[expert] Harddrake and Drakconf problem with Cisco PCI Wireless Aironet Card

2002-11-12 Thread Nick Brown
? As, a seperate question, does the lan configuration tool in drakconf allow you to configure wireless cards wirless properties if it correctly identifies them as wireless cards? thanks, Nick -- Nick Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Clients can't connect to net through server

2002-08-28 Thread Nick Baker
, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] DIRECT DELIVERY and Postfix!

2002-07-17 Thread Nick THOMPSON
Have you set your mail client to use sendmail for sending, or to send mail via localhost? On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 13:02, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Jan Lentfer wrote: Tks Jan! but... The relayhost option did not work... I've tried all

Re: [expert] ejecting the tape

2002-07-11 Thread Nick THOMPSON
Isn't it just 'eject /dev/st0'? On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 13:54, daRcmaTTeR wrote: I don't know how to tell /dev/st0 to spit out the tape when everything is finished. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Kstars crashes in latest mandrake kde RPMs

2002-06-09 Thread Nick Brown
0x40fdc478 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x40a1f1fe in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 thanks, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] OT: gpg 1.0.6 trust probability

2002-05-29 Thread Nick THOMPSON
enough info into this key to make it work? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] need to have a bash script run as a different user automatically

2002-05-27 Thread Nick Thompson
What about: su - user -c other_script However, unless the first script is running as root, this will stop to ask you for a password. Nick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 May 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote: I have a bash script that get's called from another bash script. How can I get

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for locate other than find? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Finding files in MDK 8.2

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Baker
On Wednesday 15 May 2002 02:31 am, you wrote: slocate (the s is for secure) Terry Tremaine wrote: 1) Is there a reasonable substitute for locate other than find? WOW--I was wondering that myself! Thanks for asking (and answering) the question. Nick Want to buy your

[expert] Writing DVD-R

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
Can I write DVD-R disks with mdk? does CD-record do this or do I need some other tool? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Adding screen savers in KDE

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] gcc-colorgcc broken

2002-05-15 Thread Nick Brown
++} = /usr/bin/g++-3.1; $nocolor{dumb} = true; It would appear colorgcc is trying to use the wrong version of gcc. Think this is a bug and mandrake may need to issue an update. Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I can´t mount floppy drive?

2002-05-14 Thread Nick Baker
Kicho-- Try making the fstab entry for the floppy: /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  auto  rw,noauto,users,nosuid,nodev,sync,noexec  0  0 I think you are auto-mounting the floppy at startup, then it is busy when you try to actually use it. Nick On Sunday 12 May 2002 08:41 pm

[expert] DVD RAM/RW experience?

2002-05-13 Thread Nick Baker
Hi folks-- Anyone successfully set up a DVD RAM/RW drive on mdk 8.2? If so, which drive and what software? And, are you using it for backup? And what software for that? Tia, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Solved [expert] Can't write to floppy

2002-05-12 Thread Nick Baker
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 14:40, Nick Baker wrote: anyone had the experience of not being able to write to fd0? And John replied: Yes, I have had exactly the same problem. Turned out that the floppy was flagged read only in the bios. If I was a betting man, my money would be on the bios

[expert] Can't write to floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Nick Baker
drag and drop in kde because Could not write to /mnt/floppy/filename fstab entry is /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user.iocharset=iso8859-1.sync.exec.codepage=850.noauto 00 Any ideas?? TIA, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE3

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Thompson
In the end, LM8.2 did NOT ship with KDE3 in any form. Jump over to www.mandrake.com and KDE3 is mentioned in the news section on the front page. This links to installation instructions and rpms for 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 Krist van Besien wrote: Hi all, According to the Mandrake Website the

Re: Re: [expert] Ad Absurdum (was Linux for Kids)

2002-05-02 Thread Nick Baker
the buiding is inside-out) where you hope that it will recover. Problem is that some of the worst inmates are running the asylum. Sounds like the film, King of Hearts. Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2

2002-05-01 Thread Nick Thompson
and reselecting plain KDE (i.e. not the KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the upgrade on other users yet. Is it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 install is present? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?

