[expert] Czech characters on terminal

2000-03-31 Thread Vladimír Marek
Hi, I live in Czech republic and I would like to Linux display czech characters for me. For czech republic is the right encoding iso-8859-2 (latin2). After studying documentation I did theese changes to /etc/sysconfig/i18n: LC_CTYPE=cz_CZ LC_ALL=cs_CZ SYSFONT=ucw16.psf UNIMAP=latin2-ucw.uni But

[expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Trevor Farrell
When I first installed it, I really liked Mdk 7.0-2 - real nifty new installer, supermount, XFree3.3.6, the first graphical install to work with my SiS 6326 chip, ... Yes, I thought it was really nice. Then the cracks started to appear - sound card that worked under Ver 6 wouldn't install under

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-31 Thread Patrick
where can i find this .Thank you -Message d'origine- De : John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : jeudi 30 mars 2000 19:37 Objet : Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help Why are you trying to COMPILE the compiler? Just install the

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-31 Thread Patrick
i haven't mandrake how do then. -Message d'origine- De : John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date : jeudi 30 mars 2000 16:56 Objet : Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: ok you can tell me how

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I must agree that Mdk7 is rather buggy. I've had to reinstall many times and it seemed to act different each time. After two machines, I told friends that they would have to wait or I would install Mdk6 instead. Mdk6 was a successful install the first time and the same everytime. Let's hope

Re: [expert] Weird and weirder... addendum

2000-03-31 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: "Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote: Obs : The WM's work! All of them... So what was wrong? -Stephen- The users can't select one form teh login dialog... Leonardo

[expert] XFree86 version 4 and the SIS 6326 chip

2000-03-31 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, To all who responded to my post a sincere thankyou, especially those who took the time to send me their XF86config files. The Option "sw_cursor" did the trick and I am now using XFree86 4.0. What's more it cured a problem with a second mouse pointer (a small pink square)in VMware.

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
First, you are right: You have managed to hit on all the most serious flaws in v7. I myself would have consigned Mandrake 7 to the trash almost immediately (like your colleague) were it not for the fact that it's the only distribution with X 3.3.6 support, which was the first one that supports

[expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-03-31 Thread Kevin Kallsen
I use ppp to connect our office to the internet through a linux firewall. I noticed that kppp allows you to control to volume (turn off the speakers) on the modem. How would I accomplish the same with ppp? Is there a script I can all to ppp that will turn off the volume on redial? Thanks in

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Hmn. Where to start? Okay -- I like that MandrakeSoft took the step of going to an all graphical install. I've heard people rave about it and I've seen the screenshots, which are nice (though I myself haven't taken the step of moving up) -- but I have a few concerns about what I've been reading

Re: [expert] Weird and weirder... addendum

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: "Leonardo T. de Carvalho" wrote: Obs : The WM's work! All of them... So what was wrong? -Stephen- The users can't select one form teh login dialog... Oh, so your problem persists... I

Re: [expert] i understand nothing thank you for your help

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Patrick wrote: i haven't mandrake how do then. Well, you're on a Mandrake list... You can get all the packages listed below at www.rpmfind.net They're listed there by name and category. -Stephen-

Re: [expert] firewall

2000-03-31 Thread Ron Stodden
_=+Richard+=_ wrote: How do you start the firewall? I have comletly no idea what a firewall is but I heard it protects you from hackersis that right? Read the ipchains HOWTO. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
Trevor Its a bit difficult for me to relate to your problems. I have two machines, one a dual celeron and the other a laptop, both installed and run Mandrake 7.0 (GL edition) without any hassles except for a minor problem with the pcmcia modem initialization that has to do with an interrupt

[expert] smbmount

2000-03-31 Thread Stuart Nixon
hello sorry if this has been covered b4... should smbmount come with mandrake 7?On redhat it comes in the samba-client rpm which when i try install gives the following error: error: failed dependencies: samba-common = 2.0.5a is needed by samba-client-2.0.5a-12 libreadline.so.3 is needed

[expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?

2000-03-31 Thread Andrew Vogel
When I first installed L-M 7.02 over my existing LM install, the new graphical login was different -- it had a listing of users a the top of the login box, and I could click on the name and then just enter the user's password. Now that I've reinstalled it fresh, that's gone. And I'd like it

Re: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Bill Barnes wrote: Someplace in this thread I asked if eLinux.com might not be a reliable vendor for Linux hardware. Take a look at the list of modems in their catalog: USR PCI modems! How many places have I read that PCI modems do not work and, further, recommendations to avoid 3COM/US

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Herman R.willett
Hi: I'm sorry that you feel the way you do about 7.0. I've installed it on 17 machines and it woks perfectly. No problems, not cracks, nothing. May I suggest that you check things out on the hardware and configuration once more. Not to indicate that you have not concidered this. It is just

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Benoit Caron
I feel like a AOL user few years ago, but I can resist to add my 'me too!' to this. At first, I found Mandrake 7 to be a definitively hot linux release. But all the little glitch here and there also made me install back Mandrake 6. And I'm wondering if Red Hat 6.2 won't be ok, after all...

Re: [expert] kfm hang up only with mandrake

2000-03-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Thank's a lot Civileme, it really works ok now. But I don't understant why the same distribution works in some machines but in mine no. I have instaled "the same" cd in others and I haven't have the problem. Maybe the kfm maintainer would try to see it. I

[expert] No tone control

2000-03-31 Thread Mage Grimau
Why don't tone controls appear on the mixer panels? I have tried an Ensonique AudioPCI (es1371 driver) SB PCI512 (emu10k1 driver) SB Live! (emu10k1 driver) They work fine for everything, but I'm old and need to boost the treble a bit for music to sound right to me. = Mage Grimau, Strange

Re: [expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?

2000-03-31 Thread Chunnuan Chen
Set UserView =true in /usr/share/config/kdmrc. Andrew Vogel wrote: When I first installed L-M 7.02 over my existing LM install, the new graphical login was different -- it had a listing of users a the top of the login box, and I could click on the name and then just enter the user's

[expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Brent Pathakis
Hi all, Question. I'm having a strange proble with x. I can start it all right when I log in as root. when I log in using a user account, I get the error: hostname not found I hit ctrl - c twice, and then it boots ok. Anybody else heard of this?

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So please, fix that kind of misbehaving BW look 'n' feel and the kind of bugs : it's hard to advocated Linux vs. Win2K in that kind

[expert] Linux RAID controllers

2000-03-31 Thread Lee Wilson
I have a new system I want to set up with 5 drives, 4 of which I'd like to form into a RAID. What controller card would people recommend for this?

Re: [expert] smbmount

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Stuart Nixon wrote: hellosorry if this has been covered b4... should smbmount come with mandrake 7? On redhat it comes in the samba-client rpm which when i try install gives the following error: error: failed dependencies: samba-common = 2.0.5a is needed by samba-client-2.0.5a-12

Re: [expert] Compaq S3virge GX posting

2000-03-31 Thread Scott Sprunger
I'm the original poster and here is the deal. I finally got mine working but there was one remaining problem: if you exit X then you will have to reboot because console mode will be corrupted until you do. Here is what I did to get mine working... The install installs and sets up the SVGA or

Re: [expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?

2000-03-31 Thread Andrew Vogel
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:29:34 -0800, you wrote: You picked a higher security level on the new install. Only the low security level has all the users listed. Think about it! That makes sense, when I think about it... I'll leave it the way it is... ---

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 BUG?

2000-03-31 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Craig Woods wrote: I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes another one, in Netscape. I was wondering if someone has seen it, and maybe has a fix. The "bug" occurs when you delete your email from the trash bin. It is not deleted off your harddrive. It seems that all you do,

Re: [expert] Graphical Login for LM 7.02?

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Andrew Vogel wrote: When I first installed L-M 7.02 over my existing LM install, the new graphical login was different -- it had a listing of users a the top of the login box, and I could click on the name and then just enter the user's password. Now that I've reinstalled it fresh, that's

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
TrevorI have mdk 7.0 running (as near as I can tell) flawlessly on three machines. At first one of the three would not install 7.0, but 6.1 had installed just fine on it. So I changed the ide cdrom drive to a new one and that solved the problem. But on my main personal system, where mdk

Re: [expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Brent Pathakis
Thanks John, I'll give that a try. --- John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi all, Question. I'm having a strange proble with x. I can start it all right when I log in as root. when I log in using a user account, I get the error: hostname not

Re: [expert] lost interrupt - can't boot [Resend]

2000-03-31 Thread Civileme
Kirk McElhearn wrote: This is a resend of a message originally sent on mercredi 29 mars 2000 9:08:13 On 29/03/00 4:43, John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: Your hdparm is too "aggressive." Your hard drive/controller can't deal with that level of HD access

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 BUG?

