On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote:
> Does anyone here know if a Toshiba DVD-Rom (ide)
Yes. (At least you can read CDs from any IDE DVD drive, haven't tried
reading actual DVDs. They aren't available around here.)
> or a Turtle Beach Montego pnp sound card are supported by Mandrake 6.x?
D
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, J Mann wrote:
> Hello, I want to use other window managers like AfterStep and Enlightenment.
> How do I change from KDE? I've looked at all the configuration screens, but
> where do I tell it I want AfterStep instead of KDE?
desktopcfg
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to have a SoundblasterLive under Mandrake6.0? There is a
> driver for SBLive, but just for kernelversions 2.0.36 and 2.2.5. Is it
> possible to use these drivers, and how can this be done!?
I'm afraid the only thing you can do is writ
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, <-=Memphis=-> wrote:
> LM 6.0 came with a mandrake gtkzip and accidentally i installed another
> gtkzip rpm. Both of these two packages are registered separately in RPM
> but were installed into the same location.
rpm -qa |grep gtkzip
to get the exact package names. You can
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Matt Stegman wrote:
> I've a quick question about the update RPMs: what is kernel-BOOT?
It's for internal use. It's used to build the installation bootdisks.
LLaP
bero
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Michael Norris wrote:
> When compiling the kxicq source code I get the following error when running
> ./configure, "makeinfo...missing" ,"configure error: C compiler cannot create
> executables".
You probably forgot to install glibc-devel or libstdc++-devel.
LLaP
bero
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote:
> Vmware works fine on the original mandrake 6.0 kernel (2.2.19) but stops
> working and crashes with a segfault with the latenst kernel update from
> mandrake
I don't have vmware... Can you check if the kernel in cooker
(2.2.10-29mdk) works?
LLaP
be
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> Can one download the updated KDE RPMs and use them with RedHat 6.0 or does Mandrake
>put them in a
> different directory, etc from RedHat 6.0?
Yes, but you won't get man or info pages that way because RedHat does not
support bzip2'ed man/info pages. I
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, J Mann wrote:
> I just installed FreeAmp 1.2.3 for Linux. Good problem, but I'm having trouble.
> The problem installs in /usr/local/bin by default and that's where mine is. My
> question is how do I set a path to /usr/local/bin so I can just type 'freeamp
> /mp3s/*.mp3' inst
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Hans Goetz wrote:
> Formerly I have been using SUSE Linux and the tool yast offered that in an
> easy way. Something similar in Mandrake?
linuxconf
LLaP
bero
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Victor Zaitsev wrote:
> Bernhard
> I downloaded all files in /private.
> What shall I do now to install this rpm ?
Sorry, I thought you had already installed the distrib.
You'll need new boot images. I'll put them on somewhere soon.
LLaP
bero
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I got this message when booting Linux. It said to run fcsk manually. How do I
> do this? Is this what I need to do to solve this problem??
log in as ro
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Brian Erikson wrote:
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> I think it might work if you try cua0 or cua1 depending on if it is on
> serial
> port 1 or 2 respectively. That is the only selection that works with my
>
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote:
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> Can somebody help me? I've installed my system across the
> network. Now I've added an IDE cdrom on as the master on the
> secondary IDE port. Can s
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Martin Cleaver wrote:
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> > Maybe the 2.03 binaries are compiled for different libraries than
> > come with M6, and you'll have to recompile them under M6? Just a
> > thought..
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, John Mandeville wrote:
> can some one tell me how to get my modem to work properly under
> LM6it didnt even work properly under LM5.3i have a newcom
> external 56kefxspka modem. when ever i try to Download with linux it
> goes a little and says stalled
Is that when d
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Joubert's wrote:
> When using Mandrake 5.2, I had no problem accessing my windows98 vfat
> partition and copying files over to Linux. I was thrilled with the
> improvements to Mandrake 6.0, until I tried to transfer files from
> win98.
Works for me...
Can you try updating y
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Martin White wrote:
> When you say fixes, do you solely mean fixes or are there new cards
> supported too (PCMCIA)??
Just fixes.
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I see that new kernel rpm's are on the ftp site (2.2.9-24). How are
> these different than the 23 series?
PCMCIA fixes and update ac1->ac4
LLaP
bero
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Fernando Perez wrote:
> I did check with chkfontpath --list and I *do* have
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts loaded properly. Also, the fonts.dir file
> *is* there, so I'm kind of puzzled as to why I can't see any of the fonts.
