[expert] What does it take to build koffice-1.1beta?

2001-04-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded the src.rpm for koffice-1.1beta from the cooker directory. I am running Mandrake 8.0. I try to build it and it ALMOST completes but then craps out with: Processing files: koffice-devel-1.1-0.beta1.1mdk Finding Provides: (using /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides)... Finding Requires:

Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have StarOffice 5.2 and have used it extensively. It is a good package but it is HUGE. It's one fault is simply that it has everything built into it so that when you start staroffice, you aren't simply starting the wordprocessor, but you are also starting the spreadsheet app, the graphics

[expert] One Mandrake 8.0 problem - kdm

2001-04-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
My mandrake 8.0 system is pretty much running perfectly. The only problem I have so far is the kdm login manager displays not just users but all ALL the services on the system. What/where is the file that I need to edit to eliminate everything except real users? -- Against stupidity, the

[expert] Supermount only possible for root

2001-04-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have a ppa zip drive and 2 cdroms setup with supermount. Only root is able to mount them. How do I correct this so that I, as a user, can mount the zip and cdroms? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Explain this please Mandrake

2001-04-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
Why is it that the default window environment in Mandrake is KDE but the mandrake config tools are based on gtk? I cannot do anything with DrakConf because: [root@localhost praedor]# DrakConf.real new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf.real line 212. A system based

[expert] What's THIS now?!

2001-04-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just rebuilt a kernel (2.4.3-19mdk) after having built 3 previous kernels (2.4.3-10mdk) without ANY problems. I did: "make xconfig make clean make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install" Same as always. The kernel builds just fine but when it comes to installing, the

[expert] Almost home - resolution is too high

2001-04-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, it looks like I have finally gotten DRI working. The problem is the default X resolution is too high. I would like to set it lower, to 1024x768, but if I use any of the tools supplied by Mandrake to do this, it screws everything up and sets the system up to use the original XFree86

Re: [expert] Someone from mandrake want to toss me a bone?

2001-04-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
est poking around in /etc/sysconfig. For your kernel, i would suggest installing it from source, as opposed to rpm. And for drakconf, i don't have anything to suggest. ?, j --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I really need some help here. I built kernel-2.4.3-17m

[expert] How dost one change from rpm-3.x to rpm-4.x?

2001-04-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am presently in the late process of rebuilding my system. I reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 and am now upgrading beyond 7.2, but not quite to 8.0. I am trying to do this cleanly and systematically. I am about to switch to glibc2.2, rebuild my kernel, rebuild XFree86, and then, I would like to

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 kernel-2.4.3-17mdk is NOT working!

2001-04-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
Gah! I am going crazy with the multitude of problems that apparently exist in Mandrake Cooker right now (I KNOW it is beta but until now I have NEVER had so many problems with Cooker stuff). Among the MANY problems: drakx software doesn't work. Period. I open up DrakConf and try to do

[expert] where does install_any.pm come from?

2001-04-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
One of the major components to all my Mandrake Cooker problems appears to be the lack of install_any.pm. From what rpm (I believe it must one of the perl rpms) does install_any.pm come from? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Someone from mandrake want to toss me a bone?

2001-04-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I really need some help here. I built kernel-2.4.3-17mdk without any problem using essentially the same settings as a successful build of 2.4.2-20mdk. Kernel-2.4.3-17mdk will NOT bootup. It gives a kernel panic about not being able to mount root device "306" or 03:06, and states that I

Re: [expert] Someone from mandrake want to toss me a bone?

2001-04-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
on of your printer or your kernel. For your printer, i would suggest poking around in /etc/sysconfig. For your kernel, i would suggest installing it from source, as opposed to rpm. And for drakconf, i don't have anything to suggest. ?, j --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I really

[expert] More Cooker problems

2001-04-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I now find that I cannot do a "make xconfig" in Cooker. If I do, it craps out with: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in

[expert] No colors?!

