Re: [expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:42 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: There is an app available called Pyblink that makes it possible to use pybliographic with OpenOffice. It is a bit of a hack but if you use references in your writing, it is possible to get

[expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is an app available called Pyblink that makes it possible to use pybliographic with OpenOffice. It is a bit of a hack but if you use references in your writing, it is possible to get past the loser reference manager in OO/SO and use

Re: [expert] What's the deal with this?

2003-07-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:42:38 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: dia-0.90-5mdk (due to missing pygtk) draksync-9.0-2mdk (due to missing pygtk) pybliographer-1.0.11-7mdk (due to unsatisfied pygnome = 1.4.0)

[expert] What's the word on NTFS?

2003-07-24 Thread Jim C
Any ideas on how long before write access to NTFS is considered Safe? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] What's Happening with Named?

2003-06-06 Thread David Rankin
Mates, Need to see if anyone knows what is going on with dhcpd/named. It is only happening with regard to one laptop. Do I have a record pointer that got screwed/stuck? I'll man and google it as well. Here is the error being generated: May 6 05:37:11 Nemesis named[593]: owner name

Re: [expert] What's changing my files?

2003-01-17 Thread .
create a file in /etc/security/msec called perm.local. In this file put an entry like: /fully/qualified/file owner.group perms ... where perms is the octal permissions like 4755 for suid Derek Simkowiak wrote: I have installed an RPM. It creates a file /usr/sbin/exim that is SUID, which

Re: [expert] What's changing my files?

2003-01-17 Thread .
along those same lines ... what this doesn't prevent is msec changing content in certain files. for example, I want to change some settings in /etc/syslog.conf, but msec keeps changing it back (msec's email reports says so). Listing the file in perm.local does not keep msec from changing it

[expert] What's changing my files?

2003-01-16 Thread Derek Simkowiak
I have installed an RPM. It creates a file /usr/sbin/exim that is SUID, which is the way it needs to be. But after a while that file eventually loses its SUID bit, automatically. (Figuring out WTF was happening was quite a frustrating experience, if I may say.) So,

Re: [expert] What's changing my files?

2003-01-16 Thread Nathan Clemons
I seem to recall that one of the msec levels actually does keep a list of files and file permissions and changes things to match... which can be a bit annoying :) I believe it was the last time I used Paranoid on a home system. --Nathan On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Derek Simkowiak wrote: I

Re: [expert] What's changing my files?

2003-01-16 Thread James Sparenberg
The file to mod is in /etc/msec Not sure which one but it should be obvious... My personal solution is the same as Todd's rpm -e msec. *grin* James On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 16:53, Nathan Clemons wrote: I seem to recall that one of the msec levels actually does keep a list of files and file

[expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Rick Friedman
OK... my question, as the subject says, is: What's a prepatch of the kernel? I saw an announcement about a: Stable kernel prepatch 2.4.20-pre10. I am running 2.4.19. Is this a patch *leading up to* the next release (presumably 2.4.20)?? Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Vox
Silly Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: OK... my question, as the subject says, is: What's a prepatch of the kernel? I saw an announcement about a: Stable kernel prepatch 2.4.20-pre10. I am running 2.4.19. Is this a patch *leading up to* the next release

Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Rick Friedman
Thanks for the info. Now... just one other related question... Does each prepatch contain the code from all the previous prepatches? I don't plan on applying them. I'm just looking to learn a little something. :) Rick On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 16:46, Vox wrote: Silly Rick Friedman [EMAIL

Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Vox
Silly Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Thanks for the info. Now... just one other related question... Does each prepatch contain the code from all the previous prepatches? Uhm...as far as I remember, yes, you just need the latest patch to be up-to-date.

