Re: [expert] More fonts

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Depends on your screen resolution. The 100 dpi fonts work well with 1280x1024 and the 75 dpi fonts work best with 1024x768. Other rez I have not played with. Tom Pat Mc wrote: In my quest to improve my system and Netscape fonts I found something interesting. The 100dpi and 75dpi fonts were

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
With regard to home directories, I've found it most useful to have seperate /home partitions that hold all the config files and all that, and a /home2 partition, which can be shared. On this partition each user gets another directory that they own, and then they can put "big" stuff that will be

Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, to ask the obvious . . . You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and re-install them as "network" printers, right? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: | | Tell me - has the print server itself been configured

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Civileme
Lane Lester wrote: HUGE SNIP /sbin/askrunlevel That is a SYMLINK to /bin/linuxconf * WHat is the output of cat /var/run/runlevel.dir Civileme

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread Civileme
Sevatio Octavio wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Seve Wrapped around istelf shortly after initialization with a window leak VEry slow to resize windows but will take fonts readily Makes the linux-mandrake page look ugly and muddy till you override

Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem

2000-04-06 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
I had a similar problem with a previous install, it ocuured oddly enough after I had repositioned the swap space to a different area of the drive from before and was gone after I moved the swap back to the end of the drive. I have a 4.3gig hard drive broken up into partitions like this (give or

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-06 Thread Rial Juan
mhh... Forgot early versions of DirectX then? A higher version of DirectX always got overwritten by a lower version, if you installed a game that shipped with a lower version than the one curently installed on the system. And the fun part was: it always asked you if you wanted to overwrite the

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread Civileme
Craig Woods wrote: Are you using a Linux version of this browser, and if so, where did you find that little hummer? Thanks, Craig I am using a linux version. I downloaded it from the AOL (err... Netscape) site. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub, etc which you can find at www.netscape.com.

RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Bill Shirley
I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk McElhearn Sent:

Re: [expert] Wild Netscape Hunter-Killer

2000-04-06 Thread Rial Juan
On Apr 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Once the pid of a running netscape process is discovered, then top # is started, with output to /tmp/.netshk and killed by killall after # after 3 seconds So if I'm getting this correct, "top" is launched, and killed by "killall" 3 seconds later.

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tboldtbefore you went to all of that trouble, did you try cbb? It's already installed on your system if you didn't deselect it durring installation. Alan tboldt wrote: I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have ported my applications that I

[expert] OT: Game Developers

2000-04-06 Thread Pj
Does anyone remember the old DOS version of Shanghai Dragon's Eye? It was a very advanced version of Maj Jongg with animated tiles, championship matches and the ability to create your own layout among other things. This company has since gone on to Internet games, however they are willing to

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Pj
I didn't see any support for Linux partitions, but then I did not read the 'primer'. Pj Bill Shirley wrote: I would suggest using the Ranish Partition Manager. It is also a mutiple boot loader. And it's free! http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/ Hope this helps, Bill

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Kirk McElhearn
On 6/04/00 7:21, Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have said: See what I mean? I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as

[expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Glyn Millington
This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m" to lilo.conf with no effect. Can anyone tell me what is going on

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Dan Westlake
Hi Glyn Change it to append ="mem=32M" then type lilo enter to run the change and reboot. - Original Message - This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it

[expert] Sendmail

2000-04-06 Thread Deim goston
HI ! I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the "sendmail -q" line sufficient ? (Written into the ip-up or ip-up.local file). And what happens

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: I believe that the reason you get a totally blank screen when you just do a startx is because you have an empty .xinitrc. Since you have a .xinitrc the system one dosn't run 'cause it thinks you want to replace it with your own, but yours doesn't do

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Cox
Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each X server probably needs one ... Thanks for your concern Jean, but I only need to display some real-time

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Cox
Not sure, but "multihead support" in XFree 4.0 perhaps? Or is it for dual-head matrox cards only? Hello Rial, It would appear you and Marcos are on to something. I see where the Xfree86-4 drivers can be designated PCI slots. This looks encouraging. Regards Christopher Cox

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Cox
Since PlugPray allows for multiple PCI VGA boards Is there a way to start multiple X servers against multiple PCI VGA boards? er... nop and yes... er.. only with xfree4 and having TOO much luck! see www.xfree.org for more info. No, I hadn't set up such thing... yet. LOL...

RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread fred . deklein
Hve you restarted Lilo??? Regards   Fred de Klein   tel: 01908 656106 (w)   0780 8254445(mob) http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it http://www.bigfoot.com/~klein_it -Original Message- From: Glyn Millington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 April 2000 09:49 To: Mandrake Expert

Re: [expert] Sendmail

2000-04-06 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_Ágoston?= wrote: HI ! I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the "sendmail -q" line sufficient ?

Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets

2000-04-06 Thread Marcos Dione
yes... you can buy the oss drivers (just $20; www.opensound.com) and it will go smooth! -- "No tire sus colillas en el mingitorio, las humedece y las hace dificil de encender" "Do not dump butts in the wc. They dampen and it makes them difficult to light."

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:13PM -0400, tboldt wrote: - I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am - almost there. I have ported my applications that I use consistently. The - - only application I have yet to obtain for Linux is a replacement for my - checkbook,

[expert] cron problem.

2000-04-06 Thread Dan Owens
I recently changed from Suse 6.2 to Mandrake 7.0 (and it is quite cool), with a fresh install, and now have an odd cron problem. My crontab has this in it: 30 22 * * * /root/backup and /root/backup is this: #!/bin/bash cd /pub tar cvzf mtn.tar.gz /home/mtn /pub/redmeadow /home/support /etc

RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Bill Shirley
Ranish Partition Manager does support Linux partitions. I like the text based boot manager best. It allows you to type the number of the partition to boot or type zero to go directly into the partition manager. Pretty easy to use, also. Just remember, when resizing a partition, to use the +

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency! I'm only guessing - is the kernel using up 9 MB? and panics when not allowed that space? All explantions welcome! TIA Glyn On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 06:48:11AM -0400, thus

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: This is an old question but for me its a new machine. It's an AMd K6 450 with 32 mb RAM (soon to be increased!) On firing up Mandrake 7 (with kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk), it tells me I have 23MB ram. I've added append = "mem=32m"

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Christopher Cox wrote: - - Well, so the hardware allows you to have several _screens_. - - Now, what about input ? Several mouses are supported too, - but AFAIK you can't have several keyboards in a PC, and each - X server probably needs one ...

Re: [expert] Sendmail

2000-04-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 12:53:10PM +0200, Deim Agoston wrote: - HI ! - - I have a little LAN at home where my Linux is the "mail-server". Or - it should be. What should I do that the sendmail send all of the - qued mails when I'm connected to the inet via PPP ? Is the - "sendmail -q" line

[expert] LT Winmodem

2000-04-06 Thread Carter B. Bennett
Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? -- Carter B. Bennett Little House Computer Services (LHCS)

Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Marcos Dione
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Bois, Mathieu wrote: When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... er... have you tried the pcmcia.img boot floppy? the cd boots the cdrom.img boot floppy, which has no (or too poor) pcmcia support... --

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Russ Johnson
For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not part of the problem. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane Lester Sent: Thursday,

Re: [expert] Multiple VGA Cards = Multiple X sessions ?

2000-04-06 Thread Rial Juan
Not even when using let's say multiple USB keyboards? Or one regular keyboard, and a ps-2 one? Or any mixture of regular/ps2/usb keyboards? I believe this was already discussed on the linux kernel list (not sure, but I heard a friend talk about it who's subscribed), so in theory it should be

Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba

2000-04-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
Yes of course, all the "obvious" stuff has been done! ; - ) On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Well, to ask the obvious . . . You did delete the old "local" printers from the Windows machine(s) and re-install them as "network" printers, right? Harondel J. Sibble

[expert] installing from hd that has a dir mounted to cdrom ????

2000-04-06 Thread Orkunt Sabuncu
Is this possible? I mean how can i do this i hope it is but i couldnt. In more detail, I want to boot with an image file ( possibly hd.img) and select a hd partition ( this can include the minimum requirement of the Mandrake/ directory tree ex: all the dirs - base, instimage, mdkinst, RPMS

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Glyn Millington
That's it - the graphics board uses 8MB. Thanks for this; glad I don't need to play with Lilo any more! TVM Glyn M. On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:32:29PM +0200, thus spake Wolfgang Bornath: On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:48 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: This is an old question but for me its a

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread vern
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: And I hammered away for an hour over a DSL connection to bring in the 10Mb or so (Mozilla M14 was only 6 , the other 4 must be Shopping, Channels, sidebar, and AOL IM Chat). They managed to slow M14 considerably by adding a newsfeed in the sidebar which I

