Re: [expert] MDK v8 Powerpack

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 20 May 2001 08:13 pm, Gary wrote: Hi all, Was at Best Buy (in the States here) today, and low and behold, I found V8 PowerPack. There is also a $20 rebate, which is really nice !!! I have 7.2 installed now, and want to know what others have done, I bought the Cd's from

[expert] Aethera accounts

2001-05-21 Thread Digital Wokan
I realize this is a contrib package and not an official Mandrake one, but has anyone gotten it to work with more than one e-mail account? None of the drop-down menus seem to be working for me.

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 20 May 2001 09:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Actually Brian, to the best of my knowledge that problem still exists. It's not a problem with Mandrake - it's actually a problem with the way the WD drives are made. and just how is that Mark? While i'd not choose a WD if I

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 11:15, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm considering upgrading my Mandrake, but I heard of the 8.0 beta that they were having trouble with Western Digital drives. I assume that they fixed the problem, but I just wanted to make sure. Brian Hartman In one sense it is

[expert] Word97 in Linux -- Mission Impossible?

2001-05-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have spent the entire evening trying to install Word97 in LM 8.0. Well, I started my installation of MSWord97 after hearing from a man by the name of Hoyt, who very kindly shared the basic facts with me. Following his instructions, I downloaded the itcl rpm, the

[expert] Module problems - unresolved symbols

2001-05-21 Thread Phil
Hello all, I'm trying to access a parallel port IDE drive (I had this working 3 or 4 years ago without a problem). The kernel supplied with Mdk 8.0 appears to have been built with all of the required modules. However the error messages seem to contradict that statement. Anyway, if I type

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: so i try running MandrakeUpdate? on the theory that there might be updates since the ISO was burned. and? [root@sphinx dswartz]# MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.1: cannot load shared

Re: [expert] Re: Lost Interrupt

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 16:25, Daniel Munden wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2001, Civileme wrote: % You are looking at timing chatter under tightened timing requirements in % kernel 2.4. The solution is to relocate one of the drives to another channel % or simply throw it away. These timing

Re: [expert] Installing MSWord 97 using Wine -- How?

2001-05-21 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
That reminds me: Doesn't Star Office support anything but Postscript? We have a HP Laserjet IIIsi on an NT machine (the only NT machine we have; and that's all it does; manage that printer :) Crashes, reboots, etc) We have an LPRD on ANOTHER machine (running OS/2, and passes the job coming from

[expert] Mandrake 8.0, draknet and isdn

2001-05-21 Thread Anes Lihovac
Hello ! During the installtion of Mandrake 8.0 I was bale to give in all my parameters to make an internet connection. But I am not able to connect to my ISP. The problem is, that I get an connection and immediatly after I got it the remote party hags up. In /var/log/messages i can see that he

[expert] wu-ftpd problems with Mandrake 7.2

2001-05-21 Thread Daniel James
Hello experts, I've got two problems with the FTP server under Mandrake 7.2. Firstly, I think I must have changed something, because FTP connections are suddenly being refused. [root@server /etc]# ftp localhost Connected to localhost.localdomain. 220 server FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Wed

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 11:15, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm considering upgrading my Mandrake, but I heard of the 8.0 beta that they were having trouble with Western Digital drives. I assume that they fixed the problem, but I just wanted to

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 So how do I run rpmdrake? I tried and got this: [root@sphinx dswartz]# rpmdrake rpmdrake: error while loading shared

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: so i try running MandrakeUpdate? on the theory that there might be updates since the ISO was burned. and? [root@sphinx dswartz]# MandrakeUpdate MandrakeUpdate: error while loading shared

Re: [expert] Word97 in Linux -- Mission Impossible?

2001-05-21 Thread Dave Sherman
Benjamin, Regarding the umask you mentioned, this is a simple command to run. As root, enter the following in an xterm: chmod -u /usr/11R6/bin/wine or whatever the correct path is to wine on your system. The umask is a way of forcing a program to run as a specific user, no matter who

[expert] iso images

2001-05-21 Thread richard.bown
Hi all, put a request in a few days ago and did get a reply, but to be honest after looking for ages for un-iso, and finding zilch , I think the wee beasty to use for building the file system from an iso image is mkisofs. Can some ne help with the syntax for extracting the file system to extract

RE: [expert] Need HELP Compiling tulip.c for Linksys NC100 NIC

2001-05-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rankin Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 10:33 PM To: Ron Marriage; mandrake Subject: Re: [expert] Need HELP Compiling tulip.c for Linksys NC100 NIC Ron Marriage wrote: Hi Dave, Linksys

Re: [expert] MDK v8 Powerpack

2001-05-21 Thread Gary
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:30:00PM -0400 or thereabouts, Brian Hartman wrote: I've had a bit of a problem upgrading through MandrakeUpdate. (It just plain hasn't worked for me!), so I wouldn't go that route if I was you. Your best bet is almost certainly to grab the ISO if you've got a

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Monday 21 May 2001 06:01, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 So how do I run rpmdrake? I tried and got this: [root@sphinx

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 23:31, Don wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 09:47, you wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 11:15, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. I'm considering upgrading my Mandrake, but I heard of the 8.0 beta that they were having trouble with Western Digital drives. I assume that

[newbie] Sound Problem with real player

2001-05-21 Thread Rajat Goon
Hi, In my m/c I have VIA -PCI Sound card. I've Mandrake 8.0 and it picked up fine, all the system sounds are coming fine. I downloaded realplayer 8.0 basic (I installed from the .bin file). When I am running from root. It gives me the message output audio device is busy, some other

Re: [expert] MDK v8 Powerpack

2001-05-21 Thread Rusty Carruth
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Was at Best Buy (in the States here) today, and low and behold, I found V8 PowerPack. There is also a $20 rebate, which is really nice !!! I have 7.2 installed now, and want to know what others have done, in terms of a fresh install, or an upgrade.

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 08:37 AM 5/21/2001 -0700, Larry Sword wrote: Civileme wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 I have no idea how you tried to use mandrakeUpdate with 8.0--it isn't there. Civileme Yes, very interesting. :-) I have a fresh install on L-M 8.0 and find

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Larry Sword
Civileme wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 I have no idea how you tried to use mandrakeUpdate with 8.0--it isn't there. Civileme Yes, very interesting. :-) I have a fresh install on L-M 8.0 and find the following:

Re: [expert] more 8.0 nonsense

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 05:34 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: On Monday 21 May 2001 06:01, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, Civileme wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 17:36, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Mandrake Update was merged with rpmDrake in a new Software manager for 8.0 So how do I

Re: [expert] iso images

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Rambo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, put a request in a few days ago and did get a reply, but to be honest after looking for ages for un-iso, and finding zilch , I think the wee beasty to use for building the file system from an iso image is mkisofs. Can some ne help with the syntax for

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 21 May 2001 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, the problem is on the newer drives. See these links: http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt2731_78_print.html#2 http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt2214_54_print.html#2 There is more, but this is what I

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives?

2001-05-21 Thread ergeorge
Here is another link on this issue: http://www.icewalk.com/doclib/howtos/mini/Ultra-DMA- 9.html On Sunday 20 May 2001 09:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Actually Brian, to the best of my knowledge that problem still exists. It's not a problem with Mandrake - it's actually a problem with the way

[expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word from Codeweavers

2001-05-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Below is the official word on installing Word97 or MicrosoftOffice in Linux using Wine, in this case, Codeweavers Wine. See below. It would appear that if Codeweavers thinks it can't be done, then it can't be done. I have to accept his judgment on this score. Just wondering:

[expert] Fwd: [newbie] i need an driver, helpme!; for modem HaM 56k V.90

2001-05-21 Thread victor sosa
--- victor sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Fecha: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:05:23 -0500 (CDT) De: victor sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Mail list linux Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] i need an driver, helpme!; for modem HaM 56k V.90 HI everybody! I have linux mandrake 8.0

Re: [expert] MDK v8 Powerpack

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, May 21, 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 7.2 installed now, and want to know what others have done, in terms of a fresh install, or an upgrade. Anyone found problems with upgrading, or will it be okay. This is my production box, and would

Re: [expert] Installing MSWord 97 using Wine -- How?

2001-05-21 Thread Michael Leone
However, just boot to Windows and install Word from there. It should be able to run in WINE once you are back in Linux. Not everyone has a Windows installation to boot to, you know. If you want to experiment, use winesetup to use fake windows and then try to install Office again. I use

Re: [expert] iso images

2001-05-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Just wanted to expand on Mike's answer a little. As Mike says, an iso is ready to be burned to a CD, but it can be burned either as just a copy of the iso file (not useful for installation) or burned into the installation disk. The instructions Mike gives (AFAIK) will burn it into an

[expert] Fwd: [newbie] i need an driver, helpme!; for modem HaM 56k V.90

2001-05-21 Thread victor sosa
--- victor sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Fecha: Wed, 16 May 2001 20:05:23 -0500 (CDT) De: victor sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Mail list linux Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [newbie] i need an driver, helpme!; for modem HaM 56k V.90 HI everybody! I have linux mandrake 8.0

[expert] device node information

2001-05-21 Thread Endries Bruce
Hello; I would like to find a source for more detailed device node information than is presented in man mknod. I am particularly interested in major and minor numbers and how they are assigned and how to determine these numbers for existing nodes. Does anyone have a URL which would help?

Re: [expert] Mozilla problems -- Solved (and this time I mean it!)

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Cox
On Sunday, May 20, 2001, Brian Hartman wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 10:39 pm, David Joham wrote: I think I had this problem too but derned if I can remember what I did to solve it. I seem to recall I had it only on the modern theme. Try using the classic theme and see if that helps. If

[expert] XFree86 actuallization

2001-05-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear folks, In an old Pentium 200 MMX I have installed MDK 7.0 with XFree86 3.3 and some packages seems to need a newer version (nedit, xdvi.). I am thinking in install XFree86 4.0.1 (with Mandrake 7.2) or 4.0.3 (with Mandrake 8.0). Can you help me: 1. What files do I need? I mean rpm

[expert] Re: Installation Parameter to Specify Video Card?

2001-05-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Mark, Wish I could be more helpful -- the simple direct answer is no I never did get the problem solved, however, you might try the following: (This was with respect to installing Mandrake 8.0) Try the text mode installation of Mandrake, configure X during the installation, but do not test it.

[expert] Ethernet PCMCIA card advertisment

2001-05-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Hello again folks, This message is for help to buy a Ethernet PCMCIA card for my laptop (Toshiba satellite 4090XCDT). This laptop is runing fine under linux and windows98, but with my pcmcia ethernet.-card (Ovislink Fast Ethernet) has no way to run under linux; there is not an appropiated

[expert] Baaaaaad install problems with LM 8/Stealth 200

2001-05-21 Thread Wes Yates
HI all, New to the group so please excuse the brashness... I'm having a bit of trouble with my LM 8 install. Fresh CD from iso, so I know its not that. I have installed once, successfully So its not me (he he). The trouble starts when I get to the X Configuration - Regular or expert mode

Re: [expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word from Codeweavers

2001-05-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
The few instances where I've seen Office run at all on Linux under wine were: Dual boot machine (Win98/Linux). Office was installed on Win98. Machine was booted in Linux, with the Win98 partition mounted. Wine was running Office from the Win98 partition. I've seen this work, and I've had it

[expert] need help with pgaccess in 8.0

2001-05-21 Thread Theo Brinkman
I'm having some difficulties with pgaccess in mandrake 8.0. It loads up fine, but I can't actually do anything with it. If I try to create a database, I get the following error message: Tcl error executing pg_exec create database dbName is not a valid postgresql connection If I try to open

Re: [expert] device node information

2001-05-21 Thread Larry Sword
Endries Bruce wrote: Hello; I would like to find a source for more detailed device node information than is presented in man mknod. I am particularly interested in major and minor numbers and how they are assigned and how to determine these numbers for existing nodes. Does anyone

Re: [expert] RE: Word97 in Linux using Wine -- official word fromCodeweavers

2001-05-21 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Ric Tibbetts wrote: The few instances where I've seen Office run at all on Linux under wine were: Dual boot machine (Win98/Linux). Office was installed on Win98. Machine was booted in Linux, with the Win98 partition mounted. Wine was running Office from the Win98

Re: [expert] e-mail client needs password authentication ability

2001-05-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Why not just send it out through localhost. It should work by default. Then you don't have to go out through your ISP. Ric Kelley Terry wrote: My ISP is starting a new e-mail service that requires password authentication for sending e-mails. I need a e-mail client that can send

Re: [expert] Mozilla problems -- Solved (and this time I mean it!)

2001-05-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Paul Cox wrote: On Sunday, May 20, 2001, Brian Hartman wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2001 10:39 pm, David Joham wrote: I think I had this problem too but derned if I can remember what I did to solve it. I seem to recall I had it only on the modern theme. Try using the classic theme and

Re: [expert] Mozilla problems -- Solved (and this time I mean it!)

2001-05-21 Thread Brian Hartman
Actually, it looks like you went one step too far. You really only need to clear the cache. If I read it right, it looks like you disable it completely. This would impact the performance (and Mozilla can't afford that.. :) Ric Actually, I have a cable modem, so I took the

[expert] nic card ...

2001-05-21 Thread Eric Olson
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Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 Adobe Acrobat Reader

2001-05-21 Thread George Czerw
** Reply to message from Andrew Lister [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 21 May 2001 09:59:24 +1000 (EST) Andrew, I tried your file with the same result (segfault). I also re-downloaded and re-installed Acrobat with the same result. In desperation, I found an RPM distribution on RPMfind and installed

Re: [expert] Matrox G450 and G400 ..

