Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-30 Thread Skippipix
ok, i'm late on this thread kill me. =) but as was said by others, i think it has a lot to do with hardware. i have 2 boxes. my main box, P2 250MHz, 188M RAM compaq piece of crap. running MKD 7.2 my "beta box" which i experiement on. SCSI CD burner which reads, but doesn't burn (it's

Re: [expert] Anyone else seeing these crashes...?

2001-11-30 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Friday 30 November 2001 17:21, you wrote: > Well, I can now confirm that KDE/X crashes on more than one system... > just experienced yet another crash just as I do a left mouse click. This > has happened 5.-6 times on my main desktop and once on a remote system > that I use when away from home

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-30 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:08:32 -0700 Lee Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 05:53 PM 11/29/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: > > >Its not noticably slower then 7.2 on my box here, which is an old piece of > >crap > >Pentium Pro200, 96MB ram... > > Lucky you. I found 8.1 significantly slower than 7.2

Re: [expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-11-30 Thread ltiu
Your mileage varies. Everyone has a story to tell. It's open source and QA is not very good. That's why it bahaves differently for different people with different hardware, different usage needs and different usage patterns. It's usually a mis-configuration. Tracking down what's mis-configured

[expert] Nothing works on KDE!

2001-11-30 Thread emammendes
Hello I am having a funny behaviour with KDe and Gnome. If I click on any icon on desktop, I can see that the programme is running but nothing happens after that. If I want to create a terminal, again nothing happens. All windows simply disappear. On Gnome things are a bit different. I can't

Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-11-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I recommend either SWAT or webmin for setting up your samba *server*. They're both web-based tools. Webmin may be slightly easier, while SWAT is feature-complete. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Robert Boggs wrote: > I got my wife's machine set on tcp/ip, and it isworking fine, however, I c

[expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-11-30 Thread Robert Boggs
I got my wife's machine set on tcp/ip, and it isworking fine, however, I can see her machine and ALL shared drives, but she cannot see mine. I need to get gnomba set up for her to see my hard drives, especially the MP3 drive. This drive is in windows. I have my XP on a raid, so there is no way she

Re: [expert] wu-ftp Updates?

2001-11-30 Thread Kevin
On Friday 30 November 2001 13:00 pm, you wrote: > Greetings all, > >Just walked through a number of Mdk mirrors - none of them seem to have > the wu-ftp ( wu-ftpd-2.6.1-8.7mdk.i586.rpm ) update that was announced > this AM ( Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:090 ). I would have thought that about 8 > ho

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-11-30 Thread C.H. Close
Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 30 November 2001 03:02 pm, Expert wrote: > > Is it possible? > > > > A bud of mine picked up an old > > IBM PC server 500, and unless > > it is not a bios problem, the stupid > > thing keeps asking for a "Ref

[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable-addenda

2001-11-30 Thread William Bouterse
civileme wrote; > What IRQ is it on? Sorry I forgot to add this to the last post. Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

2001-11-30 Thread William Bouterse
Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write: >Could you post the output of 'ifconfig' and 'route -n'? Bill Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you installed/enabled a firewall? Check > /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.conf and the Drak firewall tools . For > me, running tinyfirewall (Drak

[expert] Where to find a model to setup...

2001-11-30 Thread Grouwels Daniel
Title: Message µHi,   I'd like to set up my own domain controller for windows XP.   This can be done with Sambe.   I just need to know how to set up a DNS server (with bind) and how to configure my ports.   Can someone tell me where i can find all the info needed.     Thanxs

[expert] RV: Xwrapper bug in 8.1?

2001-11-30 Thread falcaraz
Has anyone reached Xwrapper run under 8.1? I just have a grey screen with a x (the mouse), but not login :-( Is a bug in the XFree86 4.1? Is a Mandrake 8.1 bug? or I am missing something? Please, help me?; I need to install Mandrake in a Server with several terminal conected and if I don't

Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
On Friday 30 November 2001 12:12 pm, William Bouterse wrote: > This could of course be strickly "bad timing" > However ; > generic ne 200 clone card has worked through LM6.x,7.x's- > 8.0freq now it doesn't..Worked before install of LM8.1 > > card is recognized by install and even autoprobe wor

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 30 November 2001 03:02 pm, Expert wrote: > Is it possible? > > A bud of mine picked up an old > IBM PC server 500, and unless > it is not a bios problem, the stupid > thing keeps asking for a "Reference disc" > I don't know what it wants exa

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
On Friday 30 November 2001 11:45 am, Jason Van Patten wrote: > At Fri Nov 30 15:44:07 2001, Brad Felmey wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:21, Vincent Danen wrote: > > > Not entirely accurate. I'm exporting 20, 40, and 60GB volumes from > > > one 8.2 box to another using reiserfs and NFS. Speed

[expert] wu-ftp Updates?

2001-11-30 Thread David Oberbeck
Greetings all, Just walked through a number of Mdk mirrors - none of them seem to have the wu-ftp ( wu-ftpd-2.6.1-8.7mdk.i586.rpm ) update that was announced this AM ( Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:090 ). I would have thought that about 8 hours would be enough for the mirrors to update... Has an

Re: [expert] ~user websites not working

2001-11-30 Thread Tim Holmes
I think the post you inclued below is still hitting the head on the nail, but first, let's check out a few things. = [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 27520 27519 1308 19629 19628 19627 19310 19309 19308 19307 1074 Apache

RE: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond

2001-11-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Jose, Well, the problem could a daily clock delay, I mean, some programmes use clock time and I want it working precisely. Or that bug doesn't affect the 'date' command? On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > What's important is which clock chip your new motherboard uses. >

[expert] Anyone else seeing these crashes...?

2001-11-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
Well, I can now confirm that KDE/X crashes on more than one system... just experienced yet another crash just as I do a left mouse click. This has happened 5.-6 times on my main desktop and once on a remote system that I use when away from home. Has anyone else seen these left-mouse-click KDE/X

Re: [expert] ~user websites not working

2001-11-30 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web > sites to come up. When you type the URL //domainname.edu/~user I get an > error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I have done this > before and the only thin

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-11-30 Thread Larry Sword
Randy Donohoe wrote: > > My fstab floppy entry is set to auto, shouldn't that take care of it? > Thanks, > Randy Donohoe Even if you set it to auto,vfat or ext2 it will not mount using the floppy icon on the kde desktop. The Only way I have found is to mount as root: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

[expert] Compaq.net and linux

2001-11-30 Thread emammendes
Hello I was wondering whether someone using linux managed to retrieve emails from pop3.compaq.net using kmail or any other email client. I couldn't so any/all help would be most appreciated. Regards Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co

[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

2001-11-30 Thread William Bouterse
This could of course be strickly "bad timing" However ; generic ne 200 clone card has worked through LM6.x,7.x's- 8.0freq now it doesn't..Worked before install of LM8.1 card is recognized by install and even autoprobe works without having to manually configure specs. (this is a "client" mach

[expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-11-30 Thread Expert
Is it possible? A bud of mine picked up an old IBM PC server 500, and unless it is not a bios problem, the stupid thing keeps asking for a "Reference disc" I don't know what it wants exactly, I tried formatting a Linux boot disc for it, but its too stupid to read it I think, or else because the f

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread Jason Van Patten
At Fri Nov 30 15:44:07 2001, Brad Felmey wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:21, Vincent Danen wrote: > > > Not entirely accurate. I'm exporting 20, 40, and 60GB volumes from > > one 8.2 box to another using reiserfs and NFS. Speed is just fine > > with no issues. The same could not be said f

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread Brad Felmey
On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 14:21, Vincent Danen wrote: > Not entirely accurate. I'm exporting 20, 40, and 60GB volumes from > one 8.2 box to another using reiserfs and NFS. Speed is just fine > with no issues. The same could not be said for 8.1, however. I'm nowhere nearly brave/stupid enough to r

Re: [expert] updates

2001-11-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 04:49:30PM +0100, Gniazdowski wrote: > Where can i find that updates: > - new XX-mdk (especialy security fixes for kernels <2.4.10), > - security updates, > - some other important bugfixes ? Pretty much any mirror... take a look at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.hpp3

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 02:25:09AM -0600, Brad Felmey wrote: > > Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... > > > > I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I > > was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a > > lot of way

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-11-30 Thread Randy Donohoe
My fstab floppy entry is set to auto, shouldn't that take care of it? Thanks, Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: Andriamirado Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies > Randy Donohoe

[expert] updates

2001-11-30 Thread Gniazdowski
Hi. Where can i find that updates: - new XX-mdk (especialy security fixes for kernels <2.4.10), - security updates, - some other important bugfixes ? I now that i can use UpdateManager application, butt... it did only find SSH updates (security), and Mozilla (bugfixes)... Well, i think that th

