Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-03 Thread Hicham A.
Hi, Try: http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.50.tar.bz2 http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.50.zip On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 02:32:03 -0400 (AST) skidley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Nguyen H.Vu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.

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

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hello Vincent Danen wrote: > > What do you mean "recently"? openssh 3.0.2p1 came out today. How > recent would you like things to be? 2.9.9p2 is fairly recent; openssh > was updated after the 8.1 release. Sorry, I was unaware it was that fresh off the mirrors!, but 3.0.1 has been out a while

[expert] Re: LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partition table ?)

2001-12-03 Thread Charles Darcy
Sorry for the indirect reply, but Ashaar's (I think this was the name) post somehow got trashed. Thanks for replying so soon, and making your advice so clear. 'gpart' initially reported ... *** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector (13092975) ... and then found

Re: [expert] Proper Naming Conventions on Mandrake RPMS?

2001-12-03 Thread Theo Brinkman
As I understand it, the RPM name convention for Mandrake is something like this: package-name--mdk..rpm where is the version of the program you're building, is a builder-maintained version so that a rebuild of the same product version can be handled as an upgrade without --force, and proce

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

2001-12-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Dec 03, 2001 at 07:12:18PM +0900, J Grant wrote: > further to the problem I have below I now am unable to uninstall SSH > packages in mdk8.1 > > when ever I search and uninstall it completes fine, i click quit, and > they are still installed, i even rebooted the machine and tried again, >

Re: [expert] Proper Naming Conventions on Mandrake RPMS?

2001-12-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Dec 01, 2001 at 01:18:01PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > I was wondering about the naming conventions of RPM's on MDK. I am working > up a spec file to build Mosfet Liquid into an MDK rpm, but should the release > be a plain "1" or "1mdk"? I notice most Mandrake apps have the mdk a

[expert] Telling rpm that a package is present

2001-12-03 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been building a few packages from source such as evolution and its support. I would like to insert somehow into the rpm database that this has been done - specifically bonob-conf which has been built from source and is available, but rpm does not know about it. Issueing a --nodeps is a bi

Re: [expert] Apache SSL

2001-12-03 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Dec 03, 2001 at 09:20:27AM -0600, Michael Viron wrote: > You should be able to connect as 'https://localhost' and get to the same page. Not necessarily. By default it goes to /var/www/html; if you use a different location for your site, you will need to tweak it. Of course, you will als

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-03 Thread skidley
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Nguyen H.Vu wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is > broken > > Thanks in advance > > Hung.Vu > > > use ./configure --disable-gcc-checking it worked here. Im using LM8.1 -- Chad Young Registered Linux User #195191 @ http://cou

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-03 Thread Nguyen H.Vu
Mark D'voo wrote: >run: >make clean >rm config.cache >./configure --disable-gcc-checking >make >make install (as root) > >On Tuesday 04 December 2001 11:52, you wrote: > There are alot dependencies make me tired. Do you have .src.rpm for MPlayer and dependency rpms like divcodec? Hung.Vu Wa

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 03:20, Mark D'voo wrote: > I understand that many people still need many of the programs of windows. > But harddrives are big enough that there is no reason to dual boot. > Companies should see computers pre-dual-booted. Hell, it doesn't cost them > anything to put linux on

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
run: make clean rm config.cache ./configure --disable-gcc-checking make make install (as root) On Tuesday 04 December 2001 11:52, you wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is > broken > > Thanks in advance > > Hung.Vu -- 11:55pm up 32 min, 2 us

[expert] MPlayer

2001-12-03 Thread Nguyen H.Vu
Hi, Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is broken Thanks in advance Hung.Vu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Installation Fails - panic: top_env

2001-12-03 Thread Felix Miata
Subject message follows the following: segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install crashes. I had just selected something like ATAPI CD from the SCSI select window in a vgalo expert install. I did this because the CD in the system is an AOpen ATAPI CD-RW and on the previous at

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread mycal62
small rant: I too agree with the statement at the end of your post. Mandrake Is great , I on the otherhand have too often been far from great! anyone with half a brain can install Mandrake - ( push button - insert cd - click a few times and Miracles of miracles, it works. Period ! ) I hav

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

2001-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
> =+= > think green... > save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. >send text email.. text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code > =+= > if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america". > =+= aw shit! kill the trees and STILL send text messages cause

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:20:53 +0600 "Mark D'voo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think people say linux is harder because they are scared of it. True, it > is not harder to click on the menu and run a program. it is not hard to > install programs (unless you get into dependency cycles, damn RPMS

