Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:00, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:57, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 08:29 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Now I'll have to beat the Sparenberg drum - this clearly deserves a bug report. I can't do it yet, since I've just ordered my 9.2

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

2003-11-19 Thread James Sparenberg
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 with the mpuirq=10, and I got it up and running, but

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
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 06:47, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 09:24 am, Timothy Brown wrote: After you get it started now go to your browser and go to https://localhost:1 make sur you have https Right, I know how to access it manually. I was just wondering if I

Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:06, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed,

Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:48, anton wrote: I'm using kppp in Gnome. It takes an age to start, and won't minimise into the bottom panel (or if it can then I'd like to know how...), but can't see anything else even remotely as good. I think my experiment with gnome will probably end quite

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G

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
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 05:10, Jarmo wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 14:41, Stew Benedict wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jarmo wrote: Anybody know reasom,why gcc-3.3.2 was downgraded in 9.2 into 3.3.1? In 9.1 it was 3.3.2. It wasn't. 9.1 has 3.2.2. Sorry...Missunderstanding...My BAD

Re: [expert] GCC

2003-11-18 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:23, Jarmo wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 16:01, Jarmo wrote: The point why I started to look,was that I can't get lm-sensors 2.8.0 compiled...Yes I know there is rpm...But I have so exotic mb... Asrock K7S8X with sis cipset,exept sensors are winbonds... No

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
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:18, Eric Huff wrote: $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count

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
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, Eric Huff wrote: I had a similar effect some time ago on a SuSE box. In my case I could make that repeating disk access to stop by mounting that specific *reiserfs* partition with the 'noatime' option. Is there any problem with setting the fs to noatime? It

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
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I

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

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 1:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, For posterity's sake here is what I have done. Greg, I would say that should *definitely* be on the TWiki - would you oblige? Anne

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

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for the sound, it has a

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 09:38, Björn Lundin wrote: I have had the same thing at times. There was a thread on newbie awhile back. There was talk of it being fam related, and also just reiser doing it's job. See if you can find it in the archives: i posted the ?, stephen kuhn and others

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
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 17:09, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: It looks like the post-install for the 100dpi font rpm doesn't update the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1, but only the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.cache-1: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ rpm -qp --scripts

Re: [expert] MDK 9.2 upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:34, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 14:04, R N dev wrote: Same thing happened here with two systems... dunno why, but grub isn't bad so I'm not complaining too loudly. Ok, but it could be a bug and perhaps it would be nice to give feedbacks

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

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Tomas Rett wrote: Hi listers, I used MDK Linux 9.1 and printed in KMail and Konqueror well. The printer margins were the default values. I installed MDK LInux 9.2 and the default margins are all 0 cm . When I set my own margins, the setting are valid until I

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
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:02, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts, i have the following problem, i have not find the solution on the net, but maybe someone can help me. When i run mozilla sometimes, most of them when i´m on google, mozilla freezes, then it closes and send the following

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 13:45, Lawson, Jim wrote: Thomas I will Monday. I installed iptables and it works. 9.2 shore wall is broken. I did the same think I did at home for 9.0 in control center and it works. Just on 9.2 it's broken. Jim, If you get the problem even slightly pegged as to what

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
All, They can be repaired. I put the info in the TWiki as well here's the blurb. LG has put out information on how to correct the problem of a dead drive to to an MDK install. Got to LG's Website (http://us.lgservice.com/ ) Click on the Devices Icon and then choose cdrom from the list. Click

Re: [expert] postfix headers

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:23, Jack Coates wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:56, Michael Holt wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 06:47, Jack Coates wrote: you assume that they know what they're doing... many people in the IT world don't. LOL I'm working on the 'NMCI' project in Bremerton,

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
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:35 AM To: Expert List Subject: [expert] Disapearing menu's All, Just got a Note from Laurent with MDK that he's updated(ing) kdelibs to fixe

Re: [expert] Disappearing menu's

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:21, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 03:45 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: what about the screensavers? Should they be visible now? That should be fixed with the existing updates. And Vincent has been hoping all over Laurent and others on this as

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
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:38, John Aldrich wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:33 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:57:04PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 [...] Funny to see some old hands from redhat-list show up here

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:27, Vox wrote: On September 1993 plus 3725 days Jason Williams wrote: Evening everyone. I just installed Mandrake 9.2 via FTP onto one of our servers to test out. We are looking for a replacement OS for our servers. One thing I wanted to learn is some of the

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

2003-11-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 00:40, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:21:42 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: Hi folks, I am in a pinch: i have all of a sudden started getting all bounces from newbie (since i am listed as an owner to help with subbing

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
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 06:02, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:03:07 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: is there anyway to make the print drivers automatically pull down when you install a printer? Under windows Nt , 2k or 2003 server the drivers get pulled down automatically. Not really because the concept of drivers as you are used to in

RE: [expert] KControl broken after 9.2 update completed

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:24, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Who and how to tell? I'm really surprised that this isn't all over the message boards by now. Am we the only people having this problem, or the only ones who have done the upgrade? Is anyone from Mandrake following this list?

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

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

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager that your swap contains a corrupted system image and is unusable as swap. free will show you no swap

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
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:25, Phil G. wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:56:21 -0500, Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:09:44 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded: reviewing the logs, I have seen a large number of GETs in /var/log/httpd/*.log with

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
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 it to acpi=on and say lilo to re-install the loader. Or, if

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
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:54, Primero.Franz wrote: Hi all. I've got some problems with ACPI support on my Laptop, here is my setup: Compaq Presario 2700 Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-021mdk Iv'e tried with the RPM Kernel version , loading any possible combinations of ACPI-MODULES, and a

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

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
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:53, Jason Williams wrote: Hello everyone. We are in the process of replacing all of our Red Hat servers with other systems. One system we are strongly contemplating is Mandrake. What im looking for is some good documents that show how to adminster Mandrake

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
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:11, Bill Mullen wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:02, Michael Holt wrote: Ok, I ran /usr/lib/gpilotd and all is well. Now, what did 'file' tell me beside the fact that this was an executable file? I noticed that you

Re: [expert] Enabling a Laptop Touch Pad

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:03, Rob Blomquist wrote: When I loaded 9.0 onto my Dell Inspiron 3200, I did not connect the mouse, and the touch pad was working perfectly. Now that I have plugged in a mouse to the system, the mouse works fine, but the touch pad is a crazy clicking monster if the

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

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Artemio. Actually this is more complicated than I thought - Yes it is Real Player. When I run it standalone, it can't see the net, and can't load any of the channels from its menu. (Yes, the network settings in its options

Re: [expert] Impending drive problem?

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 21:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Nov 2003 5:23 am, Michael Noble wrote: It has been a while since I last dd a disk drive (it is best to make them the same type and size). Assuming that the old disk is /dev/hda and the new disk is /dev/hdb the following command

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

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:33, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I downloaded flash player 6 from macromedia download site and install it on mandrake 9.2. It used to work on mandrake 9.0 with mozilla 1.1 but not 9.2 with mozilla 1.4. Anyone get this work? Thanks, Make sure it didn't put the

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:25, t_gecks wrote: Another great sync tool to mention would be unison in my eyes. I've tried several and this has come out as the best for my needs, it synchronizes in both directions, presents you a list of what to do which you can edit and has the ability to sync

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
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:45, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, M$ has a somewhat new program called 'moviemaker' which you can download for free for winxp. I would like to know if there is something comparible for linux. I was asked if I could help with some video production at my church and

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

2003-11-10 Thread James Sparenberg
I've done with kmail. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use anyway ? And if acpi

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

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:27, Stew Benedict wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 06:57, Jack Coates wrote: edit /etc/acpi/events/lid and comment out action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend ACPI is attempting to

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

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Am I alone in noticing the insanity. As if SCO wasn't bad enough. Lycoris deciding that it can rewrite the GPL. Now the CEO of RedHat (or as I've heard of late DeadRat) is advocating that Home users stick with Windows as Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Maybe I should send the SOB a copy of

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

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 06:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:42 am, Jack Coates wrote: Anyone interested in this mess should have a look at this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33823.html They're trying to increase revenues by preventing use of their

