Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
to think for me. They follow the philosophy of C. Yes you can mess something up. But in doing so, you can also use the tools to undo it as well. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
and the sound system. If it doesn't that changes the avenue of attack. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 00:22, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:36, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 6:31 am, Jack Coates wrote: Well, I found that the problem is not with the sound card, thanks to you guys. Bjorn gave me a tip in the options cs4232 line

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
likely to break things than to enable them. Although there are cheats and shortcuts, as soon as you do it and set it up to open on Konqueror people will be complaining that they want firebird mozilla or some other browser. IMHO it's a a conflict avoidance tactic. James

Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
. The details from my efforts + a number of others have been combined into the TWiki http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade Know issues with the 9.1 to 9.0 path are here as well, hopefully everyone who contributed to this one was/is thorough. James Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
... Anton Anton. Don't use dialup ATT myself but I think the rpm you need is called gpppwrap just do urpmi gpppwrap and try it out. James Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't generally use gnome (and haven't tried it for at least 6 months

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
is evolution. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] problem with pio mode

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
of the details on the difference.) and you use one but not the other. james --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:12, Angelo Naselli wrote: Any idea? why 16 bit ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] angelo]# /sbin/hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount

Re: [expert] GCC

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
BAD English... In 9.1 it is 3.3.2 In 9.2 it is 3.3.1 Downgraded? Jarmo Jarmo, My 9.1 is at 3.2.2 dunno where you got the upgrade but the stock is 3.2.2 James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] GCC

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
... No worry anymore.Downloaded lm-sensors 2.8.1 as well as i2c-2.8.1 and got them working... Again sorry for bothering... Jarmo No bother... btw I've got the stdio.h from package gcc-3.2.2 hmmm curiouser and curiouser. James

Re: [expert] problem with pio mode

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:02, Thomas Backlund wrote: From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 03:32, Angelo Naselli wrote: So there isn't any problem is it? I saw this thing because of a system that seems to be slower and with more hd access so i assumed

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 12:07, Jason Williams wrote: Last question. Is there a way to get a package description of the available packages through urpmi? I swear I was able to do so, but dont recall how to do it now. :/ urpmi urpmc and then use it to find what's available. (Only in 9.2 att

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:53, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: cut In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. Looking at it now, I think diskdrake should suggest noatime as default when writing to fstab

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
uptime to 497 days then using a new form of math 497 + 1 = 0 . I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with a Honeywell emulation layer. (For those who don't know Honeywell(IFRC) mainframes had both -0 and +0, and although -0 = +0, (0-1) != (-0+1) go figure) James Want to buy your Pack

RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
of files due to heavy download traffic. He asks that we be patient. *grin*. James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:58 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 05:39, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Well, that concludes that Kde really is the culprit, doesn't it. But what in Kde? /Björn err... puncuation would help let me try again. What I see that you use that I don't are, iptables, shorewall

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 17:30, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 10:06 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Glenn Could I be so bold as to trouble you to do a cut and past of the above e-mail into a bug report? I'm quite sure you aren't alone with your problem. Thanks

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
to replace the drive. Console yourself in this one. The current record is 4.6 years and climbing. (A FreeBSD box.) So although it's nice. We pale in comparison. (I just took down one with 192 days uptime. Kernel upgrade.) James Thanks, Anne. I bit the bullet and downed the host machine

Re: [expert] /etc/hosts and dns - THANK YOU

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
. (all wireless connections with different WEP keys.) I'll post a neutered version of mine along with yours so that they are on the same page. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
and it works well, sndconfig has it in it's database and can get you up. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
for runlevel 5 for sure. I'm running the same setup as you 9.1 + kde3.1.4 from Texstar + reiserfs and don't have this condition. So something you have that I don't is doing it. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:32, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :) Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread, it would be nice to have a utility like that. /Björn The questions I would have (Yeah

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:01, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:32, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: well, it doesn't worry me, it's just annoying :) Thanks for trying. I'll keep an eye on your harddrive - top - thread, it would be nice to have a utility

Re: [expert] missing fronts from Qt3

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
. James http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
yeah it would be, but unfortunately I am not a student any more :-) I try to do bug reports when I get a chance, but I frequently don't get a chance. Jack, Watch the spinning ball You are getting sleepy you want to file a bug report *grin* James Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Printer margins in KDE on MDK 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
on properties up in the top right hand corner. The Second tab is margins. Click on the Use Custom Margins check box and then set the margins you need. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 23:43, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 3:48 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:28, James Sparenberg wrote: ... Well John, We ain't perfect, but we try and we welcome the fresh view of our corner of insanity (Why am I insane? I am trying

