[expert-it] Problemi con l'installazione della Mandrake 8.

2001-05-01 Thread Fabrizio Silvestri
Salve a tutti, ho un grandissimo problema. Ho comprato un nuovo PC così composto: Scheda Madre ASUS A7V133 con chipset VIA KT133 e BIOS ver. 1004. Scheda Video Matrox G450 Scheda Audio Sound Blaster Live 1024 Scheda di Rete Intel 100Mb Memoria 3x256 MB

Re: [expert-it] Problemi con l'installazione della Mandrake 8.

2001-05-01 Thread Biagio LUCINI
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Fabrizio Silvestri wrote: Ragazzi non riesco ad installare Linux in nessun modo. Mi si pianta l'installazione addirittura quando deve formattare il disco (se faccio delle partizioni estese) altrimenti mi si pianta dopo che ha copiato i primi file. Credo di ricevere un

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
This post will totally betray my ignorance, but i'd rather try to help someone :-) I had similar errors with one installation (of Mandrake) and i don't remember how i solved it. Here are a few things that come to mind. Have you: 1) explicitly made sure that the correct modules are configured

Re: [expert] buggy mouse/keyboard

2001-05-01 Thread Nima S. Panahi
Well ,the keyboard is a new dell keybaord I got from a dell computer (the server is not Dell.) It was working great there, but I guess I can try it again. The mouse I have tried with one another computer, a laptop. However, the laptop's ps/2 ports are quarky and act wierd, so maybe to bad things

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Oh, many thanks! I was totally unaware of depmod -a command. I tried that, and afterwards did a /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart and it complained about the same thing. argh. I dont seem to have a sndconfig program anywhere on the disk.. Btw, I did not build a kernel; I simply did an rpm

[expert] Mandrake 8 on a Thinkpad a20m

2001-05-01 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
First impressions of Mandrake 8 install (machine: Thinkpad a20m, Mandrake 7.2 with updated kernel and botched sound is installed) Booted from CD-ROM.. * Trackpoint does not work (worked fine in Mandrake 7.2) regardless of which mouse you pick. Further, if you pick any of the bus mouses; it

[expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread Tutty, Dan
Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is except for removing 'lock' from /etc/ppp/options? I'm using LM8 with an external Creative ModemBlaster and I used to have the same problem with LM7.2 but only when I used a 2.4.x kernel. I tried a 2.2.x

[expert] NFS/NIS problems (Connecting Linux to Solaris)

2001-05-01 Thread gtbr15455
We have a Solaris server here that I had no problem connecting Mandrake 7.2 to, but version 8 doesn't seem to co-operate. NetConf nolonger lists the option to alter NIS settings, although I have manually edited yp.conf, and all other settings seem correct. I have noticed that rlogin rexec seem

[expert] starnge log entry

2001-05-01 Thread Patrick Erler
hello MANDRAKE! this morning i found a strange entry in /var/log/messages: May 1 04:02:07 orbit AESctl: httpd -USR1 succeeded a quick search thru deja or google fond nothing - has someone an explanation for it? regards, PAT -- vcard/LDAP/PGP:

[expert] 3d games very very slow

2001-05-01 Thread faisal gillani
Hello i am trying to run some 3D Games that comes with Mandrake . but the movement of the games is very very slow although i have a 16MB Vodoo Banshee with 190 MB RAM a PII 350 Processor Help me out here please . __ Do You Yahoo!?

[expert] Samba and CUPS on 8.0

2001-05-01 Thread jtklaas
Well after having many problems installing Mandrake 8 on my server (it would die during/after the network setup with a seg fault (missing memory message)) I finally got it going. This machine serves as my primary file/print server for my house. It includes several windows machines and a couple

Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread s
permissions is one of them. Why don't you post the portion of your /var/log/messages that pertain to ppp error and maybe that will give us a clue. -s On Tuesday 01 May 2001 03:14 am, you wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is

Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread Morteargenta Giovanni
El Martes 01 Mayo 2001 10:14, Tutty, Dan escribi: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is except for removing 'lock' from /etc/ppp/options? I'm using LM8 with an external Creative ModemBlaster and I used to have the same problem with

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
I gave it some thought and now i remember that sndconfig saved me. If you the kernel is built with support for your soundcard and all the module dependancies are set up correctly, then sndconfig is your next step. (That means we're hoping that your kernel will support it, but try this next step

RE: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Dan, try going through your logs to see if there's anything revealing there: /var/log/whatever-seems-relevant. You could probably start with /var/log/daemons/errors, then try .../daemons/info, .../daemons/warnings, /var/log/syslog, etc.. You get the idea. You can use tail -50

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Oh Turgut, one more thing. Although i'm sure that running sndconfig will almost certainly solve your problem, another thing you might try doing is going through some of your logfiles to see if you can get any insight there. Maybe start with /var/log/syslog and try any other ones that seem

Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Is that the same error message that it produces if you just unplug the phone line when you're online? Could it be that your ISP is dropping you for some reason? dunno, j --- Tutty, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above

Re: [expert] 3d games very very slow

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 1 May, faisal gillani wrote: Hello i am trying to run some 3D Games that comes with Mandrake . but the movement of the games is very very slow although i have a 16MB Vodoo Banshee with 190 MB RAM a PII 350 Processor Help me out here please . Are you using acceleration

[expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame buffer so I can see if the

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Many thanks for the sndconfig; unfortunately it displays that my Cirrus Logic|CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] is currently NOT supported, and quits. sigh. and I used to have sound when I first installed 7.2. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com

RE[2]: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread Rusty Carruth
John Wolford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, try going through your logs to see if there's anything revealing there: /var/log/whatever-seems-relevant. to get an idea of what log files changed, my favorite is: ls -altrd /var/log/* /var/log/*/* | tail which shows you the last 10 files

Fw: Re: [expert] kppp - ppp daemon has died unexpectedly

2001-05-01 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 1 May 2001 03:14:11 -0500 Tutty, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Could anyone let me know what the most common causes for the above error in kppp is except for removing 'lock' from /etc/ppp/options? Edit your /etc/pp/options to include the following: == idle 300

[expert] static linking in LM7.2 (kylix)

2001-05-01 Thread Morteargenta Giovanni
After a pain , i'd installed kylix , but , there's one problem... How the hell can i produce statically linked binaries? the Library dependences would be a really scary to expect some average user can manage it , so i'd like to produce a statically linked binary from the shared ones that relay

[expert] Upgrading the Kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Russell Hoffman
Hi, I've never upgraded the kernel like this, so I wanted to run it by this list before I tried... The default kernel in LM8.0 is 2.4.3-10mdk, and I saw 2.4.3-23mdk on the cooker mirrors. So I've downloaded kernel-2.4.3-23mdk.src.rpm, and I think I do this, right: $ rpm --rebuild

Re: [expert] Upgrading the Kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
First off, you should never use 'rpm -Uvh' for kernel upgrades. If you do that, it will overwrite your current kernel. Use 'rpm -ivh', as it says to do in the kernel docs, this will install the new kernel along side your old one. Russell Hoffman wrote: Hi, I've never upgraded the kernel like

Re: [expert] 3d games very very slow

2001-05-01 Thread Ric Tibbetts
My observations on this: I found the same thing when running under KDE or Gnome. But if I log in under IceWM, the games play great! YYMV, but I've found KDE Gnome to be heavy on the resource usage. :) Try the lighter weight window managers when you want to play games. It's just a matter of

[expert] upgrading printing for samba: newer cups or LPRng

2001-05-01 Thread D. R. Evans
The very day that my new machine loaded with Mandrake 7.2 arrived, 8.0 was released. Anyway, deciding that I'd had enough of being at the bleeding edge I decided I'd try to stay with 7.2 for a while. After getting Samba configured and running, I discovered that I'm getting the apparently

[expert] Can't set icons in launcher buttons

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, Can anyone tell me why I can't set icons in my launchers buttons? I'm attaching a screen shot. As you can see, I don't have the OK button. This is Mandrake 8.0. L -- Laurent Duperval mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique qui

[expert] Intel MP3 player and linux

2001-05-01 Thread Rusty Carruth
Well, I'm the happy recipient of an intel MP3 player (128M ram, USB port). Now I want to hook it to my machines - which are all either Linux or Solaris. I searched freshmeat and sourceforge (and google) and had no luck. Did my search string fail me? Anybody know of a project to get control

[expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would tell you what package to find it in. That functionality seems to have disappeared form the Software Manager. Is that a fact or am I not doing things properly? Specifically, I'm looking for the package which has nslookup in

Re: [expert] Can't set icons in launcher buttons

2001-05-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 1 May, To: Mandrake Expert List wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me why I can't set icons in my launchers buttons? I'm attaching a screen shot. As you can see, I don't have the OK button. This is Mandrake 8.0. L Turns out the problem is subtle but there is a work around. I can't set an

[expert] Upgrading the Kernel - LM 7.2

2001-05-01 Thread Onawahya D. Jones
Just a stupid aside (I want to double check to make sure I've properly read all necessary documentation). How should I go about updated LM 7.2 (default kernel 2.2.17-?? I believe) to 2.4.4 (or similar i.e. 2.4.3-30mdk) I have a complete kernel download of 2.4.4 and the available package from

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI

2001-05-01 Thread John Kloian III
Great, let me know if there is anything I can do to help. -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 Voodoo DRI

2001-05-01 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
John, I sent a message to the bug support of XFree86, an automatical answer said that they are studing the problem and they will communicate to me sooner o later ; Guillaume said also that hi has sent the information to the person in Mandrake that works with the X. As soon that I had messages

Re: [expert] static linking in LM7.2 (kylix)

2001-05-01 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 01 May 2001 08:43, you wrote: After a pain , i'd installed kylix , but , there's one problem... How the hell can i produce statically linked binaries? the Library dependences would be a really scary to expect some average user can manage it , so i'd like to produce a statically

Re: [expert] static linking in LM7.2 (kylix)

