Re: [expert] anyone working enlightenment installation in 8.0b2

2001-03-30 Thread Al Baker
I loaded enlightenment in 8.02b just fine. I did notice the lack of menu generation on the left button, but you can still access the application menu via the middle button (or 2+3). Al --- Al Niessner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have found the enlightenment installation in 8.0b2 > to be

[expert] XEmacs/Gnus error

2001-03-30 Thread Avdi Grimm
Hi, Since Mandrake 7.1 (I'm using 7.2 now) I've had a problem using Gnus with XEmacs. The second time starting up Gnus, XEmacs reports a "Wrong type argument: chararcterp, 116" error and Gnus fails to start. Closing XEMacs, deleteing ~/.newsrc.eld, and restarting XEmacs enables Gnus to start

Re: [expert] How to get Aurora?

2001-03-30 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 30 March 2001 22:17, you wrote: > > Hi > I installed Mandrake 7.2 and I missed the installation or the > activation of aurora (that nice looking during the stratup and shutdown > of the machine). How can I install it or activate it? > Thanks > VickGet Your Private, Free E-mail from > M

[expert] How to get Aurora?

2001-03-30 Thread vick Julius
Hi I installed Mandrake 7.2 and I missed the installation or the activation of aurora (that nice looking during the stratup and shutdown of the machine). How can I install it or activate it? Thanks VickGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Digital Wokan
Sorry, Civilme. I should have clarified a letter better with my position. So far, I've had no problems with Cooker. The problem is MandrakeFreq. By grabbing the "unsupported" directory without filtering for i586 binaries, I'm prevented from updating my 7.2 installation to the latest "mostly st

Re: [expert] Slots ' Sockets

2001-03-30 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 30 March 2001 08:02 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2001 10:40, you wrote: > > Can someone tell me why the "Edit Slots" is greyed out in QT Designer?? > > I'm trying to use Kdevelop 1.4 for KDE 2.1 and follow a tutorial on > > building QT apps. When I get to the part about connecting

[expert] Cant mount Root FS

2001-03-30 Thread Bob Silva
Anyone have any ideas where I might be going wrong here:   Promise ATA-100 PCI card with 2 IBMs attached. Base Mandrake kernel 2.2.17 works perfectly with the card... boots into /dev/hde1   When I upgrade the kernel to 2.4.x ( I tried 0, 2, and 3), when booting up, it gives this error:   req

Re: [expert] I just don't "grep" this...

2001-03-30 Thread C. CLOSE
Civileme wrote: Snip > > > > The real beauty of a free OS implemented in this way is that once people > > become proficient and used to the basic operation of the system they can > > go to any number of websites and download a more sophisticated desktop, > > application or whatever when they desir

[expert] MandrakeForum Kaput?

2001-03-30 Thread George Czerw
Anyone have any information on the problem with the MandrakeForum web site? Haven't been able to access it since this past Monday. George

Re: [expert] Slots ' Sockets

2001-03-30 Thread Civileme
On Friday 30 March 2001 10:40, you wrote: > Can someone tell me why the "Edit Slots" is greyed out in QT Designer?? > I'm trying to use Kdevelop 1.4 for KDE 2.1 and follow a tutorial on > building QT apps. When I get to the part about connecting the button to the > text box it says to edit the slo

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Civileme
On Friday 30 March 2001 09:15, you wrote: > The one thing that I'm noticing throughout this particular discussion is > that everyone is blaming Mandrake and not looking at the fact that the > K6-2 and K6-3 are actually i586 chips. > > How can Mandrake make their distribution recognize the K6 serie

Re: [expert] Real player: Cannot open audio device. Another application may beusing it.

2001-03-30 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hello again, I have added the interested user to the "audio" group and works fine. Thanks a lot Stephen. Fabian. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: > I think it is a permissions issue. Check to make sure that your USER is set > up in the AUDIO group. > >

Re: [expert] telnet/ftp problem into host m/c..

2001-03-30 Thread Kevin Venkiteswaran
> from my m/c I am able to login into any other machine > but > the other way I am NOT able to ...Where did I screw up... Note sure what you mean by m/c, but anyway... > I enabled inet services in startup drake. > I compared with other machines here, found that I dont have > ftpaccess file,,,gen

[expert] php-oracle rpm not installing

2001-03-30 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
Hello, I have been trying to install the php-oracle RPM from 7.2, but I keep getting errors about the Oracle lib files missing. Here is my situation: Mandrake 7.2 Oracle 8.1.7 (Client/Programmer) installed ORACLE_HOME set When I install php-oracle-4.0.3pl1-1mdk.i586.rpm, I get the following mess

Re: [expert] Real player: Cannot open audio device. Another application may beusing it.

2001-03-30 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
I think it is a permissions issue. Check to make sure that your USER is set up in the AUDIO group. Peña Arellano Fabian Erasmo wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed Real Player version 8.0.3.412 under > Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I f I use it as root everything works fine, but if I

[expert] Real player: Cannot open audio device. Another application may beusing it.

