Re: [expert] Video card help urgent pls,

2002-01-12 Thread Steve Kieu
My suggestion is to install 8.1, set it to not boot into X, then Yeah, for some reason, the install program hang when it run the XFree Test, I have to re-install it, and this time not test; then login . I got the newest driver from the author of the driver and replave it in

Re: [expert] CUPS printer drivers

2002-01-12 Thread Curtis H
Also check out www.linuxprinting.org It's kept quite up to date and will give you details on different drivers that work with different printers. /curtis -- --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.13-12mdk uptime: 1 day 7 hours 0 minutes. --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.13-12mdk

Re: [expert] Help urgent

2002-01-12 Thread nds
richard wrote: On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:29 pm, you wrote: just noticed two people put out mail with the same subject, also similar ??? On Thursday 10 January 2002 8:50 pm, you wrote: what version of mandrake are you using? did you install rpms from cooker? some of the rpms were

Re: [expert] Setting up a home network

2002-01-12 Thread nds
Ken Hawkins wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7239-1008635602-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I know

Re: [expert] Help urgent

2002-01-12 Thread richard
HI Altoine Yup it would be nice to get assistance now and again, I've had to completly reinstall, which means getting evolution but up to ver 1.0, and reconfiguring the ipip tunnels.. bg richard Sat, 2002-01-12 at 09:11, nds wrote: richard wrote: On Thursday 10 January 2002 11:29 pm, you

Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error

2002-01-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
upgrade to the cooker rpm stuff. It fixed much of the probs for me. Note that mixing cooker and 8.1 can lead to big problems in some areas (libpng for one!) as well as rpm hell! BillK On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message.

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Firewall install - smoothwall

2002-01-12 Thread Tobias Marx
btw, what about mandrake snf (single network firewall)? it's based on mandrake 7.2 (ala kernel 2.2.19) and should support every hardware the standard mdk 7.2 supports. on a first glance it seems as if it supports the same features as smoothwall, too. you'll find it here:

Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error

2002-01-12 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 02:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All I'm trying to rebuild abiword-0.9.5 from Cooker, on 8.1. I have satisfied all dependencies, and start the rebuild. It however, errors with this message: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.26340: fg: no job control error: Bad exit

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 17 December 2001 09:54 am, Larry Sword wrote: Tobias Marx wrote: imho mplayer can play wma files, too (besides divx, mpeg, avi and mostly everything you throw at it). you can get rpms for mandrake 8.1 here: http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ get all the mplayer and

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
I thought that xine supported wmf as well. At least that is what they say at their homepage. http://xine.sourceforge.net/ mandrake has xine packages for the latest version (0.9.7), that can be found at http://rpmfind.net BTW. Is rpmnet slower these days ?? Downloads are not thta smooth

Re: [expert] header filtering with Postfix

2002-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Mark, BTW, I'm leaving everything in this msg so you can see what your mailer is adding... The answer is at http://www.postfix.org/uce.html as indicated in the original msg. Pierre On Monday, 17 Dec 2001 18:34:44 +, Mark wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If

[expert] X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.67 beta 1a)

2002-01-12 Thread Pierre Fortin
Is it just me or is there a sudden increase in people using X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.67 beta 1a)...? This s/w is adding all sorts of useless trash to those messages... can we get back to just the facts (a.k.a. just the *message*)..??? Please! Pierre Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Firewall for larger network?

2002-01-12 Thread Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 09:21, Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 21:08, Michael Seymour wrote: snip I can't speak for Mandrake SNF, but the sysadmins at my local ISP have told me that SmoothWall (www.smoothwall.org) is very powerful and flexible. Hey, before you check out

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:39 am, Marc wrote: I thought that xine supported wmf as well. At least that is what they say at their homepage. http://xine.sourceforge.net/ mandrake has xine packages for the latest version (0.9.7), that can be found at http://rpmfind.net PLF also has

[expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Mark D'voo
I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and linux. It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read anything else. I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is, is there anyway to mount this drive (/dev/hdd1) on boot with permissions so

Re: [expert] How to get to command line from kdm?

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Ken Thompson wrote: Randy, FWIW I've had Easy CD creator burn faulty CD's several times in the past. I've since taken to using Gcombust in Linux and for the most part have trouble free burn sessions. Make sure to uncheck the Pad option and if you want a bootable CD check the bootable option.

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread tal amir
how about giving your user root permitions ? that way you will be the only one that can make changes to that partition, and it will be safe from other users.. (they will have (ro) ) I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and linux. It's formated using fat

Re: [expert] X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.67 beta 1a)

2002-01-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Pierre Fortin« am 2002-01-12 um 09:54:36 -0500 : Is it just me or is there a sudden increase in people using X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.67 beta 1a)...? Yes, it appears like this mailer resends old messages. I think so, because also a message by me made it to the list with

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Robert
here is a copy of my /etc/fstab file /dev/hde1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hde6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Mark D'voo
i want all my users to be able to write to the drive, without it being a huge security risk mark On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:38 am, you wrote: how about giving your user root permitions ? that way you will be the only one that can make changes to that partition, and it will be safe from

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Robert
As I said in my last mail I am no expert but a quick look through the man page for mount mention of /etc/mtab came up again heres mine /dev/hde1 / ext2 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hde6 /home ext2 rw

Re: [expert] CPU temperature monitoring

2002-01-12 Thread dfox
Lee Roberts wrote: lm_sensors is IN the kernel. All you need is lm_utils. No wonder I couldn't find it (grin)! I had compiled sensors some time back when I was using a 7.2 distri- bution, but with 8.1 I just installed lm_utils off the CD and removed the old sensors package, whcih of course

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
Marc, are you sayin currnet xine will play .wma and .mov files? Tho I haven't tried it in a few weeks, it wouldn't then. I really only care about .mov's. I've been using wine to play them, sort'a kludgy. Why don you just download quicktime for linux if all you need is .mov

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 23:11, Mark D'voo wrote: I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and linux. It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read anything else. I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is, is there anyway to mount

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Kramer
mark wrote: I have an extra ide harddrive which needs to be shared between windows and linux. It's formated using fat cause windows blows and won't read anything else. I can read from this drive just fine, but my question is, is there anyway to mount this drive (/dev/hdd1) on boot with

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2002-01-12 Thread Marc
I believe Xmovie also supports quicktime. Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 12:28, Randy Kramer wrote: I can't give you the precise details, but in the fstab (and / or mstab) table (/etc), I think you want to add users to the line for this drive. I bet if you look at the mstab or fstab table you will see other drives with this setting. Just so

[expert] [Postfix] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (help)

2002-01-12 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I need some help on Postfix config! I get some msg back with the following error msgs. - -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Firewall install - smoothwall

2002-01-12 Thread David Stevenson
On 12 Jan 2002 12:24:41 +0100 Tobias Marx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking about that, but I am put off by the 32mb or ram min quoted on the MDK site. The laptop only has 8mb. I have succesfully loaded mdk 6 and 8 on the laptop, although I did not install any WM's or X as I thought it

Re: [expert] [Postfix] Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (help)

2002-01-12 Thread Noah Swint
If you have Webmin go into servers - postfix - general options In the other general options section is Send outgoing mail via host *directly or *by some other means you need to fill in your isp's smtp server there or if not look in the /etc/postfix/main.cf for relayhosts and add the smtp

Re: [expert] CPU temperature monitoring

2002-01-12 Thread Lee Roberts
At 10:25 AM 1/12/2002 -0800, dfox wrote: Lee Roberts wrote: lm_sensors is IN the kernel. All you need is lm_utils. lm_utils won't install on my machine. make works but make install gives errors. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Roll your own site certificate?

2002-01-12 Thread David Guntner
I know that the OpenSSL package has a way to let you generate a site certificate that you can use with Apache, but I'm not quite sure what the program is called or how to use it. Does anyone know what the steps are to create a site certificate for your machine is? --Dave --

[expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I've been digging at this for a while. There is a way to add icons to the desktop in Gnome, for starting applications. I'm part way there, but stuck. If I add a deffinition file in ~/.gnome-desktop, I can get the icon on the desk, and even start the appication, but I always get errors (the exact

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Your right, its a mystery on what is a nice way to do this. I usually edit an existing entry and save it under a new name. If you change an entry, you need to delete the original and copy the changed entry to the directory before the changes are noted (or exit/relogin gnome!). You can set the

Re: [expert] fat drive writable?

2002-01-12 Thread James Sparenberg
Mark, If got my comp doing what you describe. I got it to do this at install. However this line is the line in my fstab that mounts at boot. All users can write to this drive. (since good ol winders doesn't know from permissions) /dev/hdd1 /mnt/data vfat

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 18:07, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I've been digging at this for a while. There is a way to add icons to the desktop in Gnome, for starting applications. I'm part way there, but stuck. If I add a deffinition file in ~/.gnome-desktop, I can get the icon on the desk, and even

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Dave Sherman wrote: On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 18:07, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I've been digging at this for a while. There is a way to add icons to the desktop in Gnome, for starting applications. I'm part way there, but stuck. If I add a deffinition file in ~/.gnome-desktop, I can get the

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-12 Thread Ric Tibbetts
WEll, I'm not getting to far with this little adventure. I can get the icon on the desk, and it even starts the application it's supposed to. But with varied results. For example I set up a Netscape file in .gnome-desktop. It puts the icon on the desktop as it should. It even starts Netscape.

[expert] bash is wiping out the last line that doesn't have a newline

2002-01-12 Thread pesarif
Hello, Has anyone noticed this?: In Mandrake 7.2, [root@tux350 /root]# echo -n I can see this line in Mandrake 7.2 but not 8.0 I can see this line in Mandrake 7.2 but not 8.0[root@tux350 /root]# In Mandrake 8.0, [root@tux350 /root]# echo -n I can see this line in Mandrake 7.2 but not 8.0

Re: [expert] SRC.RPM rebuild error

2002-01-12 Thread pesarif
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:21, Michael Leone wrote: Originally to: All This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_tcob1.net-7247-1008635608-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: