Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:58, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 01:12 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
> > Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the
> > total, from them, would be $147.
> 
> (I'm sorry, I didn't catch that the deal at Fry's included the CPU and 
> heatsink.  That's definitely a better deal (depending on the cpu of course)

It's an Athlon XP 2200+ ...with a best price in the $70-$75 range so
Fry's is a better deal. I'm in Seattle at the moment and the box I want
to rebuild is on the east coast so I'm going to wait until I return
there (in a couple of weeks) to see what I can scavenge off the old box.
I can always mail order at that point, even though I may end paying a
few more bucks.

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Re: [expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:56, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:18 pm, Terry Smith wrote:
> > Today's local Fry's sale flier features an
> >
> > Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset
> > with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.
> >
> > Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability
> > to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and sound (AC97 codec)
> >
> That board should be fine, the KT400 and KT-400a series is well supported in 
> Linux.
> 
> BTW, you can get that board for $75 at Newegg with free shipping.
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=22&man
> ufactory=1283&DEPA=1&sortby=14&order=1

Thanks Greg. Newegg has the CPU w/heat sink and fan for $72. So the
total, from them, would be $147.

I'll take a look at it tomorrow when I go to the store.

Terry Smith


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[expert] Mobo advice

[Terry Smith]

Today's local Fry's sale flier features an

Abit KD7A mobo (ATX form factor, socket A) using the VIA KT400A chipset
with an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ CPU/fan included. Price $129.99.

Anybody have anything to report..good/bad...on this mobo and its ability
to run under Mandrake? It has onboard LAN and sound (AC97 codec)

TIA.

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Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

[Terry Smith]

I'm not sure I'm in total agreement.

The computing community is not made up of only two types of users:
experts (many of whom use linux) and complete neophytes (who, for the
sake of argument, use Windows). There is, in fact, a wide spectrum of
folks - some of whom want an appliance, those who are interested in
making the machine work better, those who like to tinker, all the way to
the more hard-core 'hacker' (like many of us). So one size does not fit
all and there's certainly plenty of well-functioning linux desktop
systems that work well and are easy enough to deal with even for an
inexperienced user. A user may need help in figuring out
something/getting something new working but these lists (and info
resources on the web such as twiki) can fill that need.

A personal example..At home I have two machines that the family uses;
both are dual boot and can load Windows; one runs Mandrake 9.1, the
other Red Hat 9.0. My wife and children have had the choice of loading
Windows or Linux for the last year and a half. They run linux 100% of
the time. I believe my wife and older daughter truly don't
care...they're just trying to get things done and they know that I'll
keep the computers up-to-date and running. My younger daughter is a bit
more of a hacker and has grown to dislike Windowsshe spends most of
her time designing things with the gimp, reconfiguring the desktop, etc.

Bottom line...in a typical family (albeit with a hobbyist hacker in the
house) situation, they've chosen linux over windows and have no
complaints or regrets (although they all still love the old Macintosh
upstairs :-).

Terry Smith
Cape Cod USA
 
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:24, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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> Well, I gotta say that Redhat does have a point.  I do think that linux is not 
> yet ready for the everyday desktop user except for Lindows - for a relatively 
> small subpopulation.  
> 
> I use it exclusively but then I have been playing with linux for years now.  I 
> "get it".  My father, wife, sisters...they don't get it.  They get boggled by 
> configuration this and that, logins, etc.  They are all too used to just 
> firing up and going with what is familiar.  Then, the biggy, is games.  If 
> you play games then you are set to go through even more work with only a 
> fractional hope that the game will work (working with wine is not straightup 
> simple and obvious).  The newest games rarely work, or work only poorly.  Not 
> a great way to make a favorable impression.  
> 
> Lindows is set to give linux a poor name as well, with their default 
> run-as-root setup.  Sure, it makes it install and run similar to windoze but 
> it also makes it just as vulnerable as windoze.  This can only make people 
> think (ultimately) that linux is no more free viruses, worms, and hack 
> attacks as windoze.  
> 
> I do think that for those who really just do web browsing, document editing, 
> emailing, then linux is perfectly valid.  For those who game it just isn't 
> there and wont be until linux gets more game titles itself or wine/winex gets 
> much better and easier to work with.  
> 
> On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:58 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:20 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > > Am I alone in noticing the insanity.  As if SCO wasn't bad enough.
> > > Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL.  Now the  CEO of RedHat
> > > (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick
> > > with Windows as Linux isn't ready for the desktop.  Maybe I should send
> > > the SOB a copy of 9.2 when it's ready to show him what RH could have
> > > been if they didn't suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome.
> > >
> > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm
> > >
> > > James
> >
> > Nah - you're not alone. I posted a message with a link to an announcement
> > about this. The subject went something like "Redhat = traitors?"... 
> 
> - -- 
> Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a critical component 
> of spiritual devotion.
> - --Krakauer
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Re: [expert] On disapearing Menus

[Terry Smith]

Jame,

It happened to me and I don't have anything from codeweavers installed.

Terry Smith
Cape Cod USA

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:01, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,
> 
>A while back a number of you expressed problems with disappearing
> menu's right after installing a new KDE or Gnome app.  DEG is reporting
> that the problem seems to be related to cxplugin from codeweavers.  Now
> the question comes.  How many of you who have this problem are using
> cxplugin, or is it happening to you without cxplugin.  If it is cxplugin
> what version are you using?
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] XFce4 and menus

[Terry Smith]

I installed it about a month ago. Very nice, a big improvement over XFce
3. What's especially nice is the file manager xffm which will browse
your samba shares as well as manage files.

But, I dropped back to my old combo of fluxbox and rox because of the
lack of menu integration. Perhaps Mdk will pick up Xfce4 for 9.2?

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 02:07, Jack Coates wrote:
> anyone else using the XFce4 beta? Very nice, still finding my way around
> it though.
> 
> Biggest hassle at this point is lack of menu integration.
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Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

[Kelley Terry]

On Monday 23 June 2003 05:58 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> Thanks, I'll give that a try.
>
> As a matter of interest, what exactly will I lose by not using the virtual
> framebuffer?

Only the graphical screen at boot.


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Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

[Kelley Terry]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 06:32 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> Thanks Kelley, but my problem is with XFree86, not with lilo and booting.

> Brian.

This is a very old bug with XFree86 andS3 Trio3d cards.  It was reported on 
the XFree86 mailing lists over a year ago.  With the virtual framebuffer 
activated the left half or so of the screen looks normal but the right half 
is repeated vertical strips of some of the left part of the screen.  I just 
got through fixing this problem with my 9.1 install.  If this is your problem 
(It sounded like it from the original description of it), then the simplest 
work around that I've found is not to use the virtual framebuffer at all.  
When booting some lines with "vga=" in it the virtual framebuffer is 
activated.  From then on your display will be unusable with the XFree86 
driver until you reboot without the framebuffer.  I just now (less than an 
hour ago) reinstalled lilo with the framebuffer and repeated this bug.  I 
have now set the linux-nonfb mode as my default boot and it eliminates this 
bug.
>
>
> >On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:50 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> > There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D,
> > I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it
> > working.


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Re: [expert] S3 Trio 3D and XFree86 4.3

[Kelley Terry]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:50 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote:


> > > There was a thread recently about running XFree 4.3 on the S3 Trio 3D,
> > > I'm hoping one of those people may be able to help me get it working.


Sorry I took so long to get back to you.  I just set up 9.1 a couple nights 
ago with a few problems.  Anyway, the problem you have is the same one I've 
had each time I use the virtual framebuffer.  I don't know if booting using 
the non framebuffer mode will work but I'd give that a try first.  If that 
works then set that as your default boot.  The way that I've always done it 
is to edit  /etc/lilo.conf to remove every line with "vga=" in it, then run 
lilo again.  Of course you'll need to su to root to edit lilo.conf and run 
lilo.  Let me know what happens.  LOL

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Re: [expert] Running "updatedb" crashes my comp!

[Terry Smith]

You should have the pgm 'reiserfsck' installed ..usage is 'reiserfsck
/dev/partition-to-check' . The partition should not be mounted.

I haven't had a problem with a reiser partition in some time but about a
year ago used reiserfsck to recover a damaged fs where it worked
perfectly.

See 'man reiserfsck' for options.

Terry Smith
Hatchville, MA

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:21, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> On Saturday 14 June 2003 13:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:27 am, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> > > OK, so i'm pretty much convinced it's not a bad drive..  you probably
> > > already tried, but did you fsck / ?  (the one at boot doesn't count as
> > > AFAIK it's run with certain parameters not to check/fix some aspects of
> > > the file system)
> > >
> > >
> > > Damian
> >
> > No, I've not done that. Can I do that with with reiserfs?
> 
> well, i'm not using any reiserfs partitions at the moment...
> but i've just googled a bit and found this (spanish) forum
> in which this guy is stating that 'fsck for reiserfs is still
> somewhat unstable' (posted on may 2001).. so, at
> least fsck for reiser exists...
> 
> 
> Damian
> 
> 
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Re: [expert] The Mandrakeclub site broken?

[Terry Smith]

Thanks. Works fine from the CL...guess grpmi needs a bit more work :-))


On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:44, Damon Lynch wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 03:18, Terry Smith wrote:
> > Ditto here. Everything I tried came up with 'bad signature block'
> > followed by 'corrupted file'. This is after I upgraded urpmi, grpmi.as
> > discussed on the club site
> 
> did you try urpmi --wget ?  I downloaded a couple of RPMs earlier, and
> it worked.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Damon
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Re: [expert] xcdroast -iso files

[Kelley Terry]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 03:44 pm, richard bown wrote:
> Thanks Jack, but I just managed to make a straight copy on to the cd, so
> there's a bit I've missed  ?
> TIA
>  Richard
>
> On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 22:17, Jack Coates wrote:
> > from memory, go to create cd : write cd : master tracks. select the ISO
> > (it must be in the directory you've configured as xcdroast's swap space)
> > and click OK, then it'll ask if you want to proceed.

Very close.  Go to create cd, then write tracks, then layout tracks, select 
the iso image from the directory (must be in the directory you entered in 
setup / hd settings), click add, then accept track layout then write tracks, 
do not pad tracks, use disk at once dao mode and write tracks.  You can 
verify the cd burn by doing a md5sum /dev/(which device your burner is on, 
eg. scd).  It should return the same md5sum as  the original iso image.  If 
you pad the tracks or don't use dao then the md5sums won't verify the burn.
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Re: [expert] New Desknote A907

[Terry Mathews]

Not really. It's a bit over $100, in line with LiIons of other laptops.
Also, has much longer run time than most comparable batteries.

Not great, but it's doable and you end up with a good machine for far less
than a true notebook would cost you.

Terry
> The battery is separate.(cost and physically)  AND expensive.


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[expert] [Fwd: [newbie] Creating a GDM greeter theme]

[Terry Sheltra]

Hello all,

I sent this to the newbie list a few days ago, and got no response from 
anyone.  So I thought I'd try here on the expert list.  If anyone out 
there has any suggestion for this, please respond to me off-list, as I'm 
not subscribed to the list.

Thanks!

 Original Message 
Subject: [newbie] Creating a GDM greeter theme
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 01:24:45 -0500
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



I was thinking of trying my hand at creating a GDM greeter theme. 
Anyone out there know of any websites that have some sort of HOW-TO on 
how to do this?  Even a google search doesn't reveal anything.  Any help 
would be appreciated.  Thanks compadres!

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Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

[Terry Mathews]

A) You have a different outlook on things from the other side of a 747.

B) Please keep politics off the mandrake-expert list. Whether or not there
will be a war in Iraq has nothing to do with your Mandrake box.


Terry Mathews
> Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a
> future for MandrakeSoft.
> After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all and
> the world as we know it.
> I listened to the US-Amercan president.
> I'm not religious, I wish I were. This madman and the options he has
> scare me to death.
>
> wobo



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[expert] Number of directories

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello

Does anyone know if there is an upper limit to the number of directories in 
an ext3 file system? I am working on an application which will require a 
different graphics directory for each of potentially thousands of subscribers 
to the system. So the graphics directory might 100,000 or more 
subdirectories. 

TT



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Re: [expert] poor swap activation with kernel 2.4.18-8.2

[Terry Tremaine]

Hi

The results of 'swapon -s' is:
FilenameTypeSize  Used  Priority
/dev/hda5   partition   1118840 0   -1

I tried piling up lots of applications and drove up the physical memory usage 
to 100% without any swap activation at all.

TT

On Thursday 11 July 2002 04:24 pm, you wrote:
> Terry Tremaine wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:11:00PM -0600 :
> > I enclose a copy of my previous question to the group. I upgraded to
>
> Your line wrap is not set.  Can you set it to 76 characters or so?
> Thanks.
>
> > I upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-8.2 recently and discovered that it does
> > not manage swap properly. All kernel messages seem correct on boot up
> > but it just doesn't work. Does anyone know a workaround for this or
> > perhaps there is a script that gets malconfigured on rpm installation
> > of the kernel.
>
> Post the results of 'swapon -s', should look similar to:
> [root@fiji ~]# swapon -s
> FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part5 partition 401584 2768   -1
>
> Blue skies... Todd



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[expert] poor swap activation with kernel 2.4.18-8.2

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello
 
I enclose a copy of my previous question to the 
group. I upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-8.2 from 2.4.8-34.1. I am running mdk 8.1 and 
upgrade everything as updates come out. With the new kernel swap just does not 
get used. I cannot run the gui because memory requirements will use up my 
physical memory. I must reboot every few hours even as things are. I cannot go 
back to the old kernel without incurring some difficulty because I upgraded 
iptables at the same time.
 
TT 
- Original Message - 
From: Terry Tremaine 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 7:39 PM
Subject: [expert] poor swap activation with kernel 
2.4.18-8.2

Hello
 
I upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-8.2 recently and 
discovered that it does not manage swap properly. All kernel messages seem 
correct on boot up but it just doesn't work. Does anyone know a workaround for 
this or perhaps there is a script that gets malconfigured on rpm installation of 
the kernel.
 
TT

[expert] poor swap activation with kernel 2.4.18-8.2

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello
 
I upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-8.2 recently and 
discovered that it does not manage swap properly. All kernel messages seem 
correct on boot up but it just doesn't work. Does anyone know a workaround for 
this or perhaps there is a script that gets malconfigured on rpm installation of 
the kernel.
 
TT

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

[Terry Mathews]

Yes, and so are the Promise controllers; however, the soft RAID is a better
setup, and since either way you are using the CPU...

Somewhere, I saw a comparison technically speaking between a Promise card
and Linux Soft RAID. SoftRaid was far superior in all aspects. :)

Finally, from what I understand, the Highpoint controllers are now
usable under Linux in their native RAID modes, via (no pun intended) the
latest kernel module code.  Not that I'm interested meself; I'm staying
with soft raid.  Still, the chance is there for anyone interested to run
the numbers.






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[expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello List
 
I have just installed MDK 8.2 in VMware and cannot 
find where wmware-linux-tools are located (after doing the preliminary install 
from vmware itself. In every previous linux distro that I have used I would 
have used "locate wmware-linux-tools". However, for some reason I cannot 
fathom, that wonderful tool (i.e. locate) has been left out and "find" is hardly 
a reasonable substitute. I just finished reading 3 pages of docs on "find" and 
it seems a little...complex. 
 
2 Questions:
1)  Is there a 
reasonable substitute for "locate" other than "find"?
2) Does anyone know where the install.sh script for 
vmware-linux-tools gets burried on 8.2?
 
TT

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 and Wordperfect 8

[Kelley Terry]

On Thursday 25 April 2002 09:26 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote:
> Has anyone got the free download version of WordPerfect to work
> with Mandrake 8.2?


Just installed it and it works great!  You'll need three sets of libraries:
 
ld.so1-1.9.11-9mdk.i586.rpm
libc-base-5.3.12-37mdk.i586.rpm
libc-extras-5.3.12-37mdk.i586.rpm

All can be found in the contrib directory of a cooker mirror:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

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Re: [expert] And the prize goes to Charles...

[Terry Mathews]

> >> BUT after doing a complete OS installation with
> >>Samba selected, where is the samba.spec file? I contend that there is
> >>no such file.

Try installing the samba SRPM. It'll have the spec file in it and drop it in
your /usr/src/rpm/spec folder.

Terry




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Re: [expert] Printer Setup HP LaserJet 4

[Kelley Terry]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 01:41 pm, Andreas Müller wrote:
 


> Well, it's just an old plain HP LaserJet 4 (no extensions in name), uses
> PCL5e.
>
> I have no idea what can be wrong with the settings. I selected the LJ 4
> driver. Can it be something with hte dither algorithm which can be
> selected? Or the gs resolution?
>
> It seems that it just prints 1/4 of the actual page on a A4 page.

I have a okipage 6e that has a similar problem if I overload the memory.  On a 
graphics intensive page at 600 dpi only a portion prints out then the other 
pages are garbage.  Try lowering the resolution to something like 300 dpi to 
see if that solves the problem.

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Re: [expert] auto login on 8.2

[Kelley Terry]

On 27 Mar 2002 14:49:38 +1100
Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well in 8.1 it was under Boot | Boot config in Control Center.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:35, Dodd, David J wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have just loaded 8.2 and so far it is working, got my orinoco card to
> > work without a hitch.  One question though maybe I did this on
> > installation but when I boot up it auto logs into my user directory.
> > How do I change this so it will ask for a password.  I looked in
> > userdrake and could not find it, is there anyway to change this in
> > terminal or do I use one of the gooie interface.  




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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

Know what? Go buy your Intel SDRAM-based solution. I wouldn't want VIA to
lose prescious money on you; money that you would surely use up in tech
support calls. Just don't come crying to us when your prescious Intel
delivers a solution that doesn't feel any faster than a P3.


Terry
> You need windoze to apply the patches. Contrary to popular opinion, not
> every machine that runs something besides windoze multiboots the
> something else with windoze. The machine I'm writing this from has never
> ever booted any version of any M$ operating system.




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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

> > > > http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020220/kt333-11.html

> All the graphs on the provided URL were about Quake performance. Games
> are mostly about windoze video, which has little to do with real work.

Yes, but most games these days are very CPU and memory bandwidth intensive.
How else do you propose testing the speed of a motherboard without pushing
it's hardware? Because Mozilla does not stress the RAM bandwidth over a
continuous amount of time like Q3 does.

>
> > A) I have serious problems with calling VIA chipsets "handicapped".
Intel is
> > notorious for handicapping chipsets, VIA is notorious for screwing up
>
> I don't think Intel has ever intentionally handicapped chipsets, unlike
> what they regularly do with CPU's.

Just look at the i810e. Capable of driving a 133MHz system bus, it's RAM
frequency was fixed at 100MHz. I can come up with more, but it's 1:30AM here
and I really don't feel like doing research right now just to prove a point.
Intel handicaps their products, both chipsets and processors, in order to
keep their idea of what the market should look like in order.

> > chipsets. There is an important lack of intent there. VIA also tends to
fix
> > their mistankes, where Intel is happy to handicap their hardware (i810e,
> > Celeron FCPGA, P4 423pin, P4 478pin, the list goes on...).

> The PCI performance deficiency survived many VIA chipsets.

And VIA fixed it in their chipsets. The latest VIA 4-in-one drivers
integrate the PCI timing latency patch, and will install on all VIA
chipset-based mainboards including the MVP3 which is the oldest VIA based
PCI motherboard I can think of off the top of my head. Also, until the
advent of Ultra160 RAID cards and Ultra133 IDE controllers, there were no
devices capable of moving data fast enough to expose this problem. VIA did
not know they had unintentionally hindered the performance of their
products.

>
> > > AMD chipsets need faster RAM, as do the
> > > non-handicapped VIA. SiS support doesn't seem to be mature enough
> > > lately, so that leaves only Intel vs. handicapped.
>
> > Here again, you're throwing out "handicapped" and you're not using it in
> > reference to an Intel product. Shame. Also, you're completely missing
out on
> > ALi which is a decent chipset producer, as long as you don't mind the
fact
> > that they produce chipsets that don't exactly excel at being "gaming
> > garbage." I.E. their RAM bandwidth is not equal to VIAs or AMDs.
>
> I don't experiment with motherboard brands. I stick with the several
> I've used in the past. If they don't offer ALi, then I don't consider
> ALi. No ALi chipset board I've ever had opportunity to test was anything
> less than a dog compared to its contemporaries.

A) ASUS offers an ALI-based mobo. A7A266.
B) I never said the ALI board wasn't a dog. Compared to the VIA boards, it
is. Compared to the Intel boards, well...

> > AMD and VIA chipsets don't "need" faster RAM. They can take advantage of
it.
>
> If the boards using them don't accept PC133 DIMM's, they need the newer,
> more expensive, faster RAM.

So how is this different than Intel? You've got three chipsets on the Intel
end, each support their own type of memory and no other.
i845: PC100/133 SDRAM
i845.rev2: PC1600/2100 DDR SDRAM
i850: PC800 RAMBUS

On VIA, you've got two chipsets (Well, four if you count the unimproved
models):
KT133(a): PC100/133 SDRAM
KT266(a): PC1600/2100 DDR SDRAM

> > > I'm confused about this patch business. What do they patch, device
BIOS
> > > code? Drivers? Surely if drivers they would be windoze only, no? I
> > > didn't see anything in what I snipped that indicated the patches
applied
> > > regardless of OS, which to me means windoze only and therefore useless
> > > when I boot into Linux or OS/2.

> > The "patch" toggles a bit in the chipset that makes the PCI bus timing
more
> > agressive. Even though VIA still has a patch up for it, most reputable
>
> I never before heard that chipsets contained anything writable.

