Re: [expert] Networking

2000-01-13 Thread trujo
El vie, 14 ene 2000, escribiste: > G'day > > Is it possible and how (where do I look) to network serial port -->> serial > port (direct connect) as in Winblows > > Michael Doyle > Adelaide, South Australia > ICQ #2635762 > http://members.dingoblue.net.au Yes it is possible se at slatach man pag

Re: [expert] 336 Supra Express

2000-01-13 Thread ibi
I had a Supra PnP that fell on it's face-speed dropped dramatically- when I moved to a different state. After not working properly with 3 new and different ISP's (no one could tell me why) I junked it and bought an external USR. It works equally well in W98 and L-M6.0. Pj

Re: [expert] Re: Netscape

2000-01-13 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Pj: To remove the lock, go to your home directory, look for the netscape directory: $/home/sher/ ls -la (this will show ALL of your files and directories, including the hidden files) Now cd to .netscape Now rm "lock". You can also do this in KFM. Be sure to check under View the option "

Re: [expert] Re: Netscape

2000-01-13 Thread Dana Laude
Just go to your .netscape directory, right off your root user dir and "rm lock". That will do the trick. Regards, Dana On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I saw a message (error?) that my Netscape has a lock in place that > prohibits access to cache and other files with an explanation that > a

Re: [expert] 336 Supra Express

2000-01-13 Thread Ramon Gandia
D HOPP wrote: > > I have an ISA Diamon Supra Express 336 PNP Voice modem. They do not have such a model. They have models like Supra Express 336i V+ and so on. You have to be a bit careful. Supras come in both WinModems and Non-Win. However, looking at all the variants of the 336's did not

[expert] Re: Netscape

2000-01-13 Thread ibi
I saw a message (error?) that my Netscape has a lock in place that prohibits access to cache and other files with an explanation that another user might be using my password. This is not possible. It looked something like this: /netscape/ibi.lock/ local host process ID 566. KPPP has the lock ena

[expert] 336 Supra Express

2000-01-13 Thread D HOPP
I have an ISA Diamon Supra Express 336 PNP Voice modem. I'm running Mandrake 7.0 and trying to get this modem to work (I didn't get it working under 6.1 either). This isn't a winmodem (to my knowledge) but Lothar doesn't detect it (I know it's in beta). I'm wondering how I can get this working i

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread xe2xpk
"james.fogg" wrote: > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiments.. ooops). > > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line login > for abou

[expert] Networking

2000-01-13 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day Is it possible and how (where do I look) to network serial port -->> serial port (direct connect) as in Winblows Michael Doyle Adelaide, South Australia ICQ #2635762 http://members.dingoblue.net.au

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:02:20PM -0500, james.fogg wrote: -> I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up -> (video driver experiments.. ooops). -> -> My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont -> run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see th

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiments.. ooops). > > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line logi

RE: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread Schiavon, Jose
Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to the second virtual console. > -Original Message- > From: james.fogg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 01:31 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot. > > I screwed up my x-windows co

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread Alan Shoemaker
jamesreboot and when Lilo appears quickly type Linux 3. You'll be able then to sign in right under the penguin and run Xcofigurator (or whatever else you want). Alan "james.fogg" wrote: > > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiment

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, james.fogg wrote: > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiments.. ooops). > > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command l

[expert] that's not a bug; that's a feature

2000-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:12:24AM -0600, Bug Hunter wrote: -> -> Trivia: -> -> The early Motorola 6800 MicroProcessor had undefined instructions that -> you could feed to it -- instructions being binary numbers, after all. One -> of those instructions would put the micro in an illegal stat

Re: [expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread Stephen Clingerman
"james.fogg" wrote: > > I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up > (video driver experiments.. ooops). > > My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont > run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line login > for a

Re: [expert] VNC

2000-01-13 Thread Werner E. Niebel
Paul, Curiously a native compile creates the same crash Ill let you know if I find out anything Werner Werner Niebel wrote: > Paul, > > Thanks for the help... I tried downloading the binaries and did have the same > result... for some reason I can perform all X operations as I would expec

[expert] Need to stop X from starting at boot.

2000-01-13 Thread james.fogg
I screwed up my x-windows configuration and now when X boots it locks up (video driver experiments.. ooops). My problem now is that I cannot change my settings from X (cause it wont run) and yet it runs X on boot. I see the penguin and a command line login for about 2 seconds then X server starts

[expert] mmv in contribs

2000-01-13 Thread WH Bouterse
This may be oldnews but mmv is in Mandrake/Contribs http://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS/ William Bouterse

Re: [expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > On gio, 13 gen 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > >On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > >> I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM > >> binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and > >> useful too! > >>

RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Mika . Laitio
Does anybody know is the mouse-hanging issue fixed in Mandrake installation? At least the installation in Redhat 6 and Mandrake 6.1 is freezing in some portable models while it tries to recognize mouse! Mika

[expert] Palm OS Development

2000-01-13 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've seen mention of a few other distributions which come with gcc already set up with the m68k-coff-palmos libraries to be able to cross-compile for the Palm platform. Do the current (or upcoming) versions of Mandrake include these? If not, is there a reason why not? - Theo

Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Bartlomiej Muryn
"Vanco, Donald" wrote: > There's a better X server for NeoMagic out there - it's been a while > since I dealt with this chipset so there may now be support in XFree86 - see > http://www.precisioninsight.com/faq.html for current info... > > Don I have dell - latitude laptop with neomagic c

Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-13 Thread Bug Hunter
Trivia: The early Motorola 6800 MicroProcessor had undefined instructions that you could feed to it -- instructions being binary numbers, after all. One of those instructions would put the micro in an illegal state. It would halt, and after 10 - 15 minutes, if left on in that state without

Re: [expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread Marco Ciampa
On gio, 13 gen 2000, John Aldrich wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: >> I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM >> binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and >> useful too! >> >What is this? I've never heard of mmv... j

RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Vanco, Donald
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 4:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop > > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Schiavon, Jose wrote: > > > > Also, during the installation of X, the configurati

RE: [expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread Bois, Mathieu
mmv is 'multiple move' It's like mv, but with more usefull features. I have never used it (I rather do scripts) but I think it can do things like mmv filename*.png otherfilename*.png (maybe the syntax is not correct) This will rename filename01.png into otherfilename01.png, filename02.png into

Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: > > Wayne, > > > > No, the CD won't run in Linux without the files on the floppy. LILO

RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Vanco, Donald
> -Original Message- > From: Schiavon, Jose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:01 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop > > > I had a problem last week when I upgraded from LM 6.0 to LM 6.1 on my > laptop. The problem I had

Re: [expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM > binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and > useful too! > What is this? I've never heard of mmv... just curious. :-) John

Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Wayne, > > No, the CD won't run in Linux without the files on the floppy. LILO > won't boot either. I think it has to do with the position of the Lxt2 on > the drive which is at the end of a 8.4gb. > Hmmthen, I guess your best bet is to order a Mandrake CD

Re: [expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread Andrew Post
What is mmv? Thanks, Andrew Marco Ciampa wrote: > > I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM > binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and > useful too! > > bye > > -- > Marco Ciampa

Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-13 Thread Rich Clark
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote: > > ROTFL.. Thanks but no thanks, John. That CD is my lifeline to sanity. > > > Heh. Yeah...you'd be surprised at the sparks a CD gives off > after about 5-10 seconds in a microwave oven. ;-) (Try it > with an AOL CD ) >

Re: [expert] ADSL testing

2000-01-13 Thread Richard Shepherd
ADSL, To the Mandrake developers, on the web site you are looking for testers of your ADSL setup, i'm available for that if u like have my system up & runnung now with pppoe...but was manual effort to make it work...if you have automated the process drop me a line Rick

[expert] Request to include mmv (perhaps OT)

2000-01-13 Thread Marco Ciampa
I've just discovere mmv (GREAT) and noted that it is not present in the RPM binary tree. Is it possible for Mandrake to add it please? It's very little and useful too! bye -- Marco Ciampa

Re: [expert] ppp for everyone?

2000-01-13 Thread Davor Cengija
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Salim wrote: >On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 11:41:31AM -0500, Kevin Boylan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there one place that I can enter ppp information so that a dial-in >> account will show up in everyone's kppp list? >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Kevin >> > >Putting a kppprc file

Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread trujo
I use Mandrake in my laptop (TI 600) and it go well. I think you can have problem with partition, usualy Mandrake create 2 paretition, one for boot (mount in /boot) and other for the file system (/) I need to create the firsdt 10M partition first (hda1 for /boot with 10M) after that I instaled the

RE: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Phil Edwards
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Schiavon, Jose wrote: > > Also, during the installation of X, the configuration does not allow me to > select other resolution different to 640x480. To fix this I have the > following in my XF86Config (note the DefaultColorDepth and Modes entries): > > I don't know where XC

Re: [expert] FP Ext Apache rpms?

2000-01-13 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Rickard Ã…berg wrote: > Howdy > > Where are the apache frontpage extensions rpm's for mandrake? > I can't find them anywhere, if I recall corretly there should exists such > packages? > > Also wasn't there a searchable archive of this mailing list somewhere? > > Thanks, > / Rickard. Look here

Re: [expert] Mandrake on laptop

2000-01-13 Thread Bartlomiej Muryn
I have linux-Mandrake on my lap top, I installed it w/o problems with CD only... after Your description I do not know what is your teal problem... ibi wrote: Wayne, No, the CD won't run in Linux without the files on the floppy. LILO won't boot either. I think it has to do with the position of the