Re: [expert] screen jiggles w/disk access (seriously!)

2002-03-30 Thread civileme
. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com If it is an on-board ProSavage, it is a known kernel problem with that particular chipset and the current 8.2 kernel. Look for an update shortly. Civileme Want

Re: [expert] MDK 82 does not power system off

2002-03-30 Thread civileme
to http://www.mandrakestore.com Most likely some resource is reading as busy and not unmounting. Check the logs and check the powerdown messages. If you have Samba mounts with a character set that uses 16 bit or higher encoding, this will happen. Civileme Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
and removed I ran quite a long time problem free (from the beginning of this year). Thanks for taking serious intrest in this matter. I also thank Civileme for posting his experiences. Guy. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Memtest floppy, Was: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
a warranty return on a 512M DDR recently, and my system would run for days then suddenly reset without any indication in the logs of any temperature conditions Civileme Civileme, Can you outline the operation to make a memtest bootable floppy for us? Thanks

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
the corruption, but then I don't get the lock-up you described either. Try this: xfs_check -v /dev/hdcx wjere x is the partition number you want to check Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] OT--And now for the comic relief

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
http://www.itworld.com/Sec/2199/020329nt2000hole/ Why isn't this news exciting? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] toshiba laptop (OT)

2002-03-29 Thread civileme
and better than the SVGA, and with equal resolution.) Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] a second different IP for the same net-card.

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
-- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Thanks, the classic poor man's router lives again.! Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
daRcmaTTeR wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Civileme wrote a nice piece on this either here or on newbie a few weeks back. His answer: XFS Basically the reasoning came down to: XFS and Reiser are pretty much line ball on performance with ext3 a distant 3rd and XFS is simpler and probably

Re: [expert] Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Reiser is maturing nicely, but still doesn't like postfix. Huh? I'm running Postfix on my machine, and every filesystem except for /boot (which is ext2) is ReiserFS. Neither one seems to be complaining about the other. :-) What

Re: [expert] File corruption with XFS after powerfail.

2002-03-28 Thread civileme
, according to the Laws propounded by Murphy. All journaling filesystems we offer provide an fsck of some sort. Civileme Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
, toil, tears, and sweat. And Freedom is what it is about, not overwhelming the worlkd's richest men, just assuring that your computer belongs to _you_. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ACPI

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
doesn't support ACPI and you should turn it off. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] The little operating system that could

2002-03-27 Thread civileme
not to make the principals wealthy. Mandrake has been fortunate to have some oof the best engineers in the world, folks who make me look on in awe, folks who could be making triple what they are almost anywhere else. But they came to Mandrake to work on free software. Civileme Want to buy

Re: [expert] Processors still running after user logs out..

2002-03-26 Thread civileme
executables and script calls for WMs at /etc/wmsession.d Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] pppd shutting down

2002-03-25 Thread civileme
Hmmm, /var/log/messages should be checked for 7.1. If you see a lot of log files with never-ending names, you need to look at the errata, and make the change (one character) in the script file for logrotate. If /var is part of / partition, you might be full or nearly so. Civileme Want

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-24 Thread civileme
Edvard Wikström wrote: Hello again, Civileme, I followed your suggestion I tried the memory test program. I don´t know what conclusion to make of it. It took it 50 min to finish and then it started again. I was expectiing a status report or a summary. I didn´t get any information about

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
100%, I got the following 3 times failed to boot 9 times got to the same point as yours and stopped. Try a different drive in your machine if you have one available. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
CAN do something about it by becoming a tester. For crashtesters membership, email me privately. For cooker, just go to the main page and look under Developers and sign up. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I am sorry

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
to Billy. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Fwd: Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
kerbnel (we had too many people with multiprocessing rigs populated with Promise or HPT cards who could not even install 8.1 and needed apic enabled in the install kernel). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XFree 4.2.0 (repost)

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
sw_cursor See what happens Go to XFree.org and read the documentation on your particular card for this release... Usually there are a few notes on tweaks for special situations. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xdenu size Mandrake

2002-03-23 Thread civileme
Drive. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
. But when Win works and linux doesn't, 9 times out of 10 it is flaky memory. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] [Fwd: can't send to list]

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
ftp.rpmfind.net but still have the same problem when tryin to installhelp. Sincerely, Gavin (Fukushima Japan) Please foward this letter to the expert list, thanks and GOD BLESS YOU! ---BeginMessage--- Civileme, I've been trying to send questions to the expert list and for some reason I never see

Re: [expert] Am I the ONLY one or does 8.2 REALLY Stink??????????