Mail highlights replies was: Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread s
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 4:50 pm, Vox wrote: PD: no need to CC me on your replies, my mail program highlights any emails that are answers to my own emails. hey, that's a neat trick. How is this acccomplished? :D -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Lyons
Vox wrote on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:50:26PM -0500 : PD: no need to CC me on your replies, my mail program highlights any emails that are answers to my own emails. Can you put a screenshot somewhere? I'd like to see that. I see you're using gnus, so it shouldn't be impossible to make mutt

Re: Mail highlights replies was: Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Vox
Silly s [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Wednesday 09 October 2002 4:50 pm, Vox wrote: PD: no need to CC me on your replies, my mail program highlights any emails that are answers to my own emails. hey, that's a neat trick. How is this acccomplished? :D By using gnus

Re: [expert] What's a prepatch?

2002-10-09 Thread Vox
Silly Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Vox wrote on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:50:26PM -0500 : PD: no need to CC me on your replies, my mail program highlights any emails that are answers to my own emails. Can you put a screenshot somewhere? I'd like to see that. I

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-06 Thread David Rankin
Great, Thanks, James, that's all I needed James wrote: David, When did this originally you had 7.2 at home a random key was generated and as such the first time your boxes talked. they shared keys. Now that you've upgraded you also generated a new random key

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-06 Thread Gary Dunn
At 11:24 PM 5/4/2002 -0500, David Rankin wrote: Never had problems with 7.2, so what do I add to .ssh/known_hosts Might have something to do with the fact that back in 7.2 days the default ssh connection used protocol 1. Not too long ago openssh changed the default to protocol 2

[expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-05 Thread David Rankin
Here is the message I get when I try to SSH from work back to home where 8.2 is running: WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-05 Thread Rial Juan
You add nothing; you find the offending key for that host and remove it. When you reinstall, a new SSH key gets generated, overwriting your old key on the server. The client however only knows the old key, they mismatch and ssh gets suspicious. So just find the old key in your

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-05 Thread James
David, When did this originally you had 7.2 at home a random key was generated and as such the first time your boxes talked. they shared keys. Now that you've upgraded you also generated a new random key This WONT match the old on and ssh is just trying to help you. if you vi

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Pen Gwynne
B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. In the Operating Sysytems 101 course I took back in the dark ages over 20 years ago it was pointed out that having an idle process eased the design of an OS. If you don't have an idle process then the you have to have an OS

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am not a kernel expert, but I would suspect that kapm-idled fulfils the reuirement. Or perhaps there is yet another idle process buried in the kernel and kapm-idled has another purpose. Any kernel experts out there care to comment? It also

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room heater it means a drop of 2-4 degrees c over a light load. A kernel complile or long mp3 encode

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:31 am, you wrote: and also instead of just idles of nop statements, I believe that it uses instructions that minimise gate operations which reduces power consumption and hence heat production. On my Athlon 1.4 room

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-08 Thread James
J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can find it all the time *double grin* James On

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-08 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Friday 08 February 2002 02:58, you wrote: J.P. As popular as this Question is maybe we should: A. Post the answer once a week for the heck of it. *grin* B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. C. Every one put the link below into their sig so that people can

[expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-07 Thread Roberto Armenteros
I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up when I run the top command as the process using the most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this last one looks a lot less loaded since it doesnt have kapm-idled running. Rob...

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-07 Thread kwan
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Roberto Armenteros wrote: I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up when I run the top command as the process using the most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this last one looks a lot less loaded

Re: [expert] What's the deal with kapm-idled when I run top

2002-02-07 Thread J.P. Pasnak
On Thursday 07 February 2002 16:36, you wrote: I wonder what the process kapm-idled, which shows up when I run the top command as the process using the most cpu resources. Is this a necessary process or can I be removed. I also run freeBSD and the CPU in this last one looks a lot less loaded

[expert] What's up with setpnp?

2001-12-19 Thread Arnold Troeger
I've been playing around with my new/used IBM thinkpad and I've been trying to get the internal modem and sound card working. One of the utilities I've needed was setpnp. Setpnp along with lspnp is supposed to come with the pcmcia-cs package. I've found lspnp, but no setpnp. The setpnp man

Re: [expert] What's up with setpnp?

2001-12-19 Thread Arnold Troeger
Arnold Troeger wrote: I've been playing around with my new/used IBM thinkpad and I've been trying to get the internal modem and sound card working. One of the utilities I've needed was setpnp. Setpnp along with lspnp is supposed to come with the pcmcia-cs package. I've found lspnp, but

RE: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
: Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? | | | I have followed this thread and decided to try the link with |my machine. kdebase-nsplugins, lessstif and nsplugins all |installed on MDK 8.1 and I |cannot play the clip in konqueror either. Maybe its a luck of |the draw. Good

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-20 Thread Pedro Del Medico P.
El Vie 19 Oct 2001 16:09, escribiste: Here is a little tutorial that might help. http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=412 This one may help too: http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html#nsplugin -- Atentamente, Pedro Del Medico P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #144076 Want to buy

[expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking you if you want to save it or open it. Opening it brings up the dialog

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Ya, just after sending the message I tried netscape 4.7 and it works there too. It will NOT work from konqueror. On Friday 19 October 2001 01:53 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Mark D'voo
fps MIME type: application/x-shockwave-flash2 Player Compatibility: RealPlayer 8.0 or later you must have real player to watch it mark On Friday 19 October 2001 02:53 pm, you wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:53 pm, you wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Mark D'voo
: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking you

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have all the prereqs...but selecting to view in embedded viewer doesn't work. Konqueror will NOT play the vid/cartoon but netscape and mozilla will. On Friday 19 October 2001 02:09 pm, Texstar wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote: The following is a link to a humorous

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Texstar
This is a shot in the dark but have you installed the plugger rpm? On Friday 19 October 2001 03:14 pm, you wrote: ??!! What kde version are you running? I have the 8.1 version of kde 2.2.1-7mdk, plus the nsplugins, plus the kdebase-nsplugins, plus changing the file associations, yadda,

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
I walked through the tutorial again to make sure I hadn't missed something. Nope. I can play the tester flash movie (cool, it is) but not the Osama flash. Poopie! On Friday 19 October 2001 02:21 pm, Mark D'voo wrote: my still running 8.1 beta 3. konqueror will play all flash except that

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
Yep. I have plugger-3.3-1mdk. I can play the test All your base flash movie but not the Osama movie...again, except with Netscape or Mozilla. On Friday 19 October 2001 02:29 pm, Texstar wrote: This is a shot in the dark but have you installed the plugger rpm? On Friday 19 October 2001

RE: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, no. It works fine for me and I'm using 3D accel/OpenGL. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of johnc |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 6:45 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Praedor Tempus wrote: ??!! What kde version are you running? I have the 8.1 version of kde 2.2.1-7mdk, plus the nsplugins, plus the kdebase-nsplugins, plus changing the file associations, yadda, yadda to embedded viewer. Still no joy. What's up with that? On Friday 19 October 2001

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
David Joham wrote: For what it's worth, it works on my 8.1 machine (upgraded from 8.0) as well. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com It seems

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread johnc
I have followed this thread and decided to try the link with my machine. kdebase-nsplugins, lessstif and nsplugins all installed on MDK 8.1 and I cannot play the clip in konqueror either. Maybe its a luck of the draw. Good knoqueror, bad konqueror? John Wheat On Friday 19 October 2001

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread J. C. Woods
Praedor Tempus wrote: Ya, just after sending the message I tried netscape 4.7 and it works there too. It will NOT work from konqueror. On Friday 19 October 2001 01:53 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 14:43, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Praedor Tempus
??!! What kde version are you running? I have the 8.1 version of kde 2.2.1-7mdk, plus the nsplugins, plus the kdebase-nsplugins, plus changing the file associations, yadda, yadda to embedded viewer. Still no joy. What's up with that? On Friday 19 October 2001 02:10 pm, Sergio Korlowsky

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Mark D'voo
my still running 8.1 beta 3. konqueror will play all flash except that one mark On Friday 19 October 2001 03:11 pm, you wrote: I have all the prereqs...but selecting to view in embedded viewer doesn't work. Konqueror will NOT play the vid/cartoon but netscape and mozilla will. On Friday

