Re: [expert] OT: w98 equiv to this list

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Email me privately Doug - I have a fix... Cheers Doug McGarrett wrote: Does anyone here know of a Windows 98 equivalent to this mailing list? I need one question answered, but if someone here was willing to do so, I'd be very happy not to have to mess with a Windows list. Question:

[expert] fg: no job control problem.

2000-09-10 Thread clorden
Hello all. I tryed to recompile several SRPMS on my (fresh installed) MDK 7.1 box but i got this strange error message: "fg: no job control". It happens with XFree86-4.0.1 (cooker) and other packages. Any ideas? Thanks! Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Xserver connection refused

2000-09-10 Thread José Antonio Jiménez Berni
I'm not sure, but that sounds like a problem I had once. Are you sure that the problem is with the nfs daemon instead of xfs daemon?. What happened to me was that after a reboot X wasn't able to reboot again because the xfs couldn't create a lock or something like that. After some hours of head

[expert] Modem speed?

2000-09-10 Thread José Antonio Jiménez Berni
Is there any way to know the speed of my modem when I connect to the internet? (33'6k,56k) -- La frase célebre para hoy es lo que más me gusta de mí es mi infiníta modestia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Modem speed?

2000-09-10 Thread Steve Howes
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:00:41 +0200 "José Antonio Jiménez" wrote: Is there any way to know the speed of my modem when I connect to the internet? (33'6k,56k) For me I stick W2 in my dial command, eg ATW2DT0123456789 -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-10 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen Bosch: 2.2.17 isn't an official kernel patch (i.e., it's a Mandrake patch I'm afraid you are mistaken. 2.2.17 *is* official. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Have

Re: [expert] XF86Setup error

2000-09-10 Thread C Nielsen
Yes, it uses the SVGA Server and it's installed..tryed to install all the servers so it wouldn't have a problem finding it, still no luck. On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote: That is very strange, esp. when you are not even using a Trident video card. Did you select the right X server for

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

2000-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:21:09PM +0800, BillK wrote: Had to answer this one. As far as a new HD NOW, I did, around 4 yrs ago, but decided to keep using this one as well untill it really died, which it hasnt yet!! Its also been moved into different machines a number of times, with no

[expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D.
To the cooker and expert list; Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput and use the title that did not come easily, and one that I am proud of, that you have to try and belittle me for NO appartent reason. The Dr. means that I went through post graduate school with 3.8 average and

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"D. R. Evans" wrote: If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without precedent; this is, after all, USWest. (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the takeover, since they are now QWest.

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen Bosch: 2.2.17 isn't an official kernel patch (i.e., it's a Mandrake patch I'm afraid you are mistaken. 2.2.17 *is* official. As of when? I tried to find it two weeks ago, and it wasn't on ftp.kernel.org. -Stephen- Keep in touch

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: "D. R. Evans" wrote: If I kill the script-based bit, then I never get to the PAP. BOTH are necessary, which does seem faintly ridiculous. But perhaps not without precedent; this is, after all, USWest. (Maybe this whole thing has something to do with the

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Muzza
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: To the cooker and expert list; Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput and use the title that did not come easily, and one that I am proud of, that you have to try and belittle me for NO appartent reason. The Dr. means that I went through post

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:48:30PM -0400, Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D. wrote: To the cooker and expert list; Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput and use the title that did not come easily, and one that I am proud of, that you have to try and belittle

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Gary
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, "Dr-PhD" == Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D. wrote: Dr-PhD To the cooker and expert list;   Are you people so insecure Dr-PhD that when I sign my imput and use the title that did not come Dr-PhD easily, and one that I am proud of, that you have to try and Dr-PhD

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput Speaking of insecure, you digitally sign your e-mails with a different address than you send with. :) -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D.
Benjamin Reed wrote: > Are you people so insecure that when I sign my imput Speaking of insecure, you digitally sign your e-mails with a different address than you send with. :) -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now

Re: [expert] HTML and netiquet???

2000-09-10 Thread marler
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D. wrote: Cher Monsieur; un ecrit: est une compagnie entertainmaent française, est que là où vous avez trouvé votre " netiquet". Son l'année 2000 si vous ne pouvez pas manipuler le HTML, ce monsieur, est un problème personnel. Jusque ma signature 2,

[expert] glibc direct source compile, any suggesstions?

2000-09-10 Thread Kumba
Yeah, I'm going to trya direct Source compile. Does anyone have any methods to go about doing this?, I hear stuff about being areful not to overwrite your header files or soemthing. A configure option I found that was supposedly useable was: ./configure --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads,crypt

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
It's less than a week old, I think - Original Message - From: "Stephen F. Bosch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen

Re: [expert] HTML and netiquet???

