Re: [expert] SB Live 5.1 Modprobe Problem

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Napier
Thanks Larry, That sorted the problem. Andy - Original Message - From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [expert] SB Live 5.1 Modprobe Problem Andy Napier wrote: Hi, I'm using a SB Live 5.1 under MDK 8.2 with

Re: [expert] setting up sound in 8.2

2002-07-10 Thread PlugHead
I had similar problems, which were resolved with a quick search for alsa + via8233 (my sound card.) After doing the modprobe, I added the following lines to modules.conf and it works fine: alias snd-card-0 snd-via8233 ## your sound card mod instead of snd-via8233... alias char-major-116 snd

[expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread Roberto Armenteros
This is just a curiosity. Windows computers need to be fragmented very often. On the other hand, I once read somewhere that disk fragmentation in linux wasnt recomended I am not how true this is. The fact is that disk fragmentation in linux is not often spoken about. Is there something special

RE: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Settle
I always found Travans to be more trouble than they're worth. I didn't start out this way intentionally - But, I've been using all those old 2 3 GB drives leftover from days gone by as backups. Hard drives are so cheap now, I'm thinking about putting one of those removable caddy's in one of my

[expert] Errors in /var/log/messages on LM7.2

2002-07-10 Thread John LeMay
All, I'm seeing a lot of these messages in my log on an older LM7.2 machine. There have been a very few updates to this machine in a long time. Can't find anything real useful on Google about the message though. And ideas? Jul 10 09:08:30 cyclops rpc.statd[713]: gethostbyname error for

Re: [expert] X login scripting

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Rambo
FWIW - I was wrong, kdm was running but the netstat thing just doesn't show anything. I finally figured out how force gdm to start by editing a line in /etc/X11/prefdm. Now the scripting in Pre/PostSession to mount shares based up who log's in works fine. That file may not be the best way to get

[expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Holt
Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED](o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net(/)_ (/)_ V_/_www.mandrake.com AOL for Dummies is kind of

Re: [expert] Sensors config question.

2002-07-10 Thread James
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:55:50 -0500 tom brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:21 pm, James wrote: fan1:0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM fan2: 3970 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) fan3:0 RPM (min = 3000

Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread James
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. Do I ignore the fact that it died or the fact that your fixing it *grin*. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, James wrote: On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. Do I ignore the fact that it died or the fact that your fixing it *grin*. James wait...is

Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread J. Craig Woods
Michael Holt wrote: Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. -- Hey Michael, did that mail server die because of too much traffic on Ramsey? drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.html Character is built upon the debris of

Re: [expert] kde and xinerama question

2002-07-10 Thread Dean S. Messing
Xineram in X is already enabled and working just fine. This was stated in my original message to which Balaji responded. The problem is that KDE is not allowing me to turn on it's xinerama awareness. Larry Sword writes: :: Within MCC in Hardware section Display, open and enable xinerama..

Re: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Roberto Armenteros wrote: This is just a curiosity. Windows computers need to be fragmented very often. On the other hand, I once read somewhere that disk fragmentation in linux wasnt recomended I am not how true this is. The fact is that disk fragmentation in linux is not often spoken

Re: [expert] kde and xinerama question

2002-07-10 Thread Balaji Ramani
Where did you get your KDE rpms? If it is MDK's it should have Xinerama support compiled by default and the Enable Xinerama Support option should not be grayed out. If it is, then I would suggest that you recompile the RPMS and ensure that the --enable-xinerama option is turned on. Balaji

Re: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread civileme
Roberto Armenteros wrote: This is just a curiosity. Windows computers need to be fragmented very often. On the other hand, I once read somewhere that disk fragmentation in linux wasnt recomended I am not how true this is. The fact is that disk fragmentation in linux is not often spoken about. Is

RE: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread Mike Settle
Randy/Roberto, Microsoft used to say that disks using the NTFS file system didn't get fragmented - However, like most of Microsoft's statements it was wishful thinking. Several after-market 'defrag' programs appeared to take care of this for NT3.51 and NT4. With NT5 (Win2000), Microsoft

Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Holt
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, James uttered these words of wisdom: Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. Do I ignore the fact that it died or the fact that your fixing it *grin*. James hehe - problem solved now, so I guess it's a moot point :-p /mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA

Re: [expert] Why is disk fragmentation a must in windows and not in Linux

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:36 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Roberto Armenteros wrote: This is just a curiosity. Windows computers need to be fragmented very often. On the other hand, I once read somewhere that disk fragmentation in linux wasnt recomended I am not how true this is. The fact

Re: [expert] OT - sorry, test, ignore

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Holt
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, J. Craig Woods uttered these words of wisdom: Michael Holt wrote: Mail server died, just fixing, please ignore. -- Hey Michael, did that mail server die because of too much traffic on Ramsey? drjung hehe - I think it had more to do with the 102 degrees on Ramsey

Re: [expert] gprintf command not found

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
phoenix wrote on Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:32:41PM -0400 : [root@horace init.d]# locate gprintf [root@horace init.d]# I believe that gprintf and printf can be interchanged ... See this Just checked another install and it has the same issue. Obviously there is something wrong in the

[expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a ahtlon 1700xp with a kt333 board and now my system is mucho unstable. It's gotten to the point where I am very frustrated with Mandrake and even wondering about how good Linux really is. After years (I started before the

Re: [expert] Errors in /var/log/messages on LM7.2

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
John LeMay wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 09:16:40AM -0400 : All, I'm seeing a lot of these messages in my log on an older LM7.2 machine. There have been a very few updates to this machine in a long time. Can't find anything real useful on Google about the message though. And ideas? Jul

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
I will start this reply with the following sweeping statement: If you buy hardware that's so new that kernel support is only just appearing, then you should expect some things not to work to full potential in a distro that's now 4 months old (and counting). You obviously are very experienced

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
Thanks for the reply Todd. Is the cooker kernel going to break anything else in my system? Will all my apps and stuff work? I have always been wary of running a cooker kernel. Can you shed any light here? Darren On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:06, Todd Lyons wrote: I will start this reply with

[expert] kernel panic message translation?

2002-07-10 Thread bascule
well, after behaving for 4 days my machine went down again, i have copied the onscreen verbiage below, at the time i was ssh'ed in form a workstation and running a grep process, i get very similar messages each time this machine crashes but with a different process named, if anyone can tell

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
Darren King wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:35:03AM +1000 : Thanks for the reply Todd. Is the cooker kernel going to break anything else in my system? Will all my apps and stuff work? I have always been wary of running a cooker kernel. Can you shed any light here? If there's anything

[expert] USB numeric keypad

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Holt
Hello all, I was thinking of getting one of those usb numeric keypads for my laptop and I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with those? If so, what's it like getting it running? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA(o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] kernel panic message translation?

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
bascule wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:40:08AM +0100 : well, after behaving for 4 days my machine went down again, i have copied the --begin watson login: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0020 First and simplest thing to

Re: [expert] kernel panic message translation?

2002-07-10 Thread bascule
that was my first thought whne i first saw this - a couple of weeks ago - i'm not sure exactly what a 'virtual address' is, but it sounds memoryish, i ran memtest for over a day and repeated with a couple of different ram configs, i'm limited to what i can do due to not having lots of

Re: [expert] Kernel booting issue

2002-07-10 Thread Femme
Not sure if I should ask this here or Newbie list. But here goes. I have 2 MDK installs, one Resiser partitions the other on XFS. I've tried to configure LILO to use one vmlinux initrd file for each install as both sets of kernels/init files are in the /boot directory on each install!

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
Nopethat's currently at 0. Wierd. Looking through the dmesg output, I see that the kernel has flagged my chipset as KT133, not KT333 as it should be. I should be able to install the new cooker kernel separately right? so I can choose what kernel I want to boot? Darren On Thu, 2002-07-11

Re: [expert] Kernel booting issue

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
Femme wrote on Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:33:20PM -0600 : Not sure if I should ask this here or Newbie list. But here goes. It's customary to start a new thread when you are asking a new question. Just because you change the subject doesn't mean that mailers won't place them after the message

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
Darren King wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:33:48AM +1000 : Nopethat's currently at 0. Wierd. Looking through the dmesg output, I see that the kernel has flagged my chipset as KT133, not KT333 as it should be. No DMA = slow slow slow. Will feel very unresponsive under high disk I/O.

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Chuck Lalli
- Original Message - From: Darren King [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: [expert] upgrade woes I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a ahtlon 1700xp with a kt333 board and now my system

Re: [expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-10 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote: Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tape drive and use it for Mandrake? Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad. If you overrule that advice --