[expert] Cant Write Boot Floppies

2003-06-14 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, I'm trying to create a boot floppy for my mdk9.1 system. However, it stalls, saying there's not enough space to copy mkinitrd or saying that the floppy is mounted. Pain in the arse this, any ideas? mkbootfloppy gives the same response as the control center (being that that is what the

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Naish
the lm_sensors package, and try again. Robert Crawford On Monday 27 January 2003 04:19 am, Simon Naish wrote: I'm afraid I've tried that, and still no joy. lsmod shows everything loaded that should be according to the results of sensors-detect and yet I get no temps. I just

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Naish
I'll check bascule, but right now I'm getting no temp info from just running sensors on the command line :( Si - Original Message - From: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:45:50 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe just to

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe SUCCESS!! ;o)

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Naish
Right, success, due entirely to flacycads. Your list of modules is spot on and definitely works mate. Brilliant. This is what sensors at the CLI now reports $ sensors eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:SDRAM DIMM SPD

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Naish
25 January 2003 05:30 pm, Simon Naish wrote: Chuck, went through again selected the ISA stuff, heres my output, (no change ) any ideas Sorry theres so bl**dy much of it, I'm stumped though I have to say. # sensors-detect This program will help you to determine which I2C/SMBus

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-25 Thread Simon Naish
, Simon Naish wrote: Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter temp: +0°C (min = +4°C, max = +0°C) remote_temp: +0°C (min = +0°C, max = +60°C)ALARM (N/A) eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Naish
for the KT7-raid. (I'll have to hook it up, as I'm on a different box right now) Robert Crawford On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:38 am, Simon Naish wrote: temp2 41.5 temp3 26.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-24 Thread Simon Naish
. (I'll have to hook it up, as I'm on a different box right now) Robert Crawford On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:38 am, Simon Naish wrote: temp2 41.5 temp3 26.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lm_sensors on gigabyte ga-7zxe

2003-01-23 Thread Simon Naish
Bascule, you probably dont want a question in answer to yours, but I never quite managed to get lm_sensors working. I have an abit KT7-RAID board (via c100 chipset) and followed the setup procedure without a problem, but never got any temps showing up just memory usage. Any ideas where I might

[expert] anyone fixed kio_audiocd after a kde3 upgrade?? mines bust

2003-01-20 Thread Simon Naish
Upgraded to kde3.04 on my mdk8.2 Everything else is OK, nicely seperated from KDE2.2. But the upgraded has capped the kio_audiocd IO slave. I get the following error message when running as a user... Unable to create IO Slave klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_audiocd' Which is a pain in the

Re: [expert] Mandrake8.2 KDE3.04 startkde issue

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Naish
] Mandrake8.2 KDE3.04 startkde issue -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Naish wrote on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:33:08AM +0100 : by a script called kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ The thing is I cant find what calls this kde3.sh to futs the $PATH of users. - From /etc/profile

Re: [expert] Mandrake8.2 KDE3.04 startkde issue

2003-01-17 Thread Simon Naish
Cheers Todd, excellent, I figured it was a kinda generic run everything in here script, but being completely knackered I couldnt figure out where (Duuh!), and it would turn out to be embarrasingly obvious - note to self, stop trying to figure it out when you're too tired to make coffee! So the

[expert] Mandrake8.2 and KDE3.04

2003-01-16 Thread Simon Naish
I've just tried adding KDE3.04 to my Mandrake 8.2 installation and have a bit of a problem. Managed to install everything ok, its all gone into the /opt directory. Managed to sort all the dependencies out. My problem is that the KDE choice of Windowmanager gives KDE3.04, as does the KDE3

[expert] Mandrake8.2 KDE3.04 startkde issue

2003-01-16 Thread Simon Naish
OK so I've now figured out what is making this happen. The $PATH of users is being changed into /opt/kde3/bin/:$PATH by a script called kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ Before any choice of WM/Desktop has been made by the user. This means of course that all the KDE3 apps get called before the

RE: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-17 Thread Simon Naish
Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!! On Qua 11 Dez 2002 07:17, Simon Naish wrote: Is that to taken seriously? I got 715.600fps on my gf2 with nvidia

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-17 Thread Simon Naish
Glad to help Praedor ;o). Now I need to go tweak my memory eh! - Original Message - From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:34:57 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!! On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:57 am, Simon

Re: [expert] is it possible to have the 3 iso of mdk 9.1 in a dvd iso?

