Re: [expert] 9.2 and xscreensaver

2003-10-28 Thread Paul Kaplan
Have you really been able to get the xscreensaver modules to show up in the KDE Control Center Screensaver module? I'd love to know how it's done. The 9.2 download ISOs had an unfixed oversight that caused the KDE Screensaver modules to disappear. These have been fixed in the updates that have

[expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does it run stable for

[expert] Print Accounting

2003-10-28 Thread Mauricy Maiorino
Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] OT Verizon dsl

2003-10-28 Thread Daniel Anderson
Thanks to all who responded. I have signed up for Verizon dsl, if it works as advertized I will be dropping the wireless service. Thanks, Dan On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 19:52, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: NopesNo problem with verizon-dsl. I use the adsl package for connecting (it requires

Re: [expert] Print Accounting

2003-10-28 Thread Jack Coates
not sure I'm following, but it sounds like you want to log what windows users print? Use CUPS, then share the printers with Samba. Print jobs will be logged by both CUPS and Samba. On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing

Re: [expert] Print Accounting

2003-10-28 Thread Brian V Bonini
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 07:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! CUPS, assuming you

Re: [expert] Print Accounting

2003-10-28 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Additional Notes: Here is my /etc/printcap file, using lpr lp:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]/port_9100:\ :if=/usr/local/ifhp/libexec/filters/ifhp -Z duplex:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/errorlog:\ :sh:mx#0:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/accounting.log:\

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 03:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing

[expert] Fw: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives

2003-10-28 Thread Eric Huff
For anyone not on the mailing list: Begin forwarded message: Date: 28 Oct 2003 05:41:13 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MDKA-2003:021 - Updated kernel packages problems with LG-based CD-ROM drives -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Fred Albrecht
Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know why it crashed, does

[expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail photos automatically. That is not the case with Mandrake-9.1, is it

[expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Ok, this is a real nitpick, I know. Bear with me, sometimes I am very AR about these things. ;-) After X loads, and before the DM screen loads, there is a solid light blue (std Mdk color) screen with the cursor/wristwatch/watch. I would really like to change this screen to black. I load

Re: [expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake default background -- member of Advanced InternetWorks group - http://www.ainetworks.sk professional home page

[expert] Fatal server error strikes

2003-10-28 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi all, I managed to royally mess up my MD 9.1 just before finishing my BitTorrent download and while waiting for my PowerPack to be shipped :-(( Somewhere I found an advice that all font names should have small letters in their names. As not all my fonts were working, I launched Krename and

Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:51 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi all, BTW, please get rid of the reply-to...I'm assuming you got my suggestions, lemme know exactly how wrong I was ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Ray Warren
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:06:17PM +0100, Steffen Barszus wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a toshiba,

[expert] PS hanging due to NFS?, Cant KILL

2003-10-28 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
Hi All, I run an openmosix cluster using Mandrake, and had problems with PS hanging or whole system for that matter. It is still an ongoing issue for a while now, i took it up to openmosix guys, and response is that 90% of the time its network related, the rest 10% hardware! Tracing down the

[expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine

2003-10-28 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
Hi all, I just installed ML 9.2 and was nicely surprised that a lot of the many usual "needfull things" :) worked right out of the box (including painless Radeon 9700 and nforce2 drivers). My main problem now is that though my card is recognised and the "audigy" module is loaded, it works

Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes

2003-10-28 Thread Dick Gevers
Hi all { Sorry, my earlier message had a bad reply-to setting; won't happen again } On Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 13:58 h, HaywireMac wrote about Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:29:51 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I found an X error reading

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Ray Warren
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in etc/modules.conf didn't helped. The reader is a

Re: [expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:57:26 +0100 Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check /etc/X11/Xsession, espec. lines after comment Mandrake

Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes

2003-10-28 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:47:44 - Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything. Could be the perms are wrong on the fonts that you restored, font server cannot read them. Make sure

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 20:32 schrieb Ray Warren: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Steffen Barszus
Am Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2003 16:34 schrieb James Sparenberg: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 03:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! Hmmm i would cover this experiment as failed :( 9.1 works flawless for him compared to this. The LG issue i haven't mentiones, we changed the drive for testing

Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?

2003-10-28 Thread AAW
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:02 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-28 Thread Phil G.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:02 -0500, Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:28:57 -0500 Phil G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't figure out how to start kweather. I have kdetoys 3.1-5 installed. Does it work with this version? Just did it... right-click on TaskBar,

Re: [expert] Change screen color

2003-10-28 Thread Tibor Pittich
On 28. October 2003 at 12:08, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:57:26 +0100 Tibor Pittich [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On 28. October 2003 at 09:07, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Anyone know where or how to configure this color or change this image? check

[expert] Sofware for writing signs

2003-10-28 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, does anyone know of any sign writing software that runs under Linux? Maybe even a winblows one that runs under wine. Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Not all Mandrake 9.2 mirrors are the same

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Anton, I already know about the http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ site, but my point was check out the mirror that you are using, as they are not all the same, e.g. http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ contains half the amount of files than the mirror at

Re: [expert] Hmm, Konqueror missing ability to make webpage (thumbnails) now?

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 8:02 am, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In the earlier versions of Konqueror I could place a series of .jpg's in a directory, open Konqueror, open the directory and choose [tools] from the menu and there was an option to make a webpage full of thumbnail

Re: [expert] Print Accounting

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Williamson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 23:35, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: Hi All !! I need a system that provide a Printing Accounting. I think a CUPS, but workstations Windows they would have that to be entered. Anybody knows some system that made this in Mandrake?? Sorry my English!! Mauricy Not

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:32, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in

[expert] Update on the LG problem.

2003-10-28 Thread James Sparenberg
Dell HP/Compaq and others seem to be assisting MDK with solving the problem with LG CDROMS. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3 For the latest... James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:32 am, Ray Warren wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:34:49AM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: b) multiple lun: After adding the dvd-reader to ide-scsi, the machine got 7 readers and 7 burners = scd0 - scd13. According to him options scsi_mod scsi_man_luns=1 in

[expert] Mounting a floppy

2003-10-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
Is it possible to set up a floppy to be mounted as ext2 or DOS without the use of supermount? I see in the default installation, that /dev/fd0 is using the term auto instead of specifying which file system. It doesn't seem to be covered under the mount or fstab man pages, so I am assuming its

[expert] KDE 'copy to' context option?

2003-10-28 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
This is just about the only thing I miss from redhat (ok, there's freshrpms nice, easy to find reliable servers, but plf and texstar are a fair trade for that :) ). I could right click a file and there was a 'copy to' option that poped up a list of directories. Is this some funky redhat