[expert] DevFs does not run?

2002-10-08 Thread Adriaan . Putter
hi every one, I've fresh installed MDK9 on one of my desktop PC's and on my small server. with the server, there are 3 option to boot: linux-secure (default) linux failsafe when i just choose linux everything boot, then i get the message Welcome To Mandrake Linux 9.0 then Starting DevFs

Re: [expert] kbdrate broken in 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
This is not necessarily a MDK9.0 issue. With MDK8.1, I had to use input pipe from /dev/console in a script I run after resuming my laptop. In other words I have something like kbdrate -s -r 20 -d 250 /dev/console /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``When you have had all

[expert] urpmi ...howto ...

2002-10-08 Thread hans privat
hi, have tried now to find out, which packages are needed, if I'll install or update for example the rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm-package. What I got is a lot of librpm* files which would be required, but I cannot find any file in all mdk9.0 dirs of a lot of ftp-servers, which provides the

RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Naish
ok re. sound with left right channels causing bass probs, if this is a soundblaster live! card they had a problem with a lot of them having the left and right channels having different phase (creative got the wiring wrong) in the card! So you need to wire them wrong to get them to work. But ,

[expert] a lot of kernel-bugs ? ... need help !!!

2002-10-08 Thread hans privat
hi list, am going confused a little bit about a lot of errormessages in /var/log/messages. here are some examples about, hope anyone can help or explain something, what's going on here. examples : Oct 8 04:28:00 hanna kernel: Code: 0f 0b d2 00 80 5e 23 c0 8b 57 04 8b 07 89 f9 89 50 04 89

Re: [expert] DevFs does not run?

2002-10-08 Thread et
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:50 am, you wrote: hi every one, I've fresh installed MDK9 on one of my desktop PC's and on my small server. with the server, there are 3 option to boot: linux-secure (default) linux failsafe when i just choose linux everything boot, then i get the message

[expert] Xbox Receives Linux Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread J. Grant
Please to here mandrake in the press again http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/08/0523224.shtml?tid=147 JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] a lot of kernel-bugs ? ... need help !!!

2002-10-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Check that your cpu (and power supply and system) fan is working OK and full of dirt or seized. I get these at the start of every summer here in OZ - lets me know its time to pull the top off and clean out the gunk! Could also be hardware errors, but in a number of cases here, its been dust

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 strange behaviour

2002-10-08 Thread Panos Melas
Hi all, I've installed recently Mandrake 9.0 (replacing Mandrake 8.2 which was working ok). The problem I have is that X-windows disappears for few seconds (like switching to a text console, or going into suspend mode) and then it returns. None of the running processes seems to be affected

[expert] mc in mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread mikalzet
This is weird. While in runlevel 5 I like to work on a normal text console (ALT-Ctrl-F1) quite often. midnight commander (mc) is very useful in this context, and it has always worked ok with previous versions of mandrake. Now in mandrake 9.0 if I use mc the screen fills up with garbage

Re: [expert] urpmi ...howto ...

2002-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:30 +0200, hans privat wrote: here the output : [root@hanna mdk9.0]# urpmi rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Installiere ./rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Fehler: fehlgeschlagene Paket-Abhängigkeiten: (Translation: Installing ./rpm-4. Error: missing dependencies:

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Flinders
Let's not forget the end users might also be programmers. As a programmer I appreciate the increased efficiency and better design. What if we want to tinker with the code? What I'm trying to say is that there's more than one angle to address. It's an evolving process. If there are ideas

Re: [expert] urpmi ...howto ...

2002-10-08 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:30 +0200, hans privat wrote: here the output : [root@hanna mdk9.0]# urpmi rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Installiere ./rpm-4.0.4-19mdk.i586.rpm Fehler: fehlgeschlagene Paket-Abhängigkeiten: (Translation: Installing ./rpm-4. Error:

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 strange behaviour

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
It looks like power control setup. Do you use KDE, so take a look at KDE control - PowerControl. There's a similar thing for GNOME. Anyway, I do not run apmd or apci services on my box. On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Panos Melas wrote: Hi all, I've installed recently Mandrake 9.0 (replacing Mandrake

Re: [expert] Installing 9.0 on a laptop - PCMCIA problems

2002-10-08 Thread Andy Weller
Todd, Excellent - so far so good. I booted from CD2 and downloaded and ran install with 'patch noauto' from 8.2. We are over half way through install now! Cheers, Andy On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 19:02, Todd Lyons wrote: Andy Weller wrote on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:06:06PM +0100 : I have tried

Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.

2002-10-08 Thread Jay Savage
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Ron Stodden wrote: Larry Sword wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: What am I supposed to do? [root@small ron]# cd /local/mandrake/9.0/9.0-tree/i586/Mandrake/RPMS [root@small RPMS]# urpmi samba-server unable to access medium Installation CD (disk1)

Re: [expert] What are the correct md5sums for Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Oi Pedro Try wget, it always worked for me. On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Paulo Ara?jo wrote on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:54:06AM +0100 : Hello all, I've tried so far three (3) downloads of the Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso from different mirrors, and the corresponding

[expert] drakxservices in MDK 9.0, console mode

2002-10-08 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
MDK 9.0 let me really satisfied. Much less problems than 8.1 despite of some modifications (e.g. rpmdrake, but now I'm getting used to it ;-). However I still like to use sometimes non X applications, under terminal mode and I found out that drakxservices in MDK 9 is not working

Re: [expert] aacraid.o

2002-10-08 Thread Laurent Mesuré
Todd Lyons a écrit : [SNIP] disk. I believe you'll have to do expert, but the problem with that is that all auto-detection is now disabled. But it should allow you to specify that you have a driver disk and read it in and run it. In fact there is no device to mount the floppy in

Re: [expert] aacraid.o

2002-10-08 Thread Laurent Mesuré
Laurent Mesuré a écrit : Todd Lyons a écrit : [SNIP] disk. I believe you'll have to do expert, but the problem with that is that all auto-detection is now disabled. But it should allow you to specify that you have a driver disk and read it in and run it. In fact there is no

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:38 am, Todd Flinders wrote: Let's not forget the end users might also be programmers. As a programmer I appreciate the increased efficiency and better design. What if we want to tinker with the code? What I'm trying to say is that there's more than one angle

Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.

2002-10-08 Thread Damian
# cd directory where the samba server rpm is # urpmi samba-server* --jay better yet: # cd directory where the samba server rpm is # urpmi ./samba-server* -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] PDAs syncing under linux ??

2002-10-08 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to all of you who have answered. I'll probably choowe between Palm m500 and m515. Es Dissabte 05 Octubre 2002 12:52, en Joan Tur va escriure: Hallo! Where can I get info about PDAs able to sync data with linux programs? I don't want to

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 strange behaviour

2002-10-08 Thread Gerald Verdon
Le Mardi, 8 Octobre 2002 13.16, Panos Melas a écrit : The problem I have is that X-windows disappears for few seconds (like switching to a text console, or going into suspend mode) and then it returns. None of the running processes seems to be affected though. This behaviour is periodic

Re: [expert] What are the correct md5sums for Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-08 Thread kwan
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Todd Lyons wrote: Use rsync instead of ftp. I suspect you are getting some funky errors due to trans-oceanic voyage of your packets. rsync does an md5sum on the data as it's being transferred. You just have to find a mirror that you could use rsync to get the isos at a

[expert] recommended graphic-cards in mdk except ATI

2002-10-08 Thread hans schneidhofer
hi, once again I wanna ask this question : which graphic-card can be recommended for mdk 8.2 i.e. 9.* because have done now a big try with a few ATI's, noone is running without problems. But all are running in my RH-box and does NOT have any problems. meanwhile I got some postings, that the

[expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Greg Hockenberry
I just did an upgrade from 8.2 to 90. All is well accept my Cannon 600 scanner. In 8.2 it worked well. When I loaded 8.2 it just came up. 9.0 refuses to see it. There appears to be a change in the way 9.0 handles USB and SCSI devices. My burner (on the same SCSI bus as the scanner) works

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 18:33, Greg Hockenberry wrote: I just did an upgrade from 8.2 to 90. All is well accept my Cannon 600 scanner. In 8.2 it worked well. When I loaded 8.2 it just came up. 9.0 refuses to see it. I had a similar problem with my Agfa Snapscan e25 (it's a USB, not a SCSI

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
I have just joined this mailinglist and I've noticed that one of the hottest topics is the new look rpmdrake. My two cents about this topic... I've been using MDK 8.2 since last June and I was so enthusiast about it that I have switched all my daily tasks from Windows to Linux. What made MDK

[expert] root

2002-10-08 Thread Norman Zhang
In 8.2 I can creat a /root partition on its own, but in 9.0 I can longer do that. When I try, I get a prompt telling me that /root should be with the root partition. Can I still create /root on its own? If not why not? Thanks. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] UDF, iso9660 and supermount do not function together !!

2002-10-08 Thread Emerson de Mello
Hello All, I have modified the filesystem file for work with UDF, but don't worked. Because that filesystem also can be mount as iso9660. I have tried to put the udf before the iso9660 in the filesystem file, but it works in the same way. I'd like that the supermount work perfect. :) In my

[expert]

2002-10-08 Thread Norman Zhang
In 8.2 I can creat a /root partition on its own, but in 9.0 I can longer do that. When I try, I get a prompt telling me that /root should be with the root partition. Can I still create /root on its own? If not why not? Thanks. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] Bugzilla

2002-10-08 Thread Jim Hubbard
OK, I've got a bug that I want to report, but I can't bugzilla it. I keep getting kicked back to the expert forum or something like that. I have posted it there, but why can't I post to bugzilla? Do I need to pay a fee before I can even do that? Come on, doesn't Mandrake want to know when

Re: [expert] Bugzilla

2002-10-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:11:51 -0400 Jim Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have posted it there, but why can't I post to bugzilla? You have to set-up an account first. To be perfectly honest Mandrakes bugzilla is itself buggy and is little used. Charles --- You

[expert] Mandrake 9.0 Handspring USB Visor

2002-10-08 Thread Robert Goshko
Greetings All, I've been running 9.0 for a little over a week now and I can't get my USB Handspring Visor to work with Evolution. I can get it to work with pilot-xfer and kpilot (I have symlinked /dev/ttyUSB1 to /dev/pilot). It worked fine under LM 8.2 with Evo 1.0.8. Gnome pilot just does

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Franki wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 01:15:12PM +0800 : RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questionswith question 1.. it seems to me that your channels are out of phase and are cancelling out the base.. Yes, that is correct. try taking your speaker wires on one channel and swapping them around.. But

Re: [expert] urpmi ...howto ...

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Flinders
The tool you are looking for is urpmf. For example: [flindet@flindet flindet]$ urpmf librpmbuild rpm:/usr/lib/librpmbuild-4.0.4.so rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.a rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.la rpm-devel:/usr/lib/librpmbuild.so On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:30 am, hans privat wrote: hi,

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Dale Huckeby wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:51:24AM -0500 : Is the end-user's convenience less important than the programmer's? The endu-user's convience IS first. Every step starts with Open Mandrake Control Center and... Blue skies... Todd -- | MandrakeSoft USA

Re: [expert] aacraid.o

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Laurent Mesur? wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:15:34PM +0200 : Todd Lyons a ?crit : [SNIP] disk. I believe you'll have to do expert, but the problem with that is that all auto-detection is now disabled. But it should allow you to specify that you have a driver disk and read it

Re: [expert] What are the correct md5sums for Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:16:24PM -0400 : How compressible are the Mandrake ISOs? Not very. I wonder if there's a way to compare subsections of an ISO image and just re-transfer the bad portions. This could maybe be done with split and md5sum tricks. Or

[expert] logout question

2002-10-08 Thread francesco.melo
hi all first of all sorry for my english i ll try to explain when i setup the autologin the first time a logout from kde it give me a simple windows asking me to logout and after i see the kdm windows so i can check to off , restrt o new login. if i login again and close i see a different

Re: [expert] root

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Norman Zhang wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:41:54AM -0700 : In 8.2 I can creat a /root partition on its own, but in 9.0 I can longer do that. When I try, I get a prompt telling me that /root should be with the root partition. Can I still create /root on its own? If not why not? Thanks.

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Praedor Tempus wrote: There seems to be some valid complaints about the revamping of rpmdrake from the user point of view, for instance. I don't know personally because I cancelled my 9.0 order based on reviews online and comments in this list - I will wait for 9.1 to give Mandrake a

[expert] Lost root password

2002-10-08 Thread Dan Iseminger
Hi, I first installed Mandrake8.2 on an old Compaq Prolinea 575e a few months ago and I never finished configuring some things - like a firewall. I suspect that I was hacked into one evening, as I suddenly lost permission to various files and my root password was changed. I rebooted

Re: [expert] recommended graphic-cards in mdk except ATI

2002-10-08 Thread Gabriel Phoenix
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:12, hans schneidhofer wrote: hi, once again I wanna ask this question : which graphic-card can be recommended for mdk 8.2 i.e. 9.* because have done now a big try with a few ATI's, noone is running without problems. But all are running in my RH-box and does NOT

Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Todd Lyons wrote: Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:51:12AM +1000 : [root@small ron]# cd /local/mandrake/9.0/9.0-tree/i586/Mandrake/RPMS [root@small RPMS]# urpmi samba-server unable to access medium Installation CD (disk1) Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to

RE: [expert] Bugzilla

2002-10-08 Thread Jim Hubbard
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Bugzilla On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:11:51 -0400 Jim Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

[expert] soundwrapper, esd, and quake3

2002-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
Hi, using Alsa with an Intel 810/815 chipset (Sony VAIO VX88). I run XFce as my desktop environment, with esd in my startup script. Sound works normally for most things. quake3 1.32 point release won't run at all normally (hangs at sound initialization). If I use soundwrapper quake3 it will run

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:03:04 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an important point to consider, however. If one is intending to be a commercial vendor of software, one of the MAIN considerations has to be useability/ease-of-use. Ease of code maintenance or code

RE: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:00, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi James, Had this problem about 2 years ago with an ALL FreeBSD/Win98 network. with 7 mini-lans in different rooms of our office we noticed that boxes kept dropping off the net... but never the windows ones. Turned out that the

Re: [expert] logout question

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
francesco.melo wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:42:16PM +0200 : first of all sorry for my english Ever notice how the people who apologize for their English at the beginning of a message usually speak in clearer sentences and thought patterns that most people who are native English speakers? I

Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Jay Savage wrote: i had a similar problem installing some packages in 8.2 Once urpmi makes up its mind about where a package ought to be, it's very difficult to convince it otherwise. For some reason, giving short names causes it to ask for the CDs, and sometimes it doesn't even ask for

Re: [expert] soundwrapper, esd, and quake3

2002-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 12:48, Jack Coates wrote: Hi, using Alsa with an Intel 810/815 chipset (Sony VAIO VX88). I run XFce as my desktop environment, with esd in my startup script. Sound works normally for most things. quake3 1.32 point release won't run at all normally (hangs at sound

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
yes but in order to change su the cracker would have to comprimise root as well. meaning two passwords compromised not one. (users have read access to su but not write) So I still agree with Todd better to have two locks than one on on the door. James On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 12:29, J. Grant

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Piero Piutti wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:56:32PM +0200 : I wonder why - even with coding optimization being the main worry - wasn't it possible to gather the three parts of the new style rpmdrake in one single window, separating them with tabs? Sounds possible, but will it run in the

RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 strange behaviour

2002-10-08 Thread Panos Melas
hm I do not think so (although I need to check that), because the problem started even during installation (I used the graphical mode) Thanks for the suggestion, I will try and let you know. -Original Message- From: Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
I wonder if the four icons should've been removed from Configuration | Packaging? Having two access points, which work differently, for the same function(s) is probably not a good idea. Yeah, those 4 different icons in the KDE menu for something you could previously do from within one single

Re: [expert] urpmi defeats me.

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Lyons
Ron Stodden wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:51:12AM +1000 : [root@small ron]# cd /local/mandrake/9.0/9.0-tree/i586/Mandrake/RPMS [root@small RPMS]# urpmi samba-server unable to access medium Installation CD (disk1) Installation failed, some files are missing. You may want to update your

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Vox
Silly Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: I think the problem is that it's best driven by the MCC, unlike the old version; it's pretty clear what's happening when you click on Software Management. (The 8.2 version, by contrast, was a wreck, with controls all over

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
(The 8.2 version, by contrast, was a wreck, with controls all over the place). That was what made it superb. That you had ALL the possible controls for installing/removing/quering packages in ONE place. The new rpmdrake is so upsetting that I went back to Kpackage (even if all its

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 11:44, Todd Lyons wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:51:24AM -0500 : Is the end-user's convenience less important than the programmer's? The endu-user's convience IS first. Every step starts with Open Mandrake Control Center and... Blue

[expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections unknown

2002-10-08 Thread David Guntner
Anyone have any ideas on this one? Now that I've got ML 9.0 installed, I've run into a problem with postfix. No matter where an incoming connection is coming from, the syslog shows postfix reporting connect from unknown[{ip address}] - even when coming from sites that I *know* should resolve

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread john
On Tuesday 08 Oct 2002 H:23 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 18:33, Greg Hockenberry wrote: I just did an upgrade from 8.2 to 90. All is well accept my Cannon 600 scanner. In 8.2 it worked well. When I loaded 8.2 it just came up. 9.0 refuses to see it. I had a similar

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:50, Todd Lyons wrote: Sounds possible, but will it run in the same amount of RAM or will it require 3 times the RAM? This program runs fairly fast on an Athlon 1 Gig CPU with 384 Megs of RAM. Have you tried it on a P2 333 with 128I wanted to say that there is

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Piero Piutti
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 23:00, john wrote: I did this as well to get my snapscan e26 usb working and then a week later this was posted to newbie by Colin Rose, The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then

RE: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Franki
Thats too much work, I would be happy if all the drake tools had a tools dropdown list in the corner.. that list should contain a list of all the installed tools, for rpmdrake...etc... so you can easily access any of the tools, from any of the tools.. (also a quick and easy way to see what tools

RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions

2002-10-08 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions Hi Again, I am getting closer with this openoffice problem. What the story is, is that the phrase 'standard {all}' is missing from the user defined dictionaries (writing aidstab in the options box). Under Redhat, I ran the repair tool and this

Re: [expert] What are the correct md5sums for Mandrake 9.0?

2002-10-08 Thread Seth Zirin
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 11:55, Todd Lyons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:16:24PM -0400 : I wonder if there's a way to compare subsections of an ISO image and just re-transfer the bad portions. This could maybe be done with split and md5sum tricks. Or does

[expert] LM9.0: Track network card id

2002-10-08 Thread Frederic Soulier
Hi How is the Track network card id option activated? (I did not select it during the installation) /Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 strange behaviour

2002-10-08 Thread et
what slot on the mother board is your network card in? what does (as root, without the quotes,) cat /proc/interrupts say On Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:30 am, you wrote: hm I do not think so (although I need to check that), because the problem started even during installation (I used the

Re: [expert] /root and /

2002-10-08 Thread J. Grant
Hi James, James Sparenberg wrote: yes but in order to change su the cracker would have to comprimise root as well. Agreed. meaning two passwords compromised not one. (users have read access to su but not write) agreed also So I still agree with Todd better to have two locks than one

RE: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-08 Thread Mark Stewart
While the connection is OK, try arp -a (don't know the W2K equiv.) and make sure the other host is in the table; when it fails, recheck... if the other host's MAC is still there (both ends), then the network is likely at fault. Could be a VLAN misconfiguration... Okay, so from

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, not too long ago (countable in months) I would have had no problem installing 9.0 and then upgrading over the net to get the fixes. I had DSL and life was good. Now I am stuck forever with a time-limited (90 minutes) modem connection that ranges from a high of 44000 bps (early

Re: [expert] Lost root password

2002-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok if the box isn't on the net (Do this only if the box isn't on the net or is well protected by a firewall.) boot from the rescue disk. chose the option to mount all partitions chose the option to go to console. cd /mnt/etc (this is the etc directory for your hdd) vi password. You

Re: [expert] New video card advice

2002-10-08 Thread ddc_prueba
I have a NVIDIA Geforce 2 200MX and in another box a Geforce 1. Both go smooth and fast in Windows (whatever-version) and linux. The only thing you have to do is replace Mandrake nvidia driver with the nvidia's one to be able to have acceleration, TV out and this kind of nice things. There is a

[expert] How a socket file is done?? (for mysql)

2002-10-08 Thread ddc_prueba
As I was having problems with mysql and already I had done nothing with it I decided to do a rpm -e to mysql packages and removed /var/lib/mysql directory as well. Then I reinstalled it... Problem is that there is no socket file now, so when I execute myql client it complaints: mysqladmin:

Re: [expert] Broken screensavers in MD9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Toshiro
Now the remaining problems I've not yet fixed is about screen savers: I used to use the 'Slide Show' item for display my favorite pictures. That's a simple idea but great result. Now the 'Setup ...' button doesn't work any more. I can not

Re: [expert] Proftpd anonymous ftp behind a linksys BEFSR41 firwall/switch/router

2002-10-08 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Todd Franklin wrote: Hopefully you can help me out. I've had this same problem since i started using proftpd. Anybody outside my router, can only hit my ftp site with internet explorer. Any gecko based browser doesn't work from outside. (inside my network, they work fine) The browser

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:13, Piero Piutti wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 20:50, Todd Lyons wrote: Sounds possible, but will it run in the same amount of RAM or will it require 3 times the RAM? This program runs fairly fast on an Athlon 1 Gig CPU with 384 Megs of RAM. Have you tried

[expert] boot fail on install

2002-10-08 Thread xjqcf
Pardon my asking an install question, but I have gotten noplace on newbie and alt.os.linux.mandrake. I have a set of install discs for mdk 9.0 from Cheapbytes. I managed to install 9.0 over an existing ext2 (Mdk 8.2) and swap a partition (not an update) without many problems. However, when I

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Flinders
The fault in this argument is that it assumes all customers are merely end-users with little technical skills or appreciation. As a programmer my dollar counts just as much as that from an end-user. There is more than one type of customer Mandrake must consider and there is nothing to

[expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-08 Thread Toshiro
I've asked several times this question before, but nobody gave me a good answer so far, let me try here :) What shall I do to know the actual connection speed (10/100Mb) of a network interface? I'm looking for a linux software solution (like typing a command, looking at some log, you name it),

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Ron Stodden
Praedor Tempus wrote: Well, not too long ago (countable in months) I would have had no problem installing 9.0 and then upgrading over the net to get the fixes. I had DSL and life was good. Now I am stuck forever with a time-limited (90 minutes) modem connection that ranges from a high

Re: [expert] recommended graphic-cards in mdk except ATI

2002-10-08 Thread Mark Licker
Greetings, I've been using ATI cards with Mdk 8.2 since last May without any problems to speak of. I initially had an XPERT2000 (Rage 128 Pro, which gave very nice 2-D performance). I recently switched to a Radeon VE, and have run it on the 8.2 kernel as well as an upgraded kernel similar

Re: [expert] networking wackiness

2002-10-08 Thread martin
I think that SSH will clear itself from the tcp/ip stack after a certain period of inactivity But I haen't looked at the sourcecode of any flavour of SSH. UNIX and hence Linux is very efficient at garbage collection so I expect timeouts on the tcp/ip stack. Of course Bill Gates never read beyond

[expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Lorne
Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to remove the ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll admit I've had an occasion to need it until yesterday, but guess what? 9.0 on my box does NOT have /dev/loop? of any sort. If I understand correctly, this means I

Re: [expert] How a socket file is done?? (for mysql)

2002-10-08 Thread kwan
On 9 Oct 2002, ddc_prueba wrote: As I was having problems with mysql and already I had done nothing with it I decided to do a rpm -e to mysql packages and removed /var/lib/mysql directory as well. Then I reinstalled it... Problem is that there is no socket file now, so when I execute

Re: [expert] A question for real experts :)

2002-10-08 Thread kwan
On 8 Oct 2002, Toshiro wrote: I've asked several times this question before, but nobody gave me a good answer so far, let me try here :) What shall I do to know the actual connection speed (10/100Mb) of a network interface? I'm looking for a linux software solution (like typing a command,

Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Barry Michels
hmmm, works on my 9.0 system. I've got 8 loop devices by default. At work, we have a bunch of ISO's of software everyone needs. Instead of keeping a library of CDs and letting them walk away, we just image a new CD and mount it. Well, Windows has a limit of 23 usable drive letters and I

Re: [expert] soundwrapper, esd, and quake3

2002-10-08 Thread Todd Flinders
Does it work if you disable esd before launching Quake 3? On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote: Hi, using Alsa with an Intel 810/815 chipset (Sony VAIO VX88). I run XFce as my desktop environment, with esd in my startup script. Sound works normally for most things.

Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread s
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:47 pm, Lorne wrote: Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to remove the ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll admit I've had an occasion to need it until yesterday, but guess what? 9.0 on my box does NOT have /dev/loop? of

[expert]Problems with Mouse Button Bindings

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Metzler
I am currently looking to remap my mouse button bindings. My current configuration is as such in XF86Config-4: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseManPlusPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option EmulateWheel 1 Option EmulateWheelInertia 12

Re: [expert] 9.0 and SCSI scanner

2002-10-08 Thread Greg Hockenberry
Thanks for the ideas Piero and john. I checked the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf do not have files for my scanner. I still think that it has something to do with the change to the Piero way of handling this device. I haven't had the time to read up on how it works. Looks like a project from the

Re: Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Salane King
can you try modprobe loop Tuesday 08 October 2002 10:30 pm, s wrote: On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:47 pm, Lorne wrote: Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to remove the ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll admit I've had an occasion to need it

Re: [expert] Broken screensavers in MD9.0

2002-10-08 Thread PlugHead
Thanks for the tip--I was wondering how to get those working under KDE... However, for a really Cool screensaver, check out KEuphoria... (try kde-look.org.) It rocks (IMO), but only if you've got GPU power to burn. -Jason On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:25 pm, Toshiro wrote: Or do better

Re: [expert] Lost root password

2002-10-08 Thread PlugHead
Isn't there an msec setting that will prevent you from logging in directly as root? If that's the case, try msec with a lower setting (like 3). -Jason On Tuesday 08 October 2002 07:05 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok if the box isn't on the net (Do this only if the box isn't on the net

Re: [expert] soundwrapper, esd, and quake3

2002-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
a little better. with or without soundwrapper, quake3 now gets: --- sound initialization --- Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code) /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp

Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections unknown

2002-10-08 Thread Ray Warren
On 8 Oct 2002 at 14:00, David Guntner wrote: I found out from someone else that apparently you now need to have a copy of your hosts and resolv.conf files in /var/spool/postfix/etc for some reason. The default installation now appears to be chrooted and you need to check the

Re: Re: [expert] mount -o loop mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread Lorne
Thanks for the replies guys. I'll try that at work. I guess it doesn't default loaded. I just checked my 8.2 box and it didn't have the /dev/loop either. I did a modprobe loop and bam... there they are, so it is much more simple than I anticipated. My guess is that it will work on the 9.0 box