[expert] GTK text cursor

2000-12-20 Thread Martin Hajducek
Dear, List I am wondering why text cursor in GTK applications like Gnome, GIMP ... does not point to actual place where I am typing. For example: if I type in text field "m" cursor should be on the end of line, instead of this it is displayed somwhere in the s. In oposite

Re: [expert] lm 7.2 i810 X 4.0.1 konsole xemacs window gerbling issues

2000-12-20 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 21:29, you wrote: A sure fix is Option "noaccel" but this is an expensive one in terms of game performance. I would suggest you have a "two-config monte" type setup with XFree86-4.gam as you submitted it XFree86-4.nvi as below with the option and a

[expert] XFree 4.0.2

2000-12-20 Thread Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
So, will XFree 4.0.2 suffer the same faith as KDE 2.0.1, or will you guys release rpm packages for this one (that doesn't require glibc 2.2) ?? -- \ Christian A Strømmen / \ Number1/NumeroUno @ Undernet - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Web: www.realityx.net - Cell: +47 911 43 948 /    Live your

RE: [expert] Xine

2000-12-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Same here. I get an error of the sort: demux error 00 00 00 should be 0x01 get no audio or video. -Original Message- From: Salane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Xine I got it to compile but it doesn't

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-20 Thread Dave
If I have time later today, I will install PSM and give it a shot for you. I am running Mozilla M18, not 0.6, but I don't know if that will make a difference or not. Dave At 04:47 PM 12/19/00 -0700, you wrote: I don't understand this issue. I dumped Mozilla 0.6 and downloaded and installed

[expert] kde2.1 probs

2000-12-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
I installed kde2.1 last evening on my toshiba laptop with mdk 7.2. All the packages installed with no problems, with the exception of some perl complaining about argument too long after the install of most packages. If I recall it had something to do with resetmimetypes. When I try to bring up

Re: [expert] php+apache questions

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
It seems that installing php-mysql rpm allows mod_php to use mysql calls. I'm not sure how that works, but it does. Thanks for the help! On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Gerald Williams wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2000 02:35, you wrote: I installed mod_php from the mandrake 7.2 publically

Re: [expert] kde2.1 probs

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 07:35 am, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I installed kde2.1 last evening on my toshiba laptop with mdk 7.2. All the packages installed with no problems, with the exception of some perl complaining about argument too long after the install of most packages.

[expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
I have a project in which I need to set up linux (we will be using mandrake) on a machine, and the other identical machines will be cloned from that hard drive. Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? What if the drives are different sizes? Will it clone a 1 gig to a 2 gig drive?

Re: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? yes. What if the drives are different sizes? probably not, I've never tried that. Will it clone a 1 gig to a 2 gig drive? Don't think so. Now, for the longer answers: I've used DD many times for all

RE: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
Look on freshmeat. There is a prog called partimage that is a Ghost type program. This may do what you want. -Original Message- From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] cloning hard drives I have

Re: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 2000.12.20 Rusty Carruth wrote: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? I have used 'cp -a' to clone a full mdk install. The only thing you have to do is a boot diskette to boot cloned system the fist time and re-run lilo. -- Juan Antonio

[expert] Problem Install Mandrake 7.1 on a digital Alpha

2000-12-20 Thread Matt
Hi, When I try to load mandrake 7.1 on my digital alpha it gets to the second stage ramdisk loading, loads that up.. then says... in second stage install sits there for a few moments and then informs me: failed to get server: No such file or direcory at

Re: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread J. R. Pendley
J . A . Magallon wrote: On 2000.12.20 Rusty Carruth wrote: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? I have used 'cp -a' to clone a full mdk install. The only thing you have to do is a boot diskette to boot cloned system the fist time and

RE: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
thanks!!! That looks like something I could use. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: Look on freshmeat. There is a prog called partimage that is a Ghost type program. This may do what you want. -Original Message- From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [expert] Xine

2000-12-20 Thread Bill Piety
The error you're citing is Xine trying to play a locked file. This it will not do without the dvd plugin with the decoder. And it's the decoder that I'm having trouble compiling. Has anyone posted the compiled plugin anywhere for dl? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] mandrake update

2000-12-20 Thread SIR admin
i know i mailed this before, but i don't know if it got through. i loaded high security, but i need to have mandrake update. anyway i can install it via rpm on the cd? what is the rpm called? anything you can give me would be great. i'm sitting on top of a handful of vulnerabilities. matt

Re: [expert] GTK text cursor

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Berkley
You are probably using a variable width font and the software that moves the cursor is not yet aware of this. You can get some temporary relief by trying a fixed font like courier until the cursor tracker is fixed. tom berkley Martin Hajducek wrote: Dear, List I am wondering why text cursor

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I got Mozilla to work. It CAN handle the javascript on the http://www.cores.utah.edu order sites. Konqueror cannot handle the javascript involved in placing a DNA sequencing order through these pages. Mozilla's problem dealt with the https pages involved, not the javascript. Even if you

Re: [expert] CUPS exasperation

2000-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You might try "Print to File" in WP, then running, as root: lpr name_of_WordPerfect_output_file That used to work for me when CUPS broke. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: Hi I really need to be able to print from Wordperfect 8/Linux real soon now or I'm sunk. (essay

[expert] SSH port forwarding

2000-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I need to setup an SSH tunnel that listens on a port, that redirects all data to 192.168.0.2:5901 (decrypted at this point). localhost is a Linux-Mandrake server with SSH installed. 192.168.0.2 is a Win98 machine. I have tried to configure SSH to forward the port, but to no avail. What

[expert] IRQ steering?

