[expert] konqueror startup problems still... ... Any more ideas truly appreciated otherwise its reinstall time :(

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, still having probs getting konqueror to start. This is what I've tried/results to date. 1 Renaming .kde and starting X. This stopped any konquerors starting - either for file management or browsing. Everything else seemed to work. 2. Clearing /tmp by hand with original .kde dir. No

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

2002-02-18 Thread Mike Rambo
Mark Weaver wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:17:50 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Any idea where it all falls apart? I set up another mdk8.1 box yesterday and, after seeing your message, paid pretty close attention to what I did in

Re: [expert] Bttv Tv driver detection

2002-02-18 Thread kwan
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, lornes wrote: I noticed that when I set up the TV card that Mandrake was apparently detecting the address incorrectly. I was getting an error message of overlay mode is not working because BTTV initialized with the wrong base address. To load BTTV use the following

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

2002-02-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:04:02 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: It's telling you it can't find a visor on the port at /dev/visor - this is the error I had before I shut down devfs and configured things as I indicated in previous posts. You'll

Re: [expert] KDE 3 beta 2

2002-02-18 Thread Balaji Ramani
Have you figured out how to get more themes? I too see just the default qt stuff and would love to use something different. Thanks, Balaji Finally...they got rid of my favorite design system! I LOVED the System++ look. I cannot find it now. All I can find are gnarly/ugly qt stuff.

Re: [expert] konqueror startup problems still... ... Any more ideas truly appreciated otherwise its reinstall time :(

2002-02-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
When I've had bizarre/obscure kde problems that I have been unable to fix, from blackbox (or CLI) I: delete ~/.kde (AFTER copying my addressbook.kab and bookmarks.xml to my home directory), delete all instances of .DCOP* in my home directory. Delete all my /tmp entries (as user, just do rm -rf

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

2002-02-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Monday 18 February 2002 08:44, you wrote: all right...I'll go back and make sure I've got devfs disabled, but I'm almost certain I do. I placed nomount devfs in the append line of lilo conf per your instructions... yup. I've got devfs disabled in lilo.conf. I guess I'll just keep

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

2002-02-18 Thread Mike Rambo
Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:04:02 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: It's telling you it can't find a visor on the port at /dev/visor - this is the error I had before I shut down devfs and configured things as I indicated in

[expert] koffice - new?

2002-02-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
Is there not any builds of KOffice for KDE 3.0/QT 3.0? I have been looking and looking for even a beta version but cannot find it. I am really suprized that koffice would so divorce itself from kde proper that it wouldn't (apparently) even TRY to keep up with the soon-to-be-released KDE 3. I

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

2002-02-18 Thread Mark Weaver
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 11:16, Mike Rambo wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:04:02 -0500 Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: It's telling you it can't find a visor on the port at /dev/visor - this is the error I had before I

Re: [expert] (solved) mounting a windows 2000 share on 8.1

2002-02-18 Thread J. Craig Woods
Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 17:21, J. Craig Woods wrote: Of course this will work (not sure what Dave was thinking about) but please do not say that this is *all* you needed to do in order to mount your remote export! What no password, and are you encrypted? Surely you do

[expert] Brooktree Bt848 TV with DMA push

2002-02-18 Thread J.P. Pasnak
!, I seem to be having problems with a Tuner card on Mandrake 8.2 Beta 2+. The card seems to be detected OK, but a 'scantv' with NTSC and canada-cable turns up 'no station' on everything. I've check the cable, and it works fine. Any advice? --- 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA

[expert] MySql permissions and configuration

2002-02-18 Thread Ken Thompson
Where are the configuration files for MySql found? I've looked everywhere I can think of and still no joy. Looking in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql I found this bit of info, # If you want to affect other MySQL variables, you should make your changes # in the /etc/my.cnf or other configuration files.

RE: [expert] MySql permissions and configuration

2002-02-18 Thread Aron Pilhofer
I think (and don't quote me) you have to create the my.cnf file yourself. I don't think it is required, but mysql will look for it when it launches. Not 100 percent sure about that, but I think that's why you aren't finding it. However, the problem you're describing sounds like a permissions

Re: [expert] RPM bug MDK 8.1?

2002-02-18 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 18 February 2002 02:25, you wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1? su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading its database. So, if I do rpm -qa for example, I'll get half the list and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it

Re: [expert] Wheel Mouse driver bug

2002-02-18 Thread D. R. Evans
On 17 Feb 02, at 16:08, lornes wrote: I'm not sure if it would be helpful to mention this here as well, but I believe I've found a bug in the standard PS/2 wheel mouse driver. I have done this on numerous hardware platforms and it does the same on all. The only common thread here I

[expert] Laptop/desktop synchronization

2002-02-18 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I want to set up synchronization of my laptop with my desktop as a means of backup (in case my laptop gets stolen, hit by a 18-wheeler, etc). Doing some search on the net the following options seemed to emerge, with different pros and cons: - rsync: old, well-tested, but with a clear

[expert] Problem with file systems ?

2002-02-18 Thread Eduardo P.Romn O.
Hi, i want to know if the follow out said some thing wrong ; [root@epropc root]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 9.2G 4.7G 4.0G 54% / none 62M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm Segmentation fault [root@epropc root]# Why i get

[expert] logging out of Blackbox

2002-02-18 Thread Curtis H
Uhh... Somebody remind me of how to log out of Blackbox. curtis@freire curtis$ rpm -q blackbox blackbox-0.62.1-1mdk /curtis --**--**--** Current Linux kernel 2.4.17-16mdk uptime: 2 days 0 hours 8 minutes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread Manuel Haro Marquez
Hi everybody..! I have problems installing my POP3 Server, somebody knows about a POP3 Server that works fine in Mandrake 8.0 usin postfix? Thanks in advanced...! Manuel Haro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Laptop/desktop synchronization

2002-02-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: - rsync: old, well-tested, but with a clear client/server distinction, should be run explicitly (or through cron) - unison: consider the two copies equal, should be run explicitly - InterMezzo: automatic when connection is available, only whole file systems

[expert] Disk Concatenaton in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-18 Thread Ben
I'm running out of space on my root partition, and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to concatenate a partition with an additional hard drive to get more space. I can scrounge up another hard drive, but don't want to have to move/reinstall/copy/etc. If there's a HOWTO, website, or guru

Re: [expert] logging out of Blackbox

2002-02-18 Thread Chuck Shirley
On Monday 18 February 2002 18:43, Curtis H wrote: Uhh... Somebody remind me of how to log out of Blackbox. curtis@freire curtis$ rpm -q blackbox blackbox-0.62.1-1mdk This is cooker version I think. The menu entry is gone for some reason. They are working on it. In the meantime, I made a

[expert] LILO Problem - Loading Linux EBDA too big

2002-02-18 Thread Jorge A. Pichardo
Hi all, I posted my problem in the newbies group and didn't get no answer yet. So I posted it here. For some reason this morning appeared a message in my linux box: Loading Linux EBDA too big and the system halts. It is the same everytime I boot it. I tried to rescue it with the mandrake

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Viron
pop3 has absolutely nothing to do with postfix (which provides smtp capabilities). What you need to do is: 1. Make sure imap is installed -- around 90% of the time, this is why you can't get pop3 working. 2. Make sure xinetd is installed -- if it isn't, pop3 will not work 3. Make sure pop3

Re: [expert] LILO Problem - Loading Linux EBDA too big

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Parish
Have you upgraded the kernel by any chance? This is usually the scenario that causes this. Anyway, the easiest way out is to boot from the install CD, choose expert mode, choose update, choose no packages to install, then just run through a standard install (very quickly). This should

Re: [expert] Disk Concatenaton in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:54:41 -0500, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running out of space on my root partition, and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to concatenate a partition with an additional hard drive to get more space. I can scrounge up another hard drive, but don't want to have

Re: [expert] startx script for any who want it :)y

2002-02-18 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Unfortunately MyMyX doesn't work. It wrecks the command line for good. Many thanks Ed On Sunday 17 February 2002 03:59 pm, you wrote: Here it is, very simple, the README says it all. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] MySql permissions and configuration

2002-02-18 Thread udo rader
hi, my.cnf is **not** for setting up permissions like who is allowed to create/alter/update/etc tables. if you are not allowed to alter tables, it is **very** likely that you have to GRANT the user you are using to connect to the database the relevant permissions: first log into the database:

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Leone
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:41, Michael Viron wrote: pop3 has absolutely nothing to do with postfix (which provides smtp capabilities). What you need to do is: 1. Make sure imap is installed -- around 90% of the time, this is why you can't get pop3 working. I got POP3 working with

[expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread mike
Hi everyone, I hope this isn't dumb, and that something isn't already installed in my system, but ... Is there software similar to virtual drive ( the cd drive emulator )? I have some cd I would like to use in linux from a virtual cd drive, so I don't have to use the cd all the time. Is

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Parish
Well if you have your CD mounted, it's just another file system. /mnt/cdrom or whatever right? Therefore if you make a directory - say ~/cdrom and copy the contents of the CD to it and make everything from ~/cdrom on down read only, wouldn't that look pretty much the same? Maybe you are

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Viron
I got POP3 working with postfix, well before I installed IMAP. granted, I'm doing postfix on a Debian server, but still. POP3 doesn't depend on IMAP at all. In Mandrake, at least, ipop3d (the software which provides POP3 access) is provided by the imap rpm which also provides the server for

