Re: [expert] missing kde features

2003-10-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Guy McArthur wrote: Here's a couple KDE features I miss. a) Konqueror starting up with the sidebar by default (in file manager mode). f-9, then save the profile. b) the most-frequently used applications at the top of the K menu. If anyone knows how to enable those features, please let

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 12:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:11:37AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: One side, This statement by RH was made before the release of 9 9 is in the stores

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 22, 2003 12:12 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: On Mon Sep 22, 2003 at 10:11:37AM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: One side, This statement by RH was made before

Re: [expert] Linux webcam using camsteam

2003-07-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Bill Beauchemin wrote: If you want to see how linux works with a webcam and camsteam check out pupcam.beautiegoldens.com Im running this off a laptop. it is the whelping of puppies from my champion golden retriever.we are now working on number 4 of 9 that are due wow! i read this, brought

Re: [expert] No sound in 9.1?

2003-03-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
David Guntner wrote: I've done a clean install of 9.1 on the machine which used to run 9.0. In 9.0, I had sound. In 9.1, only silence. No hardware has changed, so I'm kind-of hard pressed to figure out why I can't get any sound out of 9.1. Anyone run into anything like this, and if so,

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
SainTiss wrote: hi, I've just installed the kernel update, and enabled supermount, but when I insert a cdrom, it still doesn't mount automatically did I miss something here? Thanks Hans you need to reboot the computer after doing a 'supermount -i enable' to get supermount to read the

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 12:32 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: you need to reboot the computer after doing a 'supermount -i enable' to get supermount to read the fstab file. grin I think you can do a mount -a and get away with the same thing without rebooting

Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !

2003-01-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Praedor Atrebates wrote: What is wrong?! Why? Why!? WHY!? I REALLY need wireless to work for me to get work done. Anyone have anything to offer? A sledgehammer for both my computer and the WUSB11 perhaps? A pair of brass knuckles to use in dotting Linus' eyes? praedor yep, a D-LINK

Re: [expert] Damn !@##$! usb @@#!%@! atmel !

2003-01-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tarvid wrote: Any idea of the output power and receive sensitivity? Jim Tarvid the specs are on that web page i included. On Monday 27 January 2003 01:43 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Praedor Atrebates wrote: What is wrong?! Why? Why!? WHY!? I REALLY need wireless to work for me

Re: [expert] Changing certain icons in kde kicker?

2003-01-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Chuck Burns wrote: I can change all the icons for programs. BUT! I can't change the icon for the KDE Menu itself.. It must be in some hidden configuration. If a theme can do it, there MUST be a way for me to be able to do it too.. I can't change the Show Desktop icon either, and I want

Re: [expert] second mouse ?

2002-12-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
rodrigo wrote: Dear Experts... I have been trying to install a second mouse in my laptop It comes with a touch-pad-mouse, and I like a second one (usb-mouse...), but tools like mousedrake, Harddrake2, ... found just one of them ... Can I have both mouses working at the same time ?

Re: [expert] Two different log out sequences

2002-11-19 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jack and Melissa McSwain wrote: Hello, I am running on 9.0 and I let kdm automatically log in the user me at boot time. When I log out from this session I get a text box that says End Session for user me with two buttons, Logout and cancel. If I log out, then log back in, I get a different

Re: [expert] Mandrake update

2002-11-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake update On Thursday 14 November 2002 10:53 am, Marek wrote: Hi I would like to know to which directory are the

Re: [expert] where's pine?

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Toshiro wrote: Anybody knows why Mandrake is no longer providing this package? the 'why' has been answered but nobody's mentioned that a pine rpm is available in the 9.0 contrib directory on the mirrors. -- Alan :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Scanner! Should be simple, but...

2002-10-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've posted this msg on the newbie list as they were talking abou UMAX, but no one could help me wih my Scanner: It's a Microtek Slim Scan C3 (paralell), the problem is that I've use MCC and installed the necessary software but signal

Re: [expert] A computer that won't install Windows.

