[expert] Back in KDE!

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Sorry I had to bother you all with my plea for help. I simply didn't know what to do. Credit goes to Jose Sanchez for diagnosing the problem correctly. The problem was that I had installed Windows 3.1 ttf fonts with w and X permissions (when all of the other Mandrake files had

[expert] SQL Frontends

1999-10-17 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day, I'm looking for a frontend to create/maintain SQL databases, I've looked at a few like Gaby, Xmysql, Kmysql, but none meet my needs of Trained Monkey user interface. Any ideas??? -- Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ # 2635762 http://landofoz.apana.org.au

Re: [expert] fix for missing pixmaps in KFM

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I ran into a similar problem when installing WebMaker under Mandrake6.0...in previous versions, all shared pixmaps etc. were located in the /opt/share directory structure. Now everything is in /usr/share. I "solved" my problem by copying /opt/share to

Re: [expert] cdrw drive

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: well. I got a cdrw... an AOpen cdrw-622 and I haven't been able to set it up to run in linux, every time I try to connect to this site that is supposed to have the information it's down or un-reachable... ;-( I *think* the trick is to put "append='ide-scsi'"

Re: [expert] VCs and KDE

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, you wrote: I recently tried to switch to a different virtual console while I was in kde and wasn't able to (alt+f1 brings up kpanel, alt+f2 runs a command, etc... alt+f4 will even close your current app). Is there another way to do this? I'm aware that I can easily

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

1999-10-17 Thread Fabien Deschodt
I think you should look at the Mailing list archive because it was answered recently. 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

[expert] multicast and mbone?

1999-10-17 Thread WH Bouterse
Has anyone successfully setup their kernel and system to use the multcasting protocol and climb on the mbone highway? I was able to see and hear the osos-conf earlier this month using the multikit program for non-compiled kernels. via a tunnel from BNL-site but now that I have recompiled my

Re: [expert] SQL Frontends

1999-10-17 Thread Mark Berry
Try PHPMyAdmin It is a PHP based mysql interface ... I -love- it. You can find it at freshmeat. .mark Michael Doyle wrote: G'day, I'm looking for a frontend to create/maintain SQL databases, I've looked at a few like Gaby, Xmysql, Kmysql, but none meet my needs of Trained Monkey user

[expert] PPP - Dynamic IP Address

1999-10-17 Thread Sridhar G
Hi, I've configured my PPP to autodial when connection is lost, using linuxconf . First I'd like to know where the PPP configuration is stored by linuxconf. Next, whenever ppp autodials and receives my dynamic IP address I want to capture the dynamic IP address and use sendmail to send an

Re: [expert] Helios TNT2

1999-10-17 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Marc Hudson wrote: 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

Re: [expert] PPP - Dynamic IP Address

1999-10-17 Thread Alain Terriault
you can modify this for your ppp port, save in it under /etc/cron.daily and make it executable ... #!/bin/sh IP=`/sbin/ifconfig | /bin/grep -3 eth0 | grep addr:| /usr/bin/cut -c 21-33` echo "http://$IP" | mail -s IP [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. or take time to write it in perl ;-) Even better

[expert] Kernel 2.2.13 xconfig

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Thornhill
I've just installed linux-mandrake 6.1 and I need to recomplile the kernel. However, when I run make xconfig as root I get the folowing error: cc1: Invalid option `preferred-stack-boundary=2'! make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts' make: ***

Re: [expert] cron error

1999-10-17 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
As far as I can tell, these errors are (minor) mandrake packaging errors, and have nothing to do with file/disk corruption (as Civileme suggested). I also get the identical errors about tixwish and rec, and in addition I get one on rdump and rrestore. Looking into the errors I get after running

[expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very differently from Netscape, that is, that Netscape gets its mail directly from Sendmail while Pine has to have a a mail handler set up outside of pine so that mail will be dropped into my ~.mail directory, where

RE: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 18-Oct-99 Benjamin Sher wrote: I am a non-techie but, after my experience last night (when I was stuck in the console for hours), I would very much like to use PINE so that I could always communicate with the list and with the outside world in case I am again, for any reason, unable to get

Re: [expert] SQL Frontends

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: G'day, I'm looking for a frontend to create/maintain SQL databases, I've looked at a few like Gaby, Xmysql, Kmysql, but none meet my needs of Trained Monkey user interface. Any ideas??? I understand that Microsoft has a nice SQL front-end... their

Re: [expert] cron error

1999-10-17 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: Anyone know what might be causing this error from cron.weekly? I havent made any changes to cron so I dont see why it would be failing. SNIPPEROO bzcat: ./tixwish.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file. bzcat: Can't open input file ./fetchmailconf.1.bz2: No such file or

[expert] dynamic dns address ???

1999-10-17 Thread Alex V Flinsch
When connecting to my workplace dialup under win98, I do not need to specify an ip address for the dns server, somehow win98 is able to figure it out on it's own. Is there anyway I can configure this type of connection under Linux? I am able to connect, and am able to ping and connect to the

Re: [expert] cron error

1999-10-17 Thread Civileme
Thanks for the error analysis Alex. I have ONE 6.1 installation running, and for less than a week, so I haven't seen them personally. It is murder to get an update here. 117 breaks trying to DL Helios over a 7 day period and then my vendor sends me SuSE 6.1 disk in the mail and we have to go

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Alex ZIJDENBOS
I'd say you want to use fetchmail; it can periodically download your email from a pop server. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/. You should start by installing the fetchmail rpm (if it isn't installed already), and then read the web/man pages. It essentially comes down to executing

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Tom: Thanks a million. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [expert] Helios TNT2

1999-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: I have a question and I hope Pixel can read it... anyway I am sending another msg to him! I just purchased a new card, is a Diamond Stealth III S540Xtreme it has 32M in video RAM and I am including all details here... if you know of any driver available

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Matt Stegman
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very differently from Netscape, that is, that Netscape gets its mail directly from Sendmail while Pine has to have a a mail handler set up outside of pine so that mail will be dropped

[expert] Configuring PINE -- almost there!

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Tom: I must be very close to success. I read man fetchmail, configured fetchmailconf (novice mode), tested fetchmail and ran fetchmail and still I cannot receive any mail (I tested by sending myself a letter but coulnd't get it in Pine). I checked and rechecked my mail server (same as in

[expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Philp
Anyone else have problems using some of the themes in the Enlightenment configuration utility? I've effectively "killed" a user's use of X by choosing one of the provided themes. A removal of the offending configuration directories will be required to get the user up and running again.

[expert] UPDATE: 6.1: Enlightenment

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Philp
Just a bit more information about the Enlightenment crash in 6.1 I've gone back, deleted the test user and recreated them to ensure a clean start. Using the Enlightenment configuration tool, choose Themes then Gtk+_for_Enlightenment. Instant segfault and window manager crash that requires the

Re: [expert] Configuring PINE

1999-10-17 Thread Barry Marler
man fetchmail /b Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0742 (706)542-0059 (fax) On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very

[expert] Can't access RealPlayer URL

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am a Russian translator and I listen to RFE (Radio Free Europe) Russian Service all the time. For some reason, I have been having a problem accessing it, as user and root, the past two days. No problem, basically, with other sites and I had no problem installing RealPlayerG2 for

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-17 Thread Arandir
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Anyone else have problems using some of the themes in the Enlightenment configuration utility? I've effectively "killed" a user's use of X by choosing one of the provided themes. A removal of the offending configuration directories will be

[expert] RealPlayer URL -- SOLVED!

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Thanks so much for your help and sympathy. What was the big problem? Well, I had installed the Linux 2.0/2.2 x.bin file instead of the Red Hat rpm (which as you know had expired and was not available for a while). After scratching my head for a long time, I finally decided to

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-17 Thread WH Bouterse
I'm glad?(I guess) that someone else is having this problem. With 6.1 and Enlightenment several problems have croped up for me. The propoganda themes initialization took 20 MINUTES to originally run through their checks !!.(That is not a lie !!) Half the themes or ones from previous E's produce

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Philp
Arandir wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Anyone else have problems using some of the themes in the Enlightenment configuration utility? I've effectively "killed" a user's use of X by choosing one of the provided themes. A removal of the offending configuration

[expert] Configuring PINE -- Last step

1999-10-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Barry: I've taken your advice (and that of others) and configured fetchmail. would very much appreciate your help on the last step, which eludes me. I followed up Jose Sanchez' hint about mail handlers, contacted the list and am almost there. The last step eludes me. Please see Matt's

Re: [expert] 6.1: Enlightenment crash

1999-10-17 Thread Steve Philp
WH Bouterse wrote: I'm glad?(I guess) that someone else is having this problem. With 6.1 and Enlightenment several problems have croped up for me. The propoganda themes initialization took 20 MINUTES to originally run through their checks !!.(That is not a lie !!) Half the themes or

[expert] Myth 2 problems

1999-10-17 Thread Payne Stanifer
I just installed Myth 2 with the small install and it isn't working properly. It will start and i even get as far as the animation before the game itself begins, but then it shuts itself off and the terminal says something about memory protection. Can anyone help? if you need more info to