RE: [expert] Java

2002-12-14 Thread David Robertson
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:53, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I think people have gotten confused about what you are trying to accomplish. My understanding is that all you care about is getting java to work in your Mozilla browser so that you can run applets. If this is correct, see below.

[expert] mplayer and software manager

2002-12-14 Thread David Robertson
Hi I posted this query to the newbie list but have had no takers so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful: I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using the software manager it

Re: [expert] mplayer and software manager

2002-12-14 Thread Marek
David Robertson wrote: Hi I posted this query to the newbie list but have had no takers so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful: I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using

Re: [expert] mplayer and software manager

2002-12-14 Thread David Robertson
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 09:14, Marek wrote: David Robertson wrote: Hi I posted this query to the newbie list but have had no takers so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful: I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and

[expert] MNF

2002-12-14 Thread Marek
Hi Anyone have the md5sum for the latest MNF ? my gpgp is not working right now. -- /Marek \\Pawinski.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mandrake source kernel

2002-12-14 Thread Jim C
Should also be one on your distro CDs. Sandeep Khanna wrote: Search http://www.rpmfind.net for kernel-sources for the Mandrake distribution. --Sandeep Khanna Alex Fudio wrote: does anybody know where i can download the source code for the kernel for mandrake 9? thank you alex

Re: [expert] MNF

2002-12-14 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Saturday 14 December 2002 4:57 am, Marek wrote: Hi Anyone have the md5sum for the latest MNF ? my gpgp is not working right now. Marek, I don't have the md5sums, but they should be on the same server (and probably the same directory) where you got the RPMs. Jon -- Jonathan Dlouhy

Re: [expert] mplayer and software manager

2002-12-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David Robertson wrote: Hi I posted this query to the newbie list but have had no takers so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful: I used the script in the club pages to set up urpmi for updates, commercial apps, contributions and PLF files.I now want to install mplayer and when using

[expert] Floppy image to a floppy, how?

2002-12-14 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear friends, In the Salta University (Argentina) Marcos Zapata has developed a floppy with a a GNU/Linux that detect all the hardware or your PC. He has put an image in the next url: http://www.ututo.org/infoz/index.html But I have not idea about how to copy the image on the floppy

Re: [expert] Floppy image to a floppy, how?

2002-12-14 Thread kwan
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Dear friends, In the Salta University (Argentina) Marcos Zapata has developed a floppy with a a GNU/Linux that detect all the hardware or your PC. He has put an image in the next url: http://www.ututo.org/infoz/index.html But I

Re: [expert] Floppy image to a floppy, how?

2002-12-14 Thread Simon Prosser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 2:06 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Dear friends, In the Salta University (Argentina) Marcos Zapata has developed a floppy with a a GNU/Linux that detect all the hardware or your PC. He has put an image in the next

Re: [expert] Floppy image to a floppy, how?

2002-12-14 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Thanks a lot Simon and Kwan for your quick answer. dd if=/path/to/infoz.img of=/dev/fd0 -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-14 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:44, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5 Since there isn't a

Re: [expert] Login Takes An Eternity on 9.0

2002-12-14 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:37, Felix Miata wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Felix Miata wrote: Note as I wrote above this is a runlevel 2 problem. Runlevel 2 means no network. I'm trying to login on the i586 PC console display. Does this happen with newly

[expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing... can someone supply the targets to the following links??

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
Can someone tell me where the following symlinks should be pointing??? /usr/share/man/man1/cancel.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/newaliases.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/lpr.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/lpq.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/lprm.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/lp.1.bz2

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate issues

2002-12-14 Thread Manuel Soto
I use red-carpet from Ximian and it works very well, you my share cache folder using NFS On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:26, Paul Fotheringham wrote: Hi, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate. I have two questions. 1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms

[expert] Unsubsribe

2002-12-14 Thread RoadRunner
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Re: [expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing... can someone supplythe targets to the following links??

2002-12-14 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Here you have a list all symlinked man pages in attachment (Linux mandrake 8.2 using find /usr/share/man/ -type l -exec ls -l \{\} \; | gzip -c mansymlinks.gz ) if you need it for another version just let me know... Regards and goodluck, Lieven Op za 14-12-2002, om 20:02 schreef Franki:

Re: [expert] Java

2002-12-14 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 December 2002 9:59 am, Felix Miata wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: # rpm -qa | grep ava # OK, what's the secret code to find out

Re: [expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing... can someone supply the targets to the following links??

2002-12-14 Thread Simon Prosser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 Dec 2002 7:25 pm, Lieven Van Acker wrote: find /usr/share/man/ -type l -exec ls -l \{\} \; | gzip -c mansymlinks.gz same thing for 9.0 (attached) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

RE: [expert] users with same permissions as root

2002-12-14 Thread Manuel Soto
What about logs ? On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 18:09, logic7 wrote: that's kinda defeating the whole purpose of root. there would be no difference between giving them the root password and you all having the same access as root under your logins. Your best bet is to NOT give them access under their

Re: [expert] Plugins and javascript problems.

2002-12-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Konqueror on my athlon system is just plain broken. I have tried installing the mandrake rpm from the macromedia site for shockwave and it only worked for mozilla and galeon (probably would work with almost any other browser too except konqueror). I then removed it and installed the plugin

RE: [expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing... can someone supplythe targets to the following links??

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
was for 9.0 I was chasing.. are they likely to be that different? I wouldn't imagine so.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lieven Van Acker Sent: Sunday, 15 December 2002 3:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] RE:

[expert] apt sources

2002-12-14 Thread Michel Clasquin
I just installed texstar's apt and synaptic. I like the concept, but the iblio.org server is so sl o o o o w .. Can anyone point me to an alternative site or two? TIA -- Michel Clasquin [EMAIL PROTECTED] When all is One, all violence is masochism. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] MNF

2002-12-14 Thread s
On Saturday 14 December 2002 3:57 am, Marek wrote: Hi Anyone have the md5sum for the latest MNF ? my gpgp is not working right now. [s@tuxmachine]:s$ cat md5sum.mnf -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 80df055c92441e96117b362244e00e5f MandrakeSecurity-MNF.i586.iso -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing... can someone supplythe targets to the following links??

2002-12-14 Thread Luca Olivetti
Lieven Van Acker wrote: find /usr/share/man/ -type l -exec ls -l \{\} \; | gzip -c mansymlinks.gz Another way is to look at the command to execute to recreate the links with: rpm -q --scripts cups-common | grep 'update-alternatives --install' (assuming that you are using cups) I'm still

RE: [expert] RE: /etc/alternatives listing.. Think I have found the cause of my problem.

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
I think I know the problem, but not the solution... I made the mistake on this box not selecting documentation when I installed the system. I thought that it would not install all the html docs and such, I didn't know it would leave of man altogether.. I installed man manually later, but I

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-14 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have this working now. However I'm considering buying a PPC PowerBook. Do DivX plugins work with PPC if they are using wine? Or does anyone know if there are native versions? Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 03 December 2002 23:16, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Although mdk9

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:32, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:26, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at

[expert] Mandrake Security MNF..

2002-12-14 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I have just downloaded mnf and burnt it.. Before i start playing with it. (I'm gonna setup a system to trial it.) I figured I'd ask if anyone knows it well here.. my questions. 1. for someone familiar with mdk9, how hard is it to lean mnf's ins and outs?? I mean is the basic structure

[expert] Filghtgear: Where to get a working rpm for Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-14 Thread Paulo da Silva
I have tried a couple of flightgear rpms but I didn't get them to work! I got claims of missing software (libs)! Trying to install missing packages I got things installed but it does not work! Thanks for any help. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Toshiba Satellite 5105 NVIDIA Driver Problems......

2002-12-14 Thread Ralph C
The drivers installed ok but there is a 1/4 inch space on the right hand side of the screen that is not being used? Has anyone else had this problem? Anyone know how to fix it?? Ralph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation

2002-12-14 Thread Ralph De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI: I snagged the latest NVIDIA drivers in rpm format and tryed to install following the directions. From level 3 I installed the up kernel rpm doing a rpm -Uvh, I then did a rpm -e to remove the old GLX file and then did a rpm - -Uvh to install

Re: [expert] Toshiba Satellite 5105 NVIDIA Driver Problems......

2002-12-14 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 14 December 2002 04:19 pm, Ralph C wrote: The drivers installed ok but there is a 1/4 inch space on the right hand side of the screen that is not being used? Has anyone else had this problem? Anyone know how to fix it?? Can you adjust it with the monitor? Try vidtune. I'm not sure

Re: [expert] NVidia Drivers for MD8.2 wont work for 9.0 - nvidia XawTV

2002-12-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Seg 09 Dez 2002 12:49, Barry Michels wrote: Works perfectly! I've installed my TV board after installing the nvidia drivers! rgs Ricardo Anyone have trouble with XawTV after installing the nvidia drivers? I had XawTV 3.80 running when I decided to switch from the nv driver to nvidia.

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Qua 11 Dez 2002 07:17, Simon Naish wrote: Is that to taken seriously? I got 715.600fps on my gf2 with nvidia drivers! Just to be sure. that's 3758 frames in 5 seconds! Ricardo Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware acceleration available from the nv

[expert] hdc lost interrupt

2002-12-14 Thread Lorne
Hey guys, I'm having a strange problem I'm hoping someone else has run into. I'm trying to install MNF onto an AMD 350 system. One HD on the primary channel and one CDROM on the secondary. I've also tried it with the HD and CDROM both on the primary and the secondary disabled. The first way,