Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:06:56PM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: Tom, can you send me your /var/log/kernel/info file? This is extremely puzzling. What's the ouput of #mount -a ? more info: when I try to mount /dev/hdd1, I get: #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /tmp/td mount: /tmp/td is not a valid block

Re: [expert] missing hd?

2001-02-23 Thread Tom Strickland
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:26:24AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: On 02.24 Tom Strickland wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:43:27AM -0800, Ron Heron wrote: hmmm, are you sure it's on hdd? hdd is the slave of the first ide slot. AFAIK, hdd is the slave in the SECOND ide channel

[expert] tjk: qmail?

2001-02-22 Thread Tom Kazinci
Greetings! I would absolutely love to hear some insights about qmail on Mandrake? Please forward any comments at all.. Thanks. http://www.qmail.org/top.html

RE:[expert] kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-18 Thread Tom Wike
Micros..t) Festina Lente, Harm bathoorn -- Tom Wike UNIX System Administration FDAO Productivity Infrastructure Texas Instruments, Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regular Mail: 7839 Chu

[expert] cooker kernel 2.4.1 rpms

2001-02-16 Thread Tom Wike
-utils-2.4.1 RPM?? Does anyone know why this is?? Do I really need this package?? Thanks for your assistance in this matter. -- Tom Wike UNIX System Administration FDAO Productivity Infrastructure Texas

Re: [expert] upgrade kernel

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
and links will be created in /boot for you, just make sure lilo.conf is correct and boot the new kernel. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] upgrade kernel

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
org/install/kupgrade.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] RealPlayer plug-in

2001-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
/realplayer link. If you manage to get it workin with Mozilla .7, let me know how ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] XFree86 3--4 on MGA-G400

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lawton
to get horrible system hangs unless you're root when you run the program, but check out 4.0.2. I posted my XF86Config a while back, I'll send it again if you'd like. tom

[expert] Xserver unexpected shutdown.

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Cada
the sound (but that's another issue) and provided the best install of any of them. I hope they keep up the excellant work. Thanks in advance for any assistance... Tom.

Re: [expert] Guarddog RPM problems

2001-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 11 February 2001 03:46 am, Joseph wrote: I didn't know I had Portsentry in my system Any ideas how to configure it would be welcome. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/portsentry1.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

[expert] TCSH Users and Path Environment

2001-02-08 Thread Tom Browder
e file I can find and nothing seems to change the messed up colors (yellow on white is extermely difficult to read--especially for older eyes!). Any suggestions will be gratefully explored. Thanks. Tom Browder P.S. Anyone else vote to get rid of CUPS?

Re: [expert] Changes made in fstab at boot

2001-02-07 Thread Tom
unt.o" . ^^^^^^ -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] remote logoff

2001-02-06 Thread Tom Massey
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote: Yesterday I figured out I'd failed to log off after I got back home, but couldn't figure out how to do it remotely. My systems are available remotely via ssh. So, o great experts, is there a command that boils down to "logoff user dimwit"? Or a

Re: [expert] More on 2.4.1 woes...anyone with ideas, please respond

2001-02-05 Thread Tom Massey
Neal Lippman wrote: I DID NOT compile frame buffer support in (because none of the allowed drivers matched my video card) but I note that in the default MDK install, there are frame buffer devices in /dev so maybe I need that...and should just add in all the video cards and let the kernel

Re: [expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] A possible replacement for Linux-Mandrake tools

2001-02-03 Thread Tom
esent a whole 'nother bunch of problems. I don't really know, I still use W98 rc1. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] X and monitors - how to switch?

2001-02-02 Thread Tom
tors specs is mostly pointless. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

[expert] ethernet fail on sleep with 2.4.0-5mdk

2001-02-02 Thread Tom Lawton
thanks, tom -- ... "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut" - Channing Pollock

Re: [expert] New distro?