I could've stated that better. The "patch" is a fix to the VIA 4-in-one
drivers in Windows that when run flips a bit in the VIA chipset that makes
the PCI bus timing more agressive. Chipsets don't contain any writable
storage areas. BIOSes do though. All ASUS, or any other motherboard
manufacturer has to do is program the BIOS to flip that tiny bit in the
chipset and all is fixed (Well, tweaked technically since nothing was broken
to start with). I know ASUS did it, as the fix is integrated into my latest
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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

Specifically, what were your problems? Which motherboard brand and model?
Did you make use of the tech support offered by the motherboard
manufacturer?

Terry
> I will NEVER EVER by a MB with a via chipset again! Period. It has left me
so
> bitter, that I probably wont' even get an AMD cpu next time. I went to
AMD's
> website and picked a MB brand that was recommended by AMD. I spent 3
months
> screwing around, getting frustrated and cussing. Changed to an IWILL mb
and all
> my problems went away. Before that I had an Intel MB, intel chip and no
> problems. It isn't that AMD sells bad product, but a LOT of MB companies
are
> putting out shit. My 1.3 cents worth.




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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

> > No one makes the perfect chip/chipset; if someone did, everyone would
buy.
> > Right now, you would be hardpressed to match the price/performance ratio
of
> > AMD processor/VIA KT266A mobo combo with Intel. AFAIK, Intel P4 chipsets
> > only support SDR and RAMBUS...
>
> Nope. There's one designed for upgraders with perfectly good PC133:
> http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/wn/index.htm

First off, if this doesn't prove that Intel is The Man who is greedy, I
don't know what does.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533

Second paragraph: The i845 is DDR capable, but Intel only allowed
manufacturers to use it as an SDR chipset...

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1533&p=16

Benchmarks in PC133 mode.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1489&p=17

Benchmarks of KT133A motherboards.

>From this, you have to keep in mind that the KT133A motherboards have
matured some since the time that article was written. Also, look at the
hardware differences between the two test rigs. The fact that the AMD
systems keep up in the only RAM bandwidth benchmark (Quake III Arena) says
quite a lot.

I'm not disputing that Intel makes an SDRAM chipset for P4. I'm just saying
it sucks. Check the numbers...

> Me too. Last system I built used a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon Plus
>
<http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/30/1626230&mode=thread>,
> but it wasn't for me. I'm just not thrilled with the current product
> options.

So you're telling me that you had a DDR AMD system based on the Dragon Plus
and want to drop it in favor of an SDRAM based P4 solution. ARE YOU MAD???

Terry




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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

t in the VIA chipset), the fix is applied to all OSes. Also, I
know of one person who developed a kernel-mode "driver" to increase the
timing in Linux.

> > Until Dr Tom says something different than what he's posted so far, I'm
> > sticking with AMD/VIA.  IMO it's a winning combination.  As for me and
> > my house, we buy AMD.

Well... I prefer to think to myself before I listen to Tom. I prefer to bash
my head in with an old AT case first too... :-) Tom is not my favorite guy,
if you can't tell.

Hope this helps everyone.

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Re: [expert] Why Linux?

[Terry Mathews]

> The penguin logo is pretty nifty.
It's certainly cooler than Apple's X. Or the apple for that matter...


Terry




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Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

[Terry Mathews]

> > > Most AMD motherboards use performance crippled VIA
> > > chipsets. How good the CPU is matters little when the primary
bottleneck
> > > is the I/O bus.

> > IMHO, via has been making great chipset for ages.
>
> I don't think so. I found the article that lead to my comment:
> http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html

No one makes the perfect chip/chipset; if someone did, everyone would buy.
Right now, you would be hardpressed to match the price/performance ratio of
AMD processor/VIA KT266A mobo combo with Intel. AFAIK, Intel P4 chipsets
only support SDR and RAMBUS...

Intel != fast performance. Sometimes they get it right (440BX), sometimes
they get it wrong (i810e), sometimes they just get greedy (P4 423 pin --
unupgradable; P4s not dual-capable).

For the record, I'd rather not give my money to The Man. :-) Plus I have to
give props to a company that makes it easy to adjust your CPU's multiplier
setting (AMD).

Terry




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Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

[Terry Tremaine]

If that doesn't work you could try 'make clean'.

TT
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] uninstall app ??


> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David wrote:
> > I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an
argument to the
> > ./configure cmd that I needed to.  I tried to just re-do the install,
but the argument
> > didn't take.  My question How do I uninstall an app that was
installed from a tarball?
>
> There's usually a "make uninstall" option in the Makefile. Try that
> first.
>
>
>






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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable

[Terry Tremaine]

You might try going to the security section on the Mandrake site and
upgrading. I noticed what you mention until I upgraded the initscript rpm.

TT
- Original Message -
From: "carl " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: [expert] Mandrake 8.1 very unstable


> Hi,
> I don't like windows buit i'm really disappointed with ML8.1.
> My machine is a PIII 1Ghz with 384MB of RAM, i dual boot ML 8.1 and
Windows 2k pro.
> It's been 4 months I installed ML8.1 and i keep having problems,I
reinstalled ML8.1 10 times at least.
> Right now I have a problem when I try to boot under linux :
> "Loading Linux EDBA too big" and i can't boot normaly.
> I tried the boot disk but it's not resolving this issue.
> I think i'm gonna switch to another Linux distribution cause this one is
really unstable,at least for me.
> I would like to say that Windows 2000 has been much more stable than Linux
which is known for stability.
> Thanks for responding
> Carl
>
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Re: [expert] Vi

[Terry Tremaine]

Maybe a real simple solution would be to use httpd.conf~ . It would be a copy 
of what was there before your error. 

On Friday 15 March 2002 03:33 am, you wrote:
> Hi i just made a major bummer i was editing httpd.conf - when saving i
> used :X insted of :x and i was asked for an encryption key - i then
> pressed enter (with an emty encryption key) and now the file is pure
> garbage - how do i unenrypt that file now.
>
>
>
> ___
> Mvh./Yours sincerely
>
> Lars
>
> 
> Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Stu. Sci. Math/Computer science | TLF(home):39670663
> Copenhagen University - | Home address: Emdrupvej 175
> Institute for Mathematical Sciences | C/O Rune Bruhn 2400 Copenhagen NV
> Url: www.math.ku.dk |
> 
>
>"Politics is for the moment, equations are forever"
> - Albert Einstein



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[expert] php-curl

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello

I am trying to set up real-time credit card processing on my apache server. 
In particular I want to use echophp. I would prefer not to recompile either 
apache or php. I have curl installed. I would like to link it to apache/php 
using a php-curl rpm. Such an rpm exists at rpmfind but not one specifically 
for mandrake, i.e. no php-curl-xxx-.mdk.rpm. Is anyone familiar with a 
procedure for doing this or documentation somewhere? I'm using Mandrake 8.1.

TT




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[expert] php-curl

[Terry Tremaine]

Hello

I am trying to set up real-time credit card processing on my apache server. 
In particular I want to use echophp. I would prefer not to recompile either 
apache or php. I have curl installed. I would like to link it to apache/php 
using a php-curl rpm. Such an rpm exists at rpmfind but not one specifically 
for mandrake, i.e. no php-curl-xxx-.mdk.rpm. Is anyone familiar with a 
procedure for doing this or documentation somewhere? I'm using Mandrake 8.1.

TT



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[expert] php-curl

[Terry Tremaine]

HelloI am trying to set up real-time credit card processing on my 
apache server.In particular I want to use echophp. I would prefer not to 
recompile eitherapache or php. I have curl installed. I would like to link 
it to apache/phpusing a php-curl rpm. Such an rpm exists at rpmfind but not 
one specificallyfor mandrake, i.e. no php-curl-xxx-.mdk.rpm. Is anyone 
familiar with aprocedure for doing this or documentation somewhere? I'm 
using Mandrake 8.1.TT

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

[Terry Mathews]

It's not really the age, as I had a Yamaha 4416 from 98 that worked with
700mb CDs just fine. The problem is that 700mb is not an ISO standard like
650mb is, and as such manufacturers of CD-R drives can choose on their own
whether or not to include support for it. HP decided no. :-) Glad I bought
Yamaha.


Terry
> I've had problems like this whith an older HP cdrburner (well 1 year old)
> we had at work.  Seems it was built prior to 700meg cd's and as such just
> wouldn't burn right on them.  I've also had troubles with some older cd
> readers that won't read anything 700meg (even commercial)  You could try
> cd'ing to the rpm directory on disk 2 and do an rpm -K ... this will do
> md5 on each individual rpm.  If there are any errors there, report them to
> Mandrake.  Sorry I couldn't help more.




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Re: [expert] usage

[Terry Mathews]

Run ifdown eth0 and iup eth0 at midnight one night, then run ifconfig the
next and write down the transmitted and recieved numbers...?


Terry
> Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing
> through a Nic card within a 24 hr period?




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Re: [expert] Anyone know about SMTP after POP?

[Terry Mathews]

My advice: Don't bother. If you must create an open authentication SMTP
relay, the more modern way is SMTP auth.. But you have to compile your own
version of Postfix or Sendmail.


Terry
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able to allow a friend of mine who has an account on my ML
> 8.1 machine to use my SMTP server for sending mail.  I'm running Postfix
and
> the POP3/IMAP4 server package that Mandrake supplies in an rpm.
>
> Obviously, I don't want to open my mail server up to wide-open relay.  Has
> anyone set up a system where they can use a POP3 login to authenticate the
> IP address for a few minutes, so that Postfix will accept the relay from
> that particular IP address?  (Known, I believe, as SMTP-after-POP
> authentication?)
>
> Any help or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated!




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Re: [expert] 586/686

[Terry Mathews]

While it is true that Cyrix named their processor the 6x86, it is most
definately a 586 generation chip. AFAIK, Intel chips up to the Pentium3 are
i586, while the AMD Athlon is 686 as is the Pentium4.

The safest way to determine processor family is to go by what the kerenl
reports it as on the login screen.

Terry
> True and as well there are some i686 rpms on my box now... running fine.
Also when I compile a kernel under 2.2 I chose i586 under 2.4 I chose k-6
family.  Wasn't i686 originally the Cyrix soon followed by the Celeron?





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Re: [expert] 586/686

[Terry Mathews]

> > K5-*  == i486
> > K6-*  == i586

Not quite. K5 is a Pentium clone. K6 added MMX and K6-2 added 3dnow!. So, K5
and K6 should both be i586...
K6-3 is the same as K6-2 with the addition of on-die L2 cache...

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Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

[Terry Mathews]

No, sorry. I never accused Xdarwin of being quick. :-)

More RAM, faster processor will help. That's about it.

Terry

> I agree that Xdarwin is nice, and I used it previously to attempting to 
> install linux, however this leads me to another fundamental problem:
> 
> Xdarwin runs apps slow, and it runs them even MORE slowly when running 
> rootless.  Is there any way to make OSX reboot use a special 
> configuration for Darwin only?  Is there any way to speed up Xdarwin's 
> preformance in the OSX environment?




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Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

[Terry Mathews]

I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think that
MandrakePPC is designed more for us gearheads that was a heterogenous
software environment, running Mandrake 8.0 on x86 and PPC... Although I much
prefer Mac OS X with Xdarwin to any of the current LinuxPPC distros...

Terry

> Not to rain on Mandrake here, but have you looked into Yellow Dog Linux?




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Re: [expert] PCAnywhere for Linux?

[Terry Mathews]

For a virus to damage more than the current user's files, it would need root
access. For that, it would have to have some sort of ability to "root" the
system, usually overflowing a port. The problem is that a virus that could
root several different UNIXes running different versions of services would
have to have many different hacks in it and would be very large in size, and
just the size alone would alert people to the fact it's a virus.

Viruses get by on x86 systems because of common exploitable problems. A
10-15MB virus would be much, much easier to detect.

> > Well, I don't know if I'd go that far. They aren't common, but linux
> > or any unix (or any OS really) can have a virus/worm written for it.
>
> A worm is not a virus. I think there's only 1 true virus written for
> Unix, and it was more of a "proof of concept, IIRC.
>




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Re: [expert] Anyone got a linux (and X) driving a DVI-D LCD display?

[Terry Mathews]

While I have no firsthand knowledge of using a DVI monitor, I know that the
nVidia closed-source driver for 4.1.0 supports DVI. Don't know if current
driver works in 4.2.0 or not.


Terry
>
>
> I need to purchase a video card for a system running linux Mandrake 8.1.
>
> The card needs to have DVI-D (i.e. digital DVI) output to drive a
> digital LCD monitor.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Do you have such a system running linux? (1st hand info please)
>
> 2) What video card?
>
> 3) What LCD monitor?
>
> 4) Is the current Xfree-86  (4.2.x) capable of driving the DVI-D port
>on the card.
>
> 5) If the answer to (4) is "no", is there some other (commercial?) server
that
>you are using?
>
> 6) Anything else I need to know?
>
> For what it's worth, my system Motherboard is a Tyan Tiger S2466 MPX
> w/ dual 1500+ Athlon processors.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.





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Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

[Terry Mathews]

True, but ATi's "open source" driver has a bug too, and it's not fixed yet.
I can't even get anyone interested in fixing the bug. :-( That's the main
reason why I bought an nVidia card. Open source is great, if you've got an
expert on hand to fix it from time to time. Sometimes, tho, having a company
write drivers for you isn't a bad idea.

>Maybe you right, but the real reason of this "hoopla" on nVidia's
>closed driver is the fact that one is unable, for example, to correct
>some specific nVidia bug for your graphic or video programme that one can
be developing.


While in general I agree with you, nVidia does have an important IP to
protect here, one that would even the playing board for Matrox and ATi.
Someday nVidia will decide to open-source their drivers, unless Linux takes
over Microsoft's marketshare (I wish). But for now, nVidia is interested in
providing Linux drivers. Let's applaude them for writing good drivers, not
scorn them for not open sourcing the driver, especially when so many
companies won't "put their money where their mouth is" when it comes to
supporting Linux. It's easy to just give the DRI project your specs, costs a
lot more to support your card _yourself_.

Terry
>So, that's why I think that nVidia should give, at least, a
>good list of specifications, on the contrary, I think, >perhaps some nVidia
>users can get limited and have to wait for nVidia driver >release.
>Actually, I'm not sure if such a impossibility will one day
>happen, but I simply do not like the idea that such risk >exists.




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Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

[Terry Mathews]

Also, I know in my heart that should nVidia decide to stop developing Linux
drivers, they will find a way to get the proper information to the DRI
program. I imagine that they would require DRI to not distribute source on
their card support, and to sign an NDA on some parts of the driver.

Not unreasonable considering that their driver architecture is the most
advanced in the industry. One driver can talk to any card, from the latest
GF3 to the oldest TNT. A serious advantage over ATi and Matrox, something
that might help ATi to gain on nVidia...

At least nVidia delivers a working, good driver, even if it isn't open
source. Promise, for example, has their own binary driver that sucks really
bad, and they even go so far as to try and sabotage the driver development
programs for the open source driver for their softRaid cards...

Terry
>  And to add to this, it's sad that some people worry about what may
> or may not happen in the future.  Consider this, Nvidia is supporting
> Linux, they are providing drivers which is more than some companies are
> doing and some people fail to give them their props for that.  More so,
> some companies support Linux by releasing the hardware specifications
> and leaving it up the Open Source programmers to implement, then they
> ride the we support Linux wave. Nvidia is using their programing talent
> to support these cards, there is something to be said for that.  I don't
> care as much about how the support is coming, as long as it is there.
> Now there are those who are more philosophically "pure" then me, and
> they have the choice to use what they want.  As I have that choice for
> myself.  I accept the reality that the programing talent in the Open
> Source world can not keep up with every piece of hardware for the pc
> world and if a manufacture choices to support there hardware they have
> the right to chose how, be it open source or not.
>
> As to the argument I am a slave to them because I use there cards and
> drivers is a far cry from being a slave because of my data being locked
> in a closed format.  I can switch a video card much quicker than I can
> change critical stored data.  It's only a piece of hardware, it's not my
> data which is more important for me to own access to.




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Re: [expert] Re: [MPlayer-users] NVidia will be bannished

[Terry Mathews]

I've just got a quick question on this topic: with all of this hoopla on
nVidia's closed source Linux drivers, what is wrong with them? Do they not
do something right? To the best of my knowledge, they implement OpenGL 1.3
to the letter; is something broken?

Because, after this open/closed source debate is over we will still be left
with the fact that nVidia's closed source drivers work better than ATi's or
Matrox's.


Terry




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[expert] Mandrake 8.1, KDE 2.2.2, and Xinerama support

[Terry Mathews]

Just wanted to let everyone know, since noone had an answer for me, that a
stock Mandrake 8.1 install has KDE that supports xinerama (I.E., it was
compiled with the --enable-xinerama option). To access the xinerama options,
go to KDE Menu ->Config ->LooknFeel -> Window behavior -> Advanced.

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Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

[Terry Mathews]

Yeah, A/UX 3.11 was the shit! I've had it running on my Q950 from time to
time. It's scary how well System 7.0.1 is integrated into the UNIX
infrastructure. Apple really shouldn't have let it die. A/UX is far, far
superior to OS X + Classic. Too bad that Apple never took the time necessary
to upgrade what was basically AT&T SysV 3.1 up to the 4 standard, that would
have made it a worthwhile system for major corps.

> Apple had their own version of Unix sometime ago called
> A/UX but that never really went anywhere. I just want to clear up that
> until Mac OS X, the Macintosh absolutely did NOT have Unix inside.

And on this whole X-Windows is too fat bit. The problem is not X. It's the
windowmanager that you run over top of X. For all of the system services
that X provides, it is very lightweight. Then again, considering that it's
gone through 11 major revisions as X11, and then 4 more as XFree86 forked
from X11R6...

Try a lighter window manager. iceWM, XFCE, twm can even be cool. KDE, GNOME<
and Enlightenment are very useful, providing most of the services that
Win98, NT, 2000 do, but they need a comparable amount of resources too...




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[expert] Mandrake 8.1 KDE version...

[Terry Mathews]

Does anyone know if the KDE RPM that comes with Mandrake 8.1 was
compiled --with-xinerama? I know that KDE can't read xinerama information
without it...


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Re: [expert] X Login Manager

[Kelley Terry]

On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 22:39:06 +
Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Currently, X uses kdm as the login manager, however i would like to 
> experiment with gdm/xdm, so could some kind soul please tell me how
i > can change the default (without uninstalling kde).

kmenu>configuration>Boot and Init>GDM Configurator

to switch back to kdm:
kmenu>control center>System>Login Manager

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Re: [expert] Log in remotely without logging in locally

[Terry Mathews]

I think you could to it in console mode too. If we are dealing with an
ethernet connection, methinks that passing "linux init=telnet x.x.x.x" to
LILO would make the machine come up to the other computer's login prompt.
Although this requires that the ethernet come up as part of the system init,
not as a SysV startup script...

Terry
> Yeah, this is possible. He's talking about a dumb terminal, (or an
> X-Term as they're called).
> Not the xterm (terminal window) within X.
> I suppose it would be possible to set up a cheap PC, as a dumb X-Term,
> and use it that way without actually loggin in to the PC.




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[expert] MJPEG tools and Mandrake 8.1

[Terry Mathews]

Does anyone use any of the Zoran zr36067-based MJPEG frame grabbers with
Mandrake 8.1? I'm curious to see if anyone has had this work successfully as
I'm frustrated and have a feeling the problem lies in the distro...


Terry




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Re: [expert] 8mm to DVD?

[Terry Mathews]

The best way I can think of, if it is compatible, is the Dazzle Firewire
Bridge and a Firewire card. The Firewire bridge lets you convert composite
to firewire, and _back_.

I don't know if you can burn a DVD in Linux... While making MPEG2 movies is
not difficult, I don't believe there is an open source program that can
generate the necessary menu information yet... You might have to resort to
using a Windows PC, or better yet a Mac and iDVD... Or if you are a good
coder... have fun. I think there is a lot in common with the menuing
information for VideoCDs, so that would be a good place to start.

Terry

> I need some
> killer video editing software and some pointers if anyone has done this
> before.
>
> Any ideas?




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Re: [expert] Shopping for Motherboard for Linux

[Terry Mathews]

Repeat after me: BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are bogus... BogoMIPS are
bogus. They are only useful in the context of one system. If your system is
running at X BogoMIPS, and then you tweak a setting and now it's at X+Y
BogoMIPS, your system is running faster. You can't use BogoMIPS as a
benchmark to tell if a P4 is faster than an XP or not. For that, you need a
program that measures real MIPS... Or some other subjective comparision like
kernel compile times.

