[expert] Printing Problem in MDK 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread rob
ok... Does anyone know what this means and how I could go about fixing it? This is a stock 9.1 Upgrade from 9.0 and whereas printing worked (after a fashion) in 9.0, it does not in 9.1 :( Thanks -- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] rob]# printerdrake (printerdrake:14345

[expert] any thoughts on this rpm error?

2002-11-13 Thread Rob
# rm -rf /var/tmp/ [root@rwideman2 share]# rpm -ivh --allfiles --replacefiles --force /root/freeswan-1.98b-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:freeswan ### [100%] warning: created %_t

[expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread rob
:lp=/dev/lp0:\ :if=/usr/share/turboprint/lib/tpfilterraw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/turbo1raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/turbo1raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/turbo1raw/acct:\ :la@:mx#0:\ :tr=:cl:sh: # # ### END turboprint Thanks for any help Rob Want to

[expert] free (as in beer)

2002-12-26 Thread rob
What does this mean and why do I keep seeing it in connection with any discussion of Linux?."free (as in beer)"? Thanks, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Fwd: Re: [OT] Stupid question about Galeon andbookmarks

2003-01-18 Thread rob
I believe the drop-down window is to what he is referring. I get the same thing. It will not scroll beyond the bottom of the page. The only way I can see my bookmarks beyond the bottom of the screen is to open up "edit bookmarks". Rob On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 20:34, Ronald J. Hall w

[expert] Continuing Printing Problems

2002-04-07 Thread rob
ntified as a HP DeskJet 970Cse but something is amiss. Any clues as to how to track down the problem will be greatly appreciated. Rob # printerdrake Starting CUPS printing system: [ OK ] scheduler is running Cannot read file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/

[expert] New 9.2 Install prompts "respawning" error

2003-11-03 Thread rob
rtake? Many thanks in advance. Rob -- rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Video Cams

2001-01-04 Thread rob
drivers for Linux. Thanks in advance.. Rob

[expert] Xfce

2001-01-15 Thread rob
f anyone has a clue as to what the above is all about and how to prevent what is happening, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Rob

[expert] Menu Bars in X

2001-04-01 Thread rob
this and the menu bar at the top that reads "Message Edit View Options Attach Settings Help" is very large, as is the To: Cc: Bcc: Subject: and I don't know how it happened or how to fix it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Rob

[expert] problem reading CDRWs

2001-04-19 Thread rob
:/mnt/cdrom..failed you do not have access rights to this location". I have tried this logged in as root and as a user (disk burned as a user). I was able to burn a cdrw in 8.0b3, but then not able to read it, with same message. Any ideas? rob

[expert] cdrom/cdr problems

2001-05-26 Thread rob
/dev/cdrom , /dev/cdrom2/ (the cr burner in scsi em). Any other suggestions would be great thank rob

Re: [expert] cdrom/cdr problems

2001-05-27 Thread rob
) gives error messages. On 26 May 2001 12:09:00 -0500, rob wrote: > I am having a problem accessing cdrs that i have burned in LM8. I have > used gcombust which worked fine in 7.2. A disk burned with with gcombust > on 7.2 works fine. Burning with gcombust seems to be working fine with &g

[expert] nessus

2001-06-03 Thread rob
WOW this isnt a problem but some tips. I just installed nessus, a security scanner which looks really good. RPMs are available but I found out the hard way which ones you neednessus, nessus-client and nessus-plugins. the web page at www.nessus.org does a good job of walking through the configu

[expert] nessus

2001-06-03 Thread rob
WOW this isnt a problem but some tips. I just installed nessus, a security scanner which looks really good. RPMs are available but I found out the hard way which ones you neednessus, nessus-client and nessus-plugins. the web page at www.nessus.org does a good job of walking through the configu

[expert] nessus

2001-06-03 Thread rob
WOW this isnt a problem but some tips. I just installed nessus, a security scanner which looks really good. RPMs are available but I found out the hard way which ones you neednessus, nessus-client and nessus-plugins. the web page at www.nessus.org does a good job of walking through the configu

[expert] nessus

2001-06-03 Thread rob
WOW this isnt a problem but some tips. I just installed nessus, a security scanner which looks really good. RPMs are available but I found out the hard way which ones you neednessus, nessus-client and nessus-plugins. the web page at www.nessus.org does a good job of walking through the configu

[expert] How To tell *REAL* memory usage - top & ps ??

2002-02-13 Thread Rob
NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1397 rob 11 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:04 soffice.bin 1421 rob8 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1422 rob9 0 57912 56M 41696 S 0.0 15.0 0:00 soffice.bin 1423 rob9

Re: [expert] konqueror probs any ideas???

2002-02-14 Thread Rob
better ideas to try first. Rob On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:45, you wrote: > HI I have a problem with konqueror. > When I login about half the time konqueror wont start up. It its in the > oanel tring to but after about thirty seconds it dies. The konqueror for > exploring the filesys

Re: [expert] boot trouble

2002-02-15 Thread Rob
t all mine are). Rob On Friday 15 February 2002 04:14, you wrote: > I just upgraded to a MSI K7T266 Pro with 1.3 GHZ Athlon and 512MB DDR RAM. > LILO won't boot. I get "LI" and it hangs. An FAQ suggested that /sbin/lilo > be executed from a boot disk to correct the probl

[expert] INIT.D Scripts Alsa vs Sound

2002-02-15 Thread Rob
Can anyone tell me why I have two init.d scripts alsa and sound why not one, whats the difference ? Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-19 Thread Rob
also sybase, DB3, and Ingres. On Tuesday 19 February 2002 13:41, you wrote: > »Harold Hartley« sagte am 2002-02-19 um 08:16:50 -0800 : > > I was wondering how many database software is there available for linux > > hmm, i can think of 4 right now. > > > and what the names of them may be.. > > mys

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread Rob
dont know what experience (or closed minded ?? viewpoint) Harold has to justify masocism in regard to postgres (maybee he used a very old version a long time ago - ?). Anyway ignore such pointless insults. Take a look yourself and make up your own mind. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-20 Thread Rob
True. My mistake. Sorry Harold. On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:00, you wrote: > »Rob« sagte am 2002-02-20 um 11:11:21 + : > > On Tuesday 19 February 2002 13:43, Harold wrote: > > ^^ > > No, Harold did not say this. Please lea

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-21 Thread Rob
ed things like say building up class libraries or processing XML messages via SOAP then Perl still lets me via modules in CPAN but thats not the same for PHP. Course I might be missing something re PHP, love to learn more if I am. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [expert] Mirror / backup

2002-02-21 Thread Rob
have a lot of machines and dont want to install the same software on each. Rob On Wednesday 20 February 2002 17:01, you wrote: > dd can be done or you can use cpio > > > There are however mirroring utilities for linux that you can download and > install. These utilities do a mirr

Re: [expert] databases for linux

2002-02-21 Thread Rob
> »Joseph Braddock« sagte am 2002-02-20 um 19:16:20 -0600 : > > I'd have to concur with Rob. Postgres seems to be a very feature rich > > and stable database. We are looking to moving some of our Oracle > > Well, MySQL *has* transactions and stored procedures (not as

Re: [expert] Using a Laptop in Different Environments

2002-02-22 Thread Rob
I made all the scripts in /etc/ that setup my network simlinks to file owned by my user in a special conf dir. I set eth0 to be user controlled. I then have scripts called 'setlocaiton_home' and 'setlocation_work' that put the right files in the similnked special conf dir and then call ifdown eth

Re: [expert]

2002-02-22 Thread Rob
Try the IPTables or IPChains How TO All linux how to are on www.linuxdoc.org Rob On Friday 22 February 2002 13:35, you wrote: > Hello everybody: > > I'm a new member of this list. I need some help! > > I'm trying to configure a router. I only have a eth0 and a ppp link,

Re: [expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-26 Thread Rob
parm (on 8.1 at least) more info... [rob@skrimir rob]$ whereis hdparm hdparm: /sbin/hdparm /usr/share/man/man8/hdparm.8.bz2 [rob@skrimir rob]$ rpm -qf /sbin/hdparm hdparm-4.1-4mdk [rob@skrimir rob]$ rpm -ql hdparm-4.1-4mdk /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /sbin/hdparm /usr/share/doc/hdparm-4.1 /usr/share/d

[expert] Default Sound Card with two cards

2002-02-26 Thread Rob
most sound through the sound blaster but some still through the mother board. Thanks for any ideas Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Measurable Firewall Rules

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
ble turn off every service you dont need/use, use iptables/chains to firewall block all incoming ports from the internet, and all internal ports on that machine except squid and ssh, and then get nmap and scan the fucker to check it really is behaving the way you think it is. Rob Wan

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
n and just let it all live it there. As for swap I used to use a rule of 2xphysical Ram which I still think is a pretty good rule but these days my machines have plenty ram so dont really get to use much swap. That said disk space is cheap so unless you got small disk give em 2xphsyram or more

