[expert] Here's a new application

2000-01-17 Thread Civileme
Well, an old one, really, but with a new twist. I want to install Linux-Mandrake automagically from a hard disk to the SAME hard disk. This computer has a hard drive, and a proprietary EXTERNAL interface for a floppy. The internal is a Laptop 44 min interface with no power for a CD. There is

Re: [expert] Problems with 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade

2000-01-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, you wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: I've encountered several problems with the upgrade. 1) I have a logitech firstmouse+. I had scrolling working in netscape, xemacs, and via imwheel (which is running) lots of other things. It works now. I'm not sure why it didn't

Re: [expert] Huge mistake!

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Fabien Deschodt wrote: Is there a way of manully telling bash where the libs can be found? I am still logged in remotely two cities away on vacation by telnet. is it going to be possible to be fixed remotely? Why not finish what you were doing with tomsrtbt or a

Re: [expert] lm 7.0

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: Hello all! I just went and upgraded to lm 7.0 from 6.1 all works well except for kdm. When I select a desktop to use (IE kwm,gnome or enlightenment) from the pull down menu I am immediatly dropped into a xterm (under twm) what gives? kdm

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 (Air) bugs

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Theo Brinkman wrote: I did a default 'SERVER' install on my test system and ran into a few major problems. First, I cannot log in as root. I can log in as any other user, and su to root with no problem, but no matter what I try I cannot log in as root. Not a bug

Re: [expert] 7.0 and PCI 128

2000-01-17 Thread cova
Quota D HOPP [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Creative Labs PCI 128 sound card and I'm trying to get it to work under Mandrake 7.0. Linux detects it as a ES 1371 but no sound works (system sounds or CDs). Lothar doesn't have a PCI 128 driver so I tried The driver is fine (ES1371). The

Re: [expert] Issues I had with 6.1: Fixed?

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Martin Jackson wrote: Hello, I tried Mandrake 6.1, and in general liked what I saw. I'm running Red Hat 6.1 now, and am considering switching. Unfortunately, when I first tried Mandrake, I was unfortunate enough to have a Cirrus 5446 graphics card, so my X display

Re: [expert] 7.0 and PCI 128

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, D HOPP wrote: I have a Creative Labs PCI 128 sound card and I'm trying to get it to work under Mandrake 7.0. Linux detects it as a ES 1371 but no sound works (system sounds or CDs). Lothar doesn't have a PCI 128 driver so I tried every Creative SB 16 driver listed as a

Re: [expert] Here's a new application

2000-01-17 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Civileme wrote: Well, an old one, really, but with a new twist. I want to install Linux-Mandrake automagically from a hard disk to the SAME hard disk. This computer has a hard drive, and a proprietary EXTERNAL interface for a floppy. The internal is a Laptop 44 min

Re: [expert] Problems with 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade

2000-01-17 Thread Pixel
Mark Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netscape breaks in more than 16bit colour. nope, it breaks in 24bpp but works well in 32bpp. it's a motif problem.

Re: [expert] Re: Netscape

2000-01-17 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
ibi wrote: Thank you all so very much for the advice. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have found that I will get this error msg when I have "fat fingered" my mouse button and double-clicked on the Netscape icon. Nothing is wrong it's just that I need to terminate the second start-up. Apparently

Fw: [expert] kdm segmentation fault problem with 7.0

2000-01-17 Thread Hamish Currie
Hi, I sent this to the list over the weekend however it never showed up Sorry if you get two copies. Thanks for lookling at this. Sorry about the length of the post. Best Regards Hamish Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is it really segfaulting? did you try in runlevel 3 to launch kdm on

[expert] Qt Dying and X-server always crashing on Mandrake 6.1

2000-01-17 Thread jed
I'm having a problem getting K-apps running that use Qt libraries. I can launch one, which 90% of the time knocks out the X-server (even K-pp, the dialer front-end knocks it out!!). I am unable to open new apps, so I logout. When I logout, the screen is full of messages resembling (I'm at work

Re: Fw: [expert] kdm segmentation fault problem with 7.0

2000-01-17 Thread Pixel
"Hamish Currie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sent this to the list over the weekend however it never showed up Sorry if you get two copies. Thanks for lookling at this. Sorry about the length of the post. sorry, it doesn't help :( maybe a hardware problem, or a problem appearing only on

Re: [expert] Re: Netscape

2000-01-17 Thread ibi
"Fat fingered"??? Funny :-) Thanks, PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Programs Compiled under Mandrake 6.0 Seg Faulting under RH5.2

2000-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: eiks... I thought I understood that if you stuck to the rules, standard Unix like calls, that binaries from one machine would run on another. Well, I compiled my product on a Mandrake 6.0 machine and it segmentation faults on RH5.2. What is worse is

Re: [expert] Floppy drive mount problem

2000-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am trying out Red Hat 6.0 and everything is greta except when I use the mount drive icon or the terminal to get to a floopy disk it tells me "mount /mnt/floppy 21" reported: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too many mounted

Re: [expert] never mind the floppy, now to sound

2000-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: I fixed that floppy mounting problem, but I still don't have any sound. I have turned it on in everywhere I know, but I still don't have sound. What needs to be compiled into my kernel for me to have sound? I am positive my card is supported, so any

[expert] LICQ broke with 7 (AIR)?

2000-01-17 Thread junfan
16:10:40: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (/usr/local/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so): /usr/local/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: undefined symbol: setX11Data__12QPaintDevicePC19QPaintDeviceX11Data. First - let me say this (I am new to the list, and the archive server is down, so don't flame me if this has been

Re: [expert] Problems with 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade

2000-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've encountered several problems with the upgrade. 3) colors in the netscape toolbar are black in white. I'm running 24 bit color. This has ALWAYS been a "bug." It's Netscape's fault, AFAIK. At least *I* have always had this problem when running at 24-bit

[expert] sndconfig/pnpdump probs

2000-01-17 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Hello all! I am haveing a rough time getting my soundcard configed here. when I run sndconfig it tells me it found my card ,great one would think BUT it hangs on the probe (pnpdump) any ideas out thier? I tried running pnpdump --config from the command line and your got it, the comand hung...

Re: [expert] 7.0 and PCI 128

2000-01-17 Thread D HOPP
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: If it doesn't error, tell it you heard it when it's done use aumix to turn up the volume. It starts at 0 and only gets increased (Mmm, iirc) +25, not very much. Should be ok after that if not let me know, and i'll make sure the -D fix didn't get

Re: [expert] Issues I had with 6.1: Fixed?

2000-01-17 Thread Martin Jackson
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Thanks for your help. I think I saw a note on the buglist archive that the cooker version of Xfree had a working 5446 driver as of 6.1 or so. I appreciate your time. -- Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Linux Fortune for Today:

[expert] Cheap Bytes release

2000-01-17 Thread alann
Is Mandrake 7 REALLY based on Debian?? The following is what I got from the email list on cheap bytes tonite. This caught me off guard..?? Is it true? Alan Linux-Mandrake (Air) 7.0 is now released! You are receiving this e-mail because you have joined the CheapBytes mailing list for

Re: [expert] 7.0 and PCI 128

2000-01-17 Thread Ron Johnston
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Quota D HOPP [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Creative Labs PCI 128 sound card and I'm trying to get it to work under Mandrake 7.0. Linux detects it as a ES 1371 but no sound works (system sounds or CDs). Lothar doesn't have a PCI 128 driver so I tried

Re: [expert] sndconfig/pnpdump probs

2000-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello all! I am haveing a rough time getting my soundcard configed here. when I run sndconfig it tells me it found my card ,great one would think BUT it hangs on the probe (pnpdump) any ideas out thier? I tried running pnpdump --config from the command

Re: [expert] sndconfig/pnpdump probs

2000-01-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
What sound card do you have? You could try starting the module that runs your card by hand. -- Stephen On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello all! I am haveing a rough time getting my soundcard configed here. when I run sndconfig it tells me it found my card ,great one would think BUT it

Re: [expert] LICQ broke with 7 (AIR)?

2000-01-17 Thread Riyad Kalla
Its actually in the faq for licq... you are going to have to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory with qt2.x in it, the only problem 1.x and 2.x are both in /usr/lib, so what I did was download qt2.x tar, compiled it myself and put it in its own dir /usr/local/lib/qt-2.0.2 and set my