Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 18:08, J. Craig Woods wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Edvard Wikström wrote: 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

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

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Darren King wrote: 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

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 18:08, J. Craig Woods wrote: 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

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

2002-03-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 22:02, civileme wrote: Well, remember that the list archive is public and now some advertising departments can be quoting excerpts from our archives... Pretty good ploy, I would say, and typical of the predatory attitude we _don't_ represent. Civileme Well,

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

2002-03-23 Thread James
Ashley, If they grab the mac address what would happen if you put it in a winbox.. connect. Then put the nic card back into the linux box just a thought. James On 22 Mar 2002 06:07:05 -0800 Ashley Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got a chance to work with this again and this

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Just a thought - you have added the users doing the burning to the crom and cdwriter groups? BillK On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 02:03, Darren King wrote: Guess burning cd's is an obscure thing only 1 or 2 of us do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

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

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi larry, im responding to the list on this so that the others know you are not really the *troll* we thought you were ... --- Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:44:46 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dianne, Thanks for

[expert] sensor readings

2002-03-23 Thread Brian Parish
After having followed the: What would cause system to just stop? thread I finally got around to getting sensors going on my main box. The output I get is: eeprom-i2c-0-52 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter eeprom-i2c-0-53 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
very interesting. It shits me that they wouldn't put the stable xcdroast in there as opposed to putting the one that doesn't work in there. Darren On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I communicated that to crashtesters list and cooker list at least two times from beta 3;

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
Way to go guysreally in the spirit of linux. Let's all mock users who are having a hard time. Darren On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 18:08, J. Craig Woods wrote: Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hey Mandrake people. I have been a

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

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi alan whats the output of your lspci? or the /proc/pci? my dmesg shows me this for my ide drive: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
i dont see how you can help people who claim to be having a hard time with the distro and not telling you specifics of how/when they get the problems. what is standard in their terms? what makes mandrake not standard? how did his system become unusable? just looking at his email, are you able to

Re: [expert] rpm --rebuilddb core dumps, and (at one time) rpm -a -q gave reasonable output. ARGH

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:03:23 -0700 (MST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RC on MandrakeExpert) studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I said: Well, I tried using the other subject, and have heard silence since then. So, I'l ltry with a new subject. H E L P! Im dead in the water as far as RPM

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

2002-03-23 Thread Simone Riccio
Well, i put 8.2 on 5 PCs (ominbook xe2, omnibook xe3, 2 PIV 1.6, Athlon 1.2) them all in a network environment and wih all different NICs. I had no trouble at all in networking (SMB, Netware, NFS), and i found the system a little more responsive than 8.1. (OT - what keeps positvely

[expert] mount -o loop

2002-03-23 Thread David Stevenson
HI All, I have a need to mount some iso images at boot time. Is there options to do this in the /etc/fstab ? I have played around with various options but to no avail. I am using 8.1mdk. The mount command works manually, its just the format in the fstab. The fstab man page does not comment on

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

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: hi larry, im responding to the list on this so that the others know you are not really the *troll* we thought you were ... --- Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:44:46 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Larry Blodgett [EMAIL

RE: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Robin
I really don't want to add fuel and lengthen all these already heated threads, but with all the complained I have been seeing in the last few days, I just wanted to say that I really like 8.2. I have installed 8.2 on two computers, one on a 450 with /home saved from 8.1 and one clean install on a

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

2002-03-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 05:41, Simone Riccio wrote: Well, i put 8.2 on 5 PCs (ominbook xe2, omnibook xe3, 2 PIV 1.6, Athlon 1.2) them all in a network environment and wih all different NICs. I had no trouble at all in networking (SMB, Netware, NFS), and i found the system a little more

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

2002-03-23 Thread Robin
Hi, What you need to do is register your mac with Telus. Their DHCP server will give ip only to registered mac address. It's an always on connection, you don't need to use pppoe, just plain old dhcp client would be fine. If you are close to Vancouver, I can give you a hand. Robin