2001-04-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
It appears that the source of one of my problems with MANY things in cooker is colors. If I try to build a kernel and start with the "make xconfig", it craps out because it cannot understand simple colors (black, gray, etc). If I try to run xf86cfg, it craps out because it cannot figure out

[expert] Since upgrading from KDE 2.1 to 2.1.1 - menu problems

2001-04-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I upgraded to kde 2.1.1 and now my menus in kde are all messed up. If I start kmenuedit, anything I do there has no effect on my menus. The only way I am able to alter/edit my kmenu is to copy files from /usr/share/apps/applnk.kde into $HOME/.kde/share/applnk. If I start kmenuedit, it

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 kde-2.1.1 menudrake doesn't work

2001-04-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I installed KDE 2.1.1 and all works except the kmenu and kmenuedit. After the install, kmenu was essentially empty with only rudimentary entries like bookmarks, recent documents, run, etc. I finally managed to get the rest of the kde and other stuff into the kmenu by copying

[expert] DrakConf doesn't work in Mandrake 8.0

2001-04-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been trying to get cups and printing to work in Mandrake 8.0/cooker. No go. I cannot connect to my cups server though it is running. I try to run DrakConf to setup my printer and go from there. No go, DrakeConf doesn't work AT ALL. I get the window with the icons OK but no matter

[expert] test - don't read

2001-04-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
test -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] KDE 2.1.1 broke my setup

2001-04-10 Thread Praedor Tempus
Nice. I upgraded to kde 2.1.1 and it broke my setup. No Kmenu, no Kcontrol (if I start it, there are no modules). I deleted my .kde directory in hopes that logging back in would fix all of it. Nope, nothing. What is the fix? Without the menu items, I may as well be using the most

[expert] So...what is the verdict on KDE 2.1.1

2001-04-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
For those who have upgraded to KDE 2.1.1, what is the general verdict? Does it fix more than it breaks or does it break more than it fixes? Are any new problems well offset by improvements? I have all the rpms but am still hesitant to install them having read a number of posts here and

Re: [expert] So...what is the verdict on KDE 2.1.1

2001-04-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, I have 2.1 and aa fonts but the problem is that adobe fonts are royally screwed in rendering. Windows fonts, and any fonts except Adobe MM fonts are real nice. The ONLY fixed font available/allowed is an adobe font which doesn't display well at all. Like all adobe fonts under QT 2.3.0

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Most assuredly yes. About half the time I start the bastard up, it locks and I have to do the kill -9 thing and try again. On Friday 06 April 2001 09:20, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Netscape Communicator 4.76 locking up and taking %99 CPU time? I have to

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
I use konqueror for most browsing but... Konqueror doesn't handle javascript as well as netscape does. There are some sites I frequent that require javascript work to make the website useful and konqueror just wont do it (my M$ outlook email interface at work is one such page that doesn't

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
One website that konqueror (at least on my system - Mandrake 8.0) can't handle is the DRI website. What happens: First off, the page is misrendered in text if I select any of the links to other DRI pages (the main page is OK). The problem is parts of the text overwrite each other so as to

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Here is the link to the Direct Rendering page: http://dri.sourceforge.net For an example of the problem select the Documentation link, then choose either the User Guide link or the DRI Compilation Guide link. Scroll down the page and you should find that some of the text on the page is

Re: [expert] Netscape Locking Up

2001-04-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
Actually, now that I think about it, the problem may well lie with the fact that I have font antialiasing enabled with qt-2.3.0 in KDE. It works well for most things but some fonts are totally screwed. As for the DRI site...the package is NICE. I have an ATI Radeon 32 DDR video card that I

Re: [expert] Cant mount Root FS

2001-03-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
My /dev/hda primary partition, like many of you no doubt, is vfat with windoze on it. I have found that if I build a kernel (2.4.x) without including fat and vfat IN the kernel, then I get the "kernel panic, cannot mount root fs" message. This has happened to me several times lately and in

Re: [expert] WYSYWYG for latex under linux

2001-03-31 Thread Praedor Tempus
You can save files as latex from lyx (do not use klyx, it is major broken and no longer in development). Also, the output of lyx is text as well. Try it. Save a lyx file and then open it in a text editor. Beyond that, I know of no WYSIWYG editor for latex. Lyx is a "WYSIWYM" app, meaning

[expert] what has become of mandrakeupdate?

2001-03-29 Thread Praedor Tempus
I recently downloaded the mandrakeupdate src rpm for mandrake 8.0 (cooker), built it and installed it. There is no mandrakeupdate in it despite the name. There is only grpmi. In the i586 binary directory there is also mandrakeupdate rpm. What has become of it? I cannot run mandrakeupdate

[expert] Printing problems with KDE 2.1 and cups/kups

2001-03-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running KDE 2.1 with cups-1.1.6, kups-1.1-4mdk, qtcups-2.1-7mdk. I have an Epson Color Stylus 600. I can startup and testprint from kups as superuser/root but if I try this as a user, kups freezes up and bogs down my whole system - kpm indicates in the neighborhood of 99% CPU usage.

Re: RE: [expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration

2001-03-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I saw the announcement and now await a Mandrake src.rpm so I can build it. The alternative is to download the DRI stuff directly from sourceforge and build/install it. I am also thinking about that. On Monday 19 March 2001 11:58, Jim Dawson wrote: You can check to see if DRI is enabled in

Re: [expert] Trouble Compiling 2.4.2 kernel

2001-03-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
In have built many a kernel, first using the app called "buildkernel", which is quite nice, and more recently the more manual way. I have now built a number of 2.4.x kernels, once accidently toasting my backup original 2.2.17 kernel, but luck was with me because my 2.4.2 builds were fine and

[expert] cups and kde totally screwed

2001-03-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running a nearly Mandrake 8.0 beta system (kernel-2.4.2, XFree86-4.0.2, glibc2.2) with kde 2.1, qt-2.3.0, cups-1.1.6-14mdk, kups-1.1-4mdk and qtcups-2.1-7mdk. My problem is that I can run kups as root and printout a test page just fine. If I try to run kups as a user and select my one

[expert] Any way to fix KEdit and kwrite with aa?

2001-03-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
Since going with qt 2.3.0 and antialiasing, I have had to quit using both kedit and kwrite. I have also lost the ability to view text files in konqueror. With the editors, if I type the text is invisable and starts out too high in the window so that it is actually partially underneath the

[expert] ATI Radeon - hardware acceleration

2001-03-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
I recently replaced my Matrox Mystique 220 and VoodooII card with an ATI Radeon 32MB DDR AGP card. It appears to be setup properly (X works fine, I have nice screen resolution, bootup messages indicate the Radeon is recognized) but I don't seem to get hardware opengl acceleration. I have

[expert] AA fonts and kedit or kwrite or txt files

2001-03-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am generally pleased with the antialiasing from qt2.3.0 in kde2.1 but I am having problems with kedit and kwrite that appears associated. The problem is that the actual text in the app window is shifted upward beyond the menu bar at the top (the cursor resides partially under the menu bar)

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
wrote: Praedor Tempus schrieb: no, it should work right out of the box. I must say that my system has been totally dicked up by the switch to qt2-2.3.0. This only affects kde apps. Most of my kde app menus are messed up, with the menu widgets being totally screwed vs the text

[expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
I recently added a sony atapi cd-rw drive to my 7.2/8.0 system. I have read the howto on this subject and as a result, recompiled my kernel to support scsi emulation and then added 'append="hde=ide-scsi"' to my lilo.conf file for the new kernel. Now, I see no evidence that the CD-RW drive

Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 16:10, Larry Marshall wrote: Now, I see no evidence that the CD-RW drive is being seen as "scsi" so I still am unable to burn any CDs with it. Did you do: cd /dev rm cdrom2 ln -s scd0 cdrom2 Hello and thank you, but something is still not right. I have the

Re: [expert] CD-RW - how do I get it working?

2001-03-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
Replying to myself...I worked it all out about 5 minutes after posting this message. I have both my CDROM and CDRW now recognized as scsi and both cdrtoaster and xcdroast recognize them properly. On Tuesday 13 March 2001 21:52, Praedor Tempus wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2001 16:10, Larry

[expert] Danger Will Robinson! Do NOT switch to qt2-2.3.0

2001-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Mandrakites, Do NOT switch to qt2-2.3.0 in hopes of having antialiased fonts. It will completely dick up your kde usability. The fonts DO look nice but there are side-affects that render kde 2.1 unusable. All my window menus are compressed or distorted to the point that no menu is usable.

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
: Praedor Tempus schrieb: no, it should work right out of the box. I must say that my system has been totally dicked up by the switch to qt2-2.3.0. This only affects kde apps. Most of my kde app menus are messed up, with the menu widgets being totally screwed vs the text in them

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Saturday 10 March 2001 03:23, you wrote: Expert User schrieb: can you post instructions/pointers about how to compile XF86 4.0.2 with AA support for mandrake? that would be great! Do I have to compile WHOLE KDE again to get AA enabled?? no, it should work right out of the box. I

[expert] No xforms for mandrake?