RE: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread David Joham
For what it's worth, it works on my 8.1 machine (upgraded from 8.0) as well. David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread johnc
, Praedor Tempus opined on the topic: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site? The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread David E. Fox
using galeon, it actually opened up real player and started playing it, i didn't get any sound though Looks just fine (and quite funny :) in konqueror CVS - just plays normally. mark David E. Fox

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Texstar
On Friday 19 October 2001 02:43 pm, you wrote: The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking you if you want to save

Re: [expert] What's wrong with linux flash vs this site?

2001-10-19 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Praedor Tempus wrote: The following is a link to a humorous Osama bin Laden flash movie. The prefixe, swf, matches what kde has set for the shockwave flash plugin in konqueror. Nonetheless, clicking on this site brings up a dialog box asking you if you want to save it or open it.

[expert] What's with this?

2001-08-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am trying to build xpdf from source. I installed the src rpm and ran a diff on it and then tried rpm -bb /usr/src/RPM/SPECS/xpdf.spec. It dies immediately with a message that the /var/tmp/xpdf-0.92 directory can't be found. Of course not! That directory is in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES where

Re: [expert] What's with this?

2001-08-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hi, I applied a diff file to the tarball. I then bziped this tarball back into the originally-named xpdf-0.92.tar.bz2. Running the rpm -bb command, it properly un-bzips and untars the xpdf file and creates an xpdf-0.92 source directory in the /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES directory. It just wont do

Re: [expert] What's with this?

2001-08-30 Thread Anthony Moulen
Actually, if I remember correctly, the source binary goes in /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES, the spec file then uncompresses this into either /tmp or /var/tmp as well as /usr/src/RPM/BUILD (maybe only one really gets created). Then it builds the package in that temp directory, installs it to a mini-tree,

Re: [expert] What's that make install-to-RPM tool?

2001-07-24 Thread A V Flinsch
On Monday 23 July 2001 22:10, Stephen Boulet wrote: I'm not sure whether I heard of it on this list, but there is a program that takes the part of the 'make install' command, and puts the files to be installed in the RPM database (this would help to ease removing them later, etc.). Anyone

Re: [expert] What's that make install-to-RPM tool?

2001-07-24 Thread Abraham Mandac
The program's called CheckInstall. Due to some really embarassing mistakes I made tweaking with my browser and email client, I lost the URL (which I've stored in my browser's bookmarks) and the message that contained the advice of trying it out (and hence the name and address of the sender, but

[expert] What's that make install-to-RPM tool?

2001-07-23 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm not sure whether I heard of it on this list, but there is a program that takes the part of the 'make install' command, and puts the files to be installed in the RPM database (this would help to ease removing them later, etc.). Anyone know what the name of this program is? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] What's the connection between less .bashrc...?

2001-06-23 Thread Al Andersen
I won't even try to admit I understood all that... I'm just 1-1/2 years old in Linux time :) My reason for killing the export of LESSOPEN was because less didn't work, and I was working on something where I needed it to work... right then. Once I got it working, I never pursued it further.

[expert] What's the connection between less .bashrc...?

2001-06-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
Hi, Before I go digging into the sources, does anyone know the logic behind less being impacted by the contents of .bashrc...? If I add 'echo foobar' to my .bashrc, any attempt to less file gives only foobar as output instead of the expected contents of file. The env. vars are: $ for e in

Re: [expert] What's the connection between less .bashrc...?

2001-06-22 Thread Al Andersen
I had the same problem with my 7.2 system. The way I resolved it was to edit /etc/profile and comment out: #if [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh ];then # export LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s #fi Your mileage may vary :) -Al On Friday 22 June 2001 13:51, Pierre Fortin wrote: Hi,

Re: [expert] What's the connection between less .bashrc...?

