[expert] Couple of little problems...

1999-10-04 Thread Jack Hain
I'm having a problem with my modem in linux. It's a Zoom 2819 56k internal modem, and it's in pnp mode. I can get it to recognize it the first time, but then when I try any time after that it says that it's not responding. I don't know what the problem is, or I'm a little too lazy to figure

Re: [expert] mounting FAT partition

1999-10-04 Thread Ron Stodden
David van Balen wrote: That worked. Thanks! I should've thought of looking in /proc. In a Linux terminal window do: fdisk -l This will report to you on your entire partitioning layout Also, do extended partitions always start at the third one or is it more a matter of the physical

[expert] ftp installs with pcmcia on sony-vaio fails

1999-10-04 Thread Florian Gnägi
hi there i have a sony vayo 505fx and tried to install linux mandrake 6.1 via ftp with a ne2000 pcmcia network card on my notebook. after or while getting the distribution information from the server the installer programm kills itself - i was never able to choose packages, but the connection

Re: [expert] Netscape 128bit encryption

1999-10-04 Thread David M. Kufta
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Andy Goth wrote: You can download it from the Netscape website. At least... You're supposed to be able to. I tried, but the machine that hosted it was down. After many attempts, I gave up and went with the standard encryption. If you succeed, could you please

Re: [expert] Disabling Disk Buffering/caching

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Cindy David Rodgers wrote: the problem is that it's eating nearly all the memory and slowing the server to a grinding near halt Sorry, but how do you *know* that it is the buffer cache eating all this memory ??? If it is a bug in an *application* (e.g. the X server) that simply forgets to

Re: [expert] Netscape 128bit encryption

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
"David M. Kufta" wrote: Hello list, I have the need for a 128bit encrypted version of netscape. I was informed by my bank that it is necessary to do my banking via the web. I would appreciate any help or suggestions to point me to a encrypted browser I can use under my Linux-Mandrake

Re: [expert] Couple of little problems...

1999-10-04 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:06:06AM -0500, Jack Hain wrote: On another note, Linux-Mandrake has just about everything you need.gnomeenlightenment.all the other toys, but there is still one thing that I ALWAYS have to install myself, and that is Eterm. Could somebody with some

Re: [expert] Couple of little problems...

1999-10-04 Thread Fabien Deschodt
My 0.2c : There is already 4 term progs in Mandrake : xterm, rxvt, konsole, and gnome-terminal. For the moment, if you need transparent background, gnome-term has this feature and rxvt has pixmapped bg too. If Eterm is added we will have 5 packages for the same fonctionnality don't you

Re: [expert] Couple of little problems...

1999-10-04 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 07:46:00AM -0400, Fabien Deschodt wrote: Why is it too much? How many news and mail reader in Mdk? How many Window managers? How many text editors? only one vim :-p I think it is good to have choice, even if I will never use Eterm. Yes, i think it's a good choice

Re: [expert] Disabling Disk Buffering/caching

1999-10-04 Thread daver
because the system is using nearly none of the memory and when you do a top all the memory is listed under buffer and cache ... I am not asking anyone to be responsible I just want to try to disable it then test it and see ... heheh . -Original Message- From: Jean-Louis Debert

[expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread Aaron W.
Does MDK 6.0 support dual monitors? If not is there an update to XFree to support them? If it does not support it can I still have 2 video cards ( for Photoshop, Illustrator pallets)? If so how does XFree decide which card to use? Thanks, Aaron Winters, Electronic Imaging Manager. Garner

[expert] kde-themes and kthememgr

1999-10-04 Thread Olivier DUGEON - FT.CNET/BD/DAC/ARP
Hi, What package between kde-themes and kthememgr would i install ? It seems that kde-themes is choose by default. Is there one package too many ? Olivier -- _\\|//_ ( O-O )

Re: [expert] Disabling Disk Buffering/caching

1999-10-04 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
daver wrote: because the system is using nearly none of the memory and when you do a top all the memory is listed under buffer and cache ... Isn't this a bit contradictory ??? It is perfectly *normal* that Linux "takes up" all memory, and allocates it to buffer/cache ... until, that is,

Re: [expert] Samba won't print

1999-10-04 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On 3 Oct 1999, Laura Conrad wrote: I have Samba working just fine for sharing files, but I want to use the computer connected to the Unix box on the windows box. I have tried both the printers section in the default configuration file, and the printer section in the "SAMBA Server Step by

Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Aaron W. wrote: Does MDK 6.0 support dual monitors? If not is there an update to XFree to support them? If it does not support it can I still have 2 video cards ( for Photoshop, Illustrator pallets)? If so how does XFree decide which card to use? Thanks, Aaron

Re: [expert] mounting FAT partition

1999-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote: That worked. Thanks! I should've thought of looking in /proc. The partition was actually hda5. hda3 is a 1mb partition (as is hdb3, making my swap partition hdb5). Using VFAT also seems to have done the trick. I'm assuming these 1mb partitions are used to

Re: [expert] Samba won't print

1999-10-04 Thread Laura Conrad
"Axalon" == Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sharename Type Comment - --- public Disk Public data Disk Data IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba Server) Axalon I see nothing of Type

Re: [expert] kernel headers upgrade?

1999-10-04 Thread R. David Whitlock
Yes, thank you, this worked wonderfully, to remove the kernel-source package, although it gave a few mesages about some of the driver dir's not being empty. Thanks! Later, David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law." On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alex ZIJDENBOS

Re: [expert] Couple of little problems...

1999-10-04 Thread Jack Hain
Nah, it's always good to have a lot of choices ;) And I like the menu system in Eterm. Sylvain GIL wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:06:06AM -0500, Jack Hain wrote: On another note, Linux-Mandrake has just about everything you need.gnomeenlightenment.all the other toys, but

RE: [expert] ftp installs with pcmcia on sony-vaio fails

1999-10-04 Thread Vanco, Donald
-Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Florian Gndgi Subject: Re: [expert] ftp installs with pcmcia on sony-vaio fails On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: is this a known issue and can i

Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does MDK 6.0 support dual monitors? If not is there an update to XFree to support them? If it does not support it can I still have 2 video cards ( for Photoshop, Illustrator pallets)? If so how does XFree decide which card to use? IIRC, X does not yet support

Re: [expert] Netscape 128bit encryption

1999-10-04 Thread Brian Millar
I had no problems downloading the 128 bit netscape 4.7 last night off their website. Installed very cleanly too. Although it was only coming in at 2k / sec on a 56k connection. Brian. On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: "David M. Kufta" wrote: Hello list, I have the need for a 128bit

Re: [expert] PCMCIA Fail

1999-10-04 Thread daver
what brand and model of laptop is it -Original Message- From: Paulino Michelazzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:57 AM Subject: [expert] PCMCIA Fail Dear All I have a interesting problem here. In a notebook with Win98, NT

RE: [expert] Samba won't print

1999-10-04 Thread mike hooker
I had the same problem. The fix is: 1. Using the print tool app, check where your default spool directory is. It should be /var/spool/lpr 2. Put this path in the [Printers] section, not the default var/spool/samba 3. Finally, check the the var/spool/lpr directory has global write permission on

Re: [expert] Samba won't print

1999-10-04 Thread Laura Conrad
"mike" == mike hooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mike I had the same problem. The fix is: mike 1. Using the print tool app, check where your default spool mike directory is. It should be /var/spool/lpr It's /var/spool/lpd/lp mike 2. Put this path in the [Printers] section,

Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread Aaron W.
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does MDK 6.0 support dual monitors? If not is there an update to XFree to support them? If it does not support it can I still have 2 video cards ( for Photoshop, Illustrator pallets)? If so how does XFree decide which card to use? IIRC, X does not yet support

[expert] dhcp problems: FIXED

1999-10-04 Thread Corbett J. Klempay
First: this list is cool. You guys responded and had my problems fixed in no time flat. Sorry I didn't give a status update earlier; I was out of town right after fixing it. Basically the problem was (if anyone remembers) that Mandrake couldn't get an IP using dhcpcd on my company network, but

Re: [expert] Samba won't print

1999-10-04 Thread Laura Conrad
"Laura" == Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Laura I have, and samba thinks it's doing fine, and a file does Laura appear in /var/spool/lpd/lp with owner smbuser and group Laura smb, but a job does not appear on the print queue, and Laura nothing prints. Laura Are you

[expert] missing kde pixmaps!??!!!