Re: [expert] Mail server on home LAN

2002-02-27 Thread Rob
nd yes > - If you can point me to the right direction, I would be very happy... www.linuxdoc.org www.postfix.org ?? .com ?? man fetchmail man procmail sorry I cant help more I know I'm not doing much more than saying RTFM but I know all the stuff is there but I just dont know it fro

[expert] emu10k problems

2002-03-08 Thread rob
x27;t find alsa". In 8.1, in spite of the error, the system sounds would begin to work. In 8.2, no such luck. Whats the deal? Rob http://linuxlaunchpad.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[expert] getting agpgart module to load

2002-03-17 Thread Rob
I have a Sony Viao FX290 with i815 graphics, so it requires the agpgart module. For some reason it won't load automatically. It is in modules.devfs. I can load it manually with insmod. What do I have to do to get it loading automagically? Thanks, Rob. Want to buy your Pack or Ser

Re: [expert] getting agpgart module to load

2002-03-17 Thread Rob
hat do I have to > >do to get it loading automagically? Thanks, Rob. > > > > > > Perhaps something like: > > echo alias char-major-226 agpgart >> /etc/modules.conf > > Unless it's in that file already. Also, if you don't object to it > alw

Re: [expert] Harddrake doesn't work in 8.2

2002-03-19 Thread Rob
, I have to hit the power button to reboot. I think it is a device probing problem. The screen turns black, then a cursor, then nothing. I had similar problems with 8.1 install. I had to do it with expert noauto or it locked up as well. Rob. -- -

[expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
started up lpd. Thanks, Rob. -- - The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2/update

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
Update, LPRng will work fine with apsfilter if I start it manually. It just doesnt want to start on bootup. Once I start it, its AOK. Rob. civileme wrote: > > Rob wrote: > > >I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It > >detects my printe

[expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
x27;t imagine that there is no one else with these problems, and I am curious how they can be solved. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived ha

Re: [expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 10 February 2003 08:44 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:04, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am not new to linux, but new to Mandrake and USB stuff. > > > > I am having a problem consistantly syncing my visor using > > KPilot/JPilot and anyth

Re: [expert] Syncing Handspring Visor Deluxe?!

2003-02-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
ving a bad time with it? I have also been unsucessfully messing with the 2.4.20 kernel, and I have noted that there is something in the USB drivers about slow connecting USB devices. Maybe the Visor is one? And I wonder if the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel has it configured for slow devices? Rob Gras

[expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?

2003-02-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
me syncing. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt libraries on my machine. According rpmdrake to install qt3-3.1.1 would have to overhaul my system, and I can't find another version of qt either on a mandrake mirror or on rpmfind to install. Any thoughts? -- Rob Blom

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 15 February 2003 02:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt > > libraries on my machine. &g

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
something I am not familar with, and I doubt that #1 is advisable, and 2 seems iffy, and 3 seems rock solid. any further assistance? Rob On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 0

Re: [expert] [OT] Latest on [MDK/Linux in general] support for DVD writers?!?

2003-02-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
ere is no standard on how they work. Apparently all are using proprietary drivers to run them, and while it might be possible to get one to work, it will only be specific for that brand. After a standard comes out, there should be a good number of programs out there to support them. Ro

[expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
to open device... 21:52:25 Could not open device: /dev/ttyUSB0 (will retry) 21:53:45 HotSyncing. Please press the HotSync button. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'.

Re: [expert] KPilot woes

2003-02-18 Thread Rob Blomquist
e connection. Is something else necessary to be running? Any ideas? > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 18:57, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am suffering with KPilot on Mandrake 9.0, running the rpms from > > Mandrake of KDE 3.1.0. > > > > KPilot appears to be trying to access /dev/tt

[expert] Playing DVDs, Part II

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
saying, "There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd://VIDEO_TS.VOB'. What do I need to do to get an input plugin, or is this the end with xine, and I need to get back to my Ogle/Alsa configuration? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box,

Re: [expert] syncing Palm m515 with J-Pilot

2003-02-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
-f /var/log/messages. Good luck. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack o

[expert] Argh! fsck failed on boot!

2003-02-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
block restoration. Please help. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] ATX shutdown

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
What do I need to do? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!?

2003-03-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
also handles Metacrawler and Hotbot which just went to multiple engine searching. The great thing about shortcuts is that they are saved after the search so they can be reused like copernic, but its all in the same interface, not a new interface. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of th

[expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
installation of Mandrake 9.0 did not have this problem. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and lived happily ever after. Want to buy your Pack or Servic

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
dma is causing the mouse to missfire. How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux and

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD > > drive? > > You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility. (I'm assuming > you do

[expert] DMA is on, and the mouse still goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
si drives need to be pointed at the original ide drive name, hdc, hdd, etc. So its on, the the mouse is still being a nutcase. Any more ideas? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows 95 or bette

[expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
The subject says it all. I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. any ideas about what I can really do to fix this? -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA On

Re: [expert] Urpmi and rpmdrake: Everything already installed

2003-03-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 14 March 2003 07:32 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > The subject says it all. > > I am having constant problems with this, and the Mandrake page does > not give any idea why this is occuring. I have now tried twice to > run urpmi.update cdrom8 without any satisfaction. > >

[expert] Fuji FinePix 2650, supermount, and "Removable media"

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
What else do I need to do to get it running? 3. I am also interested in seeing an icon for the camera appear in "Removable media" how do I go about that in KDE? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack o

[expert] Logitech USB Wheel Mouse

2003-03-21 Thread Rob Blomquist
button functioning, but not the wheel motion. This XF86Config file differs from the ones I have previously seen. where are the quotes around the names of the fields? What about the quotes around "4 5" has Mandrake changed things? Or am I behind the times. what should my pointe

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
surprised. But I am still hand loading my USB drivers, so I probably have forgot something. I got all my information from the linux-usb.org site, but it appears to be down right now. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 22 March 2003 10:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 6:44 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Saturday 22 March 2003 09:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 5:28 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: > > > > I have a fuji Finep

Re: [expert] FinePix S304 usb camera - latest attempt of many

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
ough it may work in 9.1. I can wait, if > that's the case. The other option is to buy a download station for the memory chips. then they can be mounted by Linux, as they will be seen as drives. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in comput

[expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
this problem, and can help me with waht package needs to be installed? I am running 2.4.19-16mdk. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:05 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 08:44, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to get lm_sensors up and running on my machine. > > Running sensors-detect, I have scratched on the number of > > detected devices, and found that the cau

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: > have you tried: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sensors]# modprobe adm1021 > without the '.o.gz'? Duh. Thanks. It worked like a charm. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing

Re: [expert] lm_sensors and i2c devices

2003-03-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:45 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2003 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: > > have you tried: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sensors]# modprobe adm1021 > > without the '.o.gz'? > > Duh. Thanks. It worked like a charm. But still sensor

Re: [expert] Nvidia Kernel Driver

2003-03-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
ndrake releasing a version with out testing the NVidia drivers better. +5 for keeping the 9.0 kernel around. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-28 Thread Rob Blomquist
I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia card. What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For

Re: [expert] Can two mice be used with Mandrake simultaneously?

2003-04-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
information that I have came from www.linux-usb.org. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Argh! Turned off devfs, and where are the CDs?

2003-04-02 Thread Rob Blomquist
etected in Grip, although I am pointing Grip at /dev/cdrom. The CDRW is going to be a scsi device, I think, but I am not sure what device it will show up as. And how about /dev/USBtty0 and USBtty1? where will I link them to? Argh. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by t

Re: [expert] USB problems and USB, from SmartMedia to webcam

2003-04-04 Thread Rob Blomquist
ms running. Another place to look into is www.linux-usb.org, it is loaded with good information on devices, their setup and problems. It really bums me out that there is seemingly no help from Mandrake with this. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in

[expert] Config settings for urpmi to use 9.1 CDROMs

2003-04-05 Thread Rob Blomquist
By mistake, I deleted my setup for urpmi/rpmDrake to use the CDROMs of 9.1. I am using the download edition. If someone could email the proper configuration to me, I would appreciate it emmensely. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] NEdit file opening acting strangely on Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Gillen
x4031a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x4033c000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4047) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) If anyone else has seen this problem and knows how to fix it, I would be very grateful. Thanks! ROB Want

[expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
length, which would require about 70Mb files. Any ideas on how to edit them? Console would be fine, too, just so long as I have an indexing method to find the start and stop positions. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] WMAs under Linux?

