Re: [expert] something not very clear ...

1999-07-08 Thread Andrea Celli
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > Hello all. > Would somebody care to comment on the following: > > [root@jld src]# ls -l > total 12720 > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1024 Jun 27 14:04 RPM > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 4 11:59 linux -> > linux-2.2.9 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root

Re: [expert] Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

1999-07-08 Thread Steven
I have 'xhost localhost' in my .xinitrc (maybe you'd need in in .xinitrc.switchdesk?), which is perhaps less secure, but works in all situations for me ... "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > When

Re: [expert] re but , just had to share it

1999-07-08 Thread Tom Berger
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 09:08:05PM -0700, mike montgomery wrote: > How about Be airways ? > Very similar to Mac Airlines except they are smaller and they have really > fast airplanes that look really cool but nobody will make seats for them so > you have to sit on the floor of the plane. And they

Re: [expert] Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

1999-07-08 Thread Axalon
try xhost +local: should solve some peoples errors, especialy the ones that get denied after connecting to the net On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Steven wrote: > I have 'xhost localhost' in my .xinitrc (maybe you'd need in in > .xinitrc.switchdesk?), which is perhaps less secure, but works in all > situa

Re: [expert] re Sound under KDE

1999-07-08 Thread Al Smith
Mike your suggestion worked I didn't know there was documentation for it. it was listed as /usr/src/linux-x.x.x/Documentation/AD1816 I got it to work... :-) Thank you. Also thank everyone for assisting me with this problem. -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had this problem with my sound

[expert] /dev/dsp

1999-07-08 Thread Al Smith
Hello folks, I am trying to play MP3's using mpg123 (command line) and I am getting error's that it cannot open /dev/dsp. Has anyone else run across this problem? If so how did you fix it? -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] TTF encodings. how ?

1999-07-08 Thread Zilvinas Atkociunas
Hello everybody, I want to use true type fonts. As I know fonts are managed by xfs daemon. I can make him recognize new fonts, by using mkfontdir and ttfmkfontdir utilities. But I don't know how to add new font encodings . I also tried utility mkttfdir.pl from perlftlib package but it didn't he

Re: [expert] maximum file size

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Lang Zhi wrote: > > What is the maximum size of a single file that Linux can handle ? > Any way to tweak it so that can have much bigger file size ? The maximum file size on a 32 bits machine (ix86, mac, ppc, atari and the like) is 2147483648 bytes (2^31 => 2Gb). Is it enough ? On 64 bits machin

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > > I'll give it a try, but I don't think the X66 will work: it is intended > for ATA/66, right ? Well the MVP3 (VT82C586B southbridge) only supports > UDMA/33, for ATA/66 I would need MVP4 (VT82C686 southbridge). At least > this is what the VIA docs say. > Besides, I'

Re: [expert] maximum file size

1999-07-08 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Thierry Vignaud wrote: [snip] > You can also use the patches from alan Cox > (ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/v2.2/patch-2.2.9.bz2) where XX > is the ISO code of your pc (fr for france, uk for great britain) and > 2.2.9 is the version of the kernel you use. > These pa

Re: [expert] Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

1999-07-08 Thread joe
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, you wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > When running in init 5 everything is fine, but if I run X with 'startx' in init > > > 3, I get this message whenever I try to su to root and run a program: >

Re: [expert] Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, Steven wrote: > I have 'xhost localhost' in my .xinitrc (maybe you'd need in in > .xinitrc.switchdesk?), which is perhaps less secure, but works in all > ssituations for me ... On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote: > try xhost +local: > should solve some peoples errors, especial

Re: [expert] re Sound under KDE

1999-07-08 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
mike montgomery wrote: > I had this problem with my sound card and kde . My sound card is a cs4232 > and sndconfig never worked for me. I resolved it by loading the correct > sound modules that I found listed in the documentation listed in > /usr/src/linux-x.x.x/Documentation/sound (x.x.x is you

[expert] remove

1999-07-08 Thread Dave Jones
remove

Re: [expert] remove

1999-07-08 Thread Fred Macinster
This is not the way to un-sub from the list. Its automated. - Original Message - From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:24 PM Subject: [expert] remove > remove

[expert] Unsupported Disk?

1999-07-08 Thread Michael Moore
Linux Mandrake version 6.0 Power Pack Installation CD in Panasonic PD Drive AMD K6-2 on Shuttle HOT-591P with latest VIA BIOS patches installed Processor Clocked at 3 x 100 MHz. Jaton/Trident 875 AGP Video card Yamaha Opl-3SAx generic sound card 64 Mb SDRAM PC100. Seagate ST38641 HDD (Note: Has

Re: [expert] re Sound under KDE

1999-07-08 Thread Mike Fistonich
I've found that the oss (Open Sound Sytems) sound config program easy to use and it configures my soundcard which was otherwise unsupported . see http://www.opensound.com/oss.html --- Sergio Korlowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mike montgomery wrote: > > > I had this problem with my sound c

[expert] Strange GLIBC problems

1999-07-08 Thread Mubashir Cheema
I am experiencing strange glibc oddities under and updates Mandrake 6 installation. I have about 5 updated M6 installation and this is the only one that is depicting this behaviour. Example problems: 1. When compiling kernel make menuconfig just sits there for hours. Highly unusual. 2. So

[expert] Re: Talk Problem

1999-07-08 Thread Karen R
Hi Geoffrey, Sorry I didn't get back to you when I solved it! All it took was to put 'ALL: localhost' in my hosts.allow file, because I had put 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file :-) Then I connected with myself in two xterm windows :-) And I know alot of people still have their computers named

[expert] re something not very clear ...

1999-07-08 Thread mike montgomery
Axalon wrote: > > It went into linux-2.2.9/ do it again and check there you will see a > linux/linux broken symlink, Because of the symlink being a directory > it thinks you want a symlink in the directory > Okay, I'll try that (after all, I should be able to reproduce any time). > This is

[expert] 6.0 and the Solid database from Solid Tech

1999-07-08 Thread Duncan Hall
Has anyone installed the solid database? I'm having problems with the DBD module adn the dynaloader class? It all worked fine in Redhat 5.2. Dunc

Re: [expert] Re: Talk Problem

1999-07-08 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Karen R wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > Sorry I didn't get back to you when I solved it! > > All it took was to put 'ALL: localhost' in my hosts.allow file, because > I had put 'ALL: ALL' in my hosts.deny file :-) > > Then I connected with myself in two xterm windows :-) > >

Re: [expert] re something not very clear ...

1999-07-08 Thread Axalon
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, mike montgomery wrote: > > Axalon wrote: > > > > It went into linux-2.2.9/ do it again and check there you will see a > > linux/linux broken symlink, Because of the symlink being a directory > > it thinks you want a symlink in the directory > > > > Okay, I'll try that (a

Re: [expert] Boot troubles

1999-07-08 Thread Thierry Vignaud
"Dan C. Stefanescu" wrote: > > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars: > > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz), > > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR