[expert] Postgres with Pgpsql ???

2001-08-23 Thread Hector Perez
I have 2 cuestions By the mandrake Hand. 1* Which part of initialization script do i have to change 'couse when i try to connect with pgaccess it always tell me the postmaster is not working with -i option. (If I start with the postgres superuser the postmaster -i it works...) By o

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 23 August 2001 02:28 pm, Doug Gough methodically organized electrons to state: > OKEnough already. You're all making me wonder if I want to ask any > questions on this list. Linux users have a reputation of wanting to help > each other. Is this the kind of response I can expect to

[expert] Mozilla & Galeon - Mousewheel Stops Functioning On Ads - Is There AFix?

2001-08-23 Thread Sevatio
LM8.0 While using Mozilla & Galeon, my mouse-wheel stops scrolling when the cursor hits an advertising image. Why is this and how do we get the mouse-wheel to continue working over these images (are they applets?)? TIA, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to h

Re: [expert] KDE uses always at least half the power of the processor!

2001-08-23 Thread glen sagers
Most likely, the arts deamon, which is the KDE 2 sound server, is using this processor time. On my laptop, for example, even when idle, artsd uses 45-65% of the processor time. To check, press ctrl+escape, kde system guard comes up and you can look for the artsd process. I haven't found a solut

Re: [expert] GCC 2.96

2001-08-23 Thread M. Osten
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > > On Thursday 23 August 2001 19:01, Tom Badran wrote: > > Im sure many of you share my hatred for this version of gcc. I always found > > it bizare that mandrake went down this road. At least in 8.1b they have > > both gcc 3 and 2.96. Howeve

Re: [expert] Hardware question...

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 15:04, J. C. Woods wrote: > Civileme, > > Since your seem to be, among your many areas of expertise, the hardware > guru, can you say when, and if, we will see a mandrake version that > works with the VIA 686B southbridge chip (VIA KT133A)?. Because so many > issues are

Re: [expert] Hardware question...

2001-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 August 2001 14:04, J. C. Woods wrote: > Civileme, > > Since your seem to be, among your many areas of expertise, the > hardware guru, can you say when, and if, we will see a mandrake > version that works with the VIA 686B southbridge c

Re: [expert] Query: Enable chooser GDM, KDM, XDM? Civilme?

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 19:27, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > Hello all; > > How do you enable the chooser (so it shows a list of hosts at the > console's graphical login screen) in GDM and KDM (and for that matter > xdm) in Mandrake 8.0. > > Setting > > * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect

Re: [expert] GCC 2.96

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 19:01, Tom Badran wrote: > Im sure many of you share my hatred for this version of gcc. I always found > it bizare that mandrake went down this road. At least in 8.1b they have > both gcc 3 and 2.96. However, 3 has some issues that make it suitable to > keep a 2.9 versio

[expert] Hardware question...

2001-08-23 Thread J. C. Woods
Civileme, Since your seem to be, among your many areas of expertise, the hardware guru, can you say when, and if, we will see a mandrake version that works with the VIA 686B southbridge chip (VIA KT133A)?. Because so many issues are involved, i.e. the kernel, cpu bridge to bus device, and AGP, m

Re: [expert] "Skipping" MPEGs?

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Van Patten
At Thu Aug 23 19:25:37 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > Not enough RAM Half gig. Swap not being touched. > Processor too slow 933MHz P3 > Wrong Libs >From the standard Mdk 8 install? Which libs should I have? > No screen acceleration > Too many background processes running > A CPU hog ru

[expert] Query: Enable chooser GDM, KDM, XDM? Civilme?

2001-08-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Hello all; How do you enable the chooser (so it shows a list of hosts at the console's graphical login screen) in GDM and KDM (and for that matter xdm) in Mandrake 8.0. Setting * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess seems to have no effect

RE: [expert] "Skipping" MPEGs?