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Copy the cd to disk as a iso - use dd or a cd record program put the following in fstab (all on one line of course, changing the iso name and mount point as required!): /home/rpm/cd/Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso /home/rpm/cd/cd1 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,auto,loop 0 0

Re: [expert] Bttv Tv driver detection

2002-02-18 Thread lornes
On Monday 18 February 2002 07:39 am, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, lornes wrote: I noticed that when I set up the TV card that Mandrake was apparently detecting the address incorrectly. I was getting an error message of overlay mode is not working because BTTV initialized with the wrong

Re: [expert] Brooktree Bt848 TV with DMA push

2002-02-18 Thread lornes
On Monday 18 February 2002 01:18 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: !, I seem to be having problems with a Tuner card on Mandrake 8.2 Beta 2+. The card seems to be detected OK, but a 'scantv' with NTSC and canada-cable turns up 'no station' on everything. I've check the cable, and it works

Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!)

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Holt
Yesterday... Dave Sherman ran for the door shrieking: Date: 17 Feb 2002 14:58:35 -0600 From: Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake-expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SOLVED! (Was Re: [expert] Evolution error!) On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 10:19, Michael Holt wrote:

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 18 February 2002 20:45, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 19:41, Michael Viron wrote: pop3 has absolutely nothing to do with postfix (which provides smtp capabilities). What you need to do is: 1. Make sure imap is installed -- around 90% of the time, this is why you can't

Re: [expert] Brooktree Bt848 TV with DMA push

2002-02-18 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Monday 18 February 2002 20:51, you wrote: On Monday 18 February 2002 01:18 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: !, I seem to be having problems with a Tuner card on Mandrake 8.2 Beta 2+. The card seems to be detected OK, but a 'scantv' with NTSC and canada-cable turns up 'no station' on

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread mike
Brian Parish wrote: Well if you have your CD mounted, it's just another file system. /mnt/cdrom or whatever right? Therefore if you make a directory - say ~/cdrom and copy the contents of the CD to it and make everything from ~/cdrom on down read only, wouldn't that look pretty much the

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread mike
William Kenworthy wrote: Copy the cd to disk as a iso - use dd or a cd record program put the following in fstab (all on one line of course, changing the iso name and mount point as required!): /home/rpm/cd/Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso /home/rpm/cd/cd1 auto

RE: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread Chad
I believe this will give you what you are looking for. Assumptions: a. Your CD-ROM mounts at /mnt/cdrom b. Your disk drive has enough space c. The commands are installed on your system. d. The cd you want to put on a virtual drive is a Star Office disc (used only for descriptive file/directory

Re: [expert] Brooktree Bt848 TV with DMA push

2002-02-18 Thread lornes
On Monday 18 February 2002 11:01 pm, J.P. Pasnak wrote: Just snow. I hooked the cable up to the TV, and it works fine. Tried both connectors (it has TV/Radio and no manual :)), and still nothing. I don't have any Windows boxes around here anymore, so I can't test it that way Gee.

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Yes, the mount point looks and works the same as if the file is a physical device. There are some advantages over the copy the files from cd method such as only dealing with one file, being able to reburn to cd without having to recreate the iso. I have used both ways and whilst initially more

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread mike
Serious use meaning.? I don't understand what difference there is, use is use aint it? and what is the sanitizer stuff at the bottom? William Kenworthy wrote: Yes, the mount point looks and works the same as if the file is a physical device. There are some advantages over the copy

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread James
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:29:12 -0600 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Serious use meaning.? I don't understand what difference there is, use is use aint it? and what is the sanitizer stuff at the bottom? Yes... but to many, if it isn't elegant it isn't right... for the rest of us, 4

Re: [expert] virtual drive for Linux?

2002-02-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
»mike« sagte am 2002-02-18 um 20:57:40 -0600 : I have some cd I would like to use in linux from a virtual cd drive, so I don't have to use the cd all the time. You mean, you've got a file which contains the software from a CD and want to see what's on it? mount -o loop -t iso9660,ro

Re: [expert] POP3 Server problems in MK 8.0

2002-02-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Manuel Haro Marquez« sagte am 2002-02-18 um 17:49:43 -0600 : I have problems installing my POP3 Server, somebody knows about a POP3 What are the exact problems? Server that works fine in Mandrake 8.0 usin postfix? Yes. All the POP servers which are shipped in Main or in Contribs.

[expert] Timwarp

2002-02-18 Thread James
All, For people who wonder why you don't maintain a large site with vi. I submit the following time warp page from the mandrake site. According to this PowerPack 7.2 is the latest release. *grin* (I'm not complaining just enjoying please no one take offense on this.)