[expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Sean Armstrong
Has anyone been successful in getting the linux version of real audio to work? I followed the directions that came with it and I still can't get it to play correctly. It will come up and wont play anything I try to get it to play. SA __ Get

[expert] Re: LILO stops at LIL-

2000-02-10 Thread Jaime Batiz
Problem solved! It was rather dirty, but I have it working. In case anyone is wondering: I copied map and boot.b from the boot floppy disk. (not sure about this since boot.b is generated after running LiLo, but I don't know about map). I set lilo.conf such that boot=/dev/fd0

Re: [expert] removing gnome panel

2000-02-10 Thread Sean Armstrong
One way is to open a terminal and use the command ps -A to find out what pid gmc is using. Once you find that out you can then go and use the command kill -9 "sub pid # here" and it should kill the gmc application. This will remove the gnome taskbar and desktop icons everything else will then

[expert] Printing different character sets

2000-02-10 Thread Richard Yevchak
I'm having a problem with the way Netscape prints out Greek letters. For my ECE lab course, I have to print out the pre-lab questions and the lab procedures. Unfortunately, when the web page has a Omega or Mu (sp) I get "W" and "m" respectively. This is really annoying, I wasted a lot of time

Re: [expert] English installaion and European characters

2000-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Stephen Boulet wrote: This is something I've been wondering about. I have an english install of Mandrake 7, and an american keyboard. How do I write german and french characters in programs like xemacs, kmail? 1. activate 8-bit input in your configuration files (.bashrc ???) 2. use the

[expert] PPPD dying, return of the Jedi

2000-02-10 Thread fred . deklein
Hello all, I posted a message a week ago, regarding PPPD dying, the message I got was: "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address." This was with Mandrake 7v1. I added the noauth to the options, and although

[expert] Supermount Doesn't Work on MDK 7.0-2

2000-02-10 Thread Sevatio Octavio
How do you get 'Super'-mount to work after installing MDK 7.0-2? Seve

[expert] Photo quality printers

2000-02-10 Thread Phil Risby
Anyone any suggestions for photo quality printers under Mandrake? Thanks Phil -- Phil Risby President PR Yacht Solutions Division of FernWood Enterprises Ponce Puerto Rico

[expert] MDK 7.0 and RH 6.1

2000-02-10 Thread William Ahern
What are the differences between 7.0 and 6.1 (not including GUI userland programs, installations or i386 v i586 compilations)? Strictly from a bare bones, server perspective. tia, Bill -- William Ahern MIS, JINSA - JINSA Online http://www.jinsa.org/

Re: [expert] KDE Menu

2000-02-10 Thread Helmut Halfmann
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hey! I join this mailingslist just a few days and i didn't find the answer in the (not existing) FAQ for mandrake 7, so i don't know if some else asked this question... I changed the KDE menu for a normal user and after a reboot, the personal menu was

Re: [expert] Photo quality printers

2000-02-10 Thread Nick Kay
At 21:48 09/02/00 +, you wrote: Anyone any suggestions for photo quality printers under Mandrake? Thanks Phil -- Phil Risby The same Phil Risby who used to be on Caldera? If so greetings from Sussex, UK. from another ex-Calderan. President PR Yacht Solutions Division of FernWood

[expert] Mandrake-KDE screensaver?

2000-02-10 Thread Sam
I can't seem to get it to work? I click on the icon in the KDE control center and nothing happens. God Bless, Sam http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr/linuxindex.html NOT an IE friendly site!

[expert] ppp0 FAILED

2000-02-10 Thread Michael Doyle
G'day, I have at last got around to installing V7.0 on my Server/Router, all appeas well execpt for ppp0 on boot, where I get the message "FAILED trying in background", when in fact the modem has dialed and connected. Not a big one but would like to have a clean boot, whats the fix :-))

[expert] Dispay completely broken

2000-02-10 Thread Gene Zesch
After a power failure, and the fsck on reboot, I no longer have any display. The screen flashes a few lines of snow every few seconds. It doesn't respond to ctrl+alt+backspace and will not switch terminals. Its not hardware because the display is fine up to the point where X starts. Other

Re: [expert] Samba Version Location

2000-02-10 Thread Carey Barnett
The version of Samba that came with Mandrake 7.0 works fine. Just download the version from a Mandrake mirror, or use the one on the CD. -- Carey Barnett -- systems.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (416)465-4698 voice (416)465-7769

Re: [expert] Samba Version Location

2000-02-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Robertit's either already installed (and if so probably running from startup) or if not you can get it from the /Mandrake/RPMS directory of your distribution cd. Configure it and set it to start in system services. Alan Robert Ayers wrote: Can anyone tell me the correct version of

[expert] WebMaker

2000-02-10 Thread Jesus Roncero
In trying to install KWebMaker v0.8. I got the rpm from the author's site but it refuses to install. The error i get is: error: failed dependencies: libjpeg.so.6 is needed by WebMaker-0.8.5-4 But the thing is that i have that lib installed on my system. I've also tried to

[expert] PPPD dying

2000-02-10 Thread fred . deklein
Hello all, I posted a message a week ago, regarding PPPD dying, the message I got was: "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address." This was with Mandrake 7v1. I added the noauth to the options, and although

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Jeanette Russo
Which version are you using. Real Player 5.0 is hard to get working but the G2 Alpha seems to work. Also what version of Linux? Jeanette At 04:18 PM 2/9/2000 -0600, you wrote: Has anyone been successful in getting the linux version of real audio to work? I followed the directions that came

Re: [expert] WebMaker

2000-02-10 Thread Jean-Jacques Mallet
If you have the library try a rpm --nodeps jean-jacques Jesus Roncero wrote: In trying to install KWebMaker v0.8. I got the rpm from the author's site but it refuses to install. The error i get is: error: failed dependencies: libjpeg.so.6 is needed

RE: [expert] English installaion and European characters

2000-02-10 Thread Banf, Oliver 3843 EXT EPE-8
Stephen Boulet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is something I've been wondering about. I have an english install of Mandrake 7, and an american keyboard. How do I write german and french characters in programs like xemacs, kmail? I have the same at combination. That's no big problem

RE: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
One of the few things I had no problems at all with :) Works great!! Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

[expert] HP69x Printer Driver

2000-02-10 Thread David Santon
Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of ink this driver puts to paper. RH5.1 had a switch for the driver but I can't remember it and where it went - has anyone any ideas TIA DS (Nottm UK) - http://www.santon.clara.co.uk/

Re: [expert] ISDN ? !

2000-02-10 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Klaus Peter Elsner wrote: Hi after trying to get an answer inside newbie I'l hope here is the better place .. I've tried to install ISDN for a few ! days and now I found it a bit boring =:-( without any help I use MD 6.1 ; have got a CD for testing befor bying a few and deciding to use it

Re: [expert] Anybody had trouble with KISDN on Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-10 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Oeystein Hermansen wrote: I found the solution myself.It was to easy. In the adminprogram for KISDN, called KCMKISDN, there is a section where you set the path to the to deamons. One path (don't know which since I am sitting at work right now) points to /sbin and on to /usr/bin. In

Re: [expert] Security .. OT?

2000-02-10 Thread Bug Hunter
1. in /etc/hosts.deny, put ALL : ALL 2. in /etc/hosts.allow, enter who can access your machine (man hosts.allow) 3. update all packages whenever the update reason is a security issue. 4. run only the daemons necessary. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, ibi wrote: This is a security

Re: [expert] Photo quality printers

2000-02-10 Thread Theo Brinkman
One brand I'm looking at picking up some time in the future (when I have time to try developing a driver) is Alps. They're not a big name, but their MD-5000 model is the most impressive printer I've ever seen. It's capable of 2400x2400 on plain paper, and can handle gold and silver foils in

[expert] MDK7.0 Installed but Supermount Doesn't Work... What to do?

2000-02-10 Thread Sevatio Octavio
How do you get Supermount to work after installing MDK 7.0-2? Seve

Re: [expert] Photo quality printers

2000-02-10 Thread Ray Carlino
Try www.elinux.com They have printers that are certified to work on Linux.. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: One brand I'm looking at picking up some time in the future (when I have time to try developing a driver) is Alps. They're not a big name, but their MD-5000 model is the most

Re: [expert] PPPD dying

2000-02-10 Thread Russ Johnson
I removed PPP X.X.X-10 and installed ppp X.X.X-8 from my Mandake 6.1 disk. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 3:41 AM Subject: [expert] PPPD dying Hello all, I posted a message a week ago, regarding PPPD dying, the

Re: [expert] HP69x Printer Driver

2000-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
David Santon wrote: Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of ink this driver puts to paper. RH5.1 had a switch for the driver but I can't remember it and where it went - has anyone any ideas pass parameter "-dQuality=-1" (without the quotes) ??? For the driver this is listed as "draft"

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-10 Thread Eric Rosi Jonathon
I'd like to add my observations on this bug of netscape. I've noticed a pattern to this one (I believe): The first netscape window opened is the "super-window". At any time, closing it kills all other windows without confirm. However, you can close any other window you want. My solution is to

RE: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Andrew Post
-Original Message- One of the few things I had no problems at all with :) Works great!! Lucky for you. Every time I try to adjust Real Player G2's volume control, it crashes my sound driver. I have to reboot the machine to get sound back. Plus, there's no Netscape plugin yet. I think

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Harshal Pradhan
Check out http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/software/realg2.html HTH Harshal Sean Armstrong wrote: Has anyone been successful in getting the linux version of real audio to work? I followed the directions that came with it and I still can't get it to play correctly. It will come up

Re: [expert] WebMaker

2000-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:18:49PM +0100, Jesus Roncero wrote: - In trying to install KWebMaker v0.8. I got the rpm from the author's site but - it refuses to install. The error i get is: - - error: failed dependencies: - libjpeg.so.6 is needed by WebMaker-0.8.5-4 - - But the thing

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-10 Thread Harshal Pradhan
Hi again, Sorry for blinking off for a day. The campus router (which was the thing acting funny) finally went down. Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Harshal Pradhan wrote: Hi, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: Does it happen with a particular windowmanager or close method?

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread David Mihm
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote: Has anyone been successful in getting the linux version of real audio to work? I followed the directions that came with it and I still can't get it to play correctly. It will come up and wont play anything I try to get it to play. This page

[expert] finding host based on MAC address

2000-02-10 Thread AS T
HI, I need to find hosts IN MY LOCAL NETWORK that uses a certain MAC address. My choice now is to ping every host and lookup my arp table to see if the MAC address in question appears. Is there anywhy I can "ping" a host using the MAC address instead of IP address. Thanks

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-10 Thread Harshal Pradhan
Hi, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: [snip] Ok lets clairify a bit and quit just generalizing the netscape problems. Senerio 1, ppp line drops, and it never returns from the dns attempt Senerio 2, Java Senerio 3, Close one window they all close Senerio 4,

Re: [expert] Netsacpe problems

2000-02-10 Thread Barry Marler
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Eric Rosi Jonathon wrote: I'd like to add my observations on this bug of netscape. I've noticed a pattern to this one (I believe): The first netscape window opened is the "super-window". At any time, closing it kills all other windows without confirm. However, you

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread Sean Armstrong
Hi Jeannette, I'm running Mandrake 6.1 on a pentium 133Mhz, I downloaded the ra 5.0 because that was all that I could find at the Netscape plugin site. Is there someplace else I can get the G2 Alpha? If so where? Thanx, for your help in this matter. Sean. From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] A peculier problem!

2000-02-10 Thread David Comeau
I have just come across a peculier problem. As root (setup and configuration tasks), I used kppp to login to my ISP. Never have I ever had a problem. I have now logged into my system as a regular user, and when I start kppp, it tells me that the kernel does not have ppp compiled into the kernel

Re: [expert] A peculier problem!

2000-02-10 Thread ron peake
Hi It is a known bug in mandrake 6.1. The bug is absent in mandrake 7.0 which is no consolation I know. Ron David Comeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have just come across a peculier problem. As root (setup and configuration tasks), I used kppp to login to my ISP. Never have I ever had a

Re: [expert] Supermount Doesn't Work on MDK 7.0-2

2000-02-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: How do you get 'Super'-mount to work after installing MDK 7.0-2? Seve What do you mean, did you select it at install, what errors do you get and which kernel are you booting. /usr/sbin/supermount enable, can do fstab mod's for you --

Re: [expert] WebMaker

2000-02-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jesus Roncero wrote: In trying to install KWebMaker v0.8. I got the rpm from the author's site but it refuses to install. The error i get is: error: failed dependencies: libjpeg.so.6 is needed by WebMaker-0.8.5-4 But the thing is that i have that lib

[expert] X problems(addendum)

2000-02-10 Thread M L Cates
I would like one effect I have noted concerning the shimmering effect will running KDE or any other gui. (refer to post entitled "X problems") I have found if I do a Ctrl-alt-F2 and then Ctrl-alt-F7 back this clears the problem for 10-30 seconds , then it reappears. Michael Cates

Re: [expert] WebMaker

2000-02-10 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
he doesn't On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jean-Jacques Mallet wrote: If you have the library try a rpm --nodeps jean-jacques Jesus Roncero wrote: In trying to install KWebMaker v0.8. I got the rpm from the author's site but it refuses to install. The error i get

Re: [expert] A peculier problem!

2000-02-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
David Comeau wrote: I have just come across a peculier problem. As root (setup and configuration tasks), I used kppp to login to my ISP. Never have I ever had a problem. I have now logged into my system as a regular user, and when I start kppp, it tells me that the kernel does not have ppp