Re: [expert] Loading appropiate LIRC modules in LM 9.0.

2003-02-18 Thread Fabian Pena-Arellano
Hi James, Thank you for answering. I just did what you proposed and everything seems to be working very good. But I still have a question. What do you have in your script placed in /etc/init.d/ to execute the daemon lircd at boot time? Thank you in advance.

Re: [expert] Stand-alone Firewall

2003-02-18 Thread Lorne
On Monday 17 February 2003 09:49 am, Jim C wrote: Can anyone point me towards a HOWTO that will allow me to set up a box without a hard drive as a stand-alone firewall for my home network? I have an old K6-III box I want to use for this. I figure I'll create an OS and firewall on a cdrom and

[expert] Odd network behavior - HELP!!!

2003-02-18 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
All, Using MDK 9.0 and trying to get internet connection going through an ADSL USB modem. Using eciadsl package and seems to work OK - to a point. Something very screwy is happening. I can ping, but only sort of. For example, I seem to be ablt to ping to xx.yy.zz.aa type addresses, though

[expert] voice chat

2003-02-18 Thread mohammad soroushian
Hi all, Is it possible to have voice chat in Mandrake 9.0 (as a server with Windows clients, and as a workstation)? Will anybody help me? Thanks a lot __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com

[expert] Shared memory on low-mem machines

2003-02-18 Thread maxxik
Hi ! I installed MDK 9.0 on P133/32 machine ... all right but there was one trouble : i connect to that machine thru ssh ... i installed gkrellm from distributive on it when i try to run gkrellm first (after reboot) i see : Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private

Re: [expert] voice chat

2003-02-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:45:39 -0800 (PST) mohammad soroushian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to have voice chat in Mandrake 9.0 (as a server with Windows clients, and as a workstation)? Will anybody help me? Thanks a lot It was (not sure about Windows part though) in

Re: [expert] Odd network behavior - HELP!!!

2003-02-18 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 01:42:49 -0800 (PST) Ron Bouwhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Using MDK 9.0 and trying to get internet connection going through an ADSL USB modem. Using eciadsl package and seems to work OK - to a point. Something very screwy is happening. I can ping, but only sort

[expert] spastic messages during bootup

2003-02-18 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been struggling to get a usb wireless device (under NO circumstances should anyone buy linksys devices, particularly linksys usb wireless devices - they are useless in linux). As part of the attempt to get it to work consistently and properly, I have altered bios settings: I either set

[expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I run KDE 3.0.5 with Liquid style as my main Desktop Environment. I have AquaGraphite style set for my GTK1 applications (Like evolution) to make my desktop look consistent. But I seem to have problems doing something similar for GTK2 apps (which the next version of Evolution will be

[expert] lilo and change rules for extended partition

2003-02-18 Thread bascule
when using lilo to hide partitions in the past i have relied on the examples i found online and in man lilo.conf, but now that i wish to alter the id of the extended partition (so that both os/2 and winxp will both work) i can't find any confirmation of the appropriate nomenclature. the

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread Stanislav Kljuhhin
hi, gtk apps are controlled by ~/.gtkrc file gtk 2.0 apps are controlled by ~/.gtkrc-2.0 there is no need to run gnome-settings-daemon here is example of my ones: --- cat ~./gtkrc-2.0 --- include /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-font-name = Arial 12 --- --- cat ~/.gtkrc ---

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread SainTiss
Hi, gnome-settings-daemon works for me, but I'm using fluxbox, not KDE... probably it's interfering with KDE's desktop management... I wouldn't know how to solve that, but maybe you can try the --sm-disable option? Hans On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:05, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello I run KDE

Re: Re: Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-18 Thread Jim Dawson
Very interesting. Perhaps there is a DVD recorder in my forseeable future after all. -Original Message- From: Adam Kisiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Feb 2003 19:29:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread stanly klyuhin
hi, gtk apps are controlled by ~/.gtkrc file gtk 2.0 apps are controlled by ~/.gtkrc-2.0 there is no need to run gnome-settings-daemon here is example of my ones: --- cat ~./gtkrc-2.0 --- include /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc gtk-font-name = Arial 12 --- --- cat ~/.gtkrc ---

Re: [expert] lilo and change rules for extended partition

2003-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
bascule wrote: when using lilo to hide partitions in the past i have relied on the examples i found online and in man lilo.conf, but now that i wish to alter the id of the extended partition (so that both os/2 and winxp will both work) i can't find any confirmation of the appropriate

Re: [expert] lilo and change rules for extended partition

2003-02-18 Thread bascule
thanks felix but my winxp will not see the ntfs partition that is within the extended partition unless the typ is other than 05, specifically it will not mount it onto it's filesystem and since that partition is the 'documents and settings' stuff i can hardly do without it :) if you are sure

