Re: [expert] updates CD..

2003-03-26 Thread Paul Fotheringham
> Incidently, does anyone know of a way to stop MandrakeUpdate deleting the > files in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Hi, I asked this a while back and got some responses but mainly for urpmi from the command line. I looked at some of the scripts involved in MandrakeUpdate but didn't figure out ho

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-04 Thread Paul Fotheringham
> When I demonstrated with a stopwatch that > Mandrake was loading a full 30 seconds faster ... the stopwatch > settled the question factually and unemotionally in less than 60 > seconds. Less than 15 seconds. Not bad. Sorry, in the interests of lightening the thread I couldn't resist it :) Pau

Re: [expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Fotheringham
have success with the older 2.2.19-20.1 smp kernel! Does anybody have any idea what changed from 2.2 to 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[expert] MandrakeUpdate issues

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Fotheringham
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and using the graphical interface MandrakeUpdate. I have two questions. 1. How do I stop MU from deleting the rpms after they are installed? (I have a second Mandrake 9.0 box that I would like to update over nfs using the same rpms.) At the moment they seem to go to

Re: [expert] error loading libGL.so and libMesaVoodooGL.so "But it used to work three days ago"

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 19:57, Roberto Armenteros wrote: > Hi guys, I had quake 3 installed in my system for more > than a year, but just a couple of days ago I tried to > install other games and some libraries and when I try > to run quake 3 now I get the error. > > "...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: C

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate issues

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 05:23, Joseph Braddock wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:56, James Sparenberg wrote: > > If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch > > --noclean and it won't erase the rpms. > > I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to go into menudrake >

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 03:01, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > All Maxtor drives I have tried in the > past have failed the first day I used them, all with unrecoverable bad > sectors. For what it's worth I have 3 Maxtor 5TO60H6 60GB drives all working flawlessly so far. Two for over two years now and o

Re: [expert] Problems in shuttind down

2002-12-17 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 08:56, Stefano Pogliani wrote: > Just migrated to 9.0. > > When shutting down, the shutdown process FREEZES at a certain point with > the following error: > > unmounting NFS filesystems: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not > registered > umount2: Device or resource busy >

RE: [expert] Asus Mobo A7V266-E Rebooting Suddenly

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Fotheringham
If you did install it yourself then you may also want to check that there are no updates for the motherboard manual. The manual that came with our A7M266-D had the IDE activity LED wire going into the keyboard lock! Not until I looked through the updated version on the Asus website did I realise

RE: [expert] Any issues with Cyber Drive CD writer?

2002-04-12 Thread Paul Fotheringham
Hi Phil, I tried a cheap Cyberdrive CD-RW (CW038D) with a Mandrake 8.1 box and had absolutely no joy whatsoever. It may not have been Linux that was the problem but I'm not convinced. Couldn't get a test CD to mount at all never mind doing any burning. Tried tweaking the BIOS and disabling DMA bu

[expert] Dual athlon problem with kernel >2.2

2002-03-18 Thread Paul Fotheringham
o 2.4 that would cause this sort of problem and how to fix it? Is there simply something I need to compile into or remove from the kernel? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks. Paul Fotheringham Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com