Dear friends:
I seem to have hit a minor snag, but I have no idea how to get out it. I
would really appreciate your help.
I am using LM 7.2 with KDE 2.1.1.
I tried to download Ximiam Gnome 1.4 (which allows for installation on
LM 7.2).
After downloading and configuration, I encountered a host
Dear friends:
I can't get startx to work either as root or user.
Benjamin
--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to switch documents within staroffice. for example,
> i need to go how to go from a spreadsheet document to a text document
> open at the same time in staroffice.
>
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
===
Sure. Open all the doc
Miguel Gomez wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to install Mandrake 8 in our server, but when i
> boot with the installation cd, this one hangs when it tries
> to intall the drivers for the Adaptec SCSI 7896. The cd
> works without any problem in other computers without SCSI
> card.
>
> Have someone had
I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2,
but I would like to upgrade to MDK8.
I've been reading the messages under the
mailinglists newbie and expert and I find that it's probably advisable to do a
fresh install rather then upgrading?!
Installing qmail is not a task for a sunda
This is just a small shell script I wrote to assist me in building kernels.
Feel free to critique my work and if you have any creative additions to it
I'd love to hear about them.
#!/bin/sh
# simple shell script to build a kernel
case "$1" in
new)
make dep &&
I have a small problem:
[root@homer RPM]# rpm -Fvh RPMS/i686/nedit-5.1.1-9.1mdk.i686.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libsafe.so.1.3 is needed by nedit-5.1.1-9.1mdk
[root@homer RPM]# rpm -q libsafe
libsafe-1.3-8mdk
[root@homer RPM]# locate libsafe.so.1.3
/lib/libsafe.so.1.3
[root@homer RPM
Dear friends:
Unfortunately, when I type the command
#service xfs restart
I get FAILED.
Similarly, when I type
#/etc/rc.d/init.d/./xfs restart
I also get FAILED.
Same thing happens whether I type the command as user or root.
And the same also for the command "startx" as user or root.
Whe
Ok, I'll add my U.S. $.02 to the brouhaha about WD disk drives:
Up until 2 years ago, I didn't care really one way or the other -
just went for best price. I still tend to lean toward best
price (I recently (about 2 months ago) bought a 40G Quantum
for $120 after rebate!), however abt 2 years a
Greg,
1. What's the difference between copying all those files manually and doing "make
install"?
2. Where's your "depmod -a"?
3. And on a totally different note, i like "usage: $0 new" in case someone wants to
rename the
script.
4. I'm assuming you've tested it out? But then what about thi
Paulo,
I agree with you on reinstalling rather than upgrading.
You might check out the freezerburn link off the homepage of mandrake.com. Someone who
works at
Mandrake (i forget his name just now) put together an rpm package for qmail and
accessories. I
found this out by reading the forum on m
Try to disable the dpms powersave control
xset -dpms (in x-mode)
Perhaps it runs!
dirk
James Francis wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes
> into powersave. I can type startx and everything comes back "alive" again. My
> system
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I can't get startx to work either as root or user.
Benjamin--
Do you have any output from the command we could have a peek at?
if you do a startx >~/xstartup 2>~/xerrors, that will dump the output
into some files, and we can look at those.
Thanks!
Hi (again) all,
On my older p133 computer, the 2.4 kernel hangs on startup. Basically it
boots correctly and gets to the (text) login prompt. After some time
(maybe 20 seconds) i get this message on the console:
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
and my compu
(Strange. On THIS message, the reply-to worked!)
James Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes
> into powersave. I can type startx and everything comes back "alive" again. My
> system is set not to boot into X
Dear friends:
My thanks to Craig Sprout for this hint. I hope this leads to a
solution.
I checked my partitions (df) and, lo and behold, discovered that my main
partition (/) is absolutely full (0 bytes left and 100% of disk space
used).
This doesn't make any sense to me. This may have somethin
Hallo!
I've got a problem with MDK 8 and my laptop... after install apmd is not
installed, so i install it and set power savings to not turn off my
monitor (the bios does that job) nor to suspend or stop it.