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, remember that the list archive is public and now some advertising departments can be quoting excerpts from our archives... Pretty good ploy, I would say, and typical of the predatory attitude we _don't_ represent. Civileme

Re: [expert] Problem with a Dell Pentium Pro

2002-03-22 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 10:43, civileme wrote: Edvard Wikström wrote: Hi, I posted this question at the newbie list but got no luck, they suggested to post it here instead. Here it goes. I´m trying to install Mandrake 8.1 with no luck. When I boot the machine with the CD

Re: [expert] ADSL setup - first attempt (help !!!)

2002-03-21 Thread civileme
on this chipset/card and the driver simply doesn't cover them all. So invest 9.95 to get a cheap implementation of an rtl8139 and you will work fine. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] uninstall app ??

2002-03-21 Thread civileme
Salane wrote: what is the problem with doing a make uninstall it works if he didn't do anything else to the directory On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:23 pm, civileme wrote: David wrote: I recently installed a program from a tarball, and did not give an argument to the ./configure cmd that I

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
, but no proprietary drivers. Those come only with the commercial CDs. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] AHA-2940UW under mandrake 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
is on that adapter. In that case, boot off of CD2 and select an alternate install image that uses the older driver. 2.2.19-BADZ5 for example will use the older Adaptec Driver. Adaptec updated drivers and firmware in April of Last Year which made this happen for people with older cards. Civileme Want

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
it is possible to exceed the speed of a single disk. But my measurements on creation and updating show XFS on a par or slightly better than ext2 which is itself 50% faster than ext3. (Yes, ext3 is like 66% the speed of ext2). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Smoking Grass

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: On my system I get: Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.68 seconds = 38.10 MB/sec Is this good, bad, or average? cheers Brian On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:42, civileme wrote: J. Craig Woods wrote: David wrote: Hello experts, Last evening I installed MD8.2

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: J. Grant grabbed a keyboard and wrote: press ctrl+alt+PrintScr then see the items Could you be a little more specific, please? If I'm reading your above sentence correctly, it would seem that you're telling me that when my system is locked up and moving my mouse

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-19 Thread civileme
will be the size of the smaller drive. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-19 Thread civileme
. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What would cause system to just stop?

2002-03-19 Thread civileme
to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, if you have to do the latter, email me privately. I have excellent sources for parts, because I test on junk as much as possible. (If it runs on junk, it probably runs on the good stuff). Civileme

[expert] Vi, emacs, and editors

2002-03-17 Thread civileme
use emacs, son. They use vi. (Shamelessly ripped off from someone's signature who shall remain anonymous here unless he claims ownership) Anyway, have a nice day (A wish from someone who has had 37 inches of snow dumped on him in less than 24 hours). Civileme Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Slightly OT: Supporting Mandrake

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
of the effort. I really should not speak out like this, but faced with what appears to be misinformation, I had to say something. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] IRQ Conflicts

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
. The two NICs should easily share an interrupt. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Damn DCOP, damn ARTSD!!!--And a reply abot Open Office

2002-03-10 Thread civileme
want to use it and see if the load is comparable to Office. Because that is what Microsoft does behind its hidden system--they load most of Office at boot time and just add the interface when you call for it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] DMA problem

2002-03-10 Thread civileme
that are near the borderline for intermittent problems. In fact, it doesn't work well at all in 8.0 but somewhat better in 8.1. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Login via SSH

2002-03-04 Thread civileme
problem. IRIX is not GNU/linux. run your job with at the end of the line or better yet man disown to discover how to detach jobs so you can logout without either completing or killing child processes. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread civileme
structures. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Where is HDPARM??

