Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Civileme
> > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Mike Hahn wrote: > > > All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the > > last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is? Well, lemme see. I burned CDs with 6.0 I burned CDs with 6.1 I burned CDs with 7.0 I have been trying to figure how I

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Vincent Danen wrote: > > Mike, I don't know why Brian is having problems but I can say for a fact > that the Mandrake 7.0 distro comes with a perfectly working cdrecord as > far as I'm concerned. I have written to CDRW's, blanked them, and written > to regular CD-R's with the cdrecord included i

Re: [expert] Freakin' Netscape...

2000-02-27 Thread jarmo
Hi Sorry that my english is not so good.It seems that i became misundestood. Haven' said that 4.7x are not stable...The whole question is that I can't get those 4.7x versions installed. When I installed MDK 7.0 installation program installed some parts of NC but not all and I tried manually insta

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Ok, I have *a* particular file that is consistently corrupted by it; I have some other files that work ok. Unfortunately my test file is copyrighted. But I'll try to dig up a file that I can legally post as a sample that is consistently corrupted and maybe we can see if anybody else sees the sa

[expert] Kernel configuration to support audio (mic and speaker)

2000-02-27 Thread Bill&Virginia Hodges
I wish to make Netscape on Mandrake 6.1 support sound to do voice over IP. My kernel was built with all the sound options selected. My hardware has a Gateway 2000 sound card with IRQ 5 DMA 1 port 220h to be Sound Blaster Comparible -(circa 1995). There is a CODEC pluggable connection on the sound

Re: [expert] Login Problems

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
The exact same thing happened to me when my machine crashed I wiped out the /tmp directory . . . I just re-installed (rpm -U --force) the base X and fontsserver packages, and voila! all was fine again. (The fontserver is X-something-fs-something.) On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote: | Anyone her

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Perhaps an incompatibility, then, but simply using different versions oof those two problems fixes the problem. The mkisofs that works is 1.12b3 (based on the "-v" flag) the cdrecord is 1.53 (based on the "strings" info). I can try doing mkisofs to the loopback device if it's of interest to you

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.72 -- which one for Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, David BAUDENS wrote: | "Brian T. Schellenberger" écrivit : | | > | It's fixed in all Netscape-4.70-*mdk (except 4.70-5mdk). It's also fixed | > | in 4-72-1mdk. | > | > Well, I have the strandard Mandrake 7.0 distribution, which has: | > | > netscape-communicator-4.70-6mdk.i

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Mike Hahn wrote: > All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the > last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is? Mike, I don't know why Brian is having problems but I can say for a fact that the Mandrake 7.0 distro comes with a perfectly working c

Re: [expert] DENY and ALLOW Problems

2000-02-27 Thread Harvey B. Herman
Did you set the security level to the highest value? Harvey

[expert] fixed width fonts look UGLY in Navigator 4.x

2000-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi. When I use "document specific fonts", they are so small I can barely read them. When I use "my default fonts", page formatting is ruined. What fixed width font(s) do most wb designers use, and how can I get them onto my machine? Sincerely, Ron -- +-

Re: [expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-27 Thread Ramon Gandia
Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > At 10:43 PM 2/27/00 +, James Lewis wrote: > > >I have 3 NT workstations on an internal LAN, going through ipmasq (on > >2.2.13) which is providing NAT. General services such as web browsing, FTP > >etc, are working fine but we are experiencing very annoying prob

[expert] Does the 33.8GB limit still exist in kernel 2.2.12?

2000-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
If not, what is the new limit? If so, has it been fixed in 2.3.x? Ron Johnson -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems

2000-02-27 Thread RRPotratz
I've tried that too, even generated the file with straight up pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf with same results. On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Just a thought... > > Possibly your /etc/isapnp.conf file is corrupt. You could rename your > /etc/isapnp.conf file to /etc/isapnp.conf-backup. You co

Re: [expert] Login Problems

2000-02-27 Thread Civileme
Jeff Lang wrote: > > Anyone here know which files i need to check when i can't loging using > the GUI. I had a power failure and i think that some of my files may > heve been corrupted. Thankfully my superuser can still login, but if i > put in my password and username, the login prompt goes aw

Re: [expert] Freakin' Netscape...

