Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

2000-05-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I'm way, way behind reading this, but a few quick notes: 1. When this happens it usually means that /tmp got trashed. 2. Yes, it's a bug in Mandrake that permanent files are in /tmp. That's wrong, wrong, wrong. Anybody know if it's fixed in 7.1? 3. Usually just re-installing the base

Re: [expert] Small Apache Question?

2000-05-30 Thread Gavin Clark
I think it has to do with the way it's handling the relative links. you might want to try it as cgi="../calendar/homepage.cgi" or cgi="/~clienttest1/calendar/homepage.cgi" from apache docs for Module mod_include http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html exec The exec command executes

Re: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help.

2000-05-30 Thread Bill Gerber
The culprit is a part of netscape called ld-linux.so.2 that goes berserk every so often and hogs cpu etc. Go into task manager and kill it (it will kill netscape too) and things will return to normal (till the next time). The only permanent solution at the moment is to replace your netscape with

RE: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help.

2000-05-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, no. ld-linux.so.2 is not a part of Netscape... [root@router /home/opjose]# rpm -qf /lib/ld-linux.so.2 glibc-2.1.2-9mdk Which is not to say that some process hasn't spawned off a CPU killer as they may... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [expert] Out of room on / filesystem

2000-05-30 Thread Civileme
bascule wrote: out of interest civileme, why can you not move /etc ? is it a boot time thing? bascule Civileme wrote: Gavin Clark wrote: on 5/28/00 10:14 PM, Mike Zachry wrote: My partitions are hdb1 as /boot hdb5 as / hdb6 as swap hdb7 as /home

[expert] X server, Was: X-Client for Win

2000-05-30 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Burkhard" == Burkhard Zombronner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Burkhard Hello there, does anybody a X-Client running under win Burkhard 95 or 98, should be free software if possible??? I believe you mean an X server, no? The clients would be xterm, any of the k or gnome programs, the tk

RE: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Softec - Javier Matos
You can go to www.helixcode.com and see any screenshots. It looks great. -Mensaje original- De: Allen Bolderoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes 30 de mayo de 2000 7:26 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [expert] Helix Gnome just run the go-gnome

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Helix Gnome and whether this is :~the same as stock standard Gnome that comes with most distro's. Does it :~upgrade or change anything that it shouldn't and is it still usable with :~other Gnome software? :~ Helix gnome is included with 7.1 --

[expert] High definition console 2

2000-05-30 Thread Marco Fioretti
Thank you to all people who answered. I would like to point out that I know about 1) Emacs running a shell in a windows (M-x shell) 2) switching virtual consoles using ALTFx, and 3) passing vga=ask at boot time. 4) the great documentation included with

Re: [expert] ATA/66, HPT366 harddisk with beta 3

2000-05-30 Thread Don
HighPoint released a new version of their HPT66 Driver. You can go to their Web site and down load the 1.25 version of their driver. They also have a note about using their drivers http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ Don On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: Hi ! I have a problem with my

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Muzza
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: :~Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Helix Gnome and whether this is :~the same as stock standard Gnome that comes with most distro's. Does it :~upgrade or change anything that it shouldn't and is it still usable with :~other Gnome software?

[expert] Hylafax vs. Mgetty+sendfax

2000-05-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Thanks to the wonderful help of Darren Nickerson of Hylafax, I am now ready to learn how to use Hylafax. Unfortunately, my USRobotics 56k ext can only be used as a Class 1 faxmodem (even though it is officially a 2.0 faxmodem). I am looking forward to the results. I am wondering

Re: [expert] ATA/66, HPT366 harddisk with beta 3

2000-05-30 Thread Don
Should have given the actual driver for Linux as http://www.highpoint-tech.com/ide.2.2.15-17.2405.patch.bz2 BTW this is unzipped in linux using bzip2 -d ide.2.2.15-17.2.patch.bz2 and then use the regular patch installation routines for your version of Linux. Don On Tue, 30 May

[expert] Hylafax vs. Mgetty + Sendfax (Rev)

2000-05-30 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Using AMD K6-2 400, 128 megs of RAM on Linux-Mandrake 7.0. My thanks again to Darren Nickerson of Hylafax for his wonderful help. I am now ready to learn how to use Hylafax. Unfortunately, my USRobotics 56k EXT can only be used as a Class 1 faxmodem WITH HYLAFAX IN LINUX (even

[expert] ld.so problems

2000-05-30 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I'm using Mandrake 7.0 and I've noticed that periodically (several times a day) ld.so will go crazy and eat up all CPU and memory. I can usually recover by killing X (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) but that's not right. I've also been in one situation where I had to shut off the machine because the