2003-06-06 Thread Rob Blomquist
With the proliferation of streaming WMAs under Linux, I am wondering if there are any programs to play these, or plugins that are in development for XMMS? Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDM greetstring in 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
kkdm, and the Mandrake KMenu are all a joke compared to what is available from the developers. And yes, the look they want is buried, and should be more easily corrected. The big stand out for me is to see the xscreensaver list show up in the kscreensavers list like they do by default. Rob --

[expert] Wine-20030115 & winedefault.reg

2003-05-31 Thread Rob Lindsay
have made all the suggested changes to the config file and look near to success. How do I get the winedefault.reg file sorted without going back to source Any help much appreciated. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Scrambled CD/DVD/CDRW drives

2003-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
I just rebuilt my computer into a new bigger case and in reconnecting the drives, I have scrambled the cables. Now my 52x IDE CDROM is mounted as scd0, My CD Burner is mounted as hdb, and my DVD is mounted as hdc. I would like the CDROM to be mounted as hdb, the CD burner as scd0 and the DVD as

Re: [expert] Scrambled CD/DVD/CDRW drives

2003-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 31 May 2003 08:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 20:18, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I just rebuilt my computer into a new bigger case and in reconnecting the > > drives, I have scrambled the cables. > > > > Now my 52x IDE CDROM is mounted a

Re: [expert] Alternatives to editing mp3/ogg files in Audacity?

2003-06-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 06 June 2003 11:31 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I regualrily download streaming-mp3 files with XMMS. And I want to clean > them up with Audacity, but above about 20Mb it crashes while loading the > file. For the record my machine is a AMD 2100+ with 512 Mb of RAM and about > 2G

[expert] Visor Edge and HotSyncing under MDK9.1

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Lindsay
If I reboot for any reason I find that my Visor Edge stops HotSyncing under KPilot. The trial and error work around I have come up with this is to SU in a terminal, cd to /dev and rm -r pilot. Everything then starts working again. Can anyone explain what is going on? TIA, Rob Want to buy

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
> 4. Hard reboot. Even worse now, got these messages right away: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" > INIT: entering runlevel: 5 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc" > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > (Same message repeated for Id "2" - "6") > INIT: no more pr

[expert] A7N8X Nvidia NForce2 and ALSA sound

2003-04-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
fuser finds nothing using /dev/dsp. Thanks much, Rob # grep sound-slot /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 # lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted sg 35980 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss43684 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss

[expert] Streaming MP3->wav conversion problem

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it to a wav file somehow. I have tried lame, bladeenc, and mpg123 to try to eithe

Re: [expert] emergency

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
ain with the default ext3 format. I even went so far as to buy a new HD. Then it happened with that one. So I reformatted my drives with a mixture of XFS, ext2, and ReiserFS, and I have not had a problem yet. I say watch out for ext3. It may give headaches to some of us. Rob -- Linux: For the pe

Re: [expert] Streaming MP3->wav conversion problem

2003-06-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 June 2003 09:20 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to convert a streaming MP3 file to a wav file for editing in > Audacity. The mp3 stream was caught by XMMS with the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 > plugin. XMMS and Noatun play it prefectly, so I bet that I can convert it > t

[expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my mp3 server, when I sent a chmod -R 666 * at my home directory. It knocked out my KDE Desktop, and probably several other things, but luckily I killed it quick! One other time, I pointed a chmod -R at another folder, and eve

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:44 am, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > # cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > I learned a *lot* about Linux that night... Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would mess things up? -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-12 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:20 pm, Jason Guidry wrote: > Rob Blomquist wrote: > >># cat cdrom.img > /dev/hda > > > > Rank me as a newbie if you must, but I am really curious how that would > > mess things up? > > consider yourself ranked. that comma

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Rob Lindsay
anks once again, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine

2003-06-13 Thread Rob Lindsay
praedor Thanks for the advice. Will follow it after work today. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Java?

2003-06-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. Hunting around, I find that I don't even have Java running. I notice that I have Kaffe pretending to be java. I can't find a proper JRE on the cds. Nothing seems

[expert] Getting rid of supermount

2003-06-14 Thread Rob Blomquist
How does one go about getting rid of supermount? I have played with it long enough to decide that I like Mandrake without it, as it seems to act weird, not mounting some jobs, locking some from being a unmounted, and just being a pain. Heck, Icons in KDE can replace it in a snap. I can imagine

Re: [expert] Java?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:25 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 23:01, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > Recently I have noticed that my java applets have stopped working, and I > > found the problem: I have no plugin for java on my machine. > > > > Hunting

Re: [expert] Urpmi a non-Mandrake RPM package?

2003-06-15 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:55 am, stefmit wrote: > Is it possible to #urpmi XYZ.rpm, where XYZ was not packaged for Mandrake, > and a previous version of XYZ exists on the systems and is running? I am > specifically interested in IceWM, which has a couple of updates beyond what > MDK delivered with

Re: [expert] Cannot find installed dependencies

2003-06-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
>checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.3... no >*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... >*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file > config.log for the >*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is > incorrectly installed. >Cannot find G

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