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
je ne parle pas francais Khun Phud pasa thai dai mai krap? laew pasa lao dai boh? ni whei shuo zhongwen ma? Maybe we can find a language to communicate on - Original Message - From: "Dr Michael Powell, Ph.D." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 7:39

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread bascule
dear sir, how offended you must have been to come across non north american usage in a north american mailing list.. oh wait, but it it isn't is it? that aside, i could have sworn that a chap called berners-lee had at least a minor role in creating the current internet paradigm but what would i

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread burk
Hey, Hey, Hey, everybody! Dr. Powell was responding to a thread found in the archives here: http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/msg23073.html which may not have been meant as particularly nasty, but certainly came across that way to me. In short, he took it personally and

RE: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Joe Tux
welcome to the club! I'm suffering the same thing with Netscape 4.74 (even prior to upgrade). The same thing happened when I browse to a Flash-enabled website 'though I've installed Flash plug-in :/ Joe #186063 //-Original Message- //From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //[mailto:[EMAIL

[expert] ALSA and MpegTV Problem - Please Help

2000-09-10 Thread Brent Hawkins
Hello All, I just switched over from the crappy OpenSound commercial sound driver to the ALSA sounddriver for my Yamaha PCI soundcard. The only problem now is that MpegTV tells me "Cannot Play Audio: Broken Pipe". Have any of you had success with getting MpegTV to work with ALSA? Thanks,

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Daniel Baker
Can we Drop this Topic and discuss what the damn thing is here for? This is all personal conversation and unrelated to the topic. I am tired of my bandwidth being wasted by this trivial childish B$. Take it home to your personal email, I See enough of this at work, now please go away. Dan.

RE: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Ralph
You won't see ie5 for linux there is for unix but no port for linux Gates hasent lost his mind yet!! I'm suffering the same thing with Netscape 4.74 (even prior to upgrade). The same thing happened when I browse to a Flash-enabled website 'though I've installed Flash plug-in :/ Keep

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Tyler Longren
Hate to admit it? I think NS is crap. IE is much better than NS. If I could get IE on linux, I would. If you're looking for an alternative to NS though, download the latest milestone of Mozilla. And then download Galeon (http://galeon.sourceforge.net). Galeon uses Mozilla and it's pretty

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
I believe, if you are good enough at hacking the install, you may be able to pull off using IE5 in linux from the Solaris/HP-UX source. I don't know the diffrences, but if all it takes is getting a few libraries, and creating symlinks to the correct files, I don't see why it shouldn't work. Of

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Ralph" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:47 PM Subject: RE: [expert] IE5 for linux You won't see ie5 for linux there is for unix but no port for linux Gates hasent lost his mind yet!! Kind of useable under WINE,

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
Sorry to have to do this, but the demonstrative pomposity of those who are actually engaging this poor gentleman in a war over what should be treated as an oversight, typographic error, or linguistic inconsistency is simply becoming an issue ad nauseam. Further, his own belated response to the

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Daniel Baker
It turns out that I am downloading it at this very minute to find out. :) I am going to install on a seperate machine of course, just in case MS Boobytrapped it. :) Dan. - Original Message - From: Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000

Re: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Quick! Somebody mention Hitler so this thread can end officially by the rules of Usenet! Oop, I did it. -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio: Spooky by New Order Keep in touch with

[expert] Pointer Problems

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Blodgett
Here is a strange problem. I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a new machine. And when I run KDE or Gnome, I get a white box about 1/2 by 1/2 inch on my 15 inch monitor screen. It seems I don't have the actual pointer icon. The upper left hand corner of the white square seems to function the

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread MailListReader
Let us know how it goes! On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Daniel Baker wrote: It turns out that I am downloading it at this very minute to find out. :) I am going to install on a seperate machine of course, just in case MS Boobytrapped it. :) Dan. - Original Message - From: Greg Stewart

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [expert] IE5 for linux I believe, if you are good enough at hacking the install, you may be able to pull off using IE5 in linux from the

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Tyler Longren
Greg, I believe you're right. I've heard of people getting IE 5 for Unix to work before. I'm not sure if they were using WINE or not though. Tyler - Original Message - From: "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
"just in case MS Boobytrapped it. :)" Paranoid! I like that! :-) --Greg It turns out that I am downloading it at this very minute to find out. :) I am going to install on a seperate machine of course, just in case MS Boobytrapped it. :) Dan. - Original Message - From: Greg

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
I believe, if you are good enough at hacking the install, you may be able to pull off using IE5 in linux from the Solaris/HP-UX source. I don't know the diffrences, but if all it takes is getting a few libraries, and creating symlinks to the correct files, I don't see why it shouldn't work.