After 2 minutes the lcd panel is turned off (right), but in 3-5 more
minutes it lights a
On Thursday 26 April 2001 14:37, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Unfortunately, when I type the command
>
> #service xfs restart
>
> I get FAILED.
>
> Similarly, when I type
>
> #/etc/rc.d/init.d/./xfs restart
>
> I also get FAILED.
>
> Same thing happens whether I type the command as user or root.
Has anyone used the new Red Carpet upgrade utility
that Ximian just released (so says their website for
Apr-24). I used the old Ximian update utility which
seemed to work really well (for just Ximian).
Here's a quote: "Red Carpet enables users to quickly
and easily install update and remove soft
Richard,
There's no need to get all grumpy. Maybe you should have said what you had tried, in
your original
message. That's always helpful to people who want to help you. Which is (_obviously_)
what this
mailing list is about. Try the Mandrake Forum also.
Unfortunately i can't help you with yo
"Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> Here's a weird problem I'm trying to work through.
>
> Mandrake 7.1 machine has two network cards:
> Card A on 1.2.3.4, with default gateway set to 1.2.3.1.
> Card B on 20.0.0.20.
> Both networks connect to the outside world.
>
> Prob
Hi all experts,
I have a Mandrake 7.2, I've been working with Linux for some time ( a year I
guess).
I have a problem, its been troubling me to no end.
I want to Rebuild my perl install with option -Dusethreads.
I got the source rpm, un'rpmed' it to /usr/src/RPM/ and changed the
per
Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which drive
line belongs to who because the line names haven't changed. I hear good things
about both of these lines now, but my memory is still scared by both. Even
though I use IBM drives now, I still remember the stickion driv
Oh! Well, good :-)
But still you need to delete the locked file that xfs created.
Along with df, du is another useful utility. "d"isk "u"sage is what it stands for.
Read the
manpage, but du -h /var will give you some idea of how much space the things in /var
are taking
and "du -hs /var" will su
Check out the manpage on 'cpio'
We use the '-pumdv' options over here (had to copy files in a partition
myself the other day).
On 2001.04.17 09:39 Phil wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I originally made my "/" partition too large (only 2% is used) and now I
> want
> to shrink it because the /usr parti
Hi,
I downloaded and installed Ximian desktop onto a Mandrake 7.2 system.
Red Carpet seems very promising, but I noticed a few items:
1. It can't find a mirror list on the Ximian website (not blocking as you can
use their main site)
2. As their is a channel that checks the mandrake-updates, you
On 26 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch
> documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to
> switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow,
> cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's
On 26 Apr, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> That IS strange. What happens if you hit either ALT-F1
> or Contol-ALT-F1 (try also F2 instead of F1, for curiosity
> sake)? (And which one works, if only one works)
>
> What it SOUNDS like is that the display 'forgot' to
> switch back to the virtual console 1
Okay, I finally got Mandrake 8.0 completely downloaded
and installed. Overall, I would say it's a success.
We've had a lot of people posting about problems and I
know that has discouraged some from trying 8.0. But
if you have a similar situation as me with a box that
can afford the risk, I actu
Anyone know if Linux.com uses an open source program that creates their
web site layout or did they create it by hand?
--
Stephen Lawrence Jr. - Programmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System, UC Davis
(530)-752-4614
Hi
I installed Mandrake 8.0 and I did not found any avi player like the ones in
the 7.2 version.
Where are there?
Thanks
Vick
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Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
James Francis wrote:
> I can restart X with startx , or type reboot and it will, can do a shutdown
> too. The machine isn't locked up, it just loses video.
> I tried alt-F1, ctrl-alt-F1, F2 etc, still no video.
Since you can type commands, try typing:
setterm -blank 0
This disables screen bla
What's a good resource to find out how to use the
TV tuner and DVD capabilities of this All-In-Wonder Pro 128 AGP card that I
have? I would really like to find an application like the TV Player that
comes with the card for Windows.
> The only real issue that I had was that (believe it or
> not) when looking at certain webpages using certain
> fonts, those fonts would be messed up. Even more
> surprising is that I tried this with Konqueror and
> Netscape 4.77 and while the problem exists in both
> environments, it is far wo
You might start your search with xawtv at the
following link, but I don't know specifically if they
work with ATI or not:
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/index.html
--- Phil Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's a good resource to find out how to use the TV
> tuner and DVD capabilities of thi
I've been asked to post something regarding verifying md5sums for
downloaded ISOs, so here goes. It's very easy. When you download an
ISO from any of the mirror sites, there will be a file called
"md5sums". When you download the ISOs, download this file as well.
For instance, if downloading fro
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Lierman Jr.
> Sent: 26. april 2001 16:48
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] mdk8.0 - winbind super-io hang
>
> On my older p133 computer, the 2.4 kernel hangs on startup.
> Basically it
For me Mandrake 8 performs good for the most part,
I have been testing the poop out of it to get it to misbehave,
and the only fatal thing that I found that happens,
is that when you try to set up your /usr/bin/ktalkdlg
in the control center under Network and then Talk configuration,
the whole mac
Doesn't xmovie play .avi? I'm not sure. Anyway, if
it does, it should be found under Multimedia in the
same place.
If you didn't install it for some reason, you can do
so easily by going to the Mandrake Control Center and
using the Software Manager.
--- vick Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
I've been in this KIND of a position before, but not exactly the same. In my situation
i wanted
two different versions of something installed - a legacy program wanted an older
version of a
certain rpm package and a new program wanted the newer version of the same package. I
wound up
using the
Dear All,
I am running an SMP Xeon system and tried to install Mandrake Beta 1,
however, when it reboots there are unresolved symbols in the AIC7XXX
Module and thus the Kernel Panics because I can't mount my root
partition. I am using an Adaptec AHA2940U2W Controller. ANy Help would
be g
THANK YOU VINCENT.
Thank you very, very much. I really appreciate all your hard hours of work.
-John
--- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 11:27:32AM +0100, Paulo Araujo wrote:
>
> > I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2, but I would like to upgrad
What do I need to do to enable Anti-aliasing with
Mandrake 8.0?
--- Eric Plante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just discovered something about AA sluggishness.
> I've posted it on
> mandrakeuser (is there _anyone_ over there?).
>
> Anyway, my post is at:
>
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtop
My favorite method of copying partitions on systems on Linux is cp -ax
(the -x switch tells cp to stay on the current filesystem)
Eg.,
with / mounted as /, and the new one mounted as /newroot, you can say:
cd /
cp -ax . newroot
Make sure to tell lilo and fstab about the change, of course.
Als
Dear SIr,
I will give it a shot sorry about the two messages to expert as I was
having a problem with sendmail :-( It is better now :-)
Chris B
Todd Lyons wrote:
>
> Chris Brandstetter wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> > I am running an SMP Xeon system and tried to install Man
Dear All,
I was trying to install Mandrake 8.0 Beta 1 (I know I just have not had
time to download full release) and it installs fine. However when I
boot up (I am running a Dual Xeon with Adaptec 2940U2W) I get unresolved
symbol in AIC7XXX apx 6 times and then everyones favorite Kernel
Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
Quantum ones!---Whoa.
On Thursday 26 April 2001 05:02 am, so spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which
> drive line belongs
Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote:
> > > > As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then
> > sendmail or postfix,
> > > wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
>
> for my edification: why is qmail more secure than p
At 05:38 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
>Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> >
> > At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote:
> > > > > As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then
> > > sendmail or postfix,
> > > > wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch
> documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to
> switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow,
> cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, yo
Samba is acting wierd and I can't quite seem to pin down the reason for it.
If smb is started at boot time it works fine.