2001-03-30 Thread =?x-unknown?q?Pe=F1a_Arellano_Fabian_Erasmo?=
Hello, I have just installed Real Player version 8.0.3.412 under Linux-Mandrake 7.2. I f I use it as root everything works fine, but if I try to use it as a regular user, I get the following message: Cannot open audio device. Another application may be using it.

Re: [expert] 8.0b2 $HOME/.bash_profile no being read

2001-03-30 Thread Al Niessner
I ended up putting 'echo "My PID: $$" >> /tmp/etc_profile.trace' into /etc/profile and then using kdm and gdm to login. kdm never executes /etc/profile or ${HOME}/.bash_profile. gdm, on the other hand, executes it two times. Once when the bash shell is started and then again when it changes over

[expert] telnet/ftp problem into host m/c..

2001-03-30 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hello, Help needed:: after checking the archives , I am seeking your help I installed LM7.2 recently.(2 weeks). from that time I have been struggling to configure ftp/telnet problem. from my m/c I am able to login into any other machine but the other way I am NOT able to ...Whe

[expert] anyone working enlightenment installation in 8.0b2

2001-03-30 Thread Al Niessner
I have found the enlightenment installation in 8.0b2 to be lacking in all respects. I have noticed that some features are missing from the "standard" enlightenment toolkit like menu regeneration. Then, when new users select enlightenment, they get no menus to start with -- used to get links to gn

[expert] 8.0b2 $HOME/.bash_profile no being read

2001-03-30 Thread Al Niessner
When I log in (init 5) my X, enlightenment, GNOME, and all subsequent terminals are missing environment variables because $HOME/.bash_profile is not being read. If I log in on one of the TTY's, it works fine. I figure something must have changed in the windowing login around kdm and it uses the '

Re: [expert] Remote queue ???

2001-03-30 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hi, I could configure for a windows 98 m/c... I am trying to configure for another linux running rh6.2 and it uses lpr as default print command...it doesnt use cups. I await for your solution...thankyou in advance... I am regret for insufficient info... prasad

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Chubby Vic
Its ok to have the i686 rpms in the version, just don't (whoever) remove the i586 ones, just add the i686 and leave the i586 IN there so one can install it on either machine and then everyone will be happy and the version won't give you any poop about installing, it will just install with no probl

[expert] inputrc

2001-03-30 Thread Gérald Verdon
 Hello,     I would like to modify the key functions (especially the F1, F2...) and I made some changes in etc/inputrc:     "\e[[B": "Text for F2"     But my F2 key is still dead.      Where is the mistake?      Thank you in advance. Gérald Config.: mdk 7.2, kernel 2.2.17, kde 2.1.1

[expert] Remote queue ???

2001-03-30 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
I am trying to configure a printer on remote machine.. what is should I give when it asks for remote queue ... I am running LM7.2 with kde2.1. thankyou in advance.. prasad. Happy Day, Prasad, B.V.L.S., Research Scholar.

Re[2]: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Ken Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Well put Jose! I hope we see something like this come from Linus. Looking > > down the "time horizon", this issue will probably dissapear in 8 to 12 > > months, but in the interim, it just makes good business sense not to raise > > potential obsta

Re: [expert] rescue

2001-03-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Ed Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Mandrake 7.2 for the first time. I am trying to get > "rescue" to work. I can't get it to see my SCSI drives with > reiserfs. The good news is that I do not need "rescue" now, but I do > need to learn how to use it! Have you made a boot flo

[expert] Slots ' Sockets

2001-03-30 Thread Ken Thompson
Can someone tell me why the "Edit Slots" is greyed out in QT Designer?? I'm trying to use Kdevelop 1.4 for KDE 2.1 and follow a tutorial on building QT apps. When I get to the part about connecting the button to the text box it says to edit the slot, but, the "Edit Slots" is greyed out... I have

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Ken Thompson
> > Well put Jose! I hope we see something like this come from Linus. Looking > down the "time horizon", this issue will probably dissapear in 8 to 12 > months, but in the interim, it just makes good business sense not to raise > potential obstacles to the further acceptance of Linux. I'm not so

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Lyric
The one thing that I'm noticing throughout this particular discussion is that everyone is blaming Mandrake and not looking at the fact that the K6-2 and K6-3 are actually i586 chips. How can Mandrake make their distribution recognize the K6 series as i686 chips when they will just cough and sput

Re: [expert] Lost sight of point (was: WAIT!! STOP!!...)

2001-03-30 Thread Chubby Vic
So does this mean that the next ver of Mandrake will install on my AMDK6-400 without any trouble just like 7.2 ? If not I will be VERY upset On Friday 30 March 2001 12:51 am, so spoke David Rankin: > "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > To begin with, this is not a Mandrake issue, it's a Linux issue