2000-12-20 Thread Svante Signell
Anyone knows why is IRQ 5 chosen both for my eth0 (tulip, external card) driver and sound (maestro, on motherboard) on my Compaq Presario 5640/5670 when other interrupts are free: 4,6,7,9,10,11? How to steer away one of the units from IRQ 5 to avoid interrupt sharing? In the documentation to

Re: [expert] CUPS exasperation

2000-12-20 Thread bill
I have WP8 and CUPS working fine with both my Epson 900 and HP 855C The solution was traced down by Till a few thousand emails ago on this List. The best method for both blackwhite and color was oddly enough this: 1In the WP8 print dialog/select menu select --- Tektronix Phaser 140 For the

[expert] revisiting the PCMCIA nic card

2000-12-20 Thread Scott Parks
Since it has been over a week since I emailed Mandrake about the 3Com PCMCIA card in my laptop running Mandrake 7.2, I thought I would try an identical card in an identical lap top, but this time I tried Red hat 6.2. Oddly I can not duplicate the problem. I have just transfered 15,000 files

[expert] Java Woes...

2000-12-20 Thread george . jones
Ok... So I've d/l'ed and installed Java from Sun's site. I still cannot get Java to work under Netscape!!! HLLLPPP

[expert] prblms, prblms + prblms ... ok ... the solutions, when ?

2000-12-20 Thread cavall_fort
Diary on board : December, 20, 2000 Tonight I'm feeling a little bit discouraged with LM 7.2. I don't underst h-t solve my prblm. I'm RFM testng all prmtrs. = but my 7.2 installtn hangsup *every* time For 18 days We are lost in the dark deep Oxygen only for 72 hrs SOS : We need LM 7.3

[expert] Multisession cd writing.

2000-12-20 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hello, I use Linux Mandrake version 7.2 in a computer which has the i810 chipset and a HP CD writer 9150 (9100 series). The cd writer was already installed by the time I installed Linux. The problem is that I have't been able to write more than two sessions in a disc.

RE: [expert] Xine

2000-12-20 Thread Mike MacCana
I'll compress one and post it to the list later tonight. Mike -- Mike MacCanaSupport Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998 On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Bill

Re: [expert] LM in big/complex scenarios

2000-12-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
Awww crap. I had only seen the tail end of the 'Mandrake in Production' thread about commercial vs noncommercial... I didn't mean to ask the same sort of question right on top of it. Apologies to anyone who this annoyed. Still, any tales are welcome. Monte = "Here, catch! Don't

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler

2000-12-20 Thread Pete Jordan
Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have reinstalled Mozilla 0.6 and am trying to make it work with secure web pages. I tried installing the PSM but am not permitted as a user to do so, so I did it as root. Has anyone actually managed to get the PSM installed and working

[expert] nekid mandrake?

2000-12-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
I'm getting ready to stick Mandrake on a machine that will be primarily a firewall for the rest of the LAN. No X, none of the neat little doo-dads that Mandrake is famous for, just a stripped down minimum system. Once at this stage, what are the benefits of Mandrake vs Redhat, SuSE, Debian,

Re: [expert] nekid mandrake?

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Schutter
As much as I like Mandrake, it is not the right tool for your job. Use OpenBSD. Installing it without X is trivial, and its security is much better than Linux. http://www.openbsd.org Monte Milanuk wrote: I'm getting ready to stick Mandrake on a machine that will be primarily a firewall for

[expert] 7.2 upgrade: can't reach host (xinetd?)

2000-12-20 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hi all. I just upgraded to 7.2 and had a whole lot of trouble with with different services hanging during startup. Once I got things up and running, it seems that I can't reach the machine on any ports with incoming connections other than pinging. Is there anything fundamental about the

[expert] TCP/IP stalling in LM 7.2 -- HELP!!!

2000-12-20 Thread George Czerw
I just did a fresh Mandrake 7.2 install, which went rather smoothly (I thought), until I rebooted, logged in, and tried to do anything on the net. I have a cable hookup with static IP addressing. NIC is a CompaQ, Netelligent PCI 10/100 using the tlan driver. I am noticing that it takes

Re: [expert] nekid mandrake?

2000-12-20 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote: As much as I like Mandrake, it is not the right tool for your job. Use OpenBSD. Installing it without X is trivial, and its security is much better than Linux. http://www.openbsd.org Agreed. For the ultimate in security,

Re: [expert] nekid mandrake?

2000-12-20 Thread Al Baker
It's not like Linux, specifically Mandrake, makes a BAD server, you can make a nice fast server with the right know how. OpenBSD just provides instant out-of-the-box security w/o the configuration [nightmares] you might go through to achieve the same on Mandrake. I choose mandrake over *BSD

[expert] cups not working properly

2000-12-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page and didn't print all the message text - all

RE: [expert] cups not working properly

2000-12-20 Thread b5dave
I'm running the stock konqueror from Enlightenment with the kde libs installed all from LM 7.2. (KDE 2.0.x). I have the same upgraded CUPS as you. I can print from Konqueror just fine. If you're printing off the page, your CUPS print driver is probably misconfigured. From the kups utility you

[expert] StarOffice to Interbase with JDBC : HowTo ?

2000-12-20 Thread cavall_fort
Hello forum ! StarOffice to Interbase with JDBC : HowTo ? Any experiences ? Tx ... Cavall_forT Linux Català http://perso.wanadoo.es/cavall_fort BCN CAT __ Consigue tu cuenta de correo universal y gratuita en