[expert] Mandrake 7.0 Install problem

2000-09-17 Thread Al Smith
, such as a Expert, Custom and what not. I did not download the patch for the install that is listed on the mandrake website because it was for pre 7.0-2 ISO's. And I do not have a fast enough connection to download Mandrake 7.1. Any help would be appreciated. Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keep in touch

[expert] Mandrake Updates

2000-03-14 Thread Al Smith
Greetings, Does anyone know the tool that updates your distrubiton of mandrake? I have seen it in past installs but not with 7.0. Thanks, Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] kde windows manager

2000-03-11 Thread Al Smith
The only thing I did was attempt to change the clock display from 24hrs to AM/PM. Then applied it and Ok'd it and that's what happended. I rebooted the server because I wanted to see if there were any error on startup and XFS had a problem with th 75dpi and the 10dpi. Apprently it coouldn't find

[expert] kde windows manager

2000-03-10 Thread Al Smith
Greetings, I have run in a strange problem and I have not been able to resolve it my self. I am running mandrake 7.0 with kde. During the session I lost kpanel. I attempted to restart it through a window and this is the error message that I received: QFont::setPointSize: Point Size = 0 (0)

Re: [expert] Network Question:

2000-03-01 Thread Al Smith
you will get it to work. But if you do have the code loaded. How about using TFTP? -Al Trevor Farrell wrote: Yann Forget wrote: Hi, lee binkley a écrit : Al Smith wrote: Yes it is possible if you use IP masquarding and such. -Al I will nedd 2

[expert] Network Question:

2000-02-29 Thread Al Smith
Yes it is possible if you use IP masquarding and such. -Al

RE: [expert] getting set prompt=$p$g functionality in bash

2000-01-28 Thread Al Smith
. or alias ll='ls -al' alias bob='df' export alias (export's all predefined alias's in .bashrc file) set would be used like this: set env= set shell= and so on... If I can be of further use please let me know. Al Smith Systems Engineer

Re: [expert] lothar question

2000-01-18 Thread Al Smith
Correction, lothar has been out since before mandrake 6.0 Al Smith Lothar Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-mandrake.com/lothar

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster PCI 128

2000-01-01 Thread Al Smith
I would suggest trying mandrake's lothar project to detect the hardware and get the proper setup. Also look in the /usr/src/linux/Documentations/sound I do belive that there is a setup for the soundblaster PCI 128. Al Smith Systems Engineer

Re: [expert] AOL access within Linux

1999-11-23 Thread Al Smith
I use a really good AOL IM for linux. It's called GAIM. Goto freshmeat and do a search for it.. www.freshmeat.net -Al

[expert] [devel] Fw: Kernel 2.2.13-29mdk

1999-11-22 Thread Al Smith
Has anyone looked at this problem yet?

[expert] Kernel 2.2.13-29mdk

1999-11-16 Thread Al Smith
Greetings, I have downloaded the new kernel for 2.2.13 from the cooker distro. It is mandrake version 29. There seems to be a problem with the coding of the new module. I have attached the error file to this e-mail. Al Smith Systems Engineer

[expert] Printting in Helios 6.1

1999-11-15 Thread Al Smith
? ---Al Smith- Systems Engineer --- JJ UUU UUU -- --TTJJJ UUU UUU

Re: [expert] 700MB CD-R copying

1999-09-15 Thread Al Smith
with that being said and looking at the readme's for the cdrecord program, I don't think you will even be able to use the 80min CD's to their utmost capacity. I would also read the README on the CDRECORD because if you are using a Sony CD-R there are some things that aren't yet supported with

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-15 Thread Al Smith
. -Al On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Al Smith wrote: Listen you neanderthal I do, do something constructive, I use the damn OS. I don't like it when I see and hear things get reported and nothing happens. This has been a gripe for months on this list. And for you even thinking I work

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
Prove it. -Al I definitely agree with David. Did you know that most of the bugs in the Red Hat release are fixed in Mandrake? Did you know that the guys at Mandrake Linux included more updated packages? Did you also care to know that every single one of them runs like 10% to 15%

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
Funny talking about 6.2 and 6.1 isn't even out of the gates yet and 6.0 is full of bugs... -Al Harald Schreiber wrote: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [] We have already told the users that it was really better to reinstall everything instead of upgrading. For a

[expert] 700MB CD-R copying

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
I think it's because most CD-R's can't handle the 700MB disks. But it also might be a limitation in cdrecord. -Al Has anyone had any experiences with copying the new 80minute/700MB CD-Rs? I have been trying to copy with no success. I get unspecified write errors. I had no problems at all

[expert] [devel] RPM 3.0.3

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
This is another example. Cassini was released and it needed RPM 3.0.3 to install it's apps. Guess what folks. IT DIDN"T COME WITH IT -Al I have downloaded a number of the 6.1 RPMs. They appear to require RPM 3.0.3 I cannot however find the source for RPM 3.0.3 anywhere, especially

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
on me or make accusations. That will be one thing that WILL get you landed in a nice lawsuit. Got me? or do I need to make it clearer for you? -Al On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Al Smith wrote: Listen you neanderthal I do, do something constructive, I use the damn OS. I don't like it when I see and hear

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
See I object to this statement. All they did was re-package the RPM's with the name mandrake. They really didn't do anything except maybe re-write the install, that's it. I don't know why people are praising them. They can't even fix the bugs. -Al David Comeau wrote: Very true. I,

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
Listen you neanderthal I do, do something constructive, I use the damn OS. I don't like it when I see and hear things get reported and nothing happens. This has been a gripe for months on this list. And for you even thinking I work for MS is low, makes me think you use a Macintosh -Al In that

Re: [expert] Why are bugs not fixed ?

