[expert] Konqueror can't display GIFs, other KDE image problems

2002-04-01 Thread Richard Garand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I installed Mandrake 8.2 two days ago (and then stayed up many hours playing frozen-bubble :), konqueror has been unable to display .gif images, and my desktop background images don't display. I tried using konqueror and setting a desktop back

Re: [expert] Write access to windows partition for users

2002-04-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 03:59, Ashley Reynolds wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ross wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 March 2002 06:46 pm, you wrote: > > > > > just add umask=0 in the 4th field (options) of /etc/fstab for each vfat > > > partition. > > > > > > bye > > > jipe > > > > Right answer. Thanks. >

Re: [expert] /dev/tty12 - anybody seen?

2002-04-01 Thread Tim C
On Monday 01 April 2002 17:42, you wrote: > > I really do not not what happened to my logs redirect 'automagically' to > /dev/tty12!! > > It was handy, nice and desirable! > > But now it's gone! > snip > Where is all the logging on /dev/tty12? It seems dead! > It sounds like you changed the secu

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Lorne Shantz
I wonder if you are having an interrupt conflict of some sort that didn't show up before? Can you try moving some stuff around to free up that interrupt? Just a guess. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without > problems:

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Larry > First of all I try the installation with this ps2 wheel mouse attached > to the computer and no mouse appeared in the installation and of course > not option to install it. > > Secondly I try an installation with two mice attached, one serial and > the menti

[expert] Open-Office and Truetype fonts

2002-04-01 Thread Jesus Arocho
How can I import the fonts from windows? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XFS and Linux-Mandrake

2002-04-01 Thread Bryan Whitehead
> See the 'Which is better choice ext3 or ...' thread. On md8.1 myself and > others experience corruptions. can you please go into some more detail on this? We've (JPL) have had this problem as well, but would like to know if you've been able to create a way to trigger it. And if so has the prob

[expert] Palm m505 usb sync: Eureka! success

2002-04-01 Thread falcaraz
I gare, that was I did (Mandrake 8.2) A) download pilot-link cvs from http://www.pilot-link.org (pilot-link-0.10.99.tar.gz); tar zxvf pilot-link..; cd pilot-link; ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/extra/pilot-head --with-perl5=no --with-python=no make, make install. After the make, you can test if r

[expert] /dev/tty12 - anybody seen?

2002-04-01 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Hi, I really do not not what happened to my logs redirect 'automagically' to /dev/tty12!! It was handy, nice and desirable! But now it's gone! I had a power failure and the system went down BUT before that... I was trying to figure out how to select the messages there then I gave up and th

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Ken Thompson
On Monday 01 April 2002 10:30 am, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without > > problems: > > Pentium III 1Ghz, 256 Mb Ram; keyboard Microsoft USB, mouse ps2 whell > > Microsoft. > > > > Installation: no mou

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread falcaraz
Larry First of all I try the installation with this ps2 wheel mouse attached to the computer and no mouse appeared in the installation and of course not option to install it. Secondly I try an installation with two mice attached, one serial and the mentioned ps2. The serial appeared in the insta

Re: [expert] high load average

2002-04-01 Thread JOHN HEMMER
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, David Savolainen wrote: > > John, > As for the time on "bash" and "ps -aux", that is the start time, not the > actual cpu time used. As far as the r = 2 part, it isn't always that. > However, I always have at least r = 1. I don't recall exatly what I was > doing before

Re: [expert] uname time

2002-04-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 06:34, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > > > > hi john > > > > as far as i know, the date and time on 'uname -a' is > > the date and time when the booted kernel was built. > > > > i think it wouldnt match the current date no matter > > what you do ;-) >

Re: [expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear friends, > I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without > problems: > Pentium III 1Ghz, 256 Mb Ram; keyboard Microsoft USB, mouse ps2 whell > Microsoft. > > Installation: no mouse; if I have conected both, the Microsoft whell ps2 > an

[expert] Can Frame Buffer be shut down?

2002-04-01 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I boot into Mandrake with the Frame Buffer option so I have a nice, huge console screen available. Is there some way to break out of the Frame Buffer to the VGA text screen as one of the last steps of a shutdown? It appears that my video adapter, an STB Velocity 128 AGP OEM (or maybe it's my M

Re: [expert] Failing - first Boot after installation of Mdk8.2beta2 forPower PC on Mac TiBook

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 8.1, I seem to remember you could stick the cd in a windoze machine and the docs pop up in a browser. Its in the root of the cd as index.htm BillK On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:07, Rick Thomas wrote: > I found my problem. After booting the "rescue" from the CD, and using it > to reading the "yab

expert@linux-mandrake.com

2002-04-01 Thread Tim C
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 23:42, you wrote: > Dear Experts, > > I'm using Postfix on 8.0 and I want to BLOCK this type of garbage, I have > no idea on what line to look at or how to set postfix to block this. I've > read the manual and viewed some notes in Hacking linux exposed, but I still > have

expert@linux-mandrake.com

2002-04-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:42:51 +0900 Gavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check out my web page on this... http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix/ and for even more fun, mix in: http://pfortin.com/Linux/HoneyPort/ Knock on wood... I'm down to less than one per week that gets through... HTH, Pierre > Dear

expert@linux-mandrake.com

2002-04-01 Thread Gavin
Dear Experts, I'm using Postfix on 8.0 and I want to BLOCK this type of garbage, I have no idea on what line to look at or how to set postfix to block this. I've read the manual and viewed some notes in Hacking linux exposed, but I still have some questions. Thanks in advance. Gavin tex

Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] /bin/cat initiated by kwrited in KDE

2002-04-01 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
Paging civileme, Vincent Danen and other mandrakesoft cool and gorgeous guys ;) may i know what is the status of this? dont want to be so nosey but its really irritating to have a /bin/cat running on your mandrake+kde system ... and not see the same process on other distros like rh or

[expert] a Kdiff, Kdiff-2 or Kompare for MDK8.0

2002-04-01 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi List, Does anyone have a version of Kdiff, Kdiff-2 or Kompare in rpm format working with MDK8.0? I'd appreciate very much any help. --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho

Re: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing

2002-04-01 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > (The events below relate to before Christmas) > > > Oh, sure with all that egg nod in you, no wonder you were in the ditch... > > > Hmmm. Well, there's a misunderstanding here, first of all. Mandrake is > not forcing anything; as a matter of fact, my whole point abo

Re: [expert] uname time

2002-04-01 Thread J. Craig Woods
Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: > > hi john > > as far as i know, the date and time on 'uname -a' is > the date and time when the booted kernel was built. > > i think it wouldnt match the current date no matter > what you do ;-) > > anyway, have you been drinking too much lately ? > > Oh damn!

[expert] 8.2: ps2 wheel Microsoft mouse crashes

2002-04-01 Thread falcaraz
Dear friends, I am having problems to install 8.2 in a computer that runed 8.0 without problems: Pentium III 1Ghz, 256 Mb Ram; keyboard Microsoft USB, mouse ps2 whell Microsoft. Installation: no mouse; if I have conected both, the Microsoft whell ps2 and other serial mouse it start with the seria

Re: [expert] uname time

2002-04-01 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi john as far as i know, the date and time on 'uname -a' is the date and time when the booted kernel was built. i think it wouldnt match the current date no matter what you do ;-) anyway, have you been drinking too much lately ? cheers, dianne --- "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing

2002-04-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 04:04, J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Craig, > > -snip- > > (The events below relate to before Christmas) > > > > Anyway, I thought I'd let you know that I have a 98 machine here > > that does internet connection sharing thru this LM81 machine.

Re: [expert] Failing - first Boot after installation of Mdk 8.2beta2forPower PC on Mac TiBook

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Thomas
I found my problem. After booting the "rescue" from the CD, and using it to reading the "yaboot" man page (where it repeatedly pointed out that the Apple_Boot "bootstrap" partition should _not_ be mounted on the /boot mount point) I realized that I should not have made a mountpoint (especially no

Re: [expert] uname time

2002-04-01 Thread J. Craig Woods
Tim Cruikshank wrote: > > I think the command "uname -a" shows the date and time that the kernel was > compiled. > Here's the output from my system (Mandrake 8.2) > > tim ~ $ date > Mon Apr 1 04:06:54 AST 2002 > tim ~ $ uname -a > Linux linux 2.4.18-6mdk #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08 CET 2002 i686 unk

Re: [expert] uname time

2002-04-01 Thread Tim Cruikshank
On Monday 01 April 2002 03:18, you wrote: > Anyone have any ideas about where the command "uname -a" pulls the time > from i.e. what file or config setup. The time on my system is setup > correctly, and displays correctly everywhere except in the uname > command. Weird, eh? > > Dr John, > The Nigh

Re: [expert] Internet Connection Sharing(OFF LIST)

2002-04-01 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > Craig, > > Why would you want this off the list? It is a technical issue, > involving Mandrake. Lyvim This response was sent to the list, and should have been online. How did it get offline? Did I just send it to you? Maybe it is late, and my coffee is running low

[expert] Installing M8.2 on Sony PCG-C1MRX - second stage exited abnormally

2002-04-01 Thread Daniel Y H Wong
Due to a bug in the ide driver, I need to pass 'pci=conf2' or 'pci=off' at the command prompt when booting Mandrake 8.2. I have tried different way of installing it, including (CDROM, Hard Disk, network, pcmcia) and all halted at: in second stage install install exited abnormally :-( sending