[expert] SmartMedia read/write works YES

Perhaps Mandrake could add the appropriate config files to have it auto detected/configured in harddrake. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] cups setup problems.

responded to your [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be useful for him to see your problem and solution. I too had problems with printerdrake always looking for already existing files. Maybe 8.2 will address this issue. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] cups setup problems.

a chattr +i?? I get the same problem if I use any of the gui setup tools. Thanks! Hamster What kind of printer? Have you tried setting up with printerdrake ? Good info if you have not read it already at; http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] How to get CUPS to see new printer drivers?

is a gold-mine of cups info... http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups0.html Good luck... William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Printer Issues.

rpms and I had to go back and manually add them !!?? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Good audio recording program?

SoundStudio? http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/studio/SoundStudio-1.0.6.tar.gz It has always worked for me since LM 6.x, though I must admit I have never tried it under KDE and 'aarts' as I use other WM's It used to be inscluded in contribs though I have not seen it there in awhile. William

[expert] World Client-Only Netscape Works !!!!

displayed by Netscape 4.x series. I have not tried 6.x series. This make using the account ONLY workable with Netscape... Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera, all fail !!! Any way to track this down ? Anyone else have access to World Client Pro to test this? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want

Re: [expert] Fw: Fw: Yet another printing question

an attempted re-install as reported below, it didn't appear that I had a successful installation of the printer. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] evolution-0.13-3.mdk error message

would be great... BTW where is the setting to present multiple cc's when sending a new email? This is probably covered somewhere but is certainly not as intuative as some email clients (at least for my cluelessness) thanks -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack

[expert] Network-unreachable solved

as the working client machine!) /etc/resolv.conf search mtaonline.net nameserver 12.6.42.1 nameserver 12.6.42.2 (exactly the same as working client machine) Thanks again people for the help!!! -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] Agony/Ecstacy Installing LM8.1

of Reboot on install, the demise of /dev/fd0 and the poor behavior of a previously VERY reliable mouse, I would have been pretty excited about this version My Below Zero Thoughts -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] MPlayer +addenda

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:39:36 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Bouterse wrote: You may wawnt to check this site out... On LM 8.1 they work for me ! http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ Thank you, Bouterse, your site is full of valuable RPMS, even sources

Re: [expert] MPlayer

On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:52:33 +0900 Nguyen H.Vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anyone compile MPlayer with LM8.1. I ve tried but it said gcc 2.9.6 is broken You may wawnt to check this site out... On LM 8.1 they work for me ! http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ -- William

[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

files I have taken out this card and put it back in. Before I actually replace it I was wondering if there was something obvious I was missing here.? Thanks -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

, William Bouterse wrote: This could of course be strickly bad timing However ; generic ne 200 clone card has worked through LM6.x,7.x's- 8.0freq now it doesn't..Worked before install of LM8.1 card is recognized by install and even autoprobe works without having to manually

[expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable-addenda

civileme wrote; What IRQ is it on? Sorry I forgot to add this to the last post. Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] freemed with undefined function: mysql_pconnect error

near realized!! My error message is; undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in /etc/httpd/php/class.sql.php on line 63 which is; $this-Connection = mysql_pconnect ($host, $user, $password) or Thanks for any leads, I am about finished with this effort until new insight !!?? -- William Bouterse

[expert] silencing the modem

... Any enlightenment would be helpful Thanks LM 8.x with various extras -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] re: telnet -sever mdk 8.1

:( I know this is probably a rather duffless response to this thread but has anyone been able to run an earlier version of telnet server i.e. LM 8.0 or Freq. on their LM 8.1 which might work in this case? -- William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] sandisk ImageMate

/rw attached as well as a scsi scanner. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:16:13 -0800 William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently purchased a SanDisk ImageMate for SmartMedia due to their providing drivers for the linux community. I am using; kernel 2.4.8-26mdk LM 8.0+ extries This company

[expert] mac-binhex40

Anyone have a line on a useable viewer which works with mac-binhex40 . i.e. converting them to jpegs, etc. ? Havent had much luck in tracking one down that actually works! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] update-menus core dumps

-menus [root@home2 downloads]# update-menus Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@home2 downloads]# What should I do to alleviate this? I have tried the 'rpm --rebuilddb' No difference. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

Re: [expert] Mem thief

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:40:02 +0200 Stefaans Mostert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I have a problem I run 128 meg's of ram and something is chowing it all up!! I meen I have like 3 megs left!! Any Ideas? What does "top" tell you? WH Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] How to add to windowmanager drop down list?

mary user works too. Sorry this doesnt answer your question but I have spent MANY hours following up on solutions from helpful and knowledgable individuals and with several years of Linux/Mandrake/XFCE use I still can't make it work right!!! Maybe you will be one of the Lucky Ones :) Good Luc

[expert] kapm-idled again

reappeared to suck the Life out of my system and eventually kill it dead. Sure I can use a different kernel or recompile but: Any way around this without recompiling? Do I really need kapm-idled ? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] XFree86-server-4.0.3-2mdk prob?

wimdow manager shows up black, and menus are invisible. removing just the XFree86-server-4.0.3-2.1mdk.i586.rpm and reinstalling a XFree86-server-4.0.2-4mdk.i586.rpm FIXES the problem !!! All the other XFree86-4.0.3-2 rpms seem to function okay. Any ideas? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] v3ps@mail.ru bounced mail et. al.

Could the PERSON in charge of this List take care of this before we have yet another deluge of bounced or multiple messages . - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 552 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message will exceed maximum mailbox size)

[expert] old abiword font issue

This was addressed someitme ago and I forgot what the solution ended up being . !? For whatever reason I am now getting the infamous "AbiWord could not load the following font or fontset from the X Window System display Server" "-Times New Roman-regular-r blah blah blah etc. Does anyone

Re: [expert] i686 packages in MandrakeFreq

uot; when attempting to install i686 rpms. I haven't tried the the MandrakeFreq batch but give it a try and let me know if it works? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] rpm and directory not empty messages

ied rm -rf the complaining directory and re-installing the new rpm. Same thing, it doesn't really seem to make any difference as to the functionality of the program in question. Just would like to be reminded what is happening and if anything negative COULD happen !!! ??? Thanks William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:45:46 -0500 "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I am re-reading and studying http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html I also went to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/cook.html It contains several cups files: cups-1.1.5-3mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] Printer problem after Sound Configuration

keuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html If this didn't help I would try removing the sound conf. file temporarily to see if that made any difference again. Good Luck and let us know your results. William Bouterse Talkeetna Ak

Re: [expert] Mozilla configuration crash -- Why?

Just the mail usage is too slow for practical use. I do notice the mozilla site has i386rpms available! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.

. If you did get it to work let us know ! William Bouterse Talkeetna Ak.

Re: [expert] kups - Can't connect to CUPS server.

able as he works his ass off for the Linux cause and cant always resopond to everyone . William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] scanner under $150?

different but for the forseeable future, even low-end scsi whips USB genreally speaking according to any specs I have ever seen and from personal experience. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] VMWare XFree86 4.0.2 driver source code

to use VMware software with guest Linux operating systems. For more information about using XFree86 4.0.2 in a virtual machine, see http://vmware1.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB3220579857X992735X53070X William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] I like cups

giving up. After reading ALL the documentation and exchaging emails with Till , you still can't get cups working for you then okay; nothings perfect :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] I like cups

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:45:23 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Gillis wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:45 -0900, William Bouterse wrote: Try mandrakeuser.org before giving up. I've looked there but have not found an answer to this problem. It may not be a cups

[expert] mozilla-0.8 and mozilla mdk.

with 32bpp etc.? Anyhow I am puzzled by this muddy situation. Thanks William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] mozilla-0.8 and mozilla mdk.

Tom wrote: On Wednesday 07 March 2001 01:17 pm, William Bouterse wrote: I have been working with mozilla release 8 lately and am somewhat impressed. me too, specially since it's the first non-NutScrape browser that I can connect to my banking sites with. using mozilla for a long

[expert] Followup MUO

LSTB on behalf of Mandrakesoft SA. Its contents are provided under the terms of the Open Content Public Licence and are copyright Mandrakesoft SA and LSTB, 1999." Keep up the Fine Work People ! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

Re: [expert] Switching from lpd to CUPS

this excellent article on cups written by the prime individual who puts together the rpms for Mandrakesoft. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till is a very busy but helpful person who sometimes appears on this list and then disappears for another long coding session. William

[expert] MUO Broken

expertise in the business world. As a long-time Mandrake user; I am hoping we will eventually hear a detailed explaination of the travails of the administrators/IT personnel involved. An excellant "Real World" example of the "CF-Syndrome" perhaps!? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

Re: [expert] CUPS Help

have been able to "make this work" using both kups or 'printerdrake' from the commandline. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

Re: [expert] qcad broken with kde 2.1

d and qcad works fine. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] Real Player for Mandrake 7.2, Netscape 4.76

.bin William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

[expert] msec,Bastille,firewalls et. al.

e untill the next Security Alert :) Thanks to all those who might have actually read this far. I guess its the same with a house or an apartment. Some have no locks or even closed doors, while some have million dollar security systems, guards, and attack dogs. Thanks for listening to my annual di

[expert] kernel 2.4.x-mdk and Network packet filtering

Is Network Packet Filtering enabled by default in kernel-2.4.1-16mdk ? Howabout 2.4.0.5mdksecure? Or do they need recompiling with the CONFIG_NETFILTER option enabled? Mr Kernel Clueless, aka William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] gui login panel

anyone out there? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak

Re: [expert] modem on boot anyone,,, please??

e: Not all of it but should give you the idea. DEVICE="ppp0" ONBOOT="yes" USERCTL="no" MODEMPORT="/dev/modem" LINESPEED="115200" PERSIST="yes" DEFABORT="yes" DEBUG="yes" INITSTRING="ATZ" DEFROUTE="yes" HARDFLOWCTL="yes" ESCAPECHARS="no" PPPOPTIONS="" William Bouterse Talkeetna, Dk.

Re: [expert] CUPS problem

for you, though of course I don't know whether that could effect the outcome as well.!? Anyhow just wondering ? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

Re: [expert] proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk

however; The "standalone" versus the "inetd version" I have never been clear about. I was able to enter the appropriate line into /etc/inetd.conf to make things work right away originally and have always been unclear as to the advantages and disadvantages of both methods.? Willia

[expert] Color Chaos in Terminal Mode?

to alter things via DrakConf have left me in a Lock-Up requiring reboot so I prefer not to mess with that for awhile. This all started from a perfectly functioning machine, probably iniated by an install of some "guilty rpm". Any other suggestions to track this down? William Bouterse Talkeetna

Re: [expert] Umax 1220u scanner

Bathoorn Have you tried this place for info? If they don't have what you need , someone on their List should. http://panda.mostang.com/sane/ THE resource for Linux and scanners William Bouterse Talkeetna

[expert] proftpd-1.2.0rc3-1.1mdk

!? Or is this a non-issue? Thanks for any insights on this. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak.

[expert] kapm-idled Still Eating Memory

Can anyone shed some light on this. My system mentioned earlier in another post still finds itself the victim of 55-85% CPU usage from 'kapm-idled' . What is this? Why is this happening? Never have seen this in 5 years of LM use. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaskasu

Re: [expert] kapm-idled Still Eating Memory

ode errors. william bouterse wrote: Can anyone shed some light on this. My system mentioned earlier in another post still finds itself the victim of 55-85% CPU usage from 'kapm-idled' . What is this? Why is this happening? So either the cpu is getting too hot, or kapm is giving f

Re: [[expert] Xfree86 4.0.2] NG

site is well worth bookmarking and visiting regularly. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska

[expert] kapm-idle Memory Leak

o discover it gets hungry again !!! Is this a big memory leak or my leaky brain missing the obvious? :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] Re: Umax Scanner ISA SCSI Card - Workable?

://www.mostang.com/sane/ William Bouterse Talkeetna

Re: [expert] Stop Auto_login

-1.0.0-3mdk (or pertinent rpm) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] rp8.bin works for me

;error" message as everyone else. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

Re: [expert] Autologin question

=no As far as the gdm and kdm prob I have had difficulty adding new windowmanagers to the list of choices. for instance in; /usr/share/config/kdmrc I add window managers to the list but they don't execute. What am I missing there!? William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Re: [expert] To mail list experts re this list

r product and value the expertise of this group. Its just dang aggravating :) William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska (a staunch advocate of Linux-Mandrake)

Re: [expert] 7.2 and sane

! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] Why Sympa?

to from time to time. Someone must REALLY like it! I have seen List Managers come and go on many Linux related Lists and I can only find Sympa being used by MandrakeSoft.!? Just curious? (and often wrong) :) William Bouterse Talkeetna

Re: [expert] Xfce

Fce tab Unclick the "Show subprocess diagnostic dialog" Click "Apply" then "okay" That "should" take care of it. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska

[expert] Bt 878, bcast2000 et al

in. Sound card works great for everything else! Any help would be appreciated William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska

[expert] pppd becoming unstable

months. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] evil spawn of httpd and ssl

. with mod_ssl-2.7.1-2mdk This was all working nicely with certificate, autentication etc. See previous posts re: openssl-0.9.6-4md Any thoughts? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] non-glibc2.2 cups-1.1.5-5.mdk

ry an ftp at atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586 William Bouterse Talkeetna

Re: [expert] Re: Epson or HP Printers

of the print cartridges. The bw and color for the Epson set me back nearly 70$ for both and the HPs are not much better. William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska

Re: [expert] openssl-0.9.6-4mdk causes error

On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:57:49 Rusty Carruth wrote: William Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing this rpm disabled my previously successful ssl setup with error message on bootup: httpd: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ssl/mod_ssl.conf: Jan 8 15:25:34 home httpd

[expert] openssl-0.9.6-4mdk causes bootup error

: sk_X509_NAME_value Jan 8 15:25:34 home AESctl: httpd startup failed LM 7.2 Any suggestions? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] kppp dies and doesnt restart

timeout. Any thoughts? William Bouterse Talkeetna, Alaska

[expert] ATI-tv-video-software for Linux

To add to a previous email For those who haven't already found it The latest devels and software, info etc. for ATI ALL in Wonder Cards can be found at http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ Good Luck William Bouterse Talkeetna

Re: [expert] tv software

://www.freshmeat.net search for gatos You nay-sayers may be surprised My All-in-Wonder PCI works I know of others working fine as well! Being in the nature of things, sometimes its "plug it in and fire it up" other times you pound your fist on the keyboard and sell out to the "Dark Side"

Re: [expert] X problems at X-mas

. Just my eccentric habit :) William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska

[expert] Re: Multiple Messages

Apologies for the multiple messages sent by mistake However I am receiving many multiples from various individuals to this list. Is anyone else getting repeat messages? William Bouterse Talkeetna Alaska Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROT

[expert] Re: WP 8 still won't print to CUPS

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:32:03 William Bouterse wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:23 Till Kamppeter wrote: First, start the CUPS-LPD mini daemon, so that CUPS emulates an LPD daemon on the same machine with the same LPD queue names as there CUPS queues are named. See on http

Re: [expert] WordPerfect won't print to CUPS

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:23 Till Kamppeter wrote: "Ronald L. Chichester" wrote: Has anyone figured out how to get WordPerfect to print to a local printer designated under CUPS. WordPerfect only seems to want the old lpr. I have designated my local printer as lp, and have set up

[expert] Mandrake 6.1.and Mysql errors

On my 6.1 upgrade I get the following errors in log files erors occured while rotating /var/lib/mysql/mysql.log ^Gmysqladmin:Unkown command: 'flush-logs' error running postrotate script This Mysql install is the default setup from initial Mandrake install Am I missing something really obvious?

[expert] Re:was:removable media.The Orb anyone?

Anyone heard of Linux using "The Orb", ? Its a 2.2 gig removable media at $199 plus 30$ a 2.2 gig disk, definitely the best buy on the market. Been out less than a year. Scsi, Parallel, or internal IDE I would like one myself. If anyone else has any experience with these please let us know !!!