Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-07-01 Thread George Abdo
Thank all. I copied the enclosed .xinitrc (from David Fox's email, thanks David) and created the file, it worked. The other suggestion about modifying a .wmrc file did not work. Thanks for all who replied. Any idea why I didn't have a .xinitrc to begin with? There must be anothe config file

[expert] forwarding

2001-07-01 Thread Florian
Hi im having trouble with SNF it doesnt forward anything . Licq dont work it times out after creating and opening local server (i forwarded udp 4000 and tcp 2000-2020) Unrealtournament: i get ping timeout when trying to get serverlist (i forwarded udp 6-64000) SNF doesnt forward anything

Re: [expert] X Startup from Console

2001-07-01 Thread rgc
Any idea why I didn't have a .xinitrc to begin with? There must be anothe config file somewhere thar gets superceded by .xinitrc. locate xinitrc /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc /etc/X11/xfce/xinitrc.mwm man xinit :-)

[expert] Anomaly with tcsh on LM8

2001-07-01 Thread David C. Hoos, Sr.
Hi all, I have just installed LM 8.0 (Standard boxed set) an noticed that when an ordinary user whose login shell is tcsh telnets in to the machine, the following message is displayed: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console If that same user is logged in to the console, the

[expert] upgrading linux box

2001-07-01 Thread Jesus Roncero
Hi, I am about to upgrade my computer to a K7, probably at 1GHz. I have 2 motherboards in mind and, as this is a very important key in a PC configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am thinking of are: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR and ASUS A7V133. So, both of them

[expert] Supermount not supermounting?

2001-07-01 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I've got a problem after Freqing my 8.0 install If I've got a CDROM in the drive at boot, it mounts OK, But if I try to change the CD I get the following shoing in my logs Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: cdrom: open failed. Jul 2 00:01:58 darkwing kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00

Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?

2001-07-01 Thread Oscar
I had the same problem. Here is my fix: My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0

[expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when I play opengl games. If they crash (Terminus is

Re: [expert] upgrading linux box

2001-07-01 Thread Francisco Castanheiro
On Sunday 01 July 2001 14:42, you wrote: configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am thinking of are: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR and ASUS A7V133. So, both of them have IDE ports. Is there any problem with linux detecting this configuration? I meant 4

[expert] rpm --rebuild is not working

2001-07-01 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [expert] iptables support

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Did you install the iptables rpm ? -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:47 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am using LM 8, trying to configure firewall thro Linuxconf. I get an error kernel doses not support firewallling, something to that effect. Does the stock kernel with LM 8

Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
Praedor Tempus wrote: otherwise useful and nice top app is crap when you need to see what processes are not listed within your visable window - it wont scroll or page down so I could see what other processes might be ripe for killing and Try: top q c b n 1 | less No idea on X in a game

Re: [expert] Tape Backup

2001-07-01 Thread David E. Fox
backup in order to re-instate my old system from tape. I would always backup the directories /root and /home, but if I restored say /usr, would I have all my old programs again...this is what I would like, but is this correct. Yeah, unless something went wrong, you'd have the old stuff

[expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread Julia A. Case
Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor, ]

[expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread JR Lefty
HELP!, ok, heres the details: lsmod results. msp340013904 0 (unused) tuner 4624 0 (unused) bttv 57648 0 (unused) i2c-algo-bit7200 0 [bttv] i2c-core

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
JR, are you using Mandrake 8.0?, with MDK 8.0 I can't get the xawtv run, just a blue windows; I installed the rpm comming with MDK 7.2 and runs fine; perhaps is that your problem. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)

Re: [expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Its a limitation of most current filesystems including ext2fs and reiserfs to do with handing 32 bit instructions within the code. Pipe the output of smbtar through split with the appropriate arguments to create a multivolume archive. BillK On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote:

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working

2001-07-01 Thread Steve Kieu
And also, once that is done, try rpm -ivh file.src.rpm well, why I dont have to do that, I usually rpm --rebuild source.rpm ; it will extract soucre, run configure or whatever , make it and buil rpm binary package put it in /usr/src/RPM/.; I only run rpm -ivh for the newly built

Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
Since you have network and don't want to reboot the system with webmin, do a telnet to your locked system and kill the processes that are running under X... since you probably know the application that caused the lock, kill that app first... orlando Praedor S. Tempus wrote: Thank you, I

Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 01 July 2001 06:27 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to

Re: [expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread M. Osten
Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with smbtar creating a backup of a remote windows drive that is more than 2GB. Thanks, Julia -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are safe inside the harbor,

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread Nathan Callahan
Hi, Have to go shortly so I can't take the time to look up things. I recall that in order to get the bttv chip working, you need to pass the module some parameters. The readme in the documentation subdir of the kernel sources is kind of handy. On Monday, July 2, 2001, at 07:52 AM, JR

Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection

2001-07-01 Thread Dave DeGear
All good questions. :-) I'm having the same thing happen to me while detecting Winbond chipset. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an Intel 233Mhz CPU and I'm not sure why it's probing for a Winbond something or other. :-( If you find out the answers privately please let me know.