If smb is off at boot and I start it manually, or if I restart smb after boot
I get this
[root@jkd rc5.d]# smbclient -L localhost
added interface ip=12.32.79.nn bcast=12.3
Here's a old post that i've wound up re-posting a few times, and here i go again. I'm
glad i saved
it!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:07:23 -0800 (PST)
From: John Wolford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Summary: How to move /usr to another partition
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings again,
On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 08:17:35PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote:
> > > > As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then
> > sendmail or postfix,
> > > wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
>
> for my edif
At 04:37 PM 4/26/2001 -0700, John Wolford wrote:
> > > As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then
> sendmail or postfix,
> > wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
for my edification: why is qmail more secure than postfix?
On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 04:45:56PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote:
> > I've been asked to post something regarding verifying md5sums for
> > downloaded ISOs, so here goes.
> ...
> > files: Mandrake80-ext.iso, Mandrake80-inst.iso, and md5sums.
> > Make sure all three files are in the same directory and th
Dear Linuxguys,
We have a problem which we find rather weird.
We have a Linux Server running our mail server in the office (we have leased
line).
This particular server worked well in the other room (server room1) but it
does not work in another. To say that the cabling at the other room is
faul
I finally got LM 8.0 running after a fashion. What I see so far is
great! My current problem is a heavy system load. The load average is
at 1 to 2 even with no apps running. Running top, I notice a program
called kapm-idled is consuming 30% to 50% of my cpu cycles! Does this
have something to
Check out GATOS on the LIN-DVD pages. Just run a search on Google and it
will turn up. I used to run it here. However, I have not been using the
server to watch TV much lately.
-Original Message-
From: Todd Flinders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:51 PM
Yes I do have the same problem with my system. It's an upgraded 7.2 to 8
install. Konqueror now crashes most of the time specially when viewing a
text file with it.
"The application Konqueror (konqueror) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV)."
Does anyone have a fresh clean install of
Chubby Vic wrote:
> Whoa, do you think I should move to IBM drives now?
>
> I hear that they are good but I did not know that about the
> Quantum ones!---Whoa.
>
You guys are killing me! Maybe I have just been lucky. I have run Conner,
Seagate, Maxtor, WD and IBM drives for the past ten years. T
Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital, IBM,
Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These makers
have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
Okay, who has horror stories to tell about Seagate and Fujitsu? (I've never
us
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I actaully have a corrupted download and am trying again.
No, don't! Just use rsync co copy it down again. In this mode rsync
only does a patch-in-place operation.
> The question i
> have is: How can I use this md5 checksum to check an iso once it is burnt
> to
> Once the BIOS has released the system to the OS, in this case Grub,
> you can not bypass or override the boot paramiters set by the BIOS.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that booting from the viewpoint
of the BIOS consists in reading the Master Boot Record. In my case
the Master Boot
Joe,
When you moved the linux server, did you carry the cables with it? Plugged into a hub,
you must
have used straight-through, but in the new location should it be crossover, perhaps?
Or maybe it
should be straight-through but for some reason it is crossover? In other words, good
cables but
On Thursday 26 April 2001 07:52 pm, Walter Luffman wrote:
> Let me see if I have this straight. At various times Western Digital,
> IBM, Quantum and Maxtor have all produced drives that are lemons. These
> makers have also produced some very good drives. Is that about right?
>
> Okay, who has h
I can't really help you, but i can give you some advice: buy a new card. I've fiddled
with many a
network card in the past, and i can frankly say that it's just not worth the hassle.
Especially if
drivers have not been made for it!
Unless of course, you're into that kind of thingmisery and
I actaully have a corrupted download and am trying again. The question i
have is: How can I use this md5 checksum to check an iso once it is burnt
to CD? Some programs seem to add padding which makes them fail their own
check facility - xcdroast was one.
BillK
> checksum file. It will, of cou
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I've been asked to post something regarding verifying md5sums for
> downloaded ISOs, so here goes.
...
> files: Mandrake80-ext.iso, Mandrake80-inst.iso, and md5sums.
> Make sure all three files are in the same directory and then excute:
> md5sum -c md5
Okay,got it to sort of work. I took the Western Digital of the promise ata
100 controller and conected it to the motherboard instead.Installed fine, but
have to boot with rescue disk, error at boot is missing o/s. I looked for
lilo.conf but it is not there, I ran rpm -q lilo and it says it is
http://www.stormix.com/
Andrew
--
"I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts...
I despise it, I defy it, a
Dear folks,
I have to question, I hope somebody could help me:
1) A month ago I stoped to receive newbie messages; Is perhaps broken?
2) The only hardware that MDK 8.0 hasn't detected in my two computers, a
Pentium III 800 and a Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT, is my PCMCIA Fast Ethernet
Ovislink
Hi Gang,
Here's a weird problem I'm trying to work through.
Mandrake 7.1 machine has two network cards:
Card A on 1.2.3.4, with default gateway set to 1.2.3.1.
Card B on 20.0.0.20.
Both networks connect to the outside world.
Problem: I can successfully ping the 1.2.3.4 address, but I cannot
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:27:32AM +0100 or thereabouts, Paulo Araujo wrote:
> I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2, but I would like to upgrade to
>MDK8.
>
> I've been reading the messages under the mailinglists newbie and expert and I find
>that it's probably advisable to do a f
Hello,
Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes
into powersave. I can type startx and everything comes back "alive" again. My
system is set not to boot into X on startup, and I have no problem with the
command line mode at that time. Only after running X
Benjamin,
Make sure that xfs, your fontserver service, is running. To do this:
[root@homer RPM]# service xfs status
xfs (pid 710) is running...
[root@homer RPM]#
And if it's not running, then start it up with "service xfs start" and then try startx.
Then, if that's it, check to make sure that x
I need an unsend option. :)
It sounds like your font server isn't running, or is misconfigured. Is
the xfs package installed and running? Also, if other programs are
having problems creating sockets, you may want to check df and make sure
that you don't have a full partition.
(You can ignore
I installed Mandrake 8.0 yesterday without problems but could not get any 3D
game to run correctely (more than one frame every 2 seconds).
I tried tuxracer, gltron, that tennis thing...
I have a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card and chose Xfree 4.0.3 with 3D accel at
install, since having this (and antiali
At 09:37 AM 4/26/2001 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
>Dear friends:
>
>Unfortunately, when I type the command
Just as a follow-up to list: The disk was full, thus xfs can't open a
socket, and X dies horribly!
---
Craig Sprout
Network Administrator
Crown Parts and Machine, Inc.
http://www.crownpar
On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 11:27:32AM +0100, Paulo Araujo wrote:
> I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2, but I would like to upgrade to
>MDK8.
>
> I've been reading the messages under the mailinglists newbie and expert and I find
>that it's probably advisable to do a fresh install ra
I just discovered something about AA sluggishness. I've posted it on
mandrakeuser (is there _anyone_ over there?).
Anyway, my post is at:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=229&forum=5&0 . Go
take a look and send me your comments.
Hey, I just noticed that their damn thing choppe
yesterday I sendt a message asking if anyone knew how to switch
documents within StarOffice. What I meant is if anyone knows how to
switch documents using shoortut keys. The taskbar is rather slow,
cumbersome an just plain boring. For example in KDE's destop, you can
use Alt+Tab to switch betwee
On Thursday 26 April 2001 14:44, you wrote:
> (Strange. On THIS message, the reply-to worked!)
>
> James Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Whenever I exit X in Mandrake 8 I get a blank screen and my monitor goes
> > into powersave. I can type startx and everything comes back "
> Has anyone else had "process died unexpectedly" often in
> mandrake 8? Im using beta 3 with th X and KDE packages upgraded > to those
that come with 8.0?
Yes. I've been trying to track down that problem myself for a couple
days now. This happens (at least for me) whenever I try to use the
I have seen many of the problems that you have seen. I ran into a similar
problem with my Promise controllers, but I suspect that my problem is
different than yours. In the middle of crash testing, I swapped m/b's in
two of my computers went from having an Ultra100 and Ultra66 Promise
controller
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