Re: [expert] XFree86-4.0, Voodoo3 dual head - anybody?

2000-04-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
, I use a V3-2k pci, mainly 'cause I run a p3-450 but at a 135mhz fsb on a bx mobo. ?? There's only one video connection off the board, so how'ta heck oh hell, you're post is 5 monitors wide, so I dunno what you're tryin to do -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: [expert] Internet problems

2000-04-25 Thread Tom H
browsers--it appears the server was handling all the connections it could. OK Tom H, let's see how you are masquerading... What ipchains did you issue? Civileme Tom H wrote: Well it is always www.nec.com or www.wellsfargo.com any of the banking sites. Some parts of Microso

Re: [expert] Internet problems

2000-04-24 Thread Tom H
virtually impossible to offend. (Well, I dunno. If it's a pro-movie-industry/anti-decss site or something I might get offended . . . ) Tom H wrote: I have hooked up my Linux (Red Hat 6.1) to the DSL I am running Ip Masqurading on the system and it is routing to the internet for t

Re: [expert] Internet problems

2000-04-24 Thread Tom H
ould. OK Tom H, let's see how you are masquerading... What ipchains did you issue? Civileme Tom H wrote: Well it is always www.nec.com or www.wellsfargo.com any of the banking sites. Some parts of Microsoft's sites. - Original Message - From: "Brian T. Schelle

[expert] Internet problems

2000-04-23 Thread Tom H
missing. Tom HTriumph 59564 Corvair65 Corvair

Re: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-19 Thread Tom Snell
be designated in a kernel recompile, and will there be a distinct "Athlon" optimization in future kernel versions? Anyone know? Tom

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Michael Holt wrote: AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator. Tom Russ Johnson wrote: Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands

Re: [expert] failed to stat /net

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
You may just want to visit the following website and get version 6.0 in rpm format: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get601.html I think that you will find that 6.0 has what you want and it works. Tom Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: What is this telling me [root@Mrroboto brian

Re: [expert] KDE RPM dependencies

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Interesting. I have a complete kde install and there is no dpkg file to be found anywhere on my system. I also do not understand what you mean when you say that you installed a minimal installation. Tom PS Hint ( different from an insult): Most problems with linux are operator related problems

Re: [expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
There is no executable encrypt on my system but it adds users without any problem. If you want to find something use the locate command (ie locate encrypt). If locate barfs, run updatedb first. Then locate will find anything on your system in a very few seconds. Tom Russell \"Elik\"

Re: [expert] No Mouse Pointer in XFree86 Version 4

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Reconfigure your mouse with mouseconfig Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I am running L-M7.0 and have just installed XFree86 version4. All went well except for the mouse pointer. The mouse is an M$ serial IntelliMouse at com1. The first few times I started up I couldn't see the

Re: [expert] Adaptec SCSI-Controller

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Go to www.redhat.com/support and check the intel hardware compatibility list for the adaptec controllers. Tom Burkhard Zombronner wrote: Hi there, does anybody know if Mandrake 7.02 supports the adaptec scsi controller 29160 with chipset 7892B or does anybody use it already? Thanks

Re: [expert] IP MASQ

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
to do the same thing. Tom Richard Bonebrake wrote: Thanks to everyone for your help with the ip masq. I now have it working and am back on line. I have a new problem though. I use 2 different isp's. 1. "asquith.net" works fine, 2. "sprint.ca" shows my 192.168.100.254 inst

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
In append major items are separated with spaces and minor (within an option) items are separated with commas. Not sure if this is a convention for viewing or if lilo actually pays attention to this. But it works, notheless. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hello, As my

Re: [expert] A few questions

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Tom lorne schachter wrote: I've got a couple of problems with the 7.0 beta that I'm running (I should get the official release next week to install): 1) When I leave the machine running with my screen saver on (kscience - the bouncing ball

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Larry Suspect a lilo.conf line length limitation. Try using the \ character at the end of a line and continue the append command on the following line. Make absolute certain that no spaces follow the \ character or is will not escape the newline character. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Tom Berkley