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Naish
Well yes, I have a DVD iso, came on the cover of a agazine, Linux format or Linux magazine, afraid I dont remember which. - Original Message - From: francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:22:35 +0100 To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] is it possible to

[expert] NVIDIA has posted new linux drivers!!! mdk 90 rpms available from the site

2002-12-12 Thread Simon Naish
Right on time, after the threads to do with mdk82 rpms and mdk90 eh! Course they might've been listening, but I doubt it ;o) http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Naish
Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware acceleration available from the nv driver. 340 fps is seriously poor for the small window of gears, and bout right for no hardware accelertion, try 6000 (yup 6000) fps with hardware acceleration and a reasonable to good modern

Re: [expert] Find command

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Naish
You'll need to use grep as well as find something like find -name *.log | grep @ list.txt but check out the grep man page as I always have to (short circuit in my head over the exact syntax of grep sometimes ;o) ) This should give you every line that has an @ in it in all the log files and

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Naish
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:17 am, Simon Naish wrote: Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware acceleration available from the nv driver. 340 fps is seriously poor for the small window of gears, and bout right

[expert] How-To for an NTL supplied USB cable modem

2002-11-01 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, Im trying to set up my dads Mandrake 8.2/Win98 box, he recently went and got himself an NTL connection, but none of the standard net wizards include setting up a USB cable modem, and I cant find much to help after a look through the Linux USB pages. Has anyone had any experience of setting

Re: [expert] How-To for an NTL supplied USB cable modem

2002-11-01 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: john [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:11:20 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] How-To for an NTL supplied USB cable modem On Friday 01 Nov 2002 H:54 am, Simon Naish wrote: Hi, Im trying to set up my dads Mandrake 8.2/Win98 box

Re: [expert] how to test CPU-temperature, fan etc. ?

2002-10-10 Thread Simon Naish
Check out lm-sensors, its a bit of a bind to set up but it does what you need - most of the time (I cant get it to work with my ABIT KT7-RAID board for love nor money though). gluck ;o) si - Original Message - From: hans privat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:17:38 +0200

Re: [expert] Unsolicited

2002-10-10 Thread Simon Naish
I had the same thing too. si - Original Message - From: Brian Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:18:24 +0930 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Unsolicited remove request Interestingly, I haven't seen my original message on the list yet, or Todd's

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions

2002-10-09 Thread Simon Naish
Yes but the set up file emu10k.conf may be different, setting the front speakers to the other phase. - Original Message - From: Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:41:03 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions Franki wrote on Tue,

RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 Questions

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Naish
ok re. sound with left right channels causing bass probs, if this is a soundblaster live! card they had a problem with a lot of them having the left and right channels having different phase (creative got the wiring wrong) in the card! So you need to wire them wrong to get them to work. But ,

Re: [expert] are opera-users ?

2002-10-01 Thread Simon Naish
Strange, I'm running mdk82 with opera 6.1, no probs. Have you got libpng2 installed (find it on mdk81, and poss mdk80 disks) . As I remember this being a prob at some point - although I would expect it to be a 'show stopper' - ie the prog wouldnt start. I have no probs connecting through

Re: [expert] are opera-users ?

2002-10-01 Thread Simon Naish
my time. si - Original Message - From: hans privat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:11:21 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] are opera-users ? On Tuesday 01 October 2002 11:42, Simon Naish wrote: Strange, I'm running mdk82 with opera 6.1, no probs. Have you

Re: [expert] LM 8.2 and NVIDIA GeForce 3

2002-08-29 Thread Simon Naish
go to www.nvidia.com download the nvidia for linux drivers for mandrake 8.2 Follow the clear instructions... ...job done ;-) si - Original Message - From: Alan Carbutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:59:23 -0600 To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] LM 8.2 and

Re: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake

2002-08-19 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:21:08 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake Hi! I recently saw that there is some Linux open source drivers for the HPT370/370A Raid controllers

Re: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake

2002-08-19 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:21:08 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake Hi! I recently saw that there is some Linux open source drivers for the HPT370/370A Raid controllers

Re: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake

2002-08-19 Thread Simon Naish
, 19 Aug 2002 21:24:55 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Highpoint Windows Raid in Mandrake Simon Naish wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:21:08 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert

Re: [expert] Hostname and postfix

2002-06-24 Thread Simon Naish
At Last This:- Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set anything. this is what isn't obvious. I dont have a network at home, but I dont want to have to call my

Re: [expert] CD databases

2002-05-28 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: Richie de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 19:57:04 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] CD databases On May 27, 2002 09:19 am, Raider wrote: Hello! I have quite a large collection of CDs. And I really need a database

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 22:43:26 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line? Amen, I couldn't agree more!!! Mike McNeese ( former complete newbie ) daRcmaTTeR wrote:

Re: [expert] Comparing folders/files in different HDs/FSs.

