[newbie] connexant modems - cheeky request...

2004-03-03 Thread anton
hiya, Mi da' has one of these monstrosities (on a cheapie dell) and I am trying to get the thing to run from a few hundred miles away... I gave him a copy of the beta files mentioned on this list a while back but the rpms don't work. I guess they have to be compiled special for his kernel

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 05:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension GLX missing

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-03 Thread bascule
christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: Thanks for the trick. Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I thing there is no problem to open the win_c drive. When I red the properties of the

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:38:32 +1300 anton disseminated the following: I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most positive

Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-03 Thread bascule
hmm, you may need to see what usb device files get created when you connect the pda, in the past the device file would not get created until one actually started a hotsync, of course since the hotsync requires knowledge of the device file the hotsysnc would fail! however, the line: 22:17:01

Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-03 Thread Glenn
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:24, g wrote: HotSync Log 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open device... 22:17:02 Could not open device: /dev/pilot (will retry) 22:17:08 Device link ready. 22:17:08 Checking last PC...

Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-03 Thread Glenn
BTW, Chapter 2 of the KPilot help file might help you a bit on this. On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:59, Glenn wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:24, g wrote: HotSync Log 22:17:01 Pilot device /dev/pilot doesn't exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 22:17:02 Trying to open

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called glx I

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:38 am, anton wrote: Hi, I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most positive (deliberately leaving

[newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you remove them. I just spent the better half of a day

[newbie] procmail recipe!

2004-03-03 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
I need a recipe to remove an attach from a plain HTML message I receive and forward it to a specif folder. I need this attach's for my PDA. They have a specific extension! I've googled around, searched for many sites on procmail and nothing good so far. any help? I need to keep the

Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator

2004-03-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:39:44AM -0500, Anand S Bisen wrote: IT has something to do with security too , two of my banking sites explicitly says that they dont support netscape/Mozilla and they only support IE as a matter of fact. I have installed IE using crossover just for my banking needs.

Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator

2004-03-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 13:25, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:39:44AM -0500, Anand S Bisen wrote: IT has something to do with security too , two of my banking sites explicitly says that they dont support netscape/Mozilla and they only support IE as a matter of fact. I have

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I'd be insterested in what you found. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay,

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, just general information. Has anyone else on the list recently started noticing a lot of martian source packets being logged from the kernel? If so, I can probably help you to track down what is causing the entries and also help you

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS That's to handle the nvidia driver modules which includes something called

[newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Read
Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? If I click on the bottom line in my sig file below, Mozilla shows the page I've reached as: http://users.ids.net/%7Ebobread/cotm.htm Also, if I type %7E in the URL box, it functions the same as if I

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-03 Thread rhein
Hello, All my computer is in FAT32... was not able to use NTFS file system to create a partition for linux. Here what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 déc 31 1969 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# Is it ok or not? Bye Christophe

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- anton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am about to block IE users from my website (using php) and wanted to get the maximum bang for buck. Please have a look at the following messages and give me your opinion on what is likely to have the most positive (deliberately leaving that for

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread robin
anton wrote: If, on the other hand, the ultimate intent is to reduce traffic to your site -- and preventing IE users from accessing would /certainly/ do that in spades -- why not simply take the site down? ;-) Just so no one gets the wrong impression - this is a personal website that will

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS

Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Aavo Tambur
Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:04 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Let's see... $ cat /etc/security/msec/level.local from mseclib import * enable_log_strange_packets(0) Is this how you disabled the martian log? It made me crazy for some time after installing shorewall in MDK9.1 I setup a

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that are expected to come from a particular route but are

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-03 Thread Paul
On 03/03/2004 11:51 PM, rhein wrote: Hello, All my computer is in FAT32... was not able to use NTFS file system to create a partition for linux. Here what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls -ld /mnt/win_c drwxrwxrwx 10 root root 8192 déc 31 1969 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS That's to handle the

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 06:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS That's to

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv gives tvout support, which is why I have it. I don't doubt that the nv driver has tvout support, but

[newbie] login manager doesn't work after upgrade

2004-03-03 Thread Jonas Claesson
Hi! Running 10RC1 and today I updated to latest rpms from cooker and after the update I cant login using normal login (ie, init5 and login manager). Starting in textmode and calling startx works fine but whenever i the the mdkkdm/kdm/xdm ,enter username/password and press the login button it

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:37 am, Mike Fehse wrote: Are you refering to log entries in your Intrudsion Detection System (IDS) from your internet/intranet connection? No, kernel logging of martian source packets which are packets that

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread Mike Fehse
--- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: A better alternative might be to include HTML that is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, then add a note explaining why. Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that prevents it

[newbie] vectorlinux?

