Re: [expert] cups setup problems.

2002-02-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 "H.McM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a >disastrous time. > > The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. > 1. I do a "service cups stop" to stop the deamon. > 2. I edit cu

[expert] NVDriver woes

2002-02-13 Thread Darren King
I grabbed the nvidia drivers and went to install them. Unfortunately, it put the drivers in the wrong modules directory as I'd upgraded my kernel to 2.4.7 instead of the 2.4.3 that 8.0 shipped with. I copied the driver to the correct modules directory, but when I try to use it, it says that it c

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-13 Thread James
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:32:03 -0500 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 00:34:05 -0200 (BRST) > "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly > spake these words to ponder: > > > > You otta think on how they got into there! THAT should be *really* >

Re: [expert] cups setup problems.

2002-02-13 Thread William Bouterse
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:29:03 +0100 "H.McM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote these words: > Hi All, > > I am trying to setup printing on my MDK8.1 machine using cups, and am having a >disastrous time. > > The first problem is the cupsd.conf file. > 1. I do a "service cups stop" to stop the deamon. >

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-13 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 00:34:05 -0200 (BRST) "Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > You otta think on how they got into there! THAT should be *really* > interesting!whew! > > Ricardo > I can't decide which is more amusing...watching them

[expert] Sendmail

2002-02-13 Thread synrat
I want to enable ssl authentication for Sendmail 8.12 so far I have this in the config file, which is supposed to give plain text authentication, but I'm not sure that even this works, because I'm still able to send e-mail without enabling smtp authentication. How do I go about the ssl part and

Re: [expert] Weird sound problem

2002-02-13 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:59:10 -0800 Robert Fargher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, I have a head scratcher. > > My fiance's machine will not play sounds in Mandrake 8.x. Sound works fine > in Windows. Sound worked fine in Mandrake 7.2, same hardware. > > If I install Mandrake 8.x (

[expert] Key beep on press of Lock key?

2002-02-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm not disabled (unless stupidity counts :) ), but back when I used Windows I found a particular piece of their Accessibility Tools to be very useful. This 'feature' would make a beep with the PC speaker whenever I hit the Num Lock, Caps Lock or Scroll Lock keys. This was very useful, because I c

Re: [expert] test - please ignore

2002-02-13 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote: Guys, You don't have the least idea of how you are improving my language! Please, keep on!Hope mom isn't plugged ;-) I know it's OT but it supposed to be ignored isn't? >On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:12:07 -0600 >Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>

[expert] Multiple mice (touchpad + USB mouse)

2002-02-13 Thread mandrake
I can't seem to get it working as well as I once did, but I've got a laptop with a touchpad and I'd like to get my USB wheel mouse working at the same time. Here's what I've already got in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: --- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Touchpad" Driver

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:38 pm, you wrote: > > > This has been a real blast. I've got total latitude on the desktop, plus > > I can mooch the apps from whatever environment has the best one. Abiword > > is a gtk app (I think) that I use also, more often that kword. > > Just for informati

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > If so you're probably exposed to every KDE component known to man. ;) I > think KDE is great; well, let me restate thatI love the apps. But the > desktop is a little too restrictive for my personal taste, so I run pure > Enlightenment (with NO gnome anything) and then

Re: [expert] DEVFS was usb support in Mandrake?

2002-02-13 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:46:29 +0200 jarmo kettunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: > > > It turns out that even if I could figure out just how to disable > > devfs I'm not sure it would matter now at this point. The only thing > > keeping me from torching this syst

[expert] mozilla from source RPM

2002-02-13 Thread Bill Davidson
Has anyone done this. I did rpm --rebuild and no dice. Here are the errors. make[4]: *** [nsDeviceContextSpecG.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2 make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2 make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2 make: *** [default] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.91741 (%build)

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread NDPTAL85
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 10:05 AM, sda wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:17:22PM -0500, Terry Mathews wrote: >> I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think >> that >> MandrakePPC is designed more for us gearheads that was a heterogenous >> software enviro

[expert] Weird sound problem

2002-02-13 Thread Robert Fargher
Hi folks, I have a head scratcher. My fiance's machine will not play sounds in Mandrake 8.x. Sound works fine in Windows. Sound worked fine in Mandrake 7.2, same hardware. If I install Mandrake 8.x (tried the beta of 8.2 this past weekend), the install goes fine. It'll boot into her acc

[expert] Roadrunner and Mandrake 8.1? Some problems!

2002-02-13 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Although I have no problem to use netscape, kmail, ftp and other network programmes with roadruuner, there is a couple of things that don't work: a) ping - it doesn't work. Why? b) Why does dhpcd changes the computer name from localhost to Computer? This wrecks my samba. Is there a way o

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Omnus Necromancy
it was indeed a really new tibook, just bought it a month ago. that sounds like my problem, but it seems that the only distro with a feasable solution is yellow dog, so i'm going with them for now, thanks for everybody's trouble. On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 09:38 AM, isaac wrote: > I

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread isaac
Is that a *really new* TiBook? I think that the newest ones have a video card that didn't exist when MDK 8.0/PPC was released, so that would surely keep X from starting up (no compatible driver). I think I saw some discussion of problems with it (is it "radeon"?) recently around the release of XF8

Re: [expert] Intel Compiler

2002-02-13 Thread kwan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Sven Heinicke wrote: > > Has anybody gotten the Intel C++ compiler to work? > > http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/index.htm > > the free trial works on a IA64 Red Hat system I have but I can't get it > to work on my IA32 Mandrake 8.0 system. My first

