RE: KDE 3.1 install FAILS with konstruct tool

2003-03-07 Thread Marc Dobler
; The only issue I have is that up2date wants to downgrade my KDE > to 3.05. > > -Steve > > -----Original Message- > From: Marc Dobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: KDE 3.1 install FAILS with

Re: KDE 3.1 install FAILS with konstruct tool

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Dobler
oooh, so simple !!! thank you so much Edwards ! :o) Marc Le ven 07/03/2003 à 14:50, Edward Dekkers a écrit : > > how shall i remove 1 version of mozilla ? > > > > Marc > > 'rpm -q mozilla' > > will give you a list of mozilla RPMSs you have installed. > > pick the older one I guess and

RE: new drive

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Dobler
Hi Patrick, thanks for reply. i understand your precedure. i did the same also. i am still confused. my RH doesn't recognize the fat32 partition ... Marc Le mer 05/03/2003 à 04:29, Patrick Nelson a écrit : > > had a 80gb hd and with windows me partitioned it to 40gb in the first > partition

RE: KDE 3.1 install FAILS with konstruct tool

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Dobler
thanks for reply, Steve ! thank you for APT. i installed it. now, on doing 'apt-get update' i get a error message : Reading Package Lists... Error! E: There are two or more versions of the package 'mozilla-nspr' installed in your system

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-06 Thread Marc Dobler
> you _have_ helped me! > It work's with this module, it seems the other is shit! > you are welcome ! glad to see that this trick works also for other printers ! ;-) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

KDE 3.1 install FAILS with konstruct tool

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Dobler
hello, i see that some of you installed the new KDE 3.1 with success ! i have some trouble on my RH8, using the 'konstruct' tool of kde. i upgrade KDE 3.1 from 3.0.5, with a new Qt, claimed by KDE 3.1 ... but it seems to be some versions conflict when installing arts-1.1 unfortunately, i am

Re: USB Printer Support

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Dobler
maybe try another Epson's driver ... cf. previous mails (subject = "USB printer doesn't work") of yesterday and today ;-) Marc Le mer 05/03/2003 à 16:07, Jay Moore a écrit : > I'm having great difficulty getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected > to an IOGear USB KVM connected to a Dell

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Dobler
Le mer 05/03/2003 à 05:27, Kleiner Hampel a écrit : > Hi! > > which driver do u use? > please give the name! > i have an Epson Stylus PM-770C on USB, with the following driver : Epson Stylus Photo 750 / gimp-print (*) the driver is listed by the default printer manager. no need to downl

RE: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread Marc Dobler
Oh Really ??!! i wonder how you did it ... ... any trick ? please tell me how you've proceeded ... cheers, Marc Le mar 04/03/2003 à 14:49, Patrick Nelson a écrit : > - > I've had success up to 40GB on a number of drives. Added a slew of 80GB > drives recently and h

Re: USB printer doesn't work

2003-03-03 Thread marc dobler
Hi, i have also an Epson on USB. i had the same problem, the driver was not good. i changed the driver, picking one from Epson, for 'multi-printers'. after several tests, i chose the one with best outputs. maybe this could helps. Marc Le mar 04/03/2003 à 03:01, Kleiner Hampel a écrit :

Re: new drive

2003-03-03 Thread marc dobler
Hi Patrick, i did the same some age ago (HD 120Go on dual RH+XP). RH8 recognizes FAT32 partitions BELOW 20 Go. i tested different configurations, but no way. so, you should make 6 or 7 partitions of max 20 Go, using Partition Magic or Swisknife (freeware) on Win. NOTE: from RH8, the vfat t

Re: HOWTO: RH Update wizard

2003-02-25 Thread marc dobler
ok, my description is not very clear, since i don't know exactly what is happening. > > is there any special file in which these packages are stored a while ? > > I don't understand this question. Downloaded packages, provided that > you configured the tool to not delete them, are kept in > /

RE: HOWTO: RH Update wizard

2003-02-25 Thread marc dobler
Hi Roderick ! > by default, up2date downloads the updates into /var/spool/up2date and > deletes them (unless u told it not to) after it installed the updates. ok, i understand this. in my case, i checked that it keeps the latest package installed. > if u want to update a certain package, why

Re: HOWTO: RH Update wizard

2003-02-24 Thread marc dobler
Tahnk you Michael > > HOW shall i remove this package (KDE 3.0.3) from the list ? > > One way to do it would be to run "up2date --configure" and put > KDE packages on the package skip-list. > doing this, i am afraid that the program shall ignore ALL packages coming from KDE ... for later upd

HOWTO: RH Update wizard

2003-02-23 Thread marc dobler
hello dear RH_List members : i sometimes run the RH up2date wizard. the KDE 3.0.3 and two others are mentioned in the list of update-packages proposed by the wizard, But, i already have KDE 3.0.5, downloaded directly from KDE website. HOW shall i remove this package (KDE 3.0.3) from the lis

Re: root created partition not writable by user

2003-02-20 Thread marc dobler
THANK YOU everybody for your advices. finally, with : chown user:group dir , and chmod 1777 dir, it seems to be working. i will consider later the /tmp permission structure. tests are always the best way to understand a system ! Marc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe m

RE: root created partition not writable by user

2003-02-20 Thread marc dobler
ite permissions but still retain ownership by > root (say to prevent deletion) then: > > chmod 766 directory (for rwx as root and rw for group and global) > > Hope this helps > > Andrew > > -Original Message- > From: marc dobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

root created partition not writable by user

2003-02-20 Thread marc dobler
hello ! i've just created a ext2 partition as root. but as normal user, no way to write in it ... basically, mounting by user is : /dev/sdb5 /mnt/newpart ext2 rw,user 0 0 i tried many options, but no way to WRITE as normal user on the newpart ... what is wrong ? what are the goo

partitioning and ... strange mounting

2003-02-18 Thread marc dobler
Hello dear RH_list-members ! may be sorry for sending it twice, depending on the subject-title ... i am back with a new trick, with 2 almost identical 120 Go external USB HDD : format is Fat32, for both. the 1st one is described as following (4 parts of 30 Go): /dev/sda1 on /mnt/IO_1 type

second external USB disk

2003-02-17 Thread marc dobler
Hello dear list-members ! i am back with a new trick, with 2 almost identical 120 Go external USB HDD : format is Fat32, for both. the 1st one is described as following (4 parts of 30 Go): /dev/sda1 on /mnt/IO_1 type vfat size > 30 Go /dev/sda5 on /mnt/IO_2 type vfat size > 30 Go /dev/sda6

Re: mounting CDrom

2002-12-11 Thread marc dobler
hi Zafur, why don't you just write as root in /etc/fstab : /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 and then, you need to mount the cd-rom in command line : > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom Marc Le jeu 12/12/2002 à 15:49, zahidul islam a écrit : > I am a new user

Re: USB HDD on RH8 : comments

2002-12-11 Thread marc dobler
Hello Edwards, thanks for comments ! > Is there any way you can compare the sector size etc. on the partitions > please? > here is what i get using /sbin/parted : Information: the OS thinks the geometry on /dev/sda is 14946/255/63. Therefore, the cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. Disk geom

USB HDD on RH8 : comments

2002-12-10 Thread marc dobler
hello RH-list members ! from last week, i sent one or two messages concerning questions about the installation of large-storage USB-HDD on RH8. since 2 weeks, i try to install a 120 Go USB-HDD (4 FAT32 partitions). this USB-HDD is seen by the OS, but no possibility to mount it. i used it be

Re: Mounting external USB drive

2002-12-09 Thread marc dobler
Le mer 20/11/2002 à 19:08, Yoink! a écrit : > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Charles Muller wrote: > > I've never used USB, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that /dev/sda5 is the > first part of the extended partition on a SCSI drive :) > > You just need to find what device to use. It's probably something und

Re: Installing a 40gb HDD

2002-12-08 Thread marc dobler
hello LeRoux, i also tried to installed a USB-HD (4 FAT32 partitions) on my computer, but no possibility to mount it. mount shows the same errors on my side. nevertheless, KDE seems to recognize it : with the app : 'launch > system tools > hardware settings' i can see it from /dev/sda1 to

RE: where has gone the KDE Upgrade ?

2002-12-03 Thread marc dobler
thanks for the ideas, Steve and Patrick ... while waiting for any answer-clue, the rpm's dependencies claimed for some 3.0.4 version's package ... i downloaded them ... and installed with --nodeps variable. rpm took them indeed, and i could manage some kind of upgrade from a mix 3.0.3 - 3.0.4

where has gone the KDE Upgrade ?

2002-12-01 Thread marc dobler
hi ! Patrick's mail reminds me that i did an upgrade of KDE 2 weeks ago, from KDE 3.0.3-8 to KDE 3.0.5, but it seems there is nothing changed !!! where shall i find the confirmation of the upgrade, without running once more the rpm ??? thanks in advance for comments Marc Le sam 30/11/2

Re: X11/XLib.h missing ?

2002-11-21 Thread marc dobler
Thanks Tom for your answer ... package, package, yeeaah ! i've just checked i didn't install the packages concerning the development of X-Window and KDE ... OK ! now, everything is running ... Marc > On my RH 7.0, Xlib.h is included in the XFree86-devel package. > > >

X11/XLib.h missing ?

2002-11-20 Thread marc dobler
hi everybody ! currently, i use RH_8 with KDE. i downloaded some program which needs the /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h library file. BUT, there is none on my system. when i search it, i get : > locate Xlib.h /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.8/i386-redhat-linux/include/extw-Xlib.h is this file the sa

Re: Adding language in RedHat 8 post install

2002-11-19 Thread marc dobler
hello Pal, i am in the same situation (french, english, japanese). > I have installed RedHat 8.0 on a machine from scratch. I chose to only > install english as language, but now I want more! :) > I'd like to be able to use Swedish as well, but I don't know how to add > support for it. > Is the

KDEinit autorun missing

2002-11-18 Thread marc dobler
hello RH-List ! i've got a message when i log in : KDEInit cannot launch «/usr/bin/autorun» this 'autorun' does not exist in my /usr/bin and i didn't find anything in the KDE help. what does it mean ? is it important ? how to correct this ? thanks for ideas, Marc -- redhat-list mail

Re: How to mount a Windows partition as writeable?

2002-11-17 Thread marc dobler
Hi, i also got this problem. discussing with colleagues, it seems that RH has not yet the possibility to WRITE on NTFS partitions. this would be possible by making a lot of modifications in the kernel and recompile the whole, but a long task . since XP is based on both NTFS format and FAT

Re: The new Kernel

2002-11-17 Thread marc dobler
hello RH-List ! i'm just new on the list, and also new in linux. RH8 is installed on my pc (2.0 GHz,512 Mo), dual with W-XP, and it seems to be running quite slowly ... windows and KDE need a lot of memory ! i checked the memory and discovered that the swap file is NOT used at all. although