Re: [expert] a question about pdf attachments

2003-02-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 12:18 am, engage wrote: Mandrake 9.0, Kmail 1.4.3 (set to display attachments as icons). Where did you set 'to display attachments as icons', please? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] List Problem

2003-02-22 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 12:32 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anyone receiving a bounce message from this e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every message posted to expert? Or is it just me? Same here, 2 yesterday. I'll be suprised if this one

Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!

2003-02-22 Thread civileme
On Friday 21 February 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Sounds like your first problem and this problem could be somehow connected but not sure how. 2 questions Can you do the tar in smaller pieces. (it could be a single fuzzed up file or sector on the HDD is causing the problem

Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi guys, Thanks for the sugestions. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Try this: rpm2cpio rpm file newfile.cpio cpio -ivd newfile.cpio That should get you going... Cool, thanks that worked. compiled rpm does not seem to require a .spec file, the src had it though, so i know the ./configure

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply vox. Vox wrote: This time Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there

Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-22 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Saturday 22 February 2003 18:31, J. Grant wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for the sugestions. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Try this: rpm2cpio rpm file newfile.cpio cpio -ivd newfile.cpio That should get you going... Cool, thanks that worked. compiled rpm does not seem to

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply David. David Stevenson wrote: hide dot files = yes I added this to the [global] section of smb.conf. However the dot files/dirs were still visible unless i configure hide dirs in windows. veto files /^.*/ I added this too, but it gave a warning that it was unsupported

Re: [expert] a question about pdf attachments

2003-02-22 Thread engage
View-Iconic Attachments On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 12:18 am, engage wrote: Mandrake 9.0, Kmail 1.4.3 (set to display attachments as icons). Where did you set 'to display attachments as icons', please? Anne Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] a question about pdf attachments

2003-02-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 7:11 pm, engage wrote: View-Iconic Attachments On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 22 Feb 2003 12:18 am, engage wrote: Mandrake 9.0, Kmail 1.4.3 (set to display attachments as icons). Where did you set 'to display attachments as

Re: [expert] Mandy Locks Up on simple tar!

2003-02-22 Thread David E. Fox
CPU...locks up on a simple tar Then i only have to reboot. Thats the only thing i can do!! I hadn't done the vmstat like you, but I've had this problem before with different distributions including older Mandrakes, when my primary disk was a 1.6 gig Maxstor. That drive has since been

[expert] OT - Comparing a remote file

2003-02-22 Thread John Haywood
Folks, a little help here would be appreciated, if you have a mo' I have a local virus definition file on a MDK 9 ftp server that needs to be kept up to date, so that client machines will be updated when they log in. The latter part is accomplished by using a perl script invoking the virus

[expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
All; Thought I'd take a shot at 9.1 rc1. No go. The install went ok up to the end. At the summary stage, it was installing the printer, and died, horribly. It correctly identified the printer, then failed with the error: panic: swash_fetch When I hit ok, it went back to try to install the

[expert] Greek polytonic and keyboard entry

2003-02-22 Thread Jesus Arocho
I installed CODE2000 fonts and they work well within OpenOffice. I would like to install a second keyboard mapping so that I can type the characters into the document instead of going through the insert character routine. Any pointers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Playing DVDs

2003-02-22 Thread tarvid
On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:51 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: What is the best route to take to play DVDs under Mandrake 9.0? I would like an X compatible interface, but I have seen there are several ways to go. Rob The best results I've obtained so far have come from plf http://plf.zarb.org/

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Joeb
I believe there is already an errata on 9.1 RC1 that states printer installation during the install is broke and. If I recall, they recommend having the printer turned off during the install and afterwards installing it manually. It's supposed to be fixed for RC2. Joeb On Sat, 2003-02-22 at

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:50 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Thought I'd take a shot at 9.1 rc1. No go. The install went ok up to the end. At the summary stage, it was installing the printer, and died, horribly. You obviously did not read the

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:48 pm, Joeb wrote: I believe there is already an errata on 9.1 RC1 that states printer installation during the install is broke and. If I recall, they recommend having the printer turned off during the install and

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:50 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Thought I'd take a shot at 9.1 rc1. No go. The install went ok up to the end. At the summary stage, it was installing the printer, and died, horribly. You obviously

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:50 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Thought I'd take a shot at 9.1 rc1. No go. The install went ok up to the end. At the summary stage, it was installing the printer, and died, horribly. You obviously

Re: [expert] Playing DVDs

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Noble
I have been using ogle: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Mike On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 16:51, Rob Blomquist wrote: What is the best route to take to play DVDs under Mandrake 9.0? I would like an X compatible interface, but I have seen there are several ways to go. Rob -- Rob

Re: [expert] Playing DVDs

2003-02-22 Thread Damon Lynch
mplayer is cool also. Have you read this? - http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Very useful indeed. Damon -- Damon Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 attempt #2

2003-02-22 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Well, that was fun. Per the suggestions here, and on the errata, I unplugged the printer, and tried it again. And as expected, it made it past that. So, with the load finished, I logged in as a regular user. Yup. Worked fine. So, then do the cursory reboot, just to be sure all is well, and ..

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:03, David McGlone wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:48 pm, Joeb wrote: I believe there is already an errata on 9.1 RC1 that states printer installation during the install is broke and. If I recall, they recommend having the printer turned off during the

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 22:19, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:03, David McGlone wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:48 pm, Joeb wrote: I believe there is already an errata on 9.1 RC1 that states printer installation during the install is broke and. If I recall, they

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 attempt #2

2003-02-22 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:34, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Well, that was fun. Per the suggestions here, and on the errata, I unplugged the printer, and tried it again. And as expected, it made it past that. So, with the load finished, I logged in as a regular user. Yup. Worked fine. So, then do

[expert] Playing DVDs, Part II

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am all screwed up with ALSA, OSS, and aRts, so I put getting ogle running on the shelf. It turns out that Xine is working pretty well, but I am getting an error message. I am using a test DVD of trailers that my wife got with a laptop containing a DVD-ROM. I get an error message from Xine

Re: [expert] syncing Palm m515 with J-Pilot

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
# pilot-xfer -l Port: /dev/pilot Please press the HotSync button now... . . . another timeout. Nothing. Nada! Wala na! It syncs fine on a Windblows box, but not on this Linux. Anything else I can try? Try pilot-xfer --port /dev/ttyUSB1 --backup ~/visor/. This should backup your