Re: [expert] X Font Server and Mozilla

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
.dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc 0 0 .dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi 0 0 .dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 0 0 .dir Yours may need/be slightly different but the above error you mentioned for me was from the loss of this file. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
and why could you submit a bug at bugs.mandrakelinus.com ... thanks. James -Original Message- From: Thomas Backlund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] shorewall From: Lawson, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 04:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me

[expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Resurection of a Dead LG Drive

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
the link Dead.gif to get the instructions and then grab the correct firmware from the same page as Dead.gif to get the needed firmware. And yes. You need to do it from a M$ box. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
the blueprints. The Programmer is opening and closing windows, and a kid who is riding by on his Bike suggests putting gas in the tank. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 04:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe hopefully, the disapearing menu problem in kde. Would anyone who can check, test and let me know? James Update, Per my question they are now

RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 07:48, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: If we've already run the update-menus, would applying this patch be a valid test? yes, Since the problem is there in both cases. Expect the new patch very soon as Laurent and Vincent are testing/porting it now. James

Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
on this as well (Vincent for those who don't know is the point man on release updates.) They seem to have it working for themselves, so hopefully it will for all of you. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Disappearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:34, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I thought so too (that's what the advisory said they fixed) but I still only get the three - blank screen, mandrake slide show and random. I've run update-menus -v and have no available updates listed on my Mandrake Update Center.

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 15:29, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:57 pm, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is effectively discontinuing the full-fledged hobbyist version of RedHat and splitting the userbase between Fedora for

Re: [expert] Re: Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
arrangements. :-) Thanks for the warm welcome! Well John, We ain't perfect, but we try and we welcome the fresh view of our corner of insanity (Why am I insane? I am trying to reconfigure the company sendmail *grin*) James

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
versions. urpmq --fuzzy samba will give you all packages that have samba in the name or description. I recommend reading the man pages for all the urpm* commands. Vox, Except for uprmq I would agree. It's perhaps the least helpful of all of them. It has some... but it's IMHO weak. James

Re: [expert] sylpheed: how to filter on body text?

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
that in sylpheed. Thanks for any help. Configuration - Filtering - Condition - Define - Match Type - Body Part (It's tough to *do* it and type it at the same time.) Not to mention that someone gets real upset that you aren't paying attention to them. *evil grin* James If that is not clear

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 package arrived - Qs and comments

2003-11-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 07:44, stefmit wrote: Hi, fellow MDK-ers. I may be repeating myself, but I am not as much of a MDK geek, as a network person trying to use (and paying for it!) the MDK solution as underlying system for my network and security tools ... this as an introduction (to point

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:16, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:32 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:45, Eric Huff wrote: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface APCI Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller errr APIC sorry. Now this is getting freaky. This thread showed up several months ago

Re: [expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad

2003-11-12 Thread James Sparenberg
sequence; but HTH... Other option is /etc/init.d/gpm restart This will cause the mouse drivers etc to be reloaded when switching. A crude hack yes. But it may be needed. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
laptop onto your network I will see your printers and be able to print through them if I'm on the same lan.) So although the approach is different the affect is the same in this case. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
lines if they are instead of whatever things go bad. Anything you put in will get stuff back. Then as the user (not root) do either update-menus, or if you want to see the output update-menus -v James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:53, Mof wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so it became obvious that it was a kernel problem, so I thought I'd upgrade to the latest kernel

[expert] Setting up cvsweb

2003-11-11 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Can someone point me to a HOWTO for setting up cvsweb. I have Apache installed and am using Webmin to administer it. The only thing Apache will be doing is hosting the cvsweb cgi. Many thanks in advance, James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
not the normal swap. James Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:05, Michael Holt wrote: James Sparenberg mused: There was/is one that was by many considered to be studio quality called broadcast 2000 You can find the files here http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/orphaned/broadcast2000/ in source form and If you go

Re: [expert] [dfox@m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com: hijack cont.]

