[expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing

Hello, I had a lot of problem recently after importing windows font without doing a strong verification... ok, a stupid mistake here :) Basically I couldn't launch KDE as a normal user with anti-aliasing turned on (was still ok for root with anti-aliasing though). To sort of cure the pbm I

[expert] LM 8.0 - Proxy client to access MS Proxy on W2000 Server

Hello, We have this W2000 Server at the office with MS Proxy Server 2.0 on it On our workstations, we have a MS Proxy Client (I can't remember if it's winsock or something.. will check). In LM 8.0, I can access the Proxy Server from Netscape/Mozilla 0.9.1 for HTTP request but I can't get any

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing

Use DrakFont to uninstall any font you add. In mandrake 8, DrakFont has a problem with windows fonts. You must use MandrakeUpdate to update it. Then reimport windows fonts with strong verification. Maybe it helps. Salu2, Oscar. Frederic Soulier wrote: Hello, I had a lot of problem recently

[expert] Graphical printouts - unwanted!

This is odd; here is my setup: We have an HP IIIsi printer on a machine. I have KDE finally set up right so KMAIL would print to it. However, when it prints, the text is printed faintly, the gray background is printed, so it's a mess. Any ideas how to get a decent clean printout? Thanks, -turgut

[expert] cvs and X forwarding

Hi! I have several machines running Mandrake 8.0. When I use ssh (as normal user) between two of these machines and want to start an X application from the remote machine, I get: Error: Couldn't find per display information. If I su before I initiate the ssh connection, there is no problem at

[expert] battery monitor

hello how do i enable, or where do i get a battery monitor for kde2, running mandrake 8. running on a compaq armada. thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

[expert] Problem IP Address and apache

Hi all, I just installed LM 8 and basically it's great. But there are some problems I could not solve yet even searching in all possible archives and support sites. My environment: ADSL Router (Zyxel) which connects to the wan and, as dhcp server, leases ip addresses to our little lan

Re: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0

Bruno Damour wrote: Hi, I recently installed LM 8.0 (fresh install) after running LM 7.2 for some time. I used to have my pppd configured with ON DEMAND (DEMAND=yes in ifcfg-ppp0) so that i could just connect to the net (USR 56K Message Modem) pinging my fai. This would also allow me

Re: [expert] WYSIWIG HTML Editors

Amaya is the only WYSIWYG HTML editor I've found. It's free and available for Linux and Windows. For some reason, I liked version 3.2.1 a little better than the current version, but I don't use either very often. It's not perfect (but what is?). Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: [expert] cvs and X forwarding

Hi, My guess is that you are not starting ssh with the -X flag. This X11 forwarding. Possible other problems, the DISPLAY environment variable is not correctly set (although it should be in an xterm). If this is the case, assuming that you only have one X11 server running on one monitor,

Re: [expert] Poor OpenGL performance in LM 8.0

Don't know what causing tuxracer to not report FPS correctly, but I think know what the problem with the Radeon is. The XF86 version that comes with LM8 does not support DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) on the radeon. You will have to obtain a new version of XF86 either from the DRI

[expert] Antialiasing

I don't recall which file it is that one must edit to make antialiasing work for different font sizes. I would like to reduce the minimum sized font that gets antialiasing but cannot recall which file... Could someone please tell me?

[expert] 3com 3c90x

Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of messages lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them. And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual problem remains still. My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI 10/100 adapter, and is connected through DHCP. And the

[expert] Problem upgrading (and relatedl problems) to Mandrake 8.0

hi, I'm currently using Mandrake 7.0, and trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.5 A quick (but not that elegant) fix might be to just simply install Mandrake 8.0, and choose upgrade, but that would entail having to deal with the installation of a host of packages all over again - most of which i

[expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single file from within an rpm? Reason being I wish to install xine but it requires libXv.so.1 . A quick search on rpmfind reveals it to be in XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm from Mandrake cooker I don't want to have to risk

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 - KDE, fonts anti-aliasing

This is how I do it...force of habit: Open a konsole or xterm, go to superuser, run drakfont. From that point, it is pretty self-explanatory with the nice GUI. You will select the fonts you want, if not all of them. You can go with normal or strong verification - the strong verification is

[expert] Re: Can't get nut to compile the CGI support; was [Can't make nut-0.44.3 into RPM]

Matthew Dharm wrote: You also need the -devel libraries for those rpms. Looks like, in particular, you're missing gd-devel-1.8.1-4mdk gdImagePng is a function in a library, not a filename. Matt Matt, I have gd and gd-devel installed. Do I need to recompile gd now that gd-devel is

Re: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0

On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, CHARDON,LUIS (HP-PuertoRico,ex1) wrote: Hi, finally last night I could get it working as you said, using Mandrake Configuration Tool, but I had to erase first the connection created by Linuxconf. Oh yeah, I gorgot to mention you need to remove the one you created

[expert] xinetd...still not fixed and more...=)

iI have 2 weird problems first of all i just did a fresh install (MDK8) after installing i went right away to update all available packets including glibc after a boot i got following mail: From nobody Wed Jun 13 17:38:26 2001 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] xinetd...still not fixed and more...=)

Scuse me again ...=) I have 2 weird problems first of all i just did a fresh install (MDK8) after installing i went right away to update all available packets including glibc after a boot i got following mail from cron: sh: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol

Re: [expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

You can use mc Salu2, Oscar. Scott, Rob wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single file from within an rpm? Reason being I wish to install xine but it requires libXv.so.1 . A quick search on rpmfind reveals it to be in XFree86-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

Civileme, I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup (but it works in both ways under Win98). civileme wrote: I have three of those cards, identical in model number and decignation 3C905C types. All three run like

Re: [expert] How to make sure md5ums on download ISOs are ok

Ron, Found this thread in the archives, thought you might be able to help me. Main question: If md5sum /dev/cdrom doesn't work, can I recreate the iso file (in Linux or Windows (Easy CD Creator)) and get a reliable MD5 checksum? Aside: When I run md5sum /dev/cdrom the cdrom spins for a little

[expert] cupsd dies at boot when smb is started at boot

I have installed Mandrake 8.0 and have everything working but have one problem. The cups daemon dies shortly after boot if I also have smb set to start at boot time. I need to have samba so a Win98 client can print. What can I do to fix this? -- Glenn Johnson USDA, ARS, SRRC

RE: [expert] WYSIWIG HTML Editors

Hello George, I'm not much of a WYSIWYG HTML programmer, I have taken a look at coffecup. Its available for both Windows and Linux and may be close to what you're looking for. CoffeCup for Linux is available at www.coffeecup.com/linux If you really would like your older editors, you may be

[expert] Atsar -D on Mandrake 7.2

Everyone In the atsar man page the following is listed: ### -D Statistics about utilization of disk-partitions. For 2.2 kernels a kernel-patch is needed in order to get extended counters from the file/proc/partitions. Thispatch

Re: [expert] flickering

Edit file:/etc/X11/XF86Config to change MonitorSection to reflect the proper Horiz and Vert refresh rates. Then restart X. Original Message On 6/11/01, 9:11:40 AM, Serdar Ozler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert] flickering: Hi all. I have to use Linux in text mode and

Re: [expert] Sound SiS 7018 Problems in a Laptop with LM8

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:21 -0400, Pere Castañer wrote: I have a Laptop Ahtec 2200 with the next configuration: Intel Pentium III 1000 Mhz (Coopermine) 512 Mb Ram SiS Integrated Sistems Motherboard 20 Gb HD 14.1 TFT on a SiS 630 Video Adapter Shared Memory SiS 900 Network Adapter SiS

Re: [expert] After MandrakeUpdate upgraded imap, I have 2 imaps

On Wed Jun 13, 2001 at 12:46:42AM -0400, Stephen Boulet wrote: Now after the security upgrade, I have versions 2000c-4.4mdk and 2000-6mdk. Anyone else notice this? Are both necessary? Both are not necessary. Did you install imap from cooker? That's where -6mdk is from. You can delete one

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:27, Aleksey Naumov wrote: Civileme, I am in the same boat with Juha, I have a 3C905B-Combo and just can't get it to work using either DHCP or static setup (but it works in both ways under Win98). civileme wrote: I have three of those cards, identical in

[expert] spelling

Hi all, My spelling could be better and I use spelling checkers alot, however, I can only get the ammerican way of spelling words using any application in KDE. I know the differences are only minor like color and colour, neighbor and neighbour etc. Can somone point me in the right direction

[expert] Re: [Announce] MDKA-2001:010 - mandrake_desk update

My friends, I have a great problem in installing Mandrake 8.0: fonts appear me too little, impossible to read. Of course I tried to correct them by configurating desktop, but fonts in application remain unreadable. What can I do? Thanx in advance. == Marco Marcelli -

[expert] more ati radeon ve dual display edition problems.

I everyone, I posted some more info a few days ago, but didn't hear from anyone so I thought I woud ask again. Does anyone know how to get an ati radeon ve dual display edition video card working? When I tried configuring it using XFree86 4.0.3, X would crash on startup. I upgraded to 4.1.0

Re: [expert] more ati radeon ve dual display edition problems.