2001-02-01 Thread Tom
, that it should be ready in May, if not sooner. It was mentioned on the cooker list in response to this query "april ..may" by one of the developers. AFAICT, it'll be a 2.4.0 kernel, not 2.4.1, and most likely KDE2.1 all of which are readily available already. -- To

Re: [expert] Qipmasqadm

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 29 January 2001 07:18 pm, TK Kim wrote: 2)When you make any changes to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, what do you have to do in order for the changes to take effect withOUT rebooting? since you're already root in /etc/rc.d/just run ./rc.local -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL

Re: [expert] kcontrol STILL doesn't function

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
This time it broke kcontrol, it was blank (no modules), and unusable. All I had to do to fix it was to copy my bakup /applnk/ back in, after deleting the 'root' owned /applnk/ KDE2b2 has not lost any of my user changes, but messin with /applnk/ as root will break kcontrol. so don't

Re: [expert] Building a mandrake src rpm kernel

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
that I can go to, a HOWTO? The proceedure is obviously different than with src tarballs. http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade.html -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] An observation on this Mandrake list

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
- France -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] kde beta 2 knotify annoyance

2001-01-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
installed and work flawlessly. I followed Chris' README instructions to the letter. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]Galveston Bay

[expert] 2.4.0-11 and supermount/ppp

2001-01-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
nt -i disable ~~ to reflect 'supermount.o's new location. Voila! Now I have 2.4.0-11 with supermount on ReiserFS. PPP was also not working "right out of the box", but a simple 'modprobe -v ppp_async' statement at the end of rc.local fixed that. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] winmodems

2001-01-26 Thread Tom Massey
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, faisal wrote: so many peoples have problems with winmodem in linux i wonder why they dont dont make drivers for them ? is it that hard ? It's very hard because most of the companies making winmodems refuse to release any info about them, largely because they're worried

Re: [expert] How dost one mount a Mac drive?

2001-01-23 Thread Tom Massey
Praedor Tempus wrote: How do I connect to and mount a Macintosh harddrive that is networked AND has filesharing enabled (and tcpip enabled)? Maybe netatalk http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/ could help you - it's an implementation of AppleTalk.

Re: Re: [expert] Adding a new CDRW to a Mandrake box

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
the modules.conf file correctly. Well you forgot editing fstab and what else? It's a whole lot easier, only takes a few minutes to run upgrade and ensure all the various configs get done correctly. IMO, YMMV -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] RealPlay 8 rpm doesn't work in LM72

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
layer8/pluginstall.sh and restart X then take NutScrape to http://www.worldclassrock.com/index.html choose realplayer in the drop down, listen now get'n rp8 to work with Konq or Mozilla's another story ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] RealPlay 8 rpm doesn't work in LM72

2001-01-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
with Konq than natscrap. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] FIXED: latest kde updates - konqueror- NOT FIXED

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
40mdk egcs-objc-devel-1.1.2-40mdk egcs-objc-1.1.2-40mdk egcs-1.1.2-40mdk egcs-c++-1.1.2-40mdk -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] FIXED: latest kde updates - konqueror- NOT FIXED

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
is essentially the same as yours, package-wise. I should have added that my MandrakeUpdate is current, including the new glibc. Oh well, I'll try the new upgrades coming next week ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Sunday 21 January 2001 06:14, you wrote

Re: [expert] FIXED: latest kde updates - konqueror- NOT FIXED

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
to think... Nope, glibc-devel-2.1.3-18.3mdk glibc-profile-2.1.3-18.3mdk compat-glibc-5.3-2.0.7.9mdk glibc-2.1.3-18.3mdk -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] Adding a new CDRW to a Mandrake box

2001-01-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
and choose 'upgrade' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] laterst kde updates - konqueror can't do webpages

2001-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
-0.20010109.1mdk kdeadmin-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk kdebase-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk kdelibs-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk kdelibs-devel-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk kdetoys-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk kdeutils-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk kdevelop-2.1-0.20010109.1mdk and no problems ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston

Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)

2001-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
problems is to take the case cover off, and point a table fan into the box. If the reboot/error problems subside, you need to improve cpu heatsink/fan and/or case ventilation. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] laterst kde updates - konqueror can't do webpages

2001-01-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
/tom : rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/konqueror kdebase-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk Try going back, it'll prob'ly work. While I was using 20010115 rpms I forced kdebase-2.1-0.20010109.2mdk back in to fix the kdm problem. No need to uninstall the newer rpm either, just force the older one in. I'd

Re: [expert] problem with gcc

2001-01-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 January 2001 07:52 am, Tib wrote: Which c++ packages? http://mandrakeuser.org/basics/bsource.htmlTowards the bottom of the page is a list of all the 'Needed Packages' -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, pgeorges wrote: Tib a crit

Re: [expert] Cannot successfully download files greater than 4 meg

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Berkley
No. You have a local problem. I download lots of stuff greater than 4MB and never had any problems except occasionally with windows doing that but never linux. Tom Berkley Praedor Tempus wrote: I have had this problem for a long time, since Mandrake 7.1. I find that no matter what ftp app

Re: [expert] Creating Boot disk after kernel upgrade?

