Re: [expert] ssh-1.2.27.i586.rpm

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 09:33:18PM +0200, Takacs Sandor wrote: > Hello! > > I have compiled $SUBJECT. Where can I upload this? :) > > -- > Takika Way cool :-)! Thanks tom -- "Everybody is someone else's newbie" (Marilyn Manson, edited) Thomas 'tom' Berger, [E

Re: [expert] vim-question: substitute for 'set redraw'?

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 10:00:00PM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > :set redraw on > > :set redraw on > > Unknown option: on > > :set redraw=on > > ( sorry :-(( ) > > don't forget the : > > :help redraw > Ahem... :hel

Re: [expert] upgrade RPMS errors??

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Takacs Sandor wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > > > %% 59.684609 > > > unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic > > > > Almost definately a corrupted RPM file. Doesn't happen with the ones on > > the server. > > You'll have to download agai

Re: [expert] Abiword

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:02:25PM -0700, mike montgomery wrote: > I just installed and tried Abiword. I am impressed. This is a very good > program. Its small ~3 megs and simple to use, but it works very well. If > you are interested in trying it out here's their web site > > http://www.abisourc

Re: [expert] followup: Netscape crashes

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:18:20PM -0400, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > There's a new Netscape 4.61 available. I'll give you some news! > > Jean-Michel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks a lot! I think I have had my fill of Netscape's "updates", though...Since 4.08 every new rele

[expert] Abiword

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I just installed and tried Abiword. I am impressed. This is a very good program. Its small ~3 megs and simple to use, but it works very well. If you are interested in trying it out here's their web site http://www.abisource.com/ Their rpm did not work for me, so I used the static tar ball. I lik

Re: [expert] NFS hang with 2.2.9mdk-25

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, you wrote: >Hi. >I got this error when running SPEC benchmark on our clusters. >The slaves mount some dir from master via NFS . Uhm - watching the linux kernel developer's mail list - the NFS support (knfs anyway) is still undergoing debug! It may not yet be ready for produc

[expert] A post a while back

1999-06-15 Thread Al Smith
Greetings folks, I post to this mailing list a lot with problems and some I get answers on and some I don't. For those who have given me assistance and it has worked I would like to acknowledge and thank you now. These people are: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Problems w/kerenel 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Has anyone else run across this problem? -Al At 10:25 AM 6/15/99 -0400, you wrote: >I found an issue with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. > >I installed the RPM and recomplied the kernel with the same settings >nothing changed. During the boot, it failed to locate my ethernet >adaptor and it the system

[expert] NFS hang with 2.2.9mdk-25

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi. I got this error when running SPEC benchmark on our clusters. The slaves mount some dir from master via NFS . Jun 15 18:52:13 sc2 PAM_pwdb[484]: (rsh) session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 15 18:52:14 sc2 in.rshd[485]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as root: cmd='/usr/l ocal/pvm3/lib/pvmd -s -d0x0

Re: [expert] Modem bandwidth problems after upgrade to Mandrake 6.0

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > Hmmm.. I don't see a problem in your config... > > Do you have access to a BBS? If so, try to connect using minicom and > download a file with Zmodem. I just want to see if the problem is with > ppp or serial driver... > > Jean-Michel Dault > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EM

[expert] Hm. Speakfreely again.

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi again (some ten minutes since I wrote you a thankyou letter :) I ran sndconfig again, autoconfigured and looked at isapnp.conf. DMA is set to 0 and 6 in the audio section. To try Speakfreely (7.0) and see if I could get it to work properly i ran "sfspeaker -rtut" making it save the incoming s

Re: [expert] Some problems with Mandrake

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
To use full-duplex, you must set your Sound card DMA on two different channels. By the way, Speakfreely 7 is out. Jean-Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 3) Speakfreely. If I remember right this is distributed with Redhat..maybe I > should complain to someone else. > Anyhow.. I have

[expert] Some problems with Mandrake

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
..and I'm ON! Questions, questions: 1) Simple things like moving windows around can consume från 20 to 80% of CPU power in X Windows. This hold true running both Gnome and KDE. The name of the process is just plain "X". Before Mandrake 6.0 (with all the latest fixes) i used Redhat 5.2. I can't re

Re: [expert] ssh-1.2.27.i586.rpm

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Takacs Sandor wrote: > I have compiled $SUBJECT. Where can I upload this? :) Because of the export restrictions, please upload it to 151.189.96.131. (=ftp.mandrakesoft.de, but the ISP screwed up the DNS). You have write access to /incoming. LLaP bero