1999-10-04 Thread Craig Kattner
I just upgraded to 6.1 from 6.0 the problem being that my kde apps are complaining "KToolBarButton: pixmap is empty, perhaps some missing file" which I can't seem to eliminate. Am I missing something? What rpm's do I all need for kde?

[expert] permissions change on reboot

1999-10-04 Thread R. David Whitlock
Whenever I reboot my Mandrake 6.0 system, the permissions on several important files change from 666 to 600 so that other users are unable to use them. Each time I reboot, I have to change them back. This matters cause it happens to files in my /dev/ heirarchy, notably /dev/audio and /dev/dsp.

Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does anyone know what will happen if I add another card in my system to use dual under Win98. Will X still use the same card? Does it use the first one it finds? If so how does it look for them? I strongly suggest you just get Accelerated-X from

[expert] 2.3.18 problems

1999-10-04 Thread Steve Philp
I'm wondering whether anyone else has attempted using the latest development kernels with their favorite Mandrake distribution. I've installed 2.3.18ac10 and compiled it up. Everything goes smoothly until I reboot and attempt to login. I am able to enter a username, but once I hit the ENTER

[expert] telent update may be broken

1999-10-04 Thread Stephen Carville
The telnet update from mandrake may be broken. When I installed it on my workstation at work (using the update program) it only installed the client. The server in.telentd was not installed. Since an update normally uninstalls the old rpm, this could be a bit of a problem if you need telnet

Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support

1999-10-04 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Dual Monitor support On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, you wrote: Does MDK 6.0 support dual monitors? If not is there an update to XFree to support

Re: [expert] permissions change on reboot

1999-10-04 Thread Joel West
Probably not linuxconf as the 1st thing I do is rpm -e linuxconf and I am having similar probs. JW On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Eric Rahmig wrote: On 4 Oct 99, at 17:51, R. David Whitlock wrote: Whenever I reboot my Mandrake 6.0 system, the permissions on several important files change from 666

Re: [expert] 2.3.18 problems

1999-10-04 Thread Arthur Kelly
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:45:15 -0400, Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /sbin/mingetty[288]: tty1: invalid character Has anyone witnessed this and worked through it? I had the same problem when I was testing some of the ac kernels. I got some advice to recompile the kernel with

[expert] Error installing 6.1

1999-10-04 Thread Andy Goth
I got a Linux-Mandrake 6.1 CD in the mail today, and I tried using it to upgrade from 6.0. No luck... and, for the record, I get EXACTLY the same problems when I use the 6.0 CD's upgrade option! I go through the usual installation procedure. - Boot from CD - Press ENTER - Select keyboard,

[expert] Compiling KDEapps

1999-10-04 Thread Olle Viksten
I'm runing Mandrake 6.1 with everything installes exept some forein languages stuff. When I try to compile new KDE apps I never get past ./configure. I get a message like: Couldn't find a small KDE program. Are you sure you used the same compiler to compile KDE and QT as you are using now?

Re: [expert] permissions change on reboot

1999-10-04 Thread R. David Whitlock
Indeed, I also never touch linuxconf, and I had always assumed that I would have to activate it for it to begin working on my system... Any other guesses? Later, david "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law." On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Joel West wrote: Probably

Re: [expert] Anyone been able to get their cable modems to work?

1999-10-04 Thread Tim Lewis
As a matter of fact, when I setup my cable modem with @home, I was not required to use DHCP. They tell you you need it, but the tech who installed my modem said the use of DHCP was irrelevant, and told me to set a static IP. This is due to the fact that they re-lease the same IP address back to

Re: [expert] Anyone been able to get their cable modems to work?

1999-10-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, you wrote: I use @home for my cable modem service. How do I connect to them? it seems no matter what I set the thing to, it doesn't work. Has anyone figured out how to get DHCP to talk with their DHCP servers yet? Warning: I