[expert] My XServer died! Help Please!

2000-01-23 Thread Eric L. Damron
I can no longer get my Linux box to boot xwindows. I comes back with the following error: SVGA:XAA: Horizontal an vertical lines and segments_FontTransSocket UNIX Connect: Can't connect: errno 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: Could not open default font

RE: [expert] Kppp in Air

2000-01-23 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
Bellow first itemcan someone twist me modell where exactly put "noauth"? I have read man pppd,but as normally, text is written for almost GURUS You can put the "noauth" parameter at the end of "/etc/ppp/options" file ... p.f.

Re: [expert] bug in KDE ( 7.0 Air )

2000-01-23 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Sam, 22 Jan 2000, Marek Suwalski wrote: Hi all, I can't change fonts in KDE on new Mandrake 7.0. Also I can't change language settings logged as user. This is a bug in KDE ? No. I noticed this, too. The account is created with the wrong gid/uid for some files. Just do a: # chown

[expert] kppp in air

2000-01-23 Thread Jarmo
hi Peter Tks for info. I shall test it also...I checked what stops my connection and found that "default route" does it. Now when I disable default route coming up kppp works fine without adding anything. Jarmo

Re: [expert] bug in KDE ( 7.0 Air )

2000-01-23 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Son, 23 Jan 2000, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: On Sam, 22 Jan 2000, Marek Suwalski wrote: Hi all, I can't change fonts in KDE on new Mandrake 7.0. Also I can't change language settings logged as user. This is a bug in KDE ? No. I noticed this, too. The account is created with the wrong gid/uid

[expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-23 Thread Hoyt
Re: Mandrake 7.0 (air) As it was in the cooker GUI install, my PS/2 mouse was not detected and, although the keyboard shortcut keys can be successfully used, it is a painful process. A switch to a serial mouse worked around the problem and a session with mouseconfig after re-boot put my PS/2

RE: [expert] Mandrake 7 In-telnetd problem

2000-01-23 Thread Edwin Casimero
I had the same problem with Mandrake 6.1 I found out that telnetd was not installed by default. Go get the telnetd rpm and manually install it. That should fix it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sergio Korlowsky Sent: Saturday, January

Re: [expert] upgrade of 70 bete to 7.0 air

2000-01-23 Thread dagnir
I had the same problem. I think the either the Mandrake 7.0 Samba or network configuration has some problems. I found by adding a new network card and disabling the other one and restarting the network services I could get it to work. But then as soon as I rebooted It would kill the network

Re: [expert] Problems booting win98 after upgrade

2000-01-23 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
"S. Newhouse" wrote: Try making table=/dev/hdb instead of table=/dev/hda. and running lilo again. If that does not work, it may be that you cannot boot Win 98 from the device /dev/hdb. Then, the easy fix is to exchange disks (setting the proper jumpers) so that Win is on

[expert] rsync commands

2000-01-23 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Guys... I need your help, (from those using rsync) of course... ;-) I used to run rsync from rpmfind.net (Daniel's site) but I lost my notes.. and I can't remember the couple of lines used to run it! just can't remember, and rsync is better than wget or fmirror. in my particular case. Sergio

Re: [expert] postscript view with 7

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Trying to view postscript documents with the usual KDE viewer does nothing but give me a blank page. If I use gv it says "unknown device x11alpha" I have a voodoo 3 card, probably something to do with the 3dfx drivers with xfree being 3.3.5 while xfree in

Re: [expert] Two persistent kfm bugs

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Civilemethat's not what happens here. I have no Templates folder (Air [7.0]) so I created a new folder (test) and put a text file (text) into it. When I drag the new folder into the window containing the dos root directory and choose to copy or move I

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
HoytI assumed differently about those blurred entries. Since I couldn't affect their stautus I assumed they were locked out of that particular install. I wonder which of us is correect? Alan Hoyt wrote: Re: Mandrake 7.0 (air) As it was in the cooker GUI install, my PS/2 mouse was

Re: [expert] Kppp in Air

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
PeterI assume that it would go in the /etc/ppp/options file. If you test this let me know the outcome, ok? Alan "RNDr. Peter FREIMANN" wrote: Bellow first itemcan someone twist me modell where exactly put "noauth"? I have read man pppd,but as normally, text is written for almost

Re: [expert] bug in KDE ( 7.0 Air )

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Cajuswas this in the user account created during installation? In that account, I couldn't change the colors (I disliked the yellow title bars on the windows). So when the suggestion came from a message on this list to delete the account made during installation and make a new one, I did so

Re: [expert] Kppp in Air

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Hithanks to everyone who responded to this thread. I've not yet tested any of the suggestions thoroughly, but will eventually get back to the problem and do so. Right now the problem is temporarily solved by going back to Helios (6.1) on that machine. Also I'd like to add this one other

Re: [expert] KDM login

2000-01-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yes; In fact I think this is a common problem. I got around it by editing prefdm to choose gdm first over kdm, then editing the files in /etc/X11/gdm to suit. Hope this is useful. Tim "to suit" care to elborate, what you changed and why? :)

Re: [expert] postscript view with 7

2000-01-23 Thread Jason Straight
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Trying to view postscript documents with the usual KDE viewer does nothing but give me a blank page. If I use gv it says "unknown device x11alpha" I have a voodoo 3 card, probably something to do with the 3dfx drivers with xfree

Re: [expert] Two persistent kfm bugs

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Johnno, I don't have "write" permission on the DOS partition. The point was that I prevented the system lock-up from happening by changing 'user,exec,conv=auto' to 'defaults'. John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Civilemethat's not what happens here. I have no

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: HoytI assumed differently about those blurred entries. Since I couldn't affect their stautus I assumed they were locked out of that particular install. I wonder which of us is correect? Alan They are totaly utterly unalterable :) k?

Re: [expert] My XServer died! Help Please!

2000-01-23 Thread RRPotratz
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, you wrote: I can no longer get my Linux box to boot xwindows. I comes back with the following error: SVGA:XAA: Horizontal an vertical lines and segments_FontTransSocket UNIX Connect: Can't connect: errno 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server

Re: [expert] SBLive!, etc.

2000-01-23 Thread Barry Marler
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: launch, due to an "improper configuration." Replacing the upgrade-generated XF86Config with the backup of my old one cured the problem. could you diff them please, or just send em both to Pixel Unfortunately, I overwrote the

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Axalonfor what specific reason is that? Alan Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: HoytI assumed differently about those blurred entries. Since I couldn't affect their stautus I assumed they were locked out of that particular install. I wonder

Re: [expert] rsync commands

2000-01-23 Thread Ron Stodden
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: Guys... I need your help, (from those using rsync) of course... ;-) I used to run rsync from rpmfind.net (Daniel's site) but I lost my notes.. and I can't remember the couple of lines used to run it! Rsync runs are best scripted because you use

Re: [expert] bug in KDE ( 7.0 Air )

2000-01-23 Thread root
yes, i used this way my last install yesturday, and it works much nicer... whats funny about the install yesturday is, when i created the account after the install, i could log into the new user account, but nothing but dark blue desktop. ie: no icons, task bar , nothing.used Cajus

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-23 Thread Jeanette Russo
the problem seems to be the rush to put out a new distro every 4 months. The development of Linux is moving so fast that the bugs go unfixed they just do a new distro. It is not only Mandrake Jeanette - Original Message - From: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [expert] Problems booting win98 after upgrade

2000-01-23 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Sergio Korlowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Problems booting win98 after upgrade Not necesarily... I have the same setup and works ok, have Linux in hda and windows on hdb here is

[expert] A few questions...

2000-01-23 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've got a few questions since installing 7.0 on my laptop and server. First, some server config questions: Any time I bring my server back up after a reboot I have to manually start lpd since it is set to 'off' in all of the msec security levels. I also plan to use nfs to share /home on the

Re: [expert] SBLive!, etc.

2000-01-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Barry Marler wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: launch, due to an "improper configuration." Replacing the upgrade-generated XF86Config with the backup of my old one cured the problem. could you diff them please, or just send em both to

Re: [expert] Air PS/2 Mouse Bug in GUI Install and Workaround

2000-01-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Axalonfor what specific reason is that? Alan Those are the "base" rpms hard coded into the install to always be installed. --install2.pm line 193 base = [ qw(basesystem sed initscripts console-tools mkbootdisk utempter ld.so ldconfig

[expert] network is unreachable

2000-01-23 Thread WH Bouterse
What killed my network? L-M 7.0/with sprinlkings of Cooker Before reboot networking, remote access, internet, etc, all working find including ipmasq. A reboot brings; Now 'nslookup' for 'anyplace' gives "can't find server name for address xxx.xx.xx.xx no response from server" and 'network

Re: [expert] Kppp in Air

2000-01-23 Thread trujo
Try add noauth in option of ppp El vie, 21 ene 2000, escribiste: HiI've installed Mandrake 7 on three different machines now and this problem exists on them all. The third install was on my masquerade machine (I call it my modem server). My isp uses PAP authenication. With Kppp an

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 printer weirdness?

2000-01-23 Thread trujo
Igot some problem like that with lm 6.1 and Ican resolve it changin in smbprint (neare the end) /*cat | /usr/bin/smbclient "$share" "$password" -E ${hostip:+-I} \ $hostip -N -P $usercmd "$user" $workgroupcmd "$workgroup" \ -c \"$command\" 2/dev/null */ cat | /usr/bin/smbclient "$share"

[expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-23 Thread AS T
I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went to work and

[expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-23 Thread S. Newhouse
Hello, One of our machines is a Dell with the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I was happy to see that Aureal wrote drivers for it (from their web site), but then I found out that the drivers worked only for the RedHat kernels in 6.0 and 6.1. I tried to install them in Mandrake and (of

Re: [expert] Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread Tom Barraza
Axalon, I just tried the command line you suggested, but it doesn't seem to work: [tom@fiend tom]$ gcc -Vegcs-2.91.66 gcc.colorgcc: No input files [tom@fiend tom]$ gcc -V egcs-2.91.66 gcc.colorgcc: No input files What's it supposed to do? Tom Axalon Bloodstone

[expert] Re: Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread Tom Barraza
Hey folks, I seemed to have solved my problem with the missing 'egcs' file in the egcs package on Mandrake 7.0. I have another older PC here at home that I installed RedHat 6.0 on and took a look in the /usr/bin directory on that computer. I did a 'cmp' on /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/egcs and

Re: [expert] Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Tom Barraza wrote: Has anyone else installed the egcs packages in Mandrake 7.0, and actually gotten the program 'egcs' to be installed? I've looked in all of the egcs-* packages, and have been unable to find 'egcs'! I had Redhat 6.1 installed on my machine, previous

[newbie] Re: [expert] Re: Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Tom Barraza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey folks, I seemed to have solved my problem with the missing 'egcs' file in the egcs package on Mandrake 7.0. I have another older PC here at home that I installed RedHat 6.0 on and took a look in the /usr/bin directory on that computer. I did a