Re: [expert] Sendmail

2000-04-06 Thread Marcos Dione
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Charles Curley wrote: You shouldn't have to do anything. If sendmail is running as a daemon, it will try from time to time and eventually suceed. You will have messages from sendmail complaining that it could not deliver message X for the last four hours. Other than that

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Civileme
Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it threw The kernel footprint is about 500K.  This is not windows where it runs about 4Mb (at least for NT) A kernel panic when?  When you ran LILO?  When you rebooted as well or just when you rebooted? What does your BIOS say when it tests

Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Harondel J. Sibble" wrote: On 5 Apr 00, at 15:10, Stephen Bosch wrote: Tell me - has the print server itself been configured properly? Print servers usually have eeproms which need to be configured, and usually this can only be done through a Windows or DOS app that is provided with the

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the 640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.) On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Wow! I tried this and it threw my kernel into a panic - had to | dig out the rescue disk etc. My first real emergency! | | I'm only guessing -

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Sure. Whatever. You can create 'em ahead of time, create 'em on the first install, or create 'em as you go (just leave the end of the disk un-paritioned on the first install). IF you have the 1024-cylindar problem, though, you'll have to create all the /boot paritions on the first install.

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, I'm running 7.0.2, so I don't know if there are any updates. I guess I could install the initscripts and wipe out any customizing I've done, if you think it's a good idea. Unless the name of the file is initscripts.rpm, I might need some help

Re: [expert] LT Winmodem

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Carter B. Bennett" wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? I recall seeing something

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: Has anyone tried out Netscape 6 pr1 yet? If so, please share. Yes. I've got a K6-2 3xx here with 32 mb RAM and plenty of drive space. I downloaded and extracted it. I started it up and it really didn't do anything. Looked interesting, but that's about it. YMMV,

Re: [expert] Any Sparc/Linux users out there

2000-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm looking for any sort of help, or possibly alternate kernels (without PCI support) from somebody that runs Sparc/Linux We've got a Sparc5 that wouldn't install Linux. RedHat (up through 6.1) said it wasn't supported. We downloaded the ISO for RedHat 6.2 and

Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets

2000-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, you wrote: No one in Australia can install Linux? Jeanette The system is in San Francisco, I think, while the author is in Sydney. :-) John

[expert] syslog stopped working?

2000-04-06 Thread Bob Chin
After about 4 days of uptime, klogd stopped working. I use ipchains and ip masquerading and noticed that /var/log/messages stoppped logging denied packets and other info like kernel: ip_masq_ftp OUT: got PASV. After I restarted syslog, it started logging again. Anyone experienced this before.

[expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-06 Thread ArMiSiS AiEoLn
Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LINUX - Why? Cause I dont do windows -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [expert] LT Winmodem

2000-04-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just jerkin my yang? It *may* support SOME LT

RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Russ Johnson
Is it possible you have one of those systems that "shares" the ram with the video? In that case, you're motherboard is using 8 megs of ram for video, leaving you 23 megs for the system. Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glyn

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the 640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.) Actually (and I don't like Micro$oft), Bill didn't have much to do with this. IBM designed the PC with 10 times as much

[expert] RE: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Bois, Mathieu
pcmcia.img boot floppy Thank you all of you for your very useful answer ! I've done it and I've been able to initiate MDK7.0R2 installation, but it didn't work from CDROM, so I did it from a copy done to local HD (this kind of installation didn't wanted to work yesterday).

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Civileme wrote: Glyn Millington wrote: Wow! I tried this and it threw The kernel footprint is about 500K. This is not windows where it runs about 4Mb (at least for NT) SNIP As it turned out, he had a motherboard that shared system memory with the onboard video. Linux puked because he

Re: [expert] LT Winmodem

2000-04-06 Thread Warren Doney
Well mine works with 7.0 found the driver @ www.linmodems.org tho... -WBD - Original Message - From: "Carter B. Bennett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 2:49 AM Subject: [expert] LT Winmodem Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo

[expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Bois, Mathieu
Help ! I'm unable to make Mandrake recognize the modem on this laptop. It is an integrated modem (windows98 says it is V90, irq4, ioports 1880-1887 and 1400-14ff) Lothar takes a long time to look for one, but finally doesn't find it. I can't see nothing regarding it in the kernel messages. Do

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread Nom Sandgorgon
I tried it. Command line start.. debug screen... crashed. I gave up after 3 tries.. - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested On Wed, 05 Apr

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not | part of the problem. | | Russ | |

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-06 Thread tboldt
Alan Shoemaker wrote: tboldtbefore you went to all of that trouble, did you try cbb? It's already installed on your system if you didn't deselect it durring installation. Alan tboldt wrote: I am attempting to switch totally from OS/2-Windows to Linux. I am almost there. I have

Re: [expert] Any Sparc/Linux users out there

2000-04-06 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
John Aldrich wrote: We've got a Sparc5 that wouldn't install Linux. RedHat (up through 6.1) said it wasn't supported. We downloaded the ISO for RedHat 6.2 and it installed fine, except we had to use the "text expert" install. Unfortunately, I don't THINK Mandrake supports this model (yet?)

[expert] USB Mouse Support.

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher M. Kopp
During my installation of 7.0.2, I was using an USB Mouse. The installation program addressed the mouse properly and allowed me to use it during my install. However, once I completed the install X Windows does not seem to recognize my mouse. During installation I chose my mouse type as USB mouse.

Re: [expert] syslog stopped working?

2000-04-06 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 13:48 -0400, Bob Chin wrote: After about 4 days of uptime, klogd stopped working. I use ipchains and ip masquerading and noticed that /var/log/messages stoppped logging denied packets and other info like kernel: ip_masq_ftp OUT: got PASV. After I restarted syslog, it

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Russ Johnson
Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line in inittab. If it does, you

[expert] RE: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Stout, Wayne
What kind of modem does Win98 say it is? I know that the modem on my Travelmate 512 is a winmodem, and I've never had any luck using the linmodem drivers. BeOS, however, sees the modem and works like a champ. HTH, Wayne -Original Message- From: Bois, Mathieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Wayne Petherick
Have you tried typing lilo to effect your changes? On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 09:48:45 +0100 To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

Re: [expert] Problems with Intel Netport Printserver and Samba

2000-04-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
After a pretty much all day troubleshooting session, the problem is solved, samba was using by default the wrong printing command. I added the following to my printers share and now all is well: print command = lpr %p %s On 6 Apr 00, at 2:05, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Well, to ask the

Re: [expert] gnucash

2000-04-06 Thread jfmurphy
I installed the beta version 1.3.1 from the Mandrake Cooker RPMS. It's a new beta version, I think the stable version is 1.2. something or other. On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Has anyone else installed gnucash under Mandrake Linux??? if so, how??? No - i'll look

Re: [expert] Netscape 6 pr1 Feedback Requested

2000-04-06 Thread Alan N.
Craig Woods wrote: Are you using a Linux version of this browser, and if so, where did you find that little hummer? Thanks, Craig Yep. Netscape's site. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Coming to you from

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Matt Stegman
I think I get it. But how do I actually go about making the partitions? When I install Mandrake, I get a partitioner. Do I do it all at that time? (I am planning to do a clean Mandrake install as the first OS on the new disk.) Or do I need to partition the HD before installing

[expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-06 Thread Richard Bonebrake
I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my isp. I am totally lost with Linux to

RE: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Matt Stegman
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bill Shirley wrote: After installing the boot manager, you can use Ranish, DiskDrake, or any other program to define your Linux partitions. You won't need lilo at all. Don't you? You still need something that will read into the ext2 filesystem and locate the kernel.

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Civileme
Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: If that's the case, then why does deleting that line solve the problem? On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: | For what it's worth, you'll need the line in inittab for X to start in | runlevel 5. If you start in runlevel 3, that line is never run, so it's not |

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Ron Stodden
Kirk McElhearn wrote: Or do I need to partition the HD before installing anything? Good partitioning is so essential to the running of any multiple-OS computer that it isn't worth taking any risks with (like tyres on a car, and the battery in cold climates). Partition Magic is mature, well

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Lane Lester
Russ Johnson said: Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3. This is controlled by the first line

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-06 Thread Alan N.
Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine to my os2 machine to my

RE: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Lane Lester
Russ Johnson said: Is it possible you have one of those systems that "shares" the ram with the video? In that case, you're motherboard is using 8 megs of ram for video, leaving you 23 megs for the system. Good point. I had that problem until I used "mem=124M" because my onboard video uses

Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Craig Woods
Yes, most internal modems coming in laptops are "winmodems" But this is hardly a setback! My laptop came with such a modem, and I have never once used it. I went straight for my Zoom PCMCIA Modem card, and I have never looked back since. On my laptop, NT4.0 SP5 and LM7.02 love the baud right out

[expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-06 Thread Craig Woods
Hello, Just looking for a little info: just upgraded Netscape v4.7 to v4.72. For some inexplicable reason, there was a bit of hacking I needed to do but most came out for the better. One little residual hang up is in the AddressBook for the Netscape mail client. This Netscape upgrade was done

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, there's theory, and then there's practice. In practice, it solved his problem. But I do see what you're saying now . . . what he's done, really, presumably, is that he's still in runlevel 5 but now runlevel 5 doesn't really do what it ought. So this solves his problem but it's not the

Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
B Try this as root: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try ttyS0) start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to see if it will find the modem if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get yourself a 3Com 3CCM156

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified

[expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-06 Thread Trevor Farrell
In the ongoing tradition of "weird wacky" Ver 7.0-2 problems: If I log into KDE as usual, then Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to a text console all goes well, until I Alt-F7 to get back to KDE. All I get is a black screen. The only keyboard combo that does anything that I can find is Ctrl-Alt-Del, which

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Yes, the last line in /etc/inittab could stay in and not cause a problem. What he had was the standard last line that is altered only if you want to have kde startup for a graphical login. Its presence is not the problem, definitely. I have had that last line in about 6 different linux installs

Re: [expert] USB Mouse Support.

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Run mouseconfig from the shell prompt and see what happens. Two things to look at also: 1) /dev/mouse and see what it points to (hopefully the usb device file) and 2)recompile the kernel but if the install recognized it then it should be in the installed kernel functionality but that does not

Re: [expert] LT Winmodem

2000-04-06 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Carter B. Bennett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi all, I was watching ZDTV the other night and Leo said that the new 7.0 Mandrake supported the LT Winmodem. I thought that was cool but didn't find anything on the web site, is there any truth to this, or is Leo just

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Firewall - quick and easy for Mandrake or Redhat linux: Start netcfg and go to the routing tab and turn on network packet forwarding by highlighting the box. Then add the following lines to the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall file: /sbin/depmod -a /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Craig Woods wrote: Subject: Netscape v4.72 Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:46:06 -0500 From: Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Just looking for a little info: just upgraded Netscape v4.7 to

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Russ Johnson
That means something else is broken. By commenting out that line, you effectively broke your system. Yes, it's now doing what you want, but in the wrong manner. There's probably other things going on that you don't need, or things that you want that aren't running. Russ -Original

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-06 Thread Scott Sweeney
What I have typically done in the past is to make partitions for the first OS (typically Win95) and leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. When I load the next OS, I partition specifically for that, and so on. I give the most space to the primary OS, and less to the others. That way, I

[expert] fresh install: GNOME wierdness (slow!)

2000-04-06 Thread Vincent Danen
I just reinstalled Mandrake 7.0-2 to clean up the GNOME desktop and some other things I messed up. Now GNOME is horrendously slow! Everything takes about 10x as long as it used to and I don't think I did anything differently between now and when I installed it before... any ideas? -- [EMAIL

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-06 Thread Trevor Farrell
"Alan N." wrote: Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq. I have this working on my system with win98 and with OS/2 I normally connect with OS/2 and work my Win98 machine through it to my ISP. I do my Palm pilot through my win98 machine

Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Trevor Farrell
Tom Berkley wrote: B Try this as root: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig (also try ttyS0) start kppp, go to setup and modem, then use the modem query function to see if it will find the modem if it does not find the modem, disable the modem in the bios and get

[expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-06 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all! I just wanted to say, I went to the Corel-linux roadshow last night in Seattle and while I'm not really impressed with their OS version of linux, I was VERY impressed with their Office Suite. If anybody out there would like to get their hands on an alternative to M$ Office, I HIGHLY

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-06 Thread Craig Woods
Tom, I have both files, AddressBook.na2" and "pab.na2", and both are in my "root/.netscape" directory. Should one or both go somewhere else too? Or should I dump one? I have never seen Netscape crash so fast when all I do is open my address book. At any rate thanks for the response. Craig

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-06 Thread ArMiSiS AiEoLn
No no no, I miss spoke, I meant to say How to I earn Mandrake Linux Certification. Dave On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified le what? uh... are... do you...

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-06 Thread ArMiSiS AiEoLn
But RedHat's not the Best. On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota