[expert] audacity

2002-01-13 Thread Brian Parish
I downloaded audacity-0.97-3mdk.i586.rpm from the cooker and the latest stable wxGTKwindows tarball. wx... compiles OK and make install seems fine, but rpm still can't find the library and gives me: # rpm -ivh audacity-0.97-3mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libwx_gtk-2.2.so.6 i

Re: [expert] Java Virtual Machine problem

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Kieu
Thanks the problem turns out to be rather stupid :-) but I did not find it out, then reading your hint, > create a symbolic link to matches your java version > /usr/bin/java -> > /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper /usr/bin/java exists and it is a wrapper to run kaffe in Mandrake, not my jd

[expert] annoying desktop icon for xsane

2002-01-13 Thread bascule
where oh where is the script that keeps recreating the xsane icon on my desktop, i have deleted /usr/share/apps/kdestop/desktop/dynamic_whateverit_is but it keeps coming back, i wouldn't mind but it doesn't work, though launching xsane from the start menu launches the gimp capture plugin fine an

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, bascule wrote: > out of curiosity, why not audacity on mandrake? i use 0.97-3mdk occasionaly, > it seems to work Probably the pain of reinstalling your entire system. I would like to do that to my current machine. (As I sit here waiting for a kernel recompile to finish.)

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

2002-01-13 Thread Arief Rakhmatsyah
How do you configure your e-mail client? See SMTP server. Is it filled with your ISP's SMTP server or your localhost? You have to turn it to your ISP's SMTP server, not your localhost. Riev - Original Message - From: "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I need some

Re: [expert] Java Virtual Machine problem

2002-01-13 Thread Noah Swint
I was having the same problems up until about an hour ago. Here's is what I just did. create a symbolic link to matches your java version /usr/bin/java -> /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper modify the /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper so that PATH=/usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin:$PATH

[expert] Java Virtual Machine problem

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I guess that there are many people having no problem with jdk but I have, that is strange; Any way, here is what I did, I got a machine running debian woody and install jdk1.3.1_01 in /usr/local; I make a tar.bz2 of the directory and extract it to /usr/local in the mandrake machine. Insall

[expert] USB to serial port adapters

2002-01-13 Thread Lee Roberts
I need one for my laptop. My laptop currently has Win2K installed but that may change so I'm looking for an adapter that works with Windows and Linux. My laptop doesn't have any serial ports. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Heh, heh... cool! Glad you got it running. Now brace yourself: Evolution 1.0.1 is out. Many bug fixes. :) I haven't installed it yet. Ric richard wrote: > > Hi , guilty of not clearing out old rpms !!! > I had installed a ximian libgal earlier > after removing it and adding libcapplet1-1.5.11

Re: [expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom

2002-01-13 Thread Arief Rakhmatsyah
Did you make upgrade installation M-8.1 from M-8.0? If you did so, try reinstall M-8.1 with clean install (reformat partition / and /usr ) Riev - Original Message - From: "Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom > Hello > > Ev

Re: [expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom

2002-01-13 Thread Michael Leone
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 18:41, Noah Swint wrote: > I ran across the same problem. My audio CD's no longer mount nor are > they automatically detected. Anything but audio cd's will mount. I > guess audio cds aren't really iso9660's Exactly. You can't mount audio CDs; only data CDs. And auto-mo

Re: [expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom

2002-01-13 Thread Noah Swint
I ran across the same problem. My audio CD's no longer mount nor are they automatically detected. Anything but audio cd's will mount. I guess audio cds aren't really iso9660's On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 18:00, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: > Hello > > Everytime I try to issue the command mount

[expert] Seg. fault when mounting /mnt/cdrom

2002-01-13 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Everytime I try to issue the command mount /mnt/cdrom the system returns a segmentation fault. mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom works though. I've also nocited the CDs are not mounted automatically. Why? Many thanks Ed Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread richard
Hi , guilty of not clearing out old rpms !!! I had installed a ximian libgal earlier after removing it and adding libcapplet1-1.5.11-1mdk. so now running ver 1.0 .. The one thing I've noticed is that rpmfind, is not finding all rpms.. thanks for the help now if someone has got a fix for abiwo

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread richard
Thanks Oscar richard On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 22:32, Oscar wrote: > El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 23:22, richard escribió: > > Thanks Ric > > minor prob > > the only version I can find on from cooker on rpmfind is > > > > gtkhtml-1.0.0-4mdk.i586.rpm, > > this fails on requiring > > libcapplet.so.1 >

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 23:22, richard escribió: > Thanks Ric > minor prob > the only version I can find on from cooker on rpmfind is > > gtkhtml-1.0.0-4mdk.i586.rpm, > this fails on requiring > libcapplet.so.1 > the only libcapplet I found was libcapplet-1.5.11-1mdk.src.rpm > or ximian versio

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread richard
Thanks Ric minor prob the only version I can find on from cooker on rpmfind is gtkhtml-1.0.0-4mdk.i586.rpm, this fails on requiring libcapplet.so.1 the only libcapplet I found was libcapplet-1.5.11-1mdk.src.rpm or ximian versions of -1.5.8 I need reminding of how to build a src.rpm TIA Rich

[expert] opening ports for Squid

2002-01-13 Thread Scott
Hi everyone: I have installed Squid and would like to start using it on my local LAN, but the machine it is running on has Bastille running and I need to open that port. Can someone point me to a line in that darn config that will open the 3128 port on the local lan? Thanks, -Scott Want

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Yes, that helps with that error mesage (I'd tried this already). But looking at the other entries in .gnome-desktop, none of them have that, so it indicates a different problem. It means that there is something else required that I'm not seeing. Also, there are other error messages with other appl

Re: [expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
richard wrote: > > Hi me again > After trying RH 7.2 and returmning I'd like to get evolution back up to > ver 1.0. > > so far I've found 4 different RPM's, and all send you round in circles. > the worst when say libGConf is dependant on GConf and vice versa. > For those who suceeded which evolu

[expert] evolution upgrade again

2002-01-13 Thread richard
Hi me again After trying RH 7.2 and returmning I'd like to get evolution back up to ver 1.0. so far I've found 4 different RPM's, and all send you round in circles. the worst when say libGConf is dependant on GConf and vice versa. For those who suceeded which evolution rpm did you use , and what

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-13 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
try executing it this way: /usr/bin/netscape > /dev/null 2>&1 This will redirect all output to /dev/null. So gnome might not complain. On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > WEll, I'm not getting to far with this little adventure. > I can get the icon on the desk, and it even starts the a

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread bascule
have you tried the mdk rpm? i think it may only be in cooker, i'm not sure but that's where i found the one i'm using bascule On Sunday 13 January 2002 8:03 pm, you wrote: > I know it seems odd, but for some reason I cannot > make audacity compile on my Mandrake side, > I have mdk 8.1 and have

RE: Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread falcaraz
I haver also tried RedHat 7.2 and it is more a system for office than home. Install the net, mail and so one is possible, but not as easy as Mandrake. Tv card could be installed , but using scripts and command line, as in Mandrake 7.2. About compiling with mandrake, the key is install the appropr

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread Expert
I know it seems odd, but for some reason I cannot make audacity compile on my Mandrake side, I have mdk 8.1 and have tried both compilers, the 2.xx and the 3 gcc one, weird. AMD K6 500 Mhz 192Mb sys ram. On Sunday 13 January 2002 01:20 pm, you wrote: > out of curiosity, why not audacity on mand

Re: [expert] Extra ZIP icon on each boot.

2002-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Ken Thompson wrote: > > Each time I either log out and log in to KDE or shut down and reboot into KDE > I get an icon for the ZIP drive. Clicking on this icon results in the error > message about list dir not supported/recognized. If I remove this icon and > make a new link, everything works fine

Re: [expert] HP Scanjet 3200C parallel scanner

2002-01-13 Thread jipe
Le Dimanche 13 Janvier 2002 19:49, vous avez écrit : > There is a "scanner how-to" or something like that. > > The problem is that the HP3200C isn't a HP product, it's a cheap scanner > made in the far-east with a HP logo on it and, at least at the last time > that I researched how to set up one

[expert] Extra ZIP icon on each boot.

2002-01-13 Thread Ken Thompson
Each time I either log out and log in to KDE or shut down and reboot into KDE I get an icon for the ZIP drive. Clicking on this icon results in the error message about list dir not supported/recognized. If I remove this icon and make a new link, everything works fine. Then I log out and I get w

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread bascule
out of curiosity, why not audacity on mandrake? i use 0.97-3mdk occasionaly, it seems to work bascule > > The only use I get from RedHat is that > the compiler seems to work when I want to > install and run wxGTKwindows libraries, > and audacity audio editing software, > everything else in RedHa

[expert] system freeze at same time as sshd goes down - logging question

2002-01-13 Thread bascule
i'm getting the ocasional system freeze, i can't ctrl-alt-bspace or switch to a console and everytime this happens i can't ssh in from another machine, it seems too much of a coincidence that ssh fails at the same time but the question is does the freeze kill sshd or is it the other way round,

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Oscar wrote: > > El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 01:07, Ric Tibbetts escribió: > > 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 ca

Re: [expert] HP Scanjet 3200C parallel scanner

2002-01-13 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
There is a "scanner how-to" or something like that. The problem is that the HP3200C isn't a HP product, it's a cheap scanner made in the far-east with a HP logo on it and, at least at the last time that I researched how to set up one of these scanners in Linux (about six months ago... I hav

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread Ric Tibbetts
This subject is like the Energizer Bunny... It just keeps going, and going, and... LOL I did a similar thing a couple of weeks ago. I came from RedHat land a whileback. Ran it for years.I switched to Mandrake about mid 2001, when Redhat just got flakey, and Mandrake was showing such great promis

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 15:35, Scott escribió: > Can anyone direct me to what kapm-idled is and why it takes on average 60% > of my CPU. This is a test server with no power management enabled. I > want to disable it if possible. Mandrake ProSuite 8.1 with kernel > 2.4.8-34. > > The machine

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Scott
On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:47 pm, J. Craig Woods wrote: > If you are confused, you are in very good company. Over the couple of years > I have been hanging on this list, this issue has come up time and time > again. According to the Mandrake folks, i.e. Civileme, this is just the way > the Mandr

Re: [expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread Expert
I have a dualboot system, Mandrake on the first partition because the e mail, web and ftp server both work out of the box, RedHat does not. The only use I get from RedHat is that the compiler seems to work when I want to install and run wxGTKwindows libraries, and audacity audio editing software

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:24 am, Scott wrote: > I guess I am confused, in top it shows my system as being 50% idle, > then kapm-idled is showing as 48% of the CPU and other processes > making up the rest. > -Scott Another kapm-idled related question: In dmesg, I see "Checking 'hlt' instr

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 12:24 PM 1/13/2002 -0500, Scott wrote: >I guess I am confused, in top it shows my system as being 50% idle, then >kapm-idled is showing as 48% of the CPU and other processes making up the >rest. >-Scott >On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:39 am, Michael Leone wrote: > > kapm-idled is kpam-IDLEd - the

[expert] redhat vs mandrake

2002-01-13 Thread richard
Hi all tried RH7.2 today to try and get a working version of abiword what a pile of crap ! OK it finds the graphics card immediatly which is good, it forgets that we dont speak american in england. cant find printers !!! gnome immediatly crashes on startup it screwed up the network config as

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Scott
I guess I am confused, in top it shows my system as being 50% idle, then kapm-idled is showing as 48% of the CPU and other processes making up the rest. -Scott On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:39 am, Michael Leone wrote: > kapm-idled is kpam-IDLEd - the time your CPU is idle. It's not an > executing

Re: [expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Michael Leone
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 09:35, Scott wrote: > Can anyone direct me to what kapm-idled is and why it takes on average 60% > of my CPU. This is a test server with no power management enabled. I > want to disable it if possible. Mandrake ProSuite 8.1 with kernel > 2.4.8-34. kapm-idled is kpam-ID

Re: [expert] Roll your own site certificate?

2002-01-13 Thread C. Heaven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat January 12/02 02:12 pm, you wrote: > 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 wh

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

2002-01-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Oscar wrote: > Try gnome-toaster (last version). It will surprise you ;-) Oscar, OK, thanks! (When I switch my burner to Linux.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] kapm-idled

2002-01-13 Thread Scott
Can anyone direct me to what kapm-idled is and why it takes on average 60% of my CPU. This is a test server with no power management enabled. I want to disable it if possible. Mandrake ProSuite 8.1 with kernel 2.4.8-34. The machine is strickly for Internet Connection Sharing right now. Tha

[expert] how to "fix" damaged tar(.bz2) files

2002-01-13 Thread The Spam Disposal Plant
hi out there, for some reasons I had to reformat my current harddrive and thus needed to backup some directories, most importantly the home-directories of course: % tar cjf foo.tar.bz2 /home/foo_user after reformatting my harddrive everything else unpacked nicely - except my backups for the hom

[expert] HP Scanjet 3200C parallel scanner

2002-01-13 Thread Neil R Porter
Hi all I've got a HP Scanjet 3200C parallel scanner which won't work on my XP box, so I was wondering whether I could get it to work on my LM 8.1 server? I have absolutely no experience with scanners and linux, any help on getting a parallel scanner to work would be appreciated. Also, I run my

Re: [expert] can't watch mpeg movies

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 08:21, pesarif escribió: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:01, Oscar wrote: > > Hello, > > Since I upgraded to MandrakeFreq, I can't watch any mpg movie. > > I believe the problem is with Xfree86 4.1. > > The window of the movie appears black. No image. No error messages. > > Graph

Re: [expert] Gnome Desktop Icons

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El dom, 13-01-2002 a las 01:07, Ric Tibbetts escribió: > 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 des

Re: [expert] Roll your own site certificate?

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El sáb, 12-01-2002 a las 20:12, David Guntner escribió: > 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 si

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

2002-01-13 Thread Oscar
El sáb, 12-01-2002 a las 18:21, Randy Kramer escribió: > 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

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

2002-01-13 Thread Pen Gwynne
> [james@jamlin Winamp]$ 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[james@jamlin Winamp]$ > > >>> Works in 8.1 .. Don't have an 8.0 box to test it on. Perhaps >>> upgrading bash to the 8.1 version, bash-2.05-10mdk might help.

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

2002-01-13 Thread James Sparenberg
tested your line in 8.1 [james@jamlin Winamp]$ 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[james@jamlin Winamp]$ Works in 8.1 .. Don't have an 8.0 box to test it on. Perhaps upgrading bash to the 8.1 version, bash-2.05-10mdk m