Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:13:35 -0500 "Timothy Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > where is linuxconf in M9.2 It was moved to contrib and as such is not included on the cds. Add a contrib source and urpmi linuxconf Charles -- Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world. -

Re: [expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine

2003-11-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:11:30 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Golumbovici) wrote: > I don't think they have a decoder. It is a Logitech 5.1 Speakersystem. If it's the z680, then it does have a decoder see http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=support/products/document&CRID=322&contentid=6810&con

Re: [expert] ML 9.2 + Audigy2 + 5.1 + xine

2003-10-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:43:26 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Golumbovici) wrote: > My main problem now is that though my card is recognised and the > "audigy" module is loaded, it works only halfway right. That means > that "stereo" sounds work ok (like xmms and such). On the other hand I > tried

Re: [expert] urpmi auto select question

2003-10-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:53:11 -0500 "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to flag certain packages so they are NOT > included during the update process? list them in /etc/urpmi/skip.list Charles -- In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are cons

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:34:34 +0100 Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone please point me in the right direction Well you listed what it was checking But what was the error that configure gave you. Charles -- "Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra --

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:11:03 -0500 Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, thanks for the clarification...that said however, I am now > concerned that I "wasted" my money by purchasing 9.2. I expect the > CDs to arrive by the end of the month and expect the source to be > included as m

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:44:27 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at the nvidia errata and FAQ. They have something about > laptops but they claim that switching from a graphics display to a > text display works ok. Try it using vga=normal. That will be without fb. FB can

Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings

2003-10-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:46:24 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the > > first time it always complains that it can't find the address book > > and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first > > time setup.

Re: [expert] anyone been able to rebuild gaim 0.70 for 9.2 yet

2003-10-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 14:09:09 -0600 Greg Sarsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting an error on the rebuild, everything goes fine until the > perl section and then following You don't have perl-devel installed. If you are wanting to build the rpm for use on 9.2, I have attached a s

Re: [expert] Multimedia keyboards and Linux

2003-09-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:38:48 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't tried it but there is a program called acme available under > contrbs (9.1 and cooker) that is for gnome that is supposed to do all > of this. There are also in contrib lineakd, lineakconfig, and Klineakconf

Re: [expert] No mouse after installing Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 24 Sep 2003 07:11:32 -0400 ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't shoot for top posting, and answer at the bottom, but what mouse? > and have you tried running mousedrake as root after reboot? You just better be glad that I had forgotten to click the safety off (-: Running mousedrake sho

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:03:59 -0600 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem is that you're not subscribed to the right mailing > list. Subscribe to the announce list (via MandrakeSecure, the very > site you were on). It is all documented on the mailing list page "Security hole

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does this say? > > tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo Just curious, what's the full output from the above for your system? Charles -- The game of love is never called off on account of darkness -- Mu

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:02:19 +0300 Birkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't read all the replies, but here goes my opinions: > - sound chip on the mobo real stinks. they arecheap solutions for > cheap sound. My sugestion is to buy a separate soundcard (audigy2 from > SB is an example.) I dis

Re: [expert] Nvidia, accelerated 3D support... I'm lost

2003-09-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 13 Sep 2003 12:28:01 +0200 Molotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since there is no NVIDIA uninstaller, do you know a simple way to > remove all that stuff ? > I would like to make sure all is clean before re-trying from zero... To remove the currently installed nvidia driver # sh NVIDIA-Linux-

Re: [expert] removing boot themes -- lost LILO choices

2003-09-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:04:35 -0700 "James D. Parra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow LILO won't display the boot choices anymore. I have switched > from LILO graphical to LILO text, but neither of them display. The > bootstrap jumps right into loading the default kernel. How can this be > reso

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:07:34 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only problem I've had with multi-gnome-terminal (which is what you > have) comes in ssh'ing into a variety of boxes. Some of the commnands > like backspace get lost (like with ftp) and as a result it's a pain. > I l

Re: [expert] I don't know how to head this

2003-08-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:36:24 +0200 Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe Sobig.F gets the servers down ? For me it looks like a server > overload. Some mails take several hours to make it trough, some mails > never do come trough, some mails are in the archiv but only half the > pe

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Re: brouser gets redirected

2003-08-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:35:02 +1000 Alex Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nor does it explain why it didn't happen in Opera. Opera is set to > send as IE5 on Win 98, yet didn't get redirected. Netscape sends the > correct details. If they were looking for a specific OS, then it would > be Window

Re: [expert] urpmi dependancies issues?

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:27:52 -0400 "Albert E. Whale, CISSP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides that, the original Error was about the following: > > The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: > bind-9.2.2-1mdk (due to conflicts with bind) > caching-nameserver-9.0-2mdk

Re: [expert] resolv.conf

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:21:48 -0700 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll second this. I sure would like to know what it is good for. It > must be good for something. And Why was it necessary to make it as the default in All network set-ups? Charles -- Be careful how you get yourself

Re: [expert] 2.4.21-0.25 hates my thinkpad

2003-08-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I actually have now tried and failed to build > kernel-2.4.22-0.6mdk (from cooker). I upgraded > kernel-utils (built from source rpm so it would be > cool with MDK 9.1) and then tried building the kernel. When

Re: [expert] Radeon 9700 no 3d

2003-07-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:46:17 +0200 phriedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can someone give me some nice tips to get 3d-support for my radeon > 9700 on 9.1, please? You will need to dl, install and configure the Ati linux driver. It is avaiable from http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/body_down

Re: [expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:42:38 -0500 Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: > dia-0.90-5mdk (due to missing pygtk) > draksync-9.0-2mdk (due to missing pygtk) > pybliographer-1.0.11-7mdk (due to unsatisfied pygnome >= 1.4.0)

Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel

2003-07-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 07:19:21 -0500 stefmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Three machines running MDK 9.1: one of them prompts me with the > existence of a new kernel, the other two don't (via MCC --> Software > Management --> Mandrake Update). Is there a setup I may have missed on > two machines, to

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A temp fix: do a "mv /tmp /tmp-old and creat a new > /tmp that is a link to your REAL download location. > Once the download completes, delete the symlink and mv > /tmp-old to /tmp again. That's again why I lik

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:01:25 -0400 Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WHY do browser writers insist they know more about the operating > environment than the user...? If you are going to use a browser to dl use opera. As to dl location both mozilla and galeon Will use your selected locat

Re: [expert] no USB mouse in 9.1

2003-07-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:06:59 -0700 Jeremy Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly this didn't work. I've got an Nforce2 based board, the chipset's > made by nvidia. Support for the board is relavively new, but the mouse > does work during install To get full support you may need to dl and ins

Re: [expert] uprmi.addmedia

2003-07-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:11:44 -0700 Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed > no hdlist file found for medium "texstar" > examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.texstar.cz] > problem reading synthesis file of medium "texstar" > unable to

Re: [expert] Radeon 9200

2003-07-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 09 Jul 2003 13:37:52 +0300 Seppo Jarvinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct > Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the > function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's automatically > used. DRI is

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 07 Jul 2003 12:36:37 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charles I got part of this from another source. But one question... > is the (security) a constant I should insert or do I do that > literally? Yes you list it as a constant Your_name (security) Your_email If you use a

Re: [expert] GPG and signing rpms.

2003-07-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 06 Jul 2003 21:38:35 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now when I do (as the same user) rpm --sign --clean -ba somerpm.spec > it asks for the passphrase... I enter the same one I did during the > key-gen phase.. and I get Pass phrase check failed. Unfortunately the Mdk rpm-h

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.4 can't find java plug-in

2003-07-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:34:09 -0600 "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not > doubting you (well, not really) but it seems pretty bizarre that > Mozilla happily says that everything is OK when it fact it needs a > newer release of java than the one I have installed. (And even more > bi

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:59:51 -0600 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found something else that worked pretty good... I documented it on > the wiki. > > Went from 320FPS to about 2200FPS... much nicer. EQ runs pretty good > in winex now, and NWN looked pretty good for the 10s before i

Re: [expert] SETI@home. MDK RPM's???

2003-06-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:07:51 -0400 Ralph Crongeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know where to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] MDK RPM's? No such critter. It is avaiable from the Seti site Only, and only as a tar.gz Charles -- "His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-23 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:19:53 -0600 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even > trying some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've > been told that the 8500 should work "out of the box". I can not give speci

Re: [expert] System locks on logout

2003-06-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 09:43:10 -0700 Tim Dinkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mandrake 9.1 > PS/2 mouse and keyboard through Belkin KVM. > Radeon VE Graphics card. Using the radeon driver. Hardware > exceleration on or off is the same. > Booting to init5. Set you system to boot to init 3 Not 5

Re: [expert] Re: Website problems

2003-06-22 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:11:06 +0200 Maxim Heijndijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I know that. But you could click on an RPM in Mdk 9.0, and it > just downloaded. In 9.1 this is no longer possible, is this a bug ? Or > was it done intentional. Use Shift/click and mozilla will save to disk

Re: [expert] KAddressbook & Sylpheed

2003-06-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:30:06 +0200 phriedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The components-dialogue in kcontolcenter seems to help not, because I > changed it already to"sylpheed --composer %t". Try with --compose instead of --composer Charles -- Lighten up, while you still can, Don'

Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??

2003-06-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:22:37 -0600 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (if you're tracking cooker, why are you doing updates?). I wanted the fixes included in that kernel for my 9.1 system so in this case I am speaking of MandrakeUpdate and 9.1. Even on full cooker systems the naming

Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??

2003-06-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 20 Jun 2003 09:35:57 +1000 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right though Vincent - it's been doing it over a number of > releases. You'll find a few posts from me in the archives on it. Another point that can be irritating is that the naming scheme for the mdk kernel is

Re: [expert] urpmi -- I'm impressed!

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:25:52 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's because the executable is inside the package and the hdlist > keeps that info. urpmi is awesome and IMO, the best thing about > Mandrake. To be honest the real reason that it works it that we who build rpms do sh

Re: [expert] urpmi -- I'm impressed!

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:25:52 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's because the executable is inside the package and the hdlist > keeps that info. urpmi is awesome and IMO, the best thing about > Mandrake. To be honest the real reason that it works it that we who build rpms do sh

Re: [expert] UPSs

2003-06-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 13 Jun 2003 09:18:03 -0400 Brian V Bonini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really need to evaluate the power requirements of the box, how > much battery run time you need, etc... Also be aware of any need for a line conditioner which will maintain the current voltage at a constant level. Not

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 13:34:29 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if I'm reading correctly doesn't re-sign say that if you sign a > package and I sign a package then if the end user has either key it > will show up correctly? I would think that instead of --resign that --addsign is

Re: [expert] Signatures on packages....

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 11:53:00 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You're right, but my understanding from Warly during the various >beta > and rc cycles was that anything in release contrib is resigned with > MDK's sig before release. (at least there where a lot of people > checki

Re: [expert] Bad trouble here (db stuff)

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:56:28 -0400 darklord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to force a hard reboot, whereupon a I got a message about some > xfont being not there, and the xserver will not start now, so X won't > work. Is the xfont error the only 1 you get or to also get an error for a missing

Re: [expert] insmod

2003-06-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 12 Jun 2003 13:17:37 -0400 Brian V Bonini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't there a switch for insmod to list active mods? ls -- If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair. - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on PurpleDragon Kernel- 2.4.21-0.1mdk

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:41:27 -0700 eric huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it "safe" to reinstall 98 and XP? Win XP and Win 2000 Will Not overwrite an Existing MBR, Win 98 Will. Charles -- ... If I had heart failure right now, I couldn't be a more fortunate man!! -

Re: [expert] ispell installation

2003-04-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:22:28 -0500 (EST) synrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does ispell require that I install some foreign language version > in addition to ispell itself ispell requires An ispell-dict. ispell is outmoded and replaced by aspell and as such is now little used ao there is no l

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:43:06 -0500 Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears you > will need PC133 SDRAM, and I'll bet your other cyrix/IBM has PC100 at > best. If it is "good" PC100 from a reputable company such as Crucial or others it can be run at 133. I have several stick th n

Re: [expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problemmb4

2003-03-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Mar 2003 08:44:11 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you've got 3.8.18 from 9.1? No, 18 is an rpm I built. I tried to get it included in 9.1 but since I am not the maintainer of record, and he did not seem inclined to update the pkg, it was a no go. If you wish I can send you

Re: [expert] 9.1 XFce Font Problem

2003-03-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Mar 2003 07:30:20 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is 3.8.16-2mdk, not sure if it was something from my botched > upgrade or if it is a real distro problem... anyone else use XFce on > 9.1 yet? I am using it on 2 systems. 1 is 9.1 from ISO upgrade and the other is cooker

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 29 Mar 2003 07:53:17 -0500 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I don't own any Nvidia video cards I'm curious on one thing. > Rebuilding for each kernel makes sense. But the editing the > XF86Config file throws me a bit... What is it that makes this > necessary? If using the

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:44:23 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? The nvidia driver will only work with the kernel for which it was built. You can still use both kernels but you will need to edit your X86Conf-4 each

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:22 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine Ann, unless you install from your hd, as is Ron, you should have no problem. I have done the 9.1 install from cd on 2 systems, both with dual ide contro

Re: [expert] 9.1 says "No DISK drive!"

2003-03-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:36:11 -0600 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Seems simple to me, avoid buying Win-motherboards with built in > fake raid. Add on a real controller on a motherboard suitable for > Linux if you need so many ide's. Though completely true, Tom, the statement is n

Re: [expert] 9.0-->9.1 - successful experience ... and also a minorquestion

2003-03-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:53:45 -0600 stefmit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am being asked > for the CDs of 9.1 (understandably), after which I am being asked for > the 9.0 DVD. Is this normal? (of course I could remove the 9.0 DVD > from the urpmi config, but I thought of leaving it there for now

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:27:13 -0500 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or framebuffer??? True. Any card can use the vega driver but I did not think that was what he wanted so I did not include it. Thanks for catching my omission. Charles -- "To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interope

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 8500 DVI + mdk9.0

2003-03-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:44:57 -0800 Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No I ment 9.0 The 8500 Is Not supported in 9.0 unless you use the linux driver from ATI. Charles -- Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon. - Mandrake Linux 9.1 on Purple

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:45:07 -0700 Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am, personally, about half an inch from unsubscribing from this list > as well, although it pains me to do so as some people have questions > regarding security and updates that I like to help with. But I simply > can

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:51:35 -0600 Ray Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my wife's SOYO Dragon+ the BIOS sees the raid controller as a scsi > device and will not boot windows from it unless scsi boot is enabled > in the bios.I haven't tried to dual boot this board , so I don't know > if it's

Re: [expert] Pentium4 motherboards keeping ISA slots

2003-03-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:43:59 +0100 (MET) Octavi Fors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know any motherboard in the market which meet those > requirements, AND which is known to be COMPATIBLE under Linux? The Soyo SY-P4I 845PE ISA is for P4 and has 3 ISA slots. http://www.soyousa.com/pro

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:55:24 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that my true SCSI devices (Toshiba/Plextor) are on scsibus0, > while my IDE ZIP drive, SCSI emulated, is on scsibus1. I'm assuming > here (dangerous!) that SCSI emulated devices would go on scsibus1. > > Can anyo

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:06:14 +1100 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to > 9.0-contribs since October last year. That's correct Ron. Neither the 9.0 main or the Contrib tree will have changed since 9.0 went final which was in Oct. On

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:15:10 + Mark Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Reser maintains a related rpm called 'hddtemp' which pulls > harddrive temps out of the smart data. Also there is already an ide-smart rpm in Contribs Charles -- What will you do if all your problems aren't so

Re: [expert] western digital 400jd, alternate jumpersettings andmandrake

2003-02-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:05:23 -0900 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But actually Dual-booting on this machine is a VERY bad idea. You use > some sort of BIOS extension software(loaded from the disk before > regular boot) for windows, and you don't for linux. I have seen this > cause problem

Re: [expert] List Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:32:56 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone receiving a bounce message from this e-mail address Would have o check my trash. All such that I receive along with Out of Office auto-replies and such are filtered to /dev/null Charles -- Farmers in the

Re: [expert] [repost] GTK2 apps in KDE (3.0.5)

2003-02-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:20:43 +0200 stanly klyuhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sure, thank you. btw, what is "Terry Pratchet book"? ;) What; that's sacrilege May the turtle stumble, the elephant fall and your world come crashing down Chatles -- "I'm growing older, but not up." -

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD >= 8.1

2003-02-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:29:37 -0500 Simon Ree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you could build it? Though it requires some time and effort kde-3.1 will build on 9.0, since 9.0 uses qt3 8.2 uses qt2, so unless you are a programmer and can re-write some of the code kde-3.1 can not be built nor w

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 17:36:12 + "J. Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # rpm -e myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk > error: removing these packages would break dependencies: > myspell-dictionary is needed by OpenOffice.org-1.0.1-9mdk > > The removal dep is there. > > To be honest t

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:22:09 -0700 "Boulytchev, Vasiliy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, when do you guys think MD9.1 will be out? Not before April Charles I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink. -- Richard Burton ---

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:02:23 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, its odd here. My 2 sons and I played a 3 way Tribes 2 game for > about 2-3 hours today with no problems. > > Went back in this evening (nothing added or changed) and it crashed > out hard after about 15 mins. G

Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:19:58 -0500 Praedor Tempus Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah. I know of sylpheed and have used it, I didn't know realize there > was a "claws" as part of its name...or is there a variant of just > sylpheed? There are 2, sylpheed and sylpheed-claws. Claws is an enha

Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:06:42 -0500 Praedor Tempus Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is "claws"? sylpheed-claws, a damn great email program. Charles A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. -- Robert Benchley --

Re: [expert] OT - This Damn List

2003-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:57:31 + Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AT LEAST TAKE IT OFF THIS LIST. Agreed!!! Thankfully using claws I can set an ignore flag. Charles Pure drivel tends to drive ordinary drivel off the TV screen. (or computer monitor) -

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:10:01 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops, I'm not sure about that - I did see something about updated ATI > drivers for that game but...I've got an Nvidia so :-) Didn't forget you. Still have not rebooted yet. There is a patch now for the UT2003 d

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:19:55 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS BTW, in the AGP section of your BIOS, are your settings default? > Mine are, I never changed a thing. Just curious! What you want me to reboot and look!!! I think I did change some settings, don't remember which

Re: [expert] APIC enabled or no boot

2003-01-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:08:01 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, I believe its the reason all my games > segfault after a short time. I suppose I could disable the onboard > sound and network, add a PCI sound and networking card, but that kinda > defeats the purpose,

Re: [expert] just testing pgp

2003-01-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:18:25 -0600 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, at least GPG works for Praedor.. Yeah, but you can never be sure about clear sign since most clients do not verify them. Charles And ever has it been known that love knows not it

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta - More 1st impressions

2003-01-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 14 Jan 2003 13:47:44 -0700 Robert Goshko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did , and I get the graphical installation? You need to use Chatles If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. -- Graham Summer -- Mandrak

Re: [expert] YaBir (Yet another Beta install report)

2003-01-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:14:38 +0100 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to the lilo-appends: I never got that far. > I just tried to get the Nvidia-kernel to install after rebuilding it > from source. It seemed to install all right (after a download > install-orgy of unsatisfied dependen

Re: [expert] YaBir (Yet another Beta install report)

2003-01-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:09:02 +0100 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange I had no mishaps like that whatso-ever not on the upgrade nor > on the clean install. I got mine off the nluug ftp site. I also got mine from there. The installer will work and perform differently on different

Re: [expert] YaBir (Yet another Beta install report)

2003-01-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:42:11 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't happen to recall which magic spell you were muttering just > when you succeeded? I'll tell you one thing, it was not the same damn one I used when I was trying to get past the individ, pkg selection screen

Re: [expert] YaBir (Yet another Beta install report)

2003-01-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:06:03 +0100 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know where the error during installation of the kernel packet > comes from. The CD is ok, ISO downloaded with wget, burned with > cdrecord and md5sum checked. > > I'll have another try tomorrow. I would not

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 11 Jan 2003 14:03:20 -0500 Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not meaning to sound like a smart a** here. But the best, most > reliable"unerase" system I've found, that is fully transportable > across all platforms, is a good backup system. There's just no making > up for it. Speaking a

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:56:09 -0500 Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey Harm! at least you got buttons to click on at that point! :) No > buttons showed up on that panel during the intall, which necessitated > me starting the install all over and choosing "all" in order to get it > going

Re: [expert] pgp sigs

2003-01-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:05:45 -0800 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, your messages are not recognized by mutt as being signed > messages. I can tell this because I can see your pgp sig as quoted > above instead of being verified. Could we do some offlist email > exchanges to see what

Re: [expert] urpmi --auto-select, apache 1.3 and apache2

2003-01-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:14:12 + Mark Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > urpmi --auto-select always tries to install Apache 2. because Apache 2 Provides: Apache urpmi looks at the version and thinks it is an update. Eventually Ap2 will replace Ap. If you do not want to move to it yet add it to

Re: [expert] Difference between distros

2003-01-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:50:31 +1300 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL, i am not sure if i should be insulted or not. I bow before a more > complex (possibly eccentrically deranged) mind. Perhaps only arbitrarily dysfunctional. Charles Where is John Carson now th

Re: [expert] 2.4.20 Kernel Problem

2003-01-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 03 Jan 2003 11:48:50 -0700 Robert Goshko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried it with "pci=conf2", but then I get a message stating that the > system does not support PCI and it boots, but sound, network, and ACPI > devices are never found because they are PCI. Try booting with pci=nobios

Re: [expert] Undeletable file found in mailbox file need help.

2002-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:31:42 -0500 Salane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rm -rf cur/ > rm: cannot remove `cur//1041345474.19460.OtLE:2,S': Permission denied cur is a directory. You need to use: rm -rfd cur/ Charles How much for your women? I want to buy your daughter... ho

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2002-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Dec 2002 21:30:40 + richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK Charles , just tried it, here's the o/p, does this help with what s > going wrong ?? Try the same using with "../base.hdlist.cz" instead of synthesis.hdlist.cz You will first need to run # urpmi.removemedia 9.0_update an

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2002-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Dec 2002 19:46:54 + richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why I'm suspicious that unless you join the mdk club the OS > falls apart...can some confirm if this is the case The Club has nothing to do with it. >From a cl do the following # urpmi.addmedia 9.0_update ftp://su

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2002-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Dec 2002 18:56:39 + richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies, now i'M REAL CONFUSED Ive downloaded from > cooker later than listed below. > http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKA-2002:022 > Mandrake Linux 9.0 > > 9.0/RPMS/gurpmi-4.0-

Re: [expert] mandrake update failure , some assistance required

2002-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Dec 2002 14:18:25 + richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect I'm going round in circles as the main tool (mandrake update) > for downloading and satisfying dependencies is non functional.. What are you using as your update_source? Did you update it to insure that it was curre

Re: [expert] MDK 7.2 cds?

2002-12-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
p/1040946720.c10673d77d85f324f2cd02ede2b45b63.php#older The link should be all 1 line with no spaces Charles "I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet." "Now why didn't I think of that?" -- Post Bros. Comics ----

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
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Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
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Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
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