Re: [expert-it] Re:MDK 8 muto

2001-08-31 Thread Andrea Celli
Dr. Roberto Salvini wrote: Qualcuno si e' trovato con il Mandrake 8 muto? Come ha fatto a risolvere il bug? L'ho istallato su due conputer totalmente diversi ed e' sempre muto Perche' Prova a disattivare nel BIOS una voce relativa a sist. op. che supportano pnp o qualcosa di simile. Non

[expert-it] Boot MBR!!!

2001-08-31 Thread Giuseppe Distefano
Salve avrei il seguente problema: si e' smagnetizzato il dischetto di Boot, e quindi non riesco piu' ad riavviare Linux. Hda = Win98 Hdb = LinuxMandrake 7.1 Come posso far ripartire il mio Linux? Non ho neanche il disco di riavvio!! Ho delle altre macchine Linux che funzionano correttamente

Re: [expert] When memory usage begins to grow...

2001-08-31 Thread Thorsten Gecks
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Oscar wrote: On my MDK 8.0 the kernel 2.4.3 handles this problem. I wrote a small C-program that eats memory in a forever-loop. After 2 seconds the box was nearly unusable,but after one minute of no reaction the process was terminated and everything worked fine except to the

Re: [expert] very slow nfs mount ( 4min)

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 August 2001 10:08, Stefan Nantz wrote: Hello All, I just installed Mandrake 8. When I try to mount a nfs share from a solaris 2.7 box the mount takes a very long time (more than 4min). When I try to mount the same nfs mount in Konqueror its takes less than a second.

Re: [expert] Upgradeing KDE to 2.2 problems

2001-08-31 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi Leo, Thank for the advice - I am having a go at upgradine 8.0 to the latest KDE, but to be honest I expect the same sort of problems. Time will tell. 8.1 is not logn now anyway, just wanted to get a head start is all. Thanks again for the help lhon wrote: Dear Stephen, I suggest you

[expert] GoBack-like program for LM??

2001-08-31 Thread D. R. Evans
On 30 Aug 01, at 22:31, Mitch Thompson wrote: Well, I've shot myself in the foot with CUPS, again. I had it working, then I upgraded to 1.1.10, and now it doesn't even print if I downgrade back to 1.1.9. This sort of thing always makes me long for a program that does the same thing under

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:03:24 -0400 Alan N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't your hostname be something like cx##-a or something? ( # being a number ) I tried that at John T's suggetsion and it didn't work. Any other ideas? Guy

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
This looks like it might help. Although I think I did try that. My assigned machine name is cr6686-a. So should I put that ahead of the pr1 that I have now? I'll try that and let you know what happens. Thanks. Well John T, I tried that and it didn't work. So I put in to get static

Re: [expert] The UMAX Astra 600s vs the Adaptec 2906

2001-08-31 Thread Phlip
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 15:04, you wrote: Experts: Mandrake 7.2, via g_NCR5380, liked the el-cheapo SCSI card that came with my UMAX. Mandrake 8.0 kacked at boot time (before the rc scripts) if the UMAX were turned on. If I turned it off at boot time on later, nothing would ever work.

[expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
Hi Anthony, Following your instructions, I went into /etc and looked at the files you suggested (modules and modules.conf). Here's what I got from that: This is all there is in the file modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of

Re: [expert] When memory usage begins to grow...

2001-08-31 Thread Oscar
Thanks, Now I know: I must wait at least one minute before using the reset button :-) Salu2 óscar. El Vie 31 Ago 2001 10:17, escribiste: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Oscar wrote: On my MDK 8.0 the kernel 2.4.3 handles this problem. I wrote a small C-program that eats memory in a forever-loop.

[expert] urpmi question

2001-08-31 Thread David Boles
urpmi will not download a list of mirror websites for security and update files. What should I be looking for to correct this? -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Linux and DVI (Digital Video Interface)

2001-08-31 Thread Dean S. Messing
Does anyone know whether Linux (or, more properly, X) has drivers to drive DVI (Digital Video Interface) cards? We need to hook up a number of LCD monitors, one at a time, to a PC running Mdk 7.2 (could upgrade to 8.0) via a DVI adaptor for some perceptual experiments in the lab. The problem

Re: [expert] urpmi question

2001-08-31 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
You can add these manually: urpmi nameofsource ftp://host.com/pub/path/to/Mandrake/Updates/8.0/i586 \ with ../hdlist.cz (Command is all on one line) I usually don't mess with the software manager myself, but Im alittle command line anyway. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread David Rankin
Guy R Gauthier wrote: This looks like it might help. Although I think I did try that. My assigned machine name is cr6686-a. So should I put that ahead of the pr1 that I have now? I'll try that and let you know what happens. Thanks. Well John T, I tried that and it didn't work. So I

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Anthony Moulen
I think you missed a part of my message which was to also include the information from lsmod. This is important to know what is actually being loaded into your kernel. I would say that the output of dmesg is also helpful but at this point it is probably a little overkill. However, if you could

[expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
Hey all, Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did Mandrake find and configure it for you? I have one of those cards sitting on my desk right now, and I would like to make use of it in my Linux

[expert] Configuring Konsole

2001-08-31 Thread Daniel Axtell
Hello, I'd like to turn off the annoying bell sound in the KDE terminal when an error occurs. I don't seem to be able to do through the Settings option. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
You guys won't believe this. After trying to get the cable modem going for about two weeks, I decided to re-install LM8.0 and take notes of what was happening when it loaded the ethernet card. Well, nothing unusual happened when I was installing. After it installed, I set up the sound card and

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:44:30 -0400 (EDT) Anthony Moulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you missed a part of my message which was to also include the information from lsmod. This is important to know what is actually being loaded into your kernel. I would say that the output of dmesg

Re: [expert] os_allcommerce dependency problem

2001-08-31 Thread cb
On Thu 30 Aug at 03:01:18 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Cecil Watson wrote: Digital Wokan wrote: Crap, I didn't realize this was a contrib before submitting it. Here I was thinking MandrakeSoft was offering a pre-made e-commerce package to appeal to the small/medium

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
Hey all, Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did Mandrake find and configure it for you? I have one of those cards sitting on my desk right now, and I would like to make use of it in

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread Larry Sword
lyric wrote: Hey all, Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did Mandrake find and configure it for you? Last week I was researching soundcard support to make recommendation for a new

Re: [expert] Configuring Konsole

2001-08-31 Thread Larry Sword
Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I'd like to turn off the annoying bell sound in the KDE terminal when an error occurs. I don't seem to be able to do through the Settings option. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan kcontrol -LookNFeel -System Notification -- make changes as you desire.

Re: [expert] Configuring Konsole

2001-08-31 Thread Larry Sword
Larry Sword wrote: Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I'd like to turn off the annoying bell sound in the KDE terminal when an error occurs. I don't seem to be able to do through the Settings option. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan kcontrol -LookNFeel -System Notification -- make changes

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
Thanks Guy, the help is appreciated. Cheers, Lyric Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did Mandrake find and configure it for you? I have one of those cards sitting on my desk

[expert] What do these security check log entries mean?

2001-08-31 Thread David Rankin
Help, I have an idle curiosity to satisfy, Reviewing my security check logs ( for the first time in about a month ) I found the following 3 lines as the last lines in the log file: raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7 685/dhcpd raw0 0 *:icmp

[expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta2-CD2.i586.iso? Do you think this iso will work anyway? Thanks, drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- Want to

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 31 August 2001 10:02 am, you wrote: This looks like it might help. Although I think I did try that. My assigned machine name is cr6686-a. So should I put that ahead of the pr1 that I have now? I'll try that and let you know what happens. Thanks. Well John T, I tried that and

Re: [expert] SU File size limit exceeded

2001-08-31 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:43, you wrote: Everytime I try to su in a terminal-window I get the following: File size limit exceeded now this only happens in X, on the console it is no problem. What did I do wrong? (It used to work, but I can't find what I changed), If it is a rtfm,

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread Darin
Lyric, I have an Aureal SQ2500, which uses the 8830 chipset.. This is by far the best sound card out there.. It beats the SB Live hands down.. The drivers for it can be obtained here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal You will want to get the 1.1.2 drivers, and patch number 407654. The

