Re: [expert] Apache website on a vfat partition .."urgent help please"

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Viron
It's probably because, by default, only the root user has access to vfat partitions. Do a search in the archives to locate what options you have to pass via fstab to get apache to have read / write privileges. If this is a production site, and you are running linux, I really would not suggest pu

[expert] Linux grrls break free

2002-04-06 Thread Ron Stodden
>From the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: Linux grrls break free By Adam Turner April 2 2002 A locker-room mentality inherent in many user groups and mailing lists was the catalyst for an online sexual revolution - resulting in an Linux user group targeted specifically for women. LinuxChix

[expert] Mandrake Club advocates: Post Positive

2002-04-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
The CEO of MandrakeSoft, Jacques Le Marois, recently submitted an article, titled "Our Mandrake Club makes business sense" to Newsforge, apparently in response to recent allegations by Newsforge (contrary btw to the perception that they actually "champion" the open source philosophy) that the Mand

[expert] Fast Mandrake Downloader

2002-04-06 Thread Ron Stodden
Users of our fast Mandrake downloader should check they have the latest version as identified by a last change date at the top of readme.html of: 2002 04 06 16 41 GMT. The downloader itself may be downloaded from: http://www.ains.net.au/~ronst/ This version deals correctly with the recent new

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-04-06 Thread J. Craig Woods
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > From: "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:56 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, > software development] > > > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > > > > A FLAMING Liberal and open sou

[expert] Fwd: mnt problems on compaq lappy

2002-04-06 Thread Jason Pearce
Hi list members, I have a compaq armada 7400 lappy running MDK8.0 I an having some dramas mounting the cdrom drive . this laptop has a swapable cd/dvd - floppy ie one bay two devices . when i open the mount directory it freezes konqueror. if left alone for a while it evetually comes up . I have

Re: [expert] added isa sound card: can't locate module isa-pnp

2002-04-06 Thread Eric Nodwell
Rick, I just tried "modprobe cs4232" and it worked. I got cs4232 from the hardware list in the Mandrake control center: if you click on an item it shows you which kernel module it requires. I *guess* that my card happens to be set to the default IRQ/DMA/IO. I *guess* that the kernel module can

Re: [expert] LM8.2: Quake3 still refuses to initialize sound...

2002-04-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 01:56, Frederic Soulier wrote: > Hi, > (I apologize for this huge email in advance...) > > I've been trying to get the sound going in Quake3 since I installed > LM8.2 but without success... (note: it works fine with the sound > disabled at startup). > It works fine in LM8.1

Re: [expert] WinTV Card & LM8.2 - No Tuner & No Sound

2002-04-06 Thread KevinO
Sevatio wrote: > Thank you very much! Your most welcome. > Out of curiosity, what do you have listed in your /etc/modules? scsi_hostadapter bttv > Also, do you have an FM tuner on yours? No, but I do have an old Reveal(tm) FM radio card in an ISA slot. I had to experiment a bit to find the r

[expert] KDE 3.0 issues

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help a

Re: [expert] Use of special characters

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
If you change your keyboard to us-international, you can use modifier keys to make special characters like you'd use in french or german. You can change your keyboard settings by running drakconf -> hardware -> keyboard. -- Stephen On Wednesday 03 April 2002 06:09 am, Alexander Arzberger wrot

Re: [expert] KDE3 problems

2002-04-06 Thread Joseph Braddock
Did you maybe uninstall KDE2 first? Your existing KDE apps need the libraries for KDE2 since that is what they were compiled for. I used the texstar rpms. I downloaded them to a directory and then as root did a rpm -uvh * and they installed fine (I did rename .kde to .kde_old and then ran me

Re: [expert] WinTV Card & LM8.2 - No Tuner & No Sound

2002-04-06 Thread Sevatio
Thank you very much! That did it! It works. Out of curiosity, what do you have listed in your /etc/modules? Also, do you have an FM tuner on yours? And what application do you use for FM? Thanks, Sevatio KevinO wrote: > Sevatio wrote: > >> OS: LM8.2 >> TV: Hauppauge WinTV (BT848) >> >> I'

[expert] Apache website on a vfat partition .."urgent help please"

2002-04-06 Thread faisal gillani
On linux mandrake 8.2 i have my website residing on a local fat32 partition but i cant seems to get apache to pick up that site .. apache gives error as you do not have permission to access / what can be the problem ? thanks Faisal = One day of lion's life is better then 100 day life of th

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread J. Craig Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: > > J. Craig Woods, > > I presume you saw the response from Mike. Also, I guess I was in vim > and not vi. > > Randy Kramer > > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > OK, I'll bite. I can always learn something new, and enjoy it. What is > > "recording mode" in vi? I know you don't mea

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development]

2002-04-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
From: "J. Craig Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software development] > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > > A FLAMING Liberal and open source supporter, > > > mg > > > > boy! t

Re: [expert] Kde3 weird behavior??

2002-04-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
It's strange because when I attempt to run kde2.2.2 I don't get the old KDE. I get a hybrid kde comprised of 2.2.2 and 3.0. That particular desktop is REAL buggy. it doesn't know whether it's coming or going. When this one is running the desktop freezes when I start Shell terminal window (kde's te

Re: [expert] NAS (Network Audio System) support

2002-04-06 Thread Byron Poland
the following was posted to the cooker mailing list not too long ago (why I remember) hope it helps: From: Jaroslaw Zachwieja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [Cooker] remote sound on Xterminal Date: 26 Mar 2002 14:34:28 +0100

[expert] NAS (Network Audio System) support

2002-04-06 Thread Eric Nodwell
Any chance of seeing NAS (Network Audio System) support in KDE in Mandrake? Is there someplace I can request this? Someone else has requested this also at: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1913 I think it's just a matter of setting a compilation flag for kdelibs and artsd. Want

Re: [expert] Where's the firewall config in control centre?

2002-04-06 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On April 6, 2002 19:55 pm, Eric Nodwell wrote: > My Mandrake Control Centre has no Firewall icon in the security > section. OK, no biggie, I can use firestarter or something, but I'm > just wondering. The Mandrake demo shows a firewall icon: If you search through the Cooker mailing list, you wi

[expert] Help! My sound has vanished!

2002-04-06 Thread Rick Friedman
OK... I'm hoping I can find the answers here. First of all, let me state that I've search through previous posts for my problem. And, I *HAVE* found a couple referring to the same thing but, so far, no suggested solution has helped. Anyway, I came home last night, booted my machine and found I ha

[expert] added isa sound card: can't locate module isa-pnp

2002-04-06 Thread Eric Nodwell
After installing Mandrake 8.2, I enabled an on-board sound card. It is reported in the Mandrake Hardware Wizard as: Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC If I click on "Run Configuration Tool", and OK at the settings dialog, then I get the error message: modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp This s

Re: [expert] Local news (OT)

2002-04-06 Thread dfox
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > =_1018074120-1058-32 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > Today in Beaverton Oregon, a 34 year old female elementary school teacher > decided she didn't feel like teaching an afternoon science class, so she > called

[expert] Where's the firewall config in control centre?

2002-04-06 Thread Eric Nodwell
My Mandrake Control Centre has no Firewall icon in the security section. OK, no biggie, I can use firestarter or something, but I'm just wondering. The Mandrake demo shows a firewall icon: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Demo/Mandrake8.2/QuickLook/pages/features18.php3 Does anybody hav

Re: [expert] Kde3 weird behavior??

2002-04-06 Thread Jesus Arocho
On Saturday 06 April 2002 20:35, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > is it me or does kde3 behave strangely? it seems a bit buggy to me. Anyone > else notice this? Just completed the loading yesterday, M8.2 last week. No problems, except for kpilot. I used the RPMs from KDE site. Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Kde3 weird behavior??

2002-04-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
is it me or does kde3 behave strangely? it seems a bit buggy to me. Anyone else notice this? -- daRcmaTTeR - If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 --

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods, I presume you saw the response from Mike. Also, I guess I was in vim and not vi. Randy Kramer J. Craig Woods wrote: > OK, I'll bite. I can always learn something new, and enjoy it. What is > "recording mode" in vi? I know you don't mean insert mode, and I don't > think you ar

Re: [expert] WinTV Card & LM8.2 - No Tuner & No Sound

2002-04-06 Thread KevinO
Sevatio wrote: > OS: LM8.2 > TV: Hauppauge WinTV (BT848) > > I'm trying to get XawTV to change the channel and have sound. My > Hauppauge works fine under W98. But under LM8.2, it is stuck on one > channel. I've tried unmuting it but still no sound. > > If you're able to get the Hauppauge T

[expert] WinTV Card & LM8.2 - No Tuner & No Sound

2002-04-06 Thread Sevatio
OS: LM8.2 TV: Hauppauge WinTV (BT848) I'm trying to get XawTV to change the channel and have sound. My Hauppauge works fine under W98. But under LM8.2, it is stuck on one channel. I've tried unmuting it but still no sound. If you're able to get the Hauppauge TV card to work under LM8.2, ple

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Mike, Thanks! Randy Kramer mike wrote: > According to http://www.vim.org/html/repeat.html#q > > q{0-9a-zA-Z"} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z"} > (uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled > while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside > a mapping. {Vi: n

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread mike
According to http://www.vim.org/html/repeat.html#q q{0-9a-zA-Z"} Record typed characters into register {0-9a-zA-Z"} (uppercase to append). The 'q' command is disabled while executing a register, and it doesn't work inside a mapping. {Vi: no recording} q Stops recording. (Implementati

Re: [expert] KDE screen Saver Location

2002-04-06 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, you're not going to believe how easy this actually is. 1) Go into the KDE configuration panel, and shut off the default screensaver 2) Run "xscreensaver-demo" to select the screensaver(s) that you want to use. It will present a list of them. It will also create a ~/.xscreensaver file with you

Re: [expert] msec typo

2002-04-06 Thread g
David Relson wrote: > You got me! I expressed it poorly. I think I wanted " 'Writeable' is an > incorrect spelling" lol. i guess that is why what is said about hind and foresight. anyway, if you keep a sharp eye, you will note that there are other progs that have 'typos'. tc,hago. g . --

[expert] ghostview help please!

2002-04-06 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I have two systems running MDK 82, built nearly identically except for different security settings. The one running under normal ("high", I think) security runs ghostview just fine. But the one with security set to "higher" gets an X error when the renderer tries to start. The message is X E

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread J. Craig Woods
Randy Kramer wrote: > > Thanks, but IIRC, that didn't work for me (that was one of the things > that I know I tried). Sometimes when I was in recording *and* insert > mode, one or more s got me back to recording mode only, but did not > cancel recording mode. > > Guess I'll have to try it again

[expert] KDE 3.0 issues

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help a

Re: [expert] USB and/or Firewire disk on PPC ML8.2beta2 ?

2002-04-06 Thread Byron Poland
Hi, I'm Not a PPC user, but use firewire hard drives/dvd-r drive with i86 linux (mandrake 8.2). I just modprobe ohci1394 and it usually takes care of stuff for the firewire bus, (loads, ieee1394, ohci1394, and sbp2 if disks are detected). I'm not sure how the apple hardware works, so give modpro

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Tim Cruikshank wrote: > On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41, you wrote: > > How do you get in and out of recording mode? I searched your document > > for "record" and found nothing. Just yesterday I jumped into vi (or > > maybe it was vim?) to do a quick edit and accidentally got into > > "recording

[expert] KDE3 problems

2002-04-06 Thread synrat
I installed KDE3 rpms from kde website and now all or most of my kde apps don't work. The only thing that works is Konqueror. No kword, kspread or anything else ( yes I did install koffice3 ). Moreover, the entire menu is gone completely. I run kappfinder, but it only foudn a few applicatio

[expert] samba and ACls in 8.2

2002-04-06 Thread Bauer Thomas
I'm using samba on XFS partitions with Mandrake 8.2 but samba does not recognize the ACL capabilities of the underlying filesystem. What can be wrong? setfacl and getfacl work without troubles. Is either samba or the kernel in  8.2 built without ACL support?   Tom   Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Re: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #37

2002-04-06 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
I have to apologize to that user who discovered the problem in Community Newsletter. He was right in that the email header was incorrect. Here below is a copy of the mail as displayed on my screen. Every ? corresponds to an "Unbreakable Space" which is 0xA0 inside the mail (use a binary edit

Re: [expert] Filters

2002-04-06 Thread Jarmo Kettunen
On Saturday 06 April 2002 16:42, you wrote: > > A lot of spam can be blocked by the ISP... however, many ISPs are > incompetent in this respect. My ISP uses an upstream SP to handle mail; I > was totally unimpressed by these people, so I setup my own domains and > mailer (postfix). Details at h

Re: [expert] system upgrade -- moving users

2002-04-06 Thread Michael Viron
You may also want to consider copying over /etc/gshadow -- which is created when you use "shadow" passwords. -- Michael Viron Independent Computer Consultant Pensacola, FL At 12:55 AM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:11:44 -0500 synrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm settin

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Tim Cruikshank
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:41, you wrote: > Question (for anyone): > > How do you get in and out of recording mode? I searched your document > for "record" and found nothing. Just yesterday I jumped into vi (or > maybe it was vim?) to do a quick edit and accidentally got into > "recording" mo

Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2

2002-04-06 Thread Tim C
On Saturday 06 April 2002 10:47, you wrote: > On Friday 05 April 2002 11:28 pm, Damian wrote: > > El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 02:51, Ric Tibbetts escribió: > > > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote: > > > > Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login > > > > manager d

Re: [expert] chooseSessionListWidget during XFree86 login

2002-04-06 Thread Damian
El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:07, Earle Jason escribió: > Hello all! > > I'm having trouble with XFree86 4.2.0. My box is a IBM 300PL with an embedded S3 >Trio > 3D graphics card. I blew it away and installed Mandrake 8.2 -- no problems. I then > upgraded to XFree86 4.2.0 (it was using 3.3.6

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Tim Cruikshank
On Saturday 06 April 2002 05:15, you wrote: > Fellow Penquinistas, > > Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file > editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a > little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at > http:

Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-06 Thread Oscar
Thanks to all. I have solved the problem. Using minicom, I must write AT and press he key twice to get a OK. I don't know the reason, but I have created a "chatfile" under /etc/ppp/ like this: ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'ERROR' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT 'BUSY' "" "ATZ" O

Re: [expert] KDE 3 test

2002-04-06 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:29, you wrote: > El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 08:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > I followed the civileme way (message in newbie list): > > all other problems are solved by deleting your ~/.kde and ~/.kde2 > directories. everything will be fine when you log in the next time.

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods wrote: > Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file > editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a > little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at > http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm Dr.

Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2

2002-04-06 Thread Thomas Gamble
On Friday 05 April 2002 11:28 pm, Damian wrote: > El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 02:51, Ric Tibbetts escribió: > > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote: > > > Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager > > > don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to '

Re: [expert] Filters

2002-04-06 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:56:04 +0300 Jarmo Kettunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to set filters forinstance in Kmail,so that it drops > mails FROM somebody not wanted? > I would like to set aol.com to banned filter...I get huge number > spam from there... > I have looked from m

Re: [expert] msec typo

2002-04-06 Thread David Relson
At 01:57 AM 4/6/02, you wrote: >Damian wrote: > > > > El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:56, David Relson escribió: > > >> The word > >> "Writeable" is incorrectly spelled. It should be "Writable". > > > i'm sure when i get hacked, the hacker will correct the typos in my > > world-writable files ;oP >

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread Lorne Shantz
EXCELLENT!!! VERY well done Mr. Woods. "J. Craig Woods" wrote: > Fellow Penquinistas, > > Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file > editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a > little document that I found, and converted to html. You c

[expert] A little vi help

2002-04-06 Thread J. Craig Woods
Fellow Penquinistas, Because we have had a few threads about the CLI, and because remote file editing with vi is such an efficient method, I thought I would share a little document that I found, and converted to html. You can view it at http://www.trismegistus.net/vi_cheatsheets.htm If you have

[expert] 8.2 install "exited abnormally" on laptop 16MB RAM. PCMCIA, NFS

2002-04-06 Thread fn ln
People have suggested that my problem may be memory-size related, but 1) non-laptop 16MB didn't have this problem, 2)I would presume when the installation script starts, it checks the amount of the available memory, and no warning appeared on screen nor in logs. We want to have the same linux

[expert] KDE2 problem to run after install KDE3 (mandrake 8.2)

2002-04-06 Thread falcaraz
I did: Starkde, and then: Xset: unable to open display " DCOP: register 'anonymous-4312' kwin: cannot connect to X server kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server. If a select 1 using Xtart (kde) it spend a long time and finally it start a kde3 with the old kde 2.2 configuration Could anyone he

Re: [expert] msec typo

2002-04-06 Thread g
Damian wrote: > > El vie, 05-04-2002 a las 12:56, David Relson escribió: >> The word >> "Writeable" is incorrectly spelled. It should be "Writable". > i'm sure when i get hacked, the hacker will correct the typos in my > world-writable files ;oP > > see ya. > > Damian actually, it would be m