Re: [expert] two sound cards

2002-12-28 Thread Tom
I just wanted to add to the document that ARTS is another one of the one sound card programs. If one enables ARTS with two sound cards, it will eventually lock down the Linux system to where the reset button is the only alternative. Thus, If one runs two sounds cards, ARTS must be disabled. On

[expert] mc (ctrl-o) = segmentation fault

2002-12-28 Thread Tomas Krojzl
I have (almost) fresh Mandrake 9.0 (just with bugfix upgrades). I'v had gpm-vs-mc error (see: http://www.mandrake.com/en/archives/expert/2002-09/msg01891.php ) so to fix it I've installed following packages from Mandrake Cooker (I was reading through the changelogs and there were just minor

[expert] GLX extension

2002-12-28 Thread Dave Kufta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning list, I get an error message when running x as follows: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. From what I can tell from kde all appears to be working fine. Has anyone encountered this error that could possibly point me to the

[expert] set brightness

2002-12-28 Thread francesco.melo
there is a way to set global brightness with my grafich card i have a geforce and with the Nvidia driver i have less brightness i need more light my monitor is on 95 % brightness so it is a video setting problem .. thanks francesco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-28 Thread Jason
Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I had a look in: |/proc/bus/usb/devices| and there is nothing in there, even after plugging in the device. This tells me that the kernel is not recognizing the device right?? If so, how do I rectify this?? This device is

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-28 Thread J. Grant
Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed. If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too. JG Jason wrote: Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I had

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft snipped

2002-12-28 Thread ET
On Friday 27 December 2002 09:41 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 17:37 -0500, ET wrote: I got a bounce at that address Sorry, but the correct address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] wobo thanks, I re-mailed them... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] KDE and wine--Sound?

2002-12-28 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 23 December 2002 05:31 pm, PlugHead wrote: Hmmm. I meant soundwrapper (which I tried both with the winex command and wineserver--which I assume actually runs the program...) Soundwrapper, btw, does work for other non-KDE apps, like Doom Legacy. I just tried artswrapper, and it

[expert] single click in KDE3.1RC5

2002-12-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list, I've recently installed KDE3.1RC5 and haven't been able to make out just how to enable single click for the launch icons that live on the desktop. any ideas? thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] prism-based wlan card: Modules already there?

2002-12-28 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi, two weeks ago I bought a Trendnet TEW-210 wireless network adapter that's supposed to need only the prism 2.5 module. Now, I could try using the pcmcia-cs and wlan-ng sources in the cdrom included and compile everything but looking around in my kernel modules I found the directory

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello David Just a hint, check the lastlogs to see if any suspicious logins have occured. If not, it might be helpful to make images of your box now, and store them for examination with Autopsy later. Especially if you're going to rebuild it. Also try running tripwire or aide for a while to see

[expert] [repost] Evolution Weirdness

2002-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I'm having a very weird problem with evolution... Currently, I'm running 1.2, but it was there too on 1.0.8. My system is Mandrake 9.0. My mail-list-display shows times in 12 hour format, where my locale is set to use 24 hour. All other apps (like sylpheed) detect this correct. But here

[expert] [repost] XFree 4 resolutions

2002-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I have a slight problem with XFree. I set up my parent's PC to watch DVD's on a TV. To to this, the resolution needs to be switched to 800x600 under their USERID's (no root). This works by pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- The monitor switches to 800x600 but the desktop doesn't. It is now larger

[expert] gtk-gnutella

2002-12-28 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I recently ran into problems with gtk-gnutella (gtk-gnutella-0.91.1-1plf on Mandrake 9.0). I had been using it for some time, and it was working fine. But now another user on my system needs it too, and it fails. So I decided to remove the .gtk-gnutella directory for my user (after

Re: [expert] gtk-gnutella

2002-12-28 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I had a similar problem, which was due to me using a HTTP proxy... Gtk-gnutella doesn't handle proxies well as far as connecting to the cache nodes is concerned... Hans On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:34, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello I recently ran into problems with gtk-gnutella