2002-04-23 Thread Nick Thompson
www.microsoft.com/typography Mark Williamson wrote: I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-23 Thread Nick Baker
On Monday 22 April 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: Nick Baker wrote: I'm having no luck getting an instal of mdk 8.0 or 8.0 to run to completion on a dual processor Intel OR840 motherboard-based machine. If you think you can help I can send the details. Let's here more details, esp. where

[expert] Radeon probs w/Xfree--Was: dual proc intel 840-

2002-04-23 Thread Nick Baker
/Mandrake and Xfree86? TIA, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] adding new users causes X to restart on login - mdk8.2

2002-04-22 Thread Nick Thompson
in the terminal. Hopefully, one of these will show you a meaningful error message... Nick. Earle Jason wrote: Hello all, I have a problem adding new users to my Mandrake 8.2 box. I have tried using adduserdrake and userdrake, but to no avail. Every time I add a user, whenever they log

dual proc intel 840--was [expert] Quad processor and Mandrake

2002-04-22 Thread Nick Baker
Intel OR840 motherboard-based machine. If you think you can help I can send the details. TIA, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Matrox Genesis-lc

2002-04-19 Thread Nick Baker
Anyone have any Intel or840 smp mobo experience? I have 2- p3-800, 1gig mem, sca=50gig, Adaptec SCSI, Radeon 7500. Instal hangs at video config looking for fixed font on shutdown, all procs shutdown OK except Xfont, which fails. Ideas? tia, Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] FYI: All the draks you've dreamed of

2002-04-19 Thread nick
# ls /usr/sbin/*drak* /usr/sbin/adduserdrake*/usr/sbin/drakproxy* /usr/sbin/localedrake* /usr/sbin/diskdrake* /usr/sbin/draksec* /usr/sbin/logdrake* /usr/sbin/drakautoinst*/usr/sbin/drakxconf* /usr/sbin/MandrakeUpdate* /usr/sbin/drakbackup*

Re: [expert] Fw: Care to read...

2002-04-18 Thread nick
It's hoax, break the chain!!! http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/arlington.html -nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] i18n and KDE problem on Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-18 Thread nick
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US LC_ALL= Linux virtual console seems to respect this settting. But still, when I fire up startx, KDE is using Chinese fonts again! What am I missing here? Any help/suggestion is greatly appreciated! -nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

2002-04-11 Thread Nick Thompson
me for sending them on. I don't even have a way to disinfect myself after the fact. civileme wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my pristine MDK installation

[expert] OT: M$ Word on MDK

2002-04-10 Thread Nick Thompson
from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? I could backup each time I want to run it I suppose ;-) Or maybe I've got it all wrong... Any ideas? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Thompson
Uni-Processor, i.e.only one processor - not SMP. Brian Parish wrote: What does UP mean (apart from a familiar direction) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Default user paths in LM8.2

2002-04-04 Thread Nick Thompson
in their home dir, but I'd like to add it globally. At this stage I'm assuming all users are using bash. Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the file system

2002-03-28 Thread Nick Thompson
For my money I would use XFS every time. Its fast an recovers quickly from resets (damn that gnomemeeting junk ;) Its a problem with floppy boot disks though as the drivers are on the large size. But bootable CDs are fine for rescues. Dave Sherman wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 21:19, Mark

Re: [expert] LM8.2 Alcatel Speedtouch USB

2002-03-26 Thread Nick Thompson
:44 localhost net_cnx_up: Mar 26 07:39:44 localhost internet: Checking internet connections to start at boot failed Thanks, Nick. Nick Thompson wrote: I have installed LM8.2 over the weekend and so far everything works great. Well I think so, but the logs are not so sure... During bootup my

[expert] LM8.2 Alcatel Speedtouch USB

2002-03-25 Thread Nick Thompson
. The only other problem I had is that my VIA82cxxx sound would not work, so I put my trusty PCI16 soundblaster back in, which is way better anyway. 8.2 looks the best yet. Well done Mandrake! Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-18 Thread Nick Thompson
out that there where magnets in the tray tables, designed to stop them rattling during flight. As the disks whirred round, they where slowly erasing themselves. Unless your have a chassis speaker close to your drives, I doubt that this is your problem, but who knows... Nick. Ken Thompson wrote

Re: [expert] Check for zlib via rpm

2002-03-13 Thread Nick Thompson
a problem. Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-12 Thread Nick Thompson
That works better, thanks. With the extra output, I see that the third rule only relates to the 'lo' loopback interface, which makes sense. Kind of a flaw that iptables -L did not tell me this crucial bit of info. Thanks, Nick. Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: Hello

[expert] Bastille firewall setup

2002-03-11 Thread Nick Thompson
not sure what its there for. Also since Bastille is run at boot, do connections brought up later get protected or do I need to re-run something? Thanks for any help, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] /dev/dsp ownership

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Thompson
if they are in the audio group. I assume this is related to devfs. Is there a workaround for this (I'd like to retain devfs if possible)? More importantly, has it been fixed for LM8.2? I can live with it for a while if it has. Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Thompson
, but they might be okay. You might choose only one of /opt and /usr/local; I have my own rules which mean I end up with both (smallish stuff in /usr/local, big applications in /opt/appname Nick. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:52:26 + Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Dont

Re: [expert] Mirror / backup

2002-02-21 Thread Nick Thompson
(100Mbit Ethernet). Thats fully configured ready to go, with networking, printing, etc. It took longer to cable them up than install and configure the software! Nick. Rob wrote: Anyone got any ideas about making a disk image suitable for then putting onto new machines, a bit like norton Ghost, I

Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Thompson
output.wav. Now what do you get? Don't miss-spell and cause a konsole beep, since arts will reconnect for the beep and you'll have to wait 60secs again. Nick. D. R. Evans wrote: I remember way back in LM 7.0 getting sound to work using sox without any trouble. But things are obviously more

Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?

2002-01-24 Thread Nick Thompson
'artsdsp rplayer...' to wrap the applications in arts 'shells'. Nick. Oscar wrote: Try bcast El jue, 24-01-2002 a las 00:12, D. R. Evans escribió: What program do people recommend for recording audio? Specifically, if I am playing a RealAudio file through RealPlayer, I would like to record

Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?

2002-01-18 Thread Nick Thompson
=1 or something similar. No idea where I would but that though. Stock LM8.1 kernel install. Thanks, Nick. Franki wrote: Strange, I have had a MSI KT266A board with an AthlonXP 1800 running on it for ages now... not a problem, other then getting linux to use it, and once I got that sorted, all

Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?

2002-01-17 Thread Nick Thompson
to get the BIOS going (CPU clock multiple config). BTW try pressing and holding the power switch for ~4 seconds. Nick. Lee Roberts wrote: I recently bought a K7T266 with an Athlon 1.3GHZ CPU and 512 MB of DDR RAM. The first board wouldn't boot. MSI tech support said it was a bad mobo. So, I got

Re: [expert] 2 bad K7T266 mobos?

2002-01-17 Thread Nick Thompson
fine. Does your board have anything similar? I guess tech support would have talked you through this though. A lack of beeps just means the BIOS isn't running, which could be jumper configuration, bad CPU, bad RAM, bad BIOS or a bad mobo. Nick. Lee Roberts wrote: Nope. No beeps whatsover

Re: [expert] Jetway 866AS Ultra mobo

2002-01-14 Thread Nick Thompson
(Via KT266A chipset). I think I have whiplash from the speed that KDE starts up now :-) Oh, and the documentation sucks. No idea why, but don't set a CPU clock multiple !? Is there anyway I can get the board added to the supported H/W list on MDKs web site? Nick. I wrote: Has anybody tried

[expert] Jetway 866AS Ultra mobo

2002-01-11 Thread Nick Thompson
Has anybody tried this mobo with LM8.1? Does it work okay? Looking to get this, 256MB PC2100 and 1.0GHz Athlon this weekend. Comments welcome! Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] which gcc for kde3

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
is due Apr 15th) Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
to file as I will be capturing around an hours worth) Sorry this is not strictly a Mandrake question, but it is LM8.1 I want to do this on :-) . Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] recording audio from sound card at specified time

2002-01-09 Thread Nick Thompson
I've only ever used it on kde2. Search on apps.kde.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been able to get krecord to work through KDE2? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 8.1 - very unstable

2002-01-08 Thread Nick Thompson
Me too :-) In the MDK control centre- services. Deselect alsa on boot option. Reconfigure the card with sndconfig and reboot. Nick. Harold Hartley wrote: the sound mixer doesn't work properly until you do a modprobe of the sound card.. and I have been running a sound card thats been linux

Re: [expert] Nvidia issues

2002-01-02 Thread Nick Thompson
occur. Ring any bells? Nick. Johnc wrote: I have an Nvidia geforce 2 mx PCI card that has been causing full Xwindows lock ups to the point of having to do a hard shutdown. I removed the GLX and Nvidia module lines form my XF86Config-4 file and seem to have no problems. I know the drivers

