[expert] screen blanking in X?

2000-02-08 Thread David Mihm
I'm not really sure what happened to make it stop screen blanking in X. It just stopped doing it after I upgraded to 3.3.6 of XFree. If someone could be so kind as to point out the method to get X screen blanking automagically again, I'd appreciate it. TIA +-

Re: [expert] Real Audio.

2000-02-10 Thread David Mihm
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote: >Has anyone been successful in getting the linux version of real audio to >work? I followed the directions that came with it and I still can't get it >to play correctly. It will come up and wont play anything I try to get it to >play. This pag

Re: [expert] Changing case or extensions

2000-03-04 Thread David Mihm
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Gary Bunker wrote: -> I used to know how to do this, but now my brain is full. -> -> How can I change the case, or extension of a lot of files at once. For -> example, I have a directory of BMPs that a friend sent from his digital -> camera (yeah, I know, bad format, but it'

Re: [expert] AGPGART and auto insmod at startup ???

2000-11-28 Thread David Mihm
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, stef brette wrote: > After modifiing /etc/grub/menu.lst all is fine BUT the module > agpgart.o, apparently responsible for initializing /dev/agpgart, isnot > loaded . Hence X cannot start. [snip] >Does anyone know which init file (rc.d/) is responsible for > auto

Re: [expert] make mrproper did me...

2000-11-28 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Perry Moon wrote: > > I am looking for a bit of help, and please forgive me if this > is a dumb question. I compiled a Mandrake flavored kernel for a blind > friend of mine in Ohio that contained a patch to enable speech output > from the gitgo to his synth. It was a success.

Re: [expert] Who Is List Maintainer?(time for Sympa retirement?)

2000-11-28 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, bill wrote: > Keep up the fine cutting edge work folks but PLEASE could someone > address this issue, or tell us how to stop it on our machines > if the List is not able to track down the global problem? If you use procmail (which everyone should (: ) you can enter t

Re: [expert] Pine

2000-12-02 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Gary de Montigny wrote: > bill wrote: > > > > > > Dec 1 10:00:56 bonnie sendmail[13282]: eB1G0uj13282: SYSERR(gjd): Can't > > > > > create transcript file ./xfeB1G0uj13282: Permission denied > > > > > > > > > > Obviously this is a permission error. How do I correct this prob

Re: [expert] Attn: Civileme

2000-06-29 Thread David Mihm
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, root wrote: [ SNIP ] > [root@localhost bin]# cat /usr/bin/lspcidrake > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use lib qw(/usr/lib/libDrakX); > > use commands; > commands::lspci; [SNIP] Hehe, the output of running the 'lspcidrake' command is what he's after, not the contents of the script. T

Re: [expert] VIA vs Intel

2000-07-01 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Civileme wrote: [SNIP] > The KTX133 is something Intel has no equivalent for and is a A correction here: there is the 'Classic' KX133 VIA chipset & the new (which is referred to throughout this mail) KT133 VIA chipset for the ' "optimal" processor feature '. This 'feature' m

Re: [expert] Can Not connect DHCPCD failed Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-26 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Jeff Hoffman wrote: > I am having trouble connecting with DHCPCD with Mandrake 7.1. Dmesg > gives me a warning about both ethernet cards at IRQ 0. My PNP OS is set > to NO. lspci see the cards. and eth1 says it comes up fine. However > ifconfig only shows the lo device.

Re: [expert] Can Not connect DHCPCD failed Mandrake 7.1 [amended]

2000-08-26 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, David Mihm wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Jeff Hoffman wrote: > > > I am having trouble connecting with DHCPCD with Mandrake 7.1. Dmesg > > gives me a warning about both ethernet cards at IRQ 0. My PNP OS is set > > to NO. lspci see the cards. a

RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-03 Thread David Mihm
There is a new configuration tool for XFree86 v4.x, it's called 'xf86cfg' and is located in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg directory of the source code. If you have gotten an RPM of XFree86 v4.x and this is not included; the RPM builder has made a very grave mistake! On Sun, 3 Sep

Re: [expert] Procmail filter commands?

2000-09-16 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi list, > > Say, I'm setting up some additional rules in my Procmailrc filters and > there are some items I wish to specify on the "kill" list. Now the reason > for this "kill" list is so that the incoming message won't even be stored > as soon as the p

Re: [expert] Any kernel hackers out there?

2000-09-20 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jeff Groves wrote: > The last error lines were: >+ %make bZImage >/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6671: fg: no job control >Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6671 (%build) The reason you are getting this is, someone is not making the spec file correctly. This might

Re: [expert] "-- MARK --" in /var/log/messages

2000-09-20 Thread David Mihm
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > As you can see, these are logged every 20 minutes, and it's been > happening since the beginning of the machine. What causes this, > and can I or should I turn this off? > > Sep 20 01:52:31 rebel -- MARK -- >From the man page for syslogd:

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 on Mandrake 7.1 with RPM

2000-10-03 Thread David Mihm
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Alex Willmer wrote: > [root@bertha xfree-4.0.1]# rpm -U * > error: failed dependencies: > rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.1-21mdk > rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed by > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.

Re: [expert] Well, well...building the NEW XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.src.rpm

2000-10-15 Thread David Mihm
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, praedor wrote: > What I would REALLY like to see is someone on the list download the > src.rpm and try building it themselves. Preferably someone with an > athlon system, since that is my system, though that shouldn't matter. > > I just would like to know if ANYONE is suc

[expert] ALL md5sums for .imgs are incorrect on 7.2

2000-11-09 Thread David Mihm
This pertains to all the boot .img files on about 12 of the ftp mirror sites I have checked. The following is what the MD5SUM file contains: e9f8f5e202d7cf3afed3af22f3f058ba all.img bf4257ddb21098660136e14c0e3f9a34 blank.img 9cc12c693efe5f77463d509a92f0a0a6 cdrom.img 6488749a70b50c60221ff8d86

[expert] 7.2 and mysterious reboots - anyone else?

2000-11-11 Thread David Mihm
7.2 appears to simply reboot for no reason sometimes. I have had it rebott when attempting to compile programs manually. Is this a flook or is anyone else experiencing this behavior? -- | d a v i d @ m i h m | dmihm @ swbell.net | webmaster @ afterstep.org | ftpmaster @ afterstep.o

[expert] libpcap-devel-0.5-2mdk.i586.rpm left off iso

2000-11-11 Thread David Mihm
This 7.2 release is looking more and more like a coaster! The iso was downloaded from one of the mirrors listed off the Mandrake download page. -- | d a v i d @ m i h m | dmihm @ swbell.net | webmaster @ afterstep.org | ftpmaster @ afterstep.org | dmihm @ rchitecture.com --

[expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-11 Thread David Mihm
7.2 is listed to have # rpm -qa | grep gcc-2 gcc-2.95.2-12mdk yet there is a /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3 and not a 2.95.2 directory. This might be the reason behind gcc failing 9 out of 10 times when attempting to compile programs manually. Compiling programs is

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-11 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Anton Graham wrote: > Submitted 11-Nov-00 by David Mihm: > > It's also a shame that AfterStep wasn't included. :) > > In my local mirror of the 7.2 tree: > (%:~)- ls /mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-* > /mnt/mirror/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterSt

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-11 Thread David Mihm
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Jason Straight wrote: > use gcc --version to get the version of gcc it matches the dir then. That's not the point. Packages are labeled for a reason, and this package is not. It's just one in a string of sloppy things that are related to 7.2. > On Saturday 11 Nove