Re: [expert] kernelcfg package

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Al Smith wrote: > I am trying to run the app. kernelcfg and I get an error message that > states that it is not installed. Would anyone happen to know what rpm it > is packaged in? Try kernelcfg-0.5-6mdk.i586.rpm -Tom

Re: [expert] ssh-1.2.27.i586.rpm

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Currently, you have to be careful where you put this stuff, because of crypto laws. I'm waiting for the final response of the Canadian government on this issue, but so far it looks like I could create a crypto-mandrake archive. Probably next week. Stay tuned. Jean-Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

[expert] ssh-1.2.27.i586.rpm

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hello! I have compiled $SUBJECT. Where can I upload this? :) -- Takika

Re: [expert] upgrade RPMS errors??

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > %% 59.684609 > > unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic > > Almost definately a corrupted RPM file. Doesn't happen with the ones on > the server. > You'll have to download again, possibly from another mirror. Yess! It works! Thanx! P.

Re: [expert] followup: Netscape crashes

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
There's a new Netscape 4.61 available. I'll give you some news! Jean-Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Tom Berger wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:43:00 +0200 > From: Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

[expert] followup: Netscape crashes

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hi there! Due to very frequent crashes of Netscape and friends (Mail, Composer), I've downgraded from 4.60 to 4.08. Looks like at least the 'Composer Insert Link' crash doesn't occur any more (yeaahhh! :-). Regards tom -- "Everybody is someone else's newbie" (Marilyn Manson, edited) Thomas 't

Re: [expert] Problem with upgrade util

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Michael Bannister wrote: > I noticed a problem with the mandrake upgrade util when trying to > downgrade mandrake (a very nice util btw). After it downloaded the 4.51 And why not found all of the packages in the upgrades directory? -- Takika

Re: [expert] upgrade RPMS errors??

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Takacs Sandor wrote: > I wanna upgrade to 2.2.9-27mdk with > rpm -i --percent kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm > > I got this error: > %% 59.684609 > unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic Almost definately a corrupted RPM file. Doesn't happen with the ones on the server.

[expert] Problem with upgrade util

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I noticed a problem with the mandrake upgrade util when trying to downgrade mandrake (a very nice util btw). After it downloaded the 4.51 netscape rpm's and tried to install them it gave the error that they were too old and didn't do anything (ie they weren't installed). Furthermore, when I remove

Re: [expert] vim-question: substitute for 'set redraw'?

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Tom Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > hum, i don't really understand your question. > > Are you satisfied with this : > > linebreak > > > dwJgqgq No, not really ;-) > J: Join the lines > gqgq:

[expert] Kernel 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I've just finished uploading the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel to updates. It should appear on the mirrors shortly. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <9906141943132268200@ebb> This kernel really fixes the defunct processes problem, which also caused the "umount: device i

[expert] Problems w/kerenel 2.2.9-27mdk

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I found an issue with the 2.2.9-27mdk kernel. I installed the RPM and recomplied the kernel with the same settings nothing changed. During the boot, it failed to locate my ethernet adaptor and it the system hung on loading the keytable. Anyone have that issue? -Al

Re: [expert] 26mdk kernel source

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
I ran from command line: rpm -Uvh and I get the error so I would say yes it opens it and reads it... -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you able to actually open it? At this end, RPM says it's not an RPM > package. gnorpm doesn't want to talk to it, and mc (midnight commander) > won't open

[expert] upgrade RPMS errors??

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hello! I wanna upgrade to 2.2.9-27mdk with rpm -i --percent kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm I got this error: %% 59.684609 unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic I got same error with kernel-source package: %% 32.418217 unpacking of archive failed on file /usr

Re: [expert] Modem bandwidth problems after upgrade to Mandrake 6.0

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Hmmm.. I don't see a problem in your config... Do you have access to a BBS? If so, try to connect using minicom and download a file with Zmodem. I just want to see if the problem is with ppp or serial driver... Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Andrew

Re: [expert] Modem bandwidth problems after upgrade to Mandrake 6.0

1999-06-15 Thread Anonymous
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > Do you have an internal or external modem? > > Can you post the output of your "setserial" command? It seems like a bad > configuration... > > Jean-Michel Dault > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Andrew MItchell wrote: > > > Date: Tue

Re: [expert] i can't run fbcon with mandrake 6.0

1999-06-15 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Istvan Kovacs wrote: > i want to run framebuffer console but i can't activate it. i compile the > kernel as usual, copy it to /boot, edit lilo.conf adding my new kernel + > vga=ask. (the same as i did when i was testing openlinux 2.2 and > worked). but when i run lilo it says: