Re: [expert] RealPlayer G2 on WINE?

1999-10-24 Thread Jeanette Russo
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: In view of the limitations and problems with running Real G2 for Linux (the Alpha/Beta), I wonder whether it would make sense to run the Windows version of RealPlayer on the latest version of WINE? Has anyone tried it? Would it work? Technically

Re: [expert] WINE -- Instructions, anyone?

1999-10-24 Thread Sylvain GIL
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:57:17AM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: I am very pleased to see that Mandrake comes with an rpm for WINE. I would really appreciate it if someone could give me an illustration of how to actually install and use an application on Wine. If you need general informations

[expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?

1999-10-24 Thread osostech
Hello All, Here's my predicament: I can't connect to my work ISP with pppd directly... I always time out on the LCP Config requests. I have no idea what that means. Anyhow, I've fiddled with my ppp options to no avail... However, if I use kppp, THEN I connect with no problem. If only I knew

[expert] Screen Resolution And KDE

1999-10-24 Thread Curtis W. Moore
Is there any way to resize windows so that they can be fully seen at a screen resolution of 640x480 Curtis W. Moore

RE: [expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?

1999-10-24 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
I can't connect to my work ISP with pppd directly... I always time out on the LCP Config requests. I have no idea what that means. Anyhow, I've fiddled can you give me the whole pppd command line you use ? btw.: LCP is used to set the basic IP properties of the ppp line (such as IP address

RE: [expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?

1999-10-24 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
What's with this timing out on the LCP Requests (?) with pppd? ( my script is fine, I'm getting in, just not getting past the LCP part ). you can also try to start pppd with "debug" option and look into /var/log/messages for the more specific description of failure you can also check the

Re: [expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 11:35:26AM -0500, osostech wrote: Hello All, Here's my predicament: I can't connect to my work ISP with pppd directly... I always time out on the LCP Config requests. I have no idea what that means. Anyhow, I've fiddled with my ppp options to no avail... However,

[expert] SCSI Emulation for Burners

1999-10-24 Thread David Dameron
Can anyone tell me how to compile scsi support in the kernal? I did not find the README.APATI file very helpful. Thanx

Re: [expert] How to display full 'command lines' in process table?

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Hill
Chad, While I'm sure there are better ways to do this, one thing you could do to see what parameters are being passed to pppd would be to temporarily replace the pppd program with a program or script that take the arguments passed to it and dumps them to a file that you can look at to examine

[expert] Why RedHat on Mandrake 6.1 FTP?

1999-10-24 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have been meaning to ask this for some time. If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to hold all of Red Hat's rpms,

Re: [expert] Why RedHat on Mandrake 6.1 FTP?

1999-10-24 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have been meaning to ask this for some time. If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to

Re: [expert] Problem with LNX4WIN

1999-10-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 9:00 AM Subject: [expert] Problem with LNX4WIN I'm currently running v6.0 and have just received the 6.1 power pack. As I'm inherently conservative (and quite

Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!

1999-10-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other thing I am looking for and have yet to find is a TrueType font

Re: [expert] Why RedHat on Mandrake 6.1 FTP?

1999-10-24 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory that seems to hold all of Red Hat's rpms, etc. I notice

Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!

1999-10-24 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 3:26 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install! On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: install media. It would be trivial to add sndconfig

[expert] SCSI hd controler

1999-10-24 Thread m . stoian
I am currently moving from IDE to SCSI and I would like to know which card and eventually hd I should get. Right know I am looking at a Quantum Fireball 4.3 and a Adapted 2940AU (2nd hand). Are these ok? mihnea

Re: [expert] Why RedHat on Mandrake 6.1 FTP?

1999-10-24 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
the Redhat is a symlink to Mandrake, it's for compatability. On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I have been meaning to ask this for some time. If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake

Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!

1999-10-24 Thread sphilp
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:49:04PM -0400, Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other

[expert] Problem with KDE Upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
I am in the process of upgrading my Mandrake 6.0 partition to 6.1 on a K6-2/300/128 MB RAM and have encountered several problems with XWindows. I have been running v6.0 fo some time now without any problems. I tried upgrading and wasn't satisfied with that so I did a new install on one of my

Re: [expert] SCSI Emulation for Burners

1999-10-24 Thread John LeMay
David, While a better explanation would have been helpful, I'll shoot from the hip. su to root and cd to /usr/src/linux (hopefully you installed the kernel source!) execute 'make menuconfig' or, if you are running in X, 'make xconfig' Under "Block Devices", enable 'Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL

Re: [expert] SCSI hd controler

1999-10-24 Thread John LeMay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently moving from IDE to SCSI and I would like to know which card and eventually hd I should get. Right know I am looking at a Quantum Fireball 4.3 and a Adapted 2940AU (2nd hand). Are these ok? mihnea I have been running on an Adaptec 2940 series with a

Re: [expert] Problem with KDE Upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
StephenI've no answer for your sluggishness problem, but the default dark blue to black background can be easily changed by right-clicking your desktop, choosing Display properties and changing the default colors to something more to your liking. Alan "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: I

Re: [expert] ld-linux.so.2

1999-10-24 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, 1011 tty1 S 0:06 /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /usr/i386-glibc20-linux 1025 tty1 Z 0:00 [netscape defunct] 1026 tty1 S 0:00 (dns helper) while running. Bizarre, huh? It also has a tendency to lock up MUCH more than in 6.0.

Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions

1999-10-24 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS directory) what is non -destructive, but there is *a

Re: [expert] Why RedHat on Mandrake 6.1 FTP?

1999-10-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: Dear friends: I have been meaning to ask this for some time. If you go to ftp.rpmfind.net, then switch to linux/Mandrake/6.1, you find yourself facing two directories, the Mandrake directory that hold all of Mandrake rpms, etc. and the Red Hat directory

Re: [expert] SCSI Emulation for Burners

1999-10-24 Thread John Aldrich
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Re: [expert] SCSI hd controler

1999-10-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am currently moving from IDE to SCSI and I would like to know which card and eventually hd I should get. Right know I am looking at a Quantum Fireball 4.3 and a Adapted 2940AU (2nd hand). Are these ok? Well, Adaptec is now supporting Linux, but Advansys has

Re: [expert] Problem with KDE Upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread John LeMay
I have no clue about the color issue (unless the default setup of X misdetected your video adapter and/or monitor), but as for the sluggishness of the apps problem, does the kernel see all of your memory? Try typing "free" at a console and see how much mem is reported. (Of course I realize this

Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions

1999-10-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS

Re: [expert] adding or increasing partitions

1999-10-24 Thread Alan N.
At 02:37 AM 10/25/99 +, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently the only way to do this in a non-destructive way is to use Partition Magic 4.0 from Powerquest. Disk drake, disk druid is destructive at this point. You can use fips (it is in the Mandrake CD DOSUTILS

Re: [expert] LILO installation error

1999-10-24 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Slagathor wrote: I continually get an error message when trying to install LILO to the MBR. The error reads something like "An error has occurred while trying to install LILO to the MBR". I have tried multiple combinations of partitioning strategies with the same result. The most time