[expert] GDM reverts my session choice.... ???

Folks, I've got a fresh install of Mandrake 7.0, with GNOME, enlightenment, and WindowMaker installed, but no KDE. Everything works fine, with the following exception: GDM is managing my display. If I log in normally, it puts me into GNOME environment (with E). I don't want this behavior. S

[expert] Linux/VMware Ram -- How much?

Dear friends: How does VMWare for Linux allocate its RAM for its guest OS? I have an AMD k6-2 400 hrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. As you know, I tried to install Win3.1 as a guest OS on Vmware this past weekend. Strangely enough, it was a total success, including use of the modem, which allowe

Re: [expert] cron

Alan I think that all that is required is to (as root user) chmod +s command_that_cron_runs and make certain that only root has write access to the command file. Tom "Alan N." wrote: > > Hey all.. After a period of inactivity I am back on my work project.. > I'm really close but have some cro

Re: [expert] XFree 4

Well, as a matter of fact, I installed it like 20 minutes ago, and it works nice. I didn't install the rpms though, I took the binaries from www.xfree86.org. But I'm using kde as I'm typing this, so the problem you're having is not XFree 4.0 related. On Mar 21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all:

Re: [expert] minicom permission

Won't make any difference, John. If you chmod a symbolic link, the link still always shows 777 but the file or directory that is pointed to is changed. He has to setuid to root pppd and any other intermediary programs. (chmod +s pppd). Then it will work. Tom John Aldrich wrote: > > On Mon, 20

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 Install Problems

Hello Sean This problem has been experienced by others installing 7.0-2 in addition to yourself. The most common solution seems to have been swapping the cdrom drive for another for install purposes. Hope that this is a possibility for you and that someone else has a better suggestion. Ron Sea

Re: [expert] Data Recovery Help Needed

Sevatio, Why did you use mke2fs? e2fsck is what you should have used. Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > I managed to get one of those blocking errors again and I performed a mk2fs to fix >it. However, all my data is gone from that > drive. Is there a program or a way to recover any data that mig

Re: [expert] NTP time servers

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, William Ahern wrote: > > Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? > > www.ntp.org. Thank you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer B

Re: [expert] howto start prog/server on boot with user account

Harald, Edit the startup command in to the the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local You may have to wrap it thus: kdesu notes -c "/opt/lotus/bin/server" Harald Wolf wrote: > i have a Notes/Domino server installed on my linux box. this server has > to be started > with the user account "notes". > the st

Re: [expert] 7.0-2(?) install scenerio problems (WARNING, long)

Vern, A tip which will help some is to split out your /home directory in your 6.1 to a new partition. Then do a fresh install of 7.0-2 and make sure everything is working (DrakX forgets some RPMs). Then manually mount your home partition to /home to restore your user customisations and data fro

Re: [expert] howto start prog/server on boot with user account

Just stick it at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local. To make it be the account notes, you can either use the "su"commnad to run it, or you can make the server command suid notes. (That is, chown it to be owned by "notes" and then chmod +s it.) On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Hi, | | i have

Re: [expert] cron

Or just edit a plain ol' text file, and then pass it in to the 'cron' command. As he said, just do this as a user. Very easy, very flexible. Eg, make a file like this, called mycron. 10 * * * * /home/myself/bin/ftpget 20 * * * * /home/myself/bin/ftpput 30 11 * * sun /home/myself/bin/cleanup

Re: Re[2]: [expert] X Font Server & Mach64

No, no, just go into rpmdrake or kpackage or whatever and re-install those two packges. Don't re-install the whole system. Don't even re-install the X server, just the base X package. Shouldn't over-write anything important other than your XF86Config, and might not even over-write that, depen

[expert] XFree 4

Hi all: I just downloaded the XFree 4 and related RPMs from rpmfind.net. I made a test install, and KDE did not start. Then I reinstalled 3.3.5, and KDE remained dead. Has anyone managed to install XFree 4 and get KDE to work? I'm using MDK 6.0 with KDE 1.1.2 and kdernel 2.2.14. Thanks. -- Gui

Re: [expert] cron

Uhh, in my opinion it's best to leave cron.hourly and cron.daily alone. Read the manpage; every user can set his own cron up using crontab (editing with crontab -e). It's possible to specify time in a very very flexible way there. For example: every 5 minutes; every 2nd minute after a quarter of

Re: [expert] ipop3d missing (No POP3)

-- > From: Camille Begnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] ipop3d missing (No POP3) > Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:25 PM > > package imap > > Regards, Camille. -- > From: Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

Re: [expert] minicom permission

John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE > > linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I > > used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both > > RedHat & now Mandrake, I

RE: [expert] Where can I find a huge FAQ about INND?