2001-01-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
to me critical although I am sure of exactly how. mkbootdisk $(uname -r) makes a bootdisk for the currently running kernel -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] probs getting to some sites

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
info returned is useful to you. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay -Original Message- From: Ron Heron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 11:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] probs getting to some sites What

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
me is I've done all of Chris' updates (lot's!) and this is the first time i've had any problems to speak of. So I reckon it's a user/hardware/config on my part that screwed the pooch this time. So, I'm ready for some new updates ; Chris? ya lis'nin? -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Lockups using GLX/DRI/mga under XF86 4.01/LM7.2

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Lawton
. Occasionally the apps can be made to work by running everything as root, and things proceed reasonably well - but normal use causes an instant crash. A window is created, but nothing is drawn within it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. tom running kernel 2.2.17-21mdk lsmod

Re: [expert] More on the Gnapster thing

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
is what I have. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] KNode in KDE 2.1 screwy

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
to get it back. I've had the same problems with Mandrake's KDE 2.1 Knode 4 beta 4. My fix was to get the stable 3.3 tarball and use that. It's problem free. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] ram issue

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
/boot/grub/menu.lst -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] grub

2001-01-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:12 am, Tommi wrote: I dont know how to upgrade my bootloader with grub Look here : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/install/iboot2.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] bash command line editing broken for several releases

2001-01-14 Thread Tom Berkley
No problem here with editing command lines. Sometimes when I have problems installing new updates I will have an rpm -Fvh ..rpm line that is 8 or ten lines long in a large display window. Never over a two year period had one problem with line editing, removing several filenames, adding

Re: [expert] Bt 878, bcast2000 et al

2001-01-14 Thread Tom Berkley
Thats why my Bt-878 is in a windows box right now, because I never could get it to work with linux. Bt-848 support is in linux and it works. But I have never had anyone else with a Bt-878 confirm that theirs is working either. Tom Berkley William Bouterse wrote: WinTV-Go model 190 Harddrake

Re: [expert] Less does not work in Konsole

2001-01-14 Thread Tom Berkley
. If so, I would forward it to the developer that listed in the docs. Tom Berkley Viktor Lakics wrote: Hi All, When I use the command prompt, I usually use Konsole (the KDE "xterm") as an Xterm. I noticed that if I want to list anything with the GNU less command it does not work. I

Re: [expert] [somewhat off-topic]Heretic II and Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-14 Thread Tom Berkley
pect every distro to be perfect for your expectations, you set yourself up for a fall - you know like gnashing teeth, grumbling, frustration, snarling, smashing Tom Berkley Praedor Tempus wrote: Has anyone purchases Heretic II from Loki and actually managed to get it to work on Mandrake 7.2?

Re: [expert] Linuxconf update

2001-01-13 Thread Tom Berkley
for a pointer to their security key for the updates. Tom Berkley "Ralph F. De Witt" wrote: On Friday 12 January 2001 23:50, you wrote: No. I downloaded the linuxconf rpm's (from sunsite mirror) and checked them with rpm -K and they checked OK. Install went fine too. However, I only

Re: [expert] /usr/sbin/update-alternatives

2001-01-13 Thread Tom Berkley
Are you using gcc to compile or kgcc? Tom Berkley Tib wrote: I'm trying to compile a program and it's complaining that my standard gcc can't compile executables. I installed ecgs c++ and running ./configure ends up still giving the same error. So I try installing the gcc update

Re: [expert]

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Berkley
one solution is to get redhat's rpm update for redhat 6.2. that particular version was released to take care of the problem that you are having except tom berkley Robert Engel wrote: I'm tring to install lsof, but I have version 3.0.4, and when I try to install lsof 4.47-5 I get

Re: [expert] Linuxconf update

2001-01-12 Thread Tom Berkley
(rpm -qipl). That process worked fine for me. Tom Berkley "Ralph F. De Witt" wrote: Hi all: Has any one had problems with the new Linuxconf update. I tried to download it from several sites and had Mandrakeupdate tell me either it was unsigned or that it was not properly sig

Re: [expert] a.d. mono font and new problems

2001-01-11 Thread Tom Berkley
First delete your .kde directory and logout and login again. See if that helps. Then, if necessary, do a update-menus -v as root. I had to do this when I updated to kde 2.1 Tom Berkley Kelley Terry wrote: The upgrade solved the konqueror browser font problem - - However, now I have a much

Re: [expert] apcupsd on M7.01????

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Berkley
No, you just need to update your rpm rpm. I'm not sure what mandrake did, but redhat 6.2 has an rpm update that takes care of this kind of problem. try the mandrake newest first though. tom berkley Rusty Carruth wrote: Bummer! I'm running mandrake 7.01 on a 486, and mandrake 7.1

Re: [expert] duplicate ethernet

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Look in /etc/modules.conf and see what aliases were created for your nic's. You may have a legacy alias that you need to edit. Tom Berkley Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi, Anyone know why I would have 3 ethernets defined when I only have 2..? I had an Intel EtherExpressPro/10+ (eepro) which

Re: [expert] AMD Sytem, failure

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
be alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (even if you'd never consider oc'ing) and alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit newsgroups. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] SSH port forwarding

2001-01-10 Thread Tom Schutter
-- Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com)

Re: [expert] a.d. mono font

2001-01-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Have you updated kde yet. kdebase contains the konqueror (don't know where the fonts are). If not look on a mirror under mandrake-devel/unsupported and you will find some things that may tickle you pink after you download and update them. Tom Berkley Kelley Terry wrote: Just compiled 2.4

Re: [expert]

2001-01-09 Thread Tom Berkley
/usr/lib/libdl.so -- glibc-devel-2.1.3-16mdk /lib/libdl.so.2 -- glibc-2.1.3-16mdk you may want to try a link from .1 to .2 and see what happens. I have 7.1 on my laptop still but its not available now to check. tom berkley Iknatius wrote: Hi all! I have installed

Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 08 January 2001 06:49 am, Christopher Molnar wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2001 17:43, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, When you upgraded was kpm added to the menu? I have it also, but it's not listed in the menu anymore. So tell the packager :-) I will solve on my next kdeutils update

Re: [expert] reiser FS support

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
supermount and ppp tho. I didn't investigate, just went back to 2.2.18 -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay At 11:17 07/01/2001 -0500, you wrote: I comiled a new kernel for my Mandrake 7.2 System and the kernel didnt have support for reiser FS on my computer. Im not sure

Re: Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 08 January 2001 10:20 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that's strange cause I got mine from the same FTP server...I think I did??? crap...now I'm confused.. Tom...whats the address of the FTP server that you got them from? I just saw a notification today that all the old ftp sites

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
Look'n Feel on my system. I don't know how well it works, I don't use themes -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] KDE 2.1 Beta - Theme Manager

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
posted, I hadn't tried this before, so I don't even know when Theme manager first appeared. I'm usin the mix of 20001229, 20010101, and all the 20010103 upgrades... whatever's the latest for the corresponding rpm. ... now I'm gonna haft'a put it back the way I liked it ; -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] apcupsd - losing the serial connection

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Berkley
there is an update apcupsd-3.8.0-1.1mdk.i586.rpm. you may want to get it before you spend a lot more time messing with it. tom berkley Andrew Judge wrote: I am trying to setup apcupsd for a backUPS 300Va. I received the serial cable directly from APC for the simple UPS. It seems to start

Re: [expert] Latptop - using removeable devices

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Berkley
will want to learn about lsmod, insmod, modprobe, and kernel compilation. Have fun. Tom Berkley Jason Straight wrote: Is there anything I can do on my laptop to have the kernel remove and or reprobe devices? ie. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 which I'm running Mandrake 7.2, this notebook has

Re: [expert] ssh update probs

2001-01-08 Thread Tom Berkley
but communicate to the ssh.org just to be certain. tom berkley Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: I updated ssh via Mandrake Update. I now have an issue that I can log in once. After about 1 hour I seem to lose connection. I am unable to login again as any user at all. I can however use ssh locally