[expert] lilo in general

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
that there are man pages for both lilo and lilo.conf. Happy Reading Tom

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-08 Thread Tom Berkley
Possibly. If you are using a higher security level and you have ALL:ALL:DENY in your /etc/hosts.deny file then you may want to alter it to ALL:ALL except localhost:DENY. Tom Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 05:58:47PM -0600, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: - - I had the same problem

[expert] MS Intellimouse OptiEye

2000-04-08 Thread Tom Berkley
Just installed a new OptiEye mouse in place of my Logitech mousemanplus wheel mouse and the wheel does not work in Mandrake 7.0 even after extensive diddling with the mouseconfig. However when I boot to redhat 6.2 install, the new mouse works great even without the imwheel -k command.

Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
Mode 4 is UDMA 66 Mode 2 is UDMA 33 What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? Tom E T wrote: Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting from a CD-ROM). I tried several times (including the "most default" installation), but it keeps crashing in

Re: [expert] Setting up Mandrake 7 as a PPP Server

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
quick way is to use kppp to setup your isp login. if you want a demand dialer for ppp to maintain the network, look in the expert archive (this list archive). there was a previously described solution. tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to setup a ppp server on Mandrake 7

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
and will crash with all windows closing abruptly. Check the permissions on the files too. Tom Craig Woods wrote: Tom, A "cat" as you know, shows me what we both know: "pab.na2" is indeed the file Netscape uses to store our address info. This file allows us to address our mail whe

Re: [expert] Alt-F7 = crash!

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Berkley
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (works here on two different boxes) Tom Ron Johnson wrote: Civileme wrote: [snip] use ctrl-alt-fx where x is in the range 2-5 f1 brings you to the console which X is running on top of and anything you do there is likely to break X. Once I've pressed ctrl-alt-f1, how do

Re: [expert] More fonts

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Depends on your screen resolution. The 100 dpi fonts work well with 1280x1024 and the 75 dpi fonts work best with 1024x768. Other rez I have not played with. Tom Pat Mc wrote: In my quest to improve my system and Netscape fonts I found something interesting. The 100dpi and 75dpi fonts were

Re: [expert] Modem recognition on laptop Toshiba Portégé3110CT

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
pcmcia modem. Its one of the best that I have tried. Works great in windows and linux. With the standard pcmcia linux package you can be braindead and the modem will still work for you.(Trevor notwithstanding). Tom PS if you get a modem busy when you query the modem, do not worry. use setserial

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux Certified

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
Redhat now offers a certification program (!!!) for redhat linux similar to MCSE from M$. Never heard of anything from Mandrake. Tom Marcos Dione wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote: Ok what do i gota do to earn a certificate showing I am Mandrake LInux Certified

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
and never seen it cause a problem Tom Russ Johnson wrote: Read up on how init reads that file. The answer will become clear. I suspect you could put that line back (and make no other changes to your system) and it wouldn't run X on startup... As long as it's truly starting in runlevel 3

Re: [expert] USB Mouse Support.

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
not mean that it is. Tom "Christopher M. Kopp" wrote: During my installation of 7.0.2, I was using an USB Mouse. The installation program addressed the mouse properly and allowed me to use it during my install. However, once I completed the install X Windows does not seem to recogniz

Re: [expert] IP Masq.

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
, then you can comment out each of those modprobe commands with a # sign. If your netmask is 255.255.255.0 then the 24 in the last two lines is correct. Last thing to do is reboot and check the other machines. Tom Richard Bonebrake wrote: I am trying to get my home network working with ip masq

Re: [expert] [Fwd: Netscape v4.72]

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Berkley
more insight into the email AddressBook feature in Netscape. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks Craig J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Networking Admin Celtic Pride, Inc. Its pab.na2 that you

Re: [expert] Multiple Linux systems on one hard disk?

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Berkley
with different window managers and other stuff like different X servers (accelerated X), then do not try to keep a common /home partition. Also what are the models of each of the disks that you have. Both ide? Tom Kirk McElhearn wrote: I am getting a new 20 gig HD this week, to add to my 4.3 gig HD. I

Re: [expert] KDE - Strange Problem

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Berkley
Look at /var/log/messages and see what the system was doing when it exhibited the symptoms that you described. Tom Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm asking to find out if others have had this same problem. Once in a while when I'm using KDE, the mouse-pointer would freeze, the keyboard stop

Re: [expert] Install on laptop Toshiba Portégé 3110CT

2000-04-05 Thread Tom Berkley
to look into how to use dd later. Tom "Bois, Mathieu" wrote: Hi, We have bought a Toshiba laptop, with integrated modem, but with external PCMCIA Toshiba CDROM... When I try to install Mandrake 7.0R2 or RedHat 6.2, it says it needs a floppy disk with PCMCIA drivers... Do you know

Re: [expert] Sounds pathetic!

2000-04-04 Thread Tom Berkley
Yes, you can fire up the mixer K -- Multimedia -- Sound Mixer Panel and then you will have a lot of sliders to diddle with. Have fun, diddling. Tom Glyn Millington wrote: Hi there! Having been unable to get any noise out of my sound card under Mandrake 7,(2.2.14-15mdk) I followed some

Re: [expert] Dell XPS and L-M 7.0

2000-04-03 Thread Tom Berkley
/sbin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 3 -- ttyS0 wants to use irq 4 and S2 wants irq 3 this is what I had to do to get my 3Com pcmcia modem to work in my dell i7k. Tom Dave Brown wrote: The NIC section of the RealPort card is working fine...it talks at 100Mb with the rest of my LAN and even surfs

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-02 Thread Tom Berkley
What are the last two lines in your /etc/inittab? Tom Lane Lester wrote: When I installed Mandrake 7, I chose the X autostart option. Now I'd like to stop that and have a console logon. I changed the inittab line to: id:3:initdefault: but X still autostarts. I'm wondering if it has

Re: [expert] DSL help sought

2000-04-02 Thread Tom Berkley
Trash the internal DSL. I have not used it but my son has and he was not able to get it to work properly with linux even with a lot of tech support from cisco and US West. Swap it for an external model. Tom Ian Hogan wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get my DSL connection to work under Mandrake

Re: [expert] X problems

2000-04-02 Thread Tom Berkley
When you login as a user then su to root and startx for the first time, it sounds like the authentication files are being set up for root. Delete the user, recreate the user, login as the user, startx as the user and see how that works. Tom "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Deim_Ágoston?=" wrote:

Re: [expert] libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

2000-04-02 Thread Tom Berkley
a day or two and read the Maximum RPM book (at least the first half) Most helpful thing any redhat or mandrake user will ever do. Tom John Aldrich wrote: Where the heck do I get the above file I"m trying to update m

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) - and a long reply.....

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Snell
will disappear and the 'features' that Mandrake's customers want (or don't want) will be incorporated into each new upgrade. Good Luck! Tom

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Berkley
point to waiting for six months or maybe it will compelling enough to go for today. I don't know and won't know until you finish all the details of the study and committed it to the spreadsheet for costs and listed the advantages/disadvantages for your particular situation. Have fun. Tom All of life

Re: [expert] Error message

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Berkley
to update the gtk+ and gtk+-devel rpm's first. Then, if you get more error messages, just track them back to the rpm the same way and eventually... you will get everything updated to where your software will compile. Tom Wayne Petherick wrote: After installing the glib version 1.2.7 I am still

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long)

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
and that is fixable. Tossing a linux cd in the trash is just an act of surrendering to that ignorance. Now you can chose to overcome that state of mind or not. The choice is yours, in fact its everyone's choice. Best of luck and hope you choose the path of learning. Best regards Tom Berkley