Re: [expert] xtart and a new session

2003-11-09 Thread James Sparenberg
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 to start a session on another screen, a-la 'startx -- :1' Yes, by using Hans Updyke's modified Xtart script, myXtart: http://www.dimensional.com/~hansup/linux/xtart/ Or go

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
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 22:34, elPunishar wrote: hi all i just got the mandrake 9.2 CDs from bittorrent, but how can i check if these are the untampered with ISOs from madrake? i couldn't find md5 sums on the mandrake website.. ? tnx, lukas Taken from an earlier thread inset On

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

2003-11-08 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 05:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had problems with my computer for a week or so now, and have been trying to diagnose the exact problem. I'm not exactly sure what is the matter, but if I relate the symptoms I hope someone will be able to assist me. Initially I

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
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:28, Jack Coates wrote: 1st: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/reply-to check /var/log/acpid... I just checked mine and found something spooky, which is that it's still trying to execute /usr/sbin/pmsuspend and just failing because the file was renamed

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

2003-11-07 Thread James Sparenberg
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 eventually realized that the sound volume was set to zero in aumix.. We have to try to find a way of getting

Re: [expert] Draksync with subdirs

2003-11-07 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:51, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:33, stefmit wrote: I can't seem to be able to figure this one out: local structure: dir_1 file_1 file_n subdir_1 file_subdir_1

Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:36, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What format is CNN using for its videos? I try to view any of them and I get an error message: Sound server warning message: mimetype text/html unsupported for streaming Huh?

Re: [expert] CNN video clips

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:58, David Guntner wrote: Tim Sawchuck grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:50:56 -0700 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: This question got me curious so I went to CNN to look. I found that you can't view any of the

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

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:57, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have a Konq and Moz crash that really bugs me, unfortunately, I can't send you the site as it is an Outlook Webmail site, and is password protected. So don't even think about asking, as I am not giving my password out. Here's the deal: if

Re: [expert] urpmi vs rpm

2003-11-06 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:40, Rob Blomquist wrote: In a previous email Dr. Monkeynoodle spake thusly: 2 urpmi /the/rpm/you/got. Is there an advantage to urpmi-ing it rather than rpm -ivh-ing it? It seems to me that urpmi is just a searching front end for rpm. Fire away. Rob just

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
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 05:50, et wrote: do you run squid? On Wednesday 05 November 2003 06:23 am, David E. Fox wrote: hey - help! it's seemingly apparent that in the last week or two there seems to be an increasing number of mails of a dubious nature being sent to a large number of

Re: [expert] Laptop X/different configs

2003-11-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 04:11, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 03:04, Paul Kaplan wrote: I set up 9.2 on an IBM T40, which has an ATI Radeon 7500 and in internal LCD at 1024x768. At the time I set it up, I had an external keyboard (with a built-in trackpoint AND trackpad), mouse

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
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 04:24, Artemio wrote: after upgrading to 2.4.22-18 the nice blue screen disappeared at startup ( the one with 9.2 in the bottom RH corner) It still starts up as graphical lilo then drops to text mode. In order to have graphical boot mode, you need to have 800x600

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 08:01, Eric Huff wrote: This must be due to Mandrake's signing on to the LSB? Or is that something different? yup Would that be a yup to the LSB, or a yup to something different? I could be a real a$$ and just say yup here again. But it's IMHO a combination of

Re: [expert] Red Hat ends free product line

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 08:17, Artemio wrote: This must be due to Mandrake's signing on to the LSB? Or is that something different? Well, I didn't mean I had any problems compiling anything on mdk. I just say cookers must keep this good thing!!! :-) Maybe I'm not exactly correct, but

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

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 07:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 3:17 pm, Robert Fox wrote: Would it have been better if Mandrake were acquired instead? Can't help but think that companies that have been acquired by Novell in the past don't appear to have had a happy future.

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

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:02, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Franki schrieb am Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:46:23 +0800: That leaves Mandrake as the biggest contender in the desktop market.. possibly the only newbie friendly one left (apart from Lindows and Xandros, which don't have free versions to

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

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:16, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: James Sparenberg schrieb am Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:33:19 -0800: 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. We have

Re: [expert] Nows the time to Move.

2003-11-04 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:09, Brian V Bonini wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:02, James Sparenberg wrote: 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

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