[expert] Login problem when DRI enabled

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, DRI work well on my laptop, however I noticed a small problem. Whenever I start the computer, after all the loading and checks, X is started, then comes the graphical user login. When I login (WM: Gnome), the graphical login disappears, and instead of to be logged, the graphical login comes

[expert] temporary lines in Nedit when DRI enabled

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, When DRI is enabled and I use a Nedit window, every time I click (with my touchpad) in the Nedit window, the line is underlined (for a very short time). This behaviour disappears when DRI is disabled. Graphic card: ATI Rage Mobility 128 M3 (8MB), DefaultColorDepth 16. Marc

[expert] automatically logout ?

2001-05-30 Thread fasi_74
it didnt do it before but for about a month now i have been noticing that my computer automatically logs me out after i leave it inactive for a period of time. I have spent countless hrs looking for where there my be a session timeout value or something of the sort to no avail, i am currently

[expert] problem with truetype fonts

2001-05-30 Thread satish k
hi everybody, i am using mandrake 7.2 and i added some truetype fonts. and they are working fine .the fonts are visible in .ps files also.but when i try print it i am not able to get print with that fonts. how to get it solved? thank you for any help.., bye, satish

Re: [expert] automatically logout ?

2001-05-30 Thread Kenneth G.Kay
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 16:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it didnt do it before but for about a month now i have been noticing that my computer automatically logs me out after i leave it inactive for a period of time. I have spent countless hrs looking for where there my be a session timeout

[expert] fixed font error

2001-05-30 Thread mp
hy! i read the docs about changing fonts and everything, but i cant resolve my fixed font not found problem. after reboot x wont start and i try everything, after some time it starts, but i cant figure out what exactly i am doing or what is wrong- i restart xfs, run drakfont,run mkfontdir -3

Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread IH8Spammers
Doesn't anybody know? I am almost giving up Mandrake because of that annoying behaviour :-( -- Mensagem repassada -- Subject: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:06:03 -0300 From: IH8Spammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi.

Re: [expert] Fonts in LM8.0 (a quick lesson)

2001-05-30 Thread Oscar Santacreu
Woody Green wrote: I'll make this potentially simpler: edit /etc/X11/fs/config (...) and delete the line: /usr/share/abisuite/AbiSuite/fonts, You can simply reboot and be done with it, or do the following (...) Hello! When I installed LM8, I saw the fonts in abiword were

Re: [expert] Mouse problems on Thinkpad w/MDK8

2001-05-30 Thread Nico Krzebek
I have a TP570 my trackpointer didn't work at all after installing LM8.0. There's a lenghty disscussion on mandrakeforum about this. Have a look at http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?thold=-1mode=flatorder=1sid=791#10871 nico On Tuesday 29 May 2001 16:01, you wrote: Ok... Been using

[expert] Floppy device: mount/umount

2001-05-30 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I have a DELL Inspiron 4000 coming with a hot swapable CD-RW and FD. During the installation, I had the CD_RW in the swap bay and the FD attached to the parallel port. When later I removed the FD, a df -k made the shell hang, waiting to reach /dev/fd0. Similar was during shutdown, where it

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: David, Thanks for the heads up, but can you be a little more specific? I've got an archive here on my system that goes back to February and I'm not finding anything about it. there is an incompatibility between the reiserfs in 2.2 and 2.4, IIRC.

[expert] /etc/hosts.deny ?

2001-05-30 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo, I just have a dialup account and want to prevent all machines from the internet to connect to mine. As much as I understand it hosts.deny will do this. I have added the following line to /etc/hosts.deny ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY This setting worked for me in previous LM releases.

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Thanks Dan...that would explain a great many things that have been giving me trouble with getting this kernel to work on my system. Is there a fix for this? Mark On Wed, 30 May 2001, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: David, Thanks for the heads up, but

[expert] CUPS and Samba problem

2001-05-30 Thread Neil Kittipalo
I have several 98/95 boxes which have previously printed to the LaserJet 5L connected to my Linux box. I was using SuSE then and had no problems. Now with Mdk 7.2 and 8.0 I'm trying to make printing work with CUPS and I'm having no luck. I changed my smb.conf as follows ( I read this somewhere

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Thanks Dan...that would explain a great many things that have been giving me trouble with getting this kernel to work on my system. Is there a fix for this? i think you can convert the old style to new style, but it's a one way trip. this (among other

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Weaver
Dan, I can certainly understand your feelings on this. At the moment for me though I've got a very inquisitive 4 year old that loves my Mandrake box. I've been encouraging her to experiement and push as many buttons as she likes. From time to time she locks things up tight, so having Reiser on

[expert] Back space on KDE terminal.

2001-05-30 Thread Denis Galvão
Hello fellows! Could someone help me? This doubt is driving me nuts!!! What I have to do to use the backspace key in a ssh session using KDE terminal in a Mandrake 8.0? This key (BACKSPACE), on my keyboard layout (portuguese), do the same thing

[expert] kmail importing mails

2001-05-30 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo, I'm using kmail and would like to import mails from an older LM installation. Is there any easy way to import the mails or ADD them to the exinting ones? Thanx in advance Andreas

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
I was able to reproduce it, but I have no idea why it happens. Can't you just use a terminal that it works in? -- Stephen On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:50 am, IH8Spammers wrote: Doesn't anybody know? I am almost giving up Mandrake because of that annoying behaviour :-( -- Mensagem

[expert] LM 9.0 and dual cpu's

2001-05-30 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Im having a strang problem. After installing LM 8.0 it will not boot to smp. It sets up a linus-smp boot for lilo but when booting it starts to go through the boot sequence but just reboots the computer. it works fine in uniproccesor mode. Slakware 7.1 worked fine in smp mode. I cant see

Re: [expert] Back space on KDE terminal.

2001-05-30 Thread Nico Krzebek
Hi, what IS your BS key doing? Do you get something like ^? ? Try stty erase ^? Don't type the ?, just hit the BS key after stty erase . Nico On Thursday 31 May 2001 16:29, you wrote: Hello fellows! Could someone help me? This doubt is driving me nuts!!! What I

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 06:08, Mark Weaver wrote: Dan, I can certainly understand your feelings on this. At the moment for me though I've got a very inquisitive 4 year old that loves my Mandrake box. I've been encouraging her to experiement and push as many buttons as she likes. From time

[expert] Setting up a DHCP server on Mandrake 8

2001-05-30 Thread Krist van Besien
Hi all, I am trying to set up a dhcp server, without much success. The previous server worked fine. I more or less duplicated that setup. The situation: - LM 8.0 box, with three ethernet interfaces. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 48:54:E8:2B:7E:81 inet addr:123.45.123.210

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
I have noticed that my rpmdrake tends to lose CDROM 2 from the list. Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and select one. i click on 'install/remove'. it tells me to

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts.deny ?

2001-05-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: Hallo, I just have a dialup account and want to prevent all machines from the internet to connect to mine. As much as I understand it hosts.deny will do this. I have added the following line to /etc/hosts.deny ALL:ALL EXCEPT

Re: [expert] CUPS and Samba problem

2001-05-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Neil Kittipalo wrote: I have several 98/95 boxes which have previously printed to the LaserJet 5L connected to my Linux box. I was using SuSE then and had no problems. Now with Mdk 7.2 and 8.0 I'm trying to make printing work with CUPS and I'm having no luck. I changed

Re: [expert] kmail importing mails

2001-05-30 Thread Scott Taylor
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: Hallo, I'm using kmail and would like to import mails from an older LM installation. Is there any easy way to import the mails or ADD them to the exinting ones? man cat

Re: [expert] fixed font error

2001-05-30 Thread brian
Not that this may be a fix for an actual Mandrake problem, but I got this exact same error on 4 different machines. I discovered however that in my installation disks that caused the problems. Even though I burned the ISO's with no errors, I got the fixed font error message and could not

Re[2]: [expert] /etc/hosts.deny ?

2001-05-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Scott Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: Hallo, I just have a dialup account and want to prevent all machines from the internet to connect to mine. As much as I understand it hosts.deny will do this. I have added the following line

Re[2]: [expert] kmail importing mails

2001-05-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Scott Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas [iso-8859-1] Müller wrote: Hallo, I'm using kmail and would like to import mails from an older LM installation. Is there any easy way to import the mails or ADD them to the exinting ones? man cat That's the

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I hate to put it this way, but: It's not Mandrakes fault! It's obviously a shortcoming of aterm. Either get ahold of the aterm developers and ask them, or why not just use a terminal that DOES support what you want to do? There's certainly nothing magic about aterm! Ric IH8Spammers

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:00, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: I have noticed that my rpmdrake tends to lose CDROM 2 from the list. Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and

[expert] aic7xxx Problems.

2001-05-30 Thread Ronald Hall
Is there anything official on when we can expect a fix for the aic7xxx scsi problems in Mandrake 8? Reading through some of the Redhat discussions on the problem, they seem to think its a problem with some of the PCI code of the new kernel.. or maybe they are pretty certain its with the PCI

Re: [expert] rpmdrake confused?

2001-05-30 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 06:15 PM 5/30/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:00, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: I have noticed that my rpmdrake tends to lose CDROM 2 from the list. Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about my install cdroms.

Re: [expert] compiled kernel hangs up...

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Weaver
David, Thanks for the heads up, but can you be a little more specific? I've got an archive here on my system that goes back to February and I'm not finding anything about it. thanks, -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even

[expert] Multiplier?

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Lawrence Jr.
What the heck is this that showed up this morning? Anyone have any ideas on what is causing these messages? May 30 10:32:37 cluster2 Multiplier[20938]: Server starting May 30 10:32:39 cluster2 Multiplier[20939]: Server starting May 30 10:32:41 cluster2 Multiplier[20940]: Server starting May 30

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 update in pieces...

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 10:58, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Hi all.. I'm with a though problem here... I use the powerful machine on the work to develop, thus I get many softwares (perl 5.6.1, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL,etc...) build from the tarballs to meet our requirements.

[expert] Promise ATA100 installation ORDEAL

2001-05-30 Thread Patrick Mayer
Hi everyone, This is an account of my troubles when installing Mandrake 8.0. As you'll see, strange things happend when new kernel versions arrive... My setup is as follows: PIII 800 on a ASUS P3B-F (I know, it should not support a processor with a 133mhz front bus speed but strangely enough,

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 update in pieces...

2001-05-30 Thread Ric Tibbetts
In cases like this, I've always found it best to go back to square one. list all of the kde packages (to see what's installed): rpm -qa | grep kde (presumming an rpm installation of KDE). Then go through and erase KDE (this can be a chore because of dependancies. Write down anything you

[expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Can anybody please explain this? I don't have X running on this machine. I am showing the output of top sorted by memory usage here. Why is free showing 120MB used?? I am observing this on all the three LM8.0 machines that I have and this could be serious. Am I missing something here? Thanks

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Wes Yates
Can anybody please explain this? I don't have X running on this machine. I am showing the output of top sorted by memory usage here. Why is free showing 120MB used?? I am observing this on all the three LM8.0 machines that I have and this could be serious. Am I missing something here? Thanks in

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Sarang Lakare am Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:28:22PM -0400: Can anybody please explain this? I don't have X running on this machine. I am showing the output of top sorted by memory usage here. Why is free showing 120MB used?? You mean the Swap usage? Well, these are old programs

[expert] MDK8 and KDE sound

2001-05-30 Thread Magnus Hinzke
Hi, I just installed MDK8 all works fine, only the sound in KDE don't work. In licq, harddrake (etc.) the sound works. I think I got a problem with the artsd, but under my old RedHat 7 with KDE 2.1 all worked fine. So here some things I tried: 1. restart /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa 2. started

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 update in pieces...

2001-05-30 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Ric Tibbetts wrote: In cases like this, I've always found it best to go back to square one. list all of the kde packages (to see what's installed): rpm -qa | grep kde (presumming an rpm installation of KDE). Then go through and erase KDE (this can be a chore because of dependancies.

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
You mean the Swap usage? Well, these are old programs which at some time No, not the swap usage.. but the the memory usage.. It shows 126MB used.. how??? top dosn't show any process which is using a lot of memory.. the total of top is about 15mb or so.. where does this extra memory usage

Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Not that it's any of my business - but what on earth are 1.7gb of swap good for? I just read that across the cubewall to my neighbor and he said Video editing (he does a lot of that) Then he said - In 10 years, we'll all be doing

Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Originally I was goin to send this only to Sarang, then I finally saw what Sarang did - see the discovery process below: Sarang Lakare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean the Swap usage? Well, these are old programs which at some time No, not the swap usage.. but the the memory usage.. It

[expert] sendmail permission settings?

2001-05-30 Thread Andreas Müller
Hallo, I'm running LM 7.2 with sendmail-8.11.0-3mdk. Now I get some errors when a normal user is trying to use sendmail. Current settings for /usr/sbin/sendmail are: -r-xr-xr-x1 bin bin390172 Okt 3 2000 sendmail* Is this correct? I've read a post that the settings should

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Sarang Lakare am Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:06:10PM -0400: No, not the swap usage.. but the the memory usage.. It shows 126MB used.. how??? top dosn't show any process which is using a lot of memory.. the total of top is about 15mb or so.. where does this extra memory usage come from?

Re: [expert] Promise ATA100 installation ORDEAL

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 12:13, Patrick Mayer wrote: Hi everyone, This is an account of my troubles when installing Mandrake 8.0. As you'll see, strange things happend when new kernel versions arrive... My setup is as follows: PIII 800 on a ASUS P3B-F (I know, it should not support a

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Civileme
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 12:28, Sarang Lakare wrote: Can anybody please explain this? I don't have X running on this machine. I am showing the output of top sorted by memory usage here. Why is free showing 120MB used?? I am observing this on all the three LM8.0 machines that I have and this

[expert] Can any coders here make a simple c proggy build?

2001-05-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have downloaded the source for a simple c program that I wish to use in my scientific research. Unfortunately, it simply will not build on my system (Mandrake 8.0), and I am not a coder so I have no idea why. The file is small (tar.Z) at ~700k. Could someone with a clue take a look at it

Re: [expert] CUPS and Samba problem

2001-05-30 Thread Neil Kittipalo
I now see that the info I needed was in the default smb.conf! Trouble was I copied my smb.conf over from a previous installation and though the mdk smb.conf was saved by me I never thought to look at it. Thanks to all, Neil

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread IH8Spammers
As I told Stephen, I think Mandrake should do what I want and not the contrary :-). Besides I like transparency (OK not a very technical motivation :-) The question is that I have aterm accenting perfectly in RedHat 6.x and also in Conectiva Linux (whose native language is portuguese). I have

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread IH8Spammers
I could but I do not want to :-) First of all it's the OS that must adapt itself to my tastes and not the reverse. And neither konsole nor xterm allows for transparency. OK, it's not a very technical reason to abandon a distro but I don't like the behaviour. I've been using RedHat for some

[expert] pcmcia hangs mandrake 8 on dell i8000 laptop

2001-05-30 Thread Andrew Cattau
my dell 8000 laptop running mandrake 8.0 hangs whenever i try to boot with a pcmcia card in the slot, or insert a pcmcia card into the slot while it is running. the console reports that it is inserting the appropriate module for the card i have inserted (typically a xircom realport 2, but i have

Re: [expert] Can any coders here make a simple c proggy build?

2001-05-30 Thread Dave Sherman
Praedor, It looks like the program used by make (codonw) is not really executable. It is a binary file, and its permissions are set to execute properly, but on my Mandrake 7.2 system I still can't even execute the file manually. Without a functioning codonw file, make is unable to create the

Re: [newbie] IRQ problem.

2001-05-30 Thread etharp
damn, civleme, first I sware I saw a TYPO, from yu last week, and now humour what next... will we will discuss M$ dot NET. winner XP? BIG GRIN really we all thank you. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 19:42, Civileme wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:03, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Civileme

[newbie] Respawning error

2001-05-30 Thread Dennis Myhand
I jus tried to boot my Mandrake 8 system and I get the following error: INIT: ID 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: ID 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: ID 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: ID 4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Re: [expert] problem with internal net

2001-05-30 Thread dennis
ok,i ran tcpdump. nothing happened util I tried to ping from another machine in the internal net. then I got a ton of traffic, alot of it from another server on the att network. I will attach the file I generated as a result,okay see the file below(still learning pine!!) 20:38:26.402134

[expert] Memory detection problem

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Sorry for asking this again.. but I really need a solution. Please help. I have a 1.5GB machine and LM8.0 does not detect it. Even thats ok.. my bigger problem is that I cannot tell the kernel that I ahve 1.5GB. I have attached my lilo.conf. Please let me know how I can get the machine to use

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
You are indeed missing something--look at the amount used for buffers and cache. This can be freed by the system when a program issues a malloc() call. It can be grabbed again from the free memory pool when the program releases it and turned to the same purpose, making your machine run

Re: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Old data. Since you have suge a huge amount of memory, stuff hardly gets deleted. Stuff includes things like old images, sound or what not else. but shouldn't this non-deleted stuff be part of cache/buffer? then in teh -/+ buffer/cache, the memory used shown should be that of the currently

Re: Re[2]: [expert] huge memory usage!

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Previously you said: 3:31pm up 5 days, 2:09, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 54 processes: 53 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU1 states: 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle Mem: 899952K

[expert] device access for users

2001-05-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
I found some strange things after I installed 8.0 If I check permissions for audio, they are like this: lrwxrwxrwx1 root audio 6 May 22 19:16 /dev/audio - audio0 crw---1 lsarang audio 14, 4 Apr 14 07:06 /dev/audio0 Is this really correct? From how I understand