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

2001-03-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Are you then saying that the RPM recompilation does NOT by default turn on the i686 optimization switches... If so then does the target=i686 do so? Which is what I though happened automatically with a --rebuild. If not WHY What good is the target=i686 switch for RPM rebuilds then

[newbie] when will mandrake release 8.0?

2001-03-31 Thread lqlee
Hi,all, the 2.4.3 kernel is released. When will Mandrake v8.0 be released? Indeed, it takes a liitle long time to release a new version from beta. a little anxious ! === ÐÂÀËÃâ·Ñµç×ÓÓÊÏä (http://mail.sina.com.cn)

Re: [expert] Cant mount Root FS

2001-03-31 Thread Civileme
On Friday 30 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: 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),

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

2001-03-31 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: I recently joined this list, not because I feel 'expert' but because I wanted to know how the next release of Mandrake was shaping up, and this isn't a bad place to find out. I am very glad I caught this thread. I'm currently running 2 AMD K6s and

[expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread Daryl Johnson
This is clearly going to be simple when the answer is presented and I will smack myself on the head, but for now... I used to be able to telnet into my linux box from my (NT4) laptop. They are connected with Samba, the laptop connects to the linux box, I can transfer files, the linux box is a

Re: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
not a reply.../!!! but myself facing the same problem... help is appreciated earlier I enquired but in vain... kevin has posted a solution but it didnt work for me... prasad. This is clearly going to be simple when the answer is presented and I will smack myself on the head, but for

RE: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
1) Did you INSTALL the telnet server? It is not installed by default... Check with... # rpm -qa | grep telnet telnet-0.17-5mdk 2) Is it enabled? Check in Linuxconf's Server Tasks, Internet Services, Internet Server Database Enable it if it doesn't appear. 3)

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

2001-03-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Well since the release i686 RPM's are really compiled for i586, this is a rather academic discussion... Civilme states that there are NO i686 optimizations in the i686 RPM's... that they are really i586 optimized RPM's with i686 tagging because of the CPU in the machine they were compiled on.

Re: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 31 March 2001 06:16, you wrote: This is clearly going to be simple when the answer is presented and I will smack myself on the head, but for now... I used to be able to telnet into my linux box from my (NT4) laptop. They are connected with Samba, the laptop connects to the linux

RE: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Hello jose, I tried as you said... I have ftp and telnet installed... I followed your next step...of going to linuxconf's= Server Tasks, Internet Services, Internet Server Database they are enabled there...but when I tell it accept...its reporting in.ftpd not found in /usr/sbin/

Re: [expert] Cant mount Root FS

2001-03-31 Thread Don
On Saturday 31 March 2001 09:12, you wrote: On Friday 30 March 2001 19:15, you wrote: Anyone have any ideas where I might be going wrong here: --- snip Bob Silva bob @bravenet.com The 2.4 kernel was built with those awful devices in

[expert] USB Zip not recognized by LM72

2001-03-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: For some reason, during reinstallation LM72 did not recognize my Zip 100 meg USB drive. It always had before. I went into DrakConf, Hardware, but it didn't bring up my Zip drive. During bootup, I get a big red X next to "USB interface" Here is what I have tried to do: 1)

Re: [expert] Cant mount Root FS

2001-03-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
My /dev/hda primary partition, like many of you no doubt, is vfat with windoze on it. I have found that if I build a kernel (2.4.x) without including fat and vfat IN the kernel, then I get the "kernel panic, cannot mount root fs" message. This has happened to me several times lately and in

RE: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Install the telnet server RPM from the CD... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of B.V.L.S.Prasad Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Telnet Problem Hello jose, I tried as you

RE: [expert] Telnet Problem....It worked...!!!!!thanks..

2001-03-31 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
Thanks alot jose it worked... i had to reinstall the ftp and telnet servers once again...and thats all it worked straight the mistake was small..identification took 2 weeks ... your suggestions has worked perfectly well... at the same time I learnt a lot.. thanks to all!!! once

[expert] nvidia,opengl and tuxracer

2001-03-31 Thread Steven Taetzsch
I've downloaded the nvidia kernel and glx tarballs. Done make install on both of them and they installed successfully. I wanted to test it with tuxracer, but it doesn't work. It complains about the opengl. I included the output from lsmod and when I try to run tuxracer below. I also have a

Re: [expert] USB Zip not recognized by LM72

2001-03-31 Thread A V Flinsch
On Saturday 31 March 2001 09:36, you wrote: Dear friends: For some reason, during reinstallation LM72 did not recognize my Zip 100 meg USB drive. It always had before. I went into DrakConf, Hardware, but it didn't bring up my Zip drive. During bootup, I get a big red X next to "USB

Re: [expert] nvidia,opengl and tuxracer

2001-03-31 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Steven Taetzsch wrote: I've downloaded the nvidia kernel and glx tarballs. Done make install on both of them and they installed successfully. I wanted to test it with tuxracer, but it doesn't work. It complains about the opengl. I included the output from lsmod and when I try to run

Re: [expert] Telnet Problem

2001-03-31 Thread Ed Weinberg
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:17:38 +0400 (RET), someone wrote: I used to be able to telnet into my linux box from my (NT4) laptop. They are connected with Samba, the laptop connects to the linux box, I can transfer files, the linux box is a server but I can't telnet in and log-on? telnet

[expert] WYSYWYG for latex under linux

2001-03-31 Thread falcaraz
Hello folks; I am taken a latex course and after every session I am most for use this wonderfull text-compiler system. The course it under windows, but using free software. But my aim is to use latex under linux, nevertheless, the use of a WYSIWYG text editor is for me more interesting that just

Re: [expert] USB Zip not recognized by LM72

2001-03-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alex: Thanks so very much. Will try and report to the list. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] WYSYWYG for latex under linux

2001-03-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
You can save files as latex from lyx (do not use klyx, it is major broken and no longer in development). Also, the output of lyx is text as well. Try it. Save a lyx file and then open it in a text editor. Beyond that, I know of no WYSIWYG editor for latex. Lyx is a "WYSIWYM" app, meaning

[expert] Problems installing kdelibs-2.1.1

2001-03-31 Thread Phil
Hello all, I was dropped off the mailing list for some reason last week so forgive me if this question has already been answered. I managed to install the KDE 2.1.1 XFree files but I'm having a problem with kdelibs. This is the error that I get: unpacking of archive failed on file

[expert] USB Zip unrecognized -- Still a problem

2001-03-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Alex and friends: Have tried different ways to get Linux to detect my USB. Nothing that I do seems to work. Here is the data: 1) /etc/modules [sher@sher07 /etc]$ cat modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that

[expert] linuxconf in X

2001-03-31 Thread Bruce Endries
Usually when I'm in X and start the command "linuxconf" I get the X version of the program. However, today I did an install, and when I try it on this machine I just get the character-based version of the program appearing in the terminal window. Also, when I try to run it from Drakconf, it

[expert] Enabling sound in 7.2

2001-03-31 Thread lorne schachter
The first time I installed 7.2 and logged in, I got that "great" sound as port of KDE coming up and sound from RealAudio worked fine. This was great because it was the first time that LINUX had handled my sound card. I had to reinstall 7.2 because I trashed a file system. I did an install from

[expert] x- roast

2001-03-31 Thread homart
Hi I have a cd-rewiter, mandy found it etc but I have a problem with x-roast. When I tried to copy on the fly i.e. cd to cd I found it had set up the writer twice . Can any 1 advise me on how to and where I can correct it .. many thanks homart