2001-05-01 Thread Morteargenta Giovanni
El Martes 01 Mayo 2001 21:40, Civileme escribi: There is a loader bug in glibc2.1 that prevents that. In our Mandrake-devel/unsupported directory you will find something like glibc2.1-18.3mdk which is patched to run with Kylix. Any aditional queries along these lines are probably more

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 14:25 -0400, Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would tell you what package to find it in. That functionality seems to have disappeared form the Software Manager. Is that a fact or am I not doing things

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Laurent, I've never used that tool, but you could get it from doing something like locate nslookup |xargs rpm -qf or the longhanded version: locate nslookup to find the file, then rpm -qf filename to find the owner package. If locate gives you too many files then try find / -name nslookup

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread John Wolford
Hi again, Just thought i'd mention that i don't have access to linux from where i am, but i'm sure there are some more efficient ways of doing that. Can you make locate only locate executables, or locate exact-matching filenames? I don't know, but if you can then you don't have to worry about

Re: [expert] static linking in LM7.2 (kylix)

2001-05-01 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
Morte, I've just been looking at this myself, but I haven't really gotten started. If you get this going soon please post to the list or email me directly with what you had to do to make it work. If I get started before you figure it out I'll keep in touch and hopefully we can muddle through it

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread D. R. Evans
On 1 May 01, at 14:25, Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would tell you what package to find it in. That functionality seems to have disappeared form the Software Manager. Is that a fact or am I not doing things properly?

[expert] Is LILO modifying NT FAT partition IDs?

2001-05-01 Thread Erich Enke
The oddest thing: I delete and reformat a partition as a FAT partition in Disk Administrator. If I logout and log back in, I can still see the drive I just formatted. As I expect I should be able to. If however, I reboot immediately back into Windows NT, Disk Administrator now says that

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

2001-05-01 Thread Joshua Rodman
* Pete Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010430 14:01]: Some time since last night my keyboard repeat has gone... I'm baffled - I've been running 8.0rc1 since it appeared, and have been up and logged in for 16 days without problems. Symptoms are, well, no auto-repeat. If I change keyboard

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame

[expert] Boot Error

2001-05-01 Thread Farnes, Jay
I was able to in install Mandrake 8.0 successfully. When it boots, the screen displays the letter 'L', then repeats the number 40 accross the screen. I am able to boot from a floppy but not from the hard drive. Computer info: 333Mhz HP Vectra VL, 10 GB Western Digital hard drive. Thanks! Jay

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

2001-05-01 Thread Pete Jordan
Joshua Rodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if, as root, you simply run '/sbin/kbdrate -r 30.0 -d 250'. Does this bring back your repeat? Does it stick when using vmware and leaving it again? Well, if I do that, I don't even get autorepeat in the Eterm I typed the command into.

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

2001-05-01 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
Command Line: $ whereis nslookup nslookup: /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/man/man8/nslookup.8.bz2 $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nslookup bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk "D. R. Evans" wrote: On 1 May 01, at 14:25, Laurent Duperval wrote: > Hi, > > It used to be (in 7.2) that you could search for a file and it would

[expert] 7.2-8.0 Apache-PHP fix

2001-05-01 Thread Scott Patten
FYI, I upgraded a server from 7.2 to 8.0 and had some problems with PHP crashing the Apache. I played around with the settings but never had the time to fix everything. Out of desperation, I tried installing just the Apache, PHP and mod-xxx RPMs from cooker. This fixed my problem and

[expert] aurora

2001-05-01 Thread Eric MC
Aurora is installed on my mdk 8. How do I do to configure and run it ?? If anyone can help.. Eric MC

[expert] Application failing under Mandrake 8 - solved

2001-05-01 Thread Phil
Hello all, The problem was two dud links in /etc/alternatives. It appears that Mandrake upgraded the compiler at the last minute and forgot to change the links. Of course, now the original application needs to be recompiled, but it works. -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] DRI and voodoo3 - a *better* workaround

2001-05-01 Thread Will
After a little more testing, I found that GDM doesn't cause a crash on mode-switch, so if you have Gnome installed, you can still have a graphical login. Maybe this bug is an interaction between the Voodoo3 driver and KDM? A related bug - I changed /etc/sysconfig/desktop from KDE to Gnome,

[expert] 8.0 update and RAM

2001-05-01 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi all, Managed to update form 7.2 to 8.0. My old 7.2 is in /dev/hdb1 and new 8.0 is in /dev/hdc1 My system has 1GB RAM and the 7.2 boot shows 1024 MB RAM at the login screen (as below) ---One 933MHz Intel Pentium III Processor, 1024 RAM However the 8.0 boot shoe only 1005MB RAM at the login

[expert] compiling the 2.4.4 kernel

2001-05-01 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Hi, I ran into this error while compiling version 2.4.4 of the kernel: look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same of the initrd Then it errors. Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do I have to have an updated mkinitrd package? Cheers, Sheldon. --

[expert] version6.5-majordomo rpm

2001-05-01 Thread KompuKit
Does anyone have the majordomo rpm that was on the CD of version 6.5 of mandrake...or was it, 7.0... when 7.02 came out...they didn't include it anymore... I need a domo RPM for the mandrake system...one that is at least 1.94.5 -- Registered Linux User: 167369 =