2002-10-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
James Sparenberg wrote: doing this (fdisk /mbr ) wipes lilo from the mbr but it still doesn't get rid of the lilo on hda1 (or in winders speak C drive). which is the real monster Nor unfortunately does it allow windows to install *grin* dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 count=1 bs=512

Re: [expert] Supermount stopped working?

2002-09-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Todd Lyons wrote: Aleksey Naumov wrote on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:45:13PM -0400 : Todd, I recall now it started to go haywire after I installed a local printer with HardDrake. The printer also stopped working properly very soon after the installation (maybe when I accessed the

Re: [expert] 9.2beta won't fit on cd-r

2002-08-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
can I burn good copies if some parts are left off?? Thanks in advance for any replies. Jerry White JerryI forwarded your incident #29035 from the mandrakeexpert, to the cooker list. below is a reply to you on that list from Daouda LO. -- Alan quoted text below Alan Shoemaker

Re: [expert] VNC Server Mandrake Control Center

2002-07-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
msh wrote: I'm running MDK 8.2 and I don't have a /etc//etc/sysconfig/vncservers file Is there anyplace else I should look. that sure sounds like the vnc-server packages are not installed, type: urpmi vnc-server enter -- Alan :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] (OT) Cases

2002-01-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm looking for a good, decent quality case for a new box. I've seen a bunch of junk, but not what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a good supplier, that builds a decent case? Thanks!! http://www.addtronics.com/ -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael McLay wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2001 02:28 am, you wrote: Michael McLay wrote: lspci -v -s xx:xx.x . Write down the io and IRQ being used. Then run setserial: . setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x irq ## . spellcheck_broken This, combined with one of the other

Re: [expert] U.S. Robotics PCI controler-based faxmdem

2001-10-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael McLay wrote: I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem model 5610. It uses the PCI bus, but it is not a WinModem. The modem works fine with Redhat 7.1, but when I installed Mandrake 8.1 the HardDrake software detected the modem at configuration time and exited because it claimed the

Re: [expert] Help with email client

2001-09-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
M. Khawar Zia wrote: hey, I looking for a particular feature in an email client. I would like the email client to download the messages of off the server and then delete them when i delete them locally. I can't find this feature in Kmail, balsa, and evolution. Currently i am using mozilla

Re: [expert] Installation 8.0 - command line option???

2001-09-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
civileme wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2001 04:08, Albert E. Whale wrote: I think that there is a problem in recognizing the Adaptec SCSI Controller. I have the aic7xxx driver installed on a server which ran 7.0, but now does not let 8.0 install on it. I get to re-partitioning the

Re: [expert] IDE and Reiser FS question

2001-09-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Daniel Axtell wrote: I've just installed LM 8.0 with a Reiser partition. I'm trying to build a 2.4.9 kernel, but make config doesn't seem to list RFS as one of the filesystems, and when I boot with the new kernel it can't see the RFS partition. What should I do? Also, thanks to those who

Re: [expert] MONITOR

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dariusz Bielecki wrote: I am very nervous now. In installation i choose wrong monitor type. When i change now in xf86config doesn`t work whereis somethong like setup with option to choose monitor .?? Is someone can help me now? Pleeaaasee Dariuszas root type: XFdrake --expert --

Re: [expert] Grub VGA Syntax

2001-08-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Felix Miata wrote: I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I want to use the native Trident 132 X 30

Re: [expert] Rescue flop for Reiserfs ?

2001-07-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Maxim Heijndijk wrote: Does anyone know if there is a rescue flop with wich you can check your reiserfs partitions. Reiserfs is not without flaws. I have lost libraries at several occasions. http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ :) -- Alan

[expert] Re: Off-Board Controllers of the Promise, HPT and CMD varieties for IDE ATA 66 and 100

2001-06-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
civileme wrote: I had hoped to have better news, but here is the situation: MandrakeFreq has a boot image which sets up the Off-Board IDE controllers the same way they will be used by the installed kernel. This means no kernel panic on boot. That's the good news. The other news is that

Re: [expert] samba/cups

2001-06-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael H. Collins wrote: Ok. I give up. I want to remove cups and go to lpd. I rpm -e cups and all that goes with it and rpm -i lpd and its goodies. I start printtool and it either installs cups or if the cd is not in the drive fails. What is up with that? Any help is greatly

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far I have had no luck with Mandrake 8.0 - in fact, I can't even get a good install. My machine is configured with a couple of Seagate U2W disks and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller. I've been reading everything I can find on the problems with 2.4.3 and aic7xxx the

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and aic7xxx

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John LeMay Jr wrote: If I run the install with an IDE CDROM, I would like to switch back to my SCSI cdrom at some point. Has a later version of the kernel been Drake-packaged with a good fix yet? Thanks for the input so far folks! Original Message On 6/5/2001, 2:55:06 PM, Civileme

Re: [expert] Touch

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Red Hat Linux User wrote: I guess I'm dense. I can set a date stamp with the following syntax: touch -d 0326 filename which gets me 26 March 2001. This is OK if I want only to set day and month. If I want a specific hour or year, no matter what numerical value I supply, touch returns

Re: [expert] from XFree 4 to 3

2001-06-04 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pupeno wrote: How can I go backwards, from Xfree 4 to xfree 3 ? is there any tool that do this like in SuSE, or should I do it by hand ? In case of that, how do I know what packages do I need to remove and which one to install ? Xconfigurator --expert -- Alan

Re: [expert] Aurora Vs LiLo

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
David Boles wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:58:42 -0700 Subject : Re: [expert] Aurora Vs LiLo David Boles wrote: I really don't want to hurt anyones feelings, but... I have had nothing but problems with L

Re: [expert] Aurora Vs LiLo

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
David Boles wrote: I really don't want to hurt anyones feelings, but... I have had nothing but problems with L-M 8.0 and the new Aurora. Or maybe it is the Mandrake Control Center and the way it controls Aurora. Please . How do I remove Aurora and just configure L-M 8.0 for just plain old

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 Internet Sharing -- Brief report

2001-05-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ron Stodden wrote: I wonder what country nu is? Anybody know? NU Niue http://www.crayne.com/country.html -- Alan

Re: [expert] konquerer no long works...

2001-05-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Neal Lippman wrote: Any help appreciated. I am using konquerer under KDE 2.1 (the MDK rpms). THe underlying system is MDK 7.2 with a self-compiled 2.4.4 kernel. I am unable to get konquerer to run. At first, it would run when I selected it from the panel or the K menu, but if I

Re: [expert] Misdetected GeForce2 MX XFree86 4.0.3

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed LM8.0, and most things seem to be working well. The biggest problem (and maybe the cause of the others) is the video card. I have a GeForce2 MX video card, but the installer is detecting it as a GeForce DDR. I thought this might simply be the

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Laurent Duperval wrote: On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. Laurentclick on the desktop icon labled Mandrake Control Center. When the control center has opened it's window

Re: [expert] Removing graphical screen upon boot

2001-05-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I don't want that. I want to go back to the good old text screen we used to have in 7.2. The reason is that once I've booted into X, I can no longer acces the console. I want to remove the use of the frame

Re: [expert] 8.0: cannot boot into Linux after the install

2001-04-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kevin Tambascio wrote: I have tried three times to install 8.0 on a box that previously ran 7.2. The only difference is that I am installing to the second IDE harddrive instead of the first, nothing else has changed. Here is what my system looks like: Dell PII-450 20 GB Quantum HD RIVA

Re: [expert] Problems with SCSI7896 in Mandrake 8

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Miguel Gomez wrote: Hi I am trying to install Mandrake 8 in our server, but when i boot with the installation cd, this one hangs when it tries to intall the drivers for the Adaptec SCSI 7896. The cd works without any problem in other computers without SCSI card. Have someone had this

Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1

2001-04-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eric Krout wrote: Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that prevent such an upgrade. I run a mailing

Re: [expert] Menu Bars in X

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
rob wrote: Howdy all... This has caused me some pause tonight. All of a sudden, all of my menu bars in any X window app, (it happens across all window managers...KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) have huge dot-matrix-like fonts. Has anyone ever seen this? Right now, for example, I'm using KMail to

Re: [expert] Need Help going rc.3 to rc.5

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
David Rankin wrote: This is going to sound really dumb, but "How do I get back to my graphical login without having to reboot?" Scenario: I have had an ongoing battle getting my machine to handle time properly. I set CMOS time to GMT and time zone to CST6CDT or "America/Chicago" and the CMOS

Re: [expert] Urgent -- can't log into KDE! from console

2001-03-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I decided to experiment today with XFCE. It's a great and neat and beautifully designed and very intuitive desktop environment that allows you to access all of KDE and Gnome (and X and console) applications. I certainly recommend it. Alas, during

Re: [expert] Easy fonts question

2001-03-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marc Siegel wrote: Hi all, I am using Mandrake 7.2, with KDE 2.1. I wanted anti-aliased fonts, so I upgraded to XFree 4.02 from unsupported (yes I have a Matrox G400), and to Qt 2.3. I also installed freetype2. Now my fonts are nicely antialiased, but I only have like 6 fonts. And, being

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 help

2001-03-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 March 2001 12:47 pm, Neal Lippman wrote: Two questions on installing KDE 2.1: Firstly, I STILL cannot find it in the download sites provided on KDE's website. Where are people getting it from? Any cooker mirror in the .../unsupported/./kde2.1/

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 final

2001-03-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ron Stodden wrote: KDE 2.1 final in binary form for the various distributions was promised on the KDE site by Monday February 26. It is now 3.5 hours into Tuesday GMT and there is no sign of the KDE 2.1 final update to Mandrake 7.2. Where is it? What is happening? When and where will

Re: [expert] Mandrake list problems again

2001-01-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Simon Cousins wrote: Hi Listmaster, I have a colleague unable to subscribe. He is being told by the listserv that the various Mandrake lists do not exist. One hopes not too many other Mandrake advocates are being turned away.. [snip] Simonhave you tried signing up from the web page

Re: [expert] updating modules, initrd.img, module-info

2001-01-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
David Dennis wrote: Problem: initrd.img and module-info point at the original mandrake install version files in /boot from a year ago (initrd.img - initrd-2.2.14-15mdk.img and module-info - module-info-2.2.14-15mdk even after a make bzImage in /usr/src/linux, a make modules and make

Re: [expert] How to set digest mode?

2001-01-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Michael Leone wrote: I don't see anything on the web page that tells me how to set the mail delivery to digest mode. And sending an "info expert" tells me that it DOES digest, but not HOW. Is it "set digest expert", sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Michaelyou can find information like this

Re: [expert] Removing SCSI devices?

2001-01-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Kim TK wrote: htmlDIV PNothing important was left on that SCSI drive.nbsp; It had a FAT32 partition and a EXT2 partition with an older version of Mdk was installed.nbsp; So for the current Mdk7.2 system, nothing that required for boot up is residing on that drive.../P PthanxBR/P/DIV

Re: [expert] Problem w. Corel Photo Paint

2000-12-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've installed Corel Photo Paint and it has added a lot of entries in the menu (i'm using MDK 7.2 KDE 2). For instance i've got 4 "Control Center" items. Running the menu editor as root i've saved and the duplicates have dissapeared but i get an error message when

[expert] Re: What the...?

