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

2000-10-07 Thread Nightwriter
I was able to get 7.01 running on my box by installing the following. XFree86-4.0.1-23mdk.i586.rpm* XFree86-Mach32-3.3.6-18mdk.i586.rpm* (this one) XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-18mdk.i586.rpm* (this one) XFree86-Mach8-3.3.6-18mdk.i586.rpm* (and this one needed by my video card) XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-

Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde

2000-10-04 Thread Nightwriter
My goal this weekend is to build from the src gz files off ot the kde site. Maybe... Question though where did you find the error message. I'm not picking one up where I think I should be looking. James At 08:11 AM 10/4/00 -0600, you wrote: >Hello, > >I did delete the kde/pics direct

Re: [expert] Audio CD in 7.2b

2000-10-03 Thread Nightwriter
Hanven't run a CD Burner on Linux yet.  BUT I do know of an excellent resource potential.  Maximum Linux this month has a whole spread on CD Burners and the CD rom included is a plethora of CD burner software.  James At 09:43 PM 10/2/00 -0600, you wrote: I have everything working except the CD

Re: [expert] Problems with KDE2 login

2000-10-02 Thread Nightwriter
Sarang, Your right about where the bug is, Now I just need to be able to get it to work. I uploaded and installed the latest pam Now it does the same thing from login as it does from startx. It gives me the spash screen. Says re-initializing previous session and dies back to the logi

Re: [expert] Cannot Telnet - Message 2

2000-10-02 Thread Nightwriter
Had this problem on 7.0 and it's still the same on 7.1. Actually it's not a "problem" but a security feature. If you chose medium or above security on install (maybe even low I've never used it) telnet-server package doesn't get installed. This package contains the telnet deamon you need t

Re: [expert] Problems with KDE2 login

2000-10-02 Thread Nightwriter
Sarang, Well it went further seems that if you don't have Gnome installed before you install kde2 ... it won't let it run for some odd reason. I've installed the entire rpm set nothing recognized and it won't give me anything but the dang kde2 login window. sigh... off and

[expert] Problems with KDE2 login

2000-09-30 Thread Nightwriter
All, I've recently installed kde2beta4 from 7.2 beta on my backup boxen and I've got the following problems. If I try to login from the login manager for kde It keeps giving me login failed messages. When I login from the Console no problem. (Root all users etc) If I boot to init level

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Nightwriter
Paul, Sending this letter complete received it in the Mandrake expert group but haven't had a chance to check it out. Seems that helixgnome has a self updating feature. Not sure, but I'll try and check it out soon. James At 07:46 PM 8/9/00, you wrote: >Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > "Alan N.

RE: [expert] Sites for FTP/HTTP install (for UltraSparc)

2000-08-09 Thread Nightwriter
m sure someone will know. I've seen it done at an install-a-thon for some notebooks so it should work on a desktop. Nightwriter At 02:51 PM 8/9/00, you wrote: >I already looked there. The only thing it lists for Sparc is two sites with >the ISO image. The ISO image won't do me any

Re: [expert] rpm version and OpenSSH

2000-08-08 Thread Nightwriter
r but really didn't have a message it could give me so it just grabs the " nearest " one. (A recent attempt to build Mozilla on a FreeBSD box with a corrupt gcc compiler gave me the error "kernel not found unable to mount root file system" even though I had been booted f

Re: [expert] "No authorized users logged in"

2000-08-08 Thread Nightwriter
ccording to the doc's it's supposed to take care of that for you. Nightwriter At 10:10 PM 8/7/00, you wrote: >Does the lack of response mean that I won at "stump the band" here? > >"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > > > > On my gateway/firewall mac

Re: [expert] The worlds SLOWEST linux boxen

2000-08-07 Thread Nightwriter
Golf) and they run equally slow. I'm wondering if the problem isn't that with the Celeron, Inhell (spelling intentional ) removed the L1 cache and shrank the L2 cache. (also this is a PC book boxen) James At 11:54 AM 8/6/00, you wrote: >On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Nightwriter wrote: >

Re: [expert] The worlds SLOWEST linux boxen

2000-08-05 Thread Nightwriter
Anton, Thanks it's what I suspected but since I'd never tried lin4win I thought I'd give it a shot. Great potential, too bad it doesnt' work as well as windows on top of linux with vmWare. Thanks Nightwriter At 07:38 PM 8/5/00, you wrote: >Submitted 05-Aug-00

[expert] The worlds SLOWEST linux boxen

2000-08-05 Thread Nightwriter
. Windows however snaps on the same box. (only 50megs swap) Any ideas? Nightwriter

Re: [expert] kdesu is missing.

2000-08-04 Thread Nightwriter
At 02:41 PM 8/4/00, you wrote: >So, what should we do? This doesn't look as an optional >package, does it? Why does this happen, and what is the >RPM to install it from by hand? > > Marco Marco, the rpm I have installed is kdesu.0.98-14mdk.rpm hope this helps. > > > >Yeah, t

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-08-01 Thread Nightwriter
Mike, Challenge met NRZI Non Return to Zero.. Here are some links hehe http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/cn/book/node27.htm http://www.optimized.com/COMPENDI/FE-NRZI.htm At 06:37 PM 7/27/00, you wrote: >MFM is Modified Frequency Modulation >RLL is Run Length Limited > >They are descripti

[expert] Corrupt drive help needed

2000-08-01 Thread Nightwriter
on this one folks please anyone have a suggestion? Thanks for your help in advance. Nightwriter

Re: [expert] Mandrake netscape 4.74?

2000-07-31 Thread Nightwriter
The only people I've heard who have it are Jimmi Hoffa and Sasquach other than that we are on our own. *Large cheesy grin* Nightwriter At 01:32 PM 7/30/00, you wrote: >Has anyone seen the Netscape ver. 4.74 yet?? >I've seen the i386 version at losthope, and >wondered if it i

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-29 Thread Nightwriter
Yep Sorry, I missed seeing the I Nightwriter At 07:52 PM 7/28/00, you wrote: >Thus spake Nightwriter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Mike, > > Challenge met NRZI Non Return to Zero.. Here are some links hehe > >Isn't it Non Return to Zero *Inverted*? >-- >|

[expert] Corrupt drive help needed

2000-07-28 Thread Nightwriter
on this one folks please anyone have a suggestion? Thanks for your help in advance. Nightwriter

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-28 Thread Nightwriter
Mike, Challenge met NRZI Non Return to Zero.. Here are some links hehe http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/cn/book/node27.htm http://www.optimized.com/COMPENDI/FE-NRZI.htm At 06:37 PM 7/27/00, you wrote: >MFM is Modified Frequency Modulation >RLL is Run Length Limited > >They are descripti

Re: [expert] I'll be back

2000-07-26 Thread Nightwriter
Civilme, You'll be missed by all of us and are definitely needed... I hope someone sends his outlook a really nice love letter. hehe Nightwriter At 07:03 AM 7/25/00, you wrote: >Civileme wrote: > > > A political appointee has decided that he can't use kmail and

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Nightwriter
Mark It did, especially in Cobol hehe, The worst part was if you forgot to put the receive tray in the card reader correctly and all 500 cards came flying out all over the room funny as heck till it happened to you hehe.The most boring part was waiting for the output so that y

Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

2000-07-24 Thread Nightwriter
God now I do feel old, Does anyone remember the old floppy disk drives that looked like a stack of 45 rpm records Held about 1 meg of data, and sounded like a scram jet taking off when the spun up. (god help you if the case it was in wasn't bolted down when it started to do a seek ... it would

Re: [expert] backround processes

2000-07-11 Thread Nightwriter
y root can access /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm it would severely cripple the ability of most (not all but most) users from running any of these processes because they can't easily load them onto the computer. I realize this might not be an answer to what you need, but I hope it helps in some way.

Re: [expert] Remote Access of Root

2000-07-05 Thread Nightwriter
the prompt type killall -HUP inetd to restart inetd. This is what worked for me, hope it works for you. Nightwriter At 10:26 AM 7/5/00, you wrote: >On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Richard Fiedler wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:24:46 +0300 > > From: Richard Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTEC