Re: [expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq

Try this: - Uninstall abisuite if you don't use it - edit /etc/X11/fs/config and change the line: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 to: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1:unscaled In my system it's the only fix that works. Salu2. Oscar. (if neccesary, turn off anti-aliasing). Stephen Boulet wrote:

Re: [expert] Info on iptables?

* Stardate: 2001-06-26 14:42 * Incoming subspace signal from Nick Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Can anybody point me to a good source of info on setting up iptables? Thanks, Nick. Go to http://go.to/conmen (shamelessly plugging my own page). At the RPMS page you will find a link to the

[expert] Where is the password screensaver

Hello everybody, I thought the screensaver password was the same as the user password. But I'm on a PC where it is not right. Is there a special place to change it ? I know the password root of this PC but not the screensaver password. Thanks.

Re: [expert] Where is the password screensaver

BAUDRILLARD ETIENNE wrote: Hello everybody, I thought the screensaver password was the same as the user password. But I'm on a PC where it is not right. Is there a special place to change it ? I know the password root of this PC but not the screensaver password. The screensaver password

RE: Out of Office AutoReply: [expert]

All, sorry about this, I'm turning it off. It seems I'm not so good at usind M$ Outlook! Luis -Original Message- From: Lyric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:57 PM To: CHARDON,LUIS (HP-PuertoRico,ex1) Subject: Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [expert] Luis,

[expert] NIC Help

I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 that seems to be having problems with its built-in NIC under Mandrake 8.0. Everything works OK for a while, but then I start getting the following messages: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0c80 at

[expert] Printing is slow with CUPS

I've finally managed to get my systems printing through a shared CUPS printer, but it takes about 5 minutes for an e-mail message shorter than this one to print from Mozilla. Also, stuff in the 'Options...' window of qtcups always resets to localhost, even though I have to put in the IP

Re: [expert] Where is the password screensaver

Craig Sprout wrote: BAUDRILLARD ETIENNE wrote: Hello everybody, I thought the screensaver password was the same as the user password. But I'm on a PC where it is not right. Is there a special place to change it ? I know the password root of this PC but not the screensaver

RE: [expert] Linux'ifying Hotmail

There is a perl scritpt that uses curl to retrieve hotmail and forward it to a pop account. It's called gotmail and can be found on freshmeat. Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian J. Burke Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 9:57 PM To:

[expert] LILO (or grub?) issues

Hi: I have had LM 6.1 running for some time and I finally decided to install LM 7.2 on a second disk, while keeping LM 6.1 on the first disk. What is now left is to tidy up things so I can keep booting into either version until I am satisfied that I can do away with LM 6.1. My current setup

Re: [expert] URL for moina

Sorry about that post. My kmail bookmarks for my home address and the expert mailing list are side-by-side... On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:32 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote: http://www.santafefish.com

[expert] Turkish Fonts

Hi, since my question is about Turkish fonts. Therefore it's better to write the rest of my email in Turkish. Türçe karakteri kullanan arkadaþlar ben ö ve ü harfleriyle yazabilmeme raðmen þ,ð ve ý harflerini yazamýyorum. Yardýmcý olursanýz sevinirim. Mandrake 8.0 kullanýyorum. Bu arada

Re: [expert] Installing the framebuffer

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:39 -0400, Brian Hartman wrote: Hi, all. The person I sent the last message from has another question: How do you install the framebuffer service and configure X to use it? TIA for any help you can provide. In short: rpm -qa|grep 'SVGA' #comes up with the

[expert] ýnstalling a compiled kernel

Hi all.. How can I install a compiled kernel (for example kernel from linus in the second installation cd) without using LILO? I am not using any boot manager I boot up with a bott disk. Thanks _ Get Your Private, Free

Re: [expert] Unresolved symbols in custom muilt kernel

On Tuesday, Jun 26, 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: edit /etc/lilo.conf, choose the new kernel image; I dont use initrd. Run lilo Restart Now it spits a lot of unresolved symbols and can not insmod any modules at all. Maybe you should be using initrd? Couldn't hurt to try it... -- Paul

[expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

Hi. I recently upgrade to MandrakeFreq, kernel 2.4.5-5mdk I have a problem with cdrom units. I can read from cdrom, but when I change cdrom, I can't read the new (or the same) cdrom. It says Input/output error, and I can see in /var/log/messages: kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media. I

[expert] Oddities in xwindows

When using a terminal in XWindows (konsole) I get the following strangeness... When I open mutt and load a folder the percentage count starts going across the screen (26272829 and so on)... This only happens in X not a regular terminal so I don't think it is a mutt problem... This also

[expert] Fwd: Problems with USB - ACER 620U scanner

Excuse me for re-sending this mail. It's very important for me. Thanks. Salu2, Oscar. --  Mensaje Reenviado  -- Subject: Problems with ACER 620U scanner Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:40:13 +0200 From: Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I have a problem with the USB

Re: [expert] RPM Upgrade

Scott Taylor wrote: I can't find it. Does anyone know where to get it or how I can upgrade RPM for my Linux 7.1 server? Thanks. Scott. If I understand correctly you want to upgrade RPM itself (perhaps you're seeing errors of being unable to open packages because your version of RPM is

[expert] BT Openworld usb modem

I believe this is the alcatel modem, just wanted to know if people had got it to succsefully work under mandrake 8.0, i havent got one yet just in case, and ive heard alot about module issues with 2.4 kernels. Thanks Guys Tom -- Imperial College, Department Of Computing email: [EMAIL

[expert] build unstripped version glibc

Hello all, I am using Mandrake 7.2 with gcc 2.95.3 and glibc 2.1.3. I downloaded glibc-2.1.3-18.3 src. Is there anyone who can tell me how to build an unstripped version of glibc using this rpm? I mean what I need to change in the spec file. Thanks, Wayne

Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

Yeah, I've noticed that as well and it's annoyed me enough that I actually got off my lazy arse and modified my /etc/fstab. It had the same cdrom entries as yours, but I just went back to the old way and stuck this line back in: /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto 0 0 It doesn't

[expert] How (or can) I

make Wine start at boot time. I need to run a database server we normally run as an NT service. This database server (Faircom - required for some library automation software) runs as an NT service but will also work pretty well running under Wine on a Linux server. I'd like to have this start

RE: [expert] How (or can) I

You can always put in custom startup information in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Would that solve your problem? David -Original Message- From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] How (or can) I make Wine start

Re: [expert] How (or can) I

David Joham wrote: You can always put in custom startup information in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Would that solve your problem? David I've tried everything along that line that I can think of. I can't find anything that will work. Basically, an X session has to be started and logged in to

Re: [expert] How (or can) I

** Reply to message from Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:11:44 -0400 Basically, an X session has to be started and logged in to accept connections as the correct user to start the Wine/Faircom combination. How about using the new(er) autologon feature? I believe 7.2

[expert] S/Wan VPN setup

Does anyone have any experience with this? I just recently got set up to use VPN so that I can work from home and I'd like to continue using Mandrake for work.. Thanks. Darin -

[expert] xtraceroute doesn't work

I had xtraceroute-0.8.14-20mdk installed with Mandrake 8.0 but it wouldn't work. I then upgraded my glibc to 2.2.3 and xtraceroute to the cooker version 0.8.14-21mdk (I didn't upgrade glibc just for this). It still doesn't work. What happens: I run xtraceroute from a konsole as superuser

RE: [expert] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

Sigh... Why do you fall for this FUD? Different distros have been around for a long time without major incident. The writer is helping Microsoft more than anyone else. He has fallen prey to their mindset. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

Re: [expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq

I reinstalled 8.0 just to get the anti-aliased fonts in KDE back. None of the suggestions really worked well. Maybe installing mandrakefreq instead of upgrading was my mistake. Anyway, with separate home and usr/local partitions, reinstalling isn't that painful... -- Stephen On Wednesday 27

Re: [expert] How (or can) I

What if you boot into X directly (runlevel 5)? Will the command in rc.local work then? Maybe not. I wonder how to script a login session. Maybe then you could run startx and then run your program. -- Stephen On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:11 pm, Mike Rambo wrote: David Joham wrote: You can

Re: [expert] 8.0 install fails, kernel panic.

Hi Tnx Civileme...got 8.0 running...hde became hdchdparm -t shows 31MB/s not bad. But there's loud a much to configure...Ofcource bigger prog.But I have spare time,-) First thing is to get proper fonts to kwriteAt this age it is hard to read small text and especially when fonts are

[expert] Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here?

Dear friends: If Microsoft were to cook up a plan to cause Linux to disappear in a virtual Tower of Babel it could scarcely be more effective than that which has been adopted by distributions on their own, voluntarily. This is from an article by Dennis E. Powell in Linuxtoday (June 27, 2001)

[expert] Please fix multiple address system!

Dear friends: When will Mandrake fix their multiple address system: Every time I send a message to both Expert and Newbie lists, both messages end up being sent to one and only one address. That is very annoying. Please correct this bug that's been around for months. Thank you. Benjamin --

[expert] RPM Upgrade

I can't find it. Does anyone know where to get it or how I can upgrade RPM for my Linux 7.1 server? Thanks. Scott.

Re: [expert] Please fix multiple address system!

Don't waste your time asking... this has been a problem for MANY months... there have been some tweaks to the mailer; but this behaviour resists resolution. The workaround is to send individual messages to each list. Pierre Randy Kramer wrote: Benjamin, I'm curious -- I received two

[expert] hostname questions

I am about to re-configure a simple Class C network of Win98 machines/Linux server to give the Win machines access to the internet. I'll be using Postfix as a collection/relay point to relay mail through the ISP's SMTP server when we go online. I just want to check a few details on hostname: Is

RE: [expert] Network sniffing, how?

I'll bet you are a lucky person! When I received my first cable modem, I only saw activity when I was on it. Powering down my machines resulted in no activity on the lights. Later I had to exchange the unit with another. After that I started seeing a lot of activity with no machines powered

Re: [expert] Audio CDROM is invisable

Andy, I have a similar setup, and the CDs would only play from the CD ROM not the DVD ROM. It was suggested to me that the cd player is pointing to the wrong driver (/dev/cdrom) while CDRW are installed as /dev/sda# I did not proceed with this as my Compaq motherboard does not have an audio

[expert] Installing the framebuffer

Hi, all. The person I sent the last message from has another question: How do you install the framebuffer service and configure X to use it? TIA for any help you can provide.

Re: [expert] Oddities in xwindows

At 10:30 AM 6/27/2001 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote: When using a terminal in XWindows (konsole) I get the following strangeness... When I open mutt and load a folder the percentage count starts going across the screen (26272829 and so on)... This only happens in X not a regular terminal so I

[expert] Firewall issues with Mandrake 8.0

Hi all! I was running Mandrake 7.1 and my firewall was in ipchains and everything worked fine, since then I've installed mandrake 8.0 and now I run iptables and now my firewall works for about a day or less, then I have to down the external interface and up again and then it works again for about

Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

Thank you for your answer, Maxim. However, your indication do not solve the problem. This may help: I have observed that, before adding your parameters, when I do ls cdrom the floppy's LED switchs on. Any idea? thanks. Oscar. El Mié 27 Jun 2001 20:52, escribiste: * Stardate: 2001-06-27 18:47

Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

* Stardate: 2001-06-27 18:47 * Incoming subspace signal from Oscar [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hi. I recently upgrade to MandrakeFreq, kernel 2.4.5-5mdk I have a problem with cdrom units. I can read from cdrom, but when I change cdrom, I can't read the new (or the same) cdrom. It says Input/output

Re: [expert] Please fix multiple address system!

Benjamin, I'm curious -- I received two copies of your message Linux Fragmentation -- Is the Unthinkable already here? which seems appropriate since I am subscribed to both the newbie and expert list and you sent the message to both lists. Is this different than the behavior you are seeing, or