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2001-12-19 Thread Nick Walster
, Mozilla 0.96 and Galeon 1.0 (with and without my proxy enabled). I use IceWM and not KDE. All under Mandrake 8.1 with all the updates. -- Nick Walster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2001-12-19 Thread Nick Walster
the // in http:// and the site info. You should not have to if you are set for anonymous logins to ftp sites. I'm set up for anonymous ftp, at least it works elsewhere. Attempting to override still gives the same error. Is it anything to do with me not being in France ;-) Nick Walster

Re: [expert] ldconfig and /usr/loca/lib

2001-12-12 Thread Nick Thompson
I guess you didn't run ldconfig first? 'ldconfig -v'? Nick. Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List, I've done it many times but now I don't know why it's not working. I use MDK 8.0. I've installed fftw and some libs went to /usr/local/lib. So I add this folder to /etc/ld.so.conf

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-12-11 Thread Nick Thompson
. However sometime a /opt is useful (on both Solaris MDK) since some packages insist upon it. In this case I find a link between /opt and /usr/local useful. (The real story on Solaris is much more complicated - but I won't bore you with that ;) Nick. Thomas Sourmail wrote: Everything I install

Re: [expert] problem with linux

2001-12-06 Thread Nick Thompson
How so? My laptop dual boots between Win98 and LM8.1. It has the same hostname in each boot and uses DHCP to get its networking details in both cases. If I hadn't told our IT department, I'm not sure they'd have even realised I'd done it. Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: The reason that companies

Re: [expert] remote display

2001-12-05 Thread Nick Thompson
I might be wrong but I think there was a special version of VNC that connected to an already running X server for remote display. I haven't heard of any way to do this using only X. Nick. Oscar wrote: Hi all, When I conect with ssh to a linux server, I can launch X apps and these apps

Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!

2001-11-29 Thread Nick Thompson
and upgrade, which leaves you with some spare time to use the excellent tools to reconfigure a few things. Nick. João Henrique da Silva Nunes Jales Ribeiro wrote: If you've seen a neat icon on your desktop refering to something called mandrake control center you should have already clicked

Re: [expert] Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix 775

2001-11-28 Thread Nick Thompson
? ;-) As an aside, with CUPS using gimp print and an Epson 870, I get stunning photo output that is at least as good as from windows and looks as good as a real photo. I use the Corel photo paint, which works well and is free too :-) Nick. Armin Roehrl wrote: Hi, did anybody get the Nikon Coolpix 775

Re: [expert] Mozilla Java

2001-11-28 Thread Nick Thompson
And it *has* to be a sim-link as well. I initially copied it and then spent a whole day working out why it didn't work :-( I don't think it actuall matters where you install java, the link is used to work out the path. Nick. skidley wrote: One thing I had to do was make a symlink: /usr/lib

Re: [expert] partitions

2001-11-23 Thread Nick Thompson
be worth saving. Also they may not - since executables in there may become useless if the libraries they use are changed in the upgrade. Nick. Luke Vandervort wrote: I have been running linux for a bout a year now and was just wondering about my partitioning. I am running mdk 8.1 and I have

Re: [expert] Heads up... Netscape 4.79

2001-11-20 Thread Nick Thompson
have to give Opera a spin. This won't help me for e-mail though. Nick. Pierre Fortin wrote: I've being *trying* to use NS4.79; but have just reverted back to 4.78. NS4.79 is the worst release I've seen to date... it crashes constantly. It messes up your mail *.summary files and if bad enough

[expert] X lockup with audio CDs

2001-11-19 Thread Nick Thompson
recourse seems to be the Big Red Botton (TM). Removing the CD from the drive during the reboot fixes the problem, but is not a very good fix for me. BTW I am using the latest (1541?) Nvidia drivers for X. Any ideas what I should be looking for or at? Thanks, Nick. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] cups again

2001-11-16 Thread Nick Thompson
linuxprinting. Nick Bill Kenworthy wrote: It appears that Mandrake 8.1 doesnt support my canon bjc620 printer. The drivers I have tried either dont work, or print 4 lines of ascii on a separate page as well as the page I want to print. I cannot find any of the Foomatic drivers used on Mandrake

Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?

2001-11-12 Thread Nick Thompson
think my GPU must outpower my CPU ;-) Install those drivers and I think you'll be very happy too. Nick. -Original Message- From: Jose Luis Vazquez Gonzalez [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT); '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Best Video cards for Linux?

2001-11-12 Thread Nick Thompson
Agreed, but what is your point? Installing from the rpms is easy (on rpm based systems) and the nvidia drivers provide much better 3D performance than the nv driver. Sure, you can use tar balls, but what is the advantage? The rpm install takes care of backing up the old mesa libs so that the

Re: [expert] SoundBlaster 128PCI - IRQ conflict

2001-11-05 Thread Nick Thompson
Usually, you will have to resort to trying the card in different PCI slots, until it uses the interrupt you want it to. Does your motherboard manual tell you which PCI slot uses which interrupt? I think IRQ10 on mine (P5A) is one of the two slots next to the AGP slot (IRQ11). YMMV. Nick

Re: [expert] re :telnet-server mdk 8.1 + other non working bits

2001-10-30 Thread Nick Thompson
Have you tried 'eject /dev/...'? it a PIa to have to start the cd player just to get the cdrom to eject, as it ignores umount.. Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Serious bug in linux (I think)

2001-10-29 Thread Nick Thompson
to root, so they have no business there. Nick. Arnold Troeger wrote: What are the permissions on the /home/user? I'm reasonable certain that all unixes behave as below. At least SunOS, Solaris, Linux, IRIX, and AIX all do. Michael Osten wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:19:25 -0700 Julia

Re: [expert] kmix problems

2001-10-25 Thread Nick Thompson
the trick. I will try uninstalling alsa completely to see if that helps, but does anybody have any other ideas? BTW kmix does have the correct mixer tab set up for my card (when the mixer is working, after sndconfig, it works just fine), but it says 'invalid mixer' again after a reboot. Thanks, Nick

[expert] kmix problems

2001-10-24 Thread Nick Thompson
, Nick. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Fw: 8.1 hanging on first boot - help!

2001-10-05 Thread nick
nothing is logged so I can't find out what is going on. My next step is to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysint to add more logging to find out where it hangs. If anyone can shed some light it would be great Thanks Nick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] floppy file system?

2001-08-20 Thread Nick
I know that this is not really on our topic, but I am about to start banging my head on the table Is there a way to format a floppy with ext2 or something that Linux will recognize and still preserve the long file names? Sorry for the trouble and thanks very much!

[expert] Re: floppy file system

2001-08-20 Thread Nick
Thank you! The only trouble is that if I use a DOS formatted floppy it dumps my long fine names. When I try to put them back as they should be they don't function properly for some reason. -- - Nick Registered Linux User #225209 _ Do

Re: [expert] programs loading on startup -fixed

2001-08-15 Thread Nick
Hey that got it, sure enough they were still open somehow. Thank you! On Wednesday 15 August 2001 10:00, you wrote: Fix: - Close the applications you don't need loaded at startup. - Open ksysguard and see if those applications are really closed. - Exit KDE activating the option Save

[expert] programs loading on startup

2001-08-14 Thread Nick
! -- - Nick Registered Linux User #225209 _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[expert] IDE CDROM problems again :(

2001-07-17 Thread Nick Thompson
, then putting the second in for the remainer of the install, it can't read the drive and aborts the installation. I'am using supermount with a default setup for a CD-RW (with SCSI emulation). Any idea how I can fix this? Thanks, Nick.

Re: [expert] FONTS im getting tired of this

2001-07-06 Thread Nick Thompson
in kcontrol-Web Browsing-Style Sheets. I guess there are other solutions, like aliasing bad looking fonts for good looking ones in xftconfig or else where. Nick. Kernell32 wrote: Hi i have fixed the fonts as suggested on muo and other pages yep my fonts in kde look very nice everywhere in kde

Re: [expert] X over SSH.

2001-07-06 Thread Nick Thompson
Take a look a www.cygwin.com. XFree86 has been ported to this setup and works on win9x and NT. Nick. Thomas Sourmail wrote: By the way, if there are some free X servers for W9x/Nt, I'd be happy to know !

[expert] Auto power down

2001-07-03 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, Until I upgraded to LM-Freq2 from LM8.0, my PC always used to turn itselfs off at the end of a shutdown. Now it just says Power down and leaves it to me to switch off. How can I reenable that feature. I have ATX everything BTW. Thanks, Nick.

Re: [expert] kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.

2001-06-28 Thread Nick Thompson
to mount. Nick. Oscar wrote: Hi. I recently upgrade to MandrakeFreq, kernel 2.4.5-5mdk I have a problem with cdrom units. I can read from cdrom, but when I change cdrom, I can't read the new (or the same) cdrom. It says Input/output error, and I can see in /var/log/messages: kernel

[expert] missing fonts

2001-06-28 Thread Nick Thompson
it with though actually looks really nice (no idea what it is, but its italic), but I'm still a bit perturbed by Linux not working as I'd expect. Any idea what's going on? Thanks, Nick.

