Re: [expert] console questions

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Holt
Duh!! Thanks - I used '^z' to suspend the mp3 player but forgot that it was - well - SUSPENDED! Thanks again, Mike Saturday, KevinO mused: Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and

Re: [expert] gcc that can't build executables?

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Nope cpp is installed...(not the first cpp app but thanks) Went to anjuta's site... found out that a newer version is out grabbed it and the error went away... only to be replaced by the error that it can't find g++... *sigh* James On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 00:08, Brian Parish wrote: On Mon,

[expert] cyrus-imapd package

2002-11-25 Thread maxxik
hi ppl ! pls tell me where i can find cyrus-imapd package for Mandrake ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Faq website from a few days ago

2002-11-25 Thread Jack and Melissa McSwain
A few days ago someone posted a website that had 10-15 really good FAQ's on it. In particuliar there was one on Nvidia twinview configurations. If someone could point me in that direction I would be depply appreciative. Thank You Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Re: Process of bringing up wireless networking - pointers?!?

2002-11-25 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Monday 25 November 2002 01:14 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 03:28, stefmit wrote: On Monday 25 November 2002 05:18 am, stefmit wrote: snip Here is what I found - pretty disturbing (as I cannot get an understanding on why this happens): a directory /etc/dhcpc, where I

[expert] Netmeeting server

2002-11-25 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I am just starting to look into starting a netmeeting server for our companies tech guys to communicate... netmeeting seems to be the go because the requisite OS's have clients available.. my problems are as follows.. 1. total inexperiance in netmeeting and H323 :-) 2. Some of the

[expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread villoing
Hello! I have two problems resulting from the installation of the crossover plugin. 1) I've installede crossover as root and the windows plugins only run if I launch mozilla as root. How can cahnge that to be able to use the pluqins as a simple user ? 2) I'm unable to run the media player

Re: [expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread J. Grant
Is the crossover site with all its docs and FAQs down? JG villoing wrote: Hello! I have two problems resulting from the installation of the crossover plugin. 1) I've installede crossover as root and the windows plugins only run if I launch mozilla as root. How can cahnge that to be able to

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-25 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:48:17PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: Mine (Mandrake 9.0) actually says /usr//etc/man.config. Which by convention tends to me /etc/man.config (stuff// being interpreted as /) Huh? I type ls -lart /usr//etc and I get zero files, because /usr/etc is

Re: [expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread villoing
of course not, but I haven't found the answers to my questions. So, if somebody knows about that problems ... J. Grant wrote: Is the crossover site with all its docs and FAQs down? JG villoing wrote: Hello! I have two problems resulting from the installation of the crossover plugin. 1)

[expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Tarvid
I make a software CD for my windows customers which includes browsers - mozilla and ie, apache, php, gimp, mysql, winpt/gnupg, putty etc... At this point in time there is a fairly even distribution of Win9x and WinXP customers. At least half the CD is available for a Linux demo. Run (not boot)

[expert] traffic control

2002-11-25 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Hi there, I have played a little bit with the traffic control system (tc) and the hierachicak tocken buckets (htb) to limit the use of some services (those mules und donkeys). I have mdk9 and all the tools and kernelmodules are in there, but they have a version mismatch. the command tc qdisc

Re: [expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread Mohand Talanana
Hi, For me every thing works fine. In principle when you install crossover, a directory called plugins is automatically created in ~/.mozilla or ~/.netscape directory (it depends on the browser you installed). As your installation is done as root therefore this plugins directory is installed

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday November 24 2002 10:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: dropped a new 40GB IDE drive into one of my MDK9 boxes and used diskdrake to do one big partition and format it as ext3fs. This went successfully and it reported 38GB usable, so I proceeded to copy my mp3s over -- which halted at 1.3GB

[expert] Does cooker 9.1 correct i845(x) IDE problems?

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Title: Message Hi... I have a P4B533-E and I'm having a bear of a time getting my CD-ROMs to work. This has an i845e chipset and every boot starts off with PCI resource collisions on 00:1F, then my CD-ROMs fail to work (though UDMA seems to work fine, and hda is on my MBFastrak33)...