2000-02-27 Thread David BAUDENS
Jarmo écrivit : > Didn't work...too much conflicts... What conflicts (or use Axalon's solution) ? Conflicts are not here to be nice. If RPM says "WARNING! Conflicts" it's not to joke. An upgrade is always dangerous for stability. So, RPM warn you before you can say "Oh God, what's wrong?! My sys

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread David BAUDENS
"Brian T. Schellenberger" écrivit : > I've already solved my own problem. > > The version of cdrecord and/or mkisofs in the Mandrake 7.0 > distribution is broken. I used the versions included with "scdbackup" > and they work just fine. Hi, No. I use this version each day and it's work perfect

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.72 -- which one for Mandrake 7.0

2000-02-27 Thread David BAUDENS
"Brian T. Schellenberger" écrivit : > | It's fixed in all Netscape-4.70-*mdk (except 4.70-5mdk). It's also fixed > | in 4-72-1mdk. > > Well, I have the strandard Mandrake 7.0 distribution, which has: > > netscape-communicator-4.70-6mdk.i586.rpm > > and I have never seen a less stable version i

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Civileme
Adam Skogman wrote: > > > Some of my users have windows in dual boot situations but the NetBIOS ports are > > dead locally (yep, no Samba) and onto the internet, so their windows are without > > network services locally and without support as well (and for that matter, > > their Network Neighborh

Re: [expert] Win95 Problem after Helios Installation

2000-02-27 Thread Civileme
"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: > > First of all apologies to the Mandrake list for posting here rather than a > Win95 list, I figure that I've got a better chance of getting an answer > here than on a MS list. > > A very strange problem has surfaced this morning. I have two machines on a > L

Re: [expert] Win95 Problem after Helios Installation

2000-02-27 Thread Dana J. Laude
I do believe I saw a patch on Microsofts web site dealing with hard drives larger than 8GB. (or something like that) Check it out. Dana "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: > I would appreciate any help that anyone can give. I really don't want to > attempt the ultimate MS solution of reinstall

[expert] Netscape and java

2000-02-27 Thread Gary Bunker
I know, I know, Java on Netscape for Unix bites. BUT, say I wanted to test it out. I've uninstalled the 4.70 NS files (both common and communicator) from my system and installed the tarball from Netscape of the 128-bit version. Call me silly, but if I'm entitle to good crypto, I'm gonna use it.

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: > All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the > last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is? > Ok. I'm using xcdroast here, which requires cdrecord. Version here is: xcdroast-0.96e-7mdk John

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Dana J. Laude
Brian, I just installed cdrecord 1.8 and then xcdroast and it's working fine. I first uninstalled the default rpm's from 6.1. As a test I burned a copy of some windows clipart cd, and it worked just fine. I have a Ricoh 7060S CDR/RW and a NEC 465. (both scsi, internal, via a 2940 Adaptec) Btw,

[expert] DENY and ALLOW Problems

2000-02-27 Thread iTOOL
I have a box running Mandrake 7 hooked up to the internet through US West DSL, and it's also hooked up through a second NIC card to a box running Win98. Everything works as expected by using Linux box as a router allowing me to surf the web through either the Win98 box and the Linux box. The pro

RE: [expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-27 Thread Lyle
I would suggest putting a second nic in the SQL server and the Exchange server and put them on the internal LAN and not go through the Linux server. Make sure that IP routing is turned off when adding the second NIC. It's very easy to do. Besides's you can turn off a lot of services on the exte

Re: [expert] Port 25 / 119 messges

2000-02-27 Thread (Paul Hounsell)
If you are running sendmail as your mailer then you need to edit /etc/sendmail.cf looking for the phrase "is spoken here" and change the line to something like O SmtpGreetingMessage=$j is spoken here; $b Cheers Paul At 11:33 PM 2/25/00 +0100, you wrote: >well I just want to know how t

Re: [expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:43 PM 2/27/00 +, James Lewis wrote: >I have 3 NT workstations on an internal LAN, going through ipmasq (on >2.2.13) which is providing NAT. General services such as web browsing, FTP >etc, are working fine but we are experiencing very annoying problems with >Microsoft Outlook 2000 (r

[expert] problems with masquerading and NT services

2000-02-27 Thread James Lewis
I have 3 NT workstations on an internal LAN, going through ipmasq (on 2.2.13) which is providing NAT. General services such as web browsing, FTP etc, are working fine but we are experiencing very annoying problems with Microsoft Outlook 2000 (running in 'Corporate Workgroup mode) running on th

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Larry Sword
Mike Hahn wrote: > All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the > last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is? > > Thanks > > M. Hahn I'm running Mandrake-linux Version 7.0 Air, cdrecord-1.8a29-3mdk as provided on the disto. disk. It works for me. Ricoh MP7060A.

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
what all do you use the linux server box for? If it is mainly for file storage and now for a gateway. You will want to look at www.e-smith.org it sets up in 10 minutes make a quite secure firewall, mail server, directory server, file and print server. We use on of these at work an a pentium 120

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 06:38 PM 2/27/00 +0100, Adam Skogman wrote: > > > I WANT: > > > 1) The linux server to be the gate to the external net, posing as > web/ftp/file/ssh-server. > > > 2) The windows machine to be able to use ICQ etc. with it's own IP. > > > > > > How do I do this? I probably need another NIC, but

[expert] misc: block sizes and kppp. . .