[expert] Info on iptables?

2001-06-26 Thread Nick Thompson
Can anybody point me to a good source of info on setting up iptables? Thanks, Nick.

[expert] P4?

2001-06-25 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, Does LM 8.0 work on Pentium 4? I guess it does, but I thought I'd check before spending all that cash... Thanks, Nick.

Re: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.

2001-06-20 Thread Nick Thompson
Shouldn't that be: #include iostream int main () { cout Hallo world endl; return 0; } I think your prompt is overwritting your output... Could be wrong, Nick. Fabio Spreafico wrote: I'm getting problems, that never happened under Mandrake 7.2, in running compiled c

Re: [expert] Script question...

2001-06-18 Thread Nick Thompson
' (at least on my keyboard). Hope that helps, Nick Thierry De Corte wrote: I want to backup some files using tar in a script... How can I use the current date to create the file name? In other words, I want to script the command: #!/bin/sh tar -zcvf backup_jun18.tgz /some_dir

Re: [expert] CDRW Drive Addition

2001-06-11 Thread Nick Thompson
others a reviews. Nick. Ron Stodden wrote: Caleb Newville wrote: Ok, so I have the SCSI emulation working, and HardDrake confirms that. I would now like to know a good piece of burn software (KDE prefered). cdrecord is in Mandrake 8.0 and is very easy to use from the command line (always use

[expert] Problems with Junkbuster Webwasher

2001-05-20 Thread nick walster
to change the security level to something lower ( in kde) I don't think it's working as when I go and look it's always set to medium. I can access the internet OK via dial up (this is a standalone machine). I'm sure the fix is trivial but I'm probably overlooking the obvious. Regards, Nick

Re: [expert] How do I remove KNewsTicker?

2001-05-16 Thread Nick Thompson
Right click on the patch of texture just to the left of the news ticker and select the remove option. Nick. Hoyt wrote: I added it to he panel, but now I don't see any way to remove it.

Re: [expert] I'm confused... - no space lefdt on device?

2001-05-15 Thread Nick Thompson
don't exactly fit the final block allocated to each file. The discrepancy between the two measures is particularly high with larger disk blocks sizes and/or more and more small files (~= block the block size). Nick. Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I've got a problem here that isn't making any sense

Re: [expert] CD-RW doesn't work as CD-ROM

2001-05-09 Thread Nick Thompson
Larry Sword wrote: Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, I have A Ricoh 7060A CD-RW which worked fine under 7.2. I upgraded to 8.0 using this drive to read the CDs. cdrecord --scanbus sees the drive and HardDrake says it has two devices (ide: /dev/hdc - with unknown vendor [Vendor does appear

[expert] CD-RW doesn't work as CD-ROM

2001-05-08 Thread Nick Thompson
/hdc as well, but this just tells me that I should use the scsi device. The drive is detected, but (the driver?) doesn't work :-(. How could that be? The Ricoh is just a standard MMC/ATAPI CD device. I haven't check if cdrecord can write to the drive. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Nick.

[expert] Mandrake 7.2 Gnome Sawfish

2001-02-12 Thread Nick Cross
tool. I can still change decoration via right click on the title bar. While I can change the configuration as root these changes are not reflected in the user installation - I presume it is done on a per user basis? Any help appreciated! Thanks, Nick

[expert] X restarts 'lose' keyboard and mouse

2001-01-31 Thread Nick Thompson
mouse. Thanks, Nick

Re: [expert] Guarddog RPM problems

2001-01-30 Thread Nick Thompson
I don't think this is a problem with that specific RPM as I oftern seem to get the same problem when using rpm or Mandrake Update. rpm seems to get stuck at about 99.9% CPU basically for ever - I waited 30mins before resetting my box. Each time I retry I get the same result. Eventually I

[expert] MandrakeUpdate problem

2001-01-30 Thread Nick Thompson
to do all my updates manually :-( Nick.

[expert] Sound on a DELL laptop

2001-01-26 Thread Nick Thompson
I have Mandrake 7.2 on my DELL Latitude CP (233MHz) and it works well apart from the sound. Windows seems to sugest it is a Crystal PnP Audio System. Is there a driver available for this in Mandrake? Thanks, Nick.

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