Re: [expert] [repost] Evolution Weirdness

2002-12-28 Thread James Sparenberg
Guy, I'm having similar problems with evo 1.2 but in different areas. (spell checker) If I create a new user (completely new to the box) that user has spell check available. Seems to be a problem with evo's conversion of the 1.08 settings to the 1.2 format. I'm not sure what/how to get this

Re: [expert] single click in KDE3.1RC5

2002-12-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:12 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've recently installed KDE3.1RC5 and haven't been able to make out just how to enable single click for the launch icons that live on the desktop. any ideas? thanks, Mark Mark: Try Control Center, Peripherals, Mouse

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0]

2002-12-28 Thread Jason
Thanks for the ideas. This is the output: [root@localhost jason]# /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted sr_mod 15096 0 (autoclean) (unused) floppy 49244 0 (autoclean) ppp_deflate 3384 0 (autoclean) zlib_inflate

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-28 Thread Jason
Also this is from /var/log/messages: Dec 29 10:26:23 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 5 Dec 29 10:26:28 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/240/100 Dec 29 10:26:31 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:04.2-1

[expert] What is wheel is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-28 Thread Jim C
My understanding is that there is a group called wheel that allows a user to have administrative privileges. I remember trying to get it to work some time ago but I've never been successful. This may have been because of my msec setting or something but I don't know. Can anybody give me

Re: [expert] Small speed increase

2002-12-28 Thread ddc_prueba
Fisrt thing is I still don't catch why you can overclock... I understand that someone is afraid to (I am too, so I don't until my system is well behind new market products so the increase of perfomance is desired using many programs and I break somthing is cheap to replace or can upgrade to

Re: [expert] What is wheel is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-28 Thread James Sparenberg
I can tell you how it's used in BSD nix although I haven't seen it used for much in Linux. In BSD only users in who's primary group is wheel can su to root. All others are locked out. Groups also allow for access control to files / directories etc. One just needs to edit /etc/group to remove

[expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
Steve Pugh wrote: Are you interested in second-hand? I have a powercolour 128mb 9000pro surplus to my requirements. http://www.power-color.com/html/rv25a-c3p.html In box with all contents and original receipt so you would still have plenty of warranty. Available for immediate pickup in

Re: [expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
Sorry about that folks, my system just hardlocked on a java website, and somehow the mail got sent to the open mail group ...back to the normal channels after a brief but nail-biting dip into xfs_repair... :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:14 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? I'd definitely become familiar with the xfsprogs-installed applications. xfs_repair is particularly

Re: [expert] GLX extension

2002-12-28 Thread Philip Webb
021228 Dave Kufta wrote: I get an error message when running x as follows: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. From what I can tell from kde all appears to be working fine. Has anyone encountered this error IIRC it's what happens when you try to run a pgm requiring 3D, but don't

[expert] Re: MLM munging - was cron smbtar

2002-12-28 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, let's not get into the reply-to argument. What is FAR, FAR worse with this mailing list is that digest people get an incorrect reply-to!!! It doesn't get to the list! I've mentioned this a few times, but it never seems to get fixed. So, I have to correct each and every message that I

Re: [expert] Re: MLM munging - was cron smbtar

2002-12-28 Thread J. Craig Woods
Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Please, let's not get into the reply-to argument. What is FAR, FAR worse with this mailing list is that digest people get an incorrect reply-to!!! It doesn't get to the list! I've mentioned this a few times, but it never seems to get fixed. So, I have to correct each and

Re: [expert] What is wheel is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
According to http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php, the wheel group only appears to be active in msec level 5 (Paranoid). On 28 Dec 2002 16:03:02 -0800, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can tell you how it's used in BSD nix although I haven't seen it used for much in Linux.

Re: [expert] What is wheel is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Viron
You can use linux to lock out su access to only the wheel group. The steps are: Change the group ownership on su to root:wheel . Next, remove execute permission from other on su. Michael -- Michael Viron Core System Administration Team Simple End User Linux At 04:03 PM 12/28/2002 -0800, you

Re: [expert] What is wheel is it safe how do I use it?

2002-12-28 Thread James Sparenberg
You are correct... but it still leaves a lot of the other features from BSD missing. or if they do exist in Linux not working quite the same.. Don't misunderstand I'm not complaining... just noteing the difference James On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 19:47, Michael Viron wrote: You can use