[expert] LM 8.0 - MandrakeFreq

2001-06-21 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi, I just downloaded the ISOs for MandrakeFreq last night (just a bit cheesed off to have to download 1.3Gb of data to do an upgrade!!!) This is the first time I will use the MandrakeFreq disks and apparently the MandrakeFreq release is in fact a full LM 8.0.x release not fully tested. My curr

[expert] quotas nfs-utils and Mandrake 8.0 kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-21 Thread Jason Smith
Has anyone had any luck getting quotas working with the new Mandrake. Red Hat seems to have the same problems. You get 0 blocks usage and you can not seem to be able to check quotas with out the force -F flag. Using quotacheck -u -g /  on root locks up and on home or any other drive they req

Re: [expert] Configuring gnu-pop3d?

2001-06-21 Thread Pierre Fortin
David Rankin wrote: > > Stuck again :-( > > I want to be able to read mail on my local machine from within > netscape. Setup is LM 7.2 2.2.19 kernel, postfix and gnu-pop3d. Kmail > works fine for reading the system mail, but I have heard that if I > installed a pop3 server, I should be able

[expert] Configuring gnu-pop3d?

2001-06-21 Thread David Rankin
Stuck again :-( I want to be able to read mail on my local machine from within netscape. Setup is LM 7.2 2.2.19 kernel, postfix and gnu-pop3d. Kmail works fine for reading the system mail, but I have heard that if I installed a pop3 server, I should be able to read the mail from within Netsca

Re: [expert] upgrade question

2001-06-21 Thread Tim Hermans
There are a few added features, but it's still pretty buggy. Specially the installer. I would wait until 8.1. On 21 Jun 2001 13:42:57 +, chronos . wrote: > Hi all, > Had a question about upgrading, Im running mandrake 7.1 right now and it works >beautifully no problems. So then how good is

[expert] Re: Off-Board Controllers of the Promise, HPT and CMD varieties for IDE ATA 66 and 100

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
civileme wrote: > I had hoped to have better news, but here is the situation: > > MandrakeFreq has a boot image which sets up the Off-Board > IDE controllers the same way they will be used by the > installed kernel. This means no kernel panic on boot. > > That's the good news. The other news is

Re: [expert] computer boot itself automatically after powerfailure

2001-06-21 Thread crosseyedpenguin
'Tis a feature on my Soyo K7VTA-B motherboard. You can set the BIOS to turn on after a power failure. This works even when the OS turns itself off - if you turn off the power on the master switch (one of those things with PC, monitor, printer, etc.) and then turn it back on, the PC powers up and

[expert] Re: GCC and GPL Question

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Badran
I dont know if anyone mentioned it, but there is a REALLY good faq at www.gnu.org somehwere (sorry no direct link). I think it had an exact answer for the original question. -- Imperial College, Department Of Computing email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 020 785 22277

Re: [expert] RV: Problems in LM80 with keyboard

2001-06-21 Thread rober
Title: RV: Problems in LM80 with keyboard hola ¿ha intentado instalando el teclado de su/nuestro idioma y para lograr el efecto de la tecla AltGr hay que pulsar Ctrl + Alt . Espero haberle ayudado y que funcione. AltGr = Ctrl + Alt y para los no hispanos   Hello Try to push Crtl key+Alt key ,

[expert] External CDRW

2001-06-21 Thread Oscar
Hello, I'm going to buy an external CDRW. I'm thinking about: - Phillips PCRW462K (Parallel por) - Phillips PCRW464K (USB) - HP CD-Writer 8230E (USB) Since the list of supported hardware in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 is outdated (may 2000), my question is: Are the USB externa

Re: [expert] computer boot itself automatically after powerfailure

2001-06-21 Thread brian
It is ATX. I have 5 computers on my desk and 3 came back on, two didn't. -Brian On Thursday 21 June 2001 14:51, Brent Bailey wrote: > ummm is it AT or ATX ...if its AT...it will come back on when the > power comes on > - Original Message - > From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ma

[expert] computer boot itself automatically after powerfailure

2001-06-21 Thread brian
Is there a way to make a MDK8.0 computer turn itself back on after a power failure? Is this something I would even set in Linux or is it a Bios/Hardware issue? TIA, Brian

[expert] Help with Intel 815e mb

2001-06-21 Thread Arturo Morales
Hello, I posted this to the newbie list, but maybe this is more on the expert side... I've been trying to install 8.0 on a new 815e mb (Intel D815EEA2L). I know it has problems with the integrated LAN (eepro100) but I can almost get it to work sometimes (and I know there are patches in the w

RE: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Baccari, Lou
It looks like lnx4win is what I was looking for. http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/linux/mandrake/7.2/i586/lnx4win/ Thanks, Lou ---

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-21 Thread ninjaz
Joe, The Official GPL FAQ is here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html There is an entry for specifically covering your question: "Q: I use the C or C++ programming language, and I compile with GCC. Must I release software I write in the language under the same license as GCC? A: Use of

[expert] RV: Problems in LM80 with keyboard

2001-06-21 Thread Luengas Carrillo Yesid Camilo
Title: RV: Problems in LM80 with keyboard Hello *. I have one problem in 3 linux machines.  I installed LM8.0 an when i start the graphics interface, my keyboard not responding, because i dont have the symbols with ALT GR. Can you hel me?. thanks Cordialmente, Ing. Yesid Camilo Luen

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:49 am, Rusty Carruth may or may not have written: > Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:07 am, Baccari, Lou may or may not have written: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I though I read somewhere that if you did not what to install a > > > complete

Re: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
There are possibilities, but I don't think Win4Lin is one of them -- I think it's just the opposite, it lets you run Windows applications on Linux. SuSe makes a version of Linux they call LiveEval -- it doesn't do quite what you want either, but may be closer. It can do a simple install on a Win

Re[2]: [expert] cups: is not ready - and I know good and well it is!

2001-06-21 Thread Rusty Carruth
> Rusty Carruth wrote: > > > Ok, Cups hating time ;-) > > Ok, an update. Its an eisa-based system. The parallel port was not working right, and we were also having trouble with eth0 initialization working. Turns out that we had some irq conflicts, and now I've gone and tried to set it all rig

Re[2]: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Rusty Carruth
Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:07 am, Baccari, Lou may or may not have written: > > Hello, > > > > I though I read somewhere that if you did not what to install a complete > > installation of Mandrake that you could install a Linux kernel/executable > > that simulat

Re: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:07 am, Baccari, Lou may or may not have written: > Hello, > > I though I read somewhere that if you did not what to install a complete > installation of Mandrake that you could install a Linux kernel/executable > that simulated Linux on MS windows. Is this possible? >

[expert] apply patches

2001-06-21 Thread Amaresh Bikki
Hai, Can someone tell me how to apply patches. I have patch files in the form of '...gz'. Thanks, Amaresh.

[expert] MDK 8: poor web server/net performance

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Kolar
Hello. I was happily running MDK 7.1 using ipchains for firewalling on a small box that served both as a web server and that did NAT for a few other PCs on my network. After an unfortunate series of natural disasters I decided to rebuild the box, this time using MDK 8. The installation went

[expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Baccari, Lou
Hello, I though I read somewhere that if you did not what to install a complete installation of Mandrake that you could install a Linux kernel/executable that simulated Linux on MS windows. Is this possible? Thanks, Lou

Re: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.

2001-06-21 Thread Nico Krzebek
Maybe some clarification is needed to what Thierry wrote: 1. Iostreams are flushed automatically upon destruction, i.e. no extra flushing is needed. 2. In many cases you don't *want* to flush the stream after every output, if you for instance write to harddisk. In this case flushing would cost

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-21 Thread Pierre Fortin
Nathan Callahan wrote: > > BTW M$, AFIK, does not use GPLed code in any of its operations. It uses > BSD licensed code, which, by not having the contagious elements of the > GPL, lets this sort of thing go on. They DO use lots of GPL code... albeit to try to move *nix users to NT... http://www

[expert] enlightenment , AA fonts, and MDK

2001-06-21 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
Hi all. I hope thistime someone answer my question! =o) plz! =o)) I'm using the Enlightenment 0.16, compiled from scratch. And XFree 4.1, from a candy drak-RPM. Nice, cute, all works lightning fast. But I wanna try the AA fo

RE: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.

2001-06-21 Thread Thierry De Corte
If you use iostream, you should always use endl (or ends) instead of '\n'. endl provide line feed plus it flush the stream. I think your problem was just an unflushed or broken stream, probably related to something you did before. I'm almost 99.99% sure that it was not a winME prob (but w

[expert] upgrade question

2001-06-21 Thread chronos .
Hi all, Had a question about upgrading, Im running mandrake 7.1 right now and it works beautifully no problems. So then how good is 8.0 ? Is it worth the upgrade ? Thank you, chronos. FREE Disinformation E

[expert] Fwd: Printing using cups

2001-06-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I gare! I have been able to print using OpenOffice 632, installed from the binary linux file, and cups ^_^ under Mandrake 8.0. This is the situation and what I did: A pentium III 800 with an Epson Stylus Color 760 conected to the USB1 port; and a HPLaserJet 4L conected to the Parallel Port.

Re: [expert] XFree86 4.1.0 question?

2001-06-21 Thread Sebastian Hassinger
I'm running 4.1.0 with my NVIDIA Geforce II MX 32Mb, but my impression was anti-aliasing was only in KDE, which I don't use -- is that correct? 4.1.0 and my custom 2.4.5 kernel are rock solid stable for me, btw -- I'm even running the NVIDIA 1251 driver and GLX, and my machine's been up and solid

Re: [expert] GCC 3.0 - Question on GPL

2001-06-21 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi! I thought I should chime in on this one, even though JoeLX seems to be happy. As I understand it, ALL of GCC3.0 is published under the GPL, which is viral. The GNU Lesser General Public License is one usually used for libraries, which is far less viral. However, GCC3.0 has a special exc

Re: [expert] PPPD causes a kernel panic (more info)

2001-06-21 Thread Ross Burton
On 20 Jun 2001 17:02:34 -0700, JWDougherty wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 04:40, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Basically the subject says it all. This happens both with the stock > > kernel and a custom build one. Any ideas? > The topic says hardly anything. > There has to be something more t

Re: [expert] crond

2001-06-21 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
R> When tasks are running from my crontab It send to my mail next R> message "/bin/bash: root: command not found", but these tasks R> started successfully. Do I understand correctly that you get the error from cron, but not when you try the same commands on the command line? If so, this is most

Re: [expert] crond

2001-06-21 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
R> When tasks are running from my crontab It send to my mail next R> message "/bin/bash: root: command not found", but these tasks R> started successfully. Do I understand correctly that you get the error from cron, but not when you try the same commands on the command line? If so, this is most