Re: [expert] High definition console

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 05:14:45AM -0700, Anton Graham wrote: - Submitted 29-May-00 by Charles Curley: - - | You can do this without Twin. Emacs will run a shell in a windows (M-x - | shell). And you can switch virtual consoles using ALTFx where x is the - | console number you want. I believe

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Olivier Dugeon
Yes, But not Helix Gnome 1.2 :-( Olivier -- FTRD/DAC/ARP Technopole Anticipa | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2, Avenue Pierre Marzin | Phone: +(33) 2 96 05 28 80 F-22307 LANNION | Fax:+(33) 2 96 05 37 84

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Alberto Passariello
On Tue, 30 May 2000 15:44:48 wayne petherick wrote: Just wondering whether anyone has heard of Helix Gnome and whether this is the same as stock standard Gnome that comes with most distro's. Does it upgrade or change anything that it shouldn't and is it still usable with other Gnome

Re: [expert] ATA/66, HPT366 harddisk with beta 3

2000-05-30 Thread Dan Bélisle
Thank you !! Danny. From: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ATA/66, HPT366 harddisk with beta 3 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 05:20:38 -0700 Should have given the actual driver for Linux as

[expert] custom / server install

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
just for grins I tried a custom / server install last night on a new system I'm building and all I got was a text window asking for a username/password which then logged me in but only had "half" a GUI appearance. What's up with this, did something get dropped during the install or is this all

Russian Roulette (was) RE: [expert] Electrical Outages and Linux

2000-05-30 Thread james.fogg
Just a comment burned into my experience by expensive failures over the years Placing a surge suppressor between the protected devices and the output of a UPS can be deadly. Most suppressors use MOV devices that clamp almost instantly about 130 VRMS (~150 V peak). The output of inexpensive

Re: [expert] ATA/66, HPT366 harddisk with beta 3

2000-05-30 Thread Dan Bélisle
i think i can't use with the actual BETA 3 of mandrake It's for 2.2.14 with pre patch 2.2.15. And why SUSE 6.4 eval work well ? Anybody have installed the BETA 3 with a HPT366 ata/66 disk ?? Thanks ! Danny. From: "Dan Bélisle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is running the same kernel as my K6-2's, it sure would be nice if when I installed linux would either prompt

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:26:36PM -0400, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: - How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install - time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux - on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is running the same kernel - as my

[expert] Wine

2000-05-30 Thread Sparks, Charley
I really don't want to spend any money to run Windoze apps.. are there any good "How tos" or FAQs on Wine ? I have not had much luck with it TIA Charley

Re: [expert] could not open default font 'fixed' --help

2000-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote: I'm way, way behind reading this, but a few quick notes: 1. When this happens it usually means that /tmp got trashed. 2. Yes, it's a bug in Mandrake that permanent files are in /tmp. That's wrong, wrong, wrong. Anybody know if it's fixed in 7.1?

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread Lars Nordin
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Muzza wrote: Helix Gnome 1.2 and Sawfish, what a combination! Bugger KDE1.9(or 2) whatever it's up to now. Fast, smooth and very classy. Muzza. I'm curious is it much faster then the previous version of Gnome? The reason I use KDE is that all the systems I have to

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome

2000-05-30 Thread John Kofinas
I hope so 'cause thats the only reason I run KDE, and not Gnome on my machines, and I have dual xeon 400s with 1 gig ram. KDE is blazing fast, were Gnome drags it's ass. On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, Muzza wrote: Helix Gnome 1.2 and Sawfish, what a combination! Bugger

Re: [expert] High definition console 2

2000-05-30 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
- Emacs and the fb impact performances. Specifically, do we want to load emacs just to see two windows side by side? what would the VI guys say? - we say something like windows who need windows? gui's are for sissys. ;) sheldon. --

[expert] rpmlint

2000-05-30 Thread Vincent Danen
Question: Can rpmlint be used on distros other than Mandrake? If so, are there any changes that need to be made for it? Reason I'm asking is I'm writing an article on making RPMs and although everything I'm writing is based on making Mandrake RPMs, I'd like to make it as generic as possible.

[expert] Xfree86 programming info.