Re: [expert] Netscape 4.7 BUG?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
Nope. Mine does not do that at all. Looked in ~/nsmail and the Trash file became zero length after I emptied the trash for local mail. My version: netscape-128-common-4.72-1mdk netscape-128-communicator-4.72-1mdk Tom Craig Woods wrote: I just noticed a "buggy" a

Re: [expert] x hangs at start

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Berkley
). If not then other considerations apply and I need more info. Also cruise thru the other panels in netcfg but don't mess with anything else yet. Tom Brent Pathakis wrote: I'm not sure - I'm still new to linux and I played around with a bunch of stuff in it. The only networking settings I played with were

Re: [expert] parallel port modules didn't compile... where are they?

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Berkley
If you're using make xconfig for the kernel configuration, there are two different pages where the parallel port must set to yes. I do not remember where they are located but there are definitely two pages to look for. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, you wrote: I am

Re: [expert] turn of sound from keyboard DING DING

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Berkley
your fingers and paying attention to where the cursor is located, than to turn off the bell. You could turn down the volume on the bell page, which would decrease the irritation, but ultimately you need to pay attention to what you're doing. Tom Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, i have configured

Re: [expert] multi-processor system support in Linux

2000-03-29 Thread Tom Berkley
the other bioses from abit and flash it. Tom Tim Val Litwiller wrote: do you have a bp6 motherboard? I also am only running on one processor because of APIC problem when I run dual, Even with the NOAPIC in the append line in lilo I still can not seem to get the machine to run reliably

Re: [expert] find a file

2000-03-29 Thread Tom Berkley
If you do not perform an updatedb command periodically, the database for the locate command will not be very thorough in its regurgitation. I find the locate command works so fast that its worth the wait for the updatedb command to run and then use the locate command instead of find. Tom Russ

Re: [expert] missing header files

2000-03-29 Thread Tom Berkley
list of rpms. If you had done a development install that would have taken care of the problem but its not necessary. Just use the rpm -qipl somerpmfilename if you want to see the files in the rpm. Tom lorne schachter wrote: I've installed 7.0 on a reformatted partition and when I try

Re: [expert] Formerly: Mandrake 7.02 is messed up

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
. Tom Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 07:22 -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote: I agree with you that 7.0 + is not as backwards compatible. I understand what you are saying about older hardware. But, I do believe the original idea of Linux was so that it worked on all

Re: [expert] /bin/login

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
floppy boot, load your rescue disk, put your mandrake disk in the cdrom, mount it (mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom), rpm -ivh --nodep /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/util-linux-2.10b-2mdk.i586.rpm Then do a three finger reboot, remove the floppy and watch it fly again. Tom PS Caveat: This is one

Re: [expert] Modem ALMOST connects -- SOLUTION!!

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
If you do not have anything in the pap-secret file, get rid of the noauth in /etc/ppp/options, fix the pap-secrets file and try logging in again. Tom Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Below is a solution to a problem that can drive newbies up the wall and straight into a mental asylum. It is

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7 on Dell Latitude CPia

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
You can start with your /etc/fstab file. Comment out any lines with floppy or fd0 in them. Then try your software that was causing the problem. Tom Michael Barker wrote: Hi, I have install Mandrake 7 on a Dell laptop. It installed okay, however it seems to have problems when

Re: [expert] Problems compiling 2.3.99-pre2

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
to compile 2.3.99-pre2 either but I did it with Mandrake 7.0 install and not my redhat 6.2beta development system which I have updated as described above. Do not have time until next week to mess with it anymore. But I'll post it here if I have any success. Tom Nitin Raja Bhatia wrote: Hello, I am

[expert] UDMA 66

2000-03-23 Thread Tom Berkley
options I got the same error message twice. Tried the same thing with my redhat development system booting to a 2.3.99-pre1 kernel and got exactly the same results. Any insights? Tom PS Have to go celebrate the life of my aunt who past away this week. She was over a hundred when she tossed the towel

