[expert] WIll the NVidia supply drivers for 8.2 work for MD 9.0

2002-12-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi guys, Has anybody tried installing the NVidia 8.2 drivers in their 9.0 machines? Please let me know if anybody has done this. Thanks a lot. RA. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: [expert] WIll the NVidia supply drivers for 8.2 work for MD 9.0

2002-12-01 Thread SainTiss
Hi, usually, if you grab the src.rpm's from nvidia, and rebuild them, everything works fine (that's how I did it anyway)... Just make sure you've got the kernel-source rpm installed when you rebuild the src.rpm's Hans On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 09:10, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys, Has

Re: [expert] WIll the NVidia supply drivers for 8.2 work for MD 9.0

2002-12-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Thanks a lot, Rob --- SainTiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, usually, if you grab the src.rpm's from nvidia, and rebuild them, everything works fine (that's how I did it anyway)... Just make sure you've got the kernel-source rpm installed when you rebuild the src.rpm's Hans On

[expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Belkie, Dan
Hey Guys! Ok I have a box, acting as a firewall / router. All is good. It has 2 NIC cards in it of course Ok now I might be going way out, and maybe someone can tell me a better way to do this... I have 2 static IP's and I want them both to run into the same box. I want to put 4

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
yes, there is a better way.. you can have multiple IP's assigned to one ethernet card... so for example: eth0 = 203.59.87.254 eth0:0 = 203.59.6.252 eth0:1 = xxx.xxx.xx.xxx eth1: some other IP. eth1:1 another IP. I have a linux box with three network cards in it.. 1 is for the

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Belkie, Dan
Sweet This might do the trick *BUT* My DSL provider does authentication via the card mac address. Because of this I don't think they will let me have 2 IP's to 1 mac. thoughts? d. -Original Message- From: Franki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 1, 2002 6:09 AM

Re: [expert] lisa

2002-12-01 Thread Tom
You are right about the glitch in the docs. Anyhow, if you plan to run SAMBA on that ML 9.0 machine, you will need to disable lisa. The lisa package interferes with SAMBA's operation. On Saturday 30 November 2002 10:07 am, you wrote: According to kpackage, lisa is installed and is a kind of

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Hi, I suppose you only have one DSL connection, connected to only one ethernet interface. It will be this interface's mac that's used for autenthication with your DSL provider. The other NIC's and their resp. MAC addresses are not taken into account for connecting your DSL. So, as long as your

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Belkie, Dan
I'm not sure I follow. I have 2 static IP's with my DSL provider. They do authentication my MAC address. So I will not be able to bind 2 static IP's to 1 NIC. (?) I will have two networks in the office. Network (a) for 20 or so computers to surf the net and play LAN games. Network (b) for

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Hi, I suppose you only have one DSL connection, connected to only one ethernet interface. It will be this interface's mac that's used for autenthication with your DSL provider. The other NIC's and their resp. MAC addresses are not taken into account for connecting your DSL. So, as long as your

[expert] logs filling with wireless info

2002-12-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
My system logs are filling with basic wireless lan traffic information, ie: vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b29 StationState 5 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: unknown ioctl x8b29 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b01 StationState 5 vnetusba.c/usb_vnet_ioctl: cmd x8b0b StationState 5

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Op zo 01-12-2002, om 15:16 schreef Belkie, Dan: I'm not sure I follow. I have 2 static IP's with my DSL provider. They do authentication my MAC address. So I will not be able to bind 2 static IP's to 1 NIC. (?) Allright. I think you must ask your DSL provider if it's really necessary

RE: [expert] 4 LAN cards

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
That should not make any difference just make sure your main static IP address is eth0 or eth1 or eth2 etc.. make all the other ips the virtual interfece (ie eth0:1 eth1:2 etc etc..) You will be fine if you do that. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select getting jiggy with apache

2002-12-01 Thread Jack Coates
No, but I do have plf, mandrakeclub-testing, contrib and texstar -- One of these days I'll have to figure out how MandrakeUpdate chooses the update source only when it looks. On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 23:06, James Sparenberg wrote: Do you perhaps have a cooker list in your urpmi database. I've

RE: [expert] WIll the NVidia supply drivers for 8.2 work for MD 9.0

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
It will not work, different kernels.. download the src rpms, and --rebuild them, or compile the tarball from nvidia.. they are the only ways that work. The binary rpms are compiled specifically for the distro version they are for.. specifically for the kernel version. rgds Frank

RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions about urpmi and installing big apps...

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
That leads to a couple of interesting questions... 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can copy to the new servers to give them the

[expert] IP alias. How?

2002-12-01 Thread Alexander Volovics
Hello, I am trying to attach a second IP adress to my pcmcia network card in mandrake-9.0 which uses dhcp to connect to a router. It seems to be impossible to do this via the graphical interfaces: Mandrake Control Center - Network internet - Connection (- Expert Mode). If I use 'ifconfig' and

[expert] Apache Directive Question

2002-12-01 Thread H. Carter Harris
I apologize to everyone who subscribes to both the newbie and expert lists. I posted this in newbie but I didn't get an answer and I was hoping someone on the expert list could help. I have been working my way through the O'Reilly book on Apache and I have run into a bit of a problem. I can't

[expert] ControlCenter, no services are shown (9.0)

2002-12-01 Thread W. Kasberg
Since some time I have a strange behaviour of ControlCenter: If I choose system/services no list of services is shown; the window is empty. Thus I cannot start/stop no service. After installing Mdk 9.0 the feature worked. Any hint to change this behaviour? W. Kasberg Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] lisa

2002-12-01 Thread Ron Stodden
Tom wrote: You are right about the glitch in the docs. Anyhow, if you plan to run SAMBA on that ML 9.0 machine, you will need to disable lisa. The lisa package interferes with SAMBA's operation. Thanks. No use for samba here... -- Ron. [Melbourne, Australia] troels... now updated to use

Re: [expert] WIll the NVidia supply drivers for 8.2 work for MD 9.0

2002-12-01 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-12-01 00:10 * Incoming subspace signal from Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hi guys, Has anybody tried installing the NVidia 8.2 drivers in their 9.0 machines? Please let me know if anybody has done this. If you rebuild your kernel on 9.0 the modules end up in

[expert] OpenOffice will not start on LM9.0

2002-12-01 Thread Pierre Fortin
For the record, I ran oowriter a few times, then oocalc... while oocalc was still running (this morning), I tried to start oowriter and it would silently die before bring up the splash screen... So, I exited from oocalc, and now oocalc would not start either... For some reason, OO did not

[expert] lvcool

2002-12-01 Thread Toma Jankovic
Does anyone know how to compile lvcool on MDK 9 (or any else) This is what I get gcc -o lvcool LVCool.o LVCool.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [lvcool] Error 1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps...

2002-12-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 07:43, Franki wrote: That leads to a couple of interesting questions... 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory

[expert] NVdriver problem w/ recompiled kernel

2002-12-01 Thread Jorris Graad
I've installed NVdriver successfully on mandrake's origin kernel. I used the tar.gz files. Then I compiled the new 2.4.20 kernel and starting xwindow but the window couldn't be displayed. I used make install to install the NVdriver but the result was error 1. like these: ld -r -o NVdriver

Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions about urpmi and installing big apps...

2002-12-01 Thread Hoyt Duff
On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:43 am, Franki scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: 1. I have two dozen mdk 9.0 boxes around town.. and I have set most of them up to use the same urpmi sources. But its a time consuming process to do so.. is there some config file or directory that I can

Re: [expert] NVdriver problem w/ recompiled kernel

2002-12-01 Thread J. Grant
Perhaps you should (if you did not already) make clean; make dep; in your kernel dir (with new sym link to /usr/src/linux) before compiling the nvidia src's JG Jorris Graad wrote: I've installed NVdriver successfully on mandrake's origin kernel. I used the tar.gz files. Then I compiled the new

RE: [expert] IP alias. How?

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
you can set it up permanently using linuxconf (install linuxconf then run netconf in a terminal.) It can be used to setup static routes as well... one tip though, when you finish, its gonna want to change stuff (permissions and stuff) over to what it thinks they should be. tell it to do

[expert] Help!-System recovery chaos (a bit long)

2002-12-01 Thread gikoreno
Dear all,After having had an extremely stable system for a while now (MDK 9.0), I stupidly played around with the BIOS' power management features, and the system locked. So I had to hard reboot, and changed them back to what they were, thinking all would be fine...They system locked up again,

[expert] disabling APIC in BIOS enables nic on Sis 7xx motherboards - repository for recommended settings

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
Thanks to someone one this list and I apologize for losing the name, I set APIC to disable on a SiS745 motherboard and the nic now works. It seems to me a lot of grief would be avoided by collecting a database of non-default BIOS settings. Jim Tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?

2002-12-01 Thread Munagala Ramanath
Hi, I'm trying to use my Fuji FinePix 2600Z camera. It works fine with 8.2: When i plug it into the USB port, I get /dev/sda1 created and I can mount it. But on ML 9.0 no /dev/sd* devices get created; this is what I see in the logfile:

[expert] HELP: USB mouse configuration question

2002-12-01 Thread ding chi
Hi there Iam usingMandrake Linux 8.3. Everythingwas fine until my PS/2 mouse port had some problems and didn't work. Therefore I bought a new USB mouse and it works fine under Win98. The problem happened after I boot and enter Linux.Beforeit entered X-window, Linux detecteda new USB mouse and

Re: [expert] HELP: USB mouse configuration question

2002-12-01 Thread mike
Here is the relevant portion of my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. Hope it helps. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Device /dev/usbmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Option Emulate3Buttons #Option Emulate3Timeout

Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps...

2002-12-01 Thread James Sparenberg
What would be helpful in a case like this is to be able to do what PLF did. (actually I got it from Ranger's site) but somehow a PLF CD was created that you install from as if it was CD1 and it contains PLF's rpms This gets moved into a new category called PLF (duh!) and then it hands off to disc

[expert] problems with msec daily

2002-12-01 Thread Angus Beath
Hi, I've got this error from Cron each day. I'm not sure how to go about fixing it: Subject: Cron root@dunedain nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:04:19 -0500 (EST) bzcat: Can't open input file ./newaliases.1.bz2: No such file or directory. bzcat: Can't open

Re: [expert] problems with msec daily

2002-12-01 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Sunday 01 December 2002 16:10, Angus Beath wrote: Hi, I've got this error from Cron each day. I'm not sure how to go about fixing it: Subject: Cron root@dunedain nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:04:19 -0500 (EST) bzcat: Can't open input file

Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?

2002-12-01 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I have conected a Nikon 755 under 9.0 and has work like a charm. After be sure usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsi modules are loaded I created a directory to be mounted (mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera). Then, after have usb-pluged the camera, I did: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera And it

[expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi guys girls, I recently got a Sony cd rw drive and I am trying to use xcdroast with it. The first time I run this program, it gave me the error: Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic scsi devices of no SCSI support enabled in the kernel. For ATAPI devices

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys girls, I recently got a Sony cd rw drive and I am trying to use xcdroast with it. The first time I run this program, it gave me the error: Failed to scan the SCSI-bus. Either no permission to access the generic scsi devices of no SCSI support enabled in the

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
In lilo.conf, there is already one append statement set to quiet devfs=mount Should I add the line you suggested before or after this append statement? Thank you very much for your prompt response. Robert. --- Rolf Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys girls,

Re: [expert] USB card reader support on 9.0 ?

2002-12-01 Thread Munagala Ramanath
--- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have conected a Nikon 755 under 9.0 and has work like a charm. After be sure usb, usb-core, usb-storage and ide-scsi modules are loaded I created a directory to be mounted (mkdir -m 777 /mnt/camera). Then, after have usb-pluged the

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: In lilo.conf, there is already one append statement set to quiet devfs=mount Should I add the line you suggested before or after this append statement? Just add it as one of the space-separated items within the quotes . Then, save, run lilo and reboot. Want to buy

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Thanks Rolf, I got that setup now. One last question though, once I start xcdroaster, I can setup the recorder the sony recorder with no problems, but when I go to set up the reader, only the sony cdrw drive appears, instead of my LG cdrom. I want a setup that will allow me to make cd copies

Re: [expert] Installing SCSI-emulation to make cdrw work

2002-12-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Roberto Armenteros wrote: Thanks Rolf, I got that setup now. One last question though, once I start xcdroaster, I can setup the recorder the sony recorder with no problems, but when I go to set up the reader, only the sony cdrw drive appears, instead of my LG cdrom. I want a setup that will

[expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim C
I've just installed Mdk 9.0 on an Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 ghz machine. When I fired up X it took hela long (like 5 min!) for it to start. I tried everything I could think of and then eventually installed Mdk 8.2 overtop of it as an experiment. Sure enough, X is just as slow in 8.2 as it is in

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Tarvid
It's not although AMDs groveling before MS and the world makes me wonder. Try $ startx $HOME/startx.log 21 [RET] and see what's in the log file Jim Tarvid On Sunday 01 December 2002 10:14 pm, you wrote: I've just installed Mdk 9.0 on an Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 ghz machine. When I fired up X it

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread mycal62
before you get a hammer, consider this, I run a xp 1700+ processor , and have run 8.0, 8.2, and 9.0 all without any difficulty or special configuring. I run an nvidia tnt2 32 mg agp video card, and have run several others though no voodoo card though, so don't know. I would guess it's another

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim C
$ startx $HOME/startx.log 21 [RET] and see what's in the log file Here is what is in the file. See anything suspicious? I don't. hostname: Host name lookup failure XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 23 January 2002

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim C
Bingo! Now all I have to do is figure out if the via82cxxx animal is the onboard sound or the front USB port which I am not quite sure if I wired correctly. ;-) I can probably just turn the sound card off and restart and let harddrake handle it, if that is the case. Dec 1 20:44:26 spartack

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread PlugHead
On Sunday 01 December 2002 11:30 pm, Jim C wrote: Here is what is in the file. See anything suspicious? I don't. hostname: Host name lookup failure I'd be a little bit suspicious of that... Make sure your /etc/hosts file has an entry like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Tom
On Monday 02 December 2002 12:03 am, you wrote: Bingo! Now all I have to do is figure out if the via82cxxx animal is the onboard sound or the front USB port which I am not quite sure if I wired It is the MB built-in sound card! Turn it off in the BIOS, looks like it may be defective.

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim C
The plot thickens. Check out these errors: Dec 1 21:15:46 spartack -- jim[1653]: LOGIN ON vc/1 BY jim Dec 1 21:16:12 spartack rpc.statd[1051]: gethostbyname error for spartack.microverse.net Dec 1 21:16:29 spartack login(pam_unix)[1654]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Dec 1

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 16:32, Jim C wrote: The plot thickens. Check out these errors: Dec 1 21:15:46 spartack -- jim[1653]: LOGIN ON vc/1 BY jim Dec 1 21:16:12 spartack rpc.statd[1051]: gethostbyname error for spartack.microverse.net Dec 1 21:16:29 spartack login(pam_unix)[1654]:

Re: [expert] A win-processor!?!?!?

2002-12-01 Thread Jim C
BINGO!!! :-) :-) :-) It was the host file. Thanks guys. P.S. Glad the hammer stayed in the closet! :-) Jim C wrote: The plot thickens. Check out these errors: Dec 1 21:15:46 spartack -- jim[1653]: LOGIN ON vc/1 BY jim Dec 1 21:16:12 spartack rpc.statd[1051]: gethostbyname error for

RE: [expert] urpmi --auto-select Couple of new questions abouturpmi and installing big apps...

2002-12-01 Thread Franki
I'll have to give some thought to this.. a shell script seems the most likely candidate... its a shame you can't export sources to a shell script from urpmi.. automate the process as it were, that would be handy.. guess it'll probably happen at some stage down the line.. rgds Frank