Re: [expert] Cases

2002-01-28 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:08, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 17:57, gnerd wrote: > > A google search turned up a lot of reviews on these cases, but after > > three pages of review links, my ADD kicked in and I lost focus. ;-) How > > much are they, and where can you buy them? > > J

[expert] mozilla 0.98 comming soon..

2002-01-28 Thread J. Grant
Something good to expect any day soon.. According to http://mozilla.org/roadmap.html it was due on Fri 25th, so it should be out within a day or so I expect. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Euro problem, only Spanish locale?

2002-01-28 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Recently there're several posts about displaying or printing other characters (Euro sign and Japanese). In those posts I see that *archaic* charsets (ISO-8859-15) are still used. Know that Unicode was supported in the kernel in the very first versions (round 1994 or 1995 if I'm not mi

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'mdisturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Oscar
El lun, 28-01-2002 a las 04:48, ngn escribió: > Hi folks, I'm doubting to choose two different journalled FS ( XFS or RFS ) > > My opinion is that XFS has the best performance in all the fields. > Furthermore it has additional features due to its porting of IRIX, but I > also read that for other

[expert] Single floppy with frame buffer, nano-X, and rwin RDP client to boot diskless computer

2002-01-28 Thread Joe L. Casale
Has anyone ever made one of these, or know how to: 1) pass vga=791 to kernel without using lilo? I don't think I will be able to fit a slim kernel, and the binaries along with a root fs one floppy if I have to add lilo! I am very new to Linux, and know nothing, but have this daunting task, and its

Re: [expert] mozilla 0.98 comming soon..

2002-01-28 Thread Arief Rakhmatsyah
Don't expect anything. New release from Mozilla come every month. :-) Riev - Original Message - From: "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [expert] mozilla 0.98 comming soon.. > Something good to expect any day soon.. > According to http://mozilla.org/roadmap.html it was due on Fr

Re: [expert] Euro problem, only Spanish locale? --> THE SOLUTION???

2002-01-28 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
Hi, I begin to be a bit frustrate. I can see the euro symbol. I can copy it, ¤, I have tested with this configuration: SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_MONETARY=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LANGUAGE=ca:es_ES:es:es_ES:en:en_EN LC_TIME=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_COLLAT

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi Folks, Good question. We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI "name". But it's using Red Hat. Does MDK work fine with XFS? Is the procedure installation of XFS in MDK equal to the one in Red Hat? Thanks for

Re: [expert] OT! for paranoiacs only ;-))))

2002-01-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
At 09:08 PM 1/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Classic *nix humor! And yikes! I actually agree with >the dreaded Woods! ;-) It's great! > >Mike You are indeed smart to dread me: your machine is next on the list for molecular re-structuring :-) J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT System Adm

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.17-10mdk problems

2002-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
True enough...and I am presently running a mostly functional box with the kernel.org 2.4.17 kernel, but when I run into problems like I have mentioned, I wonder if there is something wrong with my box (a missing lib, screwed up config, bad hardware) and so I want to see it corrected. I am also

[expert] Network printer under attack

2002-01-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
Jobs are being sent to my printer (HP LaserJet 2100TN with built-in ethernet), which keeps printing until all the paper is gone. At the head of the sheet that gets repeatedly printed is: POST / HTTP/1.1. Here is a tail from my /var/log/cups: 192.168.1.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:49 -0600] "GET /

[expert] autologin, twice!

2002-01-28 Thread Lars Nordin
I have a Mandrake v8.0 system that has been upgraded from Mandrake 7.2 and 7.1. The problem I have is that the system automatically logs me in as it should at boot up but when I log out instead of going to the KDM screen, it logs me in again. How can I track down how the system is autologging

[expert] cmpci.o sound module does not work anymore

2002-01-28 Thread Tessone, Claudio Juan
Hi! I've got Mandrake-8.1 since its release. And a C-Media sound card since almost two years ago onboard and a P3 processor. The module cmpci.o worked fine for me, and even worked when I had Mandrake 6.x and insalled the source that came with the cdrom of the mainboard I can't

Re: [expert] Single floppy with frame buffer, nano-X, and rwin RDPclient to boot diskless computer

2002-01-28 Thread kwan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Joe L. Casale wrote: > Has anyone ever made one of these, or know how to: > 1) pass vga=791 to kernel without using lilo? > I don't think I will be able to fit a slim kernel, and the binaries > along with a root fs one floppy if I have to add lilo! > I am very new to Linux, a

[expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi People, It's just a commentary. I really regret the day when I buy my GeForce. Since I only found out later, there's no open source drivers for such graphic-card (by now I don't know). And since Nvidia seems not be interest about Linux since they don't give graphic-card par

RE: [expert] Single floppy with frame buffer, nano-X, and rwin RDP client to boot diskless computer

2002-01-28 Thread Joe L. Casale
Firstly, I want to thank you! Secondly, you are too generous! My Linux experience started a week ago, he he. The reason I'm in this list is obvious though, it's a tough Q! So what is rdev? You'll have to humor me, I don't know squat! Thanks!! jlc -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-28 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 04:35:52 -0200 (BRST) "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any body know how to find a ' list ' of resources from Linux? Press the TAB key at a prompt, then answer "y"... :^) Pierre Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > > Hi People, > > It's just a commentary. > > I really regret the day when I buy my GeForce. Since I only found > out later, there's no open source drivers for such graphic-card (by now I > don't know). And since Nvidia seems not be interest

[expert] palm hotsync

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Badran
Im trying to get my palm (m100) to hotsync with my laptop through infrared. The software im trying to use is the gnome (from evolution i believe) palm conduit. In my bios, the IR port is set as: COM 2 2F8 IRQ3 With the following options: ( ) IRDA (HPSIR) ( ) ASK IR (*) FAST I

Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Onur Kucuk
AWSdS> Hi People, AWSdS> It's just a commentary. AWSdS> I really regret the day when I buy my GeForce. Since I only found AWSdS> out later, there's no open source drivers for such graphic-card (by now I AWSdS> don't know). And since Nvidia seems not be interest about Linux si

Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use a basic ATI Radeon 32 MB video card in my box (OEM) and it works perfectly (now) out of the box. Before around Mandrake 8.1 I was downloading, building, and installing the DRM source but the XFree86 4.1.0 supplied with 8.1 works out of the box. At this time, the ATI Radeon 8500 isn't

Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

2002-01-28 Thread Mike Leone
> As for NVidia, I don't trust them. They are in close cahoots with M$ via the > Xbox and since they don't release specs for developers - if they decide > (perhaps as a favor to M$?) to end support for linux then future NVidia cards > would be nonstarters. You would be safe for NOW, but who k

Re: [expert] Euro problem, only Spanish locale? --> THE SOLUTION???

2002-01-28 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
Hi, I begin to be a bit frustrate. I can see the euro symbol. I can copy it, ¤, I have tested with this configuration: SYSFONT=lat0-sun16 LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_MONETARY=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LANGUAGE=ca:es_ES:es:es_ES:en:en_EN LC_TIME=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=ca_ES.ISO-8859-15 LC_COLLAT

[expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi everyone, I see that LM 8.2 Beta is out, and I was just wondering if anyone here knows if the final release will be delayed long enough for KDE 3.0 to be included? It seems ashame for a new release to come out without this new, binary incompatible version of KDE... Thanks, Tim -

Re: [expert] Mdk 7.1 / Sparc Updates?