[expert] ~user websites not working

2001-11-30 Thread Aaron Winters
I posted this to the newbie list but only got one reply so I thought i would try here.   Hey yall, I have a clean install of LM 8.1 and I can not get my users web sites to come up. When you type the URL //domainname.edu/~user I get an error telling me I do not have permission to access it. I

Re: [expert] ext2 formatted floppies

2001-11-30 Thread Andriamirado Thierry
Randy Donohoe wrote: > and I both have 8.1 installed on completely different machines. Neither > of us can mount a floppy that has been fully formatted in the KDE > floppy formatter using the ext2 file system. DOS, yes, ext2 , no. Any It is because of your /etc/fstab. Floppy is declared as b

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-30 Thread Andriamirado Thierry
Leif Madsen wrote: > problems just logging onto the internet. I can see the near future being a > combination of OS's with Linux running all the backend/server hardware, and > Windows being placed on all the desktops. I think if Microsoft stripped > down their OS so that it came with ONLY the

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-11-30 Thread Andriamirado Thierry
George Jones (IT) wrote: > The real problem with linux, for me anyways, is that I can't record > music on it. Period. If you are talking about simply recording a wav file via a soundcard, Linux can do it, of course. But it's sure that Linux doesn't have Cubase nor Cakewalk Sonar.YET :-))

Re: [expert] mandrakestore

2001-11-30 Thread Ron Marriage
Hi All, Thought since I started the complaint this time about mandrake store I thought I should fill you in on what has happened. I had tried the [EMAIL PROTECTED] without getting a response. The other day I worked my way through the mandrake site and found a new address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:25 pm, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 23:12, Tom Eastman wrote: > > Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... > > > > I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I > > was too chicken to try XFS even though it

RE: [expert] Strange printing issue...

2001-11-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
'@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL3' This is sent by the Winblows printer driver itself. It's a PCL command to make sure the printer is interpreting PCL instead of postscript. You may be able to disable this by turning off "language switching" settings or setting a "compatibility mode". Of course it

RE: [expert] mandrakestore

2001-11-30 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Same here. So what I've decided is that for every release I donate $20. No big deal, but I give a little back and don't have to wait for the shipment a month after release. -Paul R On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 08:06, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: > I ordered online as well. Trying to support > Ma

[expert] LM8.1 Sound Mixer

2001-11-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
Other than the problem on one system where the sound must be manually re-enabled with "modprobe sound" and "ln -s /dev/sound/dsp /dev/dsp"; that system gives the following Sound Mixer: http://pfortin.com/Linux/mixer1.png http://pfortin.com/Linux/mixer2.png No menu bar, both tabs are invalid; shoul

Re: [expert] Strange printing issue...

2001-11-30 Thread Larry Sword
Theo Brinkman wrote: > > I've finally gotten my printer working through the print server built > into my SMC Barricade 7004ABR Firewall/Router. Everything prints fine, > but there's a couple weird things I can't figure out how to get rid of. > > First, I get a page with nothing but '@PJL ENTER

Re: [expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Florian Struck
Yeah 2.4.6 But he sayd also that it will work together with the module pwc wich is included in my kernel Im gonna try to find it out from him directly but hes working on selfcompiled kernels maybe someone can supply a mandrake patch . Thanx for help Florian On Friday 30 Nov 2001 5:19 pm, Thors

Re: [expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Florian Struck
Yeah 2.4.6 But he sayd also that it will work together with the module pwc wich is included in my kernel Im gonna try to find it out from him directly but hes working on selfcompiled kernels maybe someone can supply a mandrake patch . Thanx for help Florian On Friday 30 Nov 2001 5:19 pm, Thors

Re: [expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Thorsten Gecks
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Florian Struck wrote: > =) > That came to my mind too i did a gzip module.o > and placed it into the dir but after running depmod -a i got unresolved > symbols and after doing a modprobe pwcx.o.gz ... "not found" So obviously the unresolved symbols are your problem. The kerne

RE: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond

2001-11-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What's important is which clock chip your new motherboard uses. Does it say in the manual? I'm curious. BTW: the A7A266 has exactly the same problem (actually worst!) under Winblows. Winblows just doesn't know how to deal with it. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond

2001-11-30 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Friday 30 November 2001 10:12, you wrote: > Hi Tom, Thank you very much. > > I'm quite familiar to some notes that you emphasised. I also well > know how bad are Asus becoming. Soyo-K7V (Dragon+ I think) is my first > option but here it is not easy to find (and I'm not question about >

Re: [expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Florian Struck
=) That came to my mind too i did a gzip module.o and placed it into the dir but after running depmod -a i got unresolved symbols and after doing a modprobe pwcx.o.gz ... "not found" Cheers Florian On Friday 30 Nov 2001 2:12 pm, Thorsten Gecks wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Florian Struck wrote: >

[expert] printing in 8.1 and kde

2001-11-30 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
OK, I have decided devfs isn't for me. I have the nomount option upon boot My question is how do I get printing to work in MDK 8.1 and KDE. Anything I print comes out with a complete black page. I can print with my laptop in Windows (gf likes win better) with no problem. So I assume the driver wou

Re: [expert] contents of /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0

2001-11-30 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Franki wrote: > > > Hi all, > > can anyone with a working dialup connection give me the contents of the file > in the subject? Unless you are allowing non-root users to establish the link, just delete that file and use /etc/ppp/options. I have only one remote user using p

Re: [expert] subscribe expert

2001-11-30 Thread George Abdo
James, you will need to go to the following website to subscribe to any mailing list: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 George On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:09:57 -0500 "James Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subscribe expert > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Thorsten Gecks
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Florian Struck wrote: > The modules in my kernel (in the dir called > /lib/modules/2.4.13-11mdk/kernel/drivers/usb ) are all .o.gz files and > copying it there didnt work. so then perhaps you need to gzip your module, too. How did you try to load the module ? Want to buy y

[expert] subscribe expert

2001-11-30 Thread James Brady
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RE: [expert] CMAP - No fix?

2001-11-30 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi, You can put another version of glibc in another directory and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include it in the script that starts cmap. see 'man ld.so' for more details. Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oscar Sent: Friday, N

Re: [expert] CMAP - No fix?

2001-11-30 Thread Oscar
Thanks for your answers, Defvs is not the problem. I have disabled it but the problem is still here. On the other hand, the requisites of the software includes glibc 2.1 Under MandrakeLinux we are using glibc 2.2.4 I don't know if it can be a problem. And if it's a problem, what can I do? can I h

[expert] Kernel question

2001-11-30 Thread Florian Struck
Howdy i have a little (maybe stupid question) =) Have a look at this : "Installation of this module is very simple; copy the pwcx-i386.o module to /lib/modules/usb/pwcx.o, and run 'depmod -a' once. After this, it should be possible to load the module on ANY kernel where the pwc.o module has be

Re: [expert] A7V266, A7A266 and A7M266 + Winbond

2001-11-30 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Tom, Thank you very much. I'm quite familiar to some notes that you emphasised. I also well know how bad are Asus becoming. Soyo-K7V (Dragon+ I think) is my first option but here it is not easy to find (and I'm not question about price!). Another option is MSI KT266A mobo. However

[expert] DNS and normal user problem with runsocks/ssh in mdk8.1

2001-11-30 Thread J Grant
Hello I have 2 problems with my socks setup: I installed runsocks-1.0r11-3.i386.rpm sucessfully i thought. I am using mandrake linux 8.1 1. I have to be root to use runsocks ssh -l me or I get the following error $ runsocks ssh -l myuser myhost.com ssh: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs

2001-11-30 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:33:34 + g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello to all; > > this does not apply to all that receive this, but it does give all > something to think about. > > > ok, you html nuts, > > i am not flaming you, but i am going to blast you, not just you, but > all in general

[expert] contents of /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0

2001-11-30 Thread Franki
Hi all, can anyone with a working dialup connection give me the contents of the file in the subject? I have been trying to get it sussed and using one of the tools, (either linuxconf or mandrake control center) has put some stuff about wvdial in there. when I had chat -v -f ... in there it wa

Re: [expert] Running Abiword without being root

2001-11-30 Thread pesarif
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 23:32, George Abdo wrote: > Where is the AbiWord binary located? /usr/bin/abiword > > on mine (RH7.2) it is in /usr/bin. You say that this error does not appear > when you launch AbiWord when logged on as root. Do the following test: > Create a "dummy" account. > Logon as that

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread Brad Felmey
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 23:12, Tom Eastman wrote: > Mandrake 8.1 has been out for a while now.. and I'm curious... > > I've used ReiserFS for about a year and loved it, when 8.1 came out I > was too chicken to try XFS even though it looked like it was better in a > lot of ways. > > Can anyone tel