Re: [expert] Audio problem on laptop

1999-11-07 Thread Civileme
1. On the "lightning mouse" Go to /etc/X11/XF86Config and check the pointer section If you set the mouse to Glidepoint or to some special setting, change it to PS/2 protocol on /dev/psaux Second, back off on the screen settings. I am not sure why there is an interaction here, but it happens a

[expert] .htaccess in a cgi-bin

1999-11-07 Thread Duncan Hall
This is odd. I have placed a .htaccess file in a cgi-bin and when I call a perl script from that directory it does not bring up the password authentication box it just executes the script. Any thoughts? Dunc -- \\- Duncan Hall - SysAdmin Viator - Sydney AU +61 2 93616137 -\\ --

[expert] samba setup

1999-11-07 Thread David B. van Balen
I just attempted to setup samba with the following results: (comp.protocols.samba probably would've been a better place to post this question but our news server is currently down and probably won't be up for quite a while) At one point, 'nbtstat -a ' under NT was finding my linux box but, after

[expert] RAID090

1999-11-07 Thread spiderken
A quick question, does anyone have experience configuring software RAID v0.9 on Linux? If so, would you please reply to me because I still got some problem to set it up correctly. Many thanks. Ken ___ Get your hongkong.co

[expert] compiling and extracting src.rpm's

1999-11-07 Thread Geoff Croxson
Dear all, Someone posted a solution to samba not remounting drives when they get lost before, and that was to get the source and install and compile that. So... I went and downloaded the src file samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm and ran rpm --recompile samba-2.0.5a-3mdk.src.rpm It put the files in /va

Re: [expert] Error in kernel compile

1999-11-07 Thread Dovydas Kulvinskas
Mindaugas Riauba wrote: > > While trying to compile new kernel I'm getting such message. Kernel config > attached. > System is fresh Mandrake 6.1 install with updated kernel, kernel-headers, > kernel-source > to version 2.2.13-22mdk. > Computer - SCSI system with IDE CDROM and 2 CPUs. > >

[expert] Audio problem on laptop

1999-11-07 Thread Jeff Groves
I just installed Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop (Compaq Prosignia 150). Everything installed cleanly, but I can't get the sound to work. I get an error message when I try the "aumix" program: # aumix aumix: error opening /dev/mixer: Success I get a similar error when I click on the mixer icon:

Re: [expert] printer

1999-11-07 Thread John LeMay
I'm doing well using the HP1200/1600 filter on a new HP1120C printer. Haven't tried 11x7, but 8.5x11 works well in color and b/w. Alain Ayerra wrote: > > Im looking for a new inject printer for my computer,but i don know what > brand/model work best under Linux. > > I want to buy a printer tha

Re: [expert] [i have no name!@deadpixel.com]$

1999-11-07 Thread terry
use vipw or vi /etc/passwd - Original Message - From: metronumic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 2:31 PM Subject: [expert] [i have no [EMAIL PROTECTED]]$ > > Hello > > I have a little bit of a problem. > I added 2 users, and i put their n

Re: [expert] printer

1999-11-07 Thread Bug Hunter
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi Quoting Alain Ayerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Im looking for a new inject printer for my computer,but i don know what > brand/model work best under Linux. > > I want to buy a printer that is suppoterd with black and color printing. > > > Bes

Re: [expert] Is kfm broken?

1999-11-07 Thread Civileme
Tima Vaisburd wrote: > Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On my machine ( stock Mandrake 6.1 ) kfm could not open tar archive > > > (or tar.gz) in the form of usual file/directory subtree ( a nice and useful > > > feature, I think ). Instead, it shows many fake folders, which he could

[expert] System crashes?

1999-11-07 Thread Charles Radding
Twice recently my mandrake 6.1 system locked up completely, responding to keyboard nor mouse nor telnet, to the extent that it had to be reset. The message log for the first of these gives an error for a kernel paging request followed by sundry details; the second crash was not logged. Any suggest

Re: [expert] Is kfm broken?

1999-11-07 Thread Larry Sword
Tima Vaisburd wrote: > Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On my machine ( stock Mandrake 6.1 ) kfm could not open tar archive > > > (or tar.gz) in the form of usual file/directory subtree ( a nice and useful > > > feature, I think ). Instead, it shows many fake folders, which he could

[expert] printer

1999-11-07 Thread Alain Ayerra
Im looking for a new inject printer for my computer,but i don know what brand/model work best under Linux. I want to buy a printer that is suppoterd with black and color printing. Best regards: Alain.

[expert] Manrake cooker

1999-11-07 Thread Lord And Master;)
I am attempting to install the latest snapshot of the cooker release and both the graphical and text based installs are not working, I am attemting to fix them but I can not figure out how to edit the contents of the stage2.img file dose anyone want to let me know how? or poke someone to get the

Re: [expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-07 Thread Steve Philp
Tadghe Djin wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > > What are the outputs of > > ifconfig > > route > > > > on two of the boxes connected via the hub? > > > > -sen > > ifconfig's output > > [root@victory scsi]# ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:28:D9:EE >

[expert] Problem compiling GTK-dependent programs

1999-11-07 Thread Barry Marler
After installing Helios, I seem to be unable to compile GTK programs. I didn't have this problem with Venus, nor with SuSE 6.2, which I ran for a few days between the two Mandrake versions. I have installed just about every development file off the CD (I had planned to include the output of "rpm

Re: [expert] Printer problem on upgrade to 6.1 from 6.0

1999-11-07 Thread Steve Philp
Bill&Virginia Hodges wrote: > > My printer ceased to function when I upgraded my pentium box from > Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. > It is a postscript printer connected to my only parallel port > at port 0x378 (IRQ 7). > Upon issueing "lpr xxx.ps" the printer starts as if it is going to print > > but not

Re: [expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-07 Thread Tadghe Djin
On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, you wrote: It works! Yea! I'm a bit curious as to why I have to explicitly add a route for each node. (I'm not complaining mind you! :-) Just curious why pointing it to ".0" (whole network) doesn't work... anywho, thank you!! I found a fix for the Adaptec 1542 Errors

Re: [expert] Is kfm broken?

1999-11-07 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my machine ( stock Mandrake 6.1 ) kfm could not open tar archive > > (or tar.gz) in the form of usual file/directory subtree ( a nice and useful > > feature, I think ). Instead, it shows many fake folders, which he couldn't > > open then. > Yes the s

[expert] [i have no name!@deadpixel.com]$

1999-11-07 Thread metronumic
Hello I have a little bit of a problem. I added 2 users, and i put their name and all that jazz in, and yet i cant get their usernames. It wont accept them. Any ideas? -Alex

[expert] ISDN busy error

1999-11-07 Thread Roberto A. F.
Hi, I configurated a teles PCI ISDN internal adpter and I'm trying to use it with kppp. My problem is that when I try to connect to my provider it's return BUSY line. With analog modem I'have to use X3 to don't see NO DIALTONE error, it's seem the same thing. What command I have to use ? th

Re: [expert] 6.1 install problem

1999-11-07 Thread Robert j Bartels
If your getting to the stage2 point that means your networking is up and running. What you should check is the path to your redhat i386 directory on the server. The install is very picky about how it finds that stage2 file. I had to mess with the path a bit... I think I included a trailing "/" an

Re: [expert] Is kfm broken?

1999-11-07 Thread Larry Sword
Tima Vaisburd wrote: > Hi! > > On my machine ( stock Mandrake 6.1 ) kfm could not open tar archive > (or tar.gz) in the form of usual file/directory subtree ( a nice and useful > feature, I think ). Instead, it shows many fake folders, which he couldn't > open then. > > Does anybody experience su

[expert] 6.1 install problem

1999-11-07 Thread Patrick Crosby
I saw this mentioned on the mailing list archives a while ago, but I didn't see any solutions. I am trying to do a fresh install of 6.1 on a laptop that doesn't have a cdrom drive. I have tried ftp install with a remote server, ftp install to my own (local) server, hard disk install with the ent

Re: [expert] Problem with Pine (Pseudo-message problem)

1999-11-07 Thread Denis Havlik
:>The problem is that I don't have mail, new or otherwise. The message is :>not useful if it is always present. Well, you will have to speak with pine-developers, I am afraid. Maybe there is something about it in the pine-documentation, it has never bothered me becouse I always have some e-mails

Re: [expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-07 Thread S. Newhouse
Tadghe Djin writes: > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > > What are the outputs of > > ifconfig > > route > > > > on two of the boxes connected via the hub? > > > > -sen > > > ifconfig's output > > > [root@victory scsi]# ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:

Re: [expert] Problem with Pine (Pseudo-message problem)

1999-11-07 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
> "YOU HAVE MAIL" != "YOU HAVE NEW MAIL" > > I do not see the problem. The problem is that I don't have mail, new or otherwise. The message is not useful if it is always present. -- Harry Henry Gebel ICQ# 43675297 W

Re: [expert] Two Questions

1999-11-07 Thread Jeanette Russo
Ramon Gandia wrote: > > On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: > > After an abortive two weeks trying to implement v6.1 I have reverted (with > > sighs of relief) to v6.0, I'm facing two boot messages at the present time > > that I don't understand. or know what to do about. > > O

Re: [expert] Printer problem on upgrade to 6.1 from 6.0

1999-11-07 Thread Denis Havlik
:>Any suggestions? 1) re-install the printer (remove old /var/spool/lpd/* dirs). 2) compile the "lp" in kernel, or load the module from /etc/rc.d/rc.local hope this helps Denis --- Denis Havlik ||| http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/use

Re: [expert] Problem with Pine (Pseudo-message problem)

1999-11-07 Thread Denis Havlik
:> Pine leaves a "pseudo-message" in the mail spool which causes bash to :>always state "You have mail." when logging on. Apparently this is to :>support something called marking messages as Answeared when a reply is :>postponed and to support pop and imap servers. I can suppress Pine's :>leaving

Re: [expert] Re-installing Linux -- Easy way to save accounts??

1999-11-07 Thread Denis Havlik
:>Is there an easy way? save your /etc directory. Saving some of the "/var/" stuff is good too (like /var/spool/* for instance), . I do not have to tell yo to save the /home/*, I suppose. Re-install. User-data are kept in /etc/ passwd,shadow, group -> take an editor and add merge "old" nad "ne

[expert] Is kfm broken?

1999-11-07 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Hi! On my machine ( stock Mandrake 6.1 ) kfm could not open tar archive (or tar.gz) in the form of usual file/directory subtree ( a nice and useful feature, I think ). Instead, it shows many fake folders, which he couldn't open then. Does anybody experience such behavior? Tima.

[expert] Compilation problem on LM 6.1

1999-11-07 Thread Tima Vaisburd
Hi! I had a problem compiling asmodem-0.6. asmodem #include's , and my gcc seems to be confused by '__u32' indentifier which is present in that file. The name '__u32' is used in the lot of places in /usr/include/linux directory where the type name is required ( unsigned 32-bit integer ? ), but

[expert] Printer problem on upgrade to 6.1 from 6.0

1999-11-07 Thread Bill&Virginia Hodges
My printer ceased to function when I upgraded my pentium box from Mandrake 6.0 to 6.1. It is a postscript printer connected to my only parallel port at port 0x378 (IRQ 7). Upon issueing "lpr xxx.ps" the printer starts as if it is going to print but nothing is printed. It is not queued in the spo