[expert] Postfix help

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi All, I have been using postfix for sometime now, but am definitely not an *expert*. Anyhow, my problem is that I'm seeing more and more 'undeliverable' messages from ISPs that won't accept direct connections from a dynamic IP (I'm on a cable modem). I'm trying to setup postfix to relay through

Re: [expert] MTA help (maybe)

2003-01-14 Thread Bill Witherspoon
an open invitation to add that to nullmailer (if you're good at C++) on their mailing list). Has anyone run into a similar roadblock trying to Mutt without postfix/sendmail? TIA, Bill On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:03:54 -0500 "Matthew O. Persico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

[expert] MTA help (maybe)

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all, I'm trying to set up the following: 1) fetchmail getting my POP mail from my ISP. 2) Using procmail to filter, and deliver into my local mailbox. 3) Using Mutt to read it but I'll be darned if I can send mail. I think the word I'm looking for is 'relay' (please correct me). I need to a

Re: [expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-27 Thread Bill Witherspoon
30fps in 1024*768 / 32 bits with all > settings put as high ;) (on a pentium 2 - 400) > > On Wednesday November 27 2002 03:17, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > Does anyone here have any experience to > > relate on this card and Mandrake 9.0? > > > > Does it get detecte

[expert] Radeon 7200

2002-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Does anyone here have any experience to relate on this card and Mandrake 9.0? Does it get detected during the install? I'm not worried about 3D or anything fancy. TIA, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using Startx instead of kdm

2002-10-12 Thread Bill Witherspoon
r way is to use Xtart. To install it: > urpmi Xtart > > Then don't use startx at all. Just type Xtart and it will present you with a > short text menu of available WindowManagers. > > On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:44 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > Hi all, &

[expert] Using Startx instead of kdm

2002-10-12 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all, I would like to stop using kdm, and have my machine boot to a shell prompt. How do I stop using a window manager login? Also, if I do want to start a window manager from the shell, I know it's startx. But how do I change the wm that gets started? startx gnome? startx xfce? TIA, Bill.

[expert] Digital Video Camera

2002-09-02 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Can anyone point me to some links to get my digital video camera working with linux? This is one of the last of my Windows 'hold outs'. I expect I will need to recompile my kernel for firewire support. Beyond that, what software are people using to get video off of their camera, and do editing?

Re: [expert] Mandrake SNF

2002-02-25 Thread Bill Witherspoon
I tried SNF a couple of months ago as well. Had the exact same problem. Sorry to say that I (after 2 days) gave up. I managed to resolve the ping issue, and get client machines on the internet, but I couldn't get FTP, SMTP, or POP to go thru the firewall. If you're looking for a dead dog simple f

Re: [expert] Can't install kdebase-nsplugin

2002-02-17 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 22:26:32 -0300 "Eduardo P.Román O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I try to install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm, but i get the > follow error; > error: failed dependencies: > libXm.so.2 is needed by kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk > The question is when i ca

Re: [expert] how to make insmod permanent

2002-02-07 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:46:07 -0600 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I got my umax scanner working today by installing a aha-2906 scsi card, > and doing < insmod aic7xxx > after which xsane finds and uses the > scanner fine > everything works great. however when I rebooted it appears to h

Re: [expert] Sound...what does it take?

2002-01-23 Thread Bill Witherspoon
If you're sure its an essolo1 then the correct driver is: esssolo1 (It works fine for me) 'insmod esssolo1' should do it. Not currently on my Mandrake box so I can't verify. Add to your rc.local to get it to install at boot. HTH, Bill. - Original Message - From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL

[expert] libpng and Galeon again...

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all, I saw this thread a few days back but never did see a solution?? (Maybe I missed it...) I have the latest binaries from Cooker for Galeon, and see this in the console (over and over): libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.0 libpng warning: Application is r

Re: [expert] replacing kdm with xdm

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:44:14 +0100 Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Dom 02 Dic 2001 16:19, escribió: > > Hey folks, > > re the subject, I've tried replacing the line in /etc/inittab so that it > > tries to respawn /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm but it still starts kdm. > > > > I also tried renaming kdm a

[expert] replacing kdm with xdm

2001-12-02 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hey folks, re the subject, I've tried replacing the line in /etc/inittab so that it tries to respawn /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm but it still starts kdm. I also tried renaming kdm and symlinking to xdm, it still starts kdm! Can anyone give me a tip on how to get xdm going instead of kdm? TIA, Bill W

Re: [expert] galeon-1.0 and mozilla-0.9.6

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:11:19 +0600 "Mark D'voo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone successfully build galeon-1.0 from mozilla-0.9.6?? > > mark > -- I built both from Mandrake src.rpm's with no problems. Still no pngs tho. (At least it shows a broken image icon now, instead of nothing at a

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:15:04 -0800 Larry Sword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you have discovered when doing a :hardcopy > filename.ps the output > is size A4, the default in vim. > > "A safe printoptions setting to try is: > > > :set printoptions=paper:A4,duplex:off,collate:n,syntax:n

Re: [expert] POP3

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:21:12 +0100 Jesus Roncero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Lun 26 Nov 2001 16:20, Bill Witherspoon escribió: > > > > I've just noticed I don't have the pop3 daemon installed. I can't > > > remember which rpm I have to install

Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:23:26 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dunno Bill, IIRC, I had some deps with the galeon rpm, but they > were quickly solved with installin them from my 8.1 CD's. I didn't > need --force or --nodeps. I only use those options very sparingly. I > believe I

Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:48:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2001 09:35 am, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > Is anyone else experiencing problems? > > I upgraded to mozilla-0.9.6-1mdk (from src.rpm), and Galeon > > 0.12.7-1 segfault

[expert] Runaway print job

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hah, one printing problem leads to another. My printer has been printing garbadge for about 20 minutes now. I've shutdown cups, shutdown the printer (several times), but each time I power it up, it goes on printing. (Cups didn't show the job anyway, so I'm not exactly sure what's causing the pri

Re: [expert] POP3

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:23:55 +0100 Jesus Roncero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just noticed I don't have the pop3 daemon installed. I can't remember > which rpm I have to install in mdk 8.1. Any idea? > -- xinetd-2.3.3-4mdk on my system. I don't think there's a specific pop3 daemon.

[expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Is anyone else experiencing problems? I upgraded to mozilla-0.9.6-1mdk (from src.rpm), and Galeon 0.12.7-1 segfaults on start up. Tried Galeon 0.12.8-1 (both from source) with the same problems. Mozilla appears to work fine tho. TIA, Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:18:42 -0700 "Andreas J. Guelzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > >I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing >looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page

[expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-25 Thread Bill Witherspoon
I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page end up on a page by themselves. So a 3 page file ends up 6 pages. 3 good pages and 3 pages with only 3 lines on them?? I tried printing the straight te

Re: [expert] Command line FTP mystery?

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Didn't even have it installed! Thanks, that did the trick. B Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Command line FTP mystery?

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi guys, How do I connect to a specific directory on a remote host via ftp? ie. I can connect by -> ftp ftp.mandrake.org but I can't do -> ftp ftp.mandrake.org/dir/dir/thestuff/ I keep getting "host unknown". Normally I would go down thru the directories manually, but in this particular case t

Re: [expert] Load a kernel module at boot

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:53:00 +1100 John Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:25, you wrote: > > [expert] Load a kernel module at boot > > From: Bill Witherspoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Can any

[expert] Load a kernel module at boot

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Can anyone tell me where I can add: modprobe esssolo1 to my boot scripts so that my sound card module is loaded automatically? I don't want to recompile my kernel as I've got everything running s nice. Thanks in advance, Bill. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to h

[expert] kernel compile problem

2001-06-15 Thread Bill Witherspoon
Hi all, I successfully compiled the 2.4.5 kernel and rebooted. Then I went into xconfig, changed 1 option and went thru the same process. Now I get -> Loading 245 Uncompressing linux... Ran out of input data -- System halted. It does this for all of my kernels (2.4.3). (I have my 2.4.5 kernel

Re: [expert] make modules fails

2001-06-04 Thread Bill Witherspoon
I had the same problem, and gave up. I ended up downloading 2.4.5 and it compiled cleanly. It took me a few trys to get everything right, but it worked eventually. Now, if I hadn't bbqed my system with KDE2.2alpha2 Bill - Original Message - From: "Sarang Lakare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T