Re: [expert] adding icons

2002-11-14 Thread Norman Zhang
My bad. I think I downloaded the file for Windows XP. It is .zip not .tar.gz. No wonder I can't install. I will try again. Sorry. Norman James Sparenberg wrote: go to the kcontrol center. click on look and feel then icons. click on the folder at the bottom and surf to the still gzipped file

Re: [expert] adding icons

2002-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
Don't remember the instructions they give but what I do is this. go to the kcontrol center. click on look and feel then icons. click on the folder at the bottom and surf to the still gzipped file I want to install. Then click on install new icon theme wait a few seconds.. and the theme is a

[expert] adding icons

2002-11-14 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I have downloaded the crystal icons from www.kde-look.org. Now I tried to install the icons using Configuration\KDE\Look N Feel\Icons\Theme\Install New Themes... but can't install the icons. There are only *.ico files from downloaded file. I can see the icons in preview but cannot use them

Re: [expert] rpm signature using sudo

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 06:02 PM, bascule wrote: hmm, thanks for that vincent, glad i asked 'cos i wasn't expecting that answer :-) i'll pay greater attention next time i get a 'key' warning using urpmi and see if i can't find the root! cause - (i slay me sometimes!) =) So I assume

Re: [expert] Virtual Terms

2002-11-14 Thread James Conner
Well, it mysteriously started working. I don't know what I did or what happened to get it fixed. I'm using a Voodoo3 2000 card that will be upgraded as soon as funds become available(probably after the first of the year). Thanks for checking back with me on it. Jim On Thursday November 14,

Re: [expert] Why is it so difficult to get a wireless card to workin linux????

2002-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
I may maybe not have run across something that has a lot to do with the "problem" and the fact that some have the problem some don't. I've been know for my ability to lose dongles for quite some time. With dongles being almost as expensive as the full pcmcia nic I just keep buying new nic's

Re: [expert] Virtual Terms

2002-11-14 Thread James T. Nelson III
Did you ever get this resolved? I had the same issue when I was using a Voodoo3 card. If I ran an openGL game, after I exited the game, everything worked fine, except switching to another virtual console. The problem went away when I upgraded my video card recently. Jim On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23

Re: [expert] LSI53C1030 SCSI

2002-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
when it boots to the disk chose f1 this will give you more options for install then chose the expert install this will bring up the screen for you to be able to load scsi modules from there it will go on to a normal install. James On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:22, Gareth Hash wrote: > Hello >

Re: [expert] re: How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
Try this instruction page. http://hermes.afaa.asso.fr/users/pascal/linux/rpm-rebuilddb and if it doesn't come up (it should) I mirror it here. http://myopencountry.com/cgi-bin/view/howto/RPMDatabase James On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 07:40, Will Merkens wrote: > Subject: > [expert] How to recover R

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
Pradeor, I've done multiple installs on my laptop. (just testing some stuff before I settled down to do work conclusion Blue bytes ) (pun intended) and since installing more ram, I needed a larger "suspend" partition. I lost sound during one of the installs myself for some odd reason. Ano

Re: [expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-14 Thread PlugHead
Try installing (re-installing?) the rpm-helper package... (current cooker version is 'rpm-helper-0.7.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm'.) Of course, you might wind up installing a whole new set of 'rpm*' rpms, which has bitten me in the a$$ on at least one occasion... :) -Jason On Thursday 14 November 2002 0

[expert] Blanker

2002-11-14 Thread Greg S
Hi, Could someone please tell me how to disable the console blanker. I have tried the following: setterm -blank 0 echo -e "\33[9;0]" These do not work. I am using a laptop running KDE and Mandrake Version 9. I have also tried disabling power management again without success. Thanks in advance

Re: [expert] How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Toshiro wrote: El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 16:50, Todd Lyons escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:04AM -0800 : There doesn't seem to be a recover option for rpm. "rpm --rebuilddb" gets that same error message. Anyone know wh

Re: [expert] rpm signature using sudo

2002-11-14 Thread bascule
hmm, thanks for that vincent, glad i asked 'cos i wasn't expecting that answer :-) i'll pay greater attention next time i get a 'key' warning using urpmi and see if i can't find the root! cause - (i slay me sometimes!) bascule On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 11:02 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Thursday,

Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

2002-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday November 14 2002 05:35 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: > Hey, I am sorry if my signature hurts your eyes. What did you say > about tampering the reply-to: header? I never did any stunts with > that. What are you talking about? > > Sandeep In your mailer, instead of leaving 'reply to' bl

Re: [expert] How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread Toshiro
El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 16:50, Todd Lyons escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Guntner wrote on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:38:04AM -0800 : > > > > There doesn't seem to be a recover option for rpm. "rpm --rebuilddb" gets > > that same error message. Anyone know w

Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

2002-11-14 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, Seth Zirin wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:04, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Does anyone know if there is quickstart/turbo feature in Mozilla for Linux just like in Windows? If yes, how do we use it? We wait patiently when we launch mozilla the first time after we login and then keep at le

Re: [expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

2002-11-14 Thread Seth Zirin
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:04, Sandeep Khanna wrote: > Does anyone know if there is quickstart/turbo feature in Mozilla for > Linux just like in Windows? If yes, how do we use it? We wait patiently when we launch mozilla the first time after we login and then keep at least one mozilla window opened

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:00 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > hoyt wrote: > > Is it possible to change the default behavior to _keep_ the > > packages? > > > > That sure would save me bandwidth with multiple machines. > > > > Hoyt > > with urpmi, use the command line switch --noclean Thanks Alla

[expert] mozilla quickstart in Mandrake ???

2002-11-14 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi Everybody, Does anyone know if there is quickstart/turbo feature in Mozilla for Linux just like in Windows? If yes, how do we use it? --Sandeep -- Sandeep Khanna Graduate Student in Computer Science, Villanova University Contact Number: (Home) 1-610-964-1320 (Office) 1-877-946-4622 Ext (1

[expert] RPM database wierdness

2002-11-14 Thread Brian Schroeder
I have noticed a wierd problem with RPM on both my home and work machines since upgrading to mdk9.0. After the machine has been up for a while, all rpm operations hang. This includes rpm -q and rpm --rebuilddb as well as rpm -U, rpm -e etc. rpm -qa and rpm --rebuilddb normally get part way th

Re: [expert] rpm signature using sudo

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 03:35 PM, bascule wrote: using urpmi via sudo, will the key checking be done as root or as the user runing sudo, that would explain some messages i get about 'bad' keys since i haven't got the mandrake ones installed as user, just wanted to check the behavio

[expert] Scripts or software to add many new users

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick Atlas
Hello, We are managing hundred of users on a network based on Netscape Exchange Server (mail, news and web). In a few weeks, we would like to change to a linux server (Mandrake of course!) As we don't want to create by hand each existing user, is there a script or a software that will automatical

[expert] rpm signature using sudo

2002-11-14 Thread bascule
using urpmi via sudo, will the key checking be done as root or as the user runing sudo, that would explain some messages i get about 'bad' keys since i haven't got the mandrake ones installed as user, just wanted to check the behaviour here bascule -- 'And trust no-- Trust practically no-one.

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 01:31 PM, hoyt wrote: I would like to know to which directory are the updates stored to. So i reuse them if need be. Hi Marek; They're hiding in file:/var/cache/urpmi/rpms after download; but it clears after they're installed, so you'd have to copy them

[expert] ALSA kernel question

2002-11-14 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: ALSA kernel question Hi All,     How do you update the ALSA0.9_RC2 kernel module to ALSA0.9_RC5.  I updated the non-kernel drivers to RC5 but the kernel was not touched.  How do I update this.  Thanks in advance. Craig

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:33 pm, Miark wrote: > I have the same problem with the ESS sound in my CTX laptop. It worked fine > in previous versions of Mandrake, but it's dead in 9.0. In the past I've > used sndconfig to get it working. In 9.0 sndconfig just hangs. > > What happens when you try

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
hoyt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake update > > > On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:53 am, Marek wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I would like to know to which

Re: [expert] Mozilla Xft binaries anyone ???

2002-11-14 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi, nDiScReEt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 2:28 pm, Sandeep Khanna wrote: Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake update > On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:53 am, Marek wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to know to which directory are the updates st

[expert] Mozilla in Mandrake 9 is SHLOWWW !!!!

2002-11-14 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 is slow as a snail in all aspects.browsing, scrolling, starting, etc. Last week we installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop w

[expert] Mozilla Xft binaries anyone ???

2002-11-14 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi Everybody, Is it just me or is anybody else experiencing this too! A few days back I was concerned, but, now I am alarmed seeing that my mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 is slow as a snail in all aspects.browsing, scrolling, starting, etc. Last week we installed Redhat 8.0 on my friends laptop w

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Miark
Hey, guess what! I tried it again, and this time sndconfig worked! In 8.2, sndconfig worked instantaneously. In 9.0 it takes a long time. I guess what I did before was kill sndconfig before it had a chance to finish. This time I just left it, and when I came back 15 minutes later, it found the

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:53 am, Marek wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know to which directory are the updates stored to. So i > reuse them if need be. Hi Marek; They're hiding in file:/var/cache/urpmi/rpms after download; but it clears after they're installed, so you'd have to copy them

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 14 November 2002 01:33 pm, Miark wrote: > I have the same problem with the ESS sound in my CTX laptop. It worked fine > in previous versions of Mandrake, but it's dead in 9.0. In the past I've > used sndconfig to get it working. In 9.0 sndconfig just hangs. > > What happens when you try

Re: [expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Miark
I have the same problem with the ESS sound in my CTX laptop. It worked fine in previous versions of Mandrake, but it's dead in 9.0. In the past I've used sndconfig to get it working. In 9.0 sndconfig just hangs. What happens when you try sndconfig? Miark On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:10:53 -0500 Pr

[expert] LSI53C1030 SCSI

2002-11-14 Thread Gareth Hash
Hello I believe I have found the correct drivers for the LSI Logic 1030 SCSI adapter and I have it on diskette. However I could not get Mandrake 9.0 to prompt me for it. If there is an easier way or if the drivers for which I am looking have a different name in the default Mandrake install, please

[expert] Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 royally screwed my sound

2002-11-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have an IBM Thinkpad with an ESS Solo1 sound "card". It has worked fine with most previous Mandrake kernels up to 2.4.18. I recently built and installed the Mandrake 2.4.19 kernel (with the correct sound settings selected in xconfig) and find it has totally croaked my sound. There is no

Re: [expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-14 Thread Miark
I've come across this same message twice in the last week. I chalk it up to a bad package, but I'm not certain. Miark On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:19:12 -0600 "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # rm -rf /var/tmp/ > [root@rwideman2 share]# rpm -ivh --allfiles --replacefiles --force > /root/freeswan-1

[expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Marek
Hi I would like to know to which directory are the updates stored to. So i reuse them if need be. -- Marek __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandra

[expert] Mounted Partition Restriction

2002-11-14 Thread nDiScReEt
Is there a way to increase the number of partitions that can be mounted? Any one know as I am trying to mount alll the partitions on my second harddrive but with no success. -- Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based

[expert] re: How to recover RPM database?

2002-11-14 Thread Will Merkens
Subject: [expert] How to recover RPM database? From: David Guntner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:38:04 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting an error when I try to

Re: [expert] Avifile player

2002-11-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:28:04 +1100 Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any opinions on a good video card that doesn't use the nvidia chipset, > dual head and tvout would be nice if cheep enough. > I'm not interested in playing gamed on it. Both Matrox and ATI and offer dual head cards. I have a

Re: [expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-14 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thursday 14 November 2002 02:19 am, Rob wrote: > [root@rwideman2 share]# rpm -qa | grep freeswan > freeswan-1.98b-1mdk > [root@rwideman2 share]# rpm -e /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm > error: package /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm is not installed freeswan-1.98b-1mdk is installed, but

Re: [expert] LM 9.0 - Install Fails - SCSI Disks

2002-11-14 Thread Glen Kjaerulff
>Thanks Martin. > >I already have an Atapi CD-ROM. > >I believe (as it has been in the past), that the Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI Disk >controller is not supported in the installation. I need a solution. It is supported, I have it running but had the same problems during install tried different machi

Re: [expert] LM 9.0 - Install Fails - SCSI Disks

2002-11-14 Thread Albert E. Whale
Thanks Martin. I already have an Atapi CD-ROM. I believe (as it has been in the past), that the Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI Disk controller is not supported in the installation. I need a solution. Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Mittwoch, 13. November

Re: [expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-14 Thread Mark Weaver
Rob wrote: # rm -rf /var/tmp/ [root@rwideman2 share]# rpm -ivh --allfiles --replacefiles --force /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:freeswan ### [100%] warning: