Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs.

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source

RE: [newbie] ML10.0rc1

2004-02-20 Thread Tony S. Sykes
What motherboard are you using? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1 On Thursday 19 February 2004 06:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread Robin Turner
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from source tarballs. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmHowTo

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 11:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on

Re: [newbie] KGPG frontend for GPG ...

2004-02-20 Thread Job Evers
if your still having trouble getting it to work, you could install Kgpg using urpmi (after uninstalling your source installation). Once you do that you will be able to type $ which kgpg /usr/bin/kgpg My installation using urpmi worked fine. On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:37:14 -0600 Chuck Mattsen

RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-20 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Steve, add noapic nolapic to your append line of your kernel. I have the same motherboard and have had major problems, I thought it was the sata drives I was using but it was adding acpi=off noapic nolapic that fixed it. Tony. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-20 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote: The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX laptop. Vendor: ?ESS

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 !

2004-02-20 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 RC1 ! On Thursday 19 February 2004 10:09 am, Tango Echo wrote: Territory, etc, stuff that requires 3d? Any ideas what I

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 20 February 2004 05:51 am, Robin Turner wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:41 pm, robin wrote: Can anyone recommend a good guide to rpmbuild (along the lines of the old Mandrake RPM HOWTO)? In particular I need information on building RPMs from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Move 9.2 and the key drive

2004-02-20 Thread Poogle
On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 22:48, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:54 am, Bill Lawrence wrote: Hi Everyone, Apparently Mandrake Move is quite picky about what USB drive one uses. I have a San Disk Cruzer 128 MB and a Lexar Media device that accepts SD memory cards. Move

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:49 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:09 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:59:46

[newbie] Using Red Carpet ...

2004-02-20 Thread piagetblix
I just installed 10. rc 1 and was wondering if there is any reason not to use the REd Carpet update system and /or Ximian?? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sound is kaput

2004-02-20 Thread Brandon Rife
Amichai Rotman wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 05:01, Brandon Rife wrote: The sound driver info is below. I've tried both the maestro and snd-es1968 drivers with no luck. I do know that the maestro module was working. Should it matter, this problem is occurring on a Micron Transport ZX

Re: [newbie] Using Red Carpet ...

2004-02-20 Thread Lanman
On February 20, 2004 08:47 am, piagetblix wrote: I just installed 10. rc 1 and was wondering if there is any reason not to use the REd Carpet update system and /or Ximian?? Thanks piagetblix; Red-carpet barely has anything for Mandrake 9.2 right now. They're not going to have anything for

Re: [newbie] Building/Compiling a new kernel.

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 20 February 2004 12:33 am, Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 08:45 pm, John Drouhard wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:06:38 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 12:06 am, John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:56:03 -0500

Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1

2004-02-20 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 19 February 2004 11:25 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Probably it's just me but.. I had the Beta runnig good tried to up grade to RC1 and completely hosed the system (so bad I couldn't even reboot two frustrating days and nights finaly went out and bought Discovery hey at least I'm back on

[newbie] Changing order of boot options in LILO

2004-02-20 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Am I correct that if I want to change the order in which the different boot options appear in LILO that I need only call it up in an editor, move the sections around to suit me, save, then run LILO as root? Or am I missing something in the process? Paranoid newbie here. TIA -- Chuck Mattsen

RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Kaufman
OK Here is what I have done... I'll see what happens... Last night I rn memtest86 for 11 hours without a problem. I then read a bunch of email from you great people that sent suggestions. I changed these in LILO.conf but did not reboot. I then ran theBurnK7 for 10 minutes no problem

Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1

2004-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 20 February 2004 11:11 am, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: 10.0 Final is due next Thursday? Well... In that case I won't bother doing my 9.0 to 9.2 this weekend... What's the point? :) 9.2 is stable and very smooth, 10.0 has a few rough edges yet and will even after release. -- /g Want

Re: [newbie] Changing order of boot options in LILO

2004-02-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Chuck Mattsen wrote: Am I correct that if I want to change the order in which the different boot options appear in LILO that I need only call it up in an editor, move the sections around to suit me, save, then run LILO as root? Or am I missing something in the process? Paranoid newbie here.

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread Dan Gordon
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040220131626966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** ROFLMAO Thanks for the laff :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Feb 20 16:06:20 EST 2004 16:06:20 up 4

[newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-20 Thread Lee B.
Trying to get my APC UPS working, but discovered that the USB isn't working! Mandrake 9.2, clean install, not an upgrade Motherboard: Asus P3V4X (P-III 600mhz) 256mb USB enabled in bios (w/Legacy support set to Auto) HardDrake shows the USB controller as a VIA VT82C586B USBView won't display

[newbie] Annoyance... (9.2)

2004-02-20 Thread Jose J. Cintron
When I go into MDK Control Center - Network and Internet - DrakConnect under Internet Access - Type it shows modem, but thre is no modem what so ever on this computer. It showd after I got mouse happy and click one too many times when installing a new network card. Actually there is a mouse,

Re: [newbie] Annoyance... (9.2)

2004-02-20 Thread martin brandt
Quoting Jose J. Cintron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I go into MDK Control Center - Network and Internet - DrakConnect under Internet Access - Type it shows modem, but thre is no modem what so ever on this computer. It showd after I got mouse happy and click one too many times when installing

[newbie] Totally OT!

2004-02-20 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Is anybody here from Belgium? (on the French side) I need to some info. Sorry for the OT but, it does include MDK Linux on my need. TIA Ricardo Castanho -- == Linux user # 102240 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] user = 100% M$ FREE

Re: [newbie] Changing order of boot options in LILO

2004-02-20 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 14:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Am I correct that if I want to change the order in which the different boot options appear in LILO that I need only call it up in an editor, move the sections around to suit me, save, then run LILO as root? Or am I missing something in

Re: [newbie] from OS X back to Linux (for now)

2004-02-20 Thread Thinker
1. What is the most effective way to get the latest and greatest if not FTP install? 2. Is cooker stable? I am not familiar with how cooker works or is different from the normal distribution. Can someone fill me in on this? Thanks, -=Thinker On Feb 20, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Charlie Mahan

Re: [newbie] UPS for APC (was UPS prog called bulldog?)

2004-02-20 Thread Russ
When I start apcupsd I get the following error: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 614 Cannot open UPS device The one thing that probably is causing this is that /dev/usb is empty. Do you know how I would get the proper device/drivers I need? Russ B McKee wrote: From: Lee B. [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-20 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 20 February 2004 01:04 pm, Lee B. wrote: Trying to get my APC UPS working, but discovered that the USB isn't working! Mandrake 9.2, clean install, not an upgrade Motherboard: Asus P3V4X (P-III 600mhz) 256mb USB enabled in bios (w/Legacy support set to Auto) HardDrake shows the

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread adam.halesworth
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 21:07, Dan Gordon wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040220131626966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** ROFLMAO Thanks for the laff :-) Regards,

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-20 Thread Lee B.
Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 01:04 pm, Lee B. wrote: Trying to get my APC UPS working, but discovered that the USB isn't working! Mandrake 9.2, clean install, not an upgrade Motherboard: Asus P3V4X (P-III 600mhz) 256mb USB enabled in bios (w/Legacy support set to Auto)

Re: [newbie] LAN Write permission

2004-02-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 20 February 2004 21:24, martin brandt wrote: I'll try that prog. but it doesnt sound like exactly what I need. I need to be able to dl to the linux directory, so for example, select that directory as the download destination on Bit Torrent. I think its possible on windows --

Re: [newbie] from OS X back to Linux (for now)

2004-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 20 February 2004 04:47 pm, Thinker wrote: 1. What is the most effective way to get the latest and greatest if not FTP install? 9.2 is last stable. ftp install with 9.2 tree applying all the updates immediately will give you a nice stable system, but this is not latest and

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 20 February 2004 21:07, Dan Gordon wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040220131626966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer ** ROFLMAO Thanks for the laff :-) Regards, Dan

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Friday 20 February 2004 08:08 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 21:07, Dan Gordon wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200402201316 26966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 %

[newbie] Error 2 when running make bzImage

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
Here is the error I get at the end of the 'make bzImage' output. Note: I'm trying to compress kernel 2.4.25. make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' make[4]: *** [aicasm/aicasm] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory

Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf

2004-02-20 Thread Tudor Vinereanu
Hi Ronald, Not here. I've got broadband (cable-modem) at around 275k average and its pretty fast. My connection is ADSL 512k, and it's fast, except for resolving the hostname... Are you sure that you don't have a hostname conflict somewhere? I've seen that slow systems way down. That's a

Re: [newbie] Photo of the year ?

2004-02-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 20 February 2004 05:45 pm, adam.halesworth wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 21:07, Dan Gordon wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:28:27 + Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040220131626966 Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-20 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 19 2004 4:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: snip I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in under Mandrake Linux 9.2 that will replace the my 2

Re: [newbie] Error 2 when running make bzImage--fixed

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 20 February 2004 07:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Here is the error I get at the end of the 'make bzImage' output. Note: I'm trying to compress kernel 2.4.25. make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' make[4]: ***

[newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
I'll start from the beginning: I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the screen...and back on the other side. That was weird... So I rebooted, pressed esc, and booted in text mode. Since I shut down improperly, and hda5 wasn't unmounted right, it had to check

[newbie] My daily question ... this time, re spamassassin

2004-02-20 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Okay, I'm tearing my hair out and I have little enough to spare, so hope someone can point me in the right direction. I simply want to set up Evolution to use spamassassin on incoming mail. I've been to the spamassassin site, have Googled for others' accounts of getting the two to talk (which,

Re: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot

2004-02-20 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:06 PM Subject: [newbie] Several problems with new kernel boot I'll start from the beginning: I booted from Lilo. The progress meter quickly filled...then...went off the

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-20 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 19 2004 4:16 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 04:49 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:53, Ray Hogaboom wrote: snip I am a long time MS-Windows user but new to Linux. I have not been able to find any Application that will run in

[newbie] adding a second monitor - xinerama I presume

2004-02-20 Thread Brian Parish
I'm being really lazy here I know, but so far in my 5 minute search of the web I've found info on setting up two monitors with xinerama by manually configuring XF86config-4. I suspect however that there is nice, easy Mandrake gui method. If so, can anyone point me at it? I have added a second