2000-02-27 Thread Norvell
1) I noticed that after installing Mandrake 7.0, the block size for my two largest partitions is 4K. Is there any way to change this to 1K, like my other partitions? I'm sure I'll have to reinstall, but since I just started using Mandrake I don't have that much to back up. 2) When I was using

Re: [expert] Freakin' Netscape...

2000-02-27 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Jarmo wrote: > On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: > > John Aldrich écrivit > > > > > > Strange thing...that I coud not remove 4.70 packages...got answer something > > > > about multiple files...? > > > Yep. Two things that'll cause this: 1) you need to rpm -e netscape* > > > t

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems

2000-02-27 Thread M Thompson
Just a thought... Possibly your /etc/isapnp.conf file is corrupt. You could rename your /etc/isapnp.conf file to /etc/isapnp.conf-backup. You could then reboot your PC (Linux shouldn't detect your PNP soundcard). You could then run sndconfig again. The sndconfig proggie will rebuild your /

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Mike Hahn
All of this said. Can I ask for the facts? Does any one know what the last "working" Mandrake disto. of cdrecord is? Thanks M. Hahn "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > I've already solved my own problem. > > The version of cdrecord and/or mkisofs in the Mandrake 7.0 > distribution is broken.

Re: [expert] Freakin' Netscape...

2000-02-27 Thread Jarmo
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich écrivit > > > > Strange thing...that I coud not remove 4.70 packages...got answer something > > > about multiple files...? > > Yep. Two things that'll cause this: 1) you need to rpm -e netscape* > > to remove everything at once. > > Hi, > > You al

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster 64 AWE Problems

2000-02-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I've had the card in and out a couple of times looking for that possibility > too. The card does work on the windows side with seemingly the same settings. > Hmm...do you have the correct driver for that card? Don't recall whether you had to download something f

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Adam Skogman
> Some of my users have windows in dual boot situations but the NetBIOS ports are > dead locally (yep, no Samba) and onto the internet, so their windows are without > network services locally and without support as well (and for that matter, > their Network Neighborhoods aren't loaded with the inf

Re: [expert] Apartment network wishlist

2000-02-27 Thread Adam Skogman
> > I WANT: > > 1) The linux server to be the gate to the external net, posing as >web/ftp/file/ssh-server. > > 2) The windows machine to be able to use ICQ etc. with it's own IP. > > > > How do I do this? I probably need another NIC, but that's ok. But will the passing >of traffic through the

[expert] Login Problems

2000-02-27 Thread Jeff Lang
Anyone here know which files i need to check when i can't loging using the GUI. I had a power failure and i think that some of my files may heve been corrupted. Thankfully my superuser can still login, but if i put in my password and username, the login prompt goes away as if it will login,

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I've already solved my own problem. The version of cdrecord and/or mkisofs in the Mandrake 7.0 distribution is broken. I used the versions included with "scdbackup" and they work just fine. I must say that this is just one of a NUMBER of reasons why I like the mailing list a lot but I never p

[expert] Win95 Problem after Helios Installation

2000-02-27 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
First of all apologies to the Mandrake list for posting here rather than a Win95 list, I figure that I've got a better chance of getting an answer here than on a MS list. A very strange problem has surfaced this morning. I have two machines on a LAN; Igor (a pentium ) and AbNormal (a K6-2/300

Re: [expert] cdrecord woes (and something to try w/r/t blanking)

2000-02-27 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
As a first try, you might want to try giving the -force option and see whether that works for you. But, once again, as seems to happen so often on this list, a topic comes up just as I am about to bring up the subject myself. I am having some severe problems with writing CDs under Mandrake 7.0;

[expert] Nfs Question

2000-02-27 Thread lee binkley
Description System: 1: dell 600 256 meg ram, Mandrake Linux , Network T1. 2: HP-XEnvizex Xterminal 40 meg Ram Problem : I have connected the Xterminal to my Linux system , NFS , example exports file /usr/lib/X11/700X 170.94.232.192(rw,no_root_squash) My Xterminal Keep freezing up.

[expert] cdrecord can't blank cd-rw

2000-02-27 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, I'm just doing my first steps in cd-burning. Hard- and software info: # cdrecord -checkdrive dev=4,0 Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '4,0' scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' Device type: Removable

[expert] licq stuffs up

2000-02-27 Thread Trevor Farrell
I have installed licq off the mandrake 7.0-2 cd, and it works fine except when I type messages they corrupt if I use the shift key in a long line! and suggestions???