[expert] man IOslave

2001-06-16 Thread Slava Kharin
Hi, I am running Mandrake-8.0 (upgraded from 7.2). Trying to browse man pages in konquerer (e.g. man:/rpm) gives me an error WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : not filter found for application/x-bzip2 and I have no out. Does anybody experience the same problem? Any help is appreci

Re: [expert] How do I set up a joystick?

2001-06-16 Thread Nathan Callahan
If this is a USB sidewider that you are talking about, try modprobe joydev. Also: rm /dev/js0 ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 might make life a bit easier. Hope this helps. By the way, can anyone tell me how to calibrate said joystck? On Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Ken Arromdee wr

Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
> Mandrake 2.2.x kernels have had i2c support patched in even before > the 2.4.x kernels. You might need to undo your efforts and just > install the appropriate lm_utils ...-mdk rpm. With 8.0 I'm using I saw some of the necessary modules in lib/modules/2.2.17/misc but the one I need appare

Re: [expert] installed XFree 4.1 from cooker- now no DRI (mga)

2001-06-16 Thread Bill Thompson
"David E. Fox" wrote: > > > I went throught the following drill last week and was successful. Get > > http://azz.us-lot.org/kernel-drm-4.1.0.tar.gz and compile using: > > > > make linux (or something like that) > > Actually, 'xmkmf ; make -f Makefile.linux'. 'make -f Makefile.linux' alone

[expert] How do I set up a joystick?

2001-06-16 Thread Ken Arromdee
I am running Mandrake 8, with fvwm2 as a window manager and no Gnome or KDE. I'm trying to compile/run xmame and need joystick support, but can't figure out how to get it. harddrake shows a line for joysticks, but if I click on it nothing happens. "probing options" lists no configuration tool fo

Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail

2001-06-16 Thread Larry Sword
munehiro wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:47:34AM -0400, civileme wrote: > > > > Something clicked--can you also send the output of lspcidrake? > > > > [root@quela munehiro]# lspcidrake > agpgart : Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge > unknown : Intel Corpora

Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 June 2001 03:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > I've rebuilt lm-sensors and installed it, > Any suggestions? I was hoping to upgrade to kernel 2.4.5, but in > looking into the kernel config file I don't see anything that exactly > matches the probe that my mainboard uses. Mandrake 2

Re: [expert] Installing kisocd

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 June 2001 09:42 pm, Ken Archer wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing a kisocd rpm on Mandrake 8.0 I believe you'll need to try 'kisocdII', and no, the tarball compile failed as did various rpms. tske a look at 'koncd' ( http://www.koncd.de/ ) -- Tom Brinkman [

[expert] Wrong email address for self

2001-06-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: For whatever it's worth: A member of the KDE list has just pointed out to me that the return address in Kmail, my default email program, for the past several weeks has been wrong. I did a fresh install of LM 8.0 about three weeks ago and during the process I had inadvertently ent

[expert] iptables and kernel 2.4.5

2001-06-16 Thread Davy Durham
Hey... Forgive me if this has been asked before... Are there known issues with the 2.4.5 rpm and "internet connection sharing" I tried it today and had a heck of a time getting it to *not* work... It wouldn't work after just updating from the 2.4.3 kernel and I didn't know why until I ran DrakCo

[expert] Installing kisocd

2001-06-16 Thread Ken Archer
Has anyone had any luck installing a kisocd rpm on Mandrake 8.0 and, if so, where did you get it. I tried to use kisocd-0.6.4-4.i386.rpm from rpmfind to no avail. I keep getting: error: failed dependencies: kdelibs <= 2 is needed by kisocd-0.6.4-4 qt1x >= 1.44 is needed by kis

Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail

2001-06-16 Thread munehiro
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:47:34AM -0400, civileme wrote: > > Something clicked--can you also send the output of lspcidrake? > [root@quela munehiro]# lspcidrake agpgart : Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge unknown : Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP br

Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail

2001-06-16 Thread civileme
On Saturday 16 June 2001 19:24, munehiro wrote: > i've a lot of problems with LM8 and cdrecord. > Some weeks ago i bought a ATAPI Acer cdrw, and tried to record > some cd's. Cdrecord always produced errors, so i thought the > recorder was broken and i took back. I changed the cdrw with > another a

Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail

2001-06-16 Thread civileme
On Saturday 16 June 2001 19:24, munehiro wrote: > i've a lot of problems with LM8 and cdrecord. > Some weeks ago i bought a ATAPI Acer cdrw, and tried to record > some cd's. Cdrecord always produced errors, so i thought the > recorder was broken and i took back. I changed the cdrw with > another a

[expert] cdrecord always fail

2001-06-16 Thread munehiro
i've a lot of problems with LM8 and cdrecord. Some weeks ago i bought a ATAPI Acer cdrw, and tried to record some cd's. Cdrecord always produced errors, so i thought the recorder was broken and i took back. I changed the cdrw with another acer. Tried this, same problem. Brought back, took another

Re: [expert] cross-compiling for cisco cbos?

2001-06-16 Thread Pierre Fortin
"Praedor S. Tempus" wrote: > > Does anyone know if it is possible to cross-compile linux/unix apps for cisco > routers? I have a cisco 675 DSL router and would like to try to compile a > couple apps to be runnable on the router but have no idea as to how to go > about this. > > praedor Without

[expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
Hi *, I've been fiddling with lm-sensors 2.5.5 recently to try to get it to work. I'm using Mandrake 7.2. I was using version 2.4.2 which does have better support for sensors devices, and patched up to 2.4.5 (but that didn't work - I got a 'ran out of input data, system halted' message, so back t

Re: [expert] installed XFree 4.1 from cooker- now no DRI (mga)

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
> I went throught the following drill last week and was successful. Get > http://azz.us-lot.org/kernel-drm-4.1.0.tar.gz and compile using: > > make linux (or something like that) Actually, 'xmkmf ; make -f Makefile.linux'. > The resulting .o files replace those in > /lib/modules/2.4.5-3mdk/k

[expert] cross-compiling for cisco cbos?

2001-06-16 Thread Praedor S. Tempus
Does anyone know if it is possible to cross-compile linux/unix apps for cisco routers? I have a cisco 675 DSL router and would like to try to compile a couple apps to be runnable on the router but have no idea as to how to go about this. praedor

[expert] Security: always the world writeable files

2001-06-16 Thread Praedor S. Tempus
A couple questions... I selected medium security when I installed Mandrake 8.0. My root mailbox fills up, seemingly as a result, with security auditing messages about world writeable files being found: Jun 14 04:04:43 localhost : Security Warning: World Writeable files found : Jun 14 04:04:43

[expert] linux networking

2001-06-16 Thread chronos .
Hi all, I`m going to be starting a new job soon and its entry level networking unix systems. So what would you recommend on reading to help me along ? Thank you, chronos. ___

[expert] One of these packages will kill RPM

2001-06-16 Thread NDBartley
Hi Guys, I've finally Identified which packages kill rpm in all forms. (cause the funny segfaults) I's either: Apache-ASP-2.00-4 glibc-2.2.3-2mdk -devel-2.2.3-2mdk libintl1-0.10.38-1mdk all three linuxconf-1.25r7-1mdk packages. So these are the culprits which are killing rpm drake and rpm i

[expert] Kde apps outside kde

2001-06-16 Thread steve campbell
I have been trying to speed my machine up by avoiding using kde, i am quite taken by xfce and a few other environments, however i have a problem. Somehow I must have damaged my kde so that i cannot run most of its components in any evironment but kde. Konqueror and many others fail with the err

Re: [expert] 3 Hard-drive problems

2001-06-16 Thread fedneg
On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:23, Jesper Holmberg wrote:> Below follow three problems I've had since I installed Mdk8.> Sorry to post them all in the same message, but I don't know> whether or not they are related.>> What I did during the installation was to change (all> partitions but one) to

Re: [expert] X uses LOTS of memory

2001-06-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Brian Schroeder am Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:36:54PM +0930: > I have since installed the nVidia drivers (which worked first time!), > but now see X using 145% of the memory: 191M!. Hence, swap is very > much in use. Is swap really in use? Here at home (same config as yours), it's not.

Re: [expert] GRUB

2001-06-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Jason am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:57:01PM -0700: > Thanks! > > But how do I get Linux to boot once I delete the MBR??? (on the other > machine i have) On the Windows machine, where you did fdisk /mbr? You might try loadlin, or you might go the easy way, and use a boot loader like GRUB