Re: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-04 Thread L66
Might be totally unrelated, but I've seen the same jailbird stripes pattern, on my old Dell Dimension XPS R400 (a Pentium II, circa 1998, recently revived). Turned out it was something to do with the power management. My monitor is supposed to be power management friendly, but not with Linux

Re: [newbie] cdrecord with MD10.0 CE

2004-05-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:33 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:26, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you scan the bus with cdrecord in MD10.0 CE ? The ususal command says :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a26-dvd

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-05-04 Thread Nguyen Minh

[newbie] network printer

2004-05-04 Thread jesso1607
I am trying to configure a network printer in mandrake 10. I can't seem to find PrinterDrake. Don't see anything in HardDrake for printers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] Need partitioning advice

2004-05-04 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, all. I've nearly run out of space on / partition at work, and would like to move some free space from the Windows partition. It's a little dicey for me, since my IT people don't (yet) know I've installed Mandrake 9.2 on that machine. I can't afford to screw up the Windows partition;

[newbie] Xfce4-- running apps vanish

2004-05-04 Thread Marv Boyes
I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious problem in the last couple of weeks and hope that someone can help. Once every day or

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-05-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 05:51 am, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2004 22:02:32 -0700 Aron Smith disseminated the following: a billboard with Biblical verse condeming Homosexual conduct http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29328 seems you only have it if you are

[newbie] NForce 2 revisited

2004-05-04 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi guys I am starting to get complete freezes with my MDK10 CE install. The only way out is the 3 fingered salute. Judging by some of the posts on this site, as well as various other linux sites, general concensus seems to be that the NForce 2 chipset may be the problem. My motherboard is

Re: [newbie] Full HDD

2004-05-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: I'm sure this was covered some where but, I got to the point that i had only 12 Kb free on a 20 Gb drive (Not Good) I do have an Identical drive installedproblem is I can't rembember if I had installed anything on it any way of Identifying it and using it as a new /home

Re: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-04 Thread L66
I've tried another monitor (an old CRT), removing my TV card and tried different RAM chips, however, it still gives the same jail screen. With the CRT I see Starting mandrake or something like that for a fraction of a second before the jail pattern appears. I'm out of ideas... Both

Re: [newbie] NForce 2 revisited

2004-05-04 Thread Mark Annandale
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 16:18, Mark Annandale wrote: I am starting to get complete freezes with my MDK10 CE install. The only way out is the 3 fingered salute. Judging by some of the posts on this site, as well as various other linux sites, general concensus seems to be that the NForce 2

Re: [newbie] network printer

2004-05-04 Thread Marc Lijour
As root type: printerdrake Or in the MCC go to hardware printers I am trying to configure a network printer in mandrake 10. I can't seem to find PrinterDrake. Don't see anything in HardDrake for printers. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Full HDD

2004-05-04 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 08:43 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I'm sure this was covered some where but, I got to the point that i had only 12 Kb free on a 20 Gb drive (Not Good) I do have an Identical drive installedproblem is I can't rembember if I had installed anything on

Re: [newbie] Oldworld Macintosh SCSI won't work

2004-05-04 Thread L66
Wow, I solved it! Instead of using the all.gz ramdisk image I used the all-benh.gz ramdisk image. Then it again asks to select a SCSI driver, and then mesh.o works perfectly on my PPC 5500/275. So I set up this: In the options of BootX: Selected RAM disk image all-benh.gz and the kernel

[newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Can anyone offer advice on implementing Sasl authentication with Postfix on Mdk 10.0 I have followed the Howto on the Postfix site (http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ ), and the one at MandrakeSecure, but am unable to get sasl to authenticate users using either pam or

Re: [newbie] Xfce4-- running apps vanish

2004-05-04 Thread Todd Slater
Hi Marv, On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:06:53AM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious problem in the

Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-04 Thread Floyd Hagen
On Mon, May 03, 2004, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Why bother? XFCE4 rules. I don't know about that, it keeps freezing up or crashing on me. Flux has never ever crashed or locked up on me. Can't start Galeon on start-up. Can't drag a terminal or I'll lose the prompt and can't type in it. Have to

RE: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-04 Thread L66
I have no experience with Macs or PPCs, so I could be way off base, but did you check the BIOS settings? I'm looking at some notes I scribbled during 10.0 CE install, and it was hanging on boot until I disabled the BIOS power management. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:33 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Can anyone offer advice on implementing Sasl authentication with Postfix on Mdk 10.0 I have that working on mine. I have followed the Howto on the Postfix site (http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ ), and the one

Re: [newbie] Installing Creative Sound Blaster

2004-05-04 Thread Marco Verheul
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 11:41, John Layt wrote: On Tue, 04 May 2004 16:47, John Layt wrote: On Tue, 04 May 2004 12:54, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I spend the entire evening trying to install a new soundcard on my Linux box. Unfortunately nothing happens yet. Does anybody know which

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 20:55, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:33 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Can anyone offer advice on implementing Sasl authentication with Postfix on Mdk 10.0 I have that working on mine. I have followed the Howto on the Postfix site

Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-04 Thread Dave Ashmore
I don't know about that, it keeps freezing up or crashing on me. Flux has never ever crashed or locked up on me. Can't start Galeon on start-up. Can't drag a terminal or I'll lose the prompt and can't type in it. Have to wait a few seconds after it's started to do anything at all or it locks up.

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread bascule
have you used saslpasswd2 to create users and passwords? bascule On Tuesday 04 May 2004 9:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: How do you configure /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd to work with sasldb ? If I set SASL_AUTHMECH= sasldb I get # service saslauthd start Starting saslauthdsaslauthd[13725]

[newbie] turning off mailman

2004-05-04 Thread robert lester
looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every five minutes and fills up syslog. I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it. bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] The journey of a

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-04 Thread Marc Lijour
Le May 4, 2004 01:18 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar a écrit : On May 3, 2004 23:03, Marc Lijour wrote: ... I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it working: bpck6 (driver) pcd (parallel port

Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 04:50, Floyd Hagen wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2004, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Why bother? XFCE4 rules. I don't know about that, it keeps freezing up or crashing on me. Flux has never ever crashed or locked up on me. Can't start Galeon on start-up. Can't drag a terminal

[newbie] Requesting a new RPM (to be included in Commercial packages)

2004-05-04 Thread Marc Lijour
Could you explain the process of requesting a new RPM inclusion. I don't see the link on MDK_Club website. I quote the FAQ: - The voting life-cycle of an application has four distinct states: requested, in progress, testing, and done. Here is how the system works:

Re: [newbie] How Can I run (edit) modules.conf as root

2004-05-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: 1) I run Mandrake 10.0 . I open konquerer and go to /etc/modules.conf , right click , open with , KWrite but I can not save the changes. How can I run (edit) it without re-log on as root.?? If you are running 10.0 with the 2.6 kernel

[newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Greg Meyer
If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and I want them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do that directly instead of converting them back to wav and re-encoding them with oggenc. I want to do this because my cd/mp3 player only supports 96-160kbps vbr

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:41, Greg Meyer wrote: If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and I want them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do that directly instead of converting them back to wav and re-encoding them with oggenc. I want to do this

Re: [newbie] Errors when defining sources via EasyURPMI

2004-05-04 Thread Travis Crook
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:34, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On April 29, 2004 11:06, Travis Crook wrote: ... {SNIP} I'm afraid all I can do is commiserate. I've been trying for nearly 2 months now, without a single successful update from any server. I get the same message as you every time. I can

Re: [newbie] MD10 CE, USB HUB and Nvida N2 and MCC settings

2004-05-04 Thread RickS
On Tue, 04 May 2004 13:35:39 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RickS wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:42:17 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MD10 CE, USB HUB and Nvida N2 and MCC settings MCC - Hardware - Hardware -

Re: [newbie] ACPI and MDK 10 on a Presario 2100 Laptop

2004-05-04 Thread Troy Davidson
Thanks to all that replied. Actually, I totally forgot that I emailed this question here. It would have been easier to do what everyone here has mentioned. But, I recompiled my kernel and got ACPI to work from there. I ended up downloading the patch from Sourceforge. Oh well. Your answers

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21:52, bascule wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 9:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: How do you configure /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd to work with sasldb ? If I set SASL_AUTHMECH= sasldb I get # service saslauthd start Starting saslauthdsaslauthd[13725] :set_auth_mech :

Re: [newbie] Sasl Authentication for Postfix

2004-05-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:12 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I tried copying /etc/shadow to /var/spool/postfix/etc with perms 644 without success. I have seen others talk about how complex getting that to work is, not to mention the security issues. I never tried because of those. How do you