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Omnus Necromancy
damn On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Terry Mathews wrote: > No, sorry. I never accused Xdarwin of being quick. :-) > > More RAM, faster processor will help. That's about it. > > Terry > >> I agree that Xdarwin is nice, and I used it previously to attempting to >> install linux, how

[expert] Intel Compiler

2002-02-13 Thread Sven Heinicke
Has anybody gotten the Intel C++ compiler to work? http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c50/linux/index.htm the free trial works on a IA64 Red Hat system I have but I can't get it to work on my IA32 Mandrake 8.0 system. My first problem was I had to chagne the HOSTTYPE to i386 to

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Terry Mathews
No, sorry. I never accused Xdarwin of being quick. :-) More RAM, faster processor will help. That's about it. Terry > I agree that Xdarwin is nice, and I used it previously to attempting to > install linux, however this leads me to another fundamental problem: > > Xdarwin runs apps slow, and

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Omnus Necromancy
I agree that Xdarwin is nice, and I used it previously to attempting to install linux, however this leads me to another fundamental problem: Xdarwin runs apps slow, and it runs them even MORE slowly when running rootless. Is there any way to make OSX reboot use a special configuration for Dar

[expert] Is mandrake and/or Kernel File system-dependant on it functioning??

2002-02-13 Thread ngn
Hi I wondered wheter Mandrake-Linux or Kernel functioning of both depend on the File System that runs beyond it. I'm going to explain better: First, I installed MDK 8.1 with Reiser and I founded it extremely slow. Note: In all cases I installed the basic packages. After doing extensive reading on

[expert] postfix LDAP support

2002-02-13 Thread alberto passariello
Is Ldap supporte in Mandrake RPM? Alberto Passariello       Byte Works Sistemi S.r.l. Cisco Systems partner Premier certified            Viale Liegi 44,              00198 Roma Tel: +39 6 863.863.22 Fax: +39 6 863.863.23 Email: [EMAIL PROTEC

[expert] How To tell *REAL* memory usage - top & ps ??

2002-02-13 Thread Rob
Hi, I've used a number of different GUI tools to see memory usage but they seem to be telling me different things. So going back to CLI, top & ps if I do a ps -aux Can someone tell me what the VSZ & RSS figures mean Real and Virtual according to man ps but I does that equate to physical ram a

Re: [expert] Shockwave flash annoyance

2002-02-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:47 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2002 06:08 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: > > On 12 Feb 02, at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: >[...] > > Hmmm, while I'm here, can anyone explain why www.saltlake2002.com gives > > a blank screen in konqueror? > > I've run

[expert] Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm

2002-02-13 Thread s
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:03 am, you wrote: > Thanks for the help, but where do I add those options in the Xconfig file? oh, sorry. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Under heading: # ** # Graphics device section # *

Re: [expert] PowerPC G4 Problems

2002-02-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 08:05 am, sda wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:17:22PM -0500, Terry Mathews wrote: > > I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think [...] > > > Not to rain on Mandrake here, but have you looked into Yellow Dog > > > Linux? [...] > Actually

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Hmmm. That IS strange! From what you're saying it sounds like you've got > the whole KDE desktop loaded, taskbar and all. Is that right? Yes, I'm afraid I'm spoiled by having everything handy... ;-) > Maybe if you tried temporarily switching to another WM that you like

Re: [expert] samba

2002-02-13 Thread Norman
Jason Pearce wrote: > Hi listmembers, > I am running LM8.0 > I have a network that is comprised of 2 machines > 1 windoze 98 and one LM 8.0 > I have set up internet connection sharing through > lm8.0 Control center and that works really well > I'd like to set up SAMBA ,is this possible using the

Re: [expert] small samba issue..

2002-02-13 Thread Norman
I am not sure what you expect from this and here is why. If you are expecting everyone to be able to update the files then only one person can do that at any one time. ( If they didn't then the last person to close the file would be the only one who's changes would take effect.) As I am unfamili

Re: [expert] Cryptographic File Systems

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 February 2002 3:50 am, you wrote: > Hi, Tom. > > Thanks for this info, however, the version of diskdrake that I have > doesn't seem to show the encryption selection in options. I am running > 8.2beta1, and the diskdrake tool is from >

Re: [expert] extenstion RENDER

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I don't know precisely what RENDER is but I know that it allows > anti-aliased text. RENDER is only available with XFree 4 and above, so > that's where your problem lies. It looks like your apps are calling for > RENDER but your X server can't give

RE: [expert] Internal Server and Firewall Conf

2002-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For retrieving mail from isp, use 'fetchmail', fetchmail will deliver mail to the local /var/spool/mail/***, check the man pages and also this list archives. There are also GUI's for setting up fetchmail. For mail delivery, I use 'sendmail/postfix', this delivers the mail to external addresses

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Monday 11 February 2002 16:20, you wrote: > But...something has actually been removed from the Transgaming version. > They didn't (apparently) take a good version of wine and add to it with > their dx stuff, they did something unnecessary and removed functionality at > the same time. > > ALL

Re: [expert] WineX (transgaming) and 8.1

2002-02-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
> One odd thing I've had happen intermittently, is that just maybe 1 in 10 > sessions, KDE's system guard will pop up...I don't crash, or lockup, but I > have to restart D2... Not sure what its supposed to be finding that is > objectionable... Hmmm. That IS strange! From what you're saying it

[expert] Keyboard problem

2002-02-13 Thread Gary Bond
For some reason I have no access to the single/double quote key while using Opera. On Xterm, Netscape, and Kword the key works but I have to hit it twice to get it to display once. My keyboard is a MS Intellipro . Anyone have any ideas? All the other keys work fine, also it isnt a problem on windo