2002-01-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri Jan 25, 2002 at 04:19:06PM -0700, David Oberbeck wrote: >Does anyone know of a mirror with the 7.1 Sparc > updates? All of the mirror sites that I have been able > to find have the directory > > .../updates/7.1/sparc/RPMS > > but they are blank... is this a case of bit-rot? We

Re: [expert] Post install oddity

2002-01-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Jan 26, 2002 at 10:16:28AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > You need to follow the instructions on the security updates website > > for the kernels... it is not meant to be done via MandrakeUpdate. > > That is likely why your attempt got kinda hosed. > > OK, but it would have been nice if t

Re: [expert] URGENT kernel location

2002-01-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Jan 27, 2002 at 02:33:56PM +, richard wrote: > I urgently need a copy of kernel-2.4.16- mdk.i586.rpm, > all I can find on cooker is 2.4.17-10mdk, I lost the rpm I had when I > had to rebiuld after trying to get abiword working. > can some one point me to a site that has the rpm on, I c

Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?

2002-01-28 Thread Expert
I don't know if you have tested "audacity' before, but here is a url for it. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/linux.html Hope this helps. On Sunday 27 January 2002 07:05 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: > On 26 Jan 02, at 9:48, William Bouterse wrote: > > Have you considered SoundStudio? > > http://prd

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-28 Thread kwan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > Hi everyone, > I see that LM 8.2 Beta is out, and I was just wondering if anyone here > knows if the final release will be delayed long enough for KDE 3.0 to be > included? It seems ashame for a new release to come out without this new, > binary i

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Good question.  We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). > No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI "name". > But it's using Red Hat.  Does MDK work fine with XFS?  Is the > procedure installation

Re: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?

2002-01-28 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 28 January 2002 11:33, you wrote: > This has been going on for quite some time, and we've finally tracked it > down. > When running gkrellm and the GKrellWeather plugin, it fails on the > following: > > 400 FTP return code 500 at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 49. > > which eventually t

[expert] Euro problem

2002-01-28 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dilluns 28 Gener 2002 11:37, en Leopold Palomo Avellaneda va escriure: > I use kde 2.2.1 and I have selected in control panel the iso8859-15 > charset, and well, > I'm not be able to write a ¤ with the altgr+E keys. Neither using kate, > kwrite, konsole, etc. > So, well. I don't know waht to do

Re: [expert] Mdk 7.1 / Sparc Updates?

2002-01-28 Thread David Oberbeck
Vincent, Thank you for responding. As I understand it, Mdk (and Red Hat as well) for Sparc is dead as a dodo; lack of demand relative to i586, probably. It's a pity, really... oh well; I guess I'll have to dig out Solaris disks. David On Monday 28 January 2002 13:14, Vincent Danen Wr

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'mdisturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 08:56, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Good question. We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). > No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI "name". > But it's using Red Hat. Does MDK work fine with XFS? Is the > proce

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'mdisturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Brian Parish
Civileme suggested XFS to me when an issue came up over Reiser's compatibility with NFS. Last I heard there was still a question mark over this, so I would go XFS or EXT3 if you are going to use NFS mounts. Otherwise - flip a coin? Brian On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 11:15, Jason Guidry wrote: > On Mo

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-28 Thread mike
KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not waiting for it. On Monday 28 January 2002 16:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I see that LM 8.2 Beta is out, and I was just wondering if anyone here > > know

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!!I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Ben De Luca
resierfs should be NFS happy since 2.4.7 (ish). Im a little concerned with xfs though I use it a lot on SGI's, it just doenst seem to be getting the support of the other file systems. Ive found ext3 to be exceedingly slow on large volumes :( I like resierfs and havnt seen any problems yet! with

Re: [expert] (OT) Cases

2002-01-28 Thread dfox
Somebody Scribbled: >I'm looking for a good, decent quality case for a new box. I've seen a >bunch of junk, but not what I'm looking for. Central Computer in Santa Clara, CA. I don't know if they ship, but they do sell a few decent full-size towers and 1U rackmount type cases. I don't recall the

[expert] prostar 2253 laptop

2002-01-28 Thread William Moshier
8.1 installs, using the pcmcia image, without problems until the X initialization, both in normal, and expert mode. It does need to boot with a boot: linux mem=120M (assuming 8 MB shared video memory on a 128MB system). the X initialization correctly identifies the video as a SiS630 - but i

Re: [expert] prostar 2253 laptop

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Guidry
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, William Moshier wrote: > 8.1 installs, using the pcmcia image, without problems until the X > initialization, both in normal, and expert mode. It does need to boot > with a boot: linux mem=120M (assuming 8 MB shared video memory on a > 128MB system). the X initia

Re: [expert] prostar 2253 laptop

2002-01-28 Thread William Moshier
Jason Guidry wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 20:26, William Moshier wrote: > >>8.1 installs, using the pcmcia image, without problems until the X >>initialization, both in normal, and expert mode. It does need to boot >>with a boot: linux mem=120M (assuming 8 MB shared video memory on a >>12

Re: [expert] What firewall to use in MDK 8.1

2002-01-28 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:35:30 -0500 David Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > OK, did you reflush/restart your firewall? > > I am not an expert, but this is as far as my firewall knowledge goes. > > Dave. > > PS. My 139 is closed. no, as a matter of fact I

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Rusty Carruth
> > resierfs should be NFS happy since 2.4.7 (ish). Im a little concerned > with xfs though I use it a lot on SGI's, it just doenst seem to be > getting the support of the other file systems. Ive found ext3 to be > exceedingly slow on large volumes :( Huh. Surprise surprise, I say. I just inst

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2 Beta

2002-01-28 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi Mike, > KDE 3.0 is in RC1, and I can't imagine rushing a distro to market not > waiting for it. That's what I was thinking. I remember when KDE 2.0 came out it was so much nicer once I got a version of my then current distro (SuSE) that came with KDE 2 rather than having my manual upgrades

[expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-28 Thread Deryk Barker
I have a Maxtor 16GB drive, whose only strangeness as far as I know, is that it has 2100 cylinders. When I use fdisk on the drive I see reasonable numbers. When I partition it using diskdrake everything also looks reasonable. BUT.I have one partition of 384M (swap)plus two others of 9.7GB an

[expert] urpmi fixed

2002-01-28 Thread NDPTAL85
Just got a tip that to update my urpmi databases you can use "urpmi.update -a" which will update any sources you have loaded. This fixes my problem. --- My kid was Prisoner of the Month at Orange County Jail.

Re: [expert] Mdk 7.1 / Sparc Updates?

2002-01-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Mon Jan 28, 2002 at 04:07:20PM -0700, David Oberbeck wrote: >Thank you for responding. > >As I understand it, Mdk (and Red Hat as well) for Sparc is dead > as a dodo; lack of demand relative to i586, probably. I think so. Mind you, the PPC port seems quite popular, and I suspect the

[expert] from a distance

2002-01-28 Thread bascule
reading user experiences of msmount i see a few people saying that a trailing / is needed on paths, you've probably done this right? bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] partition strangeness

2002-01-28 Thread James
Deryk, If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular problems (although not as large a drive) 2 gig drives with 1 gig of "usable" spa

Re: [expert] from a distance

2002-01-28 Thread bascule
my bad, it's 6 in the morning here and this was meant to go to a friend, i wasn't paying attention - actually i blame kmail for automatically filling in the addy of the list folder you happen to be in even if you choose new message from the tool bar as opposed to r.click in the folder, but any

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-28 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »J. Grant« am 2002-01-28 um 15:44:32 +0900 : > I just checked, and rename does not seem to support renaming files such > as pic1, pic2 -> pic1.jpg pic2.jpg etc? or does it? > > it seems to require something to swap, the from option but if I want to > add at the end I can not. > > I t

[expert] Gnome update woes

2002-01-28 Thread Darren King
Ran red carpet yesterday as I do occaisonally. Applied a bunch of updates including a new gnome core. Now, whenever I log in, the screen flashes in and out of focus. If I open up an app, it keeps losing focus every couple of keystrokes making gnome unusable. Mine is a mandrake 8.0 system runni