2000-03-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:39:05PM -0600, Craig Woods wrote: - I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes another one, in Netscape. I was - wondering if someone has seen it, and maybe has a fix. The "bug" occurs - when you delete your email from the trash bin. It is not deleted off - your harddrive. It

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 BUG?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
Nope. Mine does not do that at all. Looked in ~/nsmail and the Trash file became zero length after I emptied the trash for local mail. My version: netscape-128-common-4.72-1mdk netscape-128-communicator-4.72-1mdk Tom Craig Woods wrote: I just noticed a "buggy" aspect, yes

Re: [expert] Read-Write Access to OS/2 HPFS Partitions

2000-03-31 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:42:46 -0500 Are you specifying all the mount options? Does it specify ro in the fstab entry, perhaps? -- Brian, thanks for the reply. No, the fstab entries are

Re: [expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Brent Pathakis
I'm not sure - I'm still new to linux and I played around with a bunch of stuff in it. The only networking settings I played with were within kppp - just entering my dns #'s for my isp. My work around for now was creating a new user and using that account - just wish I had some idea what would

[expert] NIS problems

2000-03-31 Thread Antoniou, Stylianos
Hi there, I have configured NIS in a small subnet running RedHat6.1 (server) and Mandrake7 (clients and server). I have installed ypbind on the server and works fine (I can get the entries with ypmatch, ypcat etc. without problems.) The yp.conf and nsswitch.conf files on both the server and the

[expert] ssh2

2000-03-31 Thread J A Shamsi
Hello! I have a PIII with Linux Mandrake 7.0 I am trying to install and configure ssh on the box i have found ssh1 to be compatible with mandrake but facing problems with ssh2. I beleive that ssh2 is also not availbale from the ftp site of linux-manrake.org If anyone of u is running ssh2 on

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 BUG?

2000-03-31 Thread Stig
Tom Berkley wrote: Nope. Mine does not do that at all. Looked in ~/nsmail and the Trash file became zero length after I emptied the trash for local mail. My version: netscape-128-common-4.72-1mdk netscape-128-communicator-4.72-1mdk Tom Craig Woods wrote: I just

Re: [expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
The quick way to fix it is to copy your important files from the old user directories to somewhere safe. (/tmp/username will work) Then delete the user and recreate the user. This would get you working again but would not help you find the problem and learn from it. As root use netcfg and look at

Re: [expert] smbmount

2000-03-31 Thread Matt Stegman
Try installing Mandrake RPMs instead of RedHat RPMs. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Stuart Nixon wrote: sorry if this has been covered b4... should smbmount come with mandrake 7? On redhat it comes in the samba-client rpm which when i try install gives the following

Re: [expert] login not possible from dos-network-bootdisk on linux-samba

2000-03-31 Thread Alan N.
Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, i have a linux-samba server installat and configured "enable plain password.." this works fine if i connect with my nt-workstation pc. now i have created a win95-boot-disk with ndis-network-drivers (from DriveImage Pro CD). I can not login on the linux-box

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Civileme
Trevor Farrell wrote: When I first installed it, I really liked Mdk 7.0-2 - real nifty new installer, supermount, XFree3.3.6, the first graphical install to work with my SiS 6326 chip, ... Yes, I thought it was really nice. Then the cracks started to appear - sound card that worked under Ver

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So please, fix that kind of misbehaving BW look 'n' feel and the kind of bugs : it's hard to advocated

[expert] Window Managers

2000-03-31 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, As a consequence of installing XFree86 4.0 I have lost the link from the window manager selections on the login screen to the various window managers. Perhaps I shouldn't have answered yes to all the overwrite questions during the install of 4.0. No matter what I select I get KDE.

Re: [expert] NIS problems

2000-03-31 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
2) After the server is found I log off and try to log on with the username/password entries of the server's maps. I do not get an authentication failure, which means that the entries were found, the username/password form disappears for a couple of seconds but then appears again. I never

Re: [expert] Linux and DVD and Supermount

2000-03-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote: Well, for the most part I like supermount. Yes, it has a few issues, but I do like it. I don't use it on the server, but I do use it on my development machine because I do swap CD's quite often and it does make things more convenient (for the

[expert] Printing et al

2000-03-31 Thread John Rye
Hi all After several weeks GRIN of reinstalling the reinstall from the previous several reinstalls from scratch I finally have Linux 6.1 (I think) running..Well sort of... I have have a couple of problems which have stumped me. I am able to print test pages from printtool but for some reason

Re: [expert] Window Managers

2000-03-31 Thread chunnuan chen
You need to back up and restore those files under /etc/X11/xdm because those files seem not to be installed by XFee86-4.0 but needed by kdm for different window managers. Chunnuan Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, As a consequence of installing XFree86 4.0 I have lost the link from the

[expert] Signature

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all! This may not be an 'expert' question, and if it weren't for the beer, I'd probably feel pretty silly to ask - but here goes: I've seen that quite a few of you use sort of a 'signature' at the end of your message; sometimes it looks like an ascii picture and sometimes it's just a

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
??? I thought that Netscape had releaseed their source code some time ago ?? On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: | On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: | | Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is | definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So | please,

Re: [expert] smbmount

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, I have samba running fine on Mandrake 7.0 "out of the box." Per rpm -qif, it comes from the samba-client package, as you expected. libreadline comes from the readline package. The easiest way to find these dependencies is to use rpmdrake; it will chase down and take care of the

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully. With the RedHat/Mandrake Netscape wrapper script I've had the most stable Netscape since the 2.0 days. I mean that puppy is *stable* now. And the icons are in all those goofy colors that they are supposed to be in. What are you talking about

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
These seem to me to be pretty good representations of two positions which are equally extreme and equally wrong. First, the idea that one much be able to have an entire extra throwaway system, and the habit of referring to those who have trouble getting things working as "ignorant," seem like a

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
And, FWIW, we have a computer that would NOT install Windows (it wouldn't recognize the CD-ROM at install time [sound familiar?]), but Linux went on just fine. Since there is only one Windows distribution, and this is primarily a game machine, we wound up having to replace the hardware. On

Re: [expert] KPPP Vs. PPP

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
The volume is controlled in the modem with ATL. Eg, ATL0 to turn them off. You put this in your chat script someplace. On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: | I use ppp to connect our office to the internet through a linux firewall. I | noticed that kppp allows you to control to volume (turn off

Re: [expert] Signature

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
If you create a file called ~/.signature, then most "traditional" Unix programs will pick it up. On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote: | Hey all! | This may not be an 'expert' question, and if it weren't for the | beer, I'd probably feel pretty silly to ask - but here goes: | | I've seen that

Re: [expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Ah ha! Did you have an existing user account that you left on the disk from a previous install? Probably a new user-id was assigned this time. Try doing this (assuming that the username is "tom"): chown -R tom.tom /home/tom This will make the directory match the userid from the current

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Mage Grimau
According to MUO, Netscape doesn't like 24bpp. I tried it, it came out bw. at 16bpp and 32bpp it looks fine. Now, if I can just get over expecting it to act like IE... --- "Brian T. Schellenberger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully. With the

[expert] 3 button mouse, apollo printer

2000-03-31 Thread Guillermo Belli
Hello: I bought a generic 3 button serial mouse to replace and old one I had. In the console it works as it is supposed to, but in X the third button is no enabled. I specified the "Buttons 3" option in XF86Config, but didn't work. I did also try with the Emulate3Buttons option enabled and

[expert] Mail programs

2000-03-31 Thread Wayne Petherick
I am slowly getting used to Linux and am currently looking for a good GUI mail client. At the mo I am using kmail under Gnome and am looking for something a little more !)attractive, 2)functional. I have tried Mahogany, Eucalyptus, XFMail, XCMail, postilion, tkrat, and just about every other

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Vic
Whoa, what computer combination hardware did you have that would only accept Linux? (Hehe cool) On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger mewed: And, FWIW, we have a computer that would NOT install Windows (it wouldn't recognize the CD-ROM at install time [sound familiar?]), but Linux

Re: [expert] Signature

2000-03-31 Thread Warren Doney
- Original Message - From: "Michael Holt" Hey all! This may not be an 'expert' question, and if it weren't for the beer, I'd probably feel pretty silly to ask - but here goes: I've seen that quite a few of you use sort of a 'signature' at the end of your message; sometimes