2002-05-16 Thread Simon Naish
Generate a list of md5 checksums with $ md5sum -b `find -type f` chksums in the root dir of the original file system copy the chksums file to the root of the new file system and run $ md5sum -c chksums this should check all the files against binary read checksums generated in the first

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-14 Thread Simon Naish
- Original Message - From: Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:52:56 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Xine error message On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:12:17 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start under blackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, I've been playing with blackbox recently, it gives me more headroom to play dvds without skipping than Kde, and found gkrellm which is cool. Problem is in the blackbox docs they say stick the command gkrellm -w into a file called ~.xinitrc which isnt there in Mandrake 8.1 . Making this

[expert] How to get dock apps and the like to auto start under blackbox in Mandrake 8.1

2002-04-05 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, I've been playing with blackbox recently, it gives me more headroom to play dvds without skipping than Kde, and found gkrellm which is cool. Problem is in the blackbox docs they say stick the command gkrellm -w into a file called ~.xinitrc which isnt there in Mandrake 8.1 . Making this

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Naish
Try postgres and mySQL for starters. -Original Message- From: Harold Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:16:50 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] databases for linux I was wondering how many database software is there available for linux and what the names

Re: [expert] I Broke Konqueror

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Naish
Exactly the same probs I've been having, Only fix I can find involves getting the simple settings and files from the .kde folder that you dont want to lose ie kab kmail and desktop and colour scheme, and binning the entire rest of .kde. Then start in console mode and as your user rm -rf

Re: [expert] konqueror startup problems still... some kinda solution :@

2002-02-19 Thread Simon Naish
Thats pretty much what i do as well, I also save the contents of kdisplay folder (in .kde/share/apps I think) which holds any saved colour schemes u have and kdeglobals which is basically the dektop visual stuff - sad but I've got mine just right :) . The weird thing I'm getting is that this

[expert] konqueror startup problems still... ... Any more ideas truly appreciated otherwise its reinstall time :(

2002-02-18 Thread Simon Naish
Hi, still having probs getting konqueror to start. This is what I've tried/results to date. 1 Renaming .kde and starting X. This stopped any konquerors starting - either for file management or browsing. Everything else seemed to work. 2. Clearing /tmp by hand with original .kde dir. No

[expert] konqueror probs any ideas???

2002-02-14 Thread Simon Naish
HI I have a problem with konqueror. When I login about half the time konqueror wont start up. It its in the oanel tring to but after about thirty seconds it dies. The konqueror for exploring the filesystem seems to work more often than not. It's just the web browsing version that has real

Re: [expert] konqueror probs any ideas??? Cheers for the Replies!! Any more suggestions?

2002-02-14 Thread Simon Naish
Rob, ooosh, severe eh! This is what I'm trying to avoid, the later post suggesting renaming .kde to .kde.old will do the same thing and keep a good record of what was what - as always I'd just got everything 'right' :( starting konqueror from a terminal is really weird. I get nothing at

Re: [expert] renaming large number of files.

2002-01-30 Thread Simon Naish
OK Try th comman apropos at the prompt, it gives you a list of man pages to look through that contain reference to parameters that you give the command ie apropos bash Gives a huge list!! Hope this helps si -Original Message- From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Jan

Re: [expert] SCSI-emulation

2001-12-13 Thread Simon Naish
If cdrecord doesnt work try it as root as this prog isnt available to non root as standard. Change its group to cdwriter and add yourself to cdwriter group to be able to use it from your standard user. si -Original Message- From: skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001

[expert] PLEASE HELP, menudrake is crashing, update-menus and install-menu wont stop running.

2001-10-03 Thread Simon Naish
Right whenever I log on update-menus and install-menu run. They also fail to do anything, I cant find why. Gnome is fine and has successfully made the menu install that first showed the problem up. I'm pretty much at my wits end. This is what is running when I log on. update-menus -u

[expert] knode - why is it soooo slllooooowwww????

2001-09-26 Thread Simon Naish
OK just a quick question, I've got a great modem connection with Linux, opera/konqueror/n*tscrape all run really smoothly, but knode - which has a really nice UI, has a problem thats driving me nuts, whenever u download an article it takes about 30-60 seconds to get going and start

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel

2001-06-11 Thread Simon Naish
Hve you got the ernel source installed? I know its an obvious mistake, but not having it installed as well as the nvidia drivers source will leave huge holes in the source that youre trying to compile, which would give the results you're indicating... si 8^) -Original Message- From:

[expert] Fw: NVidia (and KDE) bug - another possible fix

2001-06-06 Thread Simon Naish
-Original Message- From: Simon Naish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:42:03 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NVidia (and KDE) bug - another possible fix OK this is kind of supposition, but it is based on finally getting those pesky NVidia drivers

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-02 Thread Simon Naish
PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:26:44 +0200 To: Simon Naish [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL On Friday 01 June 2001 10:27, Simon Naish wrote: Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on my machine

[expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-01 Thread Simon Naish
Last night I decided to sort it out and get the NVidia drivers running on my machine. All went well, I installed from tar zips made the Kernel driver and the OpenGL lib no problem. Sat back astonished at the positively outrageous speed of gltron and the ultra smooth spectacle of tuxracer. 8^)

[expert] getting kdevelop working

2001-05-31 Thread Simon Naish
Can anyone help? I'm trying to get kdevelop working on madrake 8.0 So far ive hacked the config file so it accepts the new qt libraries. But, even though qt is installed, nothing can access it's header files at compile time, so the config file still falls over. They are in a folder called qt