Re: [newbie] 10.1 & VMWare

2004-11-04 Thread Edgars Smits
To solve this with 10.1, add for a in `seq 0 9`; do mknod /dev/vmnet$a c 119 $a; chmod 600 dev/vmnet$a; chown root.root /dev/vmnet$a; done at the beginning of /etc/init.d/vmware script, just below initial '#' comments. works for me ED Stew Benedict wrote: I was having trouble trying to use kern

[newbie] Persistant "Authentication Indicator" window

2004-10-31 Thread Edgars Smits
This question was asked by Neben Kabon July 2003, no answer was ever received. I have the same problem. He was running 9.1, I'm running 10 Official, fully upgraded. As soon as I open any app the window pops up, if I'm running anything as root (MCC etc) a key appears in it. Close it, it opens ag

[newbie] Weird mouse behaviour after updating 10.1CE

2004-10-27 Thread Edgars Smits
Just finished doing an urpmi.update -a --no-md5sum && urpmi -auto-select on a clean 10.1 CE install that I've been running since the weekend. Prior to the update my mouse worked perfectly, or at least as I wanted it - if I held it over a window and scrolled the middle button the window would scr

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Edgars Smits
Ever since I went to 10, now 10.1, same issue, on bootup eth0 shows as failed, yet a few lines later when it does a time check it succeeds, and when I log in the network is up and running. I seem to recall others mentioned the same thing when 10 came out. Are you sure that it isn't just slow to

[newbie] Wireless showing as sl0?

2004-10-08 Thread Edgars Smits
I'm running 10.1 on a Dell D600 with a Broadcom wireless card. I've installed ndiswrapper, installed the Broadcom drivers, run modprobe ndiswrapper, everything seems to be OK, but when I run iwconfig I don't see a wlan0 entry, instead I get: Warning: Driver for device sl0 has been compiled with

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
perfect, getting rid of vga=788 did the trick for me. Many thanks ED Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 10:46, Edgars Smits wrote: It's splash=silent and still doesn't solve my problem. With that set I get a text mode LILO start, but then as soon as the init starts it goes

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
It is set to 3. I've done 2 complete clean installs of 10.1 CE, both ended up the same, never had this problem with 10,0 or versions prior to this. ED Paul wrote: Op Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:46:29 -0400 schreef Edgars Smits: In MCC I have Boot Theme turned off, no auto-login with or wi

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
out graphical start, and when the boot finishes I do get dumped into a semi text mode - the blue screen is still there with the crappy logo, the text mode rides on top of it. How do I turn the damn thing off? ED Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:37, Edgars Smits wrote: I've

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-05 Thread Edgars Smits
I've always started in 3, but since I did a clean install to 10.1 I can't get rid of the graphic startup screen, the only way I can see my startup is to hit once it starts. I then can watch everything come up and get dumped into a terminal logon session. In previous versions it was terminal fr

[newbie] Emergency Reboot tricks

2004-06-22 Thread Edgars Smits
Someone posted the following info earlier today (of course I already deleted it) to the effect that if the system freezes the correct procedure is to use: ALT+SysReq+r,s,e,i,u,b (I'm assuming not all of them at once) Where is this documented? If it's not documented what are the various options

Re: [newbie] MS and DRM

2004-06-20 Thread Edgars Smits
I'm surprised, Stephen, I would have thought you of all people would recognise sarcasm ED Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 06:45, Edgars Smits wrote: Since so many of us do love that DRM Ed - notice my signature - look through the archives - I've been against DR

[newbie] MS and DRM

2004-06-18 Thread Edgars Smits
http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt This talk was originally given to Microsoft's Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004. It's a long (14pp) but well writ talk given to Microsoft folks by a guy from the EFF. Good reading. "Here's

Re: [newbie] OT: french kids stories

2004-06-11 Thread Edgars Smits
you know, "French" stories, nudge, nudge Marc Lijour wrote: Hi sorry I do not understand what you are looking for. I would be happy to help if I could... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, sorry for the OT, I've been searching the internet for free kids stories in french. Do yo

[newbie] USB Memory Stick questions

2004-06-10 Thread Edgars Smits
I'm running 10 Official (kernel 2.6.3-7) and have a 256 MB memstick. Mandrake sees it and lets me read and write to it (fat32), but it seems to take forever - an 80MB copy from it took me over an hour. 1) whats am I doing wrong that it's taking so long? Is it the fat32 format? 2) I need to pass

Re: [newbie] laptop won't shut down completley

2004-06-04 Thread Edgars Smits
Try holding the power button down for over 8 seconds and see if it shuts down. I've yet to come across a Dell that this didn't work for Ed Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On June 3, 2004 17:10, Walt Frampus wrote: I have a Compaq Presario 3077wm duel booting winxp and Mandrake 10 official. When I went to

[newbie] VMWare & MDK 10CE display problem

2004-05-25 Thread Edgars Smits
Running VMWare 4.5 and MDK10CE (kernel 2.6), can't run in XP in full screen mode. When I try to go full screen I get: "UNable to enumerate any DGA modes. XFree86 direct graphics (DGA extension) initialization failed" This is running on a Dell D600 laptop with 32MB ATI Radeon 9000 card @ 1024x768

Re: [newbie] Help with on-board AC97 Audio (mdk10)

2004-05-25 Thread Edgars Smits
Don't know if this is of any use to you, but I had troubles with the SigmaTe;l audio card that uses the same chip. I just sent this in to the list: Just got a new Dell D600 (company issued), installed Mandrake10 CE. Everything works OK now - did have issues with sound and network, the sound ca

[newbie] Dell D600 & Docking Station?

2004-05-25 Thread Edgars Smits
Just got a new Dell D600 (company issued), installed Mandrake10 CE. Everything works OK now - did have issues with sound and network, the sound card is a SigmaTel one that is identified by Linux as an Intel 8280IDB AC'97 , other distros install the latest sound drivers for it (snd_intel8x0) wor

[newbie] Dumb Newbie Question

2004-05-19 Thread Edgars Smits
OK, so I'm a real newbie. I've been running 10CE (still waiting for my 10 official DVD to be delivered), wanted to upgrade to Gnome 2.6. Decide to try it myself, using a site in Germany that had 299 RPM's. To make a long story short, I totally hosed up Gnome - to the extent that I can no longer

Re: [newbie] vmware-config.pl

2004-05-11 Thread Edgars Smits
I ran into a slightly different problem with VMware, I had 4 installed and working with 10CE (using the any script), did a couple of kernel updates, then updated VMware to 4.5. When I ran VMware after the update for the first time it informed me that I had to run the config script again, no big

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-10 Thread Edgars Smits
I ended up doing the same to get my XP installed in VMware, using the ISO route, then discovered that I needed to set my CDrom in VMware to "Legacy Emulation", it worked like a charm. ED Klemens Arro wrote: I am installing win98. I made a ISO from win98 CD and told VMware to use this instead

[newbie] Gnome 2.6 for mandrake?

2004-04-07 Thread Edgars Smits
Any idea when there will be a release of Gnome 2.6 ready for Mandrake 10CE? I looked at the gnome source files, and decided I was too much of a newbie to compile them all etc. correctly on my working laptop. Cheers ED Want to buy your Pack o

[newbie] Samba limitations?

2004-03-31 Thread Edgars Smits
I'm running 10 here on my laptop, no problems. However I just noticed that for some reason my Samba mounted NT shares from network servers don't give me a complete listing but stop after 122 entries. The directory contains 4 subfolders and 414 m3u files (yup, it's my music server), yet no matte