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 31 August 2001 11:59 am, you wrote: Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta2-CD2.i586.iso? Do you think this iso will work anyway? Thanks, drjung nop I don't think

[expert] Cmi 8330 soundcard

2001-08-31 Thread MandrakeLists
Does anyone know how to enable cd audio on this card. cd audio worked on 2.0.x kernels but since 2.2 it stoped I read somewhere that there is a patch but all links are dead. I'm runing Mandrake 8.0 and sound works with sb module even midi is functional but cd audio is gone. btw sound card is

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 31 August 2001 05:38 pm, you wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 10:02 am, you wrote: Does that mean anything to you? Guy GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 11:59 am, you wrote: Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the MandrakeLinux-8.1-Raklet-beta2-CD2.i586.iso? Do you think this iso will work anyway?

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
PS: Keep a backup copy of your corrupt file. Under certain circumstances, rsync can wipe it out before completing the update, in which case you must redownload the file if you haven't saved an extra backup. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: J. C. Woods wrote: Wow, are you saying that I

[expert] X growing ever larger

2001-08-31 Thread Bill
Since upgrading to Xfree86 v4.1.0, top is showing X memory usage increasing by about 25MB per hour! After seven hours today it is at 172MB! After I restart the X server top shows /etc/X11/X size at 17K, but it starts growing again. The system is using the ATI driver. I've read the

Re: [expert] GoBack-like program for LM??

2001-08-31 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 August 2001 10:53, D. R. Evans wrote: On 30 Aug 01, at 22:31, Mitch Thompson wrote: Well, I've shot myself in the foot with CUPS, again. I had it working, then I upgraded to 1.1.10, and now it doesn't even print if I downgrade back to 1.1.9. This sort of thing always makes

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 August 2001 03:06 pm, lyric escribió: Does anyone have the above soundcard working under Mandrake 8.0? If so, did you have to install any special drivers to make it work, or did Mandrake find and configure it for you? I have one of those cards sitting on my desk right now, and

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread Randy Kramer
J. C. Woods wrote: Wow, are you saying that I could download the same iso, and get a different md5sum number from it? I have not worked with rsync. I took a look at the man. Sergio, do you know of some better documentation for rsync? It's not there yet, but I'm hoping that someday this will

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread J. C. Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: J. C. Woods wrote: Wow, are you saying that I could download the same iso, and get a different md5sum number from it? I have not worked with rsync. I took a look at the man. Sergio, do you know of some better documentation for rsync? It's not there yet, but I'm

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2001-08-31 Thread Guy R Gauthier
If gooey config still doesn't work, look in /etc/sysconfig/network. It should have the line GATEWAYDEV=eth0. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 will also be useful. And /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start is vital!!! I'm sure I'm forgetting a file or 2. My eth0 and Cox@Home have been

Re: [expert] Configuring Konsole

2001-08-31 Thread David E. Fox
I'd like to turn off the annoying bell sound in the KDE terminal when an error occurs. I don't seem to be able to do through the Settings option. Any ideas? I think that is an X thing rather than specific to konsole. You might try 'xset b off' first, but that will turn the bell off for all

Re: [expert] md5sum mis-match

2001-08-31 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Friday 31 August 2001 01:57 pm, you wrote: Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Friday 31 August 2001 11:59 am, you wrote: Mandrake, Any reason why the md5sum output numbers do not match the listed numbers, given in the md5sums.raklet for the

Re: [expert] When memory usage begins to grow...

2001-08-31 Thread David E. Fox
Now I know: I must wait at least one minute before using the reset button :-) Yes - the box may not be hung, it may just be very busy trying to find memory. I recall an interesting 'horror' story several years ago that a friend and fellow Linux user related to me. He (at the time) was running

Re: [expert] Aureal AU8830 Superquad

2001-08-31 Thread lyric
Thanks Darin, I feel the same way about these Aureal cards. I haven't had this one for long, but it used to be fantastic under NT4 (I only stopped using it because I changed to a motherboard that had onboard Creative CT5880 sound which was good enough for me on my development machine. Cheers,