[newbie] pmsuspend2 question

2003-12-04 Thread drew
hi, i have an hp pavilion xt118. i am currently running mdk9.2 and am trying to get swsusp to work. when i try it it goes down ok but reboot is slow and comes back with no mouse or keyboard. in my searches i have heard that if you use a seperate swap partition (one that isnt being used for ram)

[newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot. Tried all rpm's

[newbie] Upgrade 9.1--9.2

2003-12-04 Thread Hutton Daniel
Title: Upgrade 9.1--9.2 There is a log of my upgrade to 9.2 at http://web.tiscali.it/danslinuxbox/Linux.html Let me know if there are any other lists/people in Mandrake interested in this and I'll forward it to them. Replies to me please as I am not subscribed to the list, or at my

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 2:16 am, Greg wrote: John Can you tell me where you got all the info listed here John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: top - 13:50:36 up 1 day, 21:26, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.05 Tasks: 105 total, 2 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0

Re: [newbie] Shorewall - OK to accept ICMP type 8 from all?

2003-12-04 Thread Raffaele Belardi
According to google, port 17300 might be used by the W32.Weird (Kuang2) to scan for infected machines. That does not mean your machine is infected (it's a Windows trojan), but that others are searching for an infected machine to activate the trojan.

[newbie] Ximian Evolution: Inport Addressbook

2003-12-04 Thread Budhi Astiyadi
Hi all... I use Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 [3mdk] that bundled with Mandrake 9.1. I can not import my addressbook from Kmail with vCard 3.0 format or comma separated format. In vCard 3.0, Evolution just can recognize initial and email address, but not all additional information. In comma separated

Re: [newbie] Upgrade 9.1--9.2

2003-12-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 8:31 am, Hutton Daniel wrote: There is a log of my upgrade to 9.2 at http://web.tiscali.it/danslinuxbox/Linux.html Let me know if there are any other lists/people in Mandrake interested in this and I'll forward it to them. Replies to me please as I am not subscribed

[newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
How do you reset the spacing between characters in kword ? I need to increase the spacing from the current default setting which virtually merges them. I'm not talking about line spacing. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] scrolling in mozilla/firebird eats up cpu

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:11:18 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice the same behavior in Pan. I wonder if it's a gtk2 or something to do with fonts. Todd I get a bit of a spike when scrolling in sylpheed, too (though not as high as in moz or pan). I use

Re: [newbie] bind and dhcp

2003-12-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 06:19, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I setup a slave name server in the domain. It gets zone transfer from the master. I also use dhcp that dynamically update the zone in the master server. The question is: Should

[newbie] bind and dhcp

2003-12-04 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I setup a slave name server in the domain. It gets zone transfer from the master. I also use dhcp that dynamically update the zone in the master server. The question is: Should I mention the slave server in clients option in dhcpd.conf?

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 11:03, robin wrote: Have you checked for stale GL simlinks? Sir Robin Well lately, no I haven't but I did a fresh test-install on a spare partition which gave me exactly the same errors. Then I'm already grabbing at straws so I might as well do that so's to be

Re: [newbie] Mozilla - that resource hog!

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg wrote: John Can you tell me where you got all the info listed here Thanks Greg It's from a nice little programme called top which should be default installed, but check, in a terminal, # rpm -qa | grep top gnome-desktop-2.2.0.1-2mdk libgtop2-2.0.1-1mdk toppler-0.96-8mdk

[newbie] Flash and Konquorer

2003-12-04 Thread Drew Martin
Hi All, How do I make Flash 6 work with Konquorer?It works ok with Mozilla. Drew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] bins

2003-12-04 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:57:28 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:44:00 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bumbled around after I got my head out of ..and figured it out. Could have been a first. Appreciate your response. Lee

Re: [newbie] Flash and Konquorer

2003-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 12:03 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, How do I make Flash 6 work with Konquorer?It works ok with Mozilla. Drew In konq settingsPlugins Check the plugins directory includes /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins (or

Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working

2003-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 1:44 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi there: In the past two days I haven't been able to download my hotmail account mails using gotmail 0.7.9. It's been complaining with: Getting hotmail index page... Processing java check Logging in... Following

Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working

2003-12-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 09:07, Derek Jennings wrote: Me too. I assume Hotmail have changed their site and we will need a new version of gotmail. derek Thank you, Derek. You just avoided me a lot of headaches :-) Saludos, -- Adolfo A. Bello B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make your posts more

Re: [newbie] Flash and Konquorer

2003-12-04 Thread Drew Martin
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 1:05 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 12:03 pm, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, How do I make Flash 6 work with Konquorer?It works ok with Mozilla. Drew In konq settingsPlugins Check the plugins directory includes /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins

Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working

2003-12-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:07:14PM +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 1:44 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi there: In the past two days I haven't been able to download my hotmail account mails using gotmail 0.7.9. snip Me too. I assume Hotmail have changed their site and we

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread robin
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Hello all, I'm having a ball getting the proprietary nvidia drivers to work on box for a geforce2 DDR card. I've already tried every trick in the book and a lot that aren't, frying the initrd twice in the process and using every kernel I could get my hands on to boot.

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - mdk 9.1 - fix or better search option?

2003-12-04 Thread Tango Echo
--- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 08:25 am, Tango Echo wrote: TE Hi all, TE TE I have Mandrake 9.1 installed (w/latest Texstar KDE). TE When I input a search string and hit search Kfind TE hangs. When other windows are dragged in front of it,

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - finding files

2003-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 2:24 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Thanks Ronald, but I am looking for a GUI solution. Yes, I can always su, updatedb, then slocate - and it does work good! However, I am shocked to see only one gui based file search program installed in MDK 9.1, not to mention it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You may reboot your

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - mdk 9.1 - fix or better search option?

2003-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 2:11 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 December 2003 08:25 am, Tango Echo wrote: TE Hi all, TE TE I have Mandrake 9.1 installed (w/latest Texstar KDE). TE When I input a search string and hit search

[newbie] How to get Wine working?

2003-12-04 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I installed Wine on my system from the cd (mdk 9.1) and I'm wondering how to proceed. In the documentation on Wine HQ all sorts of configuration tools and scripts are mentioned that I just can't find. Can anybody tell me what to do or where I can find a clear tutorial. My goal is when

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - mdk 9.1 - fix or better search option?

2003-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:11 am, Tango Echo wrote: TE Thanks Ronald, but I am looking for a GUI solution. TE Yes, I can always su, updatedb, then slocate - and it TE does work good! However, I am shocked to see only one TE gui based file search program installed in MDK 9.1, TE not to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread et
On Thursday 04 December 2003 02:50 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just a random thought - there are -2- DRI lines in the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to verify proper DG size and stuff. I had the same problem but i got hold of a bad batch of DG cheap cd's

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - finding files

2003-12-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ Plus I wanted to emphasise how useful it is for desktop users to install DJ anacron. Without anacron to run jobs which a server would do in the middle of DJ the night your logs and your tmp folder will become huge, and lots of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Dan Gordon wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:57:17 -0800 (PST) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: I/0 error I can't recover from this. You

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where it says: Load glx # 3D layer ...you may need to

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 Dece9mbr 2003 16:13, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 03:31 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H. Ah yes, I have commented out the dri line in /etc/security/console.perms and H. there's no line pointing to it in XF86Config-4 nor to GLcore, so it isn't H. that. Just

Re: [newbie] gotmail is not working

2003-12-04 Thread bascule
i get it too, i guess microsoft changed things again, with luck there'll be a fix soon, (oh the arrogance of a mere user, just assume some soul will fix it! :) ) bascule On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 1:44 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi there: In the past two days I haven't been able to download my

Re: [newbie] Kmail hangs - finding files

2003-12-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 04 Dec 2003 2:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ Plus I wanted to emphasise how useful it is for desktop users to install DJ anacron. Without anacron to run jobs which a server would do in the middle of DJ the night

[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, I just downloaded Mandrake 9.2 and tried to install. I am brought to the inital splash screen where I hit Enter to continue. Next I see the text fly by but am stopped by this error: error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the

Re: [newbie] How to get Wine working?

2003-12-04 Thread cdrack
Hi, for an easy configuration but less optimizated you can use the WineSetupTk configuration tool, i'm not shure if it is on the Mdk 9.1 cd's but if not try to findint on the net. or use the winetools that you can find at www.winehq.com Cdrack. --- Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Happened to me also with the downloaded images, more or less the same error. I powered off and tried again and it worked ok. I had to repeat the installation the day after, this time it worked immediately ok. I don't know what happened. The system is an oldish AMDK6-2/550 with 128Mbyte RAM,

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-1.5

2003-12-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:17:17 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just now realized that it's your name backwards, kind of. Charlse. That's clever. lol It has been my user name for quite sometime. When I initially did it, It Was supposed to be my name backwards, except that I spelled

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:11, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:55:57 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to think it's either the card itself or the GLX rpm. *Sometimes*, for some weird reason, you have to put the complete path to the GLX library, so where

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 won't install

2003-12-04 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 04 December 2003 8:11 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:50 am, Dan Gordon wrote: DG To check the iso's download the md5sum file from the ftp site, I dont DG remember how to use the file but it checks the iso's to

[newbie] installing USB mouse on HP laptop

2003-12-04 Thread Ramon PS
Dear gurus. I have just installed Mandrake 9.2 on a HP Pavilion laptop. In addition to the mouse that comes with the machine, I use an external USB optical mouse. How could I make the system (X Windows?) recognize it and, perhaps, have it co-existing with the regular PS/2 type of mouse? Thanks

[newbie] disabling default user at booting

2003-12-04 Thread Ramon PS
Dear gurus. I have not succeded in disabling the default user at boot time. Any tip would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ramon. __ Acabe com aquelas janelinhas que pulam na sua tela. AntiPop-up UOL - É

[newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread JoeHill
Viagra! -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Reality is what you can get away with. -- Robert Anton Wilson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! It works! Woot! I's learnin', sorry to bombard like this... -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Where the state begins, individual

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
It was filtered, didn't it? You have to change: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] to * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saludos, Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! Penis -- Collar points don't match, and you've trimmed all the seams -- Murphy's Laws of Sewing n°13 - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-0.2mdkenterprise

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:43, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! Penis spamassassin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:47:46 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: spamassassin not big enough -- Collar points don't match, and you've trimmed all the seams -- Murphy's Laws of Sewing n°13 - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver pops up its ugly head

2003-12-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 December 2003 22:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you do the: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* thingy? Hehehehh, are you getting back at me for criticizing yer reply settings?;D No, I didn't. Anyway, this is what I get: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chmod: failed to

Re: [newbie] Testing Procmail Whitelist

2003-12-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:43:18PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:30:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viagra! Penis DON'T LOSE ANY MORE MONEY ON YOUR EXISTING HOME LOAN! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Upgrade 9.1--9.2

2003-12-04 Thread Roland Hughes
I tried the upgrade and it hosed kde and the menu system. I then re-did it as a install so I did not play around to much. Roly On Thursday 04 December 2003 12:31 am, Hutton Daniel wrote: There is a log of my upgrade to 9.2 at http://web.tiscali.it/danslinuxbox/Linux.html Let me know if there

[newbie] test

2003-12-04 Thread John Drouhard
messages dont seem to be getting through. please ignore -- Thu Dec 4 17:39:37 CST 2003 -- Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Bootdisk editing

2003-12-04 Thread Scott
I have 9.0 x86_64 version that suffers from the same bug that 9.0 32bit did. The boot images are missing floppy.o... Mandrake does not have a fix out for it yet. I would like to add that into the .mar file inside network.rdz from the network.img floppy. Please step me through on how to properly

[newbie] menu/rpm bug update

2003-12-04 Thread Eric Huff
There was another update on the menu bug. If interested, i added the 2nd advisory link: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/FiveStarNews eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Time display errors

2003-12-04 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Time display errors Coming from a Windows intensive background I mainly use X and I have noticed that since the upgrade, my system time seems to increment itself by 2 hours each time I reboot the machine, if I don't physically change it each time. Now that's

Re: [newbie] How to get Wine working?

2003-12-04 Thread deedee
Hi Marco, The Wine on the 9.1 CDs is very old (new releases come out monthly). Wines compiled for Mandrake can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 I'm not sure about the status of the November wine. There have been a number of complaints on the wine users