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

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi civileme --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure it is possible to take a network down with a single machine. There is a program called macof which does a neat job if not limited to its intended purpose which is to flood the local with random MAC addresses until the switches

Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread tsmets
No idea ... Look at Kernel issues / version / ... Apparently this is a huge drawback of VMW on Linux ! It's rather sensitive to Kernel versions ! thomas, -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Bruxelles yahoo-id : smetsthomas - Original Message - From: Jason Snyder [EMAIL

Re: [expert] mount -o loop

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi david just put it as an option like how you put the other mount options. heres my /etc/fstab entry : /home/music/cd1.iso /home/music/cdmusic1 iso9660 loop 0 0 yeah, its easy to know that im mounting mp3 cds grin hth dianne --- David Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I have a

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

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: [...] i still dont see how a fresh install could bring a whole network down. i dont really see any logical explanation for this. im a network engineer. not so good but i know the basics. are you saying your whole network freezed ? meaning, all

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

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
guys, lets get focused... we are talking about a ***newly installed mdk 8.2 system***. there are 1001+++ ways to bring a network down from one machine if you really had the intention to do so. there are detailed documentations for such (trolldisguised as networking monitoring tools/troll) all

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:13:52 +0200 Jarmo Kettunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: 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

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:16:17 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: 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 Femme, you're such an

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

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 23 Mar 2002 06:22:09 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 05:41, Simone Riccio wrote: Well, i put 8.2 on 5 PCs (ominbook xe2, omnibook xe3, 2 PIV 1.6, Athlon 1.2) them all in a network environment and wih all different

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

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:14:03 -0600 J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: 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

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

2002-03-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:50:18 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: *raises her hand* Can I run it be a list nazi??? PLASEE! Any excuse to put on black leather boots! ;o) Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 02:18:50 -0800 (PST) Dianne Marie Montesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: i dont see how you can help people who claim to be having a hard time with the distro and not telling you specifics of how/when they get the problems. what is standard in

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

2002-03-23 Thread Lorne Shantz
Probably a Mickeysoft employee being paid to spread FUD. hahahaha 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

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

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: it could be that it just so happen that the network went down after his install(coincidence?). maybe he can try expert mode install again using the same card and see if he can replicate such occurence. or try installing 8.2 again using a

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread Lorne Shantz
It may also be a bad cdrom image no? 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

[expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small cluster consisting of only three machines, but apparently could scale without modification to 10

[expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Omnus Necromancy
I know, call me a heathen, but I'm really starting to question the usefulness of linux. I installed it perfectly on my TiBook Onyx and got everything working, almost. The video needed a special experimental kernel to run, and my sound was monologue, the dvd drive could not read cd disks or

Re: [expert] Troubles with pop daemon

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi to troubleshoot and verify that its not the firewall rules that causes the problem, disable the iptables first and see if your pop3 is working. i got the same entries for my /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3 file. works fine for me. flush your rules, then telnet localhost 110 ... see if that gives you

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread kwan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? The penguin logo is pretty nifty. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:48:41 -0500, Omnus Necromancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, call me a heathen, but I'm really starting to question the usefulness of linux. I installed it perfectly on my TiBook Onyx and got everything working, almost. The video needed a special experimental

[expert] Turning Mandrake in a powerfull web proxy server + firewall

2002-03-23 Thread faisal gillani
Hello there I have just downloaded mandrake 8.2 linux .. i basically run windows 2000 server on my network but i wana give Linux mandrake a try everything is going fine but i ma stuck on one thing .. that is ppp dailup connection how can i dailup from command mode connect dissconnect

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
aaarrrggghhh alert troll alert /alert --- Omnus Necromancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and now I pose this question to you: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? anyways, to satisfy your curiosity, maybe these links

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

2002-03-23 Thread Jason Guidry
daRcmaTTeR etched into our conscienceness: 96% PBKC error (Problem between keyboard and chair) 3% Software 1% Hardware d00d, you're my knew hero. that has to be my favorite so far this year. [root@gmaestro /rpms]# rpm -ivh PBKC-2.0.22-3mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost)

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Oscar wrote: Hi all, Mandrake 8.2 is a excelent distro, but I still have one problem. With Mandrake 8.1 I could have the XFree 4.x, but with 8.2 I am forced to use 3.3.6. When I select 4.2.0, I obtain a screen that blinks, that seems to be unstable and with that it is not possible to to work.

[expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost)

2002-03-23 Thread Oscar
Hi all, Mandrake 8.2 is a excelent distro, but I still have one problem. With Mandrake 8.1 I could have the XFree 4.x, but with 8.2 I am forced to use 3.3.6. When I select 4.2.0, I obtain a screen that blinks, that seems to be unstable and with that it is not possible to to work. With my

Re: [expert] moving mysql database

2002-03-23 Thread Ken Thompson
On Friday 22 March 2002 05:45 pm, you wrote: 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

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

2002-03-23 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
LOL ... would changing AND between keyboard / chair solve the problem? grin using an OR or XOR instead ;-) would you tell me where to get RTFM rpm so that we can post it at rpmfind.net? --- Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daRcmaTTeR etched into our conscienceness: 96% PBKC

[expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hello All, I have recently come across an old project in my travels called Xdenu that is a very minimal distro which provides the Linux kernel and an Xserver along with the simplest window manager and almost no applications. What is even better is that the whole distro fits onto, and can be

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks for the information, civileme! For anybody that's interested in testing CD-Roms after burning, I started this page/project: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/Md5sumsAfterBurning If you test some CD-Roms after downloading and burning, please add your results to this TWiki page.

[expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Gérard Perreault
Lots of mail about MDK 8.2 not working well. Don't know why. Maybe those people are stressing their hardware to the limit. As for me, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 worked perfectly. I can't say the same for my office computer which is Windows 2000. But this is not why I write. I just found out that the

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

2002-03-23 Thread Jason Guidry
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: LOL ... would changing AND between keyboard / chair solve the problem? grin using an OR or XOR instead ;-) would you tell me where to get RTFM rpm so that we can post it at rpmfind.net? well, it looks like despite it's awfully high version number ;-), the

[expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 have network issues?

2002-03-23 Thread Lorne Shantz
I do networks too, and the only way I can think of is you have the system setup to stomp on another IP address, like the gateway IP address being used by your new 8.2 box... sure as heck would bring the whole network down!!! Course, I've NEVER done that myself... no never :) I'd sure love

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:36 -0500, Gérard Perreault wrote: I just found out that the new line of Intel chips may not run Windows 95. I found out using VMware that the Pentium 4 no longer supported Windows 95 and that you could not expect to install it on a pentium 4. My VMware under

[expert] Galeon Crashing in ML 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Neal Richter
I'm using a 2-hour old fresh install of ML 8.2. Galeon is crashing when I try to use tabs to open another window. I upgraded to Mozilla 0.9.9 Galeon 1.20 using the RPMs from Cooker. Mozilla is working fine. Galeon still crashes. I also tried reinstalling... no difference. I notice that at

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:36:35 -0500 Gérard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of mail about MDK 8.2 not working well. Don't know why. Maybe those people are stressing their hardware to the limit. As for me, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 worked perfectly. I can't say the same for my office computer

[expert] YaBQ: Yet nother burning question

2002-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, A burning question in a double sense. Hardware: Plextor CD-R PX W4220T (SCSI CD-RW) DawiControl SCSI Controler Software: WIn98, Nero 5.5.5.0 I d'led the iso files with my Linux machine, checked the md5sums. I don't have a CD writer in that machine so I transferred the files to

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

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:26:06 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: LOL ... would changing AND between keyboard / chair solve the problem? grin using an OR or XOR instead ;-) would you tell me where to get RTFM