2001-05-21 Thread Dean S. Messing
Hello Prasad. I have (I hope) a G450 in my system running Mdk 8.0, which I thought had 32 MB of RAM as well. I just started Harddrake. Like you, I have seeing it return G400 with 16MB of memory. I'm now concerned. It is a new machine and I have not tried any highspeed graphics, but I've

Re: [expert] Installing MSWord 97 using Wine -- How?

2001-05-21 Thread Michael Leone
You can run programs in you Windows paths (settings in winesetup) like regedit, or by specifying the windows path: wine c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexlore.exe (the quotes are necessray because there are spaces in the path name). or bu using the Linux path name: wine

Re: [expert] Installing MSWord 97 using Wine -- How?

2001-05-21 Thread Brian Hartman
On Monday 21 May 2001 09:23 pm, Michael Leone wrote: This is because you have a full Windows installed somewhere, and WINE is making use of it, right? You didn't use WINE to install IE on your Linux by itself (i.e., ran the ie5setup using WINE, but having no Windows partition anywhere?).

Re: [expert] Re: Need HELP Compiling tulip.c for Linksys NC100 NIC

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
My Linksys LNE100TX was not detected during the install of 7.2, but I found that if I set it up with Linuxconf (not the mandrake tools) and chose the tulip driver there, it would work! Try that, if you have not already done so. Incidentally, the Linksys NIC is detected easily with Mandrake 8.0.

[expert] Can Linux handle 90 gigs?

2001-05-21 Thread Todd Flinders
Hello: I want to purchase two 60 gig IBM 60GXP ATA/100 hard drives and a 3ware RAID controller. I will give 30 gigs to Windows and 90 gigs to Linux. Is that going to be a problem? Will there be any necessary partitioning or parameters to allow Linux to see the 90 gigs? Do I need to do

[expert] True type fonts in Word97/Wine -- How?

2001-05-21 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: WARNING: Please consider these comments about Word97/Wine in Linux as strictly tentative and experimental and, if you decide to try to install Word97 via Wine in Linux, do so at your OWN risk. [ Same for automatic configuration of Internet Sharing using the new Mandrake Control

[expert] Re: [Fwd: Need HELP Compiling tulip.c for Linksys NC100 NIC]

2001-05-21 Thread David Rankin
Donald Becker wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2001, David Rankin wrote: I need serious help! I can't compile the tulip.c driver I obtained from scyld.com. (I must be a complete idiot) I am not too familiar with gcc, so I think my problem may be not having the -I[location] information right or

Re: [expert] How to get Win 2k and LM 8 on sam HDD?

2001-05-21 Thread Lars Nordin
Thanks for the response, I reinstalled win2k and then Linux and I was very careful not to disturb the partition and ditto - I have win2k and Linux dual booting w/o problems. BTW I want to thank the KDE and Mandrake folks on the whole Kmail packaging - I wanted to transfer my e-mail from win95

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Well to check out what I told you to do, I followed the same instruction that I gave you and did a Security update. This is what I did, Connected to the internet, brought up Sofware manager selected Define Source, when the next GUI came up I selected New, Another GUI came up I selected Security

[expert] Grub boots Linux, but can't boot anything else

2001-05-21 Thread Jay DeKing
I had a lot of trouble getting GRUB and/or LILO to boot my machine. Finally created a /boot partition on hda, now I can boot Linux without a floppy -BUT- only Linux. Windows hangs after autoexec.bat runs. I should mention that Windows was working fine before I installed GRUB. The /boot partition

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread D. Hoyem
Launch the Software Manager, click on Define Sources and New. For type of source, select http and click the update list of mirrors and wait while the list is being added to the list of sources, takes awhile. Once it is updated, under the Installable tab toggle the All to Updates Only. Click the

[expert] aurora and vga

2001-05-21 Thread Gavin
Got a question for ya, I have a ASUS CUSL2 JumperFree PC133 AGP Pro/4x Motherboard. I have my monitor connected to it and I would like to use aurora. I've checked aurora in the boot config box and rebooted the system, when the system comes up I still get the basic text version. My question is

[newbie] local email server

2001-05-21 Thread kaab kaoutar
Hi! I used to work with NT server, and i'be alreacy set an internal email using exchage server! i have a local netwirk who'se server is NT and the other pcs are NT workstaions and linux stations! is there a way with wich i can createan account(using exchange server) for the linux station or

Re: [newbie] [expert] any bug in RPMDRAKE...

2001-05-21 Thread B.V.L.S.Prasad
hello Hoyem, I tried what ever info you provided.but still I am unable to use..it... I think its not as straight forward as you have given. what could be your next pointer... I would be glad...to hear..and work on your suggestions... awaiting.. prasad. On Mon, 21 May