2002-02-25 Thread civileme
) The ratio had become unworkable, like 4000 reports for less than 200 real bugs. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re:

2002-01-10 Thread civileme
Picat at the splash screen hit F1 then type linux noauto That's all it takes. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
Mozilla and you can download just fine. KDE seems more buggy with every release as well as more cluttered with engineer's toys. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Botched Install; How to Reinstall MDK8.1

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
equipment that would not work or would work twice in five attempts. If it were software, it would not work every time. Civileme QA Team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:34 am, you wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:14:04 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not a tease; it is a bug in Konqueror. Use Mozilla and you can download just fine. KDE seems more buggy with every release as well as more cluttered

Re: [expert] Fake Modem Blues 2 - Intel HaM

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
to the intel engineer's notes. Possibly you are missing a library, or it has been updated and renamed. Let's see the error messages. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: writing inode problem clm-6006

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
this question to the list, if Civileme is answering questions on the list, you can not get a more definitive answer than one from him. The ReiserFS - NFS problems are pretty well documented. but are not a problem except for NFS mounts, any NFS mounts can be on a non-ReiserFS with no problems

Re: [expert] Fake Modem Blues 2 - Intel HaM

2001-12-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:46 am, Felix Miata wrote: civileme wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:02 am, Felix Miata wrote: I got the so-called driver (Intel-v92ham.tgz) for this from http://developer.intel.com/design/modems/support/drivers/Intel-v92ham.h tm The instructions

Re: [expert] Installing Mandrake on an old notebook

2001-12-14 Thread civileme
to be of the sort of interface one would expect for a laptop. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SiS 730s Display Adapter

2001-12-07 Thread civileme
in less than three seconds. For the SiS 730, use the 630 driver, set Options no_bitblt and FastVram in the XF86Config-4 file and you should be OK, as long as you have no other hardware problems. Civileme I have also had very mixed reports and experiences with the K7S5A from ECS which has very

Re: [expert] Memory limits in Mandrake 7.1

2001-12-05 Thread civileme
you the option to compile for 4G. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] help!!

2001-12-05 Thread civileme
than that, there is a program called checkinstall (search it on google) that will replace the 'make install' from installing a source tarball and enable removal with rpm -e. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable-addenda

2001-12-02 Thread civileme
On Friday 30 November 2001 03:33 pm, William Bouterse wrote: civileme wrote; What IRQ is it on? Sorry I forgot to add this to the last post. Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240 what else is on IRQ5? Sound Blaster perhaps? OK let's look at this another way. If the configs are the same

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
Encounters. Users shared experience after seeing a basic benchmark article. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XFS Vs. ReiserFS

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
and the inefficient (in space) storage of small files. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] LM 8.1-network-unreachable

2001-11-30 Thread civileme
/network* say? How about cat /etc/resolv.conf and route Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Promise Fastrak 100 lite - anyone?

2001-11-26 Thread civileme
in implementation than theirs, but they are sorely afraid of giving their competitiors advantage in the Windows market. WinRAIDs, anyone? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Which distro for gateway/webserver

2001-11-26 Thread civileme
://www.plannettechnologies.com try mandrake 7.1... Just correct the script typo on logrotate and you have something light and solid and the latest update kernel for it works fine, and so does the latest apache. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] unable to change font in Advanced Editor

2001-11-26 Thread civileme
editor/settings = Configure Editor = Fonts you will find choices that stick. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to update Linux after replacing a motherboard

2001-11-25 Thread civileme
, Roger _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Simplest method: 1. Find your install CDs 2. replace motherboard and 3. Boot from install CD 4. Select Recommended/Update Civileme QA Team Want to buy

Re: [expert] RAID

2001-11-12 Thread civileme
. If you already have a RAID under windows and want to dual-boot, you will be able to do so but neither will see the other's partitions. Civileme QA Team Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] raid and mandrake

