[expert] ipmasq problems on Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Thread Darcy Brodie, CJL
I wrote in to you a couple of weeks ago with a problem using ipchains / ipmasq on a mandrake 7.0 box. I thank you for the suggestions of getting PmFirewall. I have installed it and set it up by answering all of its questions. However, this still has not corrected the original problem. I can s

Re: [expert] Bootable CDRom.

2000-06-11 Thread Larry Sword
Pedro Cardoso wrote: I need to do a bootable cdrom with Linux. Anyone can help me ? Follow the instructions in the CD-Writing-HOW-TO.

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.

2000-06-11 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yes, Linux should autodetect it. More correctly, Linux adjusts it's device database during hardware detection so that the PCI/PNP drivers/modules can initialize the cards properly. Without this, the card "hints" at how it wants to be configured, but the hardware is never "set up" (loose terms h

Re: [expert] Bootable CDRom.

2000-06-11 Thread LinuxMan :-)
hi simple : just download an iso image of the installation and burn it (restore from image)   Pedro Cardoso wrote: I need to do a bootable cdrom with Linux. Anyone can help me ? --  -- Best Regard's , Amir Tal, System Administrator Intercomp Ltd. Cell : 051-47

RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You need to set up encrypted passwords properly. It's not as simple a matter as simply setting "encrypted passwords = yes". You still have more to do! You must populate the smbpasswd user/passwd database, set the hashing level, etc. WIN2K works fine with Samba... -JMS -Original Message-

Re: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread CARLOS ARANA R.
See under Local Security Options (Control Panel) expand Security Option and try to send unencrypted or encrypted as you need. carlos Arana Sridhar G wrote: > On samba i've setup passwords encrypted as Yes. > > Sridhar > > - Original Message - > From: "Charles Boening" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Excuse me? I have been talking about drakxconf, not DrakConf. Please do not tell someone that I am referring to something other than what I've typed. Alan Dave Lers wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Lers
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dave Lers wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > > I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting "command >not found" for both "setup" and "drakxconf". How do > > > you reinstall these? > > >

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Ok, I found the RPM "setuptool" off the Mdk7.0-2 CD. I installed it and was able to run the console version "setup". Which gets me where I want. HOWEVER, when I try to run "drakxconf", I get a bunch of errors in return: Can't load '/usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so' for module c::stuff

Re: [expert] Windows 95 !!!

2000-06-11 Thread Debie Beley
You need the oak cdrom drivers or a windows 98 boot disk At 04:06 PM 6/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, 4 Jun 2000 13:22:45 +0100, Ted wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sorry abt the title... >=== >Sun, 4 Jun 2000 12:12:17 > >Hi Ted, the title causes me no heartburn 8-) >the solution t

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Lers
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Dave Lers wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting "command not >found" for both "setup" and "drakxconf". How do > > you reinstall these? > > That's "DrakConf" (case sensitive) and it only

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Dave Lers
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: > I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting "command not >found" for both "setup" and "drakxconf". How do > you reinstall these? That's "DrakConf" (case sensitive) and it only runs from su or root. Typically it is an icon o

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
SevatioI'll bet you haven't done an 'su -' (the space followed by the dash are important) or are not logged in as root. Alan Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting "command not >found" for both "setup" and "drakxconf". How do > you

Re: [expert] Canvas 7.0

2000-06-11 Thread Bruce E. Harris
Yep, no problems here. On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Anyone on this list get Deneba Canvas running? -- Best Regards, Bruce Father to Bruce, Maverick & Aleister 1 Feb 2000 Akina, age 14, Misa, age 12, Miyuki age 10 My website: http://harrisherd.ahv.cx Tired of computer viruses or crashes?

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John & Seveactually, after I re-read the message I was responding to I realized that it's not quite as simple as I indicated. If you're in console mode then the command drakxconf will launch the console program that works and acts like the old setup program. But if you're in a console window

Re: [expert] Linux-Mandrake 7.1, ide tape, and installation. . .

2000-06-11 Thread Werner E Niebel
Norvell, I had the same problem... I was clearly due to a bad ISO image when I FTPed the ISO image. You can check this by finding the MD5sum. Its unlikely this is your problem but the symptoms were the same where some packages didnt want to install. Werner Norvell Spearman wrote: > (1) > Has

[expert] Canvas 7.0

2000-06-11 Thread Ace Frehley
Anyone on this list get Deneba Canvas running?

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I'm not sure what I did along the way to wreck this but I am getting "command not found" for both "setup" and "drakxconf". How do you reinstall these? Seve -Original Message- From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, June 11, 2000

[expert] Linux-Mandrake 7.1, ide tape, and installation. . .

2000-06-11 Thread Norvell Spearman
(1) Has anyone else gotten error messages from 7.1 installation similar to: ``Error installing package foo-bar-1.2.3. Continue or cancel?'' Choosing continue would let install finish. After booting system for 1st time, I could then install the problem package. On my PC at work the ``bad'' pac

Re: [expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > somebody tell me if I'm wrong but I think paging has to do with virtual > memory. > > As such your problem could be hardware related, bad ram or bad blocks on the > drive. there are probly utilities to test these but I don't konw what they > are. > > good luck,

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Seve & Johnunless Seve has upgraded (vs. a clean install) > it's likely he doesn't have the setup program on his 7.0 > system. So, Seve, if setup doesn't work, then type drakxconf > instead, which will start the updated version of setup. > AhOk. I haven'

[expert] Path isn't right

2000-06-11 Thread Armand Nossaint
Why is my path written down three times in set? PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ga mes:/home/nossaint/bin:/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc al/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games -- Armand

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Seve & Johnunless Seve has upgraded (vs. a clean install) it's likely he doesn't have the setup program on his 7.0 system. So, Seve, if setup doesn't work, then type drakxconf instead, which will start the updated version of setup. Alan John Aldrich wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wro

Re: [expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > I'm using Mdk7.0-2. I can't get my StartUp Services to > work from DrakConf. Can I run this from console or is > there another program > that I can from console? > You can open a console window, type "su -" and then the root password. Then, type "setup" and s

Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk

2000-06-11 Thread Joel VanderWerf
Thanks, I'll save this away just in case! "Werner E. Niebel" wrote: > > I wanted to do the same thing on my installation. If memory serves me you > need to do the pwunconv grpunconv as you already did. Check that the > passwords are no longer :x: in the /etc/passwd file. > > You now need to

Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk - FIXED

2000-06-11 Thread Joel VanderWerf
Gavin Clark wrote: > > on 6/11/00 11:30 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote: > > > > > Hi, does anybody know how to disable shadow passwords? > > > > I've tried pwunconv and grpunconv. But then when you change your passwd > > you still get an 'x' in /etc/passwd and you can't log in. > > > > Why am I doin

[expert] Program for Handling StartUp Services?

2000-06-11 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I'm using Mdk7.0-2. I can't get my StartUp Services to work from DrakConf. Can I run this from console or is there another program that I can from console? Seve

Re: [expert] 7.1 menus

2000-06-11 Thread Jason Straight
It's based on fvwm - you'll have to edit the menu files there I believe.       Alex V Flinsch wrote: I upgraded to 7.1 last night, the install went without a single problem, and my usb zip drive finally works (woohoo!).  The synchronized menus across the windowing systems is great, and I was able

Re: [expert] Bootable CDRom.

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > I need to do a bootable cdrom with Linux. Anyone can help me ? > Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: 1)

Re: [expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Necrotica
Thanks for the info, Gavin. I suspected that it might have something to do with virtual memory, or perhaps the Linux equivalent of a "invalid page fault" error in Windows. I don't know what the problem is. I'm trying things one by one to see if the problem goes away. The first thing I did was cha

[expert] 7.1 menus

2000-06-11 Thread Alex V Flinsch
I upgraded to 7.1 last night, the install went without a single problem, and my usb zip drive finally works (woohoo!). The synchronized menus across the windowing systems is great, and I was able to add my favorite apps which were not included in the KDE menu via kmenuedit. Is there any way to sy

Re: [expert] RAM detection problem

2000-06-11 Thread Pj
Windows users frequently get a shock when they switch systems and find their Windows friendly RAM isn't being correctly recognized in Linux. The problem can be as simple as mismatched pairs. 32MB of FP and 32MB of EDO may equal 64RAM in Windows but Linux will only recognize 32. My two cents..

Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk

2000-06-11 Thread Werner E. Niebel
I wanted to do the same thing on my installation. If memory serves me you need to do the pwunconv grpunconv as you already did. Check that the passwords are no longer :x: in the /etc/passwd file. You now need to disable the password verification and generation in PAM. Change the directory to /e

[expert] Bootable CDRom.

2000-06-11 Thread Pedro Cardoso
  I need to do a bootable cdrom with Linux. Anyone can help me ?

RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
Nonsense I've been running with encrypted passwords for 6 months, I've had clients using encrypted passwords on various MS platforms for over a year. Read the samba docs some good info here http://us3.samba.org/samba/oreilly/using_samba/ch06_04.html On 11 Jun 00, at 14:06, Charles Boenin

Re: [expert] Cannot allocate colormap

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Bonjour! > > Netscape is giving me this error, Mandrake 7.0: > > Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background > > Now when I click on the title of an email to read it, the title is > completely blacked out and covering up the print of the email title.

Re: [expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Gavin Clark
somebody tell me if I'm wrong but I think paging has to do with virtual memory. As such your problem could be hardware related, bad ram or bad blocks on the drive. there are probly utilities to test these but I don't konw what they are. good luck, G on 6/11/00 10:46 AM, Necrotica wrote: > La

Re: [expert] how to disable shadow passwords - netatalk

2000-06-11 Thread Gavin Clark
on 6/11/00 11:30 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote: > > Hi, does anybody know how to disable shadow passwords? > > I've tried pwunconv and grpunconv. But then when you change your passwd > you still get an 'x' in /etc/passwd and you can't log in. > > Why am I doing this? Well, when I installed Mandra

Re: [expert] Forwarding mail to /dev/null?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote: > in sendmail 8.0.3 or above, set /etc/mail/access to discard for that > user: > > username DISCARD > > then restart sendmail. the access.db should be automatically rebuilt for > you. > > Thanks dude! I'll look into that! John

Re: [expert] RAM detection problem

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: > Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and there seems to be a problem. > When I used Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14, the system was reported to > have 128MB RAM and 598.06 Bogomips Total (which is correct). > Now, with 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15, I get 64MB RAM and 1196.

Re: [expert] Forwarding mail to /dev/null?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > > > IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain > > email addresses to /dev/null? > > I believe procmail would fit the bill perfectly. > Thanks. We finally figured it out -- you can't pipe it to dev null

Re: [expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

2000-06-11 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote: > > > > how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from > > the command line. > >... > > #rm -r puts me in "do you really want to do this?" hell. > > re-alias rm so it isn't set to that stupid/annoying/etc. rm -i!!! > BAD IDEA Just d

RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Charles Boening
I believe that the encryption schemes are incompatible. Charles -Original Message- From: Sebastian Dransfeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 1:45 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000 On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Charles Boening wrote: >

Re: [expert] Font size in 7.1

2000-06-11 Thread Stephen Boulet
No, both are installed. -- Stephen On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote: > You used to have 75dpi fonts and how you have 100dpi fonts? > > (Just a guess . . . there are packages for each; you could un-install > the 100dpi fonts and install the 75dpi fonts. > > Stephen Boulet wrote: > > > > I just u

[expert] Cannot allocate colormap

2000-06-11 Thread Armand Nossaint
Bonjour! Netscape is giving me this error, Mandrake 7.0: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Now when I click on the title of an email to read it, the title is completely blacked out and covering up the print of the email title. Also I've noticed that the color under the scr

Re: [expert] Question about the Mandrake 7.1 ISO

2000-06-11 Thread M Thompson
There should be two iso image files. One should be the typical size of 650Mb. The other is 351Mb. The names are mandrake71-inst.iso and mandrake71-ext.iso respectively. Hope that helps, Matt >From: Rafael Becerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subj

RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Charles Boening wrote: > I believe this has something to do with Windows 2k and 98 using encrypted > passwords by default. There should be a REG file in the Samba tar.gz file > that will make Windows 2k and 98 passwords plain text. Or the better solution, make samba use enc

[expert] tcsh, man in Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-11 Thread Werner E. Niebel
Hi folks, I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a hard drive on my machine. Ive tried to do any man from the command line in tcsh like: > man ls It returns an error with less saying something to the effect of -= not supported. doing the same thing in bash, it works fine... Any suggestions as to w

Re: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Sridhar G
On samba i've setup passwords encrypted as Yes. Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Charles Boening" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 12:48 PM Subject: RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000 > I believe this has something to do with Windows 2k and 98 usi

RE: [expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Charles Boening
I believe this has something to do with Windows 2k and 98 using encrypted passwords by default. There should be a REG file in the Samba tar.gz file that will make Windows 2k and 98 passwords plain text. Charles -Original Message- From: Sridhar G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sund

Re: [expert] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?

2000-06-11 Thread M Thompson
I suggest downloading the two iso image files and then burning them to the CD-R's. You will then have two CD's and you will be able to supply CD2 when you are prompted to do so. Just a thought, Matt >From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Helios-Exp <[EMAI

Re: [expert] .config files for the kernels in the kernel*mdk.*.rpm files?

2000-06-11 Thread Stephen Boulet
I just have to say that I totally agree. The most painful way to do it is to download the kernel source rpm, install it, grab the .config, then uninstall it. Then download the source from ftp.kernel.org, and copy your .config there. The reason I did all this, instead of just using the source rp

Re: [expert] Urgent Help on configuring Postfix for multiple ISP's

2000-06-11 Thread Civileme
Brent Murray wrote: > > Can anybody help me with setting up Postfix for sending mail with multiple > ISP's. The reason is that I am helping a friend set up a stand alone box > with Mandrake 7 on it to go head to head with a stand alone box with > Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT4 on it to s

[expert] test3Dfx works only as root in 7.1

2000-06-11 Thread Stephen Boulet
The /usr/bin/test3Dfx program works as root, but when run as a user, I get: test00: Clear screen to blue 2.60.00.0415 Resolution: 640x480 Press A Key To Begin Test. gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board gd error (glide): grS

RE: [expert] .config files for the kernels in the kernel*mdk.*.rpm files?

2000-06-11 Thread RNDr. Peter FREIMANN
> I think it would be very nice to have the .config files used for making > the *mdk kernels available as starting points for compiling your own > kernels. Does anybody know where I could get them from? > You can extract them from kernel SRPMS. p.f. - RN

[expert] how to disable shadow passwords

2000-06-11 Thread Joel VanderWerf
Hi, does anybody know how to disable shadow passwords? I've tried pwunconv and grpunconv. But then when you change your passwd you still get an 'x' in /etc/passwd and you can't log in. Why am I doing this? Well, when I installed Mandrake 6.1 last summer, shadowing seemed like a reasonable thing

[expert] SAMBA and Win 2000

2000-06-11 Thread Sridhar G
I've Win 2000 as client with a drive setup as shared. When I execute smbclient -L client-host-name I get 'NetShareEnum failed' message under the Sharename title. Why is Samba not able to display the share names on Win 2000? Cheers Sridhar

[expert] Unable To Handle Kernel Paging Request

2000-06-11 Thread Necrotica
Lately my computer has been hanging solid every few hours. Not only is this annoying but it has resulted in lost data and file corruption. A couple of days ago I started fresh. I formatted everything ReiserFS and installed Mandrake 7.1 (with XFree 4.0). Its still doing it. Checking the syslong I

[expert] XFree 4.0

2000-06-11 Thread Adam Koch
I downloaded X 4.0 last night in hopes of getting 3D to work on my GeForce card, but that's another story. Anyway whenever I start up X, I get put into the TWM window manager. I remember having this problem before and changing one of the config files to get back to KDE, but now I can't remember

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.

2000-06-11 Thread Jonathan Cromwell
Ok, but should Mandrake be able to autodetect a PCI modem? As I said, I have never encountered a linux distribution that was able to autodetect it. It shows up fine if I do an 'lspci'. Jon --- Sebastian Dransfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jonathan Cromwell wrote: > > > I

[expert] ANNOUNCE: Sunday topics on http://linuxpole.com (fwd)

2000-06-11 Thread Denis HAVLIK
Hi, folks - Sunday lecture at "http://linuxpole.com": - * Newbie Light - What do you think of Civilemes proposal? * WHY THE HECK DO WE WANT WIN MODEMS ANYWAY? (now, if this does not start flame wars...) And if you missed my saturdays post: ---

Re: [expert] [Expert] How can I?