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread JR Lefty
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 09:20:23 +1000, Nathan Callahan wrote: Hi, Have to go shortly so I can't take the time to look up things. I recall that in order to get the bttv chip working, you need to pass the module some parameters. The readme in the documentation subdir of the kernel

[expert] ppp help needed

2001-07-01 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
I wrote up a chat script and fired it up. The logfile below shows that I got connected, but I can't ping anything. I don't seem to be able to pick up my /etc/resolv.conf file. What am I missing? What should I look for? Jul 1 19:40:10 bigdaddy kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 Jul 1

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-07-01 Thread rgc
One filter at a time! This problem can only be solved at the user setting up the out of office reply. Their SW should check the 'Precedence:' header and not reply to bulk, list, etc. If their MUA can't do this then change it.

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread M. Osten
I have the same card, and here is my entries in /etc/modules.conf btw, I dont use xawtv, but I looked at it. seems to me it needed an extra module loaded. Reread the INSTALL doc that came with the source. Or use zapping, http://zapping.sourceforge.net/ # i2c alias char-major-89 i2c-dev

Re: [expert] Supermount not supermounting?

2001-07-01 Thread Andrew George
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:39, Oscar wrote: I had the same problem. Here is my fix: My original fstab (CDROM and FLOPPY lines only) after upgrading: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy

Re: [expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection

2001-07-01 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 01 July 2001 07:32 pm, you methodically organized electrons to state: All good questions. :-) I'm having the same thing happen to me while detecting Winbond chipset. I have an ASUS P55T2P4 motherboard with an Intel 233Mhz CPU and I'm not sure why it's probing for a Winbond

Re: [expert] IPTABLES

2001-07-01 Thread Orlando Reis
Thanks, it worked, I was using the wrong chain, for the job. On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Leonardo T. de Carvalho wrote: Orlando Reis wrote: Hi , I was wondering if someone has used iptables, i'm a having a problem filtering a IP adress, it's a proxy server, but I want the user's at my

Re: [expert] How do change the default WM in MDK8?

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Uninstall gdm or kdm, change your runlevel to 3 (i.e. change your /etc/inittab file for runlevel 3), and create a .xinitrc file with exec twm in it. -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 04:13 am, George Abdo wrote: Hello all, In Mandrake 7, I edited my own .xinitrc to start twm (yes, the

Re: [expert] upgrading linux box

2001-07-01 Thread Jesus Roncero
El Dom 01 Jul 2001 15:25, Jesus Roncero se atreviĆ³ a decir: Hi, I am about to upgrade my computer to a K7, probably at 1GHz. I have 2 motherboards in mind and, as this is a very important key in a PC configuration, I would like to ask you your opinion about it. The 2 motherboards I am

Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread Praedor S. Tempus
Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot the system leaves a bad taste in my mouth - that is one of the reasons I left

Re: [expert] tar question

2001-07-01 Thread Steve Kieu
On 01 Jul 2001 13:38:02 -0700, Julia A. Case wrote: Is tar limited to files of 2GB? I upgraded my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs to jfs and am still having trouble with Sorry not to mention about your topic but it comes to my attention that you are using jfs, just from my own

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-07-01 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
It's not that simple... Each person has a way to leave an auto-reply... and that list has users from all over the world, and I doubt that these people use messages in English, if they aren't from a English speaking country... So, how do you filter this??? orlando Stephen Boulet wrote:

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working

2001-07-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 01 July 2001 23:18, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Can't get xawtv working with bttv

2001-07-01 Thread JR Lefty
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 00:28:00 +0200, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: JR, are you using Mandrake 8.0?, with MDK 8.0 I can't get the xawtv run, just a blue windows; I installed the rpm comming with MDK 7.2 and runs fine; perhaps is that your problem. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-07-01 Thread Randy Kramer
One filter at a time! Randy Kramer jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: It's not that simple... Each person has a way to leave an auto-reply... and that list has users from all over the world, and I doubt that these people use messages in English, if they aren't from a English speaking

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild is not working

2001-07-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 01 July 2001 23:18, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I'm running rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm and what i get is the same output as if it is run without parameters... I'm running MDK8 and rpm is version 4.0-29 Thanks!! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:01, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 with kernel-2.4.4-6mdk, glibc-2.2.3, XFree86-4.1.0, and DRI-CVS. My system is an Athlon 700 with an ATI Radeon 32MB and OpenGL is working well - for the most part. I periodically run into a very windows-ish problem when

[expert] Boot hangs with Super-IO Detection

2001-07-01 Thread Hoyt
Once again this has happened to me. It's very frustrating. I have found no useful assistance by searching the archives. The computer hangs during boot at the Super-IO detection phase. What causes this? How do I fix it? Can I avoid it in the future? Hoyt