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

2002-03-23 Thread Ashley Moore
and the support guy confirmed with me that they are running pppoe!!! i'll just set it up with dhcp (as i had done before) as i have registered the mac addr. (or so the support guy told me !) cheers, -- Ashley Moore. - Linux User#229125 - On Sat, 2002-03-23 at

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, I have recently come across an old project in my travels called Xdenu that is a very minimal distro which provides the Linux kernel and an Xserver along with the simplest window manager and almost no applications. What is even better is that the whole distro

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Simone Riccio
Because i can efficiently do whatever i used windoze for! I'm migrating all my company network to mdk boxes and i don't have any M$ servers right now.. which cut off all the downtime for their unpredictable slow downs and hanging! On the desktop side i have only MDK installed in many PCs...

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

2002-03-23 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:57:45 -0600 Jason Guidry [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: daRcmaTTeR etched into our conscienceness: 96% PBKC error (Problem between keyboard and chair) 3% Software 1% Hardware d00d, you're my knew hero. that has to be my

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

2002-03-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
You could bring down the network if you use IPX and turn on routing. Unlike TCP/IP where you have a default route, an IPX router anounces itself and then everyone else tries to use it. On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 07:10:36 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Dianne Marie

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers Install under 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Jeremy Mereness
If you decide to go for the NVidia drivers from NVidia, do you I need to EXPECT to recompile openGL stuff like xscreensaver ('cause they never work from the mdk RPM's with the 3rd party driver running)? Should you NOT install Mesa and Mesa-demos at all if you intend to use NVidia drivers? --

Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No idea ... Look at Kernel issues / version / ... Apparently this is a huge drawback of VMW on Linux ! It's rather sensitive to Kernel versions ! I'm going to be rather unhelpful by saying that I have an 8.2 system that it running VMWare 3.0

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Matt . Carpenter
If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? What else can I use which crosses almost all hardware borders, bringing the stability, power, and culture of Unix? It's one thing to be able to use another Unix, or OSX (which is, of course, a

[expert] Bootsplash

2002-03-23 Thread Dave Naylor
Hi Just installed 8.2 after a 5 day download (phew!). Anyway, bootsplash, try as I might I can't get it to work as I want. I get the Mandrake Splash Screen on booting but what I want to see is the kernel messages scroll through as the machine is booting. I get a few messages telling me

Re: [expert] Bootsplash

2002-03-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:51:40 + Dave Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Just installed 8.2 after a 5 day download (phew!). Anyway, bootsplash, try as I might I can't get it to work as I want. I get the Mandrake Splash Screen on booting but what I want to see is the kernel messages

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
No is flaming the list here. I am just frustrated that it seems that they replaced a working app with a non working one purely for the sake of upgrade. From the few non-flame reponses I have gotten, it seems that the bug in this app was reported but the new version of the app was still put in.

Re: [expert] Galeon Crashing in ML 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
What is the tab menu for? I just fired up galeon to see if this happens on my machine and I can't select anything from the tab menu. I'm using the galeon 1.03 that came with 8.2 Darren On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 05:51, Neal Richter wrote: I'm using a 2-hour old fresh install of ML 8.2. Galeon

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Michael Holt
1:52pm... Charles A Edwards ran for the door shrieking: Lots of mail about MDK 8.2 not working well. Don't know why. Maybe those people are stressing their hardware to the limit. As for me, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 worked perfectly. I can't say the same for my office computer which is Windows

Re: [expert] VMWare 3.0 and mdk 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Erik Kaffehr
Hi! You may try this: export CC=gcc vmware-config.pl if vmware complains about gcc-2.96 just say OK and try. Regards Erik lördagen den 23 mars 2002 21.30 skrev du: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No idea ... Look at Kernel issues / version / ... Apparently this is