2000-05-30 Thread George Jones
Just suscribed to this list. I'm looking for info that will help me port a few dos game emulators (NES, Super NES, Arcade machines, ect...) to Linux. What I'm looking for specifically is info on programming for xfree86 unless there is a better way to do it. George Jones IV ABNAMRO ITSC

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
Tom, have you considered reformatting the drive to use 512 byte sectors like the rest of the world? afaik that is not an option. The drive has 2048byte physical sectors; until Fujitsu built that drive the largest sector size was 1024bytes which is why the 2.0.x kernels required patching to use

Re: [expert] rpmlint

2000-05-30 Thread Barry Marler
From freshmeat: rpmlint is a tool to check common errors on RPM packages. It's designed to check Linux Mandrake packages but it works with all RPM packages. --On Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:55 PM -0600 Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Can rpmlint be used on distros other than

Re: [expert] Can't Pinpoint Problem - Experts Please Help.

2000-05-30 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Bill, Thanks very much for suggesting Netscape 4.73 128bit. Since installing Netscape, I've taken some time in trying to repeat the problem and wasn't able to. I remember ld-linux.so.2 being a problem in my early days of trying Linux and just forgot about it. Would you happen to know why

[expert] glibc 2.1.3

2000-05-30 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, Being adventurous I upgraded my glibc to 2.1.3 from the cooker rpms. Anyhow, now that I'm trying to compile I'm getting the message: gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o registry.o registry.c perl: warning:

Re:Re: [expert] Small Apache Question?]

2000-05-30 Thread eric
I think it has to do with the way it's handling the relative links. you might want to try it as cgi="../calendar/homepage.cgi" This is the problem, but the root of it is it's a test site to mirror prod sites which ARE there own virtual host. ANother thing is when using relative notation, it

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is running the same kernel as my K6-2's, it sure would be nice if when I

Re: [expert] Small Apache Question?]

2000-05-30 Thread Gavin Clark
on 5/30/00 8:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it has to do with the way it's handling the relative links. you might want to try it as cgi="../calendar/homepage.cgi" This is the problem, but the root of it is it's a test site to mirror prod sites which ARE there own virtual host.

Re: [expert] Xfree86 programming info.

2000-05-30 Thread David M. Kufta
** Reply to message from George Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 30 May 2000 14:58:03 -0500 Most of these are available currently for Linux George Dave

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:13:27PM +, Thomas Lockhart wrote: - Tom, have you considered reformatting the drive to use 512 byte sectors - like the rest of the world? - - afaik that is not an option. The drive has 2048byte physical sectors; - until Fujitsu built that drive the largest sector

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:52:57PM -0400, Alex V Flinsch wrote: - On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote: - How about compiling a kernel that is optimized for your CPU at install - time. How many times does one change CPU types after installing linux - on that machine. ie. AFAIK my Athlon machine is

Re: [expert] Fujitsu MO640 SCSI drive troubles

2000-05-30 Thread Thomas Lockhart
If you do, you may gain disk drive space, or, more likely, you will lose space (more inter-record gaps for the amount of data). Somebody at JPL must know more about SCSI drives than I do. :-) Maybe. But don't count on it ;) afaik this is not a viable option for this drive; it is MO and may

Re: [expert] Xfree86 programming info.

2000-05-30 Thread Guillermo Belli
You can go to www.snes9x.com, it's a SNES emulator page. Maybe you can find some info there. George Jones, escribió: Just suscribed to this list. I'm looking for info that will help me port a few dos game emulators (NES, Super NES, Arcade machines, ect...) to Linux. What I'm looking for

Re: [expert] custom / server install

2000-05-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Logically speaking, there's no reason for a server install to install a GUI. If you don't really want a server, you probably should pick another install type. The "half" GUI was probably just the text-mode graphic of the penguin, right? "Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: just for grins I tried a

Re: [expert] DISCUSSION - install / kernel compile

2000-05-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I must say, I'm not sure if I'd want to do it just to bring up the initial prompt, but if there were some process where I could insert my source CD and let it rebuild all the source packages optimized for my hardware, and rebuild the kernel optimized for my CPU and the hardware that I actually

Re: [expert] High definition console 2

2000-05-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Is screen what you're looking for? Of course you need to combine that with vga=, but that should look fine; it does for me. Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: - Emacs and the fb impact performances. Specifically, do we want to load emacs just to see two windows side by side? what would the

Re: [expert] kmail-1.0.29.1 configure can not find pgcc-c++

2000-05-30 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
The original messages suggest that it is looking for g++. Maybe you should make a link to *that*. Lars Nordin wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2000, corey Ryan wrote: I had the same problem at one time. What I am about to suggest, you might know alreadybut I will say it anyway: 1. Make