Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 7:20 pm, civileme wrote: I was looking at the Mandrakesoft site recently and I saw a recommendation for folks to use MandrakeExpert rather than these mailing lists. I hate the web interface and It required a great effort with databases to keep up with the incidents

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 21:37, David E. Fox wrote: Outside of that...never had a complaint, as long as you keep a generous amount of space in your /var (10gig partition in my desktop Yeah, I needed 670 emgs :). I'm still doing the auto-select. I'm glad I put in 'contrib' - I also had a

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 23:43, David E. Fox wrote: I never do --force --nodeps on an urpmi unless I absolutely know what's going on. --noclean will save you from having to re-download I would not normally either, but the apache issue seemed to require that. Anyhow the upgrade went

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:44, David E. Fox wrote: (You wouldn't be talking about Rick Moen here would you *grin* ) How'd you guess? :) Yeah Rick and I've butted heads a few times in SVLUG. He used to be really prolific, but I haven't heard from him in a while. I mostly lurk in SVLUG

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-16 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:59 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: 1. The problem is that the module from ATI doesn't load if agpgart is not loaded, or am I mistaken and there was some other strange reason for my X server failing?!? 2. Do you have the agpgart loaded? The agpgart module is not loaded on

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-03-15 at 18:28:39 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:43:12 +0100 Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [a bit reordered] Well, I just installed it from current cooker (ohphone-1.3.5-1mdk) and could start it without problem. Did not include much testing,

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 10:20:06PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: =) I don't use it in production, but I do run it on my primary workstation. It's been pretty stable (actually, I'm quite baffled by the number of bug reports just because it has been working so well here). Vincent,

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 7:20 pm, civileme wrote: I was looking at the Mandrakesoft site recently and I saw a recommendation for folks to use MandrakeExpert rather than these mailing lists. I hate the web interface and It required a

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 08:54:33AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: Problem is, I read mail on my ibook and use OS X... so I can use mutt in a terminal just fine. With Mozilla, the Enigmail stuff is beta for OS X and doesn't work too hot, so I can't use GPG with my mail if I go the Mozilla route.

[expert] how to fallback to a 4.2.x version of XFree86?

2003-03-16 Thread Adrian Golumbovici
First of all where to find it? I searched the cooker ftp lists and still no go. Second thing, is there a simple way to do it? Trying to uninstall the 4.3 from 9.1rc2, it wants to uninstall a lot of other stuff. I tried falling back to Mandrake Linux 9.0 alltogether, but the installer freezes in

[expert] RPM Dependencies

2003-03-16 Thread Arvid Poon
Dear all, I tried to upgrade my glibc from Mandrake 7 by running 'rpm -Uvh glibc-' and got the following message : rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is need by glibc-x : : How can I find that rpm ? I can't find it in speakeasy.rpmfind.net. And I

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
the meeting is often the time at IHOP. If you go next month maybe I'll run into you. I'll be in the back on a laptop running 9.1 Hmm. I don't attend the meetings due to work - it's difficult to get over to Cisco from South San Jose and I take a bus :(. I had no reason to suspect you were

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
The line to get plfs gpg sig is. (where # is the command prompt) # lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import OK thanks. been there done that :) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RPM Dependencies

2003-03-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:23 am, Arvid Poon wrote: Dear all, I tried to upgrade my glibc from Mandrake 7 by running 'rpm -Uvh glibc-' and got the following message : rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is need by glibc-x How can I find that rpm ? I can't find it in

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Miark
Civileme, Your absence will make a certain, negative impact on Mandrake's free-support community and I cannot help but feel that it will do little or nothing to increase revenue at MandrakeExpert. I see this as a net loss for Mandrake, not a net gain. But if a break from the lists will allow

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:50 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 7:20 pm, civileme wrote: We always miss his help and viewpoints, and wish him well. As I'm sure do we all. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your

[expert] Interesting filter(?) result

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
A message on another mailling list has come up with this in the header: content-transfer-encoding: 7bit x-plaintext: IMSTP.gif of type image/gif deleted content-type: text/plain; type=multipart/alternative and lower down: -- -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] I have not seen