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Mohammad R. Salehpour, Ph.D. wrote: Harald; I do undrestand your frustrations. When one likes something or loves it (as we all do linux) one get frustrated to see little bugs are lingring here and there. But we have to realize that most people who work on linux

[expert] PROCESS ID

1999-09-08 Thread Al Smith
look in your /var directory or the directory where the application is for a .lock file. If it's there try and delete it. Then look at your process list again. If it's still there, look at the parent ID and see what that is refereing to, maybe it's a called process from another app. Al Smith

[expert] suse-security-announce-15.txt

1999-09-02 Thread Al Smith
I am running Mandrake 6.0 and Mandrake is open to this whole I tested it. -Al -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- __ SuSE Security Announcement Package: cron-3.0.1-75 (Vixie Cron)

[expert] suse-security-announce-15.txt

1999-09-02 Thread Al Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- __ SuSE Security Announcement Package: cron-3.0.1-75 (Vixie Cron) and previous versions Date: Fri Aug 27 17:56:48 CEST 1999

Re: [expert] Mandrake 6.1b first impression

1999-09-02 Thread Al Smith
What I have done was once it was installed (netscape that is). I removed it and downloaded a copy from Netscape and the problem was gone. -Al On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote: 2. Netscape keyboard shortcuts are still broken. I could not believe my eyes. I thought enough people had

[expert] Wine does not work. Help needed...

1999-08-18 Thread Al Smith
. Please pardon any delay in my reply. -Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Mandrake 5.3 and compiling kernel

1999-08-05 Thread Al Smith
Takes a witty person to come up with a comment such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Listen cheezhead, I believe one person correctly identified the problem several hours ago. If I'm wrong and he mis-identified the issue at hand, then I believe you got exactly what you paid for. Of course,

[expert] Mandrake 5.3 and compiling kernel

1999-08-04 Thread Al Smith
Hey folks, This for a different version of Mandrake 5.3. I am trying to compile the kernel and I am getting an error message that as86 doesn't exist and it can't write the actual kernel file. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. -Al

Re: [expert] Mandrake 5.3 and compiling kernel

1999-08-04 Thread Al Smith
You can be disgusted if you like Gavin. As a person that post's resolves and problems. I have seen more problems get posted and ignored. I know this is a user help user mailing list, but I also see people on the list from mandrakesoft, and they ignore alot of things. That is why I posted what

[expert] RE:CD-Recording under linux

1999-07-26 Thread Al Smith
Check you the howto for cd-recording it tells you how to modify the kernel. It worked for me. -Al

[expert] OT-Port for Various apps.

1999-07-22 Thread Al Smith
Greetings, I know this is off topic. I am looking for a port of lotus notes and microsoft project. Any assistance would be appreciated. Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] compiling Lothar hassles

1999-07-19 Thread Al Smith
run: sh autogen.sh It will make the missing files for you and then run configure. I use lothar and have had these exact problems. This is the temporary fix. -Al Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, root wrote: aclocal: configure.in: 24: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found

Re: [expert] crashing problems still

1999-07-19 Thread Al Smith
We might get a better understanding if we saw your syslog from the crash as well as your dmesg. And if it is a hardware problem, the other thing I would do is run a isapnpdump and configure your hardware. The Lothar team has a good program for setting your hardware and such but it is still in

Re: [expert] compiling Lothar hassles

1999-07-18 Thread Al Smith
Do you have the development versions of your libtool's installed? If not this might cause a problem. -Al At 02:19 PM 7/18/1999 +, you wrote: Greetings... I am trying to resolve some compile hassles with Mandrake 6.0 and setting up Lothar. Currently I am working on compile/installing the

Re: [expert] kernel probelm

1999-07-18 Thread Al Smith
Bero, Just a heads up. I am running a linux system on a 13 gig IDE drive and not having any problems. And I am running on a P200MMX... So I don't think that bios limitation is a problem anymore unless you are not using LBA mode in the system bios. -Al At 09:29 AM 7/18/1999 +0200, you

Re: [expert] re Sound under KDE

1999-07-08 Thread Al Smith
Mike your suggestion worked I didn't know there was documentation for it. it was listed as /usr/src/linux-x.x.x/Documentation/AD1816 I got it to work... :-) Thank you. Also thank everyone for assisting me with this problem. -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this problem with my sound

[expert] /dev/dsp

1999-07-08 Thread Al Smith
Hello folks, I am trying to play MP3's using mpg123 (command line) and I am getting error's that it cannot open /dev/dsp. Has anyone else run across this problem? If so how did you fix it? -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Sound under KDE

1999-07-07 Thread Al Smith
sound card I get told that it is busy and won't allow it. What could be the problem? -Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] ACER FX-3D soundcard

1999-07-06 Thread Al Smith
Greetings, I have a PII 350 using a ACER FX-3D soundcard. I am trying to configure it with the settings that I have received when it was installed under WINNT/95. Everytime I tried to configure it, I keep getting the message that the module is busy and won't unload it and reload it.