2004-03-03 Thread rhein
Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-03 Thread rhein
Hello, I don't understand what you try to tell me? Thanks Christophe bascule wrote: christophe, to recursively change perms use: chmod -R bascule On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 12:30 pm, rhein wrote: Thanks for the trick. Since I'm the only one using the machine and soon will remove XP... I thing

Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator

2004-03-03 Thread rhein
Hello, It is like this already... My problem is when I want to use the menu on the bank website( ones I'm registered) nothing works... I click and no action. Bye Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:55, rhein wrote: Hello,

Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?

2004-03-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? Thank you Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even

Re: [newbie] Zombies

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I kill zombie processes? When I run TOP it shows that there are 2 zombie processes, but I don't know how to determine their PID, so I don't know how to kill them. I'm figuring that a zombie is a

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-03 Thread frankieh
Mike Fehse wrote: --- robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: A better alternative might be to include HTML that is standards-compliant but comes out strangely in IE, then add a note explaining why. Incidentally, MS seems to be supporting the move alternative browsers by putting a bug in IE 6.0 that

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:18 am, John Richard Smith wrote: but without the Driver nv        | I was just tryin to show you to look down from the device section to the modules section        | I take it this is Tom's inclusion, Or should I have it also ? You do need the

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Pablo Vitoria
John, Are you doing glxinfo in a terminal in KDE (or Gnome, or whatever) in your Linux computer? Or are you doing it in a remote machine, perhaps through telnet or (better) ssh? OpenGL support is a property of the X server, so if you are connecting from a remote computer running an X server with

Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??

2004-03-03 Thread Bob Read
Thanks Aavo -- glad I asked. ;-) Bob Aavo Tambur wrote: Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv gives tvout support, which is why I have it. I don't doubt that the nv driver

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread John Richard Smith
In a terminal in kde John Pablo Vitoria wrote: John, Are you doing glxinfo in a terminal in KDE (or Gnome, or whatever) in your Linux computer? Or are you doing it in a remote machine, perhaps through telnet or (better) ssh? OpenGL support is a property of the X server, so if you are connecting

Re: [newbie] Martian source in Syslog

2004-03-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:33 pm, Mike Fehse wrote: Some times it is after a nasty day of mblaster, code_red, and so forth, that some of our users find the little green guys in the IDS logs. Those would be the kind that you actually do want to be logged since it can be evidence of

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Not the way I have it, nv is the native OEM driver with tvout, and nvidia is the xfree86 non tvout driver. I can assure you the nv gives tvout

Re: [newbie] Zombies

2004-03-03 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 15:47, Richard Urwin wrote: Hmm! I got it know! Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the command:

[newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Title: Message I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that needGLib it tells me it's not installed properly or it's the wrong version. The GLib is from this months Linux

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that need GLib it tells me it's not installed properly or

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 23:45, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:20:12 - Adrian Earnshaw disseminated the following: I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib. I have followed the instructions in the install file but when I try to ./configure any programs that

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie question

2004-03-03 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:08:02 + Derek Jennings disseminated the following: Erm the lines I am extremely new to Linux and have tried to install GLib ring alarm bells in my head. The Glib library is one of the most fundamental libraries on your system. If you mess with it you are almost

Re: [newbie] Invisible Kopete!

2004-03-03 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 19:09, Marc Resnick wrote: Thanks, but I've done that! I just want to SEE it! ;-) rgs Ricardo Castanho On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:46 pm, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: My kopete is just invisible to me!!! There is a process running, I can

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:37 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic) Driver nv Option DPMS

[newbie] Unable to mount root fs

2004-03-03 Thread Ketan Mukadam
Hi All, I have just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my newly bought system. I also have Win2K installed on a partition. Everything was working fine, until few days ago when i tried to boot into Linux, it gave me a kernel panic saying "unable to mount root fs".I was surprised, since i havent