq & > > > Backtrace: > > /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40129e55] > > Attempting to generate core file. > > cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1202.743 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips: 2398.61 > Blue skies... Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Konqueror and Kmoba2 crash.
Anybody know why komba crashes when the share is opened in Konqueror? This has happened in 8.1 - 8.2 and now 9.0 uysing the KDE 2x.x and 3.3x series.. It doesn't always crash on all machines , what I'm trying to say is it doesn't crash on every machine on the network. My Corel 1.2 fileserver works 100% of the time and all Winderz shares work 100% of the time.. All of my mdk machines are totally unpredictable as to which one will crash after SAMBA is set up, but once set up will crash or no depending on what happens the first time I try to use Komba.. Sometimes I can delete a share with Webmin, re-create it and have it work OK... Nautilus will open the files OK.. OH, just found out that Gnomba has the same problem. Help anyone???? Ken Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Cooker] cdrecord error
On Sunday 13 October 2002 01:22 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > Am Samstag, 12. Oktober 2002 17:56 schrieb Ken Thompson: > > On Saturday 12 October 2002 02:08 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > dummy -eject -pad tsize=109760s - > > > > Make sure to un check make dummy run first ... > > I get's me every time.. Also, I've had the best result by not using any > > padding YMMV. > > What do you think why I use dummy-mode ? I've done it , since for me 2 cd-r > s for the trash is enough because of a faulty cdrecord. I've done the > recording with other burn.programms as I wrote and can't imagine its > because of the padding > For now I tested : > > -gtoaster > -k3b > -cdbakeoven > -xcdroast > -gcombust With Gcombust, the one I use, "Make Dummy Test" is enabled by default. If it's not unchecked it will go through the entire process of making a CD burn but the lazer is turned down or off so it really doen't burn, just makes a "Dummy Test" > > with no difference. > Wonder how I could reach the packager for these rpm's. seems me to be > impossible. Humm will see how to solve this. > > Greets > > Steffen Ken Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Starting LICQ as user
For what it's worth Dep't. Removed the existing installation of licq with urpme, installed again with urpmi, still no go except as root. NOTE: Symtoms are with links on desktop or panel. END NOTE. Again I removed licq with urpme then downloaded the latest from cooker. Installed with urpmi, same-o same-o ! ! Switched users and launched with the menu link *!*!*!*!* It Worked !*!*!*!*!* OK, I sez, let's try it with user charles, YUP, it worked there too.. Soo, there must be something with a user making application links that prevent some or all programs from launchng.. Now I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the ZIP drive problems, Hm.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] What is this about message delay????
Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: delayed Status: 4.0.0 (Persistent transient failure - no additional status information available) Remote-MTA: dns; smtp.mandrax.org Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [216.190.1.229] I've changed providers and now I'm getting delay message errors. Ken Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] [Cooker] cdrecord error
On Saturday 12 October 2002 02:08 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: > dummy -eject -pad tsize=109760s - Make sure to un check make dummy run first ... I get's me every time.. Also, I've had the best result by not using any padding YMMV. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Can't start licq as normal user.
On Friday 11 October 2002 11:15 pm, Todd Flinders wrote: > Licq is working just fine for me. However, I did bring over my ~/.licq > directory from 8.2. > > Can you show us what you see when you type licq&? You might be getting > some error messages which would help us to troubleshoot the problem. = [charles@chuck charles]$ licq& [1] 9909 [charles@chuck charles]$ 09:44:44: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 9776) fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor Licq Segmentation Violation Detected. Backtrace: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 [0x40129e55] Attempting to generate core file. = > On Friday 11 October 2002 08:54 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Subject about sez it all. > > I've changed permissions both as user and as root. > > I have them set at rwx for ugo right now and the durn thing still has to > > be started from a root console.. System Fresh install of MDK 9.0, Athalon > > 1200 512 Mb mem Epox 8KTA3L.. All was working just fine in 8.2.. Another > > thing, after following the thread on the 250Mb Zip, I found that the > > 100Mb Zip has the same problem, will not mount at all.. Again this *total > > system has been working fine under 8.2 and I've made no changes to the > > hardware.. One improvement I did notice was the way my Matrox 540 Dual > > head card was configured *out if the box*, nice. > > Any body else having these problems?? any solutions found yet? > > TIA, > > Ken Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Can't start licq as normal user.
Subject about sez it all. I've changed permissions both as user and as root. I have them set at rwx for ugo right now and the durn thing still has to be started from a root console.. System Fresh install of MDK 9.0, Athalon 1200 512 Mb mem Epox 8KTA3L.. All was working just fine in 8.2.. Another thing, after following the thread on the 250Mb Zip, I found that the 100Mb Zip has the same problem, will not mount at all.. Again this *total system has been working fine under 8.2 and I've made no changes to the hardware.. One improvement I did notice was the way my Matrox 540 Dual head card was configured *out if the box*, nice. Any body else having these problems?? any solutions found yet? TIA, Ken Thompson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Chaintech MoBo
Anybody had anything to do with the Chaintech 7AIA5E Main Board? Looks pretty good for a "cheapie"........ -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Openoffice in release 9.0
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:01 am, Morten Poulsen wrote: > Hello > > Sorry If this question has been posted already, I only just joined the > mailing list. In my recently installed Mandrake 9.0 system, I chose to > install OpenOffice as well, but it is nearly unusable because the screen > fonts are very bad. I run 1600x1200, and the characters preceding eachother > seem to clash rendering the written text unreadeble. I tried to install it > on another computer and had no problems. i have tried to scan for fonts in > my windows system and use, for instance, Time New Roman, but it does the > same. I even tried to force at larger character kerning in OOffice but > characters on the screen still clutter/clash. It is the only application > with these problems. Compared to the other comptuer I tried, the > "system"-font i ooffice (in menus etc.) is also very ugly. I have tried to > disable AA in office with the same lack of result. > Does anybody have an idea as to what I can try? > If you are unsure of what I am talking about I could post a small > screenshot, but I would not before somebody needed it... > > Best Regards > Morten Poulsen This subject has been covered in the users mail list from OpenOffice.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the archives I don't remember the exact details but a quick summary follows. 1)Replace the default SANS_ANDALE_UI with another such as Times New Roman or Helvetica (Adobe) 2) The font mentioned above does NOT show in the font replacement window, you have to type it it as the font to be replaced. 3)Restart OOo and all should be fine -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] TEST-Ignore
On Monday 30 September 2002 12:45 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: > Ken THompson wrote on Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:17:19AM -0600 : > > This is being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and is being recieved on the KOffice list. > > I assume you're trying to track down whose local mail delivery is doing > something wrong? Look at the headers and give me the name of the > individual that it appears to be coming from (or just send me the whole > headers) and we'll try to track it down from here. > > Blue skies... Todd Thanks Todd, Found my problem - A misconfigured filter on this end. If it happens again I'll ask for help tracking it down -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] TEST-Ignore
This is being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is being recieved on the KOffice list. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0
Sorry all, sent this to the wrong list.. On Monday 30 September 2002 09:40 am, Ken THompson wrote: > On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:19 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But > > the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a > > reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem. Can you recommend any. > > > > Also, I am trying to find some reviews on Mandrake9.0 but other than > > the ones on Mandrakeforum I can't find any. How have you guys found it > > so far or can you post some web addresses. Thanks in advance. > > > > Craig > > Craig, > I have used the USR 56ksuccessfully. > Issues are it cannot be installed during setup <8.1 & 8.2> as it's detected > and set up wrong. If installed after setup it is detected and works just > fine. > You can get one here: > www.digitgate.com -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Modems that work
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:19 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But > the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a > reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem. Can you recommend any. > > Also, I am trying to find some reviews on Mandrake9.0 but other than > the ones on Mandrakeforum I can't find any. How have you guys found it so > far or can you post some web addresses. Thanks in advance. > > Craig Craig, I have used the USR 56ksuccessfully. Issues are it cannot be installed during setup <8.1 & 8.2> as it's detected and set up wrong. If installed after setup it is detected and works just fine. You can get one here: www.digitgate.com -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Modem for MDK9.0
On Sunday 29 September 2002 07:19 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm building a PC around Mandrake9.0's hardware requirements. But > the only thing I am having trouble with is the Modem. I'm looking for a > reliable internal PCI based 56k hardware modem. Can you recommend any. > > Also, I am trying to find some reviews on Mandrake9.0 but other than > the ones on Mandrakeforum I can't find any. How have you guys found it so > far or can you post some web addresses. Thanks in advance. > > Craig Craig, I have used the USR 56ksuccessfully. Issues are it cannot be installed during setup <8.1 & 8.2> as it's detected and set up wrong. If installed after setup it is detected and works just fine. You can get one here: www.digitgate.com -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Issues with Burning a CD
On Saturday 28 September 2002 12:28 pm, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried GCombust, ERoaster, K3B... all of them seem to work but > at the end my CD is not burnt. > I do not have strange messages, I have logs as to which each MB is > written but at the end.. > I wouldn't like to reboot to Windows just for burining the new MDK 9.0 CDs. > > Anyone has an idea of what is wrong? > > (BTW, the material is correctly detected by all of the tools) > > Thanks in advance > > /stefano In GCombust, make sure that "Make dummy run first" or words to that effect is unchecked.. I threw away a perfectly good 50 pack for making the same mistake. -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] PHP not working
PHP doesn't seem to work through my Apache web server. Looking at the setup in WebMin, it seems to have mod_php, mod_php4 & etc installed. But, a simple php page will not display. EX: PHP Test "; ?> results in a blank page with only the page title showing in the title bar of the browser. Any one have an idea as to what may be wrong? -- Ken Thompson, North West Antique Autos Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nwaa.com Office Phone: 208-642-0785 Cell Phone: 208-739-2693 Sales and brokering of antique autos and parts. Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] OOo Templates
On Saturday 07 September 2002 11:49 am, you wrote: > Does anyone know of a repository for OpenOffice templates, especially > for Impress? www.ooextras.org I may have the address wrong but it can be found on the open office web site. It's a site dedicated to *extras* such as templates, macro's 'n stuff for openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
On Friday 06 September 2002 11:53 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 21:18, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 01:39, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 22:12, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > > > > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > > > > Then how about Commodore, Sinclair (was that the spelling?) and > > > > others? > > > > > > Don't forget the TI and the one I wrote my first piece of code on ... > > > the HP-45 RPM programmable Calculator. (more fun than the > > > mainframe... it took forever to write, debug and view output from a > > > program it was boring the 45 however gave me instant results.) > > > > > > James > > > > The first code I wrote was on a Tandy Color computer (CoCo) in basic. I > > had 16k to work with and no backup cassette tapes, so I had to write > > everything down as I made corrections onscreen. Somewhere around the > > year 1979. > > > > No hard drive, so everything went when the computer was powered down. > > Whenever I wanted to run the program again, I would power the computer > > on and break out my notebook. Then I'd start typing the program in > > again from the notebook notes. > > > > After that I could run the game. ;) > > Know that one... tried editing some code one day the old fashioned > way... but the red pen just messed up my screen *grin*. During my time > at CWRU one of the classes required that you "wipe" the memory on your > programable TI's and HP's. the groans were unbelievable as many had > probably spent more time programing than studying Now I did notice > one thing missing from the trivia list though Does anybody else here > know how to use a sliderule? (or maybe I shoud say did.. been so long > I've probably forgotten.) > > James > > > L8r, > > > > LX Yep, learned how to use a "slip stick in '63. I *know* I've forgotten... Used a Model 14, Model 19 and a Model 28 for HAM radio RTTY for many years. Started out on a Commodore VIC20 then to a C64 then to a 128.. Tandy 1000 was the first "IBM" Compatible I had Computing *was* fun then Linux has brought back much of the mystery and fun to computing Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question
On Friday 06 September 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: > Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new > copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere. I guess I need to start > looking... Will 6.2.2 work fer ya?? Have DOS from 5.0 thru 6.2.2. > James > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 13:30, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:45 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 12:02, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 14:50 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > > I remember Battle Chess very well. We were running it on 386's, > > > > > and connecting by modem, if memory serves. Very fun to watch; I've > > > > > got a copy around here somewhere... > > > > > > > > I found it (my copy) on a 1.2 disk. I even installed a small DOS > > > > partition with my old DOS 6 and even connected an old 1.2 drive just > > > > to install Battle Chess. Now I'm playing it once in a while and ruin > > > > my Linux uptime! > > > > > > > > wobo (who's Lara Croft anyway?) > > > > > > Wobo, > > > > > > question is ... Will it run under dosemu? > > > > I knew you'd ask! That's what I tested first but I could not get it to > > run. As soon as the graphics start it hangs, gives a high pitched > > sound. Thank $DEITY I don't have a dog! > > > > No prob, I have a 20M partition with DOS6 and this way I can also use > > all my little DOS test tools for hardware testing (chipset, memory, > > 2nd-level-cache, etc.) > > > > wobo > > -- > > "... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus." (Aug 2001, Usenet) > > --- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE > > --- > > ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