[expert] rsync+ssh backups - encrypted and compressed

2003-03-16 Thread tarvid
i'd like to be able to leave the backups encrypted and compressed, that is dumped raw into a store and only uncompressed and encrypted when retrieved. is that possible? jim tarvid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 08:44, David E. Fox wrote: the meeting is often the time at IHOP. If you go next month maybe I'll run into you. I'll be in the back on a laptop running 9.1 Hmm. I don't attend the meetings due to work - it's difficult to get over to Cisco from South San Jose and I

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 05:55, Mark Weaver wrote: Vox wrote: This time Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 10:24:01PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: There likely is, but I don't know it. I'm probably using 20% of mutt's full potential. I

Re: [expert] how to fallback to a 4.2.x version of XFree86?

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 07:58, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: First of all where to find it? I searched the cooker ftp lists and still no go. Second thing, is there a simple way to do it? Trying to uninstall the 4.3 from 9.1rc2, it wants to uninstall a lot of other stuff. I tried falling back to

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 8:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 05:55, Mark Weaver wrote: grin g-nus can't even talk, how would they be able to read the mail? wait!... are they even a real animal? (g)Yes they are!... african in fact. However they are able to pronounce the

[expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work

2003-03-16 Thread Ken Thompson
Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying the test sound in the KDE control center: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No

Re: [expert] Interesting filter(?) result

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 9:10 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: A message on another mailling list has come up with this in the header: content-transfer-encoding: 7bit x-plaintext: IMSTP.gif of type image/gif deleted content-type: text/plain; type=multipart/alternative and

Re: [expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work

2003-03-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:08 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying the test sound in the KDE control center: Sound server informational message: Error while

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Vox
This time Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 8:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 05:55, Mark Weaver wrote: grin g-nus can't even talk, how would they be able to read the mail? wait!... are they even a real animal? (g)Yes

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
Lets put it this way... since cooker hit beta I've averaged about 450 mails a day on that list... topping out at 800 one day... do I read them allno way in H### But I do read a lot of subjects. wow...! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work

2003-03-16 Thread Ken Thompson
On Sunday 16 March 2003 02:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:08 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying the test sound in the KDE control center:

Re: [expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work

2003-03-16 Thread E . Fernandez
Quoting Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 16 March 2003 02:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:08 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and trying

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 15:28, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 8:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 05:55, Mark Weaver wrote: grin g-nus can't even talk, how would they be able to read the mail? wait!... are they even a real animal? (g)Yes they are!...

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:44:21AM -0800 : the meeting is often the time at IHOP. If you go next month maybe I'll run into you. I'll be in the back on a laptop running 9.1 Hmm. I don't attend the meetings due to work -

Re: [expert] Using SSH without passwd

2003-03-16 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C wrote on Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:13:15PM -0800 : I've a question about ssh also. Isn't it true that after one logs in with ssh, that further communications beyond login are not encrypted? If this is true, how might one fix it? The others

Re: [expert] Interesting filter(?) result

2003-03-16 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:47:41PM + : content-transfer-encoding: 7bit x-plaintext: IMSTP.gif of type image/gif deleted content-type: text/plain; type=multipart/alternative [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative

Re: [expert] rsync+ssh backups - encrypted and compressed

2003-03-16 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 11:25, tarvid wrote: i'd like to be able to leave the backups encrypted and compressed, that is dumped raw into a store and only uncompressed and encrypted when retrieved. is that possible? jim tarvid tar cjvf filename.tar.bz2 myfiles/ gpg --encrypt

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 02:28:27PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: It would be quite nice if the OS X build of 1.3 comes with Enigmail, but I haven't checked it out yet. It would be really cool to interchange mail with my laptop and desktop machine as well as the bookmarks I currently do. Lack of

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Mark Belanger
civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After 8 months, I am still seeking employment following the Mandrakesoft layoffs, so I can say the market for jobs in hi-tech is atrocious. Even in