Re: [expert] Gphoto 2 on 8.1

2002-03-22 Thread kwan
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Phil wrote: > Hello All, > > I posted a similar question to this some time ago and didn't get a response. > With the current interest in this thread I thought I'd try again. > > I have a Kodak DC3400 camera that works correctly under Linux if I > use a serial port but not wit

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I am not an expert and have never done this in practice. Anyway... My understanding is that PPPoE and DHCP are mutually exclusive (see also http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/configure.html). Which one does your Telco use? Assuming it is PPPoE, ifconfig should show both the ppp and the et

[expert] depmod -a excruciating slow

2002-03-22 Thread pesarif
Is there a reason for this? I mean: if every time I have to add a new hardware device and configure /etc/modules.conf, I have to wait several minutes for depmod -a? Plug and Pray? Thanks, pesarif Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-22 Thread David
Everyone, Thanks for your posts. Make uninstall worked. thanx Dave On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:31:09 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said onto me: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David wrote: > > I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the > > ./configure cmd that

[expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread Larry Blodgett
Something is strange in Gotham City. I have been using Mandrake from the beginning. I am a big fan but the 8.2 will not configure correctly in so many different ways it is hard to list them all. Network access is not only corrupted but it even corrupts the whole network. I have installed severa

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
care to give more details about your claims? seems to me that its just you. im not saying that mandrake 8.2 is a very very neat distro but just claiming this and that and blaming it all on the distro is not at all gonna help you solve your problems. giving more info about what you did, your hardwa

[expert] new user and NIS

2002-03-22 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi People, I am missing something. I have a NIS server where I set new users and some others computers connected to it by ypclient. However now I've put some new users and they cannot log in the satellite machines. I did 'make in /var/yp/' and restart yp services, but nothing worked.

Re: [expert] cannot set DMA to my HD.

2002-03-22 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
have you enabled "Generic PCI DMA support" on your new kernel? --- Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I tried 'hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda' and I got: > /dev/hda: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) >

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:09 pm, David Guntner wrote: > Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > but I betcha cpuburn would'a ;) > > It may well have. But after what I've read about the program, > there's no way in hell I was going to run it without a way to > actively monitor my CPU tem

Re: [expert] cannot set DMA to my HD.

2002-03-22 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi, thank you for your attention. Yes I set. Only Non pci DMA is unset (from config file): # CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set Otherwise I used config file from MDK 8.1 with minimal changes. On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > have you enabled "Generic PCI DMA support

Re: [expert] USB mouse - no hotplug?

2002-03-22 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > While I was trying to make my USB mouse work (it doesnt work with > usbmouse, I need hid) I discovered that I can unload both usb-[uo]hci > and hid while mousedev is loaded. But if I have everything up and > running, then unload hid and load it again, the mo

Re: [expert] Problem with Mandrake 8.2 and ATI XPERT XL

2002-03-22 Thread Wayne Stout
Start gears from an xterm with the command 'gears -fps' and watch the xterm screen for a report on the speed. Some 3d games work just fine with 3.3.6, others have been compiled against the 4.x series. I haven't tried downloading the tarball and compiling tuxracer myself, but with the precompil

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-22 Thread alberto passariello
I installed MDK 8.1 on a  dual AMD athlon 1900+ asus mainboard with a geforce video board and an  adaptec 29160 64bit  without any problem at all. On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 19:13, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: I haven't the opportunity to meet a dual mobo AMD yet. However I've been so

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-22 Thread David Guntner
Tom Brinkman grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:09 pm, David Guntner wrote: > > > > It may well have. But after what I've read about the program, > > there's no way in hell I was going to run it without a way to > > actively monitor my CPU temp while it was running. :-

[expert] Changing "Install system updates" for 8.2 install

2002-03-22 Thread Sven Heinicke
Hi, So far 8.2 looks good, and I really like the automatic "Install system updates" during the install. But I keep a local mirror of the updates. Anybody know how to modify the install script to put my local mirror on the list of mirror sites to pick? Sven Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-22 Thread John Young
I have installed VMwareWorkstation-3.0.0-1455.i386.rpm on my ML 8.1 and 8.2 (upgraded from 8.1) without any problem. Even though the vmware-config.pl gave a warning message for gcc-2.96 version on 8.2, the installation was successful if I said "yes" after the warning. Also, you can change the p

Re: [expert] new user and NIS

2002-03-22 Thread Sven Heinicke
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: > Hi People, > > I am missing something. I have a NIS server where I set new users > and some others computers connected to it by ypclient. However now I've > put some new users and they cannot log in the satellite machines. I did > 'make in /var/yp/' a

[expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread Edvard Wikström
Hi, I posted this question at the newbie list but got no luck, they suggested to post it here instead. Here it goes. I´m trying to install Mandrake 8.1 with no luck. When I boot the machine with the CD or the floppy with the cdrom.img it stops just after this line: "SYSLINUX 1.48 Linux-Mandrake

[expert] Troubles with pop daemon

2002-03-22 Thread rbsteffes
No matter what I do I can't seem to get the pop daemon to work. I'm trying to use ipop3d from the imap package and it seems to work ok, but it doesn't start on boot. Every help guide says to put some lines into inetd.conf which is conspicuously absent. In xinetd.d I've got an ipop3 script with:

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-22 Thread Ashley Moore
after seeing this thread I decided to monitor my PC ... :) the Ali1535 that i have is well supported. 'sensors' give me [root@omni etc]# sensors w83782d-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus ALI1535 adapter at e800 Algorithm: Non-i2c SMBus adapter VCore 1: +1.80 V (min = +1.74 V, max = +1.93 V) ALA

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Yeah, I'm getting real sick of this M$ cloak-and-dagger assassin crap. It's like in the last week or so somebody uncorked the bottle containing every clueless slime crawling M$ troller in the world. I mean, here this guy that Dianne responded to has only sent three messages to the expert list si

RE: [expert] Troubles with pop daemon

2002-03-22 Thread David Stevenson
Put the contents of that script into xinetd.conf, that should be all required. The ip/range should also be allowed to connect in the /etc/hosts.* files. HTH Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2002 07:18

[expert] pppd shutting down

2002-03-22 Thread Mike Rambo
I have a machine set up at to facilitate sharing of a dial up connection for my home network. I am finding that pppd will suddenly die completely or sometimes just become unresponsive requiring a restart. The box is an older one still running mdk7.1 (yeah I know it's older but then so is the box).

Re: [expert] Single network firewall install problem

2002-03-22 Thread Development
Two things that could be the problem: 1) CD ROM (Swap the CD ROM from a box that you know works) 2) Network Card (The SNF does not work with the tulip driver) Using 2 3COM NICs of the same model need to be configured from within the cards bios before you install the OS. Usualy you can inst

RE: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread Edvard Wikström
Hello again, I should have mentioned that both the CD and the floppy disk work without any problems. I used them to install 8.1 in another machine that I have. Just to be sure, I checked again and they work. I have also tried the other.img to see if that would work, it gives me nothing. Any id

[expert] testing 123

2002-03-22 Thread Craig Woods
testing 12345 . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Corporate Server Edition

2002-03-22 Thread Carl Lindgren
Does anyone know why the mirror listing for the CSE has been taken off the download page? Is Mandrake not developing the CSE anymore? Carl Lindgren C. R. Lindgren Consuting Minneapolis, MN Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] testing 123

2002-03-22 Thread bascule
well come on...do those numbers still work? is there something about the nature of reality you're not telling us? are maths degrees now worthless? :-) are 67890 okay? i can't bear the suspense :-) bascule (can you tell i'm bored?) On Friday 22 March 2002 9:47 pm, you wrote: > testing 12345 ...

[Fwd: Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????]

2002-03-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Yeah, I'm getting real sick of this M$ cloak-and-dagger > assassin crap. > Now we get this one. Now you all please pardon me if you > think I'm being slightly paranoid; Hey Lyvim, Do you think Bad Billy could in fact be lurking here? > I mean, here this guy that Diann

Re: [expert] testing 123

2002-03-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
bascule wrote: > > well come on...do those numbers still work? is there something about the > nature of reality you're not telling us? are maths degrees now worthless? :-) > are 67890 okay? > > i can't bear the suspense :-) > > bascule > (can you tell i'm bored?) > Bascule, it seems as though

[expert] moving mysql database

2002-03-22 Thread Darren King
I have just upgraded to 8.2...so far so good. I bought a new drive for the upgrade so I have the luxury of copying all my data from my 8.0 installation over to my 8.2 install. I need to know where the mysql databases are kept so I can move them over. Should I move the database files over or

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread Darren King
Hmmmworked ok for me. I have 2 NICs in my machine and they configured fine...dhcp to the internet and the other one is the NAT server for my home network. One thing that I did find missing is the firewall settings though. Darren On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 00:55, Larry Blodgett wrote: > Somethin

Re: [expert] testing 123

2002-03-22 Thread ken
42 Ken On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 14:26, J. Craig Woods wrote: > bascule wrote: > > > > well come on...do those numbers still work? is there something about the > > nature of reality you're not telling us? are maths degrees now worthless? :-) > > are 67890 okay? > > > > i can't bear the suspense :-

Re: [expert] testing 123

2002-03-22 Thread bascule
i don't know about that, but i do demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty:-) bascule member of the union of amalgamated philosophers, sages, luminaries and other thinking persons On Friday 22 March 2002 10:26 pm, you wrote: > Bascule, it seems as though you are truly an empirici

[expert] I am sorry

2002-03-22 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
Hey Mandrake people. I have been a mandrake user from 6.1 and up. And i love what you have done for the comunity but now it has to end. Mandrake 8.2 is the worst crap i have ever used it is bloated with strange config files, your scripts are not in the standard form and my system is not usable. T

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > > Hey Mandrake people. > > I have been a mandrake user from 6.1 and up. And i love what you have done > for the comunity but now it has to end. Mandrake 8.2 is the worst crap i > have ever used it is bloated with strange config files, your scripts are > not in th

Re: [expert] Troubles with pop daemon

2002-03-22 Thread Ryan B Steffes
My current xinitd.conf contains: defaults {     instances   = 60     log_type    = SYSLOG authpriv     log_on_success  = HOST PID     log_on_failure  = HOST } swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat includedir /etc/xinetd.d I

[expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200

2002-03-22 Thread Al Niessner
I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start with, I had to use the usb.img kernel on floppy to get anywhere in the install proces

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
Edvard Wikström wrote: >Hi, >I posted this question at the newbie list but got no luck, they suggested to post it >here instead. Here it goes. >I´m trying to install Mandrake 8.1 with no luck. When I boot the machine with the CD >or the floppy with the cdrom.img it stops just after this line: >

[expert] [Fwd: can't send to list]

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
I've been trying to send questions to the expert list and for some reason I never see them posted, what could be causing this problem? I'm using Postfix as my MTA and my firewall is running the bare min. in software. Another problem I seem to be having is that I can't update my Firewall box, (r

Re: [expert] moving mysql database

2002-03-22 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 23 March 2002 02:31 am, you wrote: > I have just upgraded to 8.2...so far so good. > > I bought a new drive for the upgrade so I have the luxury of copying all > my data from my 8.0 installation over to my 8.2 install. I need to > know where the mysql databases are kept so I can move

[expert] Major problems with Xwindows in 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread David ..
Something funky is really going on. I installed 8.2 on Wednesday evening and all was well and I had rebooted 2-3 times since the first install. But last night something funky happened. Btw. I've got a Nvidia TNT2(32megs) card and a HP4033A monitor. Last night, while streaming my fav radio stat

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 10:43, civileme wrote: > Edvard Wikström wrote: > > >Hi, > >I posted this question at the newbie list but got no luck, they suggested to post >it here instead. Here it goes. > >I´m trying to install Mandrake 8.1 with no luck. When I boot the machine with the >CD or the flo

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-22 Thread Ashley Moore
I finally got a chance to work with this again and this time got in touch with the isp. it turns out that they one of those that bind the client eth0 h/w addr into their config. (i guess this process happens automatically during the setup under windoze..)and they ARE running pppoe and not dhcp. un

Re: [expert] 8.2 and Sony Vaio FX200 [OT}

2002-03-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 07 November 2036 06:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: > I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my > laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and > full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start > with, I had to use the

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >Yeah, I'm getting real sick of this M$ cloak-and-dagger assassin crap. >It's like in the last week or so somebody uncorked the bottle containing >every clueless slime crawling M$ troller in the world. > >I mean, here this guy that Dianne responded to has only sent three >mes

[expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Darren King
Damn...I find it hard to believe this new release went through so many betas and RC's and still has showstopper bugs in it. What really pisses me off is that old versions of the software worked fine so it seems that mandrake put new stuff in just because it's new and not because it's any better.