David I haven't used an ATI Radeon card, but I did a search at www.rpmfind.net and found some ATI Radeon drivers dated May 28 2001. You may want to give them a try. Thanks Dany Allard David Savolainen wrote: I everyone, I posted some more info a few days ago, but didn't hear from

[expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

HI, I'm about to install WEBDB on mandrake 7.2. I'm stuck.. I have to enter this command: bin/wdblsnr localhost 8088 and instead of executing it says: bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I added the lib

[expert] US sites for Mandrake Update

Can anyone point me to a site to enter in Mandrake Update in the US instead of the ft.rpmfind.net? I've tried just rpmfind.net but cannot get it to work.. I know this sounds like a REALLY stupid question, but I'm really getting frustraited with mdk update.. Simply cannot get it to

Re: [expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

On Thursday 14 June 2001 04:26, istvan bereti wrote: HI, I'm about to install WEBDB on mandrake 7.2. I'm stuck.. I have to enter this command: bin/wdblsnr localhost 8088 and instead of executing it says: bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

May not apply, but saw some problems with slow transfer rates from 3c905c cards in dell machines under redhat 6.2 at work (caused problems with timeouts on nis, automounts etc. - was a lot of slot allocation errors in /var/log/message). A kernel upgrade from 2.2.14 to 2.2.19 fixed the problem

Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

I think that there are many experts, but nobody give answer to me. I don't know who is a expert. I wanted to compile a kernel of Mandrake 8.0, but failed. [root@mandrake linux]# make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering

[expert] Multi-Link PPP on Mandrake?

Hi- I am trying to move my dial-up connections over the Mandrake box. Currently using Win 2K for multi-link ppp connection. Two USR modems dial in for 112K. Has anyone done something similar under Mandrake or Linux in general? Can you point me to some documentation? Thanks, -Scott

Re: [expert] can't run 'make xconfig'

reply Chuan Bo - nobody's answered to me too (plug for help - I wanna upgrade my kernel, but due to problems with RPM from some version = 3 problem, I cant take RPMs. Does anybody know where to find the source tar.gz for mkinitrd?) ANSWER for Chuan Bo : have you tried other options? like make

RE: [expert] error in loading shared libraries ?? WHY???

Thanks, but it was not working... I rerun ldconf and it says that ldconfig: warning: /usr/local/webdb/webdb-2.2/lib/libclntsh.so.1.0_ is not a shared library, skipping And than I have the same error again; bin/wdblsnr: error in loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.1.0: cannot open shared

[expert] OpenOffice and StarOffice freeze system

I was looking to edit a spreadsheet in StarOffice, so I downloaded it and proceeded to run the .bin file (after chmod +x of course). It brought up the KDE window for the first next to click, but everything was frozen. Mouse wouldn't move. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp did nothing. I

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Aleksey Naumov wrote: But which driver do you use for your 3C905B: 3c90x or 3c59x? I am trying to decide if it's worth putting more time into trying to compile the 3c90x module (I also tried it but got no further than Juha) and, hopefully, get it to load, or to try to

[expert] two problems. one with kcontrol one with shared memory usage

Hi folks, I have just installed LM8.0 on my PC. It can be really slow (P 200 48mb ram) compared to newer PCs but I was really expecting better performance from LM8.0. I am using KDE as a desktop manager. when i use top i see that nearly all of the ram is used. At first I thought it is in

Re: [expert] 3com 3c90x

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:03, Juha O Mustajarvi wrote: Hello, this seems to have been subject to quite a lot of messages lately, and yes, i've read a bunch of them. And while they've all been helpful in many ways, my actual problem remains still. My mandrake 8.0 has 3Com Fast Etherlink

[newbie] X 4.x freezes on Neomagic

Has anyone else experienced spontanteous freezes under XFree86 4.x with an Neomagic chipset? I've tried out almost all 4.x releases. The last one was 4.1.0. At first I thought it was a KDE problem because I'm still able to move the mouse pointer but WindowMaker produced the same result, it

Re: [expert] cdrecord error [was: CDRW Drive Addition Addition]

On my computer this error appears after a dummy write (maybe the problem was fixating cdrom in this mode). Try rebooting your computer and burning a cd without testing dummy write first. Salu2, Oscar. Caleb Newville wrote: OK, no matter which program I use, they are all just a shell to

[newbie] PROBLEM WITH rsh

I can't do rsh as root from a machine with Mandrake 7.1 to a machine with Mandrake 8.0 , i need do this , how i can do?

Re: [expert] extracting a single file from within an rpm

On Wednesday, Jun 13, 2001, Scott, Rob wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to (or even if it's possible) to extract a single file from within an rpm? rpm2cpio myrpmfile.rpm | cpio -i ...will extract all the files in the .rpm to the current directory. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820,

[expert] strange problem with Bind.... on Mdk 7.2

Hi everyone,,, I am having a little problem with Bind, which is now set up for our domain names and is seconded by our isp's dns,, I was sucessful with the main domain deligation, and got confiring results with a whois... BUT!! for many of the subdomains that I created, it works correctly