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
will only work until he/she gets a new lease.) Or go to the IP number with a browser see if he/she is running a webpage and see if there is an e-mail address. James If the returned page is from some.remote.site, your server is an open relay... I've seen this long ago and suspected people were

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller ACPI is part of Linear Algebra and beyond my ken. *grin* James Thanks though, it works now! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: I think the others are more of an expert than me so they really don't care since they can fix most problems ASAP. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:08 PM To: Expert

Re: [expert] Presario 2700 ACPI

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
no matter what I do, even if I remove events entirely.) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:34, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:48, Michael Holt wrote: Artemio mused: I may not be right, but this can be something connected with ACPI. If in /etc/lilo.conf for main linux image you have acpi=off in append string - try to change

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:49, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:34, James Sparenberg wrote: ACPI is part of Linear Algebra and beyond my ken. *grin* James Yeah, thanks. I wasn't screwed up enough with just two definitions :) Glad I could add to the confusion. *grin

[expert] viewcvs

2003-11-11 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Can anyone direct me to a 'viewcvs' howto or give me a few pointers on how to set this up. Many thanks in advance, James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:58, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:50, James Sparenberg wrote: APCI Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller errr APIC sorry. James APIC AIPC ACIP AICP APCI ACPI I CNA'T TKAE IT AYNMROE!!! Does this mean I should avoid APM

Re: [expert] Need some docs on administering Mandrake systems

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
that has really helped me learn more about the system and specific tools. Cheers, Jason Great place to start (English or French) is urpmi.org. It's a project aimed at gathering all of the urpmi data into one place. James

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:44 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 05:53, Mof wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:02, Mof wrote: The rpm -e -nodeps suspend-scripts didn't work, so

Re: [expert] manually start / stop gpilotd

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
means read-only :-) Also worth knowing is that view is equivalent to vi -R (and quite a bit easier to remember) ... gview is the same as gvim -R, also ... just beware wq! will override the read only status of the file. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
or Harddrake? My laptop did this until I made a change in BIOS that allowed me to use two mice at once. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Real Player / Firebird 0.6.1 / Mandrake 9.2

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
that you mention above there is a checkbox to force the use of http. Since it works in the browser (this is an http transfer AFAIK) it should then allow the rest to work as well. James On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:38:38 +0200, Artemio [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
the libs in either /usr/lib/netscape/plugin or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugin/ Had that happen to me and had to move the files it created to the right place. James - Yahoo! http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/mail_premium/stationery.html

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
, working over the internet or lan. I've a couple of minor Man I wish type things. Like being able to declare multiple directories in a single profile but the truth is. It works and works rather well. It even backups soft links as a softlink, not as a file or dir. James

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 7:08 am, James Sparenberg wrote: partimage you do have that one. It's only a urpmi away. Fine. Is it well documented? Anne Yes, considering that I could use it. And I can top the thick headed list when needed

Re: [expert] movies, jpegs, etc

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
You can find the files here http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/orphaned/broadcast2000/ in source form and If you go to rpmfind or rpm.pbone.net you might find a src rpm as well. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
there. In other words if you had a second swap not in fstab (partitioned in size to about 20% over ram) That isn't listed in fstab then suspend to swap should work right for you. It's up to you if you want to experiment with this or not but if you have the disk you might want to use this. James Thanks

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
of 9.2 when it's ready to show him what RH could have been if they didn't suffer from NIH (Not Invented Here) syndrome. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39117575,00.htm James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
are worth being concerned about. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not alone in this feeling. So to all former RH users Welcome to Mandrake. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
here for a full explanation http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/multiple-x.html but startx -- :1 will start a second session on f8 then startx -- :2 would start on on 9 (only if one exists on f8 btw) The limit AFAIK is 6 X sessions (f7 - f12) mainly because of keys. James It works just like

Re: [expert] (OT)Uh..... Am I alone in noticing the insanity?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 15:49, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Fine. Do they all have root password available so they can do updates, reconfigure, build and install? These are things that are essentially handfed to windoze users. You click on an install button and app X is installed. Done. On

[expert] What happened to the Korean keyboard?

