Re: Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Ben Reser wrote: BR you've got a Mandrake PPC version. I do feel lucky. If not for Mandrake I would be running ancient SuSE 7.1 now. Still, looking at the number of employees at Mdk, one seem very little. BR Why would you want to remove msec? This is what controls

Re: Unable to configure X on a oldword mac

2001-09-27 Thread Frederic Corne
Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Frederic Corne wrote: Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Frederic Corne wrote: I have installed Mdk8.0 on an old Powermac 7500 (604/100Mhz/48Mo) I am unable to get X working. I have tried several XFConfig and/or X server (XFree86,

Re: update on beige G3 bootx issues

2001-09-27 Thread Xavier
Hi, Stew, thank a lot for your help. I tried the alternate version of bootx or was it an alternate kernel you sent me, but I can't get past the loading second stage install with that one. Using the version on the cd I get just to the next stage (choosing language, agree to licence, and

Weird mpeg thingy

2001-09-27 Thread Henrik Edlund
Don't bother investigate anything Stew. Bad user error. -- Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.edlund.org/ You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens. -- Angelina Jolie

Re: Unable to configure X on a oldword mac

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Frederic Corne wrote: with video in bootX # dmesg |grep fb controlfb: VRAM Total = 2MB (2MB @ bank 1, 0MB @ bank 2) controlfb: using video mode 6 and color mode 1. fb0: control display adapter with NoVideo in bootX fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on

Re: Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: SB Program name? I haven't had the luxury to play with many mpegs. SB If you can tell me the program name I'll look at it. plaympeg on the xterm command line. The gtk version is something that starts with a g... :-) I'll install Xine tomorrow

Re: Unable to configure X on a oldword mac

2001-09-27 Thread Frederic Corne
Stew Benedict wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Frederic Corne wrote: with video in bootX # dmesg |grep fb controlfb: VRAM Total = 2MB (2MB @ bank 1, 0MB @ bank 2) controlfb: using video mode 6 and color mode 1. fb0: control display adapter with NoVideo in bootX fb0: Open Firmware frame

Re: problems with 2.4 kernel on oldworld mac

2001-09-27 Thread Chris Mann
okay, i rebuit for the right processor this time :) still hangs at the same place. worse off than i was with the mandrake kernel and initrd image. i've been thinking about moving /boot over to the ide drive. is this all i would have to do (besides telling bootx where to boot from) to bypass

Re: problems with 2.4 kernel on oldworld mac

2001-09-27 Thread Frederic Corne
Chris Mann wrote: okay, i rebuit for the right processor this time :) still hangs at the same place. worse off than i was with the mandrake kernel and initrd image. i've been thinking about moving /boot over to the ide drive. is this all i would have to do (besides telling bootx where

Re: problems with 2.4 kernel on oldworld mac

2001-09-27 Thread Chris Mann
yup, i tried both the bitkeeper and the benh kernels. both freeze after the booting... message. which makes me wonder if it's something with my machine. although as far as i can remember it's basically a 9500 or 9600 motherboard with umax written on the front. but since i have that ide card

Re: Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Ben Reser wrote: BR That's great, but the defaults as you call them are set by msec on BR Mandrake. If you don't want it to do anything set you security to Low BR and it will do minimal things.. I examined the package, if I set it to low (which I presume is level 2) it

Re: Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:16:30PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: Maybe. But I am in Power. Muhaha. *grin* :-) msec is probably a good thing, but I would like to be able to disable it, for example via ntsysv. Of course I can disable it the hard way, but Be in power courtesy of man msec: If

Not Alone

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
Sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like I'm doing this totally alone. Of course I'm leveraging all the work the rest of the Mandrake team does, including the security folks, as well as the great feedback from all of you users. Thx, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA

Re: problems with 2.4 kernel on oldworld mac

2001-09-27 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Chris Mann wrote: okay, i rebuit for the right processor this time :) still hangs at the same place. worse off than i was with the mandrake kernel and initrd image. i've been thinking about moving /boot over to the ide drive. is this all i would have to do (besides

RE: Problem

2001-09-27 Thread Don Head
Sticking telnetd: ALL in /etc/hosts.allow isn't obscurity, the TCP wrappers will drop an incoming telnet connection like a ton of bricks. That was supposed to be hosts.deny, by the way.. Don Head SAIR LCA, CIW-P, i-Net+, Network+, A+ Systems Administrator [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Web

Re: Titanium Sound Issues

2001-09-27 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:13:56PM -0400, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: On my iMac, I have to adjust the speaker volume, not the master vol control. I've only tried the command line mixctrl program. Nope nothing works. What's weird is this used to work fine in linuxppc. I've never made it work in

Re: Titanium Sound Issues

2001-09-27 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:14:17PM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote: Yep. Kmix is controlling the volume for the headphones and the onboard speakers. Okay it's working again like it was before in linuxppc. I did a resintall. So I guess my system was just hosed somehow. -- Ben Reser [EMAIL

installation on PM7600

2001-09-27 Thread
Dear all, I would like to install mandrake-ppc on my PM7600. However, when I used BootX, it couldn't find CDROM. I tried to load MESH and 53C94 modules, but none of them worked. I browsed the mail-archives and foundPhil's BootX. Afterfollowing the instruction given,I still couldn't make