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Holt wrote: Mandrake has released 8.2 with quite a few bugs, you may be one of the lucky few who are using a combination of the right hardware / not using a lot of the software packages available. Please, no flames, I'm not working for mickeysoft, it's just the facts. I'm not

RE: [expert] Bootsplash

2002-03-23 Thread Robin
You need to uninstall the bootsplash package and remove quiet in the append line in lilo. Robin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Naylor Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

Re: [expert] 8.2 cd burning issues

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
well love, of couse! someone has to troll for the newbs ;p Femme daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 00:16:17 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Please do join the Newbie list...much more lively. And we can always use a Sys Admins ideas

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Cheryl Brannan
At 08:53 AM 3/24/02 +1100, you wrote: Way to go guysreally in the spirit of linux. Let's all mock users who are having a hard time. Darren I disagree. This wasn't a user who was having a hard time and asking for help. This user just wanted to dial up and bitch. --Cheryl

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Where do I find 8.2 nvidia drivers? the rpm's on nvidias site don't work. I don't think anyway, cause I tried them. Femme civileme wrote: OK, try to tweak some things run XFdrake and configure _down_ your colors to 24 bits and see what happens... Try Option nobitblt Option

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hello, but if I am correct and as I talked to someone on the list a VERY long time ago, the size of that minimal Mandrake install was in the neighborhood of 150Meg which is still to large for what I am trying to do. From what I remember, that also loaded up many extra rpm's that I did not want

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
No worries. Some people here just come across as being a bit smug, that's all. Darren On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:11, Cheryl Brannan wrote: At 08:53 AM 3/24/02 +1100, you wrote: Way to go guysreally in the spirit of linux. Let's all mock users who are having a hard time. Darren I

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-23 Thread Darren King
I've never got the rpms to work. Download the source and build. I have had good luck doing that. Dazz On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:23, FemmeFatale wrote: Where do I find 8.2 nvidia drivers? the rpm's on nvidias site don't work. I don't think anyway, cause I tried them. Femme civileme

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

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Evangelization at its best? :) Nicely said Simon Femme Simone Riccio wrote: Well, i put 8.2 on 5 PCs (ominbook xe2, omnibook xe3, 2 PIV 1.6, Athlon 1.2) them all in a network environment and wih all different NICs. I had no trouble at all in networking (SMB, Netware, NFS), and i found

Re: [expert] Beowulf presentation

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought some Mandrake users might be interested in this: Last Thursday (3/15/02) our local Linux user group (http://www.flux.org) had a speaker demonstrating how to setup a Beowulf. It was a small cluster consisting of only three machines, but apparently could

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
*smiles* Nice response Kwan ;p I love it. :) Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? The penguin logo is pretty nifty.

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

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
*blushes* Is it that obvious!? :P Femme Michael Scottaline wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:50:18 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: *raises her hand* Can I run it be a list nazi??? PLASEE! Any excuse to put on

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
I tried smalllinux. Didn't work well for me...but I even got an Xwindow app for it. Femme Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Hello All, I have recently come across an old project in my travels called Xdenu that is a very minimal distro which provides the Linux kernel and an Xserver along with

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
whats cocoa? Personally i'm looking to replace windows with it. Except for gaming that is. So, I write, listen to music, surf, do heavy research, tweak fiddle with it. *shrugs* its a tool for me that doesn't crash. Femme Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing

Re: [expert] M$ has done it again. Good thing we have Linux.

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Ugh.. Figures. Thanks for the HUD. :\ I am going to ask some friends about this. If its true, we're in trouble...cause Intel is getting too cosy in bed with M$! :( Everyday I hear new reasons to go to an Athy chip. Femme Gérard Perreault wrote: It is obvious to me that Linux and product

Re: [expert] Galeon Crashing in ML 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Neal Richter
You can open new web-crowser windows in a tab rather than a seperate window. Mozilla 0.9.9 supports this as well. On 24 Mar 2002, Darren King wrote: What is the tab menu for? I just fired up galeon to see if this happens on my machine and I can't select anything from the tab menu. I'm

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
Even gaming is getting closer! But yeah I have an unsupported USB Lexmark X83 so have to go into windows for printing and scanning and games, but all my mp3's are on an ext3 partition! There are more choices for browsers, word processors, etc. on Linux. Cd burning even now works thanks to the

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread ed tharp
On Saturday 23 March 2002 10:51, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Omnus Necromancy wrote: If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux specifically, why are you using it? The penguin logo is pretty nifty. duawwwaaa.. girls like penguins.. duh Want to buy

Re: [expert] YaBQ: Yet nother burning question

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Try redownloading the ISO's or get MD5Summer. Nice program. it'll compile its own sums...and is a nice GUI to tell you if they don't match Femme Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Hi, A burning question in a double sense. Hardware: Plextor CD-R PX W4220T (SCSI CD-RW) DawiControl SCSI

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
Best post of this thread for sure! it can end now... duawwwaaa.. girls like penguins.. duh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost), OT vid drivers

2002-03-23 Thread FemmeFatale
K thx Darren. Going to have to figure out to do that now ;p Merci Femme Darren King wrote: I've never got the rpms to work. Download the source and build. I have had good luck doing that. Dazz On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 09:23, FemmeFatale wrote: Where do I find 8.2 nvidia drivers? the

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Cheryl Brannan wrote: At 08:53 AM 3/24/02 +1100, you wrote: Way to go guysreally in the spirit of linux. Let's all mock users who are having a hard time. I disagree. This wasn't a user who was having a hard time and asking for help. This user just wanted to dial up and bitch. Yes

Re: [expert] VIA Chipset Performance Handicap

2002-03-23 Thread Felix Miata
Darren King wrote: Felix Miata wrote: I currently have four machines with AMD chips and one (486) with Intel. If I had to buy a motherboard today, it would probably be one that uses an Intel CPU. Most AMD motherboards use performance crippled VIA chipsets. How good the CPU is matters

Re: [expert] Galeon Crashing in ML 8.2

2002-03-23 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 19:56, Neal Richter escribió: You can open new web-crowser windows in a tab rather than a seperate window. Mozilla 0.9.9 supports this as well. On 24 Mar 2002, Darren King wrote: What is the tab menu for? I just fired up galeon to see if this happens on my

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Damian
El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 11:48, Omnus Necromancy escribió: I know, call me a heathen, but I'm really starting to question the usefulness of linux. I installed it perfectly on my TiBook Onyx and got everything working, almost. The video needed a special experimental kernel to run, and my

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks, I'll take a look at it even though I was really hoping to find a way to set up a minimal Mandrake install that might be similar because Mandrake is more cutting-edge technology in my view and I have always had great luck running it. Thanks again, Lonnie I tried smalllinux. Didn't

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread Edvard Wikström
Hello again, Civileme, I followed your suggestion and tried the memory test program. I don´t know what conclusion to make of it. It took 50 minutes to complete and then it started the test again. I was expection som kind of status report or summary. Is this a normal behavior of the program?

RE:Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread Edvard Wikström
Hello again, Civileme, I followed your suggestion I tried the memory test program. I don´t know what conclusion to make of it. It took it 50 min to finish and then it started again. I was expectiing a status report or a summary. I didn´t get any information about the memory health. Is this a

Re: [expert] YaBQ: Yet nother burning question

2002-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 15:29 -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: Try redownloading the ISO's or get MD5Summer. Nice program. it'll compile its own sums...and is a nice GUI to tell you if they don't match Femme I already wrote that I checked the files with md5sum. Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

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

2002-03-23 Thread Ashley Moore
tks robin you put me on track... i just configured the adsl with noraml dhcp, and then restarted the network... silky smooth! cheers, thanks, -- Ashley Moore. - Linux User#229125 - On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 23:28, Ashley Moore wrote: and the support guy confirmed

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