flash-9 in firefox

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew
doesn't happen if I actually view the flash content, it doesn't happen with flash player 7 and it doesn't happen in Mozilla. Any hints? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: Incorrect driver getting loaded for Qlogic FC-HBA

2005-07-27 Thread Andrew Vasquez
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Rajat Jain wrote: > On 7/27/05, Andrew Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > A similar problem was noted with RHEL4, it seems the modules.pcimap > > and pci.ids file were correct, but the pcitable file contained entries > > for all ql[a

Re: Incorrect driver getting loaded for Qlogic FC-HBA

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Vasquez
I approach > this problem? A similar problem was noted with RHEL4, it seems the modules.pcimap and pci.ids file were correct, but the pcitable file contained entries for all ql[ae]23xx based HBAs to load qla2300.ko. It's my understanding that this was fixed for RHEL4 U1. Which distro are

Re: root password

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew
Glynn Clements wrote: If an attacker can get physical access to the system, you lose. This has been amply demonstrated to me by my three-year-old. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majo

Re: nfs mounted directories are inaccessible (solved)

2004-10-21 Thread Andrew
Brandon Niemczyk wrote: I have also had issues where it 'hung' when using UDP (the default), and i had to switch to TCP On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:16:05 -0700, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 01:14 PM 9/30/2004 +0200, Andrew wrote: NFS server running Mandrake 10.0

nfs mounted directories are inaccessible

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew
and always happens with a Mdk server and Sw client. Can there be some kind of incompatibility? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

uninstalling source package

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew
have been done. no packlist file found: at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 332. make: *** [uninstall_from_sitedirs] Error 2 So how do I uninstall it? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [E

Re: ethernet nic install

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew
Slot Number: I think even I can manage that one. Function Number of Device: Dunno (1-7) Device Function: Presumably I choose Enabled (Enabled/Disabled) IRQ Level for INTA Pin and ditto for INTB, INTC, INTD has me thrown. TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: ethernet nic install

2004-08-04 Thread Andrew
t is it and is it working.??? Yes, 3c509 isapnp and yes. I shall have another go at the BIOS (It is the strangest I have ever seen) and maybe come back to you. Thanks, anyway, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to

ethernet nic install

2004-08-03 Thread Andrew
t seems I should add append="pci=biosirq" in lilo.conf. This has made no difference except that I now get the following message in dmesg: PCI: Error b1 when fetching IRQ routing table. Any insights? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

childsplay

2004-07-16 Thread Andrew
one give me any idea what this means and how I can correct it? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

[Fwd: Re: CMI-8330 On Board Sound?]

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew
Original Message Subject: Re: CMI-8330 On Board Sound? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:14:19 +0200 From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hal MacArgle wrote: Greetings: Am in trouble with an on board CMI-8330 SoundPro featur

hang on shutdown

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
rigmarole of a forced file check followed by an automatic reboot (which luckily or by design works OK). Any ideas? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.

remote Openoffice fonts

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
case and upper case are displayed as numbers and symbols, spaces are rectangles... I use bluefish in the same setup and there is no problem. Can anyone suggest a reason (or better still a cure)? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the

Re: multiple X displays and nvidia

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
ctually I can't see anything in the README that relates to it. I think you're right that the nvidia forum might be more appropriate for this question, but I just thought I'd try here first. Thanks for your time. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

multiple X displays and nvidia

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
): Failed to allocate external video decoder object (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 Any ideas anyone? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

remote sound

2004-04-02 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
annot get is sound. Both client and server have working sound. Both have esound installed. What more should I do to get the sound being produced on the server to be heard on the client? TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body

inittab

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
all very much in advance, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: partitioning drive

2004-03-23 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
8 7% /boot none 505 0 505 0% /dev/shm You have 3 partitions, we cant see if you have any spare room without the output of fdisk fdisk -l /dev/hda What about partboot? A bootdisk with a partition editor: http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/gnu/parted/bootdisk/ A

Re: daisychain addresses

2004-03-12 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
here is 90 and I promise to give you more details if I don't get it right. Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read th

Re: daisychain addresses

2004-03-12 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
chuck gelm wrote: Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: Hello, In a daisychain network such as this: fw/router--server--workstation1--workstation2 (these are descriptions, not real hostnames), how should the addresses be set up? At the moment, all the machines are on 192.168.0.0. Is this

daisychain addresses

2004-03-12 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
list every machine. Daisychaining does not seem to be very much covered in the documentation I've found. I'm sure I'm making a basic mistake (apart from being too stingy to invest in hubs or switches or whatever). Therefore, a basic (and very general) question: What is the corre

Re: Generating SSH Keys

2004-02-20 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
Eve Atley wrote: I would like to have remote users connect to certain shares on a linux box, but securely. I've been reading about SSH and generating keys, but I am confused how to go about this. This may help http://linux.org.mt/article/ssh Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

keyboard

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
have this problem. Both keyboards use a Spanish layout. Where do I begin to look so as to correct this? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

discrepancies in partition size

2003-10-24 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
Mandrake 9.0 Output from 'df' says hda1 is 9.7G, whereas Mandrake Control Centre says it is 6G. The latter is correct, the former is the old size before I resized it. This worries me. ('fdisk' gives the correct size.). Unmounting and remounting makes no difference. Any exp

Re: Ksnapshot

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
e a screenshot HTH Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: IceWM Icons

2003-08-30 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
I'm sorry to report that I can't tell you at the moment where the global dir is located. IIRR, /etc/X11/icewm Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.

Re: well written MBR

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
sting - DOS partition located there is not bootable any more. How to repair that without a full re-install (of both the DOS and the Linux partitions) ? It can be done with a program called MBRWORK. Take a look here: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html. And good luck Andrew -- Using M2, Op

Re: su fails

2003-07-17 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
for uspicious files and directories turns up 2 .packlist files, which I gather is fairly normal. One is identical to the one on the installation CD and the other corresponds with the Foo-matic packet I installed. Now can I relax and have a beer? Thanks, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: su fails

2003-07-16 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
ing to do with a tunnel I was trying at a time when the Slackware host was running a different (Suse) installation. Right? cat faillog: pts/0ü ?tty5 1/4? (The 1/4 actually appears in small script without the slash). The file is 24024 bytes. Translation anyone? TIA, Andrew -- Using M2, Opera&#x

Re: su fails

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
signs of anything odd (the one I was messing about on the other day just before the problems started). By the way, Lilo is behaving perfectly again. But what about the 'stderr is not a tty - where are you?' ??? TY Andrew -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.

Re: su fails

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
s to me, but I'll study the manual first of all. One more thing: as normal user I also found I couldn't mount floppies or cds (in spite of the 'user' option in fstab) Reinstalling the util-linux packet has put that right. I think I put one very large foot in the works, not

Re: su fails

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
C reports most ports as stealthed and 113 IDENT and 5000 UPnP as closed. TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: su fails

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
on too. I thought at the time it was a touch curt by Linux standards. But, as I say, I reinstalled shadow and it is now back to normal. So let us let bygones be bygones as I have no intention of reproducing the error to prove what I say. Thanks for taking the trouble to write. Andrew - To unsubscrib

Re: su fails

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
--- Forwarded message --- Oops, Sorry On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:15:00 -0700, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 01:04 PM 7/14/2003 +0200, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: As of a few days ago, when I do 'su' and enter the password at the prompt I get turned dow

su fails

2003-07-14 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
ing else seems to be working all right. Sorry if this sounds a bit vague but I'm rather mystified myself. TIA Andrew -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the bod

log messages

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
]: smtp/tcp (2): bind: Address already in use Can anyone tell me what it means? TIA Andrew -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser

2003-03-31 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
pa3gcu wrote: On Monday 31 March 2003 08:20, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: Mandrake 9.0 control center>system>users "Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist". Yes, both exist. As far as i see it, that is the problem, they are presant in /etc. Maybe you c

adduser

2003-03-31 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
planation in the manual. TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
ll me if the Lycoris installation program will let me choose where to install ? I need to respect an existing Windows installation. TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

partition resides on first track

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Langdon-davies
to 1 G to make room for Mandrake; second hd 600M, probably for additional Win progs or storage. Very many TIA, Andrew - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kerne

partition resides on first track

2003-02-05 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
m for Mandrake; second hd 600M, probably for additional Win progs or storage. Very many TIA, Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

segmentation fault

2003-01-27 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
partition 500 megas Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

nfs ownership

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
says the owner of the files on the Mandrake machine is 501. Where do I start changing things? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.h

3d modelling

2002-11-22 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
Is there anything available in Linux for 3-D modelling from photographs? TIA Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: Setting up CD-RW

2002-10-10 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs No-one is newbier than me and I managed to do it by following W.Trümper's CD-Writing HOWTO very very carefully, especially the bits about which