[expert] Compiling RPMS on a K6? with LM6.1

1999-10-16 Thread blah
hmmm I'm using LM6.1 and attempting to compile some rpms. The build works but it utilises pentium optimisations rather than AMD K6 ones. I assume that their is a problem in the rpmrc file declaring the system as a straight pentiumindeed looking through the rpmrc there is no mention of K6. I

[expert] Solaris-like Console

1999-10-16 Thread R_Yeo
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. One thing I miss is having a console like in a Solaris machine I have at work. All error messages are sent there, and we usually keep in in one corner, as a sort of warning window. Is in possible in Linux to have a similar console? I'm not

[expert] X-Windows won't start

1999-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
Mandrake v6.0 on a K6-2/300. I have apparently done something stupid when I attempted to start a program that I had just compiled. I started the program with a command line in a terminal that I had just opened in kfm. X-Windows appreared to be locked up and I thought that kfm had crashed.

Re: [expert] Solaris-like Console

1999-10-16 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
R_Yeo wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. One thing I miss is having a console like in a Solaris machine I have at work. All error messages are sent there, and we usually keep in in one corner, as a sort of warning window. Is in possible in Linux to have a

[expert] Mandrake 6.1 installs perfectly!

1999-10-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Am too tired after a night of downloading (just 90 minutes), installation, organizing desktop, etc. The printer problem, as Jose Sanchez suggested, was caused by the switchbox that connects my two computers. With the printer cable connected directly to the computer, Mandrake had no

RE: [expert] Solaris-like Console

1999-10-16 Thread Ian Douglas
wrt: error window in X The first virtual console will display some error messages. I know this isn't what you want, but you could hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 from time to time. Maybe open an xterm and redirect tty1's stdout and stderr to stdout on the xterm. (don't ask me how, it's been a while since I've

Re: [expert] Solaris-like Console

1999-10-16 Thread Steve Philp
R_Yeo wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and KDE. One thing I miss is having a console like in a Solaris machine I have at work. All error messages are sent there, and we usually keep in in one corner, as a sort of warning window. Is in possible in Linux to have a

Re: [expert] X-Windows won't start

1999-10-16 Thread Steve Philp
"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: Mandrake v6.0 on a K6-2/300. I have apparently done something stupid when I attempted to start a program that I had just compiled. I started the program with a command line in a terminal that I had just opened in kfm. X-Windows appreared to be locked up

[expert] Rescue / Recover / or Restore HEP

1999-10-16 Thread Kevin Kallsen
I am just a beginner is the Linux World, so please forgive me if this is a no brainer. I have mandrake 6.0 installed as a file server running 46 winclients. All has worked fine until the server was accidently unplugged. Now Linux wont reboot. It freezes halfway through the boot and says

Re: [expert] MySQL table problems

1999-10-16 Thread William Ahern
I installed the MySQL server 3.22.27 RPM. The problems are no more. I still don't know what the problems were about, but after spending all last night looking for answers I would suggest others update. Bill Ahern MIS, JINSA On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: When I moved to Mandrake 6.1 I

[expert] Helios TNT2

1999-10-16 Thread Marc Hudson
OK, I've got a Diamond V770, and Mandrake 6.1. I got it working just fine with the included SVGA driver for 2D, but no 3D. So I tried getting the drivers off nvidia.com, and installed them, and they work... kinda :( I noticed that the nvidia drivers were 3.3.3.1 and the Helios drivers were

Re: [expert] licq-0.70-1mdk.i586.rpm

1999-10-16 Thread Steve Philp
"David M. Kufta" wrote: Hello, I was attempting to upgrade my licq to licq-0.70-1mdk and recieve an error: failed dependancies: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 I would like to try the new licq version but have been unable to find this library. Could anyone please assist me in finding

Re: [expert] X-Windows won't start

1999-10-16 Thread Larry Sword
"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: Mandrake v6.0 on a K6-2/300. I have apparently done something stupid when I attempted to start a program that I had just compiled. I started the program with a command line in a terminal that I had just opened in kfm. X-Windows appreared to be locked up

Re: [expert] Netscape 128bit encryption

1999-10-16 Thread David Johnson
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, 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