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Trying to setup 9.1 or 9.2 for my wife in Korean and what to my wondering eyes doesn't appear. A Korean Keyboard layout in kde. Any idea what happened to it or what I have to do to get it back? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
to a virtual terminal and type killall X this will restart X the way ctrl-alt-backspace does in all other Linux variants. James On Sunday 09 Nov 2003 9:27 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 10:04, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, bascule wrote: is there a way to get xtart

Re: [expert] mdk9.2 from bittorrent

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
-19-Download-3.i586.iso mine are the same. /inset Hope this helps. -James- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Problems, dma_intr, crc errors, crashing

2003-11-08 Thread James Sparenberg
don't do gaming it's a great source of cheap and new PSU's. James - Everyone should have http://www.freedom2surf.net/ __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 02:35, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 08 Nov 2003 12:45 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 01:34, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Nov 2003 9:13 am, Alexis L. wrote: Indeed, I have the same audio chip set, and after a few hours research, I

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-08 Thread James Sparenberg
/pmsuspend2 (which also doesn't work to suspend the laptop). grep -r shows that pmsuspend isn't being called from anything in /etc... oh for crying out loud... acpid needs to be restarted. service acpid restart. ... Jack, Are you having one of those days :D James Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Why does my sound not work?

2003-11-07 Thread James Sparenberg
that newbies are increasingly using the Expert list. Would it help to have a weekly message here as well? Any better ideas? Anne I'm trying to get it listed on linux Gazette as well as pclinuxonline. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-07 Thread James Sparenberg
, and it works wonders (even multi-sites at once). TIA, Stef ftp? why not use IPX too as long as we're talking dead tech. Anyway, freshmeat for ftpmirror. The real answer is rsync. Isn't draksync a frontend for rsync? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
/html? What's the deal with CNN? praedor RealPlayer and you have to pay to watch the video ... it's part of the RealOne program. Like ABCNews or many other sites like this. James - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail for a rock. The whole crew

Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
sworn that Real make a version of the real media player which runs under Linux --Dave Real Player 8 yes. But RealOne (RealPlayer 9) is still not here. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Konq/Moz Crash during Web Browse.

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi vs rpm

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
. You end up in the same place. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] On disapearing Menus

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:46, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:19:46 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:01 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: All, A while back a number of you expressed problems with disappearing

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 01:00, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: James Sparenberg schrieb am Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:35:13 -0800: 2. Just what does SuSE stand for, anyway ;-) No one knows *grin* Ask someone who knows ;-) *S*ervice *u*nd *S*oftware-*E*ntwicklungs AG (Service and Software

Re: [expert] On disapearing Menus

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:02, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:04 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:01, James Sparenberg wrote: All, A while back a number of you expressed problems with disappearing menu's right after installing a new KDE

Re: [expert] help - my box might be a relay

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
only guilt in this case is being in the other guys outhook excess address book. James I'm not a spammer but it seems that my mailing system (postfix) is misconfigured -- but I was under the impression that postfix was relay-proof. I have seen evidence though of some chinese sites

Re: [expert] Laptop X/different configs

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
resolution. This is not fun on a laptop keyboard (hint: numlock on, semicolon). Don't have a thinkpad but did see this yesterday on freshmeat. http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfg-thinkpad/?topic_id=146 It's a tool for configuring an IBM Thinkpad. James How do I configure X (4.3) so

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:22, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 06:45 pm, many eyes noted that John Wilson wrote: On November 3, 2003 08:33 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: OK, Guess what RH9 is the last Redhat distro to be released. At least as a free OS. http

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 02:23, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 03:33 pm, many eyes noted that James Sparenberg wrote: OK, Guess what RH9 is the last Redhat distro to be released. At least as a free OS. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1371164,00.asp For the article

Re: [expert] minor annoyance

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
. James image=/boot/vmlinuz label=mdk_linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent read-only vga=788 ^^^ your vga mode ... You should have vga=788

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
of MDK moving more in line with the LSB. and the developers recognizing that LSB is real and leveraging it. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
is that RH7.3(MDK8.2) is compiled with gcc2.9x and now it's gcc3.x The incompatibility is there. Remember that the distro's aren't Linux, but rather packagers of Linux. So they are subject to the problems there. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Novell acquires SuSE!! What does this mean for Mandrake?

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
. Strange times ahead . . . Comments? Anne Anne, Ya got me thinking. And it's true. The other funny part is every time they buy a Unix product it's in the middle of a lawsuit and ends up being owned by SCO *grin* James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Novell acquires SuSE!! What does this mean for Mand rake?

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
Not to disagree with a single word you said, but I read an strange one the other day. Seems that the #1 distro in Russia is MDK, or variants off of it. curious. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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