What a load of crock. You don't need a dedicated connection, nor do you need 20-40 GIG to set up a spool. Sure if you are setting up a full feed you need the specs but like most of us how run our own spool for private lans, a dialup connection with a 2 gig news spool partition is A OK! As for FA

[expert] cron

Hey all.. After a period of inactivity I am back on my work project.. I'm really close but have some cron questions.. Here's what I'm doing.. I have a linux box running Mdk 6.1.. It has 2 nics. One has a static internet ip address.. The other has an address that is in the range of 2 SGI machi

Re: [expert] minicom permission

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE > linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I > used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both > RedHat & now Mandrake, I'm denied permission to /dev/mo

Re: [expert] (slight off topic) enabling sound

I think it would be nice if they would mail you a CD, being that you pay $20 for the stuff, I would like to think that its on good hard mediah. Just my 2c On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, kaygee mewed: > Yamaha PCI cards are not supported by the kernel sound subsystem > (OSS/Free) because they a

Re: [expert] system commander

You need to create a 20Mb partition that resides below the 1024th cylinder. When installing Linux, mount this small partition as /boot. HTH, Matt >From: Lorne Schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [expert] system com

[expert] minicom permission

I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both RedHat & now Mandrake, I'm denied permission to /dev/modem when I try to start the program. I'

Re: [expert] Adding SSL to Apache via RPM?

Can you tell me the exact error message? You need openssl to use mod_ssl by the way. Jean-Michel Dault Corporate Developer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Andrew Vogel wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:13:18 -0500 > From: Andrew Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KPPP vs Win98

Vern wrote: > Well here's maybe an easy one for you gurus to answer, I have thesame > internet hookup from Mandrake 7.0 and Win98, but the mdkconnect gets > "bumped" offline after 10-15 min. whether I'm browsingdownloading or > getting email/newsgroups. Any clues? What tweaksam I missing? MTU's?

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 Install Problems

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I downloaded the iso for mandrake 7.02 and > burned to a CD. I then booted this CD on my > P133 Mhz system. I did NOT get any cool > graphical installer. I got the generic installer. > And when I tried to install It hangs on > initializing the CDROM step. > How d

Re: [expert] Serial Port Digital Camera

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, > I Have a kodak dc20 digital. I obtained the software > drivers for it but when It scans the ports (ttys0) What drivers ? I use the dc20pack ( look at freshmeat) and it works fine ... > is not there... I checked the system info and I see no > irq assi

Re: [expert] enabling sound

Yamaha PCI cards are not supported by the kernel sound subsystem (OSS/Free) because they aren't documented extensively enough. You could however fork over the $20.00 for the OSS/Commercial sound drivers which I believe will power the Yamaha PCI boards. Go to www.opensound.com for more info. Kei

Re: [expert] Procmail

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:33:06AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: -> On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:45:51AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: -> -> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:19:35PM -0700, thus spake Charles Curley: -> -> -> -> -> You need to invoke procmail - I do it direct from my -> -> .fetchmailrc wi

Re: [expert] enabling sound

First try running the following at a console: "sndconfig" If that doesn't work, then proceed to try Lothar. There should be a shortcut on your desktop. HTH, Matt >From: Lorne Schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [e

[expert] system commander

I'm trying to set up system commander to select my os when I boot (I've got to use Windows for work occasionally).  My root partition starts at block 1600 (which is greater that 1023), so everyone has a problem with it.  Any ideas? Thanks, Lorne   --  Lorne Schachter   (732) 819-0

[expert] How can I manage postfix ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, until now I allways used sendmail ... Is there a configuration tool for postfix ? How can I manage my mail-query ? by michael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: Bz6YkqM+jRNAk24ui1eUvfpZTkl93ng+ Comme

[expert] enabling sound

I've got a Yamaha 724 PCI sound card.  I keep trying to install, but it tells me that my OS doesn't have sound enabled.  I'm running 7.0 off a CD that I got at Linux World.  How do I get sound enabled? Thanks, Lorne Schachter --  Lorne Schachter   (732) 819-0460, (732)819-0460 (FA

Re: [expert] 7.0-2(?) install scenerio problems (WARNING, long)

- Original Message - From: Joseph S. Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 9:13 AM Subject: [expert] 7.0-2(?) install scenerio problems (WARNING, long) > Greetings all, > > I appologize for the length > > Over the weekend I ins

[expert] KPPP vs Win98

Well here's maybe an easy one for you gurus to answer, I have the same internet hookup from Mandrake 7.0 and Win98, but the mdk connect gets "bumped" offline after 10-15 min. whether I'm browsing downloading or getting email/newsgroups. Any clues? What tweaks am I missing?  MTU's?  port speed? 

Re: [expert] Does Mandrake have false or misleading advertisement?

Marcos Dione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dev Null wrote: > > > I can't remember the name of one of them, I think it was the "Complete" edition. > > It showed on the back 3 or 4 different books (Linux how-to) and labeled them as > > "Linux Library". > > f**kers, may

Re: [expert] NTP time servers

Vincent Danen wrote: > Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net > Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 > Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org http://www

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 Install Problems

Unsurprising that the graphical installer did not come up. My older, less capable systems don't, and then they come up in 16 color mode after the CD is initialized. I have had this error burning CDs at 4X and 2X for OLDER drives. Burning at 1X seems to have cured it though it means I have to fi

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 on Dell PowerEdge with RAID

Joe Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is when I reboot I cannot mount the drive and I get the > following error: cannot open root dev 8:05 unable to mount root fs on > 8:05. it should work, but initrd is mandatory. Is the boot process using one?

Re: [expert] ipop3d missing (No POP3)

The ipop3d is part of the imap package, and is not installed by default. Install it with: rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/imap-4.7-7mdk.i586.rpm Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Christopher Cox wrote: > Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:14:04 -0500 > From: Christopher Cox <[EM

Re: [expert] ipop3d missing (No POP3)

Christopher Cox wrote: > > Hi guy's, > > Just tried to have workstations jump into my Mandrake 6.0 server to > retrieve their mail to discover my install has ipop3d missing. Where do I > look on the CD-ROM's for it? package imap Regards, Camille.

Re: [expert] Data Recovery Help Needed

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: > I managed to get one of those blocking errors again and I performed a mk2fs to fix >it. However, all my data is gone from that > drive. Is there a program or a way to recover any data that might still be on there? > > Seve mke2fs would likely make any data qu

Re: [expert] NTP time servers

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? > I found a pretty good list when I downloaded TARDIS for Windows. :-) it's included in the documentation. Then again, I also found a pretty good list out on the web somewhere. Sorry, but it's been a while back. You mig

[expert] ipop3d missing (No POP3)

Hi guy's, Just tried to have workstations jump into my Mandrake 6.0 server to retrieve their mail to discover my install has ipop3d missing. Where do I look on the CD-ROM's for it? Thanks Christopher Cox

Re: [expert] Procmail

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:45:51AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: -> On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 03:19:35PM -0700, thus spake Charles Curley: -> -> You need to invoke procmail - I do it direct from my -> .fetchmailrc with tbhis line:- -> -> mda '/usr/bin/procmail -f - RCPT=%T /home/glyn/.procmailrc'

Re: [expert] NTP time servers

Vincent Danen wrote: > Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net > Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 > Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org check out

Re: [expert] Data Recovery Help Needed

Brian, thanks for the help though. I can only laugh at what happened and be glad that I'm not experiencing those daily windurz-crashes. Jeezzz, I've got to fix the segfaults with Taper. Seve -Original Message- From: Brian T. Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[E

Re: [expert] Samba printing and modem problems

Hi folks, Good (and bad) news. I fixed the Samba printing problem. There was nothing wrong with my smb.conf file or samba, the problem was with lpr. I fixed it by downgrading lpr from the lpr-0.48-1mdk package in Mandrake 7 to the lpr-0.38-3mdk in Mandrake 6.1. This looks like a bug to me (Mand

Re: [expert] NTP time servers

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net > Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 > Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org

RE: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > John, > I have added 128M of ram to 64MB, I did not say I upgraded to 128Mb, hence > the 192/191 > Thanks. I've been beaten about the head and shoulders because I missed that... and deservedly so. :-) John

[expert] NTP time servers

Where can I get a list of NTP time servers? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net Freezer Burn BBS: telnet://bbs.freezer-burn.org . ICQ: 54924721 Webmaster for the Linux Portal Site Freezer Burn: http://www.freezer-burn.org

[expert] Mandrake 7.02 Install Problems

I downloaded the iso for mandrake 7.02 and burned to a CD. I then booted this CD on my P133 Mhz system. I did NOT get any cool graphical installer. I got the generic installer. And when I tried to install It hangs on initializing the CDROM step. Yes, I have an ATAPI Cdrom. I've installed every oth