2001-11-11 Thread civileme
://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=450lang=en I'd want Civileme to respond to your speed query rather than try to speak for him. I would add tho, that the win-raid fad that many popular boards came out with a while back, requires a pcb design that actually introduces many problems. I

Re: [expert] raid and mandrake

2001-11-10 Thread civileme
PROM around. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] I think my KDE is broke

2001-10-24 Thread civileme
libsafe. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Corrupted files -RPM

2001-10-22 Thread civileme
to turn on DMA after Mandrake-Linux 8.1 started ? hdparm -d0 /dev/hdx where hdx is the drive you want to run non-dma. Many burners will not burn unless they are dma, or they will have streaming errors. Civileme As I've mentioned, we only perform 2x writes for CD's which are going out

Re: [expert] Single Network Firewall

2001-09-30 Thread civileme
network as well as a fully protected local, then SNF will barf. I know this is not true of most routers, but the fellow who spec'ed that aspect of SNF is awfully good at security. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] setting up new linux workstations

2001-09-30 Thread civileme
to order the hardware as soon as possible. Thanks. Tyan Thunder is tested here, with dual processors. See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 You can even check out whether your boards of interest are tested or certified by mandrakesoft hardware labs or by the community. Civileme

Re: [expert] FW: Installation kills after Laoding mandrake 8.0

2001-09-27 Thread civileme
this problem (though only one occurrence was apparent with MacMillan CDs). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Reiserfs was to blame (was Re: [expert] binfmt-0000 frantically trying to load)

2001-09-22 Thread civileme
in a reiserfs partition... BTW, will 8.1 come with XFS support? it seems like that one is much better than reiserfs. See mandrakeforum for the article. Civileme --- Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-22 Thread civileme
. If you have a MAC you can use Mandrake-8.0/PPC edition. It runs on MACs. But if you want to run your machine with a capability to do MAC programs, Basilisk II is right on install-CD1 with the capability to look like a 68K type MAC. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Problems with 8.1 RC1, Anybody else?

2001-09-22 Thread civileme
sets on the commercial CDs which worked last we checked, but they are also licensed to you from NVidia without our support. Civileme Ralph Crongeyer __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas

Re: [expert] Trackpoint on IBM A22e with Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-21 Thread civileme
was to continually restart X from the login screen and wiggle the pointer like a crazed man until it started to work. One more reason why I now use MDK 7.2 instead of 8. Fixed in Freq 2 Civileme George E. Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc. -Original Message- From

Re: [expert] compiling new kernel, keeping old kernel, how?

2001-09-21 Thread civileme
of it will install and you have the interesting educational experience of booting one kernel with the modules of another; I guarantee this will be an eye-opener. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Trackpoint on IBM A22e with Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-21 Thread civileme
this happens, the laptop simply stops working, and nothing short of a motherboard replacement will remedy the situation. IBM has apparently known of this since mid 2000. Civileme /me doesn't have it loaded, but is curious. George E. Jones IV Store Systems Support Borders Group Inc

Re: [expert] Trackpoint on IBM A22e with Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-21 Thread civileme
. Civileme Leif Madsen - Project Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plannettechnologies.com - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; George Jones (IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:25 AM Subject: Re

Re: [expert] Hard Drive Performance SUCKS under LM8

2001-09-14 Thread civileme
at UDMA 66 or 33 than at 100 (Yes, noise and retries), and it does catch that case. It may take 30 minutes to do all the tests. Civileme My other (older) laptop also seems to default to 16-bit mode, but it's numbers are [16-bit] 7.59 MB/sec [32-bit] 7.62 MB/sec. I'd expect my new laptop

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.1 and LSB

2001-09-13 Thread civileme
. For one thing, we are not even sure the automated testing software supplied by the LSB project is complete (it is just a beta) and for another, we probably need gcc 3.1 or later, and so does everyone else. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Installation 8.0 - command line option???

2001-09-13 Thread civileme
, but now cannot get the installation to proceed further than reading the first package from the CD Rom. Should I instead try a Boot Disk for the CD Rom? Yes, make your boot disk from /images/cdrom.img-2.2.19BADZ5 Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] mandrake 8.1 and LSB

2001-09-13 Thread civileme
On Thursday 13 September 2001 11:05, David Guntner wrote: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Before anyone starts posting about LSB, read it. Read also FHS 2.2. I'd like to, actually. Can you give the URLs to those? http://www.linuxbase.org for LSB http://www.pathname.com/fhs

Re: [expert] IDE and Reiser FS question

2001-09-12 Thread civileme
, Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Lilo

2001-09-12 Thread civileme
/mnt # lilo That will rebuild your boot sector. If hda6 isnt the one to mount as / then you get an error message response to the chroot command. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Context of this list

2001-09-12 Thread civileme
kernel during install, then set up lilo.conf with vga=791 And boot with framebuffer, even if Aurora is disabled. At THAT point, you can start X quite mormally. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Reiser FS or ext3?

2001-09-11 Thread civileme
On Monday 10 September 2001 14:09, Jason Van Patten wrote: At Mon Sep 10 19:27:50 2001, civileme wrote: Reiser -- Fastest in our benchmarks. Still crashes or slows IO intolerably on nfs after a day or two of heavy use. Stability problems exist with I thought this was supposed

Re: [expert] IDE and Reiser FS question

2001-09-11 Thread civileme
the cable first by replacing wth one known to be good). Civileme Dan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RPM question

2001-09-11 Thread civileme
but that doen't help. How can I apply these updates? Thanks, Dan Use Mandrake Update Robot available in contribs directories at Mandrake Cooker mirrors worldwide. It is a non-graphical version of the update. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Documentation for rpm-python/rpmmodule?

2001-09-10 Thread civileme
of rpm-python. It would be nice if someone who uses python and who has time writes something, but it hasn't happened yet, so we are stuck with reading the C source of the modules. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade

2001-09-10 Thread civileme
. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Viewing .wmv files in LInux without using windows???

2001-09-10 Thread civileme
do it, no one else legally can do it either. The same applies to the rather mediocre quality movies known as .asf files, but in that case Microsoft has patented them despite the prior art of mpeg. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade

2001-09-10 Thread civileme
Vincent and I read it, and we have requested such a change. Whether it actually gets done is up to the developers of MandrakeUpdate. Civileme And don't blame me--I suggested the kernel be named. kernel-2.4.7-12.3mdk.dont.use.update.on.this.or.get.ridiculed.and.die.i586.rpm But then folks don't

Re: [expert] Reiser FS or ext3?

2001-09-10 Thread civileme
). Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Problem with kernel upgrade

2001-09-09 Thread civileme
for five lashes for not reading the advisory which says that you should not use MandrakeUpdate on a kernel, never ever Download the kernel and install it with rpm -ivh This will leave LILO with a dual-boot--for old kernel and new kernel. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Which Packages?

2001-09-09 Thread civileme
.rpm Should be sufficient., though it is good policy to download and install kernel-source.. If your system is a bit more complicated, you will need a different set. So if it is complicated, please tell the list what it is and someone will make a recommendation. Civileme Want to buy

Re: [expert] Fundamental problem with Linux on the mass markey desktop?

2001-09-08 Thread civileme
of is available at various web sites. I happen to keep a copy because I refer to it often in my job as a QA engineer. http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme/fhs-2.2.pdf This is what is known as standardization It is required by the linux standard base. It is an effort to make

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread civileme
? If you have, then they are likely keeping quality up by deleting features, postphoning them to the next release. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] new system bought

2001-09-07 Thread civileme
common ncr 53c8xx (both are symbios but one works and the other does not.). In any event you have the option to buy a set of CDs for the basic OS from Cheapbytes for $3.49 plus shipping before trying to buy any of the expensive sets. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Inspiron 8100 with Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2001-09-06 Thread civileme
individual package selection choose to install kernel22-2.2.19-10mdk and during bootloader time add a boot for it and remove the others. The pcmcia problem most likely refers to a non-standrad way of implementing pcmcia and it requires kernel recompilationto fit your machine. Civileme Want to buy

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