Probably the installer didn't update xfs to t
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Pian wrote:
> sox : Known effect : avg band chorus copy cut deepmh echo echos flanger highp lowp
>map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample reverb reverse split stat vibro
> sox : effect '/dev/dsp' is not known
Not a problem with your soundcard, but with the sox package
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> I've had Mandrake 5.3 installed on our Linux
> machines for a while now, and I was always under the impression that
> Mandrake 5.3 was exactly Red Hat 5.2 plus KDE.
Not quite. Mandrake 5.3 had a lot more applications than RedHat (XEmacs,
klyx, licq, maxwel
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The only reason you aren't getting responses is that your problems are
> > very specific to your hardware - pieces of hardware most others don't
> > have.
> > I've never even seen a Jaz drive, so you can't expect me to figure out
> An Iomega Jaz dri
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Fernando Perez wrote:
> 1) True Type. Even though I think I checked every TType-related package during
> installation, and xfs has the correct TType directory in its load path, the
> fonts still don't show up anywhere. This kind of bummed me, since "out of the
> box" TType sup
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I asked for assistance on sound and scsi problems,
> got none, figured that one out eventually. Asked for assistance on Jaz
> locking up, got no response and it still does not work.
The only reason you aren't getting responses is that your problems a
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Alex Brown wrote:
> AAAGGH! does anyone know how to compile fortran progs??
> there's no f77 or fort77 to be found.
g77 should work, but I've never tried fortran...
LLaP
bero
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> How do you print tiff files under Linux?
Load them in a program supporting tiff reading (I think gimp, Netscape and
StarOffice should do) and print from there.
LLaP
bero
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> Hi! I think I found out what is causing Linux to run so slow on my
> computer!! I typed in the stuff Bernhard mentioned and found out that
> Linux thinks I only have 13MB of RAM!!
You apparently have a very broken BIOS then. I haven't seen this problem
f
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> But, all is not well. My computer is still VERY slow in Linux. The new
> initscripts didn't really help out in that area. Linux still keeps
> accessing my hard drive, and it takes forever to load anything.
When you type "top" on the console, you get a
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> I'm pretty sure the maximum allowable single swap partition size is 128
> mb.
No longer. It used to be until some 2.1 kernel (2.1.25, I think).
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> I guess I should try, could you let me know how do to do that?
> I'm someone who's worked with windows since I started with computers and I
> can't even mount a MSDOS drive, so please take it easy with all those
> linux/unix terms :)
Ok, so I'm assuming
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> I've spent a week, unsuccessfully, trying to get Linux-Mandrake 6.0 to
> work properly. After getting through the install procedure, which went
> by with no real difficulty, I started Linux and was amazed at how slow
> it was. It kept accessing my hard d
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I was hoping somebody could tell me how at the LILO prompt to get
> the system to boot into an alternate runlevel. I accidentally put a
> script in runlevels 3,4, and 5 which cause my boot to hang. I need to
> either terminate the script before i
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Jimmy Garcia wrote:
> After getting Linux-Mandrake 6.0 installed and running, I tried to
> logout and it stalled.
This is an effect of the initscripts bug. Get the updated initscripts
package from ftp://ftp.mandrakesoft.com/pub/bero/fixes
> When I rebooted the computer, It
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, SunLord, William Schweder wrote:
> is mandrake going to release a patch for this like redhat did??
Sure - I'm currently compiling a new kernel with this and other fixes.
Should be done in a couple of minutes. (Uploading will take a while though
- my ISP is slow...)
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, David J. Christini wrote:
> I'm running Mandrake 5.3 (kernel 2.2.3). In the past I've successfully
> used the upgrade procedure to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 and from 5.2 to 5.3.
>
> However, today when I tried to upgrade from 5.3 to 6.0 (using boot.img and
> the Mandrake distri
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Kuraiken wrote:
> I thought the -devel series meant you want it if you want to further develop
> _that_ lib...and that the normal lib is what you want to use if you simply
> develop _other_ software...doh!
The devel packages are for developing (or simply recompiling) stuff th
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Roberto Angelo wrote:
> but caitoo work if I tell him linux-mandrake.com and don't work if I tell him
> 216.71.116.161 !!!
Seems the KDE resolver library uses something other than gethostbyname()
to resolve hostnames... I'll have a look at it.
LLaP
bero
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Birchall, Richard wrote:
> The ppp daemon used by Linux does
> not support this IPCP extension, so you have to enter the DNS servers
> manually.
The ppp daemon used by Linux *does* support this IPCP extension. The
parameter is "usepeerdns".
LLaP
bero
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Greg Gray wrote:
> Downloaded a new ISO image from another FTP site (different from
> first), burned another CD. Booted from new CD, removed all
> partitions, created new partitions (200M swap, 800M /, 1000M /usr,
> 350M /var, 200M /usr/local - don't ask why I chose these, I
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Kuraiken wrote:
> (pretty standard, no?) and I got:
> hello.c:1 stdio.h: No such file or directory
Install the glibc-devel package.
LLaP
bero
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> I just compiled kernel 2.2.9. I chose modular support for parallel port
> and parallel printer. After doing 'make modules' and 'make
> modules_install', there's no parport_pc.o in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc.
> parport_pc.o was there when I compiled 2.2.6.
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Hidong Kim wrote:
> Upon booting into 2.2.9 with the boot option
> 'append = "parport=0x378,5"' in lilo.conf, no printer is detected by
> printtool. These i/o and irq values were the ones I was using under
> 2.2.6. I also see this message during boot: "lp: driver loaded but
On Sat, 29 May 1999, havok nexgen wrote:
> ok were is this mandrake a Window-manager choice just after installation
> screen? Or what program is it, I just installed and even selected to let x
> startup on boot. and i do no see this Windows manager.
desktopcfg
LLaP
bero
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote:
> I requested Spanish as a language, but when I log out of KDE I see several "file
> not found, using Default-English instead" messages.
>
> Might this be a problem?
No, it just means a couple of programs you're using have not been
translated to Sp
On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm new at using mandrake linux. I've been trying to figure out how
> to get a program to start when the computer starts up. In DOS, this
> can be done in the autoexec.bat program. Is there a similar startup
> file in linux? What would be the syn
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Martin Cleaver wrote:
> Another reason why Mandrake is doomed...
It isn't.
> how can they keep on updating it, if
> they don't get any morey for it? Simple answer: they don't.
Did you have a look at the 6.0 beta? Would you call it "not updated"?
Granted, we haven't release
On Mon, 24 May 1999, havok nexgen wrote:
> I have tried to put my Gateway in the ip-allow file, and also made sure
> that all my aliases are in the sendmail.cw file and that the line in the
> sendmail.cf file was not rem'ed out.
> Any other ideas?
Are you sure the MX record is set ri
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> I need to add an NE2000 card to my Mandrake 5.3
> how can I do this? Will Mandrake install the card and drivers or is their something
>I need to do?
If you haven't compiled a custom kernel without NE2000 support, you have
the drivers - you just need
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of
> my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install
> RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he
> said:
>
> "Mandrake is dead.
No
On Mon, 17 May 1999, James J. Capone wrote:
> I went the Mandrake website, They reference to the 2.2.3 kernel upgrade not
> the 2.2.9 kernel. Any which way. The file I DL for the kernel is
>
> kernel-2.2.9.tar.gz
In this case, you have to compile the kernel yourself; you'll also need to
update
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Martin White wrote:
> > I would burn my CDs on Linux but with a IDE-CDRW as Yahama 4416 the
> > common progs as cdwrite, cdrecord and Gcombust seem not works (and
> > explain that I have to activate the IDE-SCSI emulation).
>
> After doing some thinking on this one it looks
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ripcrd6 wrote:
> Are we still going to be able to run Mandrake 6.0 on a 386 or 486? I
> realize that we may not be able to run X on 386 configurations.
Not right away. The initial 6.0 release will be i586+ only.
There will be a [34]86 version a bit later.
LLaP
bero
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Martin White wrote:
> I would like to keep interested in Gnome as graphically it looks very good
> (suspect this is Enlightenment more than Gnome!!), anyone know if Mandrake
> will ship with this as well as KDE (as per RH)
Sure - the difference between our Gnome and RedHat's
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Birchall, Richard wrote:
> >What I'd like to know is can you "upgrade" Mandrake 5.3 using
> >Redhat 6.0? I would think you SHOULD be able to, since
> >Mandrake is basically Redhat 5.2..What do you think?
