[expert] need help for Mesa ...

2002-08-18 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, am trying to get running Mesa with glut and a ATI Rage Pro 128 graphiccard but have no experience with all that stuff. So I'm hoping that anyone is there, who can give me a step-by-step way, what I have to do. Or another question would be : are there some docs in the web available, where I

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Isaac Curtis
I just wanted to thank you guys for this thread, it's one of the very few that are so awesome I save them in a special folder and copy the basic information over into my running journal of Linux knowledge. Thanks again. Isaac On Sunday 18 August 2002 23:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun,

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:11:30 -0400, Matthew O. Persico spaketh: >On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: >[snip] >>To make life easy would this work? >I tried it; see below > >> >>mkdir /iso >>dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 >This has to be changed to > >dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 g

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: [snip] >To make life easy would this work? I tried it; see below > >mkdir /iso >dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 This has to be changed to dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 Ditto for cd2 and cd3 >mkdir /mnt/cd1 >mkdir /mnt/cd2 >mkdir /mnt/cd3 >

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread tarvid
I think we are missing the point. With hard disk space ubiquitous and cheap, why not load them to the hard drive. To make life easy would this work? mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd2 ... dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd3 mkdir /mnt/cd1 mkdir /mnt/cd2 mkdir /m

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:49:18 -0400 (EDT), daRcmaTTeR spaketh: >On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >>I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt >>down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. >>[snip] > >um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditr

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs >to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional >place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:06, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs >to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional >place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or sh

[expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy them

Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages

2002-08-18 Thread Darren King
Nope...I don't have the quiet option on this kernel. I do have the quiet option on my standard kernel and I still get the dmesg stuff for that one so the quiet option must be just for displaying boot time messages, not for writing them to the file. Darren On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:06, HoytDuff w

[expert] Printer fails to work on boot/reboot

2002-08-18 Thread marrandy
Hello. Mandrake 8.2 with mandrake rpm kde3.0 added. I asked this on the newbies list but didn't get any response. When I setup the printer via configuration | harddrake | printer It sets up fine. Prints great, from cups or generic unix pld. When I shutdown and later startup again, both fail

Re: [expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages

2002-08-18 Thread HoytDuff
On Sunday 18 August 2002 06:06 pm, Darren King scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from > the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and > any messages that came up during the boot. > > When I boot

[expert] CUPS/foomatic printing problem

2002-08-18 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I've traced down my printing problems to a foomatic error in MDK 8.2. I am printing to a Samba-based printer on a remote host, but the Samba connection is ok. The bad foomatic line ends with 'sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2 and the error I get is... "Unable to open the initial

[expert] new kernel doesn't leave boot messages

2002-08-18 Thread Darren King
I've got a few kernels running now for different things. If I boot from the standard 8.2 kernel, I can use dmesg to see how the boot went and any messages that came up during the boot. When I boot from the cooker kernel, however, dmesg still displays the result of the last standard 8.2 kernel bo

Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 "no sound".

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 12:30, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:32 -0500, Jason Guidry wrote: > > > > My guess is you need to swap out that cdrom or try an ftp install. my > > experience is that when weird things start happening with the cd during > > install, a new cdrom is in

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2002-08-18 Thread James Sparenberg
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[expert] 8.2 Won't run on my machine

2002-08-18 Thread John Wheat
I have used Mandrake from version 7.1 and have never had problems installing. I have used this box with 8.0 and 8.1 with great success. Over the last few weeks I have tried version 8.2 and cannot get it to work reliably. Many times it fails durning the install wether I do graphical or text. Ge

Re: [expert] VIA KT266 and Promise FastTrack 100 Lite

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 20:16 +0200, ddc_prueba wrote: > Hello. I don't know about VIA problems, but maybe he can add some > boot-time parameters to the installation kernel to get a bit further... [Options snipped] > Anyhow, goodluck as it looks like a complex issue... (at least to me!!) > > P

RE: [expert] Wireless NICs

2002-08-18 Thread ddc_prueba
No experience at all on wireless NIC's... but I have some experience mounting GSM (mobile phone network), and I can tell you that being below the maximun distance between antennas, the most important (almost the only) thing to worry about is having direct line of sight from one antenna to the othe

Re: [expert] VIA KT266 and Promise FastTrack 100 Lite

2002-08-18 Thread ddc_prueba
Hello. I don't know about VIA problems, but maybe he can add some boot-time parameters to the installation kernel to get a bit further... If he has some problems with dma (as it seems to be), maybe he can try forcing ide speed: idebus=100 If it fails, try no dma: ide0=nodma ide1=nodma ide2=nodma

[expert] sudden hangs after booting from a w2k cd

2002-08-18 Thread Udo Rader
hi all, for some reasons I tried to boot my linux-only laptop from a w2k cd, which succeeded (I only *booted* and did *not* install). And exactly after having booted *once* from this cd, my laptop has become completely unusable, it freezes a couple of seconds after having reached the final runle

Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 "no sound".

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 10:32 -0500, Jason Guidry wrote: > > My guess is you need to swap out that cdrom or try an ftp install. my > experience is that when weird things start happening with the cd during > install, a new cdrom is in that machine's future. Does Weird Things(TM) include screechi

Re: [expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 "no sound".

2002-08-18 Thread Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 11:21, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > It would be cool to fix but I just wanted to let Mandrake know about the problem. Tho' mandrake people read this list, this is not where bugs are reported. > The newly designed software management tools (the instalation tool) try's to access

[expert] MDK 9.0 Beta3 "no sound".

2002-08-18 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I just installed 9.0 Beta3 and my sound system is not setup. When I first started KDE I had no sound so I went to the control panel (KDE's control panel) and found I hade to turn on the arts sound server, so I did and restarted KDE and then got an arts error message saying "Cannot open /

Re[2]: [expert] Passwd file conversion?

2002-08-18 Thread kwan
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, David Relson wrote: > Clayton, > > Have you tried runing "grep common_user_id /etc/passwd /etc/shadow", or > comparable command, on both boxes> It'd show you whether the hashed > passwords are the same (or not). Here's a Solaris 8 /etc/shadow entry: klowe:TvfSj1Y