2001-08-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Not enough RAM Processor too slow Wrong Libs No screen acceleration Too many background processes running A CPU hog running in the background --- Choose one or more from the list above. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Van P

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and IPv6

2001-08-23 Thread Angus Beath
First of all you'll need an IPv6 capable network. There aren't very many around as far as I'm aware at the moment. Stick with the old IP for now. the move to IPv6 is coming, but not for a while. AB Written by Gadir -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > I was told that Mandrake 8.0 is IPv6 enabl

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21

2001-08-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi, I have a nice shiny new Dell Inspiron 8000 an will dual boot mdk 8.0 on it in a week or so. The mdk hardware compatibility list just shows that install has been successful, not the detail. Is there a reference somewhere that shows if any special actions need to be taken - the lm-sensors warn

[expert] GCC 2.96

2001-08-23 Thread Tom Badran
Im sure many of you share my hatred for this version of gcc. I always found it bizare that mandrake went down this road. At least in 8.1b they have both gcc 3 and 2.96. However, 3 has some issues that make it suitable to keep a 2.9 version of gcc about, i just wondered if it is possible to repl

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Aug 23, 2001 at 11:10:01AM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i might i > can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that when > it runs it cripples my system making it impossible to get any work done. > what ev

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21

2001-08-23 Thread Rochester Payne
I have a gateway select 1000 .. 1ghz athlon .. and it also freezes after scsi detection .. what is the solution .. the kicker is that I installed suse 7.2 and it works fine .. I would rather use mandrake 8.0 ... - Original Message - From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[expert] "Skipping" MPEGs?

2001-08-23 Thread Jason Van Patten
Hey folks - I've recently installed Mdk 8.0 and noticed an interesting problem with mpegs. Any one that has audio in it seems to skip around. It'll play normally for a bit, then the video will speed up or skip ahead, while the audio follows the normal track. Has anyone seen this (ie, known pro

Re: [expert] On sluggishness, sealing wax, ships, kapm-idled,cabbages and kings

2001-08-23 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, civileme wrote: > OK > > Our kernel is sluggish when it sees certain chipsets. The infamous 686B southbridge >bug made its > debut as "confirmed by the manufacturer" a little more than a week before release of >8.0. A quick hack to > cripple oneself if certain chipset(s)

Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2

2001-08-23 Thread bunty vue
You can get those libs from rpmfind.net. The order is kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase, and other packages can be installed in any arbitrary order. Bunty On Thursday 23 August 2001 22:36, you wrote: > Aleksey Y Naumov escribió: > > # rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm > > error: failed dependenci

Re: [expert] Fwd: question about reiserfs-ext3

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 22:42, Joan Tur wrote: > civileme escribió: > > For a complete rebuild of a Reiser partition (say /dev/hda5) > > > > 'reiserfsck --check /dev/hda5' > > 'reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda5' > > 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5' > > > > Civileme > > A silly question: w

[expert] OT: connecting to Juno from LM..?

2001-08-23 Thread Pierre Fortin
Is anyone connecting to Juno via LM7/LM8...? I'm trying to convert a new user from W98 to LM... the current net access is via Juno which has the wierdest login sequence I've seen and have not yet been able to figure out all the requirements... If you can provide info, I'd appreciate a clue priv

Re: [expert] Upgrading to KDE 2.2

2001-08-23 Thread Joan Tur
Aleksey Y Naumov escribió: > # rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libasound.so.1 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk > libpcreposix.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk > libpcre.so.0 is needed by kdelibs-2.2-1mdk > > Any idea where I get these libs

[expert] On sluggishness, sealing wax, ships, kapm-idled, cabbages and kings

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
OK Our kernel is sluggish when it sees certain chipsets. The infamous 686B southbridge bug made its debut as "confirmed by the manufacturer" a little more than a week before release of 8.0. A quick hack to cripple oneself if certain chipset(s) were seen was done to prevent a potentially huge

Re: [expert] Kde-2.2 "tex"

2001-08-23 Thread Joan Tur
texstar escribió: > Texstar rpms are experiemental rpms provided to those who like to tinker with > their systems and are willing to upgrade the necessary rpms (ie Xfree 4.1.0, > libsldl 1.2, libxms2, libprcrem, libsane, rpm). They are not supported or > endorsed by Mandrakesoft and are to be use

Re: [expert] Kde-2.2 "tex"

2001-08-23 Thread Joan Tur
Praedor Tempus escribió: > I am not having any problems with the tex kde rpms. All I did was create > symlinks. I have rpm-4.0.3-0.17mdk and all its relatives installed. I > installed the rpms and all works without any problems. > > If your rpms are complaining about librpm.so.0, etc, then jus

Re: [expert] Fwd: question about reiserfs-ext3

2001-08-23 Thread Joan Tur
civileme escribió: > For a complete rebuild of a Reiser partition (say /dev/hda5) > > 'reiserfsck --check /dev/hda5' > 'reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/hda5' > 'reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda5' > > Civileme A silly question: what will i get rebuilding a reiser partition? Are those commands de

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Alan N.« am 2001-08-23 um 12:02:25 -0400 : > This is the main reason I'm using redhat now. > I simply could not deal with the sluggishness. Which nothing has to do with the kapm-idled Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) H

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok...its been running ok so far this afternoon. Even when using Gnome/sawfish. guess i'll keep an eye on things. thanks again -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions." Author unknown On Thu, 23 Au

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
O please Alfred...get a grip. Things aren't as nice, clean, utopian, and "politically correct" as some would prefer them to be. now and then its just good to speak whats on yer mind. tis always better to be "real" rather than insult the intelligence of others by false, or pretended politeness. Pre

[expert] MDK8 / XFree 4.1 performance issues

2001-08-23 Thread Wayne Stout
Greetings, everyone. I've recently decided to try to "fix" something that I find annoying with XFree86 4.1. I have an ATI Xpert@Play 16 meg card (Rage Pro chipset). Under X 3.3.6, I have hardware accelleration with gears running in the 300 FPS range. (I forget the exact number, and I'm not at

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 13:46, Mark Weaver wrote: > Civileme, > > it's interesting that you would point that very thing out because i've got > exactly that on this system. Windows lives on the WD drive and Mandrake on > the Maxtor drive. Would this till have a bearing on the problem? http://kt

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Alfredo Cole
El Jueves 23 Agosto 2001 11:56, escribiste: > Doug, > > normally that is "not" the kind of response i post to the list as i > stated somewhere in the this thread. however, that "is" the kind of > response i send to people from time to time who _assume_ they're > chastising a youngster who hasn't t

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread FLYNN, Steve
It appears to be fine - I've only just upgraded to 8.0 last week, and I spend some of my time at work using Dynix machines, which don't run X at all, and the 37 meg seemed a bit high. However, from other people's posts, it appears to be fine. I picked the RAM out mainly because of the 0k of memor

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Doug, normally that is "not" the kind of response i post to the list as i stated somewhere in the this thread. however, that "is" the kind of response i send to people from time to time who _assume_ they're chastising a youngster who hasn't taken the time to do the basic, simple research that mos

[expert] Bad CD?

2001-08-23 Thread Felix Miata
I just figured out the trouble I've been having installing Mandrake 8 most likely has to do with a defective CD. I downloaded the ISO's and burned with my Yamaha 8824S and cdrecord with speed=4 after verifying the download with md5sum. Even so, during attempted installation there are always error

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
so, are you saying that the amount of RAM that X is using is ok? or is there something amiss here with the amount that it's using? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions." Author unknown On Thu, 2

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
HA! :) J.P. thats good and thank you for the links. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions." Author unknown On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, J.P.Pasnak wrote: >On August 23, 2001 09:50 am, Mark Weaver wr

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Civileme, it's interesting that you would point that very thing out because i've got exactly that on this system. Windows lives on the WD drive and Mandrake on the Maxtor drive. Would this till have a bearing on the problem? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ "Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Doug Gough
OKEnough already. You're all making me wonder if I want to ask any questions on this list. Linux users have a reputation of wanting to help each other. Is this the kind of response I can expect to my questions if I ever get up the nerve to ask one? What if I don't puntuate properlyor f

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread J.P.Pasnak
On August 23, 2001 09:50 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > Ok, hoyt... > > clearly either you got up on the wrong side of the keyboard, or you're > just normally a smart ass with few people skills. actually, since i've > been a long time subscriber to this list the MAIL LIST ARCHIVES was the > first place

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Alexander poslavsky
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:10:01 -0400 (EDT) Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [kapm-idled] Your poor 266 cpu is thanking you! kapm-idled is a kernel daemon that constantly sends idle calls to your cpu. On laptops, making the idle call actually puts the cpu into a state where it save

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 17:20, Oren Gozlan wrote: > Hi, > did anyone installed a mdk 8.0 on IBM t21, i have problems all over.. > the mouses (trackpoint and ps2) are not detected... the installation > freezes at the scsi detection... > > HELP ??? First, use /images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.1

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:10, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi list, > > there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i might i > can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that when > it runs it cripples my system making it impossible to get any work done. > wh

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread civileme
On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:50, Mark Weaver wrote: > Ok, hoyt... > > clearly either you got up on the wrong side of the keyboard, or you're > just normally a smart ass with few people skills. actually, since i've > been a long time subscriber to this list the MAIL LIST ARCHIVES was the > first p

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
indeed! there was something that i forgot to mention the original post that Steve's post reminded me about. at the time it started i had Netscape6 running AND i was testing a .cgi script that typically produces a lot of I/O for a time while it's gathering the data and outputting to screen in the