2000-06-11 Thread Eric MC DECLERCK
Fran Parker wrote: > > I second that...when free is as nice as gftp...why go elsewhere. > > Bambi For exemple because gFTP don't run on my system, why ,, I don'i know. Same for netscape, only self-compiled version runs. There is also a LittleIgloo = free. Do not run on my machine like gFTP. Eri

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.

2000-06-11 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jonathan Cromwell wrote: > I have not tried that, but am skeptical. Mandrake 7.1 > (or any other distribution I have used) has never been > able to autodetect it. I don't believe that Mandrake > 7.1 has any PCI/PNP capabilities; I think it is > PNP/ISA only. Am I incorrect he

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.1 breaks my PCI modem.

2000-06-11 Thread Jonathan Cromwell
I have not tried that, but am skeptical. Mandrake 7.1 (or any other distribution I have used) has never been able to autodetect it. I don't believe that Mandrake 7.1 has any PCI/PNP capabilities; I think it is PNP/ISA only. Am I incorrect here? --- "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[expert] RAM detection problem

2000-06-11 Thread Joo Hyun Song
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and there seems to be a problem. When I used Mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14, the system was reported to have 128MB RAM and 598.06 Bogomips Total (which is correct). Now, with 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15, I get 64MB RAM and 1196.03 Bogomips Total reported. The same thi

[expert] .config files for the kernels in the kernel*mdk.*.rpm files?

2000-06-11 Thread Jan T. Kim
Dear Mandrake experts, being the lazy guy I am, I hate doing all those settings in the ``make xconfig'' screen when I just want to add some "advanced" feature (e.g. ipchains). However, if I don't want an all-too-plain-vanilla kernel (no i586 optimizations etc.), I have to go through all these set

[expert] Urgent Help on configuring Postfix for multiple ISP's

2000-06-11 Thread Brent Murray
Can anybody help me with setting up Postfix for sending mail with multiple ISP's. The reason is that I am helping a friend set up a stand alone box with Mandrake 7 on it to go head to head with a stand alone box with Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT4 on it to show a local company that linux

Re: [expert] ASF files

2000-06-11 Thread Gediminas Paulauskas
Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 03:09:36AM -0400 Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > There is no way to play a .asf file in Linux. The format is proprietary, > and I don't know of any way to convert it to another format. not only there is no way to paly these files on Linux. There never could be any way to play t

Re: [expert] device permission/ownership problem

2000-06-11 Thread Suppiluliuma
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jan Dittberner wrote: > Hello, > > I have set the ownership/permission of the > > /dev/video* devices to > > crw-rw 1 root rvideo > > to enable the group rvideo to access these > devices. > > After a reboot the devices are reset to > > crw--- 1 root

[expert] device permission/ownership problem

2000-06-11 Thread Jan Dittberner
Hello, I have set the ownership/permission of the /dev/video* devices to crw-rw 1 root rvideo to enable the group rvideo to access these devices. After a reboot the devices are reset to crw--- 1 root root How can I avoid this? Which script is responsible for this behavi

Re: [expert] xman and bz2 compressed man pages in Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-11 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Christian Wahlgren wrote: > P.S. I had trouble with XFree86 4.0 / Matrox G400 Marvel: I never got a visible > cursor so I changed back to 3.3.6 (this has nothing to do with Mandrake i > guess) D.S. If you find the line about video memory in XF86Config-4, uncomment it, and ch

[expert] xman and bz2 compressed man pages in Mandrake 7.1

2000-06-11 Thread Christian Wahlgren
Hi, Now again xman can't handle bz2 compressed man pages in Mandrake 7.1. This was a problem in earlier Mandrake releases i remember, but was corrected later. Now this problem is back. Otherwise, I can tell that I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 on a dual PII system with SB Live!. Really nic

Re: [expert] ASF files

2000-06-11 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
There is no way to play a .asf file in Linux. The format is proprietary, and I don't know of any way to convert it to another format. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Stephen Atkins wrote: > Hello all. I friend of mine send me a file with the extension ASF. Its a > s

Re: [expert] Problem with "insmod emu10k1"

2000-06-11 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Try "modprobe" instead iof insmod. Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:57:10 -0500 > From: Stephen Boulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [expert] Problem with "insmod emu10k1" > > Still trying to g