2001-06-22 Thread Pierre Fortin
Al Andersen wrote: I had the same problem with my 7.2 system. The way I resolved it was to edit /etc/profile and comment out: #if [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh ];then # export LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s #fi Your mileage may vary :) MMDV... unfortunately, this kills

[expert] What's THIS now?!

2001-04-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
I just rebuilt a kernel (2.4.3-19mdk) after having built 3 previous kernels (2.4.3-10mdk) without ANY problems. I did: "make xconfig make clean make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install" Same as always. The kernel builds just fine but when it comes to installing, the

Re: [expert] What's THIS now?!

2001-04-17 Thread CB
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:23:47PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: "make xconfig make clean make bzImage make install make modules make modules_install" You might want to insert a make dep in there (I usually do it immediately after the make xconfig, but I'm thinking in reality it should be

[expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
I downloaded the src rpm of XFree86-4.0.2 for mandrake and have tried building it for my mandrake 7.2 system. I have met all dependencies and it gets pretty far along in the process...probably very close to finishing but then it dies with: -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DSHAPE -DXINPUT

Re: [expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Friday 22 December 2000 06:15 pm, you wrote: I downloaded the src rpm of XFree86-4.0.2 for mandrake and have tried building it for my mandrake 7.2 system. I have met all dependencies and it gets pretty far along in the process...probably very close to finishing but then it dies with:

Re: [expert] What's wrong with XFree86-4.0.2

2000-12-22 Thread Mike MacCana
xf86 wacam is support for wacom tablets - those stylus / surface combinations that allow you to draw with a pen like object instead of a mouse. My hunch is that there should be a configure option to get rid of this support. Alternatively there might be a wacom development package you need to

[expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am somewhat stumped. I have had to mess with this so seldom, and things seem to change so often that I don't keep track. What I refer to is what is the file or files that I need to edit to make gdm the default instead of kdm? I have looked at xinitrc, Xsessions, desktop, and just about every

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread J.A. Magallon
Praedor Tempus said at Ò[expert] What's the magic file(s)?Ó. [2000-10-04 17:30] I am somewhat stumped. I have had to mess with this so seldom, and things seem to change so often that I don't keep track. What I refer to is what is the file or files that I need to edit to make gdm the default

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:30:46AM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote: I am somewhat stumped. I have had to mess with this so seldom, and things seem to change so often that I don't keep track. What I refer to is what is the file or files that I need to edit to make gdm the default instead of kdm?

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Praedor Tempus
Hmpf. I tried that, adding GNOME to desktop in replacement of KDE, then restarted linux. It tried to start kdm anyway, crashed out to the CLI and I had to use DrakWM again to get a gnome-session running. If I ran simply "startx" after logging in at the CLI, it would try to start KDE and

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Sarang Lakare
in /etc/sysconfig/desktop try changinging from KDE to GNOME.. -sarang Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try "xinit" from the CLI (command-line Interface). This should bring up, simply, X and an XTerm. Type "gnome-session" into the XTerm, and watch GNOME load. Hope this helps. -- Asheesh. (make sure you're in runlevel 3; "init 3" will do that for you, of course) Keep in touch with

RE: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Bill Piety
Did you try that using the switchdesk prog? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)? Hmpf. I tried that, adding GNOME

RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-04 Thread Gabi Davar
Good to know :-) -Gabi -Original Message- From: Stephen Boulet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0? On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote: There is a new

RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-03 Thread David Mihm
Sep 2000, Gabi Davar wrote: As far as I know, there isn't any as yet. -Gabi -Original Message- From: Stephen Boulet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 3:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0? Can

RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-03 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote: There is a new configuration tool for XFree86 v4.x, it's called 'xf86cfg' and is located in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg directory of the source code. If you have gotten an RPM of XFree86 v4.x and this is not included; the RPM builder has made a

Re: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-03 Thread Sarang Lakare
Its XFdrake --xf4 -sarang

RE: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-03 Thread Gabi Davar
As far as I know, there isn't any as yet. -Gabi -Original Message- From: Stephen Boulet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 3:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0? Can someone remind me of the tool

[expert] What's the tool for configuring XFree 4.0?

2000-09-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Can someone remind me of the tool to configure XFree 4.0? I remember that it's an option you pass to something. Thanks! -- Stephen

Re: [expert] What's Up With The List Server?

2000-07-31 Thread vern
Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You may see this and you may not, I replied to both your address and the lists address. vern Sevatio Octavio wrote: What's going on with the list server? Only a small fraction of my posts are getting on the list. The remainder have

Re: [expert] What's Up With The List Server?

2000-07-31 Thread vern
Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You may see this and you may not, I replied to both your address and the lists address. vern Sevatio Octavio wrote: What's going on with the list server? Only a small fraction of my posts are getting on the list. The remainder have

Re: [expert] What's Up With The List Server?

2000-07-31 Thread kf
I just sent out a message to the group and got a bouce (error) from Sevatio's email address. Somethings misconfigured at mandrakesoft.com's MTA. (Note the "@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com".) kf On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, vern wrote: = Welcome to the club! About 1 in 10 gets through from here! You

[expert] What's Up With The List Server?

2000-07-30 Thread Sevatio Octavio
What's going on with the list server? Only a small fraction of my posts are getting on the list. The remainder have just disappeared. Seve

[expert] What's up with the rest of the Mandrake lists?

2000-05-21 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Hello all; Does anyone know what is up with the rest of the Mandrake Lists? I.E. Mandrake Newbie, Mandrake Cooker, etc. I have not received any messages from those lists in about a week or so... Thanks. -JMS

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Monte, it manages RAID configurations. Hmm...I wondered about that after seeing it in the shutdown screen is there any way to turn that OFF if you're not using RAID? John

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Philp
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Monte, it manages RAID configurations. Hmm...I wondered about that after seeing it in the shutdown screen is there any way to turn that OFF if you're not using RAID? Recompile the kernel. It's actually a kernel process. -- Steve

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Monte, it manages RAID configurations. Hmm...I wondered about that after seeing it in the shutdown screen is there any way to turn that OFF if you're not using RAID? Recompile the kernel.

[expert] What's this process?

2000-04-30 Thread Monte Milanuk
When I go to kpm, I see a process running that I am not familiar w/, i.e. what does it belong to. I have tried looking it up in man, and tried hunting it down w/ locate, all to no avail. I don't recall seeing it before w/ any other distro, though I could be wrong. I assume it is something

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-04-30 Thread Necrotica
Monte, it manages RAID configurations. -Chris On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: When I go to kpm, I see a process running that I am not familiar w/, i.e. what does it belong to. I have tried looking it up in man, and tried hunting it down w/ locate, all to no avail. I don't recall seeing

Re: [expert] What's wrong with this???

1999-08-31 Thread Andrew Morton
John Aldrich wrote: ... /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron: 0: command not found /etc/cron.daily/wakeup.cron~: 0: command not found Below is the cron job itself: # Cron script to (hopefully) play an MP3 file to wake me

Re: [expert] What's going on??

1999-07-06 Thread Steven J Mackenzie
I've installed both dists too, and had no problem. Did you chose the "custom" installation, which is the same as the 5.x style installations? I think that the other 2 options (workstation and server) have their own ideas about how the partitions should be organised. Rusty wrote: Hi! I

Re: [expert] What's going on??

1999-07-06 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Rusty wrote: Hi! I installed Linux-Mandrake and Red Hat , version 6.0 as soon as they were released. I partitioned my hard drives with both Disk Druid and Fdisk and received the same results. All I got was a small boot partition and everthing else dumped into over

Re: [expert] What's going on??

1999-07-06 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
Rusty wrote: Hi! I installed Linux-Mandrake and Red Hat , version 6.0 as soon as they were released. I partitioned my hard drives with both Disk Druid and Fdisk and received the same results. All I got was a small boot partition and everthing else dumped into over eight (8) GB of an

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