Terry
> I vaguely remember having higher bogomips before so I might have dropped
the
> bios to "bios defaults"
> still, 3060.53 bogomips is nothing to scoff at, particularly since it
> doesn't take any of the XP's optimisations into account, like SSE and
3dmax




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Re: [expert] login screen color

[Kelley Terry]

On 10 Dec 2001 09:49:39 -0500
Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to change the background of the login screen.  A image would be
> nice instead of the blue solid.  Looking into it I see that, well I
> think this is what I see, this used to be done via 
> 
> /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid "#00777" but this is remmed out and says
> now handled by gdmgreeter
> 
> Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything.  Can someone
> enlighten me.
> 
> Greg 
> 

In mandrake 8.0 or 8.1 use kde:
   control center>system>login manager>background


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Re: [expert] login screen color

[Kelley Terry]

On 10 Dec 2001 09:49:39 -0500
Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'd like to change the background of the login screen.  A image would be
> nice instead of the blue solid.  Looking into it I see that, well I
> think this is what I see, this used to be done via 
> 
> /usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -solid "#00777" but this is remmed out and says
> now handled by gdmgreeter
> 
> Doing a searh for gdmgreeter didn't produce anything.  Can someone
> enlighten me.
> 
> Greg 


Sorry, I didn't look close enough.  Since you're using gnome:
   middle click on screen>programs>system>GDM configurator>Login
appearance

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Re: [expert] LM 8.1 & Creative PCI 128 Card

[Kelley Terry]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:18:15 -0500
Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Kelley Terry wrote:
> > 
> > I have a problem with 8.1 and an ensoniq 1370 sound card.  It is
> detected
> > properly and the driver loaded but no sound?  I tried the link you
> > mentioned but an error came back saying that /dev/dsp already exists. 
> It
> > sure would be nice to get it working since it's on a friend's machine
> that
> > I just installed 8.1 on.
> 
> If the link was already there, then it should be fine.  Is the sound
> source
> muted on the mixer?  i.e., to play most sounds, you need PCM enabled and
> its
> volume up also.
> 
> Pierre
> 
Kmix behaves wierd.  When I opened it up all the volumes were set to zero
and the devices not enabled.  The first three or four from the left
(volume, pcm, speaker/ perhaps line also) could not be enabled or the
volume turned up.  As soon as I enabled them or turned the volume up they
reverted back to their zero - unenabled state.  The other settings on the
mixer worked normal however but without the main volume control working
obviously nothing will come out.

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Re: [expert] LM 8.1 & Creative PCI 128 Card

[Kelley Terry]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:48:32 -0500
Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mandrake Expert wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone had problems getting this card to work with LM8.1(Ensoniq
> 1370)
> > 
> > I am sure it used to work earlier with OSS drivers.
> > I have checked the mixer settings. The volume was very low by default
> > but even after setting right volume I don't hear anything!
> > 
> > If I use the HardDrake under X, it shows me warning that some files
> > en1370.o.gz are not there, when in fact they are there!!
> > /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/
> > 
> > What is going wrong here?
> > Has anybody gotten this card to work successfully?
> 
> Yes.  Sometimes, I have to:
> 
>   modprobe sound
>   ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp
> 
> to get it working.
> 
> HTH,
> Pierre
> 
> 

I have a problem with 8.1 and an ensoniq 1370 sound card.  It is detected
properly and the driver loaded but no sound?  I tried the link you
mentioned but an error came back saying that /dev/dsp already exists.  It
sure would be nice to get it working since it's on a friend's machine that
I just installed 8.1 on.  
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Re: [expert] Make the mouse faster

[Kelley Terry]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:57:47 +0200 (MEST)
Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> how can I make my mouse faster (i.e. the mouse pointer mouses further
> with the
> same movement of the mouse itself).
> I suppose this has to be done somewhere in the X configuration.
> 
> The mouse acceleration in KDE is not the thing I want.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregor


In KDE: control center>peripherals>mouse>advanced>pointeracceleration

It can be done in other window managers/desktops separately and in the
xf86config file independently of the window manager for all desktop
environments also.

LOL
 
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[expert] remove

[Terry L. Cary]

Re: [expert] KDE list doesn't answer so here it is...

[Terry A. Bowling]

KDE 2.2 beta is BETA! You should expect a few bugs. All you can do is
submit a bug report and wait. You may or may not receive a response.
This is ABSOLUTELY ACCEPTABLE.

It is annoying to hear complaints about being annoyed with beta
software. Either contribute to the source or be patient. 

If this is still "unacceptable" to you, try this:
rpm -e kde2.2*
rpm -i kde2.1.1*

Terry

Praedor Tempus wrote:
> 
> This is REALLY annoying and I am wondering if anyone else has noted this with
> KDE 2.2 beta.  I downloaded and installed the cooker 2.2 beta rpms and all
> works (for the most part, there are random kde app crashes now and then) but
> there is a truly annoying bug with kmail.
> 
> I start it up and have it set to autocheck for mail every couple minutes (my
> usual).  This works for a while but then, at some random point perhaps
> between 10 to 20 minutes of starting kmail, it just stops doing email
> checking and I cannot force it to.  I note that my email inbox hasn't
> received any messages for quite a while (unusual during any given day as I am
> part of a handful of mailing lists) so I hit the "Check Mail" button.
> Nothing happens.  It doesn't even try to contact my mailserver.  I wait and
> do not see any hint of it trying to auto-check my mailserver.  I close kmail
> and restart it and immediately it checks my mailserver and I get a handful of
> new messages - the messages that have backed up at the server because kmail
> has a stroke.  Oddly, it can still send messages when after the "stroke" has
> occured - it just wont check for and download any messages.  My /home
> partition is not full so that is not the problem.
> 
> I can find no error messages on my system that seems to address a problem
> with connecting to my mailserver or any problem with kmail - but there IS a
> problem.  I have posted this several times to the KDE mailing list but no one
> responds.  Since I got the rpms for kde 2.2 beta from Mandrake Cooker, I am
> wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
> 
> I must say it is intolerable to have to keep shutting down and restarting
> kmail every 15 minutes to continue getting email.
> 
> Anyone?  Where can I look to try to find the problem?  I have tried my
> .xsession-errors, /var/log/messages...where else would be a likely place to
> look?  If the damn app would crash at least I might get something from the
> bug handler or from a core but it doesn't have the decency to die properly.
> 
> praedor

Re: [expert] xcdroast

[Terry A. Bowling]

Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is xcdroast packaged with LM8, I could not find it on my CD or in my
> installation. Where can I get it?
>
> Sridhar

Try rpmfind.net or mandrake cooker

Terry

[expert] Kmail problem

[Terry Tremaine]

Hi

I recently installed Mandrake 8.0 after using 7.0 for a little over a year. 
Everything is working beautifully except for one thing. When I click on a 
link in Kmail it opens up the source code in emacs instead of displaying the 
page in Konqueror. I checked through the settings and cannot find where this 
behaviour can be modified. Any help would be appreciated.

Terry Tremaine

Re: [expert] grip in Mandrake 8.0

[Kelley Terry]

This is what I've been using:
 
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Madeinlinux//distro/4.0SE-beta/cdtree/cd2/madeinlinux/RPMS//lame-3.86-1.1mlx.i386.html


Hoyt wrote:

> It worked in older Mandrakes, but in 8.0, none of the mp3 encoders are 
> installed and aren't available on the CD at all, and not in cooker.
> 
> A fewe xamples : lame, bladeenc
> 
> Wassup?
> 
> Hoyt



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Re: [expert] e-mail client needs password authentication ability

[Kelley Terry]

On Saturday 19 May 2001 05:27 am, Ed Tharp wrote:
> in the Kmail I use.. (came with mdk7.2) I go to settings on the menu,
>
> >configuration > network  > incoming mail > add >  pop3 > setup the user
> > name
>
> and password etc...

I need this for sending mail through my ISP  --  Not receiving mail.

>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote:
> > My ISP is starting a new e-mail service that requires password
> > authentication for sending e-mails.  I need a e-mail client that can send
> > passwords for my outgoing mail.  Kmail doesn't have this feature and I
> > don't like netscape. Any suggestions???  I need to solve this before May
> > 20 or I can't send any e-mails to the list any more.

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[expert] e-mail client needs password authentication ability

[Kelley Terry]

My ISP is starting a new e-mail service that requires password authentication 
for sending e-mails.  I need a e-mail client that can send passwords for my 
outgoing mail.  Kmail doesn't have this feature and I don't like netscape.  
Any suggestions???  I need to solve this before May 20 or I can't send any 
e-mails to the list any more.
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RE: [expert] ATI All-In-Wonder

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Check out GATOS on the LIN-DVD pages. Just run a search on Google and it
will turn up. I used to run it here. However, I have not been using the
server to watch TV much lately.

 -Original Message-
From:   Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] ATI All-In-Wonder

You might start your search with xawtv at the
following link, but I don't know specifically if they
work with ATI or not:

http://www.strusel007.de/linux/index.html

--- Phil Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's a good resource to find out how to use the TV
> tuner and DVD capabilities of this All-In-Wonder Pro
> 128 AGP card that I have?  I would really like to
> find an application like the TV Player that comes
> with the card for Windows.
> 


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Re: [expert] Update Man Manual

[Kelley Terry]

On Thursday 12 April 2001 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi , All
> when I try to "man get_free_page " , I found there is not man document for
> that fuction in my system .
> I hope to update my man documents, Does anyone know any web site provided
> man documents ?

http://www.linuxdoc.org

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RE: [expert] FrontPage Extentions..

[Terry L. Cary]

Ok, It Can't be this painfull. I have to be missing something. :)

Trying to add FP Ext. and Web DAV. to Apache that came with Mandrake 7.2
Supposidly FrontPage patch is already there?

I tried:
ftp://ftp.advancedextranet.com/pub/AES/frontpage/frontpage-linux-4.0-24mdk.i
586.rpm
---  that one is now dead. They just moved it.
ftp://ftp.advancedextranet.com/pub/OLD/SRPMS/frontpage-linux-4.0-24mdk.src.r
pm
---  This is still availble.
but it wanted
libdl.so.1

Can't get that installed, it conflicts.
I tried making a link called libdl.so.1 to the libdl.so.2 that comes with
Mandrake 7.2 but it wasn't fooled.  I tried rpm -i --force frontpage*   But
it won't force. Same error.

Ok.
Then... Improved mod_frontpage Homepage
http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/~chripo/  Well done site, but not sure I
want to go completely away from RPM - afraid of really screwing things up
and getting it all out of sync.


THEN.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker//cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS//mod_frontp
age-1.5.1mdk-2mdk.i586.html

And found a Mandrake Cooker RPM..
But, it needs libc.so.6.  I tried to upgrade my libc and that didn't work.

Am I going further and further down the wrong path?

Terry L. Cary

PS: Anyone else on this, I hope some of the links are helpful.


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Micene
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] FrontPage Extentions..
>
>
> At 09:32 AM 4/11/2001 -0400, Terry L. Cary wrote:
> >I found the one at AdvancedExtranet - but it needs a libdl.so.1
>
> libdl.so.1 is provided by libc5 which is old as dirt (comparatively).
> The current glibc rpm for whichever release you are using will
> provide libdl.so.2, which should be ok.  Otherwise you are going
> to have to find compat-libc5 for your release.  www.rpmfind.net is
> a good resource for tracking down what packages provide what
> files, as now you can search for the file you need and it will list
> the packages which provide it.
>
> --
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> Systems Development Manager
> Express Search Inc.
> www.ExpressSearch.com
>
>
>

RE: [expert] Installation - Unsupported ethercard?

[Terry L. Cary]

Been there, done that..
You can get the driver you need from Linksys and compile it in.

Let me know if you need any help.

TC

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wayne Stout
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Installation - Unsupported ethercard?
> 
> 
> I have a Linksys card as well, and 7.2 intaller never recognized it.
> What I ended up having to do was set my old faithful ISA 3com card as
> eth0, then head out to Scyld's website and download the latest netdriver
> src.rpm. After building and installing the drivers, everything works
> just fine.
> 
> Interestingly enough, the 8.0 beta2 actually detects the card and
> configures it properly. Unfortunately, it sees the PCI card before the
> ISA and sets everything up backwards. Nothing a quick little tweak to
> /etc/modules.conf couldn't fix, though.
> 
> http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> "Matthew O. Persico" wrote:
> > 
> > I have a LinkSys LNE100TX Ethernet Card. It is not on the list of cards
> > in the install of 7.2. It does, however, have drivers available. It is
> > also a descendant of the DECchip Tulip(dc21x4x) card.
> >
> > Does this sound workable?
> 
> 

[expert] FrontPage Extentions..

[Terry L. Cary]

Is there an RPM out there to make these work?

I found the one at AdvancedExtranet - but it needs a libdl.so.1 - that I
can't seem to give it.

Suggestions?
Thanks
Terry

Re: [expert] rsync to update isos?

[Kelley Terry]

On Tuesday 10 April 2001 10:32 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Is anyone using rsync to update iso images?  For example, updating from
> beta 3 to release candidate 1 by using rsync?
>
> Does it work?  Is it efficient?
>
> Can you share the command line that you use?
>
> Which mirror are you using?
>
> I'm a newbie, and want to use rsync for things like this, but cannot get
> it working so far.  My most common problem is getting a message like:
> "unexpected EOF in read_timeout".  rsync stops a short time later, the
> local file has not changed, but is not correct (based on the md5sum).
>
> I'm using rsync as root (su'd), and the local file is owned by root with
> 777 permissions.
>
> Any hints are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> Randy Kramer

rsync won't work on the iso images directly.  They need to be the same name 
on the receiving side for starters.  I posted a request on the cooker list a 
little while ago with no response.  I'll repost it here and maybe enough 
people will show an interest and the people at mandrake might pick up on it.

Just a suggestion here.  I only have a 56k dialup connection and I download 
at night.  I just finished the 8.0 beta 2 download and now the mirrors 
already have beta 3. The only way my testing or comments (or others in the 
same situation) can be of any use is to have faster access to the betas.  If 
some of the mirrors would carry separate rsync modules of each cd (not the 
iso images but the contents of the cd's) the beta versions could be upgraded 
by rsync very quickly.  Then all you would need to do is remake the images 
with the correct switches for mkisofs so the md5sums can verify with those of 
the iso images on the servers.  This would use more space on the servers but 
normally space isn't an issue compared with the much more expensive internet 
access time which this would save a lot of.  Besides saving time more people 
might be willing to try the downloads to give you more testers.  How about it?

ps   --   This would also work for the upgrade from the beta to the final 
version and if the first beta is pulled from cooker it would also save time 
there .
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Re: Re[2]: [expert] renaming multiple files

[Kelley Terry]

On Monday 09 April 2001 10:46 am, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Dave Horsfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Kelley Terry wrote:
> > > Is there a way to rename multiple files all of the format
> > > q_tif.bz2  to  q.tif.bz2  where the # represent digits.  In
> > > other words I need to change the underscore "_" character to a dot "."
> > > for all the file names in a directory.  If there is a way to do this
> > > w/o a shell script it would be great but I can't find one.
> >
> > Use the following script; it emulates the "=" wildcard of CP/M systems.
> >
> > Usage would be (in your case) "mved q=_tif.bz2 q=.tif.bz2".
> >
> > Use the "-n" switch for test only - no action.  Hack for your shell
> > where necessary.
>
> cool, I'll have to digest that one and see if it ends up making it into
> my list of scripts...
>
> Anyway, what I usually do is the dumb:
>
> me@mine> for i in q_tif.bz2 ; do
>
> >   ni=`echo $i | sed 's/_tif.bz2//'` # set ni to the base part I
> > want mv $i $ni.tif.bz2  # do the move
> > done
>
> That way I can season the action to taste, depending upon what exactly
> I wanted to do.  (Since you can get REALLY creative there when you
> set $ni.  Of course: (1) if you are not using bash then you'll have
> to change things a bit; and (2) if you are not lucky enough to be
> changing the destination name to something that has a '$'-eval
> delimiter as its first char then you'll have to say something like:
>
>   mv $i "$ni"foo.boo.yoohoo
>
> but, you knew that, right?   ;-)
>
> And, yes, I know the problem has now been solved at least 3 different
> ways - isn't that (one of the) point(s) of unix?;-)
>
> rc
>
>
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> Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825
> ICBM: 33 20' 44"N   111 53' 47"W

I didn't know I would generate so much response to this.  Again thanks to 
those who responded.  I did learn something new especially with some of the 
scripts and am saving the responses.  What I simply did was: rename _  .  *  
which changes all underscores to dots for all files in the pwd.  This could 
be filtered for specific files or specific occurrences in the files making it 
very useful.  But as you mentioned there are many ways to do it.

-- 
"It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] renaming multiple files

[Kelley Terry]

On Saturday 07 April 2001 12:45 pm, Kelley Terry wrote:
> Is there a way to rename multiple files all of the format
> q_tif.bz2  to  q.tif.bz2  where the # represent digits.  In other
> words I need to change the underscore "_" character to a dot "." for all
> the file names in a directory.  If there is a way to do this w/o a shell
> script it would be great but I can't find one.

I 'm sorry about this post.  I've only used cp or mv for renaming files and 
just found rename.  Again my apologies for putting this on the list.
-- 
"It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[expert] renaming multiple files

[Kelley Terry]

Is there a way to rename multiple files all of the format 
q_tif.bz2  to  q.tif.bz2  where the # represent digits.  In other 
words I need to change the underscore "_" character to a dot "." for all the 
file names in a directory.  If there is a way to do this w/o a shell script 
it would be great but I can't find one.
-- 
"It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

You can check to see if DRI is enabled in Xfree86 by checking your Xfree86
config file. You should have a line that states:
Load"DRI"
However, I do not know if the radeon is currently supported for DRI. Sorry
in that respect. Best of luck!

NeoFax


 -Original Message-
From:   Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Sunday, March 18, 2001 1:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration



 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Mandrake Expert
> Subject: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration
> 
> 
> I recently replaced my Matrox Mystique 220 and VoodooII card 
> with an ATI 
> Radeon 32MB DDR AGP card.  It appears to be setup properly (X 
> works fine, I 
> have nice screen resolution, bootup messages indicate the Radeon is 
> recognized) but I don't seem to get hardware opengl acceleration.
> 
> I have Mesa-3.4.1 installed on a nearly MD 8.0beta system.  I have 
> XFree86-4.0.2 and kernel-2.4.1.  I also have the game 
> "Terminus" which is 
> supposed to support ATI video cards in linux including the 
> Radeon.  When I 
> start it, it uses software opengl rendering.  If I use the 
> Mesa demos, they 
> are all software rendered too (shouldn't they BE ABLE to use 
> hardware?).
> 
> I guess I need to know , 1) how do I confirm whether or not 
> DRI is enabled in 
> XFree?  Bootup indicates "acceleration enabled" which I have 
> taken to mean 
> hardware acceleration is enabled, and 2) how do I get 
> hardware true hardware 
> acceleration with my Radeon?
> 
 
At the moment  3d hardware acceleration is not supported with the Readon
except for "experimental" in the 8.0b using X 4.0.2 and the 2.4.2 kernel.

   Charles  (-:

Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. 

RE: [expert] linux's installation

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

There is a warning stating that Mandrake 8.0b1 will not install on a Western
Digital HDD or a KT133B or MVP3 chipset.


 -Original Message-
From:   Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, March 15, 2001 2:12 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject:RE: [expert] linux's installation

I dont know, I wonder if something with lilo
may have changed. I have seen other posts on
Mandrakes mailing lists that people cant make
a bootdisk and/or lilo wont install for them
Do we all have some other problem

I don't know what other problem I could have.
The system is a PII-450, 256M RAM, TV Card,
3Com 905b, SB Live, Supra Express 56k,
Giga-byte Mobo, Matrox G450, Optical mouse
(ps/2 or USB). I have never had a problem with
installing Mandrake on hdc. hda = win 6.4G
hdb = zip 100 hdc = linux 6.4G hdd = sony cdrw

Recently added a Adaptec 2930 and (2) 4.3
Western Digital "Enterprise" drives sda, sdb

Actually Redhat would not install lilo correct
but did make a usable boot disk.
Mandrake on the other hand put files to the 
disk, but was not bootable at all.

Running system diagnostics software on the pc
-- all tests pass, all circuits are fine. I
dont hold total faith in any sw prog for
system diags, but...

Brian

-Original Message-
From: Collins Richey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] linux's installation


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:00:10 -0500
Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have been having a heck of a time trying to install Mandrake 8b on my
> PII with 2 hd's. hda (was) all win, while hdc was all linux. I have
> tried
> with Mandrake 8b and Redhat 7.1b, and get the same ending. It
> appears that they do not like to be installed on the second drive
> properly. 

You must have some other problem.  I have very non-standard setup (CDROMs
on hda & b, and IDE drivex on hdc (windows) and hdc (linux).  I have both
MDK 7.2 & 8.0 on hdd (the secondary).  No install problems related to disk
placement.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area

[expert] KT133B ATA100 problems

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

I am having problems installing Mandrake 7.2 or 8.0 beta 1 on my Elitegroup
K7VZA PC. It has a VIA 82C686B Southbridge chipset that has one ATA100
connector and one ATA66/33 connector. The PC starts the installation fine
and I can select the partitions on which to install. However, after the rpms
install it says that some rpms errored on installation and then dumps me
back to the filesystem setup portion saying error no hdlists found. Has
anyone had this problem and if so, how do I fix it? Also, now that this has
happened it trashed my HDD partitions. I lost everything. Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks!

NeoFax

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run fromdesktop applink

[Kelley Terry]

I'm using kde 2.1 beta 2.  The way I get mine is to create an
application by running kmenuedit from a command line.  In that
application I have run from a terminal.  Then I associate word perfect
files with by right clicking on a word perfect file and editing file
type - again making sure the run in terminal box is checked.




David Boles wrote:
> 
> To get WordPerfect 8 to load I had to write a bash script that contains the
> line that you type at the command prompt. I had the KDE.link call the script. I
> have NO idea why this works here but it is an old DOS type of thing to do.
> 
> -Original Message -
> From: Sujeet Bhatt
> To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:01:26 -0600
> Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Final : Still 2 apps that won't run from desktop
> applink
> 
> > On Wednesday 07 March 2001 17:26, George Czerw declaimed unto the faithful:
> >  > Beginning with KDE 2.1 Beta 2, I have 2 applications that will NOT
> >  > launch from any KDE applink or menu entry that I create, and I can't
> >  > figure out why they won't launch, because if I enter the identical
> >  > command line from inside a (bash) terminal window WILL launch either
> >  > application.
> >  >
> >  > I had hoped that KDE 2.1 final would resolve this issue, but it has
> >  > not.
> >  >
> >  > The first app is:  Corel WordPerfect 8 , which normally launches by
> >  > entering:
> >  > /usr/share/wordperfect/wpbin/xwp
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >  I have had the same problem with wordperfect. Let me know if you find a
> >  solution.
> >
> >  Sujeet
> >
> >
> >
> 
> --
> 
> David Boles
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ABD0

RE: [expert] operating system switch tool?

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Try out GAG. I use it in conjunction with LILO. I install LILO in the boot
sector of the /boot partition and then install GAG in the MBR. If you cannot
find GAG on the net, let me know and I will email it to you.

NeoFax


-Original Message-
From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] operating system switch tool?

I have installed win98 and Mandrake 7 on my computer,sometimes I want to run
the two systems simultaneously,and switch between the two systems ,I wonder
if there is such a tool.

thank you in advance!

Re: [expert] suggest printer

[Kelley Terry]

On Tuesday 27 February 2001 03:23 pm, Gary wrote:
> Hello all,
> I will be needing a new printer soon, and wondered if anyone had any
> suggestions on what they like, and what will work, something in the laser
> line, but not expensive... HP is supposed to be coming out with Linux
> compatible drivers, but I could find no reference of this on their site.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I purchased a okidata okipage6e on line and love it.  Friends recommended it 
to me and they haven't had problems with theirs either.  Laser quality, cheap 
price and reliability are its good points.  It doesn't do color though.  If 
you can't find a 6e the 10e is better yet but does cost a little more.
-- 
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

[Kelley Terry]

On Tuesday 27 February 2001 02:33 pm, Bill Barnes wrote:
> Well, that's because the Linux community runs in
> Sensitivity Severity Mode (SSM).  That is, the more
> desperate your needs the more likely a link or a
> package will be broken.
>
> This is a mysterious sensing program that you will not
> be able to trace, but it's been in the system for at
> least 3 years, maybe longer.
>
> The only way to defeat it is to develop a perception
> that what you wanted wasn't important after all.  Do
> not bang on the keyboard or curse the internet.  That
> simply demonstrates your desperation to the sensing
> device.  Also, don't attempt to skirt the link or
> program, as this will be communicated to the SSM
> system and the problem spreads.  Go to the Microsoft
> site to relieve the pressure.  You can always find
> something silly there.
>
> So to answer the question "when it will appear", it
> will appear when it is there.
>
> LOL
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> --- "Yacketta,Ronald J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > BUM link!
> >
> > there is nothing under either directory
> > SRPMS and i586 directories are _empty_
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Cecil Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:41 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final
>
> http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/M
>a
>
> > ndrake/7.2/
> >
> > Ron Stodden wrote:
> > > KDE 2.1 final in binary form for the various
> >
> > distributions was
> >
> > > promised on the KDE site by Monday February 26.
> > >
> > > It is now 3.5 hours into Tuesday GMT and there is
> >
> > no sign of the KDE
> >
> > > 2.1 final update to Mandrake 7.2.
> > >
> > > Where is it?   What is happening?   When and where
> >
> > will it appear?
>
> __
It's already on one of the rsync mirrors I use:
rsync://rsync.proxad.net/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/kde*
-- 
Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] kERNEL 2.4.2 and NE2000 card

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Here is my setup in /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 ne
ne io=0x220 irq=10

I just d/led the new 2.4.2 kernel compiled and updated it ensuring that I
selected ISA ne2000 as a module. However, when I reboot the system it gives
me an error about the io and irq settings are wrong. The nic card works fine
w/ the stock kernel. Is there some special setting in /etc/modules.conf that
I have to use to get the nic card to work in the 2.4.x series of kernels? I
have tried to look up info @ www.scyld.com  , since
Donald Becker was one of the people that wrote the drivers. Any help would
be appreciated. Thanks!

NeoFax

[expert] Problem w/ Mandrake 8

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

I just tried to install Mandrake 8.0 beta on my PC. It gives the error of
cannot mount /dev/hda3. I check the other consoles and the complain about a
error in /usr/bin/perl-install/us_en.cz or some such. I have tried mounting
it on console 2, but I get the same error. I have one large 30gb ATA66 hard
drive that I am trying to install it on. 

NeoFax

RE: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Actually Mandrakesoft compiles almost everything using the i686 flag. This
way everything is optimized for 686 processors. Correct me if I am wrong
though.

NeoFax
 -Original Message-
From:   Daryl Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, February 26, 2001 9:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [expert] Mandrake 7.1

My take on this is that the kernel in the distribution includes compiled in
support for i-386, however should Joergen want to just have an i-386 kernel
he can recompile then from the sources?

regards

Daryl

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan
> Shoemaker
> Sent: 26 February 2001 08:29
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.1
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does anyone know were I can downloade Mandrake 7.1 for
> > i386?
> >
> > Joergen Traun
>
> Joergenthere are no versions of Linux Mandrake for the
> i386 as they are all compiled for the i586.  However there
> is an i486 version of Linux Mandrake 7.0-2.  Below is one
> of the locations from which it can be downloaded:
>
> ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake-iso/i486/mandra
> ke70-2.i486.iso
> --
> Alan
>
>

RE: [expert] gui login panel

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Mandrake uses a window manager session file that on bootup checks this file
and then adds the wm's in it to XDM/KDM/GDM. Now, for the bad news, I forget
what file it is. I think it is called windowmanager.session. It should be in
/etc/X11/??? Or /usr/share/X11R6/?? Or something like that. I hope this
helps.

 -Original Message-
From:   Collins Richey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] gui login panel

On Tuesday 20 February 2001 08:02, you wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote:
> > 1) - In theory, at least, the gui login panel should allow one to choose
> > the window manager, and it does provide tabs for gnome,
> > enlightenment,etc., etc. However, when I choose one of these, I always
> > get KDE, no matter which I have chosen.
>
>  Take a look in /etc/X11/kdm.  

There is no such directory on Mandrake 7.2

Can someone else help with this?  I would like to add a menu entry for xfce.

-- 
Thanks,
Collins Richey
Denver Area

RE: [expert] Staggering Closer ??!!??

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Try running HardDrake to see if it in fact is being caught by the boot
process. Next figure out what card it is and what bus it uses(ISA/PCI). If
it uses ISA use isapnp to try and configure it. Next add a line like so to
your /etc/modules.conf file:
Alias eth0 ne
Ne io=0x220 irq=11
SuSE comes with a huge /etc/modules.conf file that has just about every card
imaginable in it.

 -Original Message-
From:   Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[expert] Staggering Closer ??!!??

I'm in the process of migrating one of my platforms from SuSE64 to 
Mandrake7.2 and the ethernet card that worked in SuSE is giving me fits in
7.2.

I had thought that the OS wasn't finding eth0 during boot, but if I do 
/sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf I get:

 Board 1 has Identity 86 cb 40 73 05 01 22 05 07:  AXE2201 Serial 
No 3409998597 [checksum 86]

which suggests that the boot process is finding the ethernet card.  I 
noticed, however, that the boot process is giving me the message:

 Delaying eth0 initialization

at least I think that's what it says as it goes by rather rapidly and dmesg 
doesn't resurrect the message.

I really would like to solve this problem, any help will be greatfully 
accepted.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for ChemistryMultivariant and 
stochastic
http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem

RE: [expert] Mounting Zip Drive

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

If you can see it in Gnomba, just right-click on the drive and mount it.
First though, you should setup a mount point in /mnt. I.e. /mnt/zip. After
you have mounted it you should be able to read the contents.

NeoFax


 -Original Message-
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, February 19, 2001 11:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[expert] Mounting Zip Drive

Here's the situation. I have a laptop running LM7.2 here at the office.
It's one of 3 linux machines here. I have a SCSI Zip drive attached to one
of my NT4 boxes. I would like to be able to mount his drive from my laptop
but can't figure out how. The drive is shared out, but only my login name
has any access to it (we're on an NT Domain). I've tried using Gnomba, I
can see the drive out there, but cannot see any of it's contents. Any way
to do it?

RE: [expert] SAMBA Help Please...

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Just use
the SAMBA client and a samba browser.

 

 

-Original
Message-
From: Sean Armstrong
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001
4:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] SAMBA Help
Please...

 

Except I'm using DHCP and don't have a
static IP address. I don't want to use samba for a samba server, I just want to
connect to my NT share on an NT network.

Thanks in advance,

SA

>From:
"Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

>To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

>Subject:
Re: [expert] SAMBA Help Please... 

>Date:
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:46:17 -0800 

> 

>If I
remember correctly, I had the same problem you are 

>experiencing.
All I 

>had to do
to fix it was to add my IP address and fully-qualified 

>domain 

>name to
/etc/hosts. Like this: 

>
192.168.2.12 myhost.mydomain.com 

> 

>Dave 

> 












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RE: [expert] Streaming

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Check out this site. It has all the port assignments and you can set which
ports stay open and which to close. 

http://packetfilter.amotken.com/

NeoFax
 -Original Message-
From:   Ybnorml [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:RE: [expert] Streaming

I've found the same just recently.  I'm sure there's a way to do it, just
not easily.

Thanks for the reply.

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Gough
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:38 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [expert] Streaming


My ipchains knowledge is limited, but I don't believe it would be possible
with ipchains alone. AFAIK, ipchains will allow you to filter packets based
on a combination of ip addresses and protocols. So it would be possible to
block all access to a particular streaming media site, and/or to block the
particular protocol that the media player uses. With real player, it can
use multiple protocols, such as UDP and TCP/IP. You can't block either of
these protocols without serious consequences, and just blocking the
realplayer site won't accomplish much. Perhaps someone knows better than I,
and could enlighten us both. I work at a school, and would love to be able
to block this stuff.

Doug Gough

-Original Message-
From:   Ybnorml [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Sunday, February 11, 2001 7:37 PM
To: Expert
Subject:[expert] Streaming

Would anyone have any suggestions for setting up IPCHAINS to reject Real
Audio and the like?

RE: [expert] lilo help

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Here is the gist I get from reading the LILO README. Warning 0x82 is saying
that Hard Drive Primary Slave has  cylinders larger than the magical 1024
limit. This does not mean that you can not use  LILO. More than likely your
/etc/lilo.conf file has a line that reads LINEAR. What this does when you
run /sbin/lilo is it checks the HDD "capabilities"(?) and then writes out
the map file. LILO then uses this map file to boot the system. LILO does not
have a clue as to what your HDD looks like so this map file tells it what it
looks like and where to find the information to boot. Does LILO work at all?
What is the error that you are getting? Each letter at the boot prompt
represents a different step in the boot process. I.e. if LILO is stopping
with LI then the second stage of the boot is finished, but the map file is
wrong. That's just my two cents. Hopefully it can help you.