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Marc Resnick
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 17:41, Greg Meyer wrote: If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and I want them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do that directly instead of converting them back to wav and re-encoding them with oggenc. I

Re: [newbie] Dockapps in Fluxbox

2004-05-04 Thread Floyd Hagen
On Tue, May 04, 2004, Dave Ashmore wrote: I just saw your post and tried urpmi fluxbox The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: XFree86-4.3-30mdk.i586 (due to conflicts with Xorg-x11-6.7.0-0.0.10mdk.i586) libxfree86-4.3-30mdk.i586 (due to conflicts with

Re: [newbie] About my Zaurus [was: Xfce4-- running apps vanish]

2004-05-04 Thread Marv Boyes
Todd Slater wrote: Hi Marv, On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:06:53AM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious

[newbie] Signature script

2004-05-04 Thread Chris
Well, I'm lost on this one. I'm definately no script guy and I can't figure out why the 'fortune' line doesn't work when the script is ran in Kmail but works when ran from the CLI. Any ideas on where I'm screwing up? #!/bin/bash echo Regards echo Chris echo A 100% Microsoft Free Computer echo

Re: [newbie] turning off mailman

2004-05-04 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 04:06 pm, robert lester wrote: looking at syslog, it seems that cron is runing the mailman program which brings in news. I never read new. How do I turn it off? It runs every five minutes and fills up syslog. I looked in the cron (hourly,daily,etc) but couldn't find it.

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and I want them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do that directly instead of converting them back to wav and re-encoding them with oggenc. I want to do this

[newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot

2004-05-04 Thread David B. Williams
I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well as the applications and they still won't sync. Any ideas?

Re: [newbie] Installing Creative Sound Blaster

2004-05-04 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 05 May 2004 09:33, Marco Verheul wrote: I found and installed package emu10k1-tools-0.9.4-2mdk.i586.rpm. How did you use the tools it provides? Marco After you install the rpm, there's a file /etc/emu10k1.conf which you edit to configure the tools. There will be documentation in

Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot

2004-05-04 Thread Ariestao1
On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot I have made sure that the Palm Vx is set to 9600 baud as well

Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot

2004-05-04 Thread David B. Williams
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1 I have chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 and did a link to dev/pilot

Re: [newbie] Jpilot or Kpilot

2004-05-04 Thread David B. Williams
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:47 pm, David B. Williams wrote: On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2004 11:02 am, David B. Williams wrote: I have tried both Jpilot and Kpilot after I installed 10.0 and can't get either one to sync and had both working on 9.1

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-05-04 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-04 Thread Ralph Slooten
You can try the simple bash script I have attached. Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a folder called converted with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and in the comment it puts in the original bitrate. Hope it helps, Ralph On Tue, 4 May 2004 20:55:12 -0400

Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 2, 2004 14:19, Marc Lijour wrote: Hi I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it working: bpck6 (driver) pcd (parallel port connection, which is used to connect the cdwriter) pg (scsi emulation)

Re: [newbie] Problem with the PPC Kernel?

2004-05-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 4, 2004 09:49, L66 wrote: I've tried another monitor (an old CRT), removing my TV card and tried different RAM chips, however, it still gives the same jail screen. With the CRT I see Starting mandrake or something like that for a fraction of a second before the jail pattern appears.

Re: [newbie] cdrecord with MD10.0 CE

2004-05-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 4, 2004 03:33, Josenildo Marques wrote: ... Here's what Tom Brinkman wrote about this some time ago. quote Not only that, there's quite a difference burning CD under 2.6.x kernels. ide-scsi is no longer used for IDE CD drives, no /dev/scd*'s are used either. Not even created by devfs.

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] backpack serie 6

2004-05-04 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On May 3, 2004 23:03, Marc Lijour wrote: ... I have a bacpack (MIcrosolution) cdwriter. It was working in 9.2. I used to insmod the following modules in this order to have it working: bpck6 (driver) pcd (parallel port connection, which is used to connect the cdwriter) pg (scsi

Re: [newbie] System not recognizing correct partition size

2004-05-04 Thread Terence Golightly
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 05:53, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: /var partiton 5.4BG ext3 fs 7% used (I don't know why I meant to make it reiserfs but I musta been tired when I was doing the install) /var/Music 5.9GB reiserfs as its file system (its the last partition on