Re: [expert] MDK 8, Voodoo 3 and 3D

I haven't had any luck but things have been evolving a bit. I can now play in window mode. But sound is sometimes off. Changing resolution invariably leads to Xserver crash and since my defalut resolution is 1024*768 I think some games try to change that when going to fullscreen. This could expl

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

BTW, I did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 tonight and tried aging the startx from console and low-and-behold it things work again. not the way I'd like them 'casue for my workstation i like the graphical login but at least I can play quake III so I'll stick with 8.0 from here on out! -- /*

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 && GLX (Nvidia)

Todd, Thanks for any help you can give on this problem, The X Version is 4.0.3 Lsmod tells me that the NVdriver is loaded (size 630112, used 0) The driver is version 0.9-769 (14 March 2001) My hardware is as follows - AMD K6-2 (3D Now) 500 Mhz (Super Socket 7 on a 100 Mhz MSI Mboard) 96 MB SDRAM

[expert] compiling the 2.4.4 kernel

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. -- =

Re: [expert] aurora

I think you can configure it using the mandrake control center > boot > boot config. -s On Tuesday 01 May 2001 03:35 pm, you wrote: > Aurora is installed on my mdk 8. > How do I do to configure and run it ?? > If anyone can help.. > Eric MC

[expert] 8.0 update and RAM

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 s

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

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] Application failing under Mandrake 8 - solved

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]

[expert] version6.5-majordomo rpm

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 <= http://w

[expert] 7.2->8.0 Apache-PHP fix

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 everyt

[newbie] setting up a simple rip

We cannot get Netatalk and papd to play nice, so we've come up with another idea. I want to set up a shared directory that we can drop postscript files on. I want a script to monitor the folder, and when it gets a file I want it to print it using the good ole lpr -P lp "the file name goes here"

[expert] aurora

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

[expert] ---An Important Message---

You know I love all of you more than Tux does, so here are some helpful tips to reduce the risk of poisoning and know what to do in case it occurs: - Poison always comes in amber-colored bottles clearly marked with a skull-and-crossbones icon and the word "DANGER." If a substance is not in this t

Re: [expert] DRI and voodoo3 - workaround

I've tried that and unfortunately it didn;t fix the problem for me. -- // // / John Kloian III Chief Technology

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

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 te

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

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.

[expert] Boot Error

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] Removing graphical screen upon boot

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

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

* 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 s

[expert] Is LILO modifying NT FAT partition IDs?

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 the

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

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? > Speci

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

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 t

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

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 gob

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

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 " to find the owner package. If locate gives you too many files then try "find / -name nslookup 2>/dev/n

Re: [expert] Searching for files in packages

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 prop

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

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 l

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

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

[expert] DRI and voodoo3 - workaround

Not a real fix, but running "startx" from the console instead of booting directly into X seems to work around the problem. I was able to play tuxracer in fullscreen mode without crashing now. On Monday 30 April 2001 17:44, John Kloian III wrote: > You're right. This is what I've done thus far

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 & Voodoo DRI

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] Mandrake 8.0 & Voodoo DRI

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

Re: [expert] rpmdrake configuration

* Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010430 14:02]: > On Monday 30 April 2001 15:25, you wrote: > > I think it might help you to read the man page for rpm: "man rpm", and see > > the related files. > > > > If you're looking for things specific to rpmdrake, try "locate rpmdrake" > > (assuming your databas

[expert] Upgrading the Kernel - LM 7.2

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 mandr

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

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'

[expert] Searching for files in packages

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 i

[expert] Intel MP3 player and linux

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 of

[expert] Can't set icons in launcher buttons

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 Ne vous moquez pas maître. C'est le titillement de la recherche scientifique

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

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 well-

Re: [expert] 3d games very very slow

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 logg

Re: [expert] Upgrading the Kernel

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

[expert] Upgrading the Kernel

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 kernel-2.4.3-2

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

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

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

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 30

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

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 fil

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

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

[expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

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 prob

Re: [expert] 3d games very very slow

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 acceler

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

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 abov

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

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 relevant

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

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 /var/log/daemons/e

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

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 as

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

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

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

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 i

[expert] Samba and CUPS on 8.0

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 o

[expert] 3d games very very slow

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!? Ya

[expert] starnge log entry

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: http://dresden-online.com/perler/identity.html

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

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] kppp - "ppp daemon has died unexpectedly"

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] Mandrake 8 on a Thinkpad a20m

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 co

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 & Voodoo DRI

John & Will, I made the change in XFreeConfig-4 that said John and, efectively, full screen games, like pingus, run again (remember that pingus doesn't need 3d-acceleration). The conclusion of John is true: At least for Vodoo3 3000, DRI has a bug and switching resolution is controled but this

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

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