Re: [expert] Forcing NIC Detection

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Berkley
m is ether i/o_adress irq Look in the /proc for info regarding the io and irqs, make certain that you have the pnp os disabled in the bios. My smp box is offline right now so that I cannot look up some info, I'm not sure where I scrounged my irq info. It may have come from the bios during boot. T

Re: [expert] dev busy problems

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Berkley
Nothing is /var/lock that stood out. Say more about /var/lock. Thanks Tom "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: You might want to check out /var/lock just for grins . . . On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote: | DD | | | As root try this command: | | /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS

Re: [expert] FW-6280BXDR/155 (Dual CPU MB)

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Berkley
with an ultra2 wide scsi drive as your main environment and stick some ide drives in for mass storage where you keep stuff that you do not use a lot. It would be an interesting project just to work out how to best optimize something like that. Enjoy you project, have lots of fun, learn lots Tom

Re: [expert] SCSI Problems

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Berkley
because its reason for existence is to provide scsi module support on boot. Tom Taylor James T NPRI wrote: I 'm experiencing difficulty in getting my new compiled kernel to boot. I have a dual PIII system running an Adaptec SCSI bus. The SMP Kernel that came with Mandrake Version 6.1

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

2000-03-21 Thread Tom Berkley
Use this append in your /etc/lilo.conf VERBATIM: append="mem=192M" always double quotes in lilo.conf Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, thanks for the overwhelming amounts of replies. Now the funny thing is that I have 2 boxes both LM7.02, on one the append worked, on the

Re: [expert] dev busy problems

2000-03-21 Thread Tom Berkley
and have not hacked thru it to find out. I just know that it works for my laptop pcmcia modem. Tom Dennis Davis wrote: Hello I have been using Slackware for some time now, got a Mandrake 6.1 dist with a programming book (GNU C++ for Linux, by Tom Swan). It looked pretty good so I tried

Re: [expert] shutdown..

2000-03-21 Thread Tom Berkley
. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi.. When I do a shutdown -h now the system shutsdown the various file systems and then says system is halted..After this mine says..stopping all md devices, the screen then is filled with columns of scrolling numbers like d3

Re: [expert] pcmcia service causes protection fault

2000-03-20 Thread Tom Berkley
1) Drakconf -- Startup Services or 2) ntsysv (uncheck the pcmcia startup) 3) edit /etc/conf.modules and comment out the line starting pcmcia services Tom Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, i have installed PowerLinux 6.5 (kernel 2.2.13) on my notebook. if i activate the PCMCIA service

Re: [expert] Memory upgrade

2000-03-20 Thread Tom Berkley
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, this question has probably already been raised, but I have added 128M to my original 64M, and would expect it to be picked up by Mandrake automatically, however no such luck. Can anyone

Re: [expert] minicom permission

2000-03-20 Thread Tom Berkley
Won't make any difference, John. If you chmod a symbolic link, the link still always shows 777 but the file or directory that is pointed to is changed. He has to setuid to root pppd and any other intermediary programs. (chmod +s pppd). Then it will work. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20

Re: [expert] cron

2000-03-20 Thread Tom Berkley
Alan I think that all that is required is to (as root user) chmod +s command_that_cron_runs and make certain that only root has write access to the command file. Tom "Alan N." wrote: Hey all.. After a period of inactivity I am back on my work project.. I'm really close but have

Re: [expert] New features in Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
in tools. Try it out. It works and has some stuff thats unique, so far, to Mandrake. Tom

Re: [expert] Question on process / how things get into Mandrake

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Question on process / how things get into Mandrake One of the most wonderful parts of linux is having access to the source

Re: [expert] Samba printing and modem problems

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
lost all interest. Tom John Craig wrote: Hi, I recently installed Makdrake 7 on my laptop, which had previously run RedHat 5.2-6.1. My pcmcia modem won't work, although it worked fine under RedHat. It is recognized, and the appropriate module loads (serial_cs