[expert] [Fwd: [OSS] Pine4.x Security Announcement]

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
FYI... -Al This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms9632F0A8CA3D7F614E2CB867 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original Message Subject: SuSE Security Announcement Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:16:24

[expert] [Fwd: [OSS] 'man' Security Announcement]]

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
FYI -Al This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --ms876E9DAF3D88F2059164E519 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original Message Subject: SuSE Security Announcement Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:41:03 +0200

[expert] RE:Security Announcements

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
Just a heads up. If you look at the security announcement's that I have sent it describes that the security problems are in ALL releases of the application. It is not OS specific or kernel specific unless noted in the message. In the 2 that I have received SuSE was the first one's that I know

Re: [expert] Upgrading KDE using Mandrake RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread Al Smith
not had any problems. -Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Can one download the updated KDE RPMs and use them with RedHat 6.0 or does Mandrake put them in a different directory, etc from RedHat 6.0? I know Mandrake tends to be a bit more

[expert] A post a while back

1999-06-15 Thread Al Smith
and recomplied the kernel with the same settings nothing changed. During the boot, it failed to locate my ethernet adaptor and it the system hung on loading the us keytable's and locked the system. Any assitance anyone can offer on these two area's would be greatly appreciated. Al Smith Systems

Re: [expert] 26mdk kernel source

1999-06-14 Thread Al Smith
I have had a problem trying to install it as well it says its dependent on the 25mdk source not the 26mdk. -Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like the 26mdk kernel source rpm is corrupted. Anyone else have trouble with it? I've tried 3 different servers. -- Hampton

Re: [expert] qt problems

1999-06-09 Thread Al Smith
when you do a ./configure do it with --help on the end, there is an option to specify where the library's are if it cannot find them. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the rpms with the following option's: rpm -Uvh file.rpm then do the ./configure again Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas

[expert] Loading Modules

1999-06-02 Thread Al Smith
I am trying to load some modules by hand by doing a: insmod module name And I continuley get this error. ./ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_Ra54614f ./ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Re266cc4d7 ./ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Ra1c73c82 ./ppa.o: unresolved

[expert] More 6.0 problems

1999-06-01 Thread Al Smith
a fsck upon every boot. Al Smith Systems Engineer (but you may call me god) Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Mandrake 6.0

1999-06-01 Thread Al Smith
Well in my personal opinon 6.0 looks good on the outside. But 5.3 is what I think is a more stable release. There are way to many bugs in the 2.2.9 kernel. I am switching down to 5.3 but once the bugs are fixed I will upgrade again to 6.0 (on the grounds that an upgrade from 5.3 to 6 will be a

Re: [expert] Mandrake 6.0 (Al)

1999-06-01 Thread Al Smith
not attempt to flame me or challange me on a public mailing such as this. Regards, -Al -Original Message- From: Al Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dienstag, 1. Juni 1999 21:18 Subject: [expert] Mandrake 6.0 Well in my personal opinon 6.0

[expert] I can't kill some KDE process

1999-05-26 Thread Al Smith
A kill -9 doesn't work? Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I can't kill some KDE process so ctrl-alt-del can't umount / and my file system go down. please help me KDE apps are for example: 295 ?D 0:00 kaudioserver

RE: [expert] local floppy CD

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
let me see, if I have this correct. Do you want the user to be able to access there local floppy on the server? I.E. grab programs off the local floppy and access it on the Mandrake server? Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] both floppy and cdrom

Re: [expert] gnome?

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
Mandrake Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [EMAIL PROTECTED] We badly need some real press for Mandrake and KDE. ;) Any journalists here? Jean-Michel Dault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 20 May 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:06:14

Re: [expert] Failing to install 6.0pre: non SMP capable motherboard

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
From what I understand, it looks like some initated a kill commaned to lose the connection. Which is a possiblity. (kill -l number 11 is a SEGV, possible segment violation). Or it could be that the server reset your connection. How fast are you connecting (T1, 56K)? Al Smith Systems Engineer

[expert] Install of Mariner

1999-05-21 Thread Al Smith
Hello folks, Well I was able to get the CD bootable (I forgot a switch the first time). But I get the same error that I do with a boot disk and the system hangs on boot: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Anygive me a clue?

[expert] cant write to a fat 16 partition!

1999-01-16 Thread Al Smith
Check your INODE count. Sometimes if you run application that uses's more inodes then space you will get that error message. Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital Phone: 215-503-6808

[expert] lp doesn't delete jobs

1999-01-15 Thread Al Smith
. Al Smith Systems Engineer Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital Phone: 215-503-6808 130 S. 9th St. Suite 600 Fax: 215-503-4336 Philadelphia, PA 19107 e-mail