Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0

2002-12-21 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14 am, John Haywood wrote: > I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I > had configured correctly: > > /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to > ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd > > the scsi modules are loaded, but ... > >

[expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi everybody, I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able to ping anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote

Re: [expert] DVD wierdness - An even wierder solution

2002-12-21 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 20 December 2002 04:03 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: > Now it is working, and the solution doesn't make complete sense: > > I checked around on the web to see if there awas a Firmware upgrade for > my DVD/CD-RW drive, I didn't find one, but I did find a firmware "hack" > that disabled the reg

[expert] Digital camera as webcam, how?

2002-12-21 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear friends, I am very happy with my Fuji FinePix S602 Zoom and Mandrake 9; using usb-storage a can easily take the pictures to my camera and save them in the computer. But this camera can also run as a webcam, at least under windows, but I don't know what to do that neither what programes I c

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread flacycads
Marcio, Here's my /etc/ppp/options file for comparison. I have an external 56k modem on serial port 1- works fine. I'm using kppp as the dialer. Please give us more info to help diagnose, like modem, dialer used and settings, ISP, etc. Have you tried to reconfigure with Mandrake Control center?

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix, but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you back up again :-) On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:29, Marcio Cordero wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Gonzalo Avaria
I think that the problem is shorewall, i had the same problem, set down firewall and now i'm writing to you. El dia Saturday 21 December 2002 12:43, Jack Coates puso esta escritura en el mundo: > You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default > configuration can't handle multiple

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Marcio Cordero
Jack, thanks for the advice. I am not at the machine right now but as far as I remember I did allow all services on shorewall, thus kind of disabling the firewall. It didn't work then. Should I uninstall shorewall or do you think just "service shorewall stop" would do? I'll try tomorrow morning and

Re: [expert] DVD wierdness - An even wierder solution

2002-12-21 Thread Robert Goshko
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 08:02, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > On Friday 20 December 2002 04:03 pm, Robert Goshko wrote: > > Now it is working, and the solution doesn't make complete sense: > > > > I checked around on the web to see if there awas a Firmware upgrade for > > my DVD/CD-RW drive, I didn

[expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-21 Thread John Wilson
I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, for the most part, the

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-21 Thread XI
John Wilson wrote: I've just browsed the list to see if anyone is experienceing the same issues with urpmi and Software Manager as I am and I spotted David Robertson's comments. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I finally upgraded to 9.0 because I figured most of the bugs would be out and, fo

Re: [expert] Digital camera as webcam, how?

2002-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
Francisco, This is just a guess on my part but it is a slightly educated one. This months linuxjournal (www.linuxjournal.com) has an article at http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6376 on Gnome-Meeting... which might do what you want. The other option is to try and see if you can run the w

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
Your changes only affect the interfaces that have been set up, and you probably haven't set up ppp0. Please don't disable the firewall, rather learn how to use it. You'll need to edit: /etc/shorewall/interfaces -- define the interfaces and basic characteristics like addressing, routing. /etc/shore

[expert] No sound using i810_audio

2002-12-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
I'm about to give up, not without posting this message to the list, showing all what I've done trying to get the soung to work. Since I installed Mandrake 9, every time the machine is booted I get the following message: /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o.gz: init_module:

Re: SOLVED(?): [expert] test command

2002-12-21 Thread milosh
wuha, i am sorry to say that, but what i wrote was mostly wrong :( it's just too simple. i didn't saw cause i assumed to deal with a strange situation. but this is just normal behaviour. you wrote: > $echo $? returns 0 after these test commands. > > $test -z "" > $test -z first of all. my biggest

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Steffen, I'm actually reading this mail with Eudora in winxp (my linux box doesn't have an internet connection) and it beautifully work. This "mailbox" is about 11000 mails big. Eudora has improved. However, I'm reading this thread very happily because is a sort of religion war :-) and I'll hav

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I have the same feelings for IMAP ;-))), but think about this solution (I plan to implement it by the end of 2003, when I'll have an ADSL connection): you set an imap4 server in you pc and you use a combination of fetchmail, procmail (question: should I use procmail to filter mails or sendmail?

[expert] Which Wine?

2002-12-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on cooker, take a prebuilt r

[expert] problem with missing kernel

2002-12-21 Thread Ken Walker
Sometime in November, i think, doing a mandrakeupdate, i remember it said that it had updated my kernel on LM8.1 to kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk. I've had to reboot, first time since i turned the machine on way back last year. I got a lilo warning about bios memory being too big. looking in the /boot

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 12:41, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > I have the same feelings for IMAP ;-))), but think about this solution (I > plan to implement it by the end of 2003, when I'll have an ADSL > connection): you set an imap4 server in you pc and you use a combination of > fetchmail, procmail (qu

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-21 Thread Philip Webb
021220 Jack Coates wrote: > I gave up using mutt because the config file was a monolithic cruftpile > on the order of sendmail.cf or procmailrc, > a reason at which mutt aficionados will only sneer. i hope none of us sneer (tries not to). .muttrc is really very rational when read in conjunction

Re: [expert] Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-21 Thread Philip Webb
021221 John Wilson wrote: > Who the heck decided to break Software Manager? one of the Mandrake staff persons "fixed" it. > Up to 8.2 it worked like a charm ... > It even showed things like where files were installed and so on. you can still do that: R-click on the R-hand window. > Now it's 3 -

[expert] Re: Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-21 Thread flacycads
I too liked 8.2 rpmdrake better. It alsways worked perfectly. I could live with the new format, except that it now takes up to 5 minutes for each operation (same hardware as I had with 8.2), if I'm lucky enough to get through installing without it locking up. I also miss being able to see what

Re: [expert] mail client

2002-12-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Well, I simply forgot it: I never used it. Olaf At 23.59 21/12/2002, you wrote: > it seems both are able to do so) to move all the incoming mail to > your local imap server. how is this better than putting the mail into a local file-system hierarchy? ** Config

Re: [expert] compiling kernel with acpi and w/o apic

2002-12-21 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 06.23 18/12/2002, you wrote: the default 9.0 kernel comes with a very old version of ACPI -- you should either go from vanilla (which broke USB in my case) or download a cooker kernel with newer ACPI. I've had ok luck with 2.4.19-19, currently on 2.4.20-2 and not happy with it. Is there a way

Re: [expert] Can't find my D: and E:

2002-12-21 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:28:30 +0100 "Emily Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to install winXP in my computer this week. I had win98 then in C: and >would want to keep it and install winXP in E:. After install files were copied, the >computer was restarted but then an e

Re: [expert] problem with missing kernel

2002-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake-old/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ Will get you the Mandrake 8.1 rpms original http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake-old/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS.cooker/ Will get you the 8.1 cooker http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/ Will get you into updates... All

[expert] ksirc changing ircname

2002-12-21 Thread bascule
not being a proficient irc user i've been having difficulty changing my ircname, i've got: IRCNAME=ircname export IRCNAME in my .bash_profile but whenever i connect to a server with ksirc it shows my ircname as bascule, if i try /set ircname ircname /whois still gives bascule i read something o

Re: [expert] 56K dialup problems

2002-12-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 21 December 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem > I've been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I > bought this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not > able to

[expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi List, This evening when I attempted to boot my Mandrake machine I was rudely greeted with the console login screen. This in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, except this machine is supposed to boot to runlevel 5. After some investigation I came to find out that the display manag

Re: [expert] problem with missing kernel

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Sometime in November, i think, doing a mandrakeupdate, i remember it said that it had updated my kernel on LM8.1 to kernel-2.4.8-43.lmdk. I've had to reboot, first time since i turned the machine on way back last year. I got a lilo warning about bios memory being too big. Hi Ken, Probably the

Re: [expert] Which Wine?

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: The win2k partition has just been formatted as ext2. Now I need wine to execute some apps. Should I use the mdk9 stock wine (20020810: pretty old, considering the project activity), download the latest wine (but are all the releases equally stable? I heard not), look on co

Re: [expert] Display Manager has gone south

2002-12-21 Thread James Sparenberg
Mark Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the problem. 1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely different. 2. as root cd to /var/log/ then do tail -f XFree86.0.log (yours might be 1 or 2 but for most is 0.) Then put a bunch

Re: [expert] Re: Software Manager Sucks

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 15:40, flacycads wrote: > I too liked 8.2 rpmdrake better. It alsways worked perfectly. I could live > with the new format, except that it now takes up to 5 minutes for each > operation (same hardware as I had with 8.2), if I'm lucky enough to get > through installing with

Re: [expert] ksirc changing ircname

2002-12-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:35, bascule wrote: > not being a proficient irc user i've been having difficulty changing my > ircname, i've got: > IRCNAME=ircname > export IRCNAME > > in my .bash_profile > > but whenever i connect to a server with ksirc it shows my ircname as bascule, > if i try /set