Re: [expert] RealPlayer

2001-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
: Are you quite sure you were ableto obtain RealPlayer 8 for Linux? The Real site is a little hard to navbigate, but I'm quite sure the an ftp search for 'rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin' will turn up over a dozen links less than a week old. No need to fool around with Real's B$. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Finally! -- KDE2.0.1

2001-01-07 Thread Tom Berkley
I have kpm and it's located in: kdeutils-2.1-0.20001229.1mdk tom berkley Mark Weaver wrote: It's taken a little while, but I finally managed to get all the packages for KDE2.0.1 to install and it's running. However, there seems to be something missing. A program that I really came to know

Re: [expert] sorry to harp - but i don't want kdm on command line

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
right to my desktop : I had to CHECK the above to re-enable this feature after some upgrade or another turned it off YMMV ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?

2001-01-03 Thread Tom Berkley
first determine if telnet is installed: rpm -q telnet probably it is not. then find the cd with the telnet rpm or download it from a mirror site. then install: rpm -ivh telnet-0.17-7.i386.rpm now you can use telnet. tom berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just installed Mdk 7.2

Re: [expert] Mandrake KDE 2.01

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Berkley
who contributed (or bitched - just another way of contributing) Tom Berkley civileme wrote: On Monday 11 December 2000 18:42, you wrote: I d/l'd the new 'official unsupported' KDE2.01 rpms as announced on http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001209085323 I first ran

Re: [expert] Sound on Dell Inspiron 5000

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Berkley
in the kernel options for sound except for the Maestro 2 driver and it will work just fine. Tom Berkley Joseph Jenkins wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 5000, I am running Mandrake 7.2, Kde 2.0, and Linux Kernel 2.2.17. I was wondering if anyone had any answers about making KDE recognize the Maestro card

Re: [expert] CUPS printing...

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Snell
decent color and 600 dpi.beats crapping in the dark!!! Tom Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, rant-on I just had an epiphany. CUPS PRINTING SUCKS!!@#Q#$%#!#@! I liked the printer support that I had back in Mdk 7.1. It was simple, direct, to the point, and...IT FRIGGIN WORKED WITHOUT

Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)

2001-01-01 Thread Tom Berkley
Thanks a gob. Went to bios, put the ide cdrom above the hard drive in the boot sequence and voila, linux cd booted! First new thing that I've learned this year! Omen for the year. Yee haa. Wish the same for all. Tom Berkley Brian Hartman wrote: It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable

Re: [expert] Boot CD (was Bit-for-bit CD's)

2000-12-31 Thread Tom Berkley
You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been able to boot with an ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on my scsi bus are bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a linux cd in either cdrom drive and reboot my system. Tom Berkley "Ronald L. Chichester&q

Re: [expert] IRQ steering?

2000-12-30 Thread Tom Berkley
The bios assigns the interrupt. Linux does not, so.., figure how your bios assigns the irq (one way is by slot). It is likely that you have not opted for extended pci options in your bios which include these assignments. Tom Berkley Svante Signell wrote: No response

Re: [expert] Laptop recommendations

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Berkley
into the fun of new software.growl, nash, yeehah...8-) Have fun with it Tom Berkley Mark Belanger wrote: Can anyone recommend a laptop that will work well with Linux/Mandrake? I'd prefer a modem that works, a screen resolution greater than 1024x768. The cost is not really

Re: [expert] tv software

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Berkley
win98se or win2k using the ati drivers. tom berkley ps sorry, just couldn't resist. I use an ati pci tv card in my win2k box primarily because linux does not have any support for that card yet. Steve Young wrote: i have an all in wonder 128 pro and i was wondering if anyone knew

[expert] Source RPMS for Cooker?

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Eastman
I can't find a place where I can download source RPMS for the cooker stuff... do they exist? I want to compile licq version 1.0 from an RPM source instead of the Tarball if I can. Where can I find it? Can I at all? Thanks Tom

Re: [expert] Odd problem

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
problem. I've had '/' as ReiserFS for some time, and never a problem with Mandrake Update. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] Source RPMS for Cooker?