RE: [expert] stupid Xfree86 4.0 question

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Tried this, with no different results, but I may have done something (else) > wrong. First thing I noticed was that my xinitrc file didn't actually > exist. So, I just put the line "startkde" in it and saved it off. startx > brought up the Plain X11 screen. > Tr

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > John Aldrich wrote: > > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > > > > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by

Re: [expert] do you know....?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > hi, > i often use Pine .but i remark that to every connexion pine ask me my password.i >would 'want know how put a passwd in pine for that i don't write it at every >connexion thank yoou for your help > koch > Con

Re: [expert] X Font Server & Mach64

You probably deleted files from /tmp. Owing to a Mandrake bug that civilme recently diagnosed based on my trouble report, this can cause trouble. The only known fix is to re-install X and the X font server. On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: | OS: LM 6.1 | Graphics Card: ATI Rage Mach64 | RAM: 12

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > Hello All, > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > > however no such luck. > > Can anyone help me on how

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > At 09:13 AM 03/20/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M > > to my > > > > original 64M, and would

[expert] Where is "tdfx.o" ?

Hello all in the list. A quick question about XFree 4.0 which I'd like to install (from the Mandrake Cooker's rpms). I read the docs, and in the DRI user's manual, it says that you have to activate a kernel module "tdfx.o" (for 3Dfx hardware). There does not seem to be any module with this name

Re: [expert] duplicate cron jobs?

At 09:07 AM 03/20/2000 -0600, Bug Hunter wrote: > send an exact copy of your cron job. > > I once had an extra * in the cron job time list, and it tried to run >every script in my home directory. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.17278 installed on Sun M

RE: [expert] Memory upgrade

John, I have added 128M of ram to 64MB, I did not say I upgraded to 128Mb, hence the 192/191 Regards   Fred de Klein   tel: 01908 656106 (w)   0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL

Re[2]: [expert] Memory upgrade

Civileme wrote: > If you have > OS/2 enabled in the BIOS, it never will see more than 64M without > help. Is that the reason? I wondered why my pretty new BIOS wasn't telling Linux what it needed to know, since both the BIOS and Win98 reported my 124M. Which brings me to another point, I had to

[expert] Adding SSL to Apache via RPM?

I've got Mandrake 7.02 installed. I've used RPMs the whole way, and now I need to install SSL to my Apache setup. However, when I extract the SSL RPM and relaunch Apache, it fails to start citing an error... Am I missing something? ---

Re: [expert] Data Recovery Help Needed

No, mke2fs is a "format" command. It's not a good way to recover . . . If you are going to attempt any recovery from disk errors, it's always a good idea to backup first. Hope you backed up sometime; otherwise, you're just SOL. On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: | I managed to get one of those

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

John Aldrich wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hello All, > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > > > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > > > however no such lu

Re: [expert] pcmcia service causes protection fault

1) Drakconf --> Startup Services or 2) ntsysv (uncheck the pcmcia startup) 3) edit /etc/conf.modules and comment out the line starting pcmcia services Tom Harald Wolf wrote: > > Hi, > > i have installed PowerLinux 6.5 (kernel 2.2.13) on my notebook. > if i activate the PCMCIA service on in

RE: [expert] stupid Xfree86 4.0 question

Tried this, with no different results, but I may have done something (else) wrong. First thing I noticed was that my xinitrc file didn't actually exist. So, I just put the line "startkde" in it and saved it off. startx brought up the Plain X11 screen. The annoying thing is that I used the xf86co

RE: [expert] New "features" in Mandrake 7.0

Heh, maybe when I'm not working 10 to 14 hour days I hate crunch mode. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Berkley Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] New "features" in Mandrake 7.0

Re: [expert] Netscape Settings, Bookmarks, & Etc

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:23:47AM +0100, Rial Juan wrote: -> -> Bookmarks are in ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html -> -> Never tried to link them so root and another user had the same links, but if you -> make sure the file is world readable/writable, and set the link pointing from -> the root-dir to

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

At 09:13 AM 03/20/2000 -0500, John Aldrich wrote: >On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Hello All, > > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M > to my > > > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake > automat

RE: [expert] How To Kill An Application From Command Line?