 -Original Message-
From:   Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, February 12, 2001 7:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] lilo help

On Monday 12 February 2001 18:24, you wrote:
> When I try to run lilo on my desktop I get the following errors:
> Which has left me with having to boot from floppy.
> Any help so I can boot from hd again appreciated
> [root ~] lilo
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added linux *
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added failsafe
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added 2218-8
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added 240-5
> Added Windows
> Fatal: Partition entry not found.

These "Warnings" I get too when running lilo after getting my new computer 
about 5 months ago.  I boot from a scsi disk, and I have to go into the
bios, 
disable the ide-controllers, restart and login again, run lilo, reboot,
enter 
the bios, enable the ide-controllers, and then reboot...

If I run lilo while my ide controllers are active I get the warnings you 
describe and lilo doesn't work anymore..

-- 
\ Christian A Strømmen /
\ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
\ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 /
   Live your life by your dreams,
 not by the limits of reality...

RE: [expert] Samba and two-class_network...

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Does this server have two nic cards in it, one for one subnet and one for
the other subnet. If so, you can setup Linux to work like a router and
transfer packets from one subnet to the other. In SAMBA you can setup the
interface too use one workgroup but transfer the packets from one subnet to
the other. This will allow you to have shares on one subnet and the other
subnet can access them. I did this once and had it working until I got my
HUB, then I switched everything over to one subnet. Also, are you planning
to use SAMBA as a PDC controller for both subnets?

 -Original Message-
From:   Claudio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, February 09, 2001 4:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] Samba and two-class_network...


On Friday 09 February 2001 15:22, you wrote:
> You now see the way that tcp/ip works - you can only see the segements on
> the network in the same domain or class C address.
>
> You need to make the server available on both classes of address. You
don't
> explain how you link the different networks. Assuming they are on the same
> physical cable without any form of bridge - you can give your ethernet
card
> an additional alias so that it sees both networks. I've never done this,
> but I imagine that the Linux server will now act as a bridge to both
> networks,

> > Hi all,
> > I've the following problem: a print server using LM-7.2, Cups and samba.
>
> The
>
> > IP address is:
> >
> > SERVER: 141.108.21.3
> > ^
> >
> >
> >
> > My network has TWO classes of IP addresses: 141.108.16.x and
141.108.21.x
>
> Now
>
> > it happens that ONLY machine from class 141.108.21.x (the same of the
> > server!) may see the smb server, while the machines from 141.108.16.x
>
> cannot
>
> > see the server! Is it possible to avoid that? I'd like to let all of the
> > machine see the printers!!!
> >
> > Thanks, Claudio

Indeed we have quite a big LAN. The two "C" classes are controlled by a
Cisco 
Router, and they are mixed on the same cable anyway... It's a campus
network, 
can you understand what I mean?  :-)

Claudio

RE: [expert] apache 1.3.17

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Have you tried /updates at any mirror site. If not there try cooker or
unsupported.


 -Original Message-
From:   Andri Genio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, February 09, 2001 9:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[expert] apache 1.3.17

hi

Does anyone know where to download mandrake rpm
of apache 1.3.17 (the newest one) ?

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FW: [expert] KDE 2.1 and jdk ***Chris Molnar can you please help***

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

>From the following posts, you can surmise that I am having just one problem
w/ KDE2.1Beta2. I cannot get kdebase to install. When I try to install it I
get the following error cpio:unlink /usr/share/apps/kdm/user/pics. (both
kde2.1 and kdebase 2.0 that comes w/ 7.2) this is what I think might be
happening. Previously I had 7.1 installed as I cannot install 7.2 straight
due to my MVP3 chipset. It(7.1) has kde 1.1.2 which did not have KDE in the
same layout. I was thinking because I only have one .xpm file in
/usr/share/apps/kdm/user/pics it fails as it is trying to change the
pictures for all of the users. I.e. root, nobody... If this is correct, can
I just do a touch root.xpm and then install the rpm, or am I way off base.
Also, could it be my cpio rpm is a older version and needs updating? Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

NeoFax


-Original Message-
From:   Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 and jdk

The only package that should have required doing the-nodeps to it was
kdebase.  Everything else should have been updatable.  The problem may be
more deeply rooted in the prior updates made.
Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE wrote:
> 
> I d/l'ed j2sdk-1_3_0-linux.rpm.bin from java.sun.com. It installed in
> /usr/java/jdk-1.3.0. Now here comes the problem. I followed Chris Molnar's
> directions in the README file in the kde2.1Beta2 directory in the
> Mandrake-devel/unsupported directory. I had to force everything and nodeps
> some of the rpms. On the kdebase rpm it gave me an error of cpio:unlink at
> /usr/share/kdm/user/pics (or something very similar) and then stopped at
> that point. Let me backtrack a little. Ever since I did a live update from
> Mandrake 7.1 -7.2 Konqueror has not worked. Previously I would get a
SIGSEGV
> 11 fault and have to use gmc as my file manager. Now when I try to start
> Konqueror it gives a fault of Bad inode/directory and then does nothing.
Is
> there a way to fix this? Do I have to remove all the KDE rpms and start
> fresh? I would just like to get this working. I really liked Konqueror
when
> I had it running on one of my other machines back in the Kleopatra beta
> version.
> 
> NeoFax
> 
>  -Original Message-
> From: Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:16 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:  Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 and jdk
> 
> If you download jdk-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar.gz from java.sun.com,
> you'll find that untar/gz'ing them extracts the files into a directory
> named jdk1.2.2, not jdk-sun1.2.2.  Though I suppose there's nothing to
> stop you from renaming the directory since you have to manually tell
> Konqueror where it is anyway.
> It is an unfortunate truth that Sun is still blatantly snubbing Linux.
> Even the README's in the tarball refer you only to win32 and Solaris
> installation instructions.
> I sincerely hope that the KDE team can come up with a way to use the
> Java environment with the tools IBM has provided, since they are
> enthusiastic in their Linux support.
> 
> Ron Stodden wrote:
> > Digital Wokan wrote:
> > > After installing it, go into Konqueror's configuration and put the
> > > following in for the location of java on the Java tab:
> > > /usr/jdk1.2.2/bin/java
> > No.  Should not it be:
> > /usr/jdk-sun1.2.2/bin/java
> > ?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ron. [AU]
> --
> Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior

-- 
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Guerilla Linux Warrior

RE: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's "new direction"

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

Here is my take on this, since everyone has had there chance. I am glad to
see Mandrakesoft diversifying. This hopefully will allow Mandrakesoft to
become more profitable and possibly hire on more programmers meaning a much
more enriched distribution, but may also mean purchasing other companies
that play along the same lines as Mandrakesoft wishes to go. I.e.
Caldera/SCO, RedHat This means a better product for you and I the user.
Mandrakesoft has some of the best programmers that I have spoken to(E-mail)
and received help from. I would just like to say thanks to Chris Molnar and
David Faure. The two of them have helped me immensely in getting KDE to just
how I like it. There are others on this list which I don't know may work for
Mandrakesoft that have helped me. This is why I love Linux so much, the
community spirit. Keep up the good work!!!

NeoFax


 -Original Message-
From:   Zeljko Vukman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's "new direction"

Hi,

I am a little bit surprised how some people interprete Mandrake business 
policy.
If you are going to abandon Mandrake and your move is based on an 
article then... :(
Spreading business activities is only a good thing (as Chris mentioned 
in his mail), and every
serious company does this. I rather see Mandrake buying other companies 
then other companies
buying Mandrake.
Do you really think that, for example, Mercedes Benz only produces cars? 
And Carlsberg beer?
No way.
But Mandrake people should better react on these rumours cause they can 
really damage
Mandrake Linux distribution. If people are worried about Mandrake Linux 
future and they are not
sure their software will  be suported aymore, then Mandrake has a real 
problem.

Christopher Molnar wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> We are not ending our distro. There is just a move to put effort into
these 
> other areas. This is not a bad thing, this is a good thing.
> 
> -Chris
> 
> On Monday 05 February 2001 19:00, Vic wrote:
> 
>> If that is the case, then I pick RedHat, suse has no sound.
>> 
>> On Monday 05 February 2001 05:12 pm, so spoke John J. LeMay Jr.:
>> 
>>> ** Reply to message from "Michael O'Henly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon,
05
>>> Feb 2001 08:43:24 -0800
>>> 
>>> 
 This is interesting...
 
http://linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=108&aid=11659
>>> 
>>> Sounds like it may be time to look at SuSE or RedHat again.
>>> 
>>> Here's an interesting question. If Mandrake DID end their distro, what
>>> would you move to? Another Linux distro? Which? A BSD variant? Which?
>>> 
>>> John LeMay Jr.
>>> Senior Enterprise Consultant
>>> NJMC, LLC.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [tag] The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead.
>> 

RE: [expert] KDE 2.1 and jdk

[Milnes Terry SSgt 52LSS/LGLOE]

I d/l'ed j2sdk-1_3_0-linux.rpm.bin from java.sun.com. It installed in
/usr/java/jdk-1.3.0. Now here comes the problem. I followed Chris Molnar's
directions in the README file in the kde2.1Beta2 directory in the
Mandrake-devel/unsupported directory. I had to force everything and nodeps
some of the rpms. On the kdebase rpm it gave me an error of cpio:unlink at
/usr/share/kdm/user/pics (or something very similar) and then stopped at
that point. Let me backtrack a little. Ever since I did a live update from
Mandrake 7.1 -7.2 Konqueror has not worked. Previously I would get a SIGSEGV
11 fault and have to use gmc as my file manager. Now when I try to start
Konqueror it gives a fault of Bad inode/directory and then does nothing. Is
there a way to fix this? Do I have to remove all the KDE rpms and start
fresh? I would just like to get this working. I really liked Konqueror when
I had it running on one of my other machines back in the Kleopatra beta
version.

NeoFax


 -Original Message-
From:   Digital Wokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 and jdk

If you download jdk-1_2_2_007-linux-i386.tar.gz from java.sun.com,
you'll find that untar/gz'ing them extracts the files into a directory
named jdk1.2.2, not jdk-sun1.2.2.  Though I suppose there's nothing to
stop you from renaming the directory since you have to manually tell
Konqueror where it is anyway.
It is an unfortunate truth that Sun is still blatantly snubbing Linux. 
Even the README's in the tarball refer you only to win32 and Solaris
installation instructions.
I sincerely hope that the KDE team can come up with a way to use the
Java environment with the tools IBM has provided, since they are
enthusiastic in their Linux support.

Ron Stodden wrote:
> Digital Wokan wrote:
> > After installing it, go into Konqueror's configuration and put the
> > following in for the location of java on the Java tab:
> > /usr/jdk1.2.2/bin/java
> No.  Should not it be:
> /usr/jdk-sun1.2.2/bin/java
> ?
> --
> Regards,
> Ron. [AU]
-- 
Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age
Guerilla Linux Warrior