[expert] Upgrading to 7.1 from 6.0

2000-09-10 Thread David Blair
I have a reasonably stable and useful install of Mandrake-Linux 6.0, but I'd like to move up to 7.1. However, I'm concerned it won't be a very easy thing to do, and I'd rather not have to do a mass-reinstall of all my software. What say ye, fellow list members? How bad is the upgrade process

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Austin L. Denyer
"just in case MS Boobytrapped it. :)" Paranoid! I like that! :-) Hey, where Micro$oft are concerned, one cannot be too careful... It would be a great example of FUD at work... #;-D Regards, Ozz. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Abe
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Thanks for the laugh. = Original Message From "Benjamin Reed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Quick! Somebody mention Hitler so this thread can end officially by the rules of Usenet! Oop, I did it. -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [expert] Upgrading to 7.1 from 6.0

2000-09-10 Thread Tyler Longren
Give it a shot. the worst part of it all is waiting for the packages to install. It took a LONG time to do on my box. Tyler - Original Message - From: "David Blair" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 1:47 PM Subject: [expert] Upgrading to 7.1

Re: [expert] Pointer Problems

2000-09-10 Thread Greg Stewart
What kind of mouse is it? Is it not recognised correctly? Or, are you actually selecting the kind of mouse you have during install, and it turns out that linux really wants to drive it as something different? --Greg - Original Message - From: "Larry Blodgett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is

Re: [expert] Pointer Problems

2000-09-10 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:03:29 -0400, Larry wrote: I have now installed several distros and they all exhibit the same perplexing problem. It is getting scary, I am contemplating putting my W98 drive in the drive bay just to check the pointer (I told you it was getting scary).

Re: [expert] DHCP server not responding?

2000-09-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Did he change his network card in the server and is the correct MAC address for it and is it entered properly? (normally I would expect each segment of the MAC address to be two digits.) Well, we're not certain why, but the Windows solution (reboot) fixed it. And the single-digit MAC address

Re: [expert] OT: w98 equiv to this list

2000-09-10 Thread arsaidac
You have 2 choices: 1:Symantec's Ghost's 6.x 2:Partition Magic 5.x Stefan Srdic wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Does anyone here know of a Windows 98 equivalent to this mailing list? I need one question answered, but if someone here was willing to do so, I'd be very happy not to have

[expert] pcmcaia-10/100 ethernet card

2000-09-10 Thread root
Hi, I bought a Kingmax ken0100-a-1.41 10/100 ethernet PCMCIA card. It had Linux compatible on the back of the box. To my surprise only been tested on RedHat 5.2 6.0 and SuSe and so after following all instructions the 'make' file has not worked once. I have recompiled the kernel to PCMCIA

RE: [expert] autofs and direct maps

2000-09-10 Thread Schroeder, Brian
Sorry I haven't replied sooner, I have been on leave for a while. I can't find a direct claim that "linux doesn't support direct maps", anywhere (although I seem to recall seeing it somewhere...). But I know I spent some time trying to make it work without success. And, the autofs

Re: [expert] Pointer Problems

2000-09-10 Thread Tony McGee
It's a problem with your video card, XFree86 is trying to display a cursor using hardware routines but something isn't going well. As root, edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and scroll down to the section named "Device" and you'll see a few lines that start with `#Option`. It's easy to find

RE: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Yup - that's all there is. I'm currently using IE5.5 and Outlook 2000 (on win2k) which don't have near the problems of Netscape. I would love to see a port to linux (any hackers out there?) Mike Someone posted a comment that IE5.5 was available for UNIX at ftp.microsoft.com and that they

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
I've used it under VMWare! hahaha, at a time when my windows partition wouldn't even boot! - Original Message - From: "Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [expert] IE5 for linux - Original Message - From: "Ralph"

[expert] well now i have a new problem and it sucks

2000-09-10 Thread Mwinold
after trying to find problems with my linux xf86config file and discovering a poor install such as very few if any utilitys could be found i figured i havent done much with the system and simply formatted my linux partition and reloaded linux, well i figured i had a successful install i

Re: [expert] IE5 for linux

2000-09-10 Thread Mwinold
i wonder if you can do that with a win modem??? wich would be awesome, less crap to buy Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Pointer Problems

2000-09-10 Thread john bodanske
You might try editing the X config file for the cursor under the mouse section or the video driver section : I can't remember, and I'm at a MS machine now. Anyway, there's a switch for this problem, although I've never encountered it. Dan - Original Message - From: "Oliver L. Plaine Jr."

Re: [expert] well now i have a new problem and it sucks

2000-09-10 Thread Mage Grimau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trying to find problems with my linux xf86config file and discovering a poor install such as very few if any utilitys could be found i figured i havent done much with the system and simply formatted my linux partition and reloaded linux, well i figured i had a

Re: [expert] well now i have a new problem and it sucks

2000-09-10 Thread Mwinold
formatting eventually causes sectors to go bad any manufacturer of a hard drive will tell you that granted its not a whole lot maybe a few bytes worth but id like to find another way to resolve this problem with a corrupted kernel Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the

RE: [expert] are you so insecure

2000-09-10 Thread Gabi Davar
Dr-PhD To the cooker and expert list; Are you people so insecure [...] Troll. People, try to focus :-) -Gabi Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] [Fwd: canon bj200 printer woes Mandrake 7.2 beta]

2000-09-10 Thread frank
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, stuartsimpson wrote: I am currently having problems printing with my canon bj200. i've the same printer and it's now working fine, so take hope...the printer selection list that was unavailable on install can be reached through drakconfan icon on the desktop gets

[expert]

2000-09-10 Thread John Hawk
What is the last line of "ifup" in sbin. It got trimed on fsck somehow I know it dosent end with "ifup-p" I'm not on the list so repy direct please Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.