2000-12-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Praedor Tempus wrote: Yesterday, whilst building XFree86-4.0.2, my system went nutso after it finished (not yet installed). It turned out that my keyboard chose that time to give up the ghost. Anyway, before I realised what the problem was, I reinstalled kde-2.1, deleted my .kde

Re: [expert] webmin wont work

2000-12-22 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roger Sherman wrote: Type shttp instead of http. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: What am I missing/doing wrong here? I have webmin installed and it is running. Whenever I try to connect to

Re: [expert] As a newbie :)

2000-12-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
jdbuckles wrote: I really hate to say this, but Mandrake is one of the hardest-to-configure linux builds around. I have been thru 6 video cvards and 2 monitors trying to get a stable screen. I purchased the distro from MacMillan and cannot get any customer support, not even an e-amil

Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs

2000-12-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mike MacCana wrote: Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1 soemtime in the future, and the version numbers will screw up dependencies. Mike

Re: [expert] Second stage install hangs

2000-12-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: well it is very accurate as far as my experience is concerned, and frankly thats the only one that really matters to me since I'm the one that has to put up with it. Inferior hardware sucks! Celeron sucks! Intel sucks! seems pretty plain and simple to me. ;)

Re: [expert] linux equivalent of Partition Magic?

2000-12-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a linux equivalent to Partition Magic. I own a copy of PM and I know that PM is compatible with linux. But PM uses the BIOS to read the partitions. Linux will read a much larger hard drive than the bios can read in dos. Therefore linux can read and use

Re: [expert] KDE Menu crippled!

2000-12-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: For some reason my KDE menu (as accessed directly from the K launch pad) is missing half the entries. No Networking, the Multimedia lacks Graphics, Sound, Video. And many others. Yet, the KDE Menu Editor (MenuDrake) has EVERYTHING in order. All the

Re: [expert] What is preferred method for Zip 100 (paraport)

2000-11-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald L. Chichester wrote: Does anyone have a link or know where I could get some documentation on how to get an Iomega Zip 100 (parallel port version) working under Mandrake 7.2? Thanks in advance http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov2.html -- Alan Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] soundcard problem...conflicting irq?

2000-11-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
J . A . Magallon wrote: On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:31:57 praedor wrote: I have an AudioPCI es1371 card and a PCI 3com 3C900B card presently sharing an irq. The soundcard has worked fine in the past, no cricket noises, no problems. I have now found that the same problem occurs under

Re: [expert] Wheelmouse Functions

2000-11-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom Berkley wrote: I have been noticing that indeed my wheelmouse functions sometimes in netscape and sometimes not. However, when I start Konqueror first and then go to netscape for my mail, then the wheel works in netscape. If I start netscape mail first, forget the wheel until I boot up

Re: [expert] corporate server 1.0

2000-11-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
SIR admin wrote: how can i get my hands on it (short of waiting 2 days for it to download)? i tried contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED], but they aren't answering my e-mails. cheers! matthew gansert adminATseaislerealtyDOTcom sys/net admin [snip] Matthewthe GPL version is available at

Re: [expert] corporate server 1.0

2000-11-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
SIR admin wrote: yum. thanks much alan. you've saved my network massive bandwidth. matthew [snip] matthewno problem. -- Alan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-12 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeff Malka wrote: I think it has to do with the standard "custom" install. xfce is also in the 2nd CD but was not installed when I selected custom (all selections) install in Mandrake 7.2. [snip] What is happening! [snip] Jeffthe install will tell you a percentage of the

Re: [expert] kde 2 - Autostart non functional?

2000-11-08 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeff Malka wrote: When upgrading from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2, and therefore from kde 1 to kde 2, my autostart folder was retained. Although the apps within my autostart folder do in fact work correctly when clicked on, they are not "autostarted" in KDE 2 on boot up and login. Is the

Re: [expert] KDE font problem w/7.2

2000-11-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Norman Carver wrote: [snip] I went into the KDE Control Center. It opened using a huge, weird font, which caused the windows to extend outside the desktop. [snip] Any ideas on how to fix?? KDE is not usable right now for root. Thanks, Norm Carver Normrename your ~/.kderc file and

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 7.1 and libstdc++

2000-10-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Larry Marshall wrote: My two-cd set of 7.1, downloaded and home-burned, contains: CD1 (MDK 7.1 Install): libstdc++-2.95.2-7mdk.i586.rpm binarys to be capable of execute things compiled with C++. The only thing you need if you're not a developer. CD2 (MDK 7.1 Extensions):

Re: [expert] CD-RW drive

2000-10-05 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote: Is is possible to have both an IDE CD rom and a IDE CDRW working together?? Several places I've looked seem to indicate that I need to remove the regular CD rom. This doesn't seem to make any sense. I'm running Mandrake 7.1 [snip] JosephI run a scsi cd

Re: [expert] How do I get system to beep?

2000-10-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi, This is a very simple question.. I want to put a "beep" at the end of a script so I know when its done.. any ideas how to get a beep or play a simple sound thru a script? thanks sarang -- Keep

Re: [expert] new drive - moving directories

2000-10-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Patrick Erler wrote: hello MANDRAKE! i'd like to add a new harddrive to my system and move some of the bigger directories to it. i have basically no problem with the operation but one thing. beside moving uncritical directories like /home i'd like to move my /var tree and /tmp to the

Re: [expert] making a Kmenu item ask for su

2000-09-30 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Phil Edwards wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: How can I make my new entry of diskdrake behave in the same manner when a user clicks on it so that it gives you the option to sign in as su? Change the command that your menu entry executes from: DiskDrake to: su

Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
tom strickland wrote: My friend is about to buy a modem, and he'd like it to be compatible with linux. Buying PCI would be more futureproof than isa or serial. I know that winmodems don't work under linux - most software modems in other words. I know that pci modems don't work on linux at

Re: [expert] scanner drivers for Acer Prism

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: [snip] I've got an Acer Prism (Acerscan 620P) sitting here on my desk that runs in Windows, but I can't for the life of me get to work in Mandrake. I've checked the Mandrake site and it's not even mentioned on the HCL there. I've checked the Acrer site and of course, like

Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

2000-09-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: [snip] Is it possible to switch from user A to user B without rebooting? That is, just by logging out of KDE (or Gnome) as user A and relogging as user B and back to user A? Or do you have to reboot each time you change user on a single Linux machine? [snip]

Re: [expert] Switching from user A to user B without rebooting?

2000-09-15 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[snip] The problem is that when I log out of KDE, I am faced with my $ user prompt. My options are a) to su to root or to type startx. In other words, how do I bring up the text "login" menu so I can type the user name and password for user B. That's what I can't figure out. Would

Re: [expert] How to keep X from blanking?

2000-09-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Sarang Lakare wrote: [snip] When I leave a Mandrake m/c on, with the default logon screen, X blanks the screen after a short time.. how do I disable it or increase teh blanking timnig? [snip] Sarangthe below is a section from the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. at the bottom there is an

Re: [expert] How come I need imwheel in KDE?

2000-09-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeff Malka wrote: [snip] Everything is working fine on my system now so I am loathe to change anything BUT the question bugs me: why(!) is it that I read everywhere that imwheel is for special apps and that KDE is automatically configured to use it when that is just not the case on my setup.

Re: [expert] grub

2000-08-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BillK wrote: Hi, when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to boot? BillK Billyou'll need run the script /boot/grub/install.sh to reinstall GRUB. Before you can do this you will

Re: [expert] Netscape Corrupting the mailrules file?

2000-08-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: [snip] that is exactly what I was doing. In fact, strangely enough it started happening when I was setting up a filter I affectionately call the twit-list to filter Mallard and his cohort Bill. :) odd, huh? For what ever reason Netscape is doing this what you said makes

Re: [expert] Adobe acrobat plugin for netscape on LM 7.1

2000-08-23 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Byron Poland wrote: I was wondering if anyone successfully installed the acrobat plugin for netscape on LM 7.1. I just downloaded the binarie tarball from Adobe, and acrobat installs to /usr/local/Acrobat4, which is fine with me. Next I try and run the netscape script in

Re: [expert]

2000-08-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Don wrote: Not able to post to the Expert list anymore -- 73 de KK6WJ Doni believe you are able to post to the Expert list. Alan

Re: [expert] Netscape Corrupting the mailrules file?

2000-08-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: [snip] that is exactly what I was doing. In fact, strangely enough it started happening when I was setting up a filter I affectionately call the twit-list to filter Mallard and his cohort Bill. :) odd, huh? For what ever reason Netscape is doing this what you said makes

Re: [expert] Netscape Corrupting the mailrules file?

2000-08-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mark Weaver wrote: [snip] Might someone on here have any idea what could be causing Netscape to corrupt its mailrule file? [snip] MarkI'm using 4.74 and have not had any such problems with it. But I did have problems with the message filters (I guess this is what you mean by a mailrule

Re: [expert] X drake tools...

2000-08-18 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Julia A . Case" wrote: Quoting Alan Shoemaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Juliatry in Konsole as root 'drakxconf' for a menu of setup tools. Alan I tried that and got this output. Can't load '/usr/lib/libDrakX/auto/c/stuff/stuff.so' for module c::stuff: /usr/lib/libDr

Re: [expert] X drake tools...

2000-08-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
"Julia A . Case" wrote: These tools worked GREAT during setup. But when I wanted to run them from the command line none of them work, I get pages of error output. If any one wants to see the output I'll send it to the list. Thanks, Julie -- [ Julia Anne Case ] [Ships are

Re: [expert] configure X

2000-08-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Eugene Grimsdell wrote: [snip] In the old versions of mandrake you can set X via entering setup at # how do you set this on 7.1 ? [snip] Eugenethe new command that takes the place of setup is drakxconf. If you're in console mode it'll give you the familiar psuedo graphical choice menu in

Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ron Stodden wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Sevationot really so. The procedures that install Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the two floppy set. The dos used is not Microsoft MS-DOS

Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ron Stodden wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronagain, not really so. The same shell script and .img files (the .img files contain Partition Magic 5.0 instead of 4.0 of course) are on the 5.0 Partition Magic CD as were on the 4.0 Partition Magic CD. Whoever gave you

Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?

2000-08-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
snippy with me when you are clearly in the wrong. That is a fact. You should broaden your ability to "tell it like you believe it is" without being so damn confrontational (READ THAT AS RUDE). No regards at all, Alan Shoemaker

Re: [expert] Partitioning Rules - ?

2000-07-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Sevationot really so. The procedures that install Partition Magic on two floppies from a running Linux system install a bootable dos environment on the first floppy of the two floppy set. The dos used is not Microsoft MS-DOS but instead is a version of Corel's DR DOS. Alan Sevatio

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pavan K Balellugari wrote: Hi all, Just got subscribed here. Need to upgrade from 6.1 to 7.x please let me know where i can get the resources. [snip] Pavanbuy a GPL CD of the release you want to upgrade to from a web vendor located in your area of the world. MandrakeSoft lists

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jerry/Gary'supermount disable' is a command that will change your fstab entries to normal ones and 'supermount enable' will change them back to supermount entries. Check 'man supermount' for this info (reinventing the wheel is usually harder than reading docs). :-) Alan Jerry Mulvaney

Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!

2000-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Gary wrote: [snip] Upon rebooting Mandrake 7.1 later, I received errors saying that my CDRom2 was not recognized. It is a good thing I made a backup of fstab. I went back to the original, and am just going to leave it alone. I did change to disable in my laptop though. Weird problem with

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Markthe f1 through the f6 keys in conjunction with ctl-alt will access each of the 6 tty consoles available in the Mandrake distro. The second line of text below the big graphic penguin tells you which console you are in by the tty number following the cpu type (see tty3 below): Linux

Re: [expert] Version 7.1 HUGE install problem

2000-07-21 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jeffno, absolutely not. Alan Jeff Malka wrote: I came in the middle. Is Mandrake 7.1 a pre-release version? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000

Re: [expert] Version 7.1 HUGE install problem

2000-07-20 Thread Alan Shoemaker
PjWhy do you think that Linux Mandrake 7.1 is a pre-release version? Linux Mandrake 7.1 was released back on June 6th. Alan Pj wrote: Why do you think software is tested before it is released for sale? Don't complain if you don't know the difference between a stable version and a

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