[expert] Any harm in upgrading? (Rpm question)

that I can use the --nodeps option and bypass these warnings, since I intend to install the updated version of the same program a few minutes later?I have been doing that, but I have a nagging doubt about it! thanks! -turgut -- Turgut Kalfaoglu http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet

[expert] Infrared things

anything exist in harddrake or other configuration utilities, it seems. Oh, this is for an IBM Thinkpad R40, btw.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Crashes during libgl initialization

it happens again a few installs later. :( any ideas why? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Laptop X/different configs

1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer InputDevice Mouse2 SendCoreEvents Screen screen1 EndSection -- Turgut Kalfaoglu http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet

[expert] glxinfo crashes; and solution.

the utilities back working; that is, direct writes enabled, glxinfo working, etc. I just wondered why my libGL got pointed to that wrapper whatever it was.. now I see that /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.1.2 PS: Xine is excellent :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet

Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?

of the stuff is loaded as modules (loaded as needed); but some stuff cannot be made as modules; so those get built into the kernel. -turgut -- Turgut Kalfaoglu http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr Linux: There is worse, but it costs more. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

/mnt/cdrom *IS* your CD-ROM drive. its size varies depending on what type of CD you insert just then. to copy a CD, you can use a mkisofs or something to create an ISO out of it; or use the TAR or some other command to compress the whole thing into a file. -turgut Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Solved: Direct Rendering

on my disk, I just re-did the kernel modules with make -f Makefile.Linux and manually copied radeon.o to /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/char/drm Upon restart, I had my DRI working again. Btw, the hardware is an IBM Thinkpad R40 with 1400x1050 X resolution. -turgut Turgut Kalfaoglu

[expert] Odd message during shutdown..

;' or something. I actually get the $ prompt and after I type a few lines, it resumes. I did an RGREP for this string, did not find it under /etc..! Any ideas? -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

, as modules.) It's very stable; and runs well.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Odd message during shutdown..

Many thanks, everyone! -turgut Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] FYI: If DRI causes you troubles..

Here is some blurb I found on the net, if there are other sufferers like me: Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:27:40 +0200 From: Felix Khling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], dri-devel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dri-users] Mandrake 9 issues and

[expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

the kernel, or is it 'plain vanilla' as found at www.kernel.org? Can I just download the new one from kernel.org, make xconfig, install, and let it rip? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Xfree86 desktop went to default X11

the default KDE desktop back? thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] how to restore startx

me to the RPM or name of the script that creates it during Mandrake 9.1 install? thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Automount missing

Hello James; indeed it's Supermount that I meant, sorry about that. I am now using 2.6.0test7-bk8. I tried the supermount enable command but it did not seem to do anything. Thanks! -turgut On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:54, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hi

[expert] Why not use the default directories?

A general comment: Why doesn't Mandrake, when it's building a new version, does not use the default installation directories of each package? Because otherwise, when we reinstall it, we have a chance of ending up with two versions of the same files! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http

[expert] Automount missing

Hi there. After upgrading my Mandrake's kernel, I realised that I no longer had automount (no big deal actually; I wrote a two-liner to mount the CD-ROM), but it would be nice to have it back. Any ideas on how to re-install Automount into the kernel? Thanks! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.1 reboot problem?

That reminds me - a Thinkpad P40 will not power off either with ACPI nor with APM. It just gets stuck after Linux shuts itself down, and displays 'power off'. This is under 2.6.0test7. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

is that this combination never ran this well under native windows xp :) it would always stutter and make the game unplayable. I'm in heaven! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

14 Oct 2003 7:19 pm, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut can you give some more info on cpu, chipset, video system? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony

[expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 04:37 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Hi there - I just installed the CVS version of wine, to my Mandrake 9.1 (with kernel 2.6.0test7), and noticed that OpenGL applications complain that 'that mode of openGL is not supported', regardless

[expert] thinkpad buttons; how to enable them?

Hello - I was wondering how to enable the thinkpad buttons under Mandrake 9.1 ? Things like volume control and screen brightness settings do not seem to function under X. Any ideas? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

[expert] ATI Radeon 7500 performance

complains that Rules.Make cannot be found. If I omit that from Makefile, it burps about something else; oh yes, missing version.h I think. Any ideas what else to try? Thanks! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want

[expert] Mandrake 9: Thinkpad R40 and DMA xfers

Testing with hdparm, I found that use_dma was off, and enabling it gives an error with Thinkpad R40. I would like the tenfold increase in disk transfer speed; can anyone assist on how to achieve that? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services

[expert] I dont want to boot Windows!

) Printer. When I print from Linux, the thing prints like a low-res graphical picture; and the output is too ugly to be sent off to a customer. Any *pointers would be appreciated on how to solve these problems. Thanks a lot, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet

Re: [expert] segmentation fault

Try http://www.segfault.org ; a great site :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Abraham Mandac wrote: I don't know if this is a stupid question

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] free news group servers

You can find lists of open news servers at http://www.newzbot.com huh? I wasnt aware that someone was giving NNTP feed for free on the net. Is anyone aware of anywhere giving a full feed for free? -turgut

Re: [expert] Id x respawning too fast, throttled for 5 minutes

No problem, many thanks.. this machine did not need X anyway; so I just disabled it from /etc/inittab -- thanks for pointing out that that's where it was coming from.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey

[expert] Id x respawning too fast, throttled for 5 minutes

After upgrading a machine to 8.0 (I chose the upgrade button during install), I'm getting this message, Id x respawning too fast the interesting thing is, it's really an x, not an ID number or anything! So, how can I tell which process is respawning too fast? Many thanks, -turgut - Turgut

[expert] INETD hangs

A customer's server is doing odd things; at startup it says: Starting INET Services. and gets stuck there, for good it seems, until you do a CTRL-BREAK, etc. It displays [FAILED] and goes on.. When the machine comes up, there is no 'inetd' running. So, you start inetd manually from a

[expert] Mandrake 8 dies on batteries

experience this. Any ideas? Btw, it's a Thinkpad A20m (P3, 600) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] sockets refusing to die

restart the game before the sockets close, I get a 'cannot bind' error). Many thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

Re: [expert] Resizing / partition

Partition Magic 5 can resize Linux partitions as well. I use it quite often, for exactly the same reason. -turgut -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon

Andreas: I had to go to the 3.x Xfree86 to get decent performance out of ATI Mobility of my laptop. Perhaps you need to too. It was not easy, but it works well now. Full-screen 3d apps still crash the machine, but windowed apps work much faster now.. -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http

Re: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !

Actually, I have everything in other partitions, so the / partition should, in theory, not grow at all. I have /usr , /var , /home in other partitions. Even /tmp is at /var/tmp.. Really odd.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

[expert] mounting a tape!

mount that tape locally on the machine that has the tape; but it refuses to be mounted as well :) any ideas how? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] / gets smaller and smaller !

I just rebootd out server, and noticed something really odd. the root partition was full before the reboot, showing 100% in use, and no free sectors in "df" . After reboot, it says its only 20% full (!) but I noticed that its creeping back up, its now at 38%, and free sectors decreasing!

Re: [expert] Need Whois Server for venus3.ttnet.net.tr

It's Turkish Telecom's own dialup thing. ill managed and configured; we get spam thru it. Try www.telekom.gov.tr , and good luck. -turgut On Thursday 14 June 2001 16:42, Albert E. Whale wrote: I am investigating the connecting ISP for a Domain called venus3.ttnet.net.tr. I am unable to

[expert] Graphical printouts - unwanted!

This is odd; here is my setup: We have an HP IIIsi printer on a machine. I have KDE finally set up right so KMAIL would print to it. However, when it prints, the text is printed faintly, the gray background is printed, so it's a mess. Any ideas how to get a decent clean printout? Thanks, -turgut

Re: [expert] Most Popular Linux Broswers

Hello, What about Grail...? the holy one? :) Never heard of the Grail.I have Mozilla and NS loaded. is Grail worth a spin? -t

[expert] !automount and now !vfat

On Wednesday 06 June 2001 18:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2001 08:17 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote:  I cant figure this out; it seems I lost the ability to mount the CD's  automatically.  Was it part of the kernel? I upgraded my kernel..  How do we enable it again

[expert] cute RPM output..

[root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -e kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm error: package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm is not installed [root@tk-laptop RPMS2]# rpm -i kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk.i586.rpm package kdebase-devel-2.1.1-13mdk is already installed now what :) -t -- EgeNet Internet

[expert] how to enable automount ?

I cant figure this out; it seems I lost the ability to mount the CD's automatically. Was it part of the kernel? I upgraded my kernel.. How do we enable it again? Thanks! -t -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] More printing blues..

I use LPD on an OS/2 machine to print. that OS/2 machne, in turn, prints it via netBEUI to an NT machine. (This was the only way, without spending months on it, to get printouts). The thing is, when I print from applications, like Netscrape (!) or Kmail; I get the background printed; and the

Re: [expert] Installing MSWord 97 using Wine -- How?

the Mandrake boxes to the NT machine via netBEUI; dont ask me why we did it this way, but it works :) but I could not figure out how to define an HP LJ IIIsi (non PS) to Star Office. I can print from other apps, like Netscape or Mozilla. Help :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http

Re: [expert] Stability Concerns

I'd hate to append to a me too series; but just to say that Mandrake 8 for me, is ROCK SOLID. No problems.. (Hardware: Thinkpad A20m) -turgut -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] root, running low on space

hi there.. on a machine of ours, the / root partition is running low on space. I have everything else on their own parttiions, like /usr , /home and /var , but the remaining part ( /etc, etc!) is still too much for the root partition.. any ideas how I can "enlarge" this partition somehow?

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8 vs 7.2 with mouse!

Great; glad you got it to work; I just copied the resulting kernel as a new file within the /boot directory, like cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage /boot/kernel.2.4.4 (I made up the kernel.2.4.4 name; I'm very creative when it comes to filenames :) then went into /etc/lilo.conf and

[expert] OpenGL on full-screen

Greetings. In order to get 3D acceleration of ATI Mobility to work, I installed the older XFREE. Works great now - I have gears speed in excess of 300FPS. However, the games that come with 8.0 that require full-screen crash the machine - with vertical blue lines running on an otherwise dark

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.4 !

perhaps you did not include something that your hardware needed, like IDE drives? Also, did you do that bit about links to the header directories must be symbolic links.. On my Mandrake 8, they were not symbolic, they were real directories! -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http

Re: [expert] What to do with Trackpoint Mouse in Mandrake 8?

Yes - download the original kernel from www.kernel.org - compile it and it will work automatically... Many thanks! is there anything I should watch out for? I never built a kernel before! thanks, -turgut

Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console

Benjamin: That must be the serial drivers coming to life.. nothing to worry about, and you dont have to do a CTRL-C; just keep typing; those are just messages being blurted out; I get them too.. -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

[expert] Kernel 2.4.4 !

! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr On 11 May 2001, Bartlomiej Muryn wrote: On 10 May 2001 16:05:21 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone offer an *easy* solution

[expert] What to do with Trackpoint Mouse in Mandrake 8?

Can anyone offer an *easy* solution to the trackpoint mouse in Mandrake 8 (Trackpoint mouse is seen as a PS/2 mouse in Windoze) ? I'm getting tired of lugging the serial mouse around :) Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] Dismal Graphics performance in Mandrake 8

In the config file: Load glx Load dri Thanks; I had: Section Module Load dbe I added the two items you mentioned, restarted X, Afterwards gears still shows around 129.000 FPS. Would it be wise to rpm -e the XFree86 items and re-install the XFree 4 again? then of course make sure

Re: [expert] mouseconfig: requires a mouse :)

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 07:38, you wrote: Mouseconfig is a text based program you run from a term: no need for a mouse. Mousedrake is a different program .. a gui thing that may indeed require a mouse. True - I believe mouseconfig is clever enough that, if running under X, launches

[expert] DRI installation fails

]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dri/xc/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 [root@tk-laptop xc]# - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

Re: [expert] mouseconfig: requires a mouse :)

Installation using keyboard was a pain but I found that we can jump to the next steps of installation using F12 key so doing severaltimes this I made this installation working... Yes, otherwise I would not have been able to install Mandrake. (text mode crashes; graphical interface wont let

[expert] Trying to install Xfree 3.3,6 so I can have hardware accel.

. At a later reboot, nothing had changed; I was still at Xfree 4! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr On Wed, 9 May 2001, KompuKit wrote: Well...I finally upgraded...to 8.0 from 7.2

[expert] Success: Re-install of Mandrake 8

beautifully! -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] here now, gone tomorrow..

At next reboot, the gears has slowed down from 300.000 FPS down to 100.000 FPS again! I just installed a few games and gcc in between those two reboots! I dont understand what's going on. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

Re: [expert] here now, gone tomorrow..

I solved it; actually, you guys solved it. The 'XFdrake -expert' command did the trick; I chose the hw accelerated 3.3.6 again, and the next time I started X, I had my FPS way up again! Thanks a lot, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

[expert] segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the installcrashes

: Internet station, Network computer, configuration, console tools, game machine, utilities.. and I hit OK, I get that message, and machine dies. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http

[expert] mouseconfig: requires a mouse :)

just a blurb that mouseconfig program (mousedrake) requires a mouse to navigate the dialogs! :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

[expert] Mandrake 8 installation on A20m

could not escape from the SCSI dialog, nor from one of the printer dialogs. The reboot went well, and I have a graphical interface. still mouse does not move.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online

[expert] Dismal Graphics performance in Mandrake 8

, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

Re: [expert] segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing asthe installcrashes

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get an interesting message (see Subject) while installing Mandrake 8 on my Thinkpad A20m from scratch (it's NOT an upgrade). First off, as you How much memory does it actually have? 192MB. Never had any

Re: [expert] mouseconfig: requires a mouse :)

On Tuesday 08 May 2001 16:42, you wrote: not true! just use your keyboard's TAB key and the ARROW keys to navigate, and ENTER to select a mouse. Well, in my case, it was not possible. no key combination could get me to the ENTER option, or even make any difference in the dialog box that was

[expert] refreshing new error: Konqeror :)

Nice to see a different kind of error message :) Today Konqueror is giving me this: (I entered www.google.com in the Location box) Warning - Konqueror Open 'http://www.google.com' using Konqueror?' [Save to Disk] [Open][Cancel] naturally, I hit OPEN, and it gives: Error - Konqueror

Re: [expert] samba trouble

On Thursday 03 May 2001 01:26, Joshua Rodman wrote: * kaab kaoutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010502 11:00]: HI guys! I'm still having trouble with samba! Join the club! I was never able to get Samba to Print on a Win NT print server (that's all our NT machines are good for). Samba/Cups is too

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel on IBM laptops (A20 or 1400)

Dave: The only different is that /proc/asound/cards says --- No Sound Card in my case. I have a nagging suspicion about two things: 1) I/O / IRQ conflicts (I dual boot to WindozeME for games; and that has no problems with our Crystal Sound chip) 2) Older snd-card-cs46xx or other drivers

Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 19:22, you wrote: Turgut, I am having exactly the same problem, with my ThinkPad 1400. The soundcard worked fine with kernel 2.2.17, but when I upgraded to 2.2.19, it stopped working. The modules load with no errors that I have found, but I still have no sound. I am

[expert] Knode ?

This is odd; when I use Knode, the news reader, it shows all articles as 'missing'. I click on any article and it says missing. It used to work fine, but it deteriorated over time. It used to be that some articles were fine, others were missing; now they ALL seem missing. I even set the expiry

[expert] XF86 died today.

-installed the XF86 server, and now I'm a happy camper, X works again. Last night I was tinkering with reinstalling Mesa-3, I wonder if that caused it. I'll never know :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey

[expert] ALSA sound in new kernel

for it. I give up :( -t - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

Oh, many thanks! I was totally unaware of depmod -a command. I tried that, and afterwards did a /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart and it complained about the same thing. argh. I dont seem to have a sndconfig program anywhere on the disk.. Btw, I did not build a kernel; I simply did an rpm

[expert] Mandrake 8 on a Thinkpad a20m

, it passed that stage, I chose to keep the partitions and not format them either. It then croaked at: unable to open /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages More to follow if I can get beyond :) -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All

Re: [expert] sound and the new kernel

Many thanks for the sndconfig; unfortunately it displays that my Cirrus Logic|CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] is currently NOT supported, and quits. sigh. and I used to have sound when I first installed 7.2. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com

[expert] sound and the new kernel

Greetings. Ever since I upgraded to the new kernel, 2.2.19-4 (?) , whatever was available on the MandrakeUpdate, I lost the sound support on the Thinkpad A20m. I also lost the modem support, but managed to get that back :) Kernel RPM installation went fine, as outlined by that 'security' web

[expert] RPM vs ./configure, make, make install

an rpm -e --nodeps before doing a make install, but is this the best way, could it break things in the long run? For example, Mesa, or Alsa drivers. What is the 'recommended way' to upgrade things? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http

[expert] Sound weirdness with Thinkpad A20m

Sound is doing really weird things lately; (that's on top of xfs that refuses to start at init time; I just put an xfs in 'startx' to start it manually; no idea why it doesn't work at boottime!) At startup, it plays the sound at about 1/10th the speed; with a distortion that would make

[expert] Upgrade from 7.2..

I'd like to upgrade my laptop from 7.2 to 8, but, is it safe? Would I lose Netscape settings, Kmail emails? Knode groups? Installed apps in /usr/local/ with various libs? Thanks, -turgut -- EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com

[expert] Kmail and offline browsing

If you are on a dialup and using Kmail to process your mail, after you send a mail, and if you are not on the net just then, Kmail will keep "bugging" you, saying cannot connect to SMTP server, every x minutes, for each message you composed. -turgut ----- Turgut Kalfao

[expert] Mandrake Update on 7.2

Mandrake update is too frustrating to use.. As a mortal user would, I clicked on SELECT ALL (which doesnt work, btw, unless if you first click on one of the items listed) and clicked on DO UPDATES. It gave me a warning about one of the packages, I clicked on FORCE. It gave me a page of errors

Re: [expert] I give up on linux

I think that guy deserves Windows.. Maybe then he'll realise that perhaps something is wrong with his hardware instead. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu, EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with http

Re: [expert] SOF and mandrake 7.2

Um, how can we play SOF or Halflife under Linux? Thanks, -turgut EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Find all of Turkey online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Gnome+Enlightment=blank desktop

item does not show up anywhere.. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu, EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Gnome, blank desktop

Well, I installed 7.2 on a blank disk (I actually reformatted 7.1 and installed 7.2 on it). I chose to install Gnome and Enlightment to try it out, but did not choose KDE. Now when I do a startx, I get a totally blank desktop; except for the virtual desktop switcher in the corner. When I

[expert] Thinkpad A20m , mandrake 7.1

Just a heads-up that IBM Thinkpad A20m hangs 50% of the time during a linux boot, getting stuck at the line where it suppose to load the sound card's driver.. (CS something.. I forgot the number!) Power off is the only remedy.. -turgut EgeNet Internet Services:

Re: [expert] logrotate

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:24:52 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: Yeah, use an ftp client (ncftp, etc.) and connect to a mirror, download the updates, then run "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" and upgrade the packages. Very easy. Oh, thanks. I tried ftp.mandrake.com, found NOTHING, not even a text file of

Re: [expert] logrotate

to 9.. If I reduce it by 1 %d.gz, I get the Argument List too long. It's naturally quite inefficient, takes hours to run. I was hoping there was a Unix utility that would delete all files without first expanding the parameters.. =turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu, EgeNet Internet Services http

RE: [expert] logrotate

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:45:33 -0400, Bill Shirley wrote: rm -Rf /var/log/news /var/log/mail mkdir -m 755 /var/log/news /var/log/mail Many thanks Bill and others for helping out! Two servers are now happy, with a cron job to delete all files from the mail and news directories. Of course, that is

[expert] logrotate

list too long any ideas what you can do to save your servers? :) Thank you! -turgut PS: 5 million files is an estimate. - Turgut Kalfaoglu, EgeNet Internet Services http://www.egenet.com.tr All of Turkey Online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com

[expert] Upgrade from Suse 6.1..

Does anyone know how feasable it is to upgrade a Suse machine (production!!) with the new Mandrake? Would things crash and burn? :) Thanks, -turgut EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Find all of Turkey online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with

[expert] Big Problem: RPM -e lx_suse

Help; got myself stuck very nicely. I was trying to install IBM's Object Rexx on our main web server running Suse 6.1. RPM said it needed GLIBC 2.0 and 2.1 components. So, I tried installing glibc that I got from Mandrake 7.1. rpm then said it conflicted with lx_suse . So, I did a stupid

Re: [expert] Big Problem: RPM -e lx_suse

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:06:40 +0200, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Now, it won't let me install lx_suse again, saying: # rpm -i lx_suse.rpm /usr/src/linux is not empty Just try rpm -U (for Update) Many thanks for the feedback; I tried that, it gives the same error. I even tried it with

[expert] Upgrading from Suse 6.1 to Mandrake 7.1 (or 7.2)

Since some applications depend on the newer libraries; it seems (Object Rexx) we seem to have to upgrade from Suse to Mandrake.. Any ideas how we can go about it? The machine is a critical server, hosting dozens of web sites. Any ideas how can go about it? Thanks, -turgut - Turgut

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