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Mark Weaver« am 2001-08-23 um 11:50:27 -0400 : > been a long time subscriber to this list the MAIL LIST ARCHIVES was the Don't know about this list, but it's all over the common linux help forums. But anyhow, you asked here, and you get an answer here. > first place i looked. whereup

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Wow! thank you Steve, things are beginning to fall into place. i first noticed the condition described soon after installation and use. i was curious about Gnome/Sawfish so i started that desktop and found it gorgeous. but also very resource intensive. Then, i started looking around to see if i c

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Alan N.
I've read this before and have seen this with Mandrake. I'm no expert but it makes my machine sluggish also. Very much so. RedHat 7.1 also has this process running. However it uses 0% CPU cycles. This is the main reason I'm using redhat now. I simply could not deal with the sluggishness.

RE: [expert] FW: What does this error mean?

2001-08-23 Thread Todd Zashin
Thank you Gregor... How would you recommend best altering the nkfs file to work with my kernel 2.4.5-5mdk? Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregor Maier Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expe

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok, hoyt... clearly either you got up on the wrong side of the keyboard, or you're just normally a smart ass with few people skills. actually, since i've been a long time subscriber to this list the MAIL LIST ARCHIVES was the first place i looked. whereupon, finding NO information there OR on my

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread FLYNN, Steve
It's an idle task there to soak up unused CPU cycles. It should run at 100% - whatever %ge the rest of the box is using. It's not actually using the CPU cycles that top shows - it just credited with them in the accounting files. It's not your problem. > CPU states: 5.3% user, 20.5% system, 0.

Re: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Hoyt
On Thursday 23 August 2001 11:10 am, Mark Weaver methodically organized electrons to state: > Hi list, > > there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i might i > can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that when > it runs it cripples my system making

Re: [expert] Emptying CUPS print queue

2001-08-23 Thread J. C. Woods
> > > > Have your tried "lprm-cups"? Do you even have such an executeable, > > /usr/bin/lprm-cups? > > > > lprm is a link to lprm-cups or the lpd lprm. Nope, it is not. Your system varies greatly from what I have installed in reference to the CUPS setup. "lprm" is indeed a symlink but not to

[expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, there's something strange here on my Mandrake 8.0 box and try as i might i can't find it to kill it! it seems to be a process of some sort that when it runs it cripples my system making it impossible to get any work done. what ever this is it shows up in kpm and top like this: [

[expert] mandrake 8.0 on IBM t21

2001-08-23 Thread Oren Gozlan
Hi, did anyone installed a mdk 8.0 on IBM t21, i have problems all over.. the mouses (trackpoint and ps2) are not detected... the installation freezes at the scsi detection... HELP ??? -- - Oren Gozlan Mobixell Networks Inc. p: +972 9 776 0121 f: + 972 9 740 7373 c: +972 54 53

RE: [expert] Athalon 1.2gig & MDK 8.0

2001-08-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
It may be a BIOS setting, it may be a combination of AGP versus video card, it may also be having the UDMA mode turned on without proper cables, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Craig Jansen Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:29

Re: [expert] printer woes

2001-08-23 Thread Bruce E.Harris
Gregor, Thanks for the tips, but I cant figure out how/what to symbolic link what to what. Can you give me an idea? TIA Bruce > > I got similiar problems with cups so I switched back to lpd. > I uninstalled the cups packages, installed the lpd packages then I > downloaded printtool from RedHat

RE: [expert] KDE uses always at least half the power of the proc

2001-08-23 Thread Gregor Maier
On 22-Aug-2001 Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Yesterday I had to compress a big tar archive (350MB) with Bzip2. > I launched it from a console inside KDE, then in a second console I > launched "top", that told me KDE was using 46% (at least) of the > processor's power, and bzip2 45-50%. > I thought it

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.1 beta1 RPM problem

2001-08-23 Thread Randy Kramer
Lieven, You're welcome, glad it helped, and thanks for your notes! I'm going to make an effort to revise the document (and incorporate your notes) over the next week or so, and then I'll let you know and, ask, if you have time, to review the instructions and see if you notice any remaining probl

Re: [expert] I dont want to boot Windows!

2001-08-23 Thread Gerard Perreault
As for the font themselves, I'm not sure what I can do for you, check this command, it might help. /usr/X11R6/bin/xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.qc This example sets a french canadian keyboard. You might also inquire about VMWare express. I have been using it for almost a year now, with M

Re: [expert] Athalon 1.2gig & MDK 8.0

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Jansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:04, you wrote: > You didn't mentioned the motherboard used or it's chipset. Unfortunatley I don't actually have that information on hand.. The system in question is offsite & it's abit late at night to ring the owner now! :)

[expert] KDE uses always at least half the power of the processor!

2001-08-23 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Yesterday I had to compress a big tar archive (350MB) with Bzip2. I launched it from a console inside KDE, then in a second console I launched "top", that told me KDE was using 46% (at least) of the processor's power, and bzip2 45-50%. I thought it was strange, since KDE was doing NOTHING!! that

RE: [expert] Athalon 1.2gig & MDK 8.0

2001-08-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You didn't mentioned the motherboard used or it's chipset. Some chipsets are especially sensitive to certain combinations of settings... I.E. enabling Write Combining, 4x and FAST Writes on your AGP will probably hang your video card, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[expert] Athalon 1.2gig & MDK 8.0

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Jansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi.. Here's the problem.. An install of Mandrake 8.0 occasionally Seg Fault's during the second stage.. But when it doesn't do that while formatting hda6 (15 gig) everything locks up. This machine has just had a new HDD & Processor put in and the

RE: [expert] Wireless LAN-cards (802.11)

2001-08-23 Thread Flavio Correa
Hi David, >I am considering getting a wireless ethernet card, but I haven't heard much >talk about this issue under Linux. >I already have a toshiba notebook wich is WIFI certified, and now I would >like to get a WIFI PCI card for my home server (The server is running >Mandrake 8). Afte

Re: [expert] Galeon - How To Make Flash Work?

2001-08-23 Thread Sevatio
Nevermind. I found that by installing the flash player for Mozilla, it also worked for Galeon. >> Original Message << On 8/23/01, 1:14:02 AM, Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [expert] Galeon - How To Make Flash Work?: > I'm looking for information

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN-cards (802.11)

2001-08-23 Thread joy_ping
i would say lucent orinoco would be a good choice. i have got just two lucent orinoco silver cards and they work well with linux. one good thing at these lucent cards is that they have a connetctor for external antennas. on this way i setup a wireless wan-network. one important thing is that you d

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and IPv6

2001-08-23 Thread Gadir --
Hi all, I was told that Mandrake 8.0 is IPv6 enabled. However, I can not use it to implement IPv6 !!!.I guess to have IPv6 enabled is not enough to directly use it. What should I do to get IPv6 working, any additional patches that I should run?. any body can help ? Regards Gadir ___

[expert] I dont want to boot Windows!

2001-08-23 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
I have dual boot on my laptop, and I'd really like to stick to Mandrake 8 Right now, I dual boot when I have to type something in Turkish and print it from our NT-controlled printer. Two things: 1) Character set; I use Star Office on the Linux side, and I can't get Turkish characters. 2) Print

[expert] Galeon - How To Make Flash Work?

2001-08-23 Thread Sevatio
I'm looking for information regarding the installation of Flash player for Galeon. Have any of you the experience or a source for such info? LM8.0 & Galeon-0.11.1-1 TIA, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Wireless LAN-cards (802.11)

2001-08-23 Thread David Christiani (DC)
Hi, I am considering getting a wireless ethernet card, but I haven't heard much talk about this issue under Linux. I already have a toshiba notebook wich is WIFI certified, and now I would like to get a WIFI PCI card for my home server (The server is running Mandrake 8). After a short investiga

RE: [expert] file block size

2001-08-23 Thread Gregor Maier
On 22-Aug-2001 Scott St. John wrote: > Hi everyone- > > We are considering finally putting Mandrake in production to replace some > outdated > FreeBSD servers. We have 70gig raid controlled servers, but seem to have > some > trouble with changing the default file block size. This box will ser

RE: [expert] printer woes

2001-08-23 Thread Gregor Maier
On 22-Aug-2001 Bruce E. Harris wrote: > I have tried everything and can not get my printer to work with MK 8--it did > for a time under 7.2 until I upgraded cups. I never has this printer or my > pervious, Canon BJC 6000 work under MK 8. > > I have a Epson Stylus Photo 870 connected to my para

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.1 beta1 RPM problem

2001-08-23 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Hi Randy, thank you. This is saving me some bandwith at least! I tried this and added some notes to the wiki. BTW: the other dutch mirror - ftp.surfnet.nl - has the same corrupted CD2-image. Lieven Randy Kramer wrote: > > Lieven, > > If you find a noncorrupted CD2 image, you might be able to