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Berkley
ftp to a mirror site, I just looked at ftp.wtfo.com to be certain. start at /pub and wind your way down the tree until you get find mandrake-devel. Under mandrake-devel you will find a directory SRPMS which is chocked full of the goodies that you desire. Tom Berkley Tom Eastman wrote: I

[expert] Recursive symlinks in /usr/bin?

2000-12-28 Thread Tom Eastman
[tom@celleste bin]$ ls -ld /usr/bin/mh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root1 Dec 29 2000 /usr/bin/mh - ./ Why is there a symlink in /usr/bin called mh which points straight back to /usr/bin??? Is this kind of recursive symlink a bad thing? or can I just ignore it?

Re: [expert]

2000-12-27 Thread Tom Berkley
the sucker up and put the mandrake 7.2 cd in while it boots and see if it recognizes it. It will be most obvious if it works. Tom Berkley PS If you get a cd burner, most definitely pay the extra bucks and get a scsi. You will be most happy with scsi even though your wallet suffered a little. Anthony

[expert] Moving my hard drive

2000-12-26 Thread Tom Eastman
I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer. Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda. How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have to tell that the hard drive is now in a different place?

Re: [expert] Moving my hard drive

2000-12-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 03:23 pm, Tom Eastman wrote: I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer. Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda. How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have to tell that the hard drive is now in a different

Re: [expert] KDE theme manager

2000-12-24 Thread Tom Berkley
some of the results of the command 'locate theme' (you may want to run updatedb before you use it.): ~/.kde/share/apps/kthememgr . . ~/.kde/share/config/kthememgrrc . . /usr/bin/settheme tom berkley Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I have been looking everywhere and I just can't find

Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS

2000-12-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
Linux all in one big / partition (8g), and I use RFS. Works fine with 2.2.17 and 18 Merry Christmas -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

RE: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS

2000-12-23 Thread Tom Massey
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Vidyut Luther wrote: you can't have / as a reiserfs filesystem. everything else can be. If you go to the resierfs website, the install docs say so explicitly. You can have / as reiser, and you can do it with kernel 2.4. When compiling 2.4 just turn off 'High memory

Re: [expert] kde2.1 probs

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
to find a problem. You may need to use --nodeps on the 1213 kdeaddutils rpm. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [expert] GTK text cursor

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Berkley
You are probably using a variable width font and the software that moves the cursor is not yet aware of this. You can get some temporary relief by trying a fixed font like courier until the cursor tracker is fixed. tom berkley Martin Hajducek wrote: Dear, List I am wondering why text cursor

Re: [expert] nekid mandrake?

2000-12-20 Thread Tom Schutter
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Re: [expert] XWindows on Inspiron 5000e

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Berkley
You picked lcd monitor 1024x768 during the Xconfiguration? tom berkley Orders wrote: Hello there, Has anybody managed to get Xwindows to work on an Inspiron 5000e ? I am using Linux Mandrake version 7.2 but cannot find the right settings although it recognises the graphics card (ATI Rage

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Berkley
No it just does not work. You can try http://www.aa.com and get similar results. Looks like you get to do some programming and help out or just wait for the next edition like most of us. I've seen this problem discussed here before, but no solutions have shown up yet. Tom Berkley Praedor Tempus

Re: [expert] cdrecord problem

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Berkley
it in the mandrake archives somewhere on the website. tom berkley Buchan Milne wrote: Hi Tom, You neglected to say if you tested on 7.2 also, but I assume you did Your test isn't really going to be of much value (I think) because you are using a scsi writer. All the problems so far have been

Re: [expert] samba locks up with IPC shared memory error - secure kernel

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Berkley
There is a samba rpm update in under mandrake-devel/unsupported on the ftp mirrors. You may want to get the update before you do a lot more debugging. Tom Berkley Buchan Milne wrote: Hi, I have 3 linux boxes (2 running LM7.1, 1 running LM 7.2). The 7.2 box I reinstalled over the weekend

Re: [expert] Kernel-smp-2.4

2000-12-18 Thread Tom Berkley
now. I installed the kde.org upgrades for redhat to 2.0.1 and it works great there but that's another subject. Tom Berkley Mogens Jæger wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: did you compile ppp into the kernel? No - I just ran the rpm. I have not downloaded the source-file - is that the error? Mogens

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