RE: [expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users

2002-11-25 Thread Franki
activeperl and winSCP would be good editions I think.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Tarvid Sent: Monday, 25 November 2002 9:00 PM To: expert Subject: [expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users I make a software

Re: [expert] Does cooker 9.1 correct i845(x) IDE problems?

2002-11-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
It's not a cooker issue it's a kernel issue. Ask the kernel boys if they know about the problem, if there is a possible solution, and if so, where can it be obtained. You can try posting this to the cooker list, however I don't think you're going to get alot of response. On Mon, 2002-11-25 at

Re: [expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 November 2002 07:22 am, you wrote: of course not, but I haven't found the answers to my questions. So, if somebody knows about that problems ... Hmm, haven't played with Crossover in awhile - it works fine here. I can play MOVs, and also do Flash/MOV animations from within Galeon.

Re: [expert] Does cooker 9.1 correct i845(x) IDE problems?

2002-11-25 Thread Alexander Rayborn
Well, I know it's a kernel issue - I misstated myself... I mean does the 9.1 cooker *kernel* fix this issue? I've tried recompiling various kernels (including stock kernel with Alan Cox's patches) but nothing seems to work... --Alexander On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:58, Nelson Bartley wrote: It's

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread Mark Weaver
scribbled wildly after reading Tom Brinkman On Sunday November 24 2002 10:05 pm, Jack Coates wrote: dropped a new 40GB IDE drive into one of my MDK9 boxes and used diskdrake to do one big partition and format it as ext3fs. This went successfully and it reported 38GB usable, so I proceeded to

Re: [expert] Does cooker 9.1 correct i845(x) IDE problems?

2002-11-25 Thread Nelson Bartley
Hmm... Looking back at the kernels in the change list it doesn't look like this specific problem has been addressed, thus I wouldn't count on it. At this point I'd say check your bios for a current update, then goto the kernel lists and ask there. On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:02, Alexander Rayborn

[expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On my new ThinkPad, I first installed LM8.2, then *upgraded* to 9.0... now, when I try to install additional s/w, urpmi fails; but MCC/SPI works... what gives??? For example, I get the following response BOTH before and after a successful MCC/SPI install: # urpmi

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 25 2002 09:04 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that I divided into multiple partitions. While I'm runnin 9.1 now, the system was 9.0 when I installed the 80gig. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Tom, While I think I know the obvious answer to this

Re: [expert] TI ADSL Support

2002-11-25 Thread Larry Sword
nDiScReEt wrote: Anyone know if there is support for a TI ADSL NIC card? It is a Texas Instruments card and I have googled myself insane. Please help me find my insanity. It is somewhere out there. Have you checked at http://lhd.zdnet.com/ , the Linux Hardware Database? Want to buy your

[expert] Mozilla 1.1

2002-11-25 Thread Marek
Hi When i try to send a message with mozilla mail the whole program crashes and closes. Dont know if this is related but the scroll function stopped working on the mouse as well, logoff and scroll works again for a few hours. Does not effect the scroll on opera or konsole but mozilla and

Re: [expert] linux demo for windows xp and 9x users

2002-11-25 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 05:00, Jim Tarvid wrote: I make a software CD for my windows customers which includes browsers - mozilla and ie, apache, php, gimp, mysql, winpt/gnupg, putty etc... At this point in time there is a fairly even distribution of Win9x and WinXP customers. At least

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:40, Pierre Fortin wrote: On my new ThinkPad, I first installed LM8.2, then *upgraded* to 9.0... now, when I try to install additional s/w, urpmi fails; but MCC/SPI works... what gives??? For example, I get the following response BOTH before and after a successful

Re: [expert] gcc that can't build executables?

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Nailed it... had to re-install rpms for gcc and poof it re-appeared in working form (yes I could manually find g++ but it wasn't working right for reasons beyond me.) So anjunta 1.0.0 built. Oh and my original problem was with 0.9.99 ... that one still gives the same error. I'm putting it down

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Thomas K. Gamble
On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd apmd won't work on newer ACPI systems, and I seem to recall that ACPI support is not compiled into the kernel by default (at least not on Mandrake distributions).

Re: [expert] cyrus-imapd package

2002-11-25 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na maxxik ha escrit: hi ppl ! pls tell me where i can find cyrus-imapd package for Mandrake ? http://www.google.com/search?q=cyrus%20mandrake Bye -- Luca Olivetti Note.- This message reached you today, it may not tomorrow if you are using MAPS services. They arbitrarily include in

Re: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norman wrote on Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:43:07PM + : Unfortunately the school is 50 miles away so it would not be easy to keep checking things although the IT people at the school are so impressed with the robustness of this PC compared to

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ronald J. Hall wrote on Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 11:25:28AM -0500 : I couldn't tell you why my Shuttle works and the other 2 don't. Maybe someone like Todd can? ;-) Try passing noacpi to the kernel. APM is the first generation power management

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.1

2002-11-25 Thread newslett
There are some known bugs in Mozilla right now. I've had the same problem. The only solution is to reinstall Mozilla Main package and mozilla mail. Once you've done this all should be fine... Cheers Jason Marek wrote: Hi When i try to send a message with mozilla mail the whole program

RE: [expert] Mozilla 1.1

2002-11-25 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
A *lng* time ago (8.0 days I think), GPM was goofing up the scrolling in Konqueror. I never had a problem with Mozilla though. I fixed it by turning it off in /etc/sysconfig/mouse by setting the line wheel=yes to wheel=no. This might fix the scrolling problem... David -Original

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Larry Sword
Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd apmd won't work on newer ACPI systems, and I seem to recall that ACPI support is not compiled into the kernel by default (at least

[expert] modem card seen by lspci but no ttySx created by devfs

2002-11-25 Thread François Desloges
Hi! I've a PCI modem card in a freshly installed Mandrake 9.0 box lspci -v gives me: snip 00:09.0 Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Subsystem: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 25 November 2002 01:47 pm, you wrote: Try passing noacpi to the kernel. APM is the first generation power management hardware/software. ACPI is the second generation power management hardware/software. If the system boots with ACPI enabled, it automatically disables APM. See if

Re: [expert] modem card seen by lspci but no ttySx created by devfs

2002-11-25 Thread Larry Sword
François Desloges wrote: Hi! I've a PCI modem card in a freshly installed Mandrake 9.0 box lspci -v gives me: snip 00:09.0 Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Subsystem: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Flags:

Re: [expert] modem card seen by lspci but no ttySx created by devfs

2002-11-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Sword wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:55:11PM -0800 : 00:09.0 Communication controller: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Subsystem: TOPIC SEMICONDUCTOR Corp TP560 Data/Fax/Voice 56k modem Flags:

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On 25 Nov 2002 09:37:51 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:40, Pierre Fortin wrote: On my new ThinkPad, I first installed LM8.2, then *upgraded* to 9.0... now, when I try to install additional s/w, urpmi fails; but MCC/SPI works... what gives??? For

Re: [expert] Mozilla 1.1

2002-11-25 Thread Mark Weaver
There are some known bugs in Mozilla right now. I've had the same problem. The only solution is to reinstall Mozilla Main package and mozilla mail. Once you've done this all should be fine... Cheers Jason Jason, Mozilla-1.0.1 still works real well. :) I haven't seen it yet, but is there

RE : [expert] DVD sharing using samba

2002-11-25 Thread x~o
I tried to mount DVD in iso9660 and udf, same error each time. The error for ide disk is the following regardless if dma is activated or not: Nov 26 00:46:47 xoServBox kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 26 00:46:47 xoServBox kernel: hdc:

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:09, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 25 Nov 2002 09:37:51 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip did you delete the 8.2 entries from urpmi's config? Shouldn't that have been done by 9.0...? I've always done rpm -ivh installs in the past... thought I'd try the

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:12:20PM -0800 : Anyway, unless there is some implied version info, there is nothing specifying version in this (unless I'm blind): One thing about urpmi that doesn't thrill me is that its

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:22:52 -0800, Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Thomas K. Gamble wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:46 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Have you ensured that you have apmd program installed? man apm man apmd Well, the man pages were there. The RPMS were not. So in installed

[expert] sound recording in Mandrake9 KDE3...anyone?

2002-11-25 Thread Sandeep Khanna
Hi All, I am trying to use artsrec and artscat to record and playback sound in KDE3, Mandrake 9. I could succesffully record and playback in GNOME using ESound and it's utilitiesesdrec and esdcat. In KDE artscat works but artsrec recorded files are completely silent. I have my mic

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:23:22 -0800 Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:12:20PM -0800 : Anyway, unless there is some implied version info, there is nothing specifying version in this (unless

Re: [expert] Does cooker 9.1 correct i845(x) IDE problems?

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
i845 being intel's latest chipset is part of the problem. It's causing problems I'm told with WinXP for some as well. I do remember some discussion on the cooker list about the time it got unfrozen (from the 9.0 release.) on this and the discussion may have been taken offlist. (however with as

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
Since it's only 1k I attached my apmd. Put this in /etc/init.d/ then to set it up to start at boot chkconfig --level 35 apmd on will get you going. James On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:34, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:22:52 -0800, Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Thomas

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 16:12, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:09, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 25 Nov 2002 09:37:51 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip did you delete the 8.2 entries from urpmi's config? Shouldn't that have been done by 9.0...? I've always done rpm

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 25 Nov 2002 18:54:25 -0800, James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Since it's only 1k I attached my apmd. Put this in /etc/init.d/ then to set it up to start at boot chkconfig --level 35 apmd on will get you going. Yes it will except for one teeeny problem I've discovered. no

[expert] update that might help wireless

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
All, New set of initscripts are available via updates. They are supposed to help out with wireless problems... Thought it might interest some of you. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
well proc/apm doesn't exist until you boot with apm. or start it via init.d... as for kernel support I'm running both a stock kernel and a custom one. (mods for somthing else I needed) and apm is there ... does /etc/sysconfig/apmd and /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts exist? James On Mon,

Re: [expert] ext3 format problem

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:28, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday November 25 2002 09:04 am, Mark Weaver wrote: that I divided into multiple partitions. While I'm runnin 9.1 now, the system was 9.0 when I installed the 80gig. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

[expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-25 Thread Tom
Here is another FYI: I set up CUPS service on a server running LM 9.0. The security level was Standard. The CUPS admin on the client-side workstation saw the remote printer. All was ok. I could print from my workstation (LM 8.1) to the server-side remote printer via CUPS my network. So, I

[expert] TI ADSL Support

2002-11-25 Thread nDiScReEt
Anyone know if there is support for a TI ADSL NIC card? It is a Texas Instruments card and I have googled myself insane. Please help me find my insanity. It is somewhere out there. -- Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited

Re: [expert] Upgraded 8.2-9.0: what got missed???

2002-11-25 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:23, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Coates wrote on Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:12:20PM -0800 : Anyway, unless there is some implied version info, there is nothing specifying version in this (unless I'm blind): One thing

Re: [expert] remote Cups printing via network

2002-11-25 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 20:05, Tom wrote: snip According to the Mandrake Center, a security level of Higher is best for servers. I found that a very high security level BREAKS CUPS remote (via network) printing. So, a compromise is in order The text accompanying the MCC and installer

RE: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-25 Thread Franki
yeah, and if you are ssh'd in,, start it like this: ssh -C -X hostname.domain from your linux box.. then you can start mozilla and check it in a pretty gui :-) (the X in that ssh command means to forward X, so when you start mozilla, its display is forwarded to your ssh client..) very handy,

RE: [expert] Mozilla 1.1

2002-11-25 Thread Franki
I'm using mozilla 1.2 and haven't yet noticed any significant differences... except that it won't take themes for the older versions.. and that it has a crash report feature so that crashes can send data back to mozilla.org for testing.. still, its nice.. rgds Frank -Original Message-

Re: [expert] update that might help wireless

2002-11-25 Thread James Sparenberg
I did check and the diff between the two was zilch hm. James On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 19:57, Pierre Fortin wrote: On 25 Nov 2002 19:42:48 -0800 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, New set of initscripts are available via updates. They are supposed to help out

Re: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-25 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Franki wrote: until mandrake makes a robust console app for mandrakeupdate, I'll continue to do it this way. # urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select --auto --update YMMV - -- KevinO Matz's Law: A conclusion is the place where you got

RE: [expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-25 Thread Franki
cool, I'll give it a shot thanks.. rgds Frank... incidently, has anyone had problems with mandrakeupdate and the update for kdelibs?? my system updated all the others with no probs, but the kdelibs rpm is a dud... guess my update server has a dud rsync on that one huh? rgds Frank