If you know the names of the programs, the line killall -9 programname1 programname2 programname3 will kill the programs, hard. It is always better to just try a killall before you do a killall -9. You can use the command line ps ax | grep programname and the first thing on the line

Re: [expert] duplicate cron jobs?

send an exact copy of your cron job. I once had an extra * in the cron job time list, and it tried to run every script in my home directory. On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > Has anyone noticed duplicate cron jobs being run? It doesn't happen all > the time, so it may no

[expert] do you know....?

hi, i often use  Pine .but i remark that to every connexion pine ask me my password.i would 'want know how put a passwd in pine for that i  don't write it at every connexion thank yoou for your help koch

[expert] X Font Server & Mach64

OS: LM 6.1 Graphics Card: ATI Rage Mach64 RAM: 128MB Processor: 200MHz Intel II My system was operating just fine until yesterday. I made some changes to a couple of directories, which only had data files, not system files in them. However, upon reboot I got the following: I saw the normal star

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

in /etc/lilo.conf add the following line append="mem=192M" Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > however no such luck. > Can anyo

[expert] 7.0-2(?) install scenerio problems (WARNING, long)

Greetings all, I appologize for the length Over the weekend I install what I think was 7.0-2 over my very nicely working 6.1 and had several rather annoying problems that I hope someone can answer. System: ADM K6-2 350 64M RAM Diamond StealthIII video Sound Blaster Live yada, yada, yada Fi

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hello All, > > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > > however no such luck. > > Can anyone help me on how to

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: > Hello All, > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > however no such luck. > Can anyone help me on how to do this. > First question: Is bios seei

[expert] pcmcia service causes protection fault

Hi, i have installed PowerLinux 6.5 (kernel 2.2.13) on my notebook. if i activate the PCMCIA service on installation i get a general protection fault on startup. where can i manually deactivate this PCMCIA service ? have anyone have a tip for my problem ?

[expert] howto start prog/server on boot with user account

Hi, i have a Notes/Domino server installed on my linux box. this server has to be started with the user account "notes". the start-command is "/opt/lotus/bin/server" how to i configure so that this server starts automatically after reboot ?

Re: [expert] Samba printing and modem problems

Hi, Thanks for yor response. You got me thinking on the right track, and the problem may be solved. To force the serial_cs module to take IRQ 3, I put "options serial_cs irq=3" into the /etc/conf.modules file. Now, to solve the samba printing problem ... Tom Berkley wrote: > Dell I7K laptop, s

[expert] Auto install

Trying to use Auto install method from Mandrake 7-02, I experienced a problem. I use a auto_inst.cfg.pl file generated during the CD based install. Installation stops at: Setup Filesystems error : ( I noticed that size of file systems was expressed in blocks, whereas required in bytes in the ins

Re: [expert] X Won't Start

Hi, This looks like an authentication problem, since it says "xinit: Connection refused..." You can try deleting (or renaming) the .Xauthority file in your home directory. This contains MIT Magic cookie information authenticating the user to connect to the X server. You can have this problem if

[expert] RPM Question

When i start rpm --REBUILD for wich cpu does it compile? i have a P II and in the build-process there are many *i386*directories used. can anybody help me?

Re: [expert] PCMCIA image?

On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > Anyone know where we can download the "official" fixed PCMCIA image > for Mandrake 7.02? > John If you can't find somewhere to download the "fixed" image from, here's a step-by-step list of what I did to make a fixed boot disk. The following assume

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

Hi, Just put a append="mem=192M" in /etc/lilo.conf. Just put it after the image-entry. then you have to install lilo again with lilo Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > original 64M, and would expect it

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the line append="mem=192M" then run lilo by typing lilo at the prompt. Reboot and see what it says. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:39 AM Subject: [expert] Memory upgrade > Hello All, > t

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my > original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, > however no such luck. > Can anyone help me on how to do this. > > Your help much appreciated. >

Re: [expert] error message

On Mar 19 Wayne wrote: > Anyone shed anylight on what this means? > > > /usr/X11R6/bin/abiword: line 34: 4043 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > $ABISUITE_HOME/bin/AbiWord_d "$@" Hi, abiword received a signal SIGSEGV (11), because tried to store a value in a const object or tried to a

RE: [expert] Mandrake & Netware

Since Kernel 2.X.Y, ncpfs is included in the kernel, so that you don't have to get it separately and compile it. You just have to check 'Yes' for ncpfs support when you recompile your kernel. Regarding precisely "nw-auth", I don't know at all. For me, it has worked correctly! ;-) Regards Mathie

[expert] Memory upgrade

Hello All, this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, however no such luck. Can anyone help me on how to do this. Your help much appreciated. Regards   Fred de Klein   tel: 01908 656106