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: >On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 10:43, civileme wrote: > >>Edvard Wikström wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>I posted this question at the newbie list but got no luck, they suggested to post >it here instead. Here it goes. >>>I´m trying to install Mandrake 8.1 with no luck. When I boot the machine

Sound now working in 8.2 was -- Re: [expert] Sound broken in 8.2 works fine in 8.1

2002-03-22 Thread msh
I recompiled the kernel with the CMI8738 drivers built-into the kernel. I also got rid of a lot of apparently superflous sound stuff (OSS drivers?) and drivers for hardware I don't have. Now sound works fine. If anybody else with the same (or similar) hardware runs into this problem I'd be

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Guidry
Darren King wrote: > Damn...I find it hard to believe this new release went through so many > betas and RC's and still has showstopper bugs in it. What really pisses > me off is that old versions of the software worked fine so it seems that > mandrake put new stuff in just because it's new and no

[expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Snyder
Hi All, I put mdk 8.2 on my test drive then I decided that I wanted to test out VMWare. Of course I'd much prefer to test out such things on my test system. It seems though that VMWare requires certain kernel modules which are not out and do not compile when it tries to compile them itself. Plu

Re: [expert] problems building the vmmon module

2002-03-22 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Fixed yesterday - removed the two egcs packages that were installed and it went with 2.96. I have an idea the packages are used for kernel compiles, so I will need to put them back eventually. Does 8.2 (I will be upgrading in a couple of weeks) have this problem as well? BillK On Sat, 2002-03-

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jason Guidry wrote: > > my patience with this constant barrage of complaints disguised as > questions is wearing thin. no one forced this distro on your computer. > If you want help, ask your question with the understanding that most > of us DO NOT work for MandrakeSoft. > I agree, Jason, bu

Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 01:47, Jason Snyder escribió: > Hi All, > I put mdk 8.2 on my test drive then I decided that I wanted to test out > VMWare. Of course I'd much prefer to test out such things on my test > system. It seems though that VMWare requires certain kernel modules > which are not

Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-22 Thread Hoyt
> help. Has anyone been able to make VMWare work on mdk 8.2 or have any > idea of what is going on with VMWare's planned support for mdk 8.2? I haven't yet installed VMware, but it's nice to see that Netraverse already has Mandrake 8.2 kernels at their site. 8) Thanks, Mandrake and Netraverse.

Re: [expert] was:8.2 cd burning issues, OT now: new list pls! complaints here!

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
*raises her hand* Can I run it & be a list nazi??? PLASEE! Civilme knows i'll be good I promise *innocent smile* Femme "J. Craig Woods" wrote: > > Jason Guidry wrote: > > > > my patience with this constant barrage of complaints disguised as > > questions is wearing thin

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Saturday 23 March 2002 16:22, you wrote: > The latest is cd burning. I use xcdroast, have been for ages with no > > Darren Hi That's not only one...Eroaster doesn't work.In 8.2 there is "too new" Python,what eroaster can't handle. Eroaster itself starts ok,but can't find reader or burner...

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Darren King
easy man! I was venting at having problems with the new release...happens to all of us. I didn test the rc's ...I waited for the final release, assuming that obvious bugs would be taken care of. Guess burning cd's is an obscure thing only 1 or 2 of us do. your point is lame any way. Mandrake

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Darren King
Nice attitude guys. You're right maybe I should be on the beginner list. I've been using linux since kernel 0.9...I am a unix sys admin, have been for 11 years now. I've used over 20 different types of Unix in production environments. But I guess it's unreasonable for me to expect a program th

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread FemmeFatale
Please do join the Newbie list...much more lively. And we can always use a Sys Admins ideas :) Forewarning: Its messier (as in more msgs a day). Femme Darren King wrote: > > Nice attitude guys. You're right maybe I should be on the beginner > list. I've been using linux since kernel 0.9...I

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Brian Parish
Jarmo, Check the newbie archives from a couple of days ago. Tom Brinkman posted a URL for a version of Eroaster that was fixed to work with 8.2. In fact for your greater shopping convenience, here is the relevant excerpt: I just got a rpm from Texstar that he said he 'fixe

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Saturday 23 March 2002 20:03, you wrote: > easy man! I was venting at having problems with the new > > your point is lame any way. Mandrake didn't get to the bug in time? > Guess they're going the MS wayjust release it so we don't miss a > release datewe'll fix bugs later! > > Darren

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread falcaraz
I communicated that to crashtesters list and cooker list at least two times from beta 3; but finally the buggy xcdroast was put in 8.2. Cdrecord and mkisofts are runing fine so the problem is the xcdroast package. Solution: use other front-end for burning cds or, if you as me like xcdroast, take t

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-22 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Saturday 23 March 2002 09:24, you wrote: > Jarmo, > > Check the newbie archives from a couple of days ago. Tom Brinkman > posted a URL for a version of Eroaster that was fixed to work with 8.2. > In fact for your greater shopping convenience, here is the relevant > excerpt: Ok...I'll check...