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

2002-01-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Jan 13, 2002 at 07:14:44PM +, bascule wrote: > 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 > que

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

2002-01-20 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Jan 12, 2002 at 12:53:32PM +, David Stevenson 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 m

Re: [expert] slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dissabte 19 Gener 2002 23:40, en tal amir va escriure: > all but unmaskirq L > > [root@whatsup tal]# hdparm /dev/hdb > > /dev/hdb: > multcount= 16 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off) >

Re: [expert] changing video cards

2002-01-20 Thread tester
tal amir wrote: > well, you will have to tell X how to configure the new hardware. run Xconfigurator > (if it's installed) or Xfdrake and choose the card, resolution and monitor. use >Xfree 4.0.1 > > tal. > > > >>I have a G-Force 2 in my mandrake 8.0 system right now. I >>want to put in a

Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP

2002-01-20 Thread Jim Dawson
Another way would be to configure your DHCP server to use Dynamic DNS, since (if I remember correctly) you can put hostnames in the /etc/exports file rather than IP addresses. On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 20:29, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: > > I think that the easiest way to do NFS in a network with

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Jim Dawson
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 16:02, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2002 18:37, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just to pulse the list opinion on this topic, > > The point here is, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop and on > > embedded appliances (with builtin screen

Re: [expert] keybindings - thanks!

2002-01-20 Thread gnerd
Many thanks to bascule and J.P. for ferreting out the details of mapping common tasks to the keyboard. I've grown seriously tired of switching between devices, and the mapping details are just the ticket. Thanks, folks. I hope I can return the favor someday. M1k3 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 11:21 AM 1/20/2002 -0900, you wrote: >But, putting semantics aside, I would call you both correct. > >Civileme Ahh! Civileme, you are such a diplomat. (Now tell me why your "kernel-source-2.4.8-31.2mdk.i586.rpm will not pass a "rpm -checksig") LOL J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT SA -Art is the illu

Re: [expert] keybindings - khotkeys stuff - volume control -a solution?

2002-01-20 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Sunday 20 January 2002 19:07 bascule said: >that's nice :-) >it's going to be v. useful to get at those other keys! > >bascule >p.s. for a mute/unmute toggle script i knocked up the following, i rarely >write scripts so if anyone has constructive criticism that would be nice >#!/bin/bash >let

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Lee Roberts
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote: > > You can expect a feirce battle ahead. They are already trying to > diversify, > the X box is an example. Pretty soon, products like Lindows, VMware, > Wine and > the likes will make M$-Windows a sub-system, something running

[expert] Will dazzle Creator 80 (usb) work on linux?

2002-01-20 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello The question is pretty much on the subject of this email. If so, how to use dazzle creator 80 usb on linux (software and hardware issues)? Many thanks Éd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NFS and DHCP

2002-01-20 Thread jose orlando t. ribeiro
I think that the easiest way to do NFS in a network with DHCP is to set-up the MAC address of the NFS server to receive always the same ip-address... This way, you can use the same /etc/exports file and, since the NFS server receive it's ip address from the DHCP server, you don't have to worr

[expert] NFS and DHCP

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Thompson
I asked this question a couple of days ago and probably didn't make myself clear. Let's forget about firewalls and Internet connection sharing for the present, I just want to set up my network on DHCP. What I need to know is how can NFS be used with DHCP? >From what I *understand*, the IP addre

[expert] NFS and DHCP

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Thompson
I asked this question a couple of days ago and probably didn't make myself clear. Let's forget about firewalls and Internet connection sharing for the present, I just want to set up my network on DHCP. What I need to know is how can NFS be used with DHCP? >From what I *understand*, the IP addre

Re: [expert] keybindings - khotkeys stuff - volume control -a solution?

2002-01-20 Thread bascule
that's nice :-) it's going to be v. useful to get at those other keys! bascule p.s. for a mute/unmute toggle script i knocked up the following, i rarely write scripts so if anyone has constructive criticism that would be nice #!/bin/bash let vol=`aumix -q|gawk '/vol/ {print $3}'` if [ $vol -eq "

Re: [expert] mod_frontpage and frontpage extensions.

2002-01-20 Thread Arief Rakhmatsyah
I still use M8.0 and current updates in http://rpmfind.net is apache-1.3.22-1.2mdk.i586.rpm and mod_frontpage runs well. Riev - Original Message - From: "Robin Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] mod_frontpage and frontpage extensions. > Ok the mod

Re: [expert] "probable hardware bug:clock timer configuration lost"

2002-01-20 Thread William Kenworthy
A similar problem, on my 8.1 machine, any iptabless log message gets echo'd to whatever console (not an x console!) I am using (do not even need to be logged in which has some security implications): very anoying to be in a vi session and have a slew of iptables messages spew across the edit windo

Re: [expert] keybindings - khotkeys stuff - volume control -a solution?

2002-01-20 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Friday 18 January 2002 14:27 bascule said: > >i hope this might be of help to someone >i forget who pointed me to the aumix command line options but thankyou! > >bascule I expanded on this to add in the keys that where not mapped yet, and did up an article on it at http://www.warpedsystems.

[expert] "probable hardware bug:clock timer configuration lost"

2002-01-20 Thread Jorge Manuel Alves das Neves Lima
Hi folks. I'm presently using Mandrake 8.0. When in console mode it spits out something like "clock timer configuration lost- probably a VIA686 motherboard" every couple of minutes. It will show on top of my code, my man pages, my pine screen, my whatever. My motherboard does NOT have a VIA chi

Re: [expert] Monitor Refresh Control

2002-01-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Bill Davidson« am 2002-01-20 um 13:25:05 -0500 : > You could 'vi /etc/X11/Xf86Config'. Just edit the monitor section. However, modifying the ModeLines isn't actually that easy ;) I've got good results using the ModeLines printed with http://xtiming.sf.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl Alexander

Re: [expert] slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread tal amir
all but unmaskirq L [root@whatsup tal]# hdparm /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: multcount= 16 (on) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 3649/255/63, s

Re: [expert] slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dissabte 19 Gener 2002 22:09, en tal amir va escriure: > /dev/hdb: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.55 seconds = 4.12 MB/sec > [root@whatsup home]# hdparm -t /dev/hdc Mine is a 7200 rpm 40Gb Seagate ST340016A: [root@quinipc quini]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on)

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Terry Mathews
Yeah, A/UX 3.11 was the shit! I've had it running on my Q950 from time to time. It's scary how well System 7.0.1 is integrated into the UNIX infrastructure. Apple really shouldn't have let it die. A/UX is far, far superior to OS X + Classic. Too bad that Apple never took the time necessary to upgr

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Alexander Skwar wrote: > http://freshmeat.net/search?q=berlin > -> http://www.berlin-consortium.org/ Alexander, Thanks! (I was worried there for a minute.) Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] slow disk...

2002-01-20 Thread tal amir
i am having the strangest problem : around 2 days ago one of my four disks (seagate ST330620A) started to respond very slowly. this happened without me changing any of its parameter's or moving it to another ide channel or anything. it gives me about 4mbps, unlike all the others that give 20-35

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 20 January 2002 18:37, Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > just to pulse the list opinion on this topic, > The point here is, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop and on > embedded appliances (with builtin screens) it should start to think > about getting rid of the old and h

Re: [expert] anyone else see this?

2002-01-20 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Sunday 20 January 2002 17:42, Randy Kramer wrote: > > Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is > > quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as > > you pull the window down the screen. > > > > I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to

Re: [expert] changing video cards

2002-01-20 Thread John
On Sunday 20 January 2002 01:05 pm, you wrote: > I have a G-Force 2 in my mandrake 8.0 system right now. I want to put > in a TNT2 Ultra into my system (G-Force has to go into new windows > gaming machine). Will X recognize the new card or will I have to > reconfigure X to work with the TNT2? >

Re: [expert] changing video cards

2002-01-20 Thread Onur Kucuk
DK> I have a G-Force 2 in my mandrake 8.0 system right now. I want to put DK> in a TNT2 Ultra into my system (G-Force has to go into new windows DK> gaming machine). Will X recognize the new card or will I have to DK> reconfigure X to work with the TNT2? DK> Darren You wont need to do anythin

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread tester
NDPTAL85 wrote: > On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote: > >> Sorry to disapoint you, but MAC had "UNIX inside" since the old days >> of the >> "Lisa" computer (which came out before the IBM PC). Later, their >> MACIntosh >> was based on the XEROX windows interface,

Re: [expert] changing video cards

2002-01-20 Thread tal amir
well, you will have to tell X how to configure the new hardware. run Xconfigurator (if it's installed) or Xfdrake and choose the card, resolution and monitor. use Xfree 4.0.1 tal. > I have a G-Force 2 in my mandrake 8.0 system right now. I > want to put in a TNT2 Ultra into my system (G-Forc

[expert] changing video cards

2002-01-20 Thread Darren King
I have a G-Force 2 in my mandrake 8.0 system right now. I want to put in a TNT2 Ultra into my system (G-Force has to go into new windows gaming machine). Will X recognize the new card or will I have to reconfigure X to work with the TNT2? Darren Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0.1

2002-01-20 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Salvatore I really wish I did have the answer to that one. but I'm afraid that it feed my "inconsistancy" comments. That you can install the same system, the same way twice, and have it behave differently both times. On my last install (to this box), I had problems with my sound server. It works

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Gerard Perreault
If you prefer, instead of reading "UNIX inside", read "UNIX based" or "derived from UNIX", I don't care and I don't know what percentage of UNIX is now left in MAC OS anyway. The point is that MAC has been on the UNIX road and they did not want to take it. After all, if they were to sell a MAC

Re: [expert] Monitor Refresh Control

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sunday 20 January 2002 02:18, Felix Miata wrote: > I have a monitor that should work OK at 70 Hz refresh, but doesn't. It > works fine at 60. drakxconf doesn't know about the monitor fault and > sets /etc/XF96Config-4 to 70 and 1024 x 768. I can't seem to spot a way > to change refresh in Mandr

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread NDPTAL85
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Gerard Perreault wrote: > Sorry to disapoint you, but MAC had "UNIX inside" since the old days of > the > "Lisa" computer (which came out before the IBM PC). Later, their > MACIntosh > was based on the XEROX windows interface, had "UNIX inside" and was

[expert] cdrw & floppy in dell 8100 laptop?

2002-01-20 Thread Doug O'Leary
Hi; Here's the situation: I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 with a DVD, CDRW, and a floppy drive. The floppy and CDRW are switchable and only one can be in the system at a time. When I installed Mandrake 8.1, I installed it with the CDRW in. Now, in order to take advantage of the vmware software

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Gerard Perreault
Sorry to disapoint you, but MAC had "UNIX inside" since the old days of the "Lisa" computer (which came out before the IBM PC). Later, their MACIntosh was based on the XEROX windows interface, had "UNIX inside" and was still way ahead of then GEM software for PC ("kind of" windows environment).

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Randy Kramer« am 2002-01-20 um 12:17:56 -0500 : > Darn, I can't find the Berlin home page -- I hope it's not gone (I just > did a brief search). http://freshmeat.net/search?q=berlin -> http://www.berlin-consortium.org/ Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german)

Re: [expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez wrote: > The point here is, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop and on > embedded appliances (with builtin screens) it should start to think > about getting rid of the old and heavy XWindows. > XWindows was designed for terminals connected to mainframes on slow >

[expert] X Windows, too heavy, isn't it?

2002-01-20 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Hi, just to pulse the list opinion on this topic, I have been browsing the Mac OS X demos and... Damn! I haven't got a Mac! (Anyway it would be very expensive to have a mac compared to the corresponding PC version machine price) Am I wrong when I say Windows and X-Windows + KDE or GNOME are di

Re: [expert] Evolution 1.0.1

2002-01-20 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Ric: Since I do have the same setup as you do and I am not able to print or print-preview both at home and at work, I am wondering if you or anyone else knows how to solve this problem I am having with the mail component crashing? Ciao, Enrico Indiogine On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:51, Ric Tibbett

Re: [expert] anyone else see this?