Re: [expert] kernel and alsa issues

2003-02-18 Thread Jack Coates
Still doesn't work; I've downloaded cooker alsa as well, but it won't install because of gcc issues: [jack@chupacabra jack]$ ls *alsa* alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.6rc1_2mdk.i586.rpm alsaplayer-0.99.74-1mdk.i586.rpm alsaplayer-plugin-input-vorbis-0.99.74-1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread stanly klyuhin
hi, forget about wizards... the only thing they can do is to completely duck up your carefully-written-by-hand config files ;) first look at this line in my example ~/.gtkrc-2.0: include /usr/share/themes/Bluecurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and now do: $ find /usr/share/themes -name gtk-2.0 so? do you

Re: [expert] lilo and change rules for extended partition

2003-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
bascule wrote: thanks felix but my winxp will not see the ntfs partition that is within the extended partition unless the typ is other than 05, specifically it will not mount it onto it's filesystem and since that partition is the 'documents and settings' stuff i can hardly do without it :)

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread bones
Hi, Since you forwarded my mail to the experts list: This is my little defending wizards speech that I always keep for moments like this. On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:46, stanly klyuhin wrote: hi, forget about wizards... the only thing they can do is to completely duck up your

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread stanly klyuhin
hi, [little defending wizards speech skipped] i completely disagree But the problem about those config files shows in this example, I now know how to change the fonts, and I know how to change the theme. But that is all I have learned in these two mails. that's because you've asked for

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:20:43 +0200 stanly klyuhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, thank you. btw, what is Terry Pratchet book? ;) What; that's sacrilege May the turtle stumble, the elephant fall and your world come crashing down Chatles -- I'm growing older, but not up. --

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Pedersen wrote on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:28:10AM -0800 : Problem is, on my laptop initrd fails to work at all - complaining that it cannot find /dev/loop, cannot find a loopback device even though support for the loopback device was

Re: [expert] kernel and mount issues

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:13:35PM -0800 : ... It's the new kernel alright -- didn't have to muck with symlinks, but its dmesg output was different and the working/non-working sets were different. What he's saying is that when

Re: [expert] kernel and mount issues

2003-02-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:34, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:13:35PM -0800 : ... It's the new kernel alright -- didn't have to muck with symlinks, but its dmesg output was different and the

Re: [expert] kernel and mount issues

2003-02-18 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:39:33PM -0800 : What he's saying is that when you think you're booting the old kernel, you're actually booting the new one. Look at /etc/lilo.conf and see what it's using (probably /boot/vmlinuz).

RE: Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-18 Thread Robert Wideman
cdrecord currently supports DVD-R/-RW, but (afaik) does not currently support DVD+R/+RW drives. From the CDRecord web site: Cdrecord supports DVD-R and DVD-RW with all known DVD-writers on all UNIX-like OS and on Win32.

[expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root and start it manually, but I'm sure there's a simple fix. Thanks, Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am suffering with KPilot on Mandrake 9.0, running the rpms from Mandrake of KDE 3.1.0. KPilot appears to be trying to access /dev/ttyUSB0 (as I have told it to), but it cant find it. the Kernel log is showing that the visor is bound to /dev/ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1, but the 2 are not

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:40 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root and

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 16:05, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:40 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now

Re: [expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Jack Coates
how about pilot-xfer -l? If that works, you know pilot-link is doing its job... however, this is all terribly buggy territory and has been for years and probably isn't going to get unbuggy any time soon. pilot-link usually works pretty well, note that it's up to version 0.11.7 now. Programs that

Re: [expert] kernel and alsa issues

2003-02-18 Thread Jack Coates
Okay, here's where we are now. It kind of works, sort of, except the parts that don't work. 2.4.20-2mdk /var/log/messages Feb 18 19:55:00 chupacabra alsa: succeeded Feb 18 19:55:00 chupacabra alsa: succeeded Feb 18 19:55:00 chupacabra modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Feb 18

Re: [expert] kernel and mount issues

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:34, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:13:35PM -0800 : ... It's the new kernel alright -- didn't have to muck with symlinks, but its dmesg output was different and the

Re: [expert] Loading appropiate LIRC modules in LM 9.0.

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:49, Fabian Pena-Arellano wrote: Hi James, Thank you for answering. I just did what you proposed and everything seems to be working very good. But I still have a question. What do you have in your script placed in /etc/init.d/ to execute the daemon lircd

[expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it uses ppoe I've never set it up and I don't know of a good document source. Note that the person is computer literate but primarily a windows developer.

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:40, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root and start it manually, but I'm sure there's a simple fix.

Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:34 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any suggestions? This page is from Tom's old docs section. I

Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread drake
I use SBC and just configured the network through drakconf. It allows you to select pppoe and it's easy to use. On Tuesday 18 February 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux (little do they know *grin*) any way they have

Re: [expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 08:12 pm, Jack Coates wrote: how about pilot-xfer -l? If that works, you know pilot-link is doing its job... however, this is all terribly buggy territory and has been for years and probably isn't going to get unbuggy any time soon. pilot-link usually works pretty

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Damon Lynch
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:40, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:20, Damon Lynch wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:41, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:40, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now