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
I think people say linux is harder because they are scared of it. True, it is not harder to click on the menu and run a program. it is not hard to install programs (unless you get into dependency cycles, damn RPMS), it is not hard to navigate. It is the fact that the user has soo much power

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-03 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:36:38 -0500 "Leif Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until Microsoft steals the idea and makes their own, as has been done with > many products. They will then package it with the next OS release, and then > all the windows users will use it, and Linux will no longer hav

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 released

2001-12-03 Thread Angus Beath
The 1.0 release came out today. I am running it on an 8.1 system and have so far been very impressed. I've moved all my mail usage to linux now - finally a decent mail client!! (I still love mutt, but pictures are nice). Given the number of emails with the BadTrans virus, I feel that the 1.0 relea

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0 released

2001-12-03 Thread Mitch Thompson
I've been using 1.0 release candidate (0.99) for 3-4 days now and am quite impressed. V 0.13, which came with 8.1 would crash after just a few minutes. So far, this seems to be pretty solid. Time to get the full release... On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 08:43, Rony Shapiro wrote: > Hi, > > Since there

Re: [expert] Server

2001-12-03 Thread J. Craig Woods
Robert Boggs wrote: > > I finally got it to see my name, but it is still not letting the network see > my files. What am I doing wrong in the SWAT program? If you are expecting to "share" files between Linux and Windows, make sure encription is turned on... -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art i

Re: [expert] LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)

2001-12-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Steps: 0. Read the web site I mention in step 1. 1. Download gpart.linux from http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (Gpart is a partition table guesser. I've had much success with it.) 2. Put gpart.linux on a floppy 3. Boot into Rescue on the LM8.1 CD 4. Copy gpart.linux to /bin

Netscape vs Mozilla (was: RE: [expert] Please I need help)

2001-12-03 Thread Lee Roberts
Isn't mozilla intended to be a development of NS rather than a release? I just wanted to mention than NS 6.2 has much better graphics than NS 4.7x, also. At 08:18 AM 12/4/2001 +0800, Franki wrote: >I have netscape and Mozilla, and I'd have to say I prefer Mozilla, it just >seems somehow better. >

[expert] LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partition table ?)

2001-12-03 Thread Charles Darcy
Hello, I posted the message below on the Mandrake Newbie list, but I thought I might try here also, as the problem is severe and a little advanced (for me anyway). Please help, as I am currently without a working system (unless you count windoze :-). -

Re: [expert] Server

2001-12-03 Thread Robert Boggs
I finally got it to see my name, but it is still not letting the network see my files. What am I doing wrong in the SWAT program? - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [e

RE: [expert] Please I need help

2001-12-03 Thread Franki
I have netscape and Mozilla, and I'd have to say I prefer Mozilla, it just seems somehow better. nothing I can put my finger on, but I really think it is better... :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee Roberts Sent: Tuesday

Re: [expert] kernel-headers on 2.4.13!

2001-12-03 Thread emammendes
Thanks a lot. I'll check that! Ed - Original Message - From: "Nelson Bartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] kernel-headers on 2.4.13! > Check the description on the rpm, but I'm pretty sure they moved them to

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

2001-12-03 Thread Franki
I think that Outlook 2000 (what I am writing this with..) will only send html if the email that you are replying to is html.. I have outlook set to text only on new messages, and txt only on reply.. but outlook still occasionally uses html if you respond to a html email.. its a pain that.. pretty

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-12-03 Thread Lee Roberts
Why bother with mozilla when Netscape 6.2 is out? I've been using NS 6.2 for a week now and it appears to be a stable release (finally). At 12:28 AM 12/3/2001 -0500, Paul Rodríguez wrote: >As convenient as urpmi and rpmdrake can be sometimes, I have had better >experiences just using another brow

Re: [expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card

2001-12-03 Thread Lee Roberts
Have you tried the vendor to see if they have Linux drivers? At 12:51 PM 12/3/2001 +0100, Juan Ignacio García García wrote: >Hello, I have a NE2000 compatible ethernet pcmcia card. >HardDrake does not recognize my card. >With Suse 7.1 this card works OK (with IRQ=3 and IO=0x300-0x31f). >My car

Re: [expert] broken XFree

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
here's what i did, in /etc/X11/XF86Config-r delete the line FontPath "unix/:-1" add: RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" Fon

[expert] Mandrake 8.1 and webcam

2001-12-03 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: Mandrake 8.1 and webcam Hi All, I'm looking at buying a Webcam for my own use under Mandrake 8.1.  What is a good brand that will work reliably. Craig

RE: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-03 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I've mentioned many times that installing EVERYTHING misses about 50% of the RPM's. It seems that this is by design, to force the user to go back in and select what they want. This proved to be so tedious that I ended copying everything to a directory on the hard drive and "find . -iname *.rpm -

Re: [expert] Need help with wxwindows - broken

2001-12-03 Thread Expert
Thanks, but now it says this, what should I do next? [root@kittypuss wxGTK-2.2.7]# make flex ./src/common/lexer.l yacc ./src/common/parser.y make: yacc: Command not found make: *** [parser.c] Error 127 [root@kittypuss wxGTK-2.2.7]# Thanks On Monday 03 December 2001 02:54 pm, you wrote: > try in

[expert] console pim?

2001-12-03 Thread bradw
I'm looking for a pim that i can run from a console. somthing that has the look/feal of pine. anyone have any ideas? -- Brad Wyman bradw at sta-care.com PGP Fingerprint: 8B1E E12F 3982 0D54 E01C DFD3 898B 6CA3 ED6F 3E56 -- Arthur Dent: "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" Ford Prefect: "Yo

Re: [expert] Need help with wxwindows - broken

2001-12-03 Thread Richard Wenninger
try installing flex from the mandrake cds On Monday 03 December 2001 02:46 pm, you wrote: > Either its a bug or they can't programme. > http://www.wxwindows.org > > c++ -c -MMD -D__WXGTK__ -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D_REENTRANT -O2 -I. > -I./include -I./include -I./src/zlib -I./src/png -I./src/jpe

[expert] Need help with wxwindows - broken

2001-12-03 Thread Expert
Either its a bug or they can't programme. http://www.wxwindows.org c++ -c -MMD -D__WXGTK__ -DGTK_NO_CHECK_CASTS -D_REENTRANT -O2 -I. -I./include -I./include -I./src/zlib -I./src/png -I./src/jpeg -I./src/tiff -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R

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

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
George, I've now changed the name of the page to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/OutlookPlainText. I've also added a note about your experience and added your name as a contributor. If you have a problem with either, let me know (or change it yourself, since it is a TWiki). regards, Ra

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

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
George Jones (IT) wrote: > I'm using Outlook 98. > > I haven't tested it when I reply to a message, I hope that doesn't > make a difference. Oops, looks like it does -- this came through as HTML. Maybe you have to do something tricky to make it apply to every email to me (or the list -- maybe y

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

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Pierre Fortin wrote: > Randy Kramer wrote: > >* X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 (and I'm fairly sure you're not using > > Mozilla) > > He's not... that's from your system... for other headers that get added by the > recipient machine, try fetching messages without deleting them from the server; > loo

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-12-03 Thread Ken Hawkins
I am the guilty party who started this thread, and I wish to apologise to all readers for my rant. It does seem to have elicited some similar feelings from other subscribers though. My attitude when sending that original message was the result of a 14 hr day spent: Upgrading to 8.1, blowing off 8.

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

2001-12-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
Randy Kramer wrote: >* X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 (and I'm fairly sure you're not using > Mozilla) He's not... that's from your system... for other headers that get added by the recipient machine, try fetching messages without deleting them from the server; look at the /var/spool/mail/ contents

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

2001-12-03 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs I'm using Outlook 98. I haven't tested it when I reply to a message, I hope that doesn't make a difference. -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:54 PM To: [EMAI

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

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
George, Yes, the message is plain text. Please confirm that your email client is Outlook 97 (or Outlook rather than Outlook Express) -- I will then change the name of the page appropriately, probably to: * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Outlook97PlainText (Aside: I couldn't tell th

RE: [expert] Getting an ISA SCSI card working

2001-12-03 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
Don't know if this will help any for you. I have an ISA DTC SCSI card as well. I ended up loading it from rc.local by: modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x240 ncr_irq=255 dtc_3181e=1 And it works fine for my scanner. The irq=255 is not a typo, by setting it to 255 lets it grab the first free irq, if I

[expert] Getting an ISA SCSI card working

2001-12-03 Thread George Jones (IT)
I've been trying to get my DTC 3520A ISA SCSI adapter working with 8.1. It doesn't get detected by the installer so I cannot get mandrake installed on the SCSI drive I have attached to it. It's supposed to be Adaptec 151x/2x compatible, but even when I select that from the menu, I still can't get

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

2001-12-03 Thread George Jones (IT)
Sweet!!! This email should be in plain text now. -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs I don't use Outlook, but I once tried to help som

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-12-03 Thread Søren Neigaard
Just did that, and it installed just fine in "/usr/local/mozilla". How do I now install Galeon? If I try the rpm, it complains that Mozilla must be installed first, but it is!??? /Søren On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 19:31, Charlie Bebber wrote: > > Just go to mozilla.org, pull down the installer > (moz

[expert] Switching SCSI controller

2001-12-03 Thread Jim Dawson
I need to swap SCSI controllers on my Mandrake 8.1 box. Fortunately the only device currently on the existing controller is a tape drive. The hard drives are all IDE. What do I need to do to get the new SCSI controller configured (a Mylex BT-950) and to have the tape drive accessed using its or

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

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
I don't use Outlook, but I once tried to help somebody shut off HTML sending and think I accomplished it (for Outlook 97). Try checking out this page: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/OutlookExpressPlainText Note a few things: * Even though the URL refers to Outlook Express, I am fai

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

2001-12-03 Thread Mike Leone
No, that won't help. I don't use Word as my email editor - no sane person does :-) - and my Outlook still likes to send in HTML. Outlook Express seems to obey the "plain text only" wishes of it's users, tho. - Original Message - From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-12-03 Thread Charlie Bebber
Just go to mozilla.org, pull down the installer (mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.6-installer.tar.gz) and install via that method. You'll be up and running lickity split. -Charlie Søren Neigaard said: > Well... I just tried the latest rpm from mozilla.org, which gave me the > following e

Re: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relativeto other things)

2001-12-03 Thread Edward Muller
I have a 3ware card (7810) with three drives and performance seems (I haven't started hard testing yet) seems to be == to a standard HD ... Note: I'm using RAID5 across the three drives. What model 3ware card do you have? I'll try to remember to let you know how things go once I start testing..

[expert] broken XFree

2001-12-03 Thread Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro
Hi! I did it... :-( I was using the LM Corporate Server 1.0. I had a problem sometime ago and I couldn't start the x-server (the famous Unix font path=-1). So I thought that upgrading from LMCS 1.0 to LM Pro Suite 8.1 the install would fix this problem (besides some usefull upgrades, like RPM4,

Re: [expert] Please I need help

2001-12-03 Thread Søren Neigaard
Well... I just tried the latest rpm from mozilla.org, which gave me the following error message: file /usr/lib/libnspr4.so from install of mozilla-0.9.6-0 conflicts with file from package libnspr4-4.1-6mdk file /usr/lib/libplc4.so from install of mozilla-0.9.6-0 conflicts with file from package l

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

2001-12-03 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs Nononono... When I send plain text to whomever (mailing lists included), our exchange servers are set to convert outgoing mail to html or rich text (I can't figure out which it's doing). Our data security guys are pretty much on top

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

2001-12-03 Thread Brian
There's an option to use or not use Word as your default editor for E-Mail in Outlook. It's in various locations depending on the version you have at work. Try turning that off and maybe it'll stop doing HTML. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:35:04 -0500 "George Jones (IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G

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

2001-12-03 Thread George Jones (IT)
Title: RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs Some of us (yes, me!) have no choice, it seems. I'm forced to use Outlook here at Borders corporate offices. Even when set to plain text, it looks like the Exchange servers are set to convert to either rich text or to html. At home,

Re: [expert] kernel-headers on 2.4.13!

2001-12-03 Thread Nelson Bartley
Check the description on the rpm, but I'm pretty sure they moved them to glibc a few upgrades ago. Nelson - Original Message - From: "emammendes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 9:19 AM Subject: [expert] kernel-headers on 2.4.13! > Hello > > I

Re: [expert] Apache SSL

2001-12-03 Thread Michael Viron
You should be able to connect as 'https://localhost' and get to the same page. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 09:26 AM 12/03/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >I have the mod_ssl installed for a

[expert] Evolution 1.0 released

2001-12-03 Thread Rony Shapiro
Hi, Since there was some interest in Ximian Evolution in this mailing, I think the official announcement of 1.0 is relevant. The press release (http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/evolution1_0.htm l) list Mandrake 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 as "supported" distributions. Anyone

[expert] Apache SSL

2001-12-03 Thread lord icon
I have the mod_ssl installed for apache, but have no idea on how to ustilize it within a website. I have a site running that uses a php script and a mysql database that contains the login information, and was wanting to use ssl to make the transactions more secure. Anyone have any ideas?

RE: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-03 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Better said, our bias is showing... Though I believe it's well placed. Linux is about the only area in the computer industry where the "thrill" is still around, which drew me into computers, way back before the dawn of time... Microsoft seems to suck the life out of everything, although maybe I

Re: [expert] xcdroast question

2001-12-03 Thread emammendes
Hello I don't know if xcdroast version you are running but the one I have (I think is alpha9) comes with some options. That is, when you click on the directory you want to burn three options pop out on the screen. Redirect is the one you want. You would have to type the name you want. For ins

RE: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-03 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Civilme went into this at great length recently. I'd refer you to his comments about IDE RAID (or rather the lack of any REAL IDE raid unless you use one of two specific hardware devices to accomplish this.) The Promise IDE Raid is an attempt to hoodwink the user... But lest you flame me... Tr

[expert] kernel-headers on 2.4.13!

2001-12-03 Thread emammendes
Hello I have downloaded and rebuilt kernel-2.4.13mdk-12.src.rpm (Just to ehck if Mandrake has fixed the problem with ps2 mouse - 2.4.14 from kernel.org works fine - 2.4.8mdk has a problem). I've noticed that there is no kernel-headers on the rpms. Has Mandrake changed anything? Or kernel-head

[expert] lib5 on LM 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread emammendes
Hello I need to run old version of Matlab and maple on my PC LM 8.1. I managed to get almost everything working but there is a problem with compiling mex functions: gcc-lib5 won't install! The funny thing is that I had no problem to "rpm" the file on LM 8.0. Here is the error: rpm -Uvh --fo

Re: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-03 Thread jason-snyder
Well does anyone have input on hardware based IDE raid cards under Linux then? I already mentioned that the performance that I get out of my 3ware controller isn't all that and I mentioned this along side with my Samba comment that you all responded to that this was with the same machine using th

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

2001-12-03 Thread Pierre Fortin
Joerg Mertin wrote: > > Pierre Fortin 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 aw

RE: [expert] Nvidia+Mandrake 8.1+dual cpu:s = solved!

2001-12-03 Thread Gunther Erik
The sulotion is called Nvidia 1.0-2313 (kernel and GLX). I just downloaded the src kernel-driver and kompiled and installed it works fine! I didn't even needed to applay any changes like malloc rename and devfs. -- /EgU - now I only have to figure out why kde whont start... * Erik (Eg

[expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card

2001-12-03 Thread Juan Ignacio García García
Hello, I have a NE2000 compatible ethernet pcmcia card. HardDrake does not recognize my card. With Suse 7.1 this card works OK (with IRQ=3 and IO=0x300-0x31f). My card is an Arowana Pcmcia Ethernet LAN Card 10M. Does anyone know what can I do to configure my card? Thanks in advance. J. Ignac

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

2001-12-03 Thread Joerg Mertin
Pierre Fortin 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. > > Has anyone else

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

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
hello, the png did not come out on netscape for some reason, it looks fine in GIMP, but the only words that are unreadable are the openssh, openssh-clients and openssh-server under the highlighted one. I managed to uninstall the various openssh* and the depenencys such as drakesync ok, but i had

[expert] xcdroast question

2001-12-03 Thread Darren King
when I burn a data disc under xcdroast, I go to "master tracks" and choose the files and directories I want. it then masters to an image file which I burn to disc. The problem is that if I put directories in the image, it copies all the files to the disc but they are no longer in the directory s

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

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hi, further to the problem I have below I now am unable to uninstall SSH packages in mdk8.1 when ever I search and uninstall it completes fine, i click quit, and they are still installed, i even rebooted the machine and tried again, windows style! If you are wondering why I am uninstalling SSH

Re: [expert] Server

2001-12-03 Thread Oscar
Dave Sherman wrote: >On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 09:55, Robert Boggs wrote: > >>Could someone tell me how to make MY files accessable to my network. I have >>samba working, in that I can mount any ot the other computers drives, >>however they still cannot see my drives. HILP, Please. I want to use 'Dra

[expert] Trouble with mdk8.1 and yamaha OPL3SA

2001-12-03 Thread Patrick Motylinski
Hello there, I have recently installed Mandrake 8.1 on a PII-350. My problem is that i cannot make my soundcard (Yamaha OPL3SAX chipset) work. sndconfig tells it has trouble opening /dev/audio and xmms that it has problems finding /dev/dsp. Harddrake does not help either. Hw should I correct this

[expert] Sound on an IBM Thinkpad 600E

2001-12-03 Thread Arnold Troeger
I am now the proud owner of a used IBM Thinkpad 600E. Last week I set aside two hours to install Linux Mandrake 8.1 on it. Incredible! The install went as well as I could wish for. Networking is working, X-Windows is working, and apart from a bug I discovered in MandrakeUpdate (more on that in

Re: [expert]3ware and Samba performance stinks under 8.1 (relative to other things)

2001-12-03 Thread J. Craig Woods
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > I get a vicarious thrill out of the fact that it beats Win2K and WinXP > hands down in testing... Yuk, yuk, yuk... > > -JMS You see, Jose, that is just the kind of guy you are: a REAL Linux guru! -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-