Re: [expert] Question on process / how things get into Mandrake

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
as that is inappropriate for a repository of solutions. They could then use or forward to the responsible party. Tom PS You can let go anytime, just remember the three fundamental principles of leadership: 1) Follow-up; 2) Follow-up; 3) Follow-up. Its all about raising someone's consciousness

Re: [expert] v7 Minor Annoyance

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
Read in /usr/doc/lilo. You will find that one of the files in /boot is the original mbr and you can restore it to the mbr. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me to get rid of lilo if you use linux but I don't live your life either. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: 2

Re: [expert] Netscape Settings, Bookmarks, Etc

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
/root/.netscape/bookmarks.html make a copy for each user in their .netscape directory Tom Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm trying to get one of the Netscape users to have the same bookmarks as the root user. Is there a way to make a link so that they're always the same or would I just make

Re: [expert] X Won't Start

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
run the Xconfigurator again and see what happens after you finish the process and startx. Tom Richard Kilgore wrote: On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 11:27:44AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote: New v7.0 installation on partition that was running v6.1, accepted the default selection

Re: [expert] Netscape Settings, Bookmarks, Etc

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
) and then zero the mail file with a cat mailfilename ctrl-d. Tom Sevatio Octavio wrote: Thanks for writing back... now another question... What file is responsible for pointing Netscape to bookmarks.html by default? Seve -Original Message- From: Tom Berkley [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Netscape Settings, Bookmarks, Etc

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Berkley
access to a file inside /root. Tom "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: ln -s /root/.netscape/bookmarks.html /home/user/.netscape but . . . the user can't update them then. On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: | I'm trying to get one of the Netscape users to have the same bookmarks a

Re: [expert] use XF86Config from setup

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
to find out is to go look at the source code if you are interested. Tom Andrew George wrote: I thought Xconfigurator was an ascii console program, like sndconfig? On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: The default Mandrake 7.0 install does not use the XFree86

Re: [expert] LILO FAQ.

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
Actually I thought it was a cute way to tell you to read the man pages, /dev/null. Tom /dev/null wrote: man lilo /dev/null try running that command. That's the same result you'd get if I did the FAQ! ;) /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] printing non-ascii in mandrake 7 broken

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
What printer filter did you use and what color depth did you select in the printer filter for you canon printer? Tom Sascha Kiedrowski wrote: Hello around there, I recently set up a mandrake 7 box and it seems it is impossible to print anything but plain ascii. I used printtool to set

Re: [expert] New features in Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
OK newbie Here is the most important piece of advice for this stage of your knowledge adventure 1)man man dhcpcd man innd note this gives not results so, 2)rpm -qfi `locate innd` or rpm -qfi `which commandname` (please note that these are backquotes) 3) http://www.linuxdoc.com 4)Look in

Re: [expert] Question on process / how things get into Mandrake

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
so many bugs in old compilers, that it almost drove me nuts finding work arounds. Now when I find a problem, I fix it, recompile the software and run it. Its o sweet! Life is good with linux. Tom Hoyt wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian T

Re: [expert] UDMA 4 and Linux-Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Berkley
to connect to the hpt66 and I will pass on the results here on this list. So, stayed tuned. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: Yes udma/66. Promise controller. The other versions of linux I have can't even be loaded because the don't see the hard drive. They were

Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0

2000-03-17 Thread Tom Berkley
output. Tom Alvaro Nunes wrote: Hi Can you make color prints or only black white? I ask this because I have a Deskjet 970Cxi and only prints on BW. Thanks Alvaro - Original Message - From: "Tom Berkley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Marc

Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)

2000-03-17 Thread Tom Snell
I am very wary of the LinuxStore at this point, and would NOT refer anyone to do business with them. I ordered LM 7.0 PowerPack on their website several weeks ago, and after a week or so, with no update to the original 'bounced' confirmation e-mail, I called themseveral times. I LIVE in

Re: [expert] Another Boot Problem

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
6.2beta with all the kernelnotes upgrades to compile the latest 2.3.51 kernels. hda has mandrake 7.0 which is very stable and I do not experiment very much with if because I like to have one stable boot version that is usable. Tom Trevor Farrell wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: I see the lilo

Re: [expert] Select Bay cdrom/floppy

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
I would first try removing the /dev/fd0 line from the /etc/fstab file. Its not required in fstab to mount a floppy or a cdrom for that matter unless you want to mount with say the mount -a command or use supermount. After removing the line, your problem should disappear. Tom Ivan Trail wrote

Re: [expert] use XF86Config from setup

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
them both and Xconfigurator has always worked better. Tom John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: When I installed Mandrake 7.0, the GUI installation wored perfectly. But now I cannot get X to work with my video card. Is there a way to use the same exact settings that the GUI

Re: [expert] Installing Realplayer7 -- please help

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
are the permissions on the /bin/rpm file. It should be -rwxr-xr-x, if not chmod will take care of the problem. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: rpm query options can be done by any user but changing anything with rpm -i -U -e all require root privileges. Tom Not on my system

Re: [expert] dual boot

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
(requested at boot but the actual partition size is 22648kb) and I have had no problems loading it up with 7 or 8 initrd images and experimental kernels plus all the other files. Tom Wayne wrote: Sounds like Linux doesn't like where it is installed. If you don't install lilo within the first 1024

Re: [expert] XFree 4 RPM Installation

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
in the rpm; tar ztvf tarballname should give you a list of the files in the tarball). Tom Tony Webster wrote: What package contains libXfont.so.1? This library is required for xfs and others for the install of the XFree86 4 RPM install? Tony Webster South Dakota Library Network Programmer

Re: [expert] Viper 770 ViewSonic E771

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
Not true. I have a viper 770 ultra and had no problems installing and running 6.1 right off the disto disk. Tom Jim wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: I am running Mandrake 6.1 and have been trying to make X work. I run Xconfigurator, and I can select the correct monitor, then I

Re: [expert] Installing Realplayer7 -- please help

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
what package a file belongs to and hence its functionality (rpm -qf filename; or rpm -qfi filename) Save you some bandwidth on your internet connection because users have to go to the internet to find out about stuff. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: My laptop is set to max

Re: [expert] Select Bay cdrom/floppy

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
the other stuff if this does not work. PS You do not need to reboot each time you change the /etc/fstab. Just umount the device or the mount point, make the change and try it again. Hope you're having as much fun as I am. Tom Ivan Trail wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote: I would first

Re: [expert] Multi Head X (OT)

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
that will literally fry your video card, there is not much you can do that will physically damage your box short of dropping it off a table or your wife (or girlfriend?) throwing it out the window because you spend to much time playing with it and not her. Tom Sean Armstrong wrote: I've heard bits and tidbits

Re: [expert] LILO FAQ.

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
He who sees the need will learn what he needs to learn by DOING it. Make it into a game and have fun doing it. You're a lot more qualified to do this than Harry is to manage Boeing. man lilo /dev/null Tom Dev Null wrote: I've noticed that LILO and boot problems are a large part

Re: [expert] Printing only the half ?

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
when you configured the printer, did you use printtool and if so did you select the color depth 24 in the filter configuration. Also what printer filter did you use. The BJC-600 filter should work perfectly for your printer. Tom "M.Jerger" wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [expert] USB

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
2.2.15 must be something that you got from redhat 6.2beta because kernel.org says that latest kernel stable kernel is 2.2.14 which means they probably have stuff from the 2.3.x kernels. From what I have seen in the 2.3 kernels the mouse and keyboard support should work fine now, but printers and

Re: [expert] Installing Realplayer7 -- please help

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
rpm query options can be done by any user but changing anything with rpm -i -U -e all require root privileges. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: First, my thanks to all of you who have written in with suggestions on how to configure the new RealPlayer7

Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0

2000-03-16 Thread Tom Berkley
again after cycling the printer power to make the printer work with linux. Tom Norman Carver wrote: Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem with this with the Epson

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