2002-01-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Michel Clasquin wrote: > Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is > quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as you > pull the window down the screen. > > I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to XFree86-4.1.99.6-2 Have you changed th

[expert] Euro problem, only Spanish locale?

2002-01-20 Thread Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez
Hi, There have been a lot of unanswered questions about the ¤ (euro) symbol support. It seems that KDE does not support it yet, at least in the Spanish locale, (it seems it works for the French and German so Mandrake feels happy already. They have some instructions in their web site about how to

Re[2]: [expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Onur Kucuk
PS> Just an update. After resetting and then rebooting, artsd PS> no longer seems to crash anymore. PS> HOWEVER, now there is *no sound* when I play xmms. PS> Under KDE, the controls indicate that the song is PS> being played, while under GNOME, you don't even PS> get that! PS> What the @#$!@

Re: [expert] PCI GeForce2 cards

2002-01-20 Thread Onur Kucuk
TE> I have an intel SR440bx motherboard which came with an nVidia Riva TNT TE> chipset on-board. TE> Recently I've decided it's just too out-dated for me and was thinking of TE> buying a GeForce2mx PCI card (as I don't have an AGP slot). TE> Has anyone used on of these in Linux? does it work o

[expert] Re: [newbie] gtk+licq

2002-01-20 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:01:29 +1300 John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:03:15 -0500 > daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the version you may want to give a try is 1.1.0. you can get it at > > http://www.licq.org. I've got it runn

Re: [expert] SSH TCP connection problem

2002-01-20 Thread G. T. Francisco, III
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > At 07:17 PM 1/19/2002 -0600, G. T. Francisco, III wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:58:06AM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > >> I can get an SSH session from the intranet but not from the internet. > >> A port scan shows TCP port 22 open b

[expert] Laptop pcmcia / ifup

2002-01-20 Thread David Stevenson
Hi All, Returning to the ongoing saga of getting a firewall installed on a laptop. I have now aquired a 3-Com PCMCIA card that is recognised by a default install of MDK6 and 8.0. When I say recognised I mean that 'cardctl' reports the correct card and loads the correct driver as detailed in /e

Re: [expert] email on home network

2002-01-20 Thread Mike & Tracy Holt
Thanks everyone who responded!!! Postfix is now up and running! I was starting to pull my hair out (which is a bad thing considering my lack of it), and then after reading all of your replies, things started making more sense. I'm going to keep reading the comments / howto's and see if I ca

[expert] anyone else see this?

2002-01-20 Thread Michel Clasquin
Since this morning, the top inch of my monitor is very fuzzy. Text is quite unreadable tight at the top, then slowly becomes more legible as you pull the window down the screen. I suspect yesterday's upgrade (from cooker) to XFree86-4.1.99.6-2 OTOH, maybe my monitor is going south? -- Michel

Re: [expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Tal Amir
are you using mandrake 8.1, kde 2.2.2 ? because i am having the same problem when loading X every time. the only way to get pass this is to kill artsd manually. i saw a bunch of people on teh kde mailing list that are having the same problem with 8.1 kde 2.2.2 . i guess this is already a know bug

[expert] gODBCConfig and MySQL

2002-01-20 Thread Oscar
Hi all, I'm playing with gODBCConfig to configure an ODBC data source with MySQL, but the version that come with LM8.1 seems to have drivers only for PostgreSQL. Any tip? Thanks óscar. -- .-. oo| /`'\ Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 (\_;/) http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your P

Re: [expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Sue
Just an update. After resetting and then rebooting, artsd no longer seems to crash anymore. HOWEVER, now there is *no sound* when I play xmms. Under KDE, the controls indicate that the song is being played, while under GNOME, you don't even get that! What the @#$!@ is going on?? I was fiddling

[expert] Sound Server Crashes: CPU Overload

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Sue
Hi, Further to my sound woes ... [Note: everything was fine a few weeks ago] The sound server (artsd) keeps crashing on me. I was fiddling with the Sound Server's Audio Buffer setting from the KDE Control Center. Even if try Reset, it still crashes. If I run top, I can see the CPU usage quickly