>
> RH 6.0 installs KDE 1.1.1pre2 in /usr/local/kde (?) instead of
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Birchall, Richard wrote:
> Has anyone tried installing the KDE 1.1.1 rpm files for Red Hat 5.2,
> with Mandrake 5.3?
This won't work, because RH 6.0 is glibc 2.1, Mandrake 5.3 is glibc 2.0.
Good news: We have kde 1.1.1-final in Mandrake 6.0 (RH 6.0 has 1.1.1pre2).
LLaP
ber
On Sun, 2 May 1999, walter kalata wrote:
> What is ldconfig,
tells the dynamic linker the configuration has chagned (i.e. new libraries
installed).
> how do you edit /etc/ld.so.conf
You open the file /etc/ld.so.conf in your favorite editor, make the
changes you want, and save it.
You want to a
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Ben wrote:
> I'm trying to update to the new 2.27 kernel..I've gotten the files
> /usr/src/linux, but can only use "make config". Below is the output I recieve
> when trying to make xconfig. make menuconfig gives similiar errors, with the
> included line bash/sh gcc: Command
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anybody help me setting up my ESS1869 soundcard.
> When doing a sndconfig all goes well except for the last part, checking if
> sound is actually working.
> It gives me an error back with the message that device is busy??
Did you configure the c
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Ken wrote:
> vacation01.jpg
> vacation02.jpg
> vacation03.jpg
>
> I want to rename just the vacation part to toronto**.jpg. toronto01.jpg,
> toronto02.jpg etc...
for i in vacation*jpg; do
a=`echo $i |sed -e 's/vacation/toronto/'`
mv $i $a
done
LLaP
bero
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Jose Alberto Abreu wrote:
> I am a journalist, so I did some research. And, the more I learned
> about this wonderful proyect, the more I wanted to try it. But
> something stopped me (this was around a year ago):
>
> "If your VCR blinks '12:00', you should not use Linux"
I t
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Carla Boltin-Romere wrote:
> Fatal server error:
> No "Display" subsection for default depth 8
Your XF86Config is broken.
Run Xconfigurator or xf86config.
If that doesn't help, try starting with a different depth (i.e. startx --
-bpp 16).
Hope this helps...
LLaP
bero
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Quinton Jones Jr wrote:
> checking for makeinfo...missing
> checking host system type...configure: error: can not guess host type;
> you must specify one
You very probably didn't install glibc-devel (you need to).
If you have installed glibc-devel and it still doesn't work,
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Robert Sheskin wrote:
> I have recompiled the kernel and read every help file doing as it suggested
> if I was not sure...no change. I tried to run kernelcfg from the command
> prompt and received the following error: Tcl Error: no display name and no
> $DISPLAY environment v
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Charley Sparks wrote:
> Microsoft Announces MS-Linux
I've just had a look at their beta - it's rather disappointing.
The so-called Windows emulation consists only of a couple of added
strcpy(NULL, "Bill Gates rules!");
commands in the kernel at random intervals [for n
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Irsan S. P. Siregar wrote:
> |KDE is quite a memory hog, so the best way to speed it up is to get some
> |additional RAM.
>
> EDO DRAM is quite hard to find now :)
Really? Not here. Guess sometimes it can be an advantage to be in a very
backwards place. ;)
> |You can also t
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Irsan S. P. Siregar wrote:
> How do you put a full screen program to run in the background?
>
> With my shell account (FreeBSD w/ csh), I usually use Ctrl-Z,
> and type bg 1 to put a background FTP session
Most programs accept Ctrl-Z - there are just some programs (including
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, mark+gomez wrote:
> When I tried to execute KDE the other day from the prompt I got several
> messages saying that linux "cannot connect to xserver" and some other
> stuff dealing with kaud, etc. Since my SIS adapter isn't listed I tried
> to change my settings to a default
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> I have a small Windows partition on fat 16 hda about 500 Mb which I kept to
> run Wine. How do I first mount the Dos partition
If you wish to use Windoze 9x long filenames,
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/[yourpartition] /mnt/dos
If
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Irsan S. P. Siregar wrote:
> I just installing (and start using) Mandrake 5.3. However, I feel
> that KDE access my HD a lot, and it's slow (compared to Windoze 95).
> Is it normal, or is there a way to speed it up?
KDE is quite a memory hog, so the best way to speed it up i
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