Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Pete Jordan
n our absence. Pete Jordan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] useradd

2001-08-04 Thread Pete Jordan
DM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i dont think there is way to change the default > permission of created home dirs thru the config > files... Defaults for Mandrake are set by the security profile, no? /etc/security/msec is the place to look. Pete

Re: [expert] kernel modules don't compile...

2001-08-04 Thread Pete Jordan
DM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have you tried to compile using egcs 1.1.2 (gcc > 2.91.66)? according to the kernel docs, that is the > recommended compiler version. Yup. root@ponder: ~ # kgcc --version egcs-2.91.66 That's what the Mandrake kernel Makefile uses in any case. Parenthetically,

Re: [expert] kernel compiling

2001-08-01 Thread Pete Jordan
DM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but if you download the kernel source from kernel.org, > you will have to build .config yourself... i usually > keep a copy of the .config file from my last stable > kernel. Worth noting for anyone who doesn't know that Mandrake stuffs the .config file for its pr

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 FREQ and VMware, Mozilla etc.

2001-07-31 Thread Pete Jordan
Brian Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This version of vmware is supposed to support Mandrake 8 and the 2.4 > kernel. But is that 2.4.3 only? > Is there a problem with the 2.4.5 that comes with FREQ? Your problem is with vmnet which is a kernel module - I would not be at all surprised

Re: [expert] HOWTO - VMware under Mandrake 8 - SMP 2.4.3

2001-07-25 Thread Pete Jordan
Bill Beauchemin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is nice but i am still unable to get smp to work on my box. Im > almost ready to go back to slackware kernel 2.4.16 which ran smp just > fine. > > When I try to run the smp kernel that mandrake had setup on install it > goes through a few line

[expert] HOWTO - VMware under Mandrake 8 - SMP 2.4.3

2001-07-24 Thread Pete Jordan
This is by way of helping others not to go through the struggle I went through on Monday :) It *can* be done, but it's not exactly intuitive... First of all, you need the latest VMware (2.0.4) which at least has built in base support for SMP 2.4.3. It doesn't have a compatible vmnet module th

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

2001-05-04 Thread Pete Jordan
Joshua Rodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think KDE tries to "help" us here by tweaking the X server input > settings from its own configuration file. Try going into the KDE > control panel and poking around there. No KDE on this box, but anyhow, as of today it's started working again. I di

Re: [expert] keyboard repeat gone...

2001-05-01 Thread Pete Jordan
Joshua Rodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens if, as root, you simply run '/sbin/kbdrate -r 30.0 -d 250'. > Does this bring back your repeat? Does it stick when using vmware and > leaving it again? Well, if I do that, I don't even get autorepeat in the Eterm I typed the command into.

[expert] keyboard repeat gone...

2001-04-30 Thread Pete Jordan
Some time since last night my keyboard repeat has gone... I'm baffled - I've been running 8.0rc1 since it appeared, and have been up and logged in for 16 days without problems. Symptoms are, well, no auto-repeat. If I change keyboard settings in the Gnome config tool and hit "Try", auto-repeat

[expert] rpmdrake and urpmi: The perils of incremental upgrading...

2000-12-28 Thread Pete Jordan
gz writing /var/lib/urpmi/depslist.ordered writing /var/lib/urpmi/provides writing /var/lib/urpmi/compss So. It appears I possibly need new copies of the hdlist.*.gz files and I certainly need a means of generating source data from which rpmdrake *can* build a groups list. Help? :) Pete Jordan

Re: [expert] Mozilla and Personal Security Mangler

2000-12-20 Thread Pete Jordan
it will work out of the box. Pete Jordan

Re: [expert] Chinese fonts in Netscape?

2000-12-18 Thread Pete Jordan
and thus presumably NS6, displays Chinese/Japanese ideograms without any extra configuration at all. Not that I can read them, but hey... Pete Jordan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Ethernet lockup problem; possibly Samba and vmware related

2000-12-17 Thread Pete Jordan
ves? Oddly enough... :) Current incumbents in this box are an ST38420A, a Maxtor 84320D4 and an IBM-DTLA-307030. Is there a known problem with Maxtors? Thanks for your help, Pete Jordan Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Ethernet lockup problem; possibly Samba and vmware related

2000-12-11 Thread Pete Jordan
Ethernet frame, status 2e0088! from the RealTek, which seems suspicious to say the least. Any suggestions on how to proceed from here gratefully received :) Pete Jordan Possibly useful info: root@ponder: /var/log # lsmod Module Size Used by vmnet