2001-03-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Downloading and trying out some of the (skimpy) statistics apps available for linux, I find that one package requires xforms. Turns out, Mandrake doesn't supply xforms - unless it is under a totally bizarre name. IS there an xforms package for mandrake? -- Against stupidity, the gods

Re: [expert] How do I set up Kmail to follow links?

2001-03-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
This is an annoyance that has yet to be fixed in KDE. For some reason, konqueror is not, by default, at the top of the html applnk list. To fix this, simply open up Control Center, go to File Browsing, go to Text, then to html. In the large window you will see only Quanta listed. You now

Re: [expert] qt2.3 rpms for 7.2

2001-03-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Nice! I was going to build it myself but yours do fine. It looks REAL nice to have antialiased fonts (finally). Fortunately, I already had XFree86-4.0.2 built and installed...and it works just fine with qt-2.3.0 antialiasing. On Friday 09 March 2001 19:03, you wrote: I've compiled rpms

Re: [expert] best video card for Linux?

2001-03-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
Matrox cards are well supported. Voodoo cards are well supported. ATI cards are well supported. Nvidia cards are well supported but you must acquire drivers extraneously. I just ordered an ATI Radeon AGP 32MB DDR based on the fact that XFree86-4.0.2 now contains support for this card. I

[expert] Problem with konqueror user agent, kde 2.1 final

2001-03-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am having a problem with the user agent for konqueror in kde 2.1 final. If I am doing something wrong I would appreciate a notice to that effect. I find that the user agent doesn't work for me at all. I go to the user agent page in Control Center or from the settings menu item in konqueror

Re: [expert] PC - to - Phone

2001-03-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
I was involved in the original discussion on this topic. Dialpad doesn't work as is because it pointlessly queries the user system to make sure it is running windows. If it is not running windows, an error message is presented (even though it is strictly java - and not a perverse M$ java).

[expert] Voodoo2 no longer usable with modern linux?

2001-03-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
Until recently, I have been quite happy with my obsolete but perfectly useable voodoo2 card. Since upgrading to a 2.4.x kernel and XFree86-4.0.x, however, I find that I cannot use the card. I have the 3dfx device driver source and have built it with my updated system but it doesn't work -

[expert] Voodoo2 no longer usable with modern linux?

2001-03-05 Thread Praedor Tempus
Until recently, I have been quite happy with my obsolete but perfectly useable voodoo2 card. Since upgrading to a 2.4.x kernel and XFree86-4.0.x, however, I find that I cannot use the card. I have the 3dfx device driver source and have built it with my updated system but it doesn't work -

Fwd: Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Just a bit more info on the segfault...the actual message is /usr/bin/qcad: line 3: 7006 Segmentation fault ./qcad "$@" -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1 Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:14:06 -0700 From: Praedor Tempus [EMAIL

Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Qcad worked fine before but now segfaults. I was using glibc2.1.3, qt2-2.2.3, XFree86-4.0.1. Now I have glibc2.2.2, qt-2.2.4, and XFree86-4.0.2-7mdk. There is also the glibc2.1 compat libs installed. Qcad build just fine, without complaint, but trying to run it...sometimes I will get the

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Perhaps I am misunderstanding here but don't you get the information you desire by using nslookup? On Sunday 04 March 2001 09:43, you wrote: That's true, Mark. And you know, i'm much less of a Windows basher than i used to be, especially with 2000, but still i just don't want to have to move

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
What happens if you run traceroute on that ip address? The next to last hop should be the nameserver or router under which your target resides. On Saturday 03 March 2001 10:47, you wrote: This might be a bit off-topic (well ok it is). If i have the ip address of a host that has been, say,

[expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1, qt-2.2.4?

2001-03-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just upgraded my Mandrake system to glibc2.2 (with the glibc2.1 compat libs too), kde-2.1 final. All built and installed fine, including qcad, but whenever I try to run it, it segfaults. The qcad version I am having problems with is qcad-1.4.1. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves

[expert] glibc2.2 and glib2.1 compat libs

2001-03-03 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am now upgraded to glibc2.2. I also installed the glibc2.1 compat libs (from Cooker) which, I believe, installs into /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib. I compiled and installed qcad-1.4 from cooker sources but trying to install the binary rpm, I get a dependency problem: failed dependencies:

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
It is not a good idea to just delete directories. Your RPM database will still think all of that stuff is installed. Startup and login to the command line (Runlevel 4? Or is it 3? You could also do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login there and do the the rest of this from there. Not sure what happens

Re: [expert] Removing Xwindows

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
It is not a good idea to just delete directories. Your RPM database will still think all of that stuff is installed. Startup and login to the command line (Runlevel 4? Or is it 3? You could also do a Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login there and do the the rest of this from there. Not sure what happens

[expert] Mandrake, qt-2.2.4, and xft antialiasing of fonts

2001-03-02 Thread Praedor Tempus
So, qt 2.2.4 supports certain fonttype antialiasing. Does anyone know if the Mandrake Cooker qt-2.2.4 has xft enabled by default if one compiles the src? -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] KDE 2.1 final...nice, RPM-4.0?

2001-03-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
Last night I finally completed the compilation and installation of kde2.1-1mdk src rpms. So far, all is working superbly. Very nice. One minor detail...when one right-clicks on the panel and gets the little menu which has one entry for "Settings". Selecting this item (with the intent of

[expert] Problem with kde 2.1 final...menudrake doesn't work

2001-03-01 Thread Praedor Tempus
Menudrake is not working properly. I have lyx, abiword, and several other office apps installed. I can run them from the commandline. I open up menudrake and it is listed there but when I actually look at the kmenu, NONE of them are there. I open up menudrake again, load user

[expert] KDE 2.1 final and rpm-4.0

2001-02-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am in the final portion of rebuilding kde-2.1-1mdk src rpms for my Mandrake 7.2 (ish) system. I am doing this after upgrading to glibc-2.2. All is going well, so far as compiling and installing goes (we'll see after trying to restart the whole shebang afterward). I also downloaded, built,

Re: [expert] New Majordomo mandrakeusers help list

2001-02-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
Do you know of any compelling reason to upgrade from 2.4.1-15 to 2.4.2? I am running 2.4.1-16mdk and seem to only see a few network cards and the like added to the supported list in the 2.4.2 kernel. I don't think there is any improvement to any of the internals, really, or am I wrong? On

[expert] kcontrol, html...what config file?

2001-02-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
This is driving me nuts - I have to keep adding konqueror to my file associations for *.html files every time I login. What file does kcontrol alter when one adds konqueror to the file association page? I would like to add konqueror and then make the config/mimelnk file immutable so it

[expert] Crashing xfs with drakfont

2001-02-24 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have found a consistently workable means to reliably crash xfs using drakfont on my system. All I need to do is open drakfont and select "actionis" and that is all it takes. There may be other fonts that do this but this one is all I know of offhand. Why is this? What could I do to stop

Re: [expert] Kmail won't open an URL

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
You aren't looking for something specific to kmail. You are changing a setting specific to web pages (htm, html, etc) which is the important part. On the first page of the File browsing setup page, go to text and then to html. On the first page, lower portion is a big window which contains,

[expert] Script to correct kde2.1 control center problem

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I give up. I am writing a script to take care of this pain in the ass each time I login. The script will do: rm -rf $HOME/.kde/share/applnk/p* cp -Rf /usr/share/kde/applnk/* $HOME/.kde/share/applnk kbuildsycoca I have to do this because nothing I do with kde will fix this problem. EVERY

[expert] Did it! I have netatalk and afpfs working -can mount mac volumes

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
Finally did it. I tinkered here and there with /etc/atalk/afpd.conf, atalk.conf, config and got appletalk working on my system. My computer now shows up in the chooser of the networked Macs on my school network. Better yet, I got the afpfs module working so I can now mount Mac volumes on

Re: [expert] Offtopic, sortof?: Apple Macs and networking

2001-02-23 Thread Praedor Tempus
I've got it all working now. Thanks for the info. I am now visable to the various Mac choosers AND with the afpfs module I can now mount Mac volumes on my PC and read/write to them. This last was the main thing I was fighting with all this for. As for the module, does it compile for you

[expert] Old problem with Control Center - seeking real fix

2001-02-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have kde2.1 beta 2 installed on my clean new install of Mandrake 7.2. EVERY time I login I find 1) that in the kmenu, my Control Center is transfered into an unnamed directory - if I check my .kde/share/applnk directory, it is called something like "p^%", and 2) it doesn't work - if I

[expert] where is netatalk for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-02-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have the appletalk module, but where is netatalk? Doesn't Mandrake 7.2 support netatalk? The appletalk module isn't enough. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Damn ftpd

2001-02-21 Thread Praedor Tempus
I thought I understood this but I guess I do not. I do NOT like having wu-ftpd up and running by default and I want it to DIE DIE DIE! If I start up tksysv, ftpd service is not listed. I open up linuxconf and in the wu-ftpd page, there isn't any setting or switch for NOT starting it by

[expert] cups/kups will not print postscript

2001-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have found that I cannot print postscript pages with cups. I can print the basic testpage but if I try to print ANY *.ps file, it appears in the jobs window of kups, sits there for a few seconds, then goes away with nothing happening. If I start kups from a CLI, what I get corresponding

Re: [expert] cups/kups will not print postscript

2001-02-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
February 2001 15:48, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have found that I cannot print postscript pages with cups. I can print the basic testpage but if I try to print ANY *.ps file, it appears in the jobs window of kups, sits there for a few seconds, then goes away with nothing happening. If I start kups

Re: [expert] KOffice very buggy - anyone else having problems?

2001-02-18 Thread Praedor Tempus
I gave up on the kword part of koffice a while ago and went to lyx (klyx is REALLY broken). In any case, if you need to do a lot of citing of sources in your documents, lyx is better anyway since it is the ONLY "wordprocessor" for linux that supports automatic citation and bibliography

Re: [expert] Offtopic (a bit): Me thinks I am a sucker - net 2 phone redux

2001-02-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
shiny new pricey Quicknet card. On Friday 16 February 2001 08:11, Rusty Carruth you wrote: "Praedor Tempus" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think I was suckered. ... Quicknet hardware are all very specialized bits of equipment with no real benefit over of decent soundcard

[expert] Suggestion for konqueror

2001-02-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
I would like to suggest that konqueror be modified so that when one clicks on the "Open location" menu item, the dialog box that comes up NOT contain the present address. If one is opening up the "Open location" window, it is almost assured that the individual is NOT wanting to open the

[expert] Old question - repeat problem

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, a while back there was some questions concerning KDM showing all the system services as users in the KDM window for login. I just had to rebuild my system after a disaster and now have installed KDE 2.1-0.20010122.2mdk rpms. After doing this, I now have all the services in KDM again

[expert] 3Com cards and network problems

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have been having this problem for a long time but it seems worse now that I have recently built a new 2.4.1 kernel and started using it. I have a 3Com 900B netcard. With earlier Mandrake releases, my system insisted on using 3c59x and this seemed to work. I am now using 3c90x because

[expert] Offtopic (a bit): Me thinks I am a sucker - net 2 phone redux

2001-02-15 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well, I think I was suckered. After starting the conversation on the list about internet telephony, hoping to find some software that would allow linux users to make PC to phone calls like windoze users with dialpad or net2phone, I heard about Quicknet and their telephony cards. Their

[expert] /usr wont unmount during shutdown

2001-02-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
Recently, whenever I shutdown my laptop I get to the point where everything is being unmounted when it craps out with an error about /usr being busy and being unable to unmount it. Ultimately, I end up having to just hit the power switch because nothing else I do (not even logging in another

Re: [expert] upgrading from kernel 2.2 to 2.4 now having module problems...

2001-02-13 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just built the 2.4.1-9mdk kernel from cooker, installed it, and now all seems fine. The first time I built it, I did it specifically for my athlon/k7. I had module problems up the ying-yang. I don't know if this was the fix, but I tried again, this time just doing it for 5x86,6x86. I

[expert] kernel-2.4.1-*mdk doesn't like Athlon?

2001-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
After 6 attempts, combined, building the kernel-source-2.4.1-8mdk and then 2.4.1-9mdk, I keep running into the same problem. It builds fine, it installs fine, it boots fine, but I am unable to use my net card and my parallel port zip drive, both of which work perfectly under 2.2.17-21mdk. I

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.1-*mdk doesn't like Athlon?

2001-02-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
h Athlon vs i386 CPU architecture. I still can't use my parallel zip drive. Anyone have a fix/answer for that? On Monday 12 February 2001 08:38, Praedor Tempus wrote: After 6 attempts, combined, building the kernel-source-2.4.1-8mdk and then 2.4.1-9mdk, I keep running into the same prob

[expert] kernel 2.4.1 and 3com 900

2001-02-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
Well... I have run into a problem with kernel 2.4.1 and my own 3com 900B card. With my present 2.2.17-21mdk kernel, it works, after a fashion (it takes FOREVER for the card to get assigned an IP address during bootup via either pump or dhcpcd). I downloaded and built the mandrake cooker

Re: [expert] Cooker kernel-2.4.1-8mdk...anyone?

2001-02-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
4th build of the 2.4.1-9mdk kernel source. The last one, unlike all the others, functioned as if it was on a system with 8 megs of RAM instead of 128 MB. INCREDIBLY slow - all the other builds I've tried have booted and run VERY quickly. On Friday 09 February 2001 20:19, Altoine B. wrote: Praedor Te

[expert] Is there something wrong with this sequence?

2001-02-11 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am now trying my 5th compile of kernel-2.4.1-9mdk source. I have been able to boot fine but cannot use my 3c900 card, even with the driver compiled into the kernel (I am back to modular now). I simply do this: 1. make xconfig 2. make dep 3. make clean 4. nohup make bzImage 5. make modules

Re: [expert] Damnit...font problem from hell

2001-02-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
again. To remove fonts in drakfont, I have to select them and choose "remove" but doing this will kill the app and the system font server. How do I dump all these fonts and then start over with drakfont and get the windows ttf fonts again? On Thursday 08 February 2001 21:17,

[expert] Embarrassingly basic question

2001-02-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
OK, I am tired of my computers being each named localhost.localdomain with the alias of localhost. I have tried, in the past, to change the alias to something I like but this has been all but useless since it doesn't change anything, like the KDM system name or how the name appears on the

Re: [expert] 3com cards and 7.2

2001-02-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
I too have the 3c905C. My problem is not that it doesn't work, it does (after a fashion). The problem I have is that during bootup, when dhcpcd sets out to acquire an IP for my computer, it takes FOREVER. It eventually gets around to it and bootup continues and my connection is fine (and

[expert] Cooker kernel-2.4.1-8mdk...anyone?

2001-02-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Is anyone running the kernel-2.4.1 kernel from Cooker? I am thinking about building it for my Mandrake 7.2 system - if it is essentially OK. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

[expert] Laptop will NOT unmount /usr during shutdown

2001-02-09 Thread Praedor Tempus
Recently (like, starting today), my laptop running Mandrake 7.2 will not unmount my /usr mountpoint/partition during shutdown. I get a message about /usr being busy. Huh? Busy doing what? What could be the problem here? It is almost full, but there is still some wiggle room and it

[expert] Damnit...font problem from hell

2001-02-08 Thread Praedor Tempus
I don't understand this. A problem is repeating itself. I have XFree86-4.0.2 installed and running on a Mandrake 7.2 system, kernel-2.2.17-21mdk, KDE 2.1beta2 (20010122). Every time I try to run a windoze app with wine, it goes through a mess of font messages: Building font metrics. This

Re: [expert] quick security question.

2001-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
One thing about nmap... depending on the scan type, it will show you a port number, protocol, it's state and then give a name for a common service that uses that port. It doesn't mean that the port is actually making use of that port. So, if nmap gets a response during it's scan from port

Re: [expert] quick security question.

2001-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
It is not any problem being sure. Having a cable modem connection does make you more vulnerable than, perhaps, using a DSL. Does he have a dynamic IP or static? How long WAS the system up before the firewall was built? Remember, you may not actually be running any service on that port, and

Re: [expert] Network address request

2001-02-07 Thread Praedor Tempus
Offhand I do not know the ping command for that but it is trivial with nmap. You could run "nmap -sP 230.100.133.0-255" for instance, to do a ping scan of the entire 230.100.133.X class C (?) network. The output is a list of all the detected systems, mostly as simple IP addresses in my local

Re: [expert] A quicknet linejack price

2001-02-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
February 2001 23:10, Traci Collins wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: A quicknet linejack PCI audio telephony card runs $160. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. They do have Linux drivers and discounted Linux developer prices however. If my money is going to disappear

Re: [expert] My last word on Linux Telephony

2001-02-06 Thread Praedor Tempus
I built it all last night on my celeron 333 laptop with 96MB ram. It did take a while but it wasn't bad and it did all build without incident. The damn libs are huge, however. Space was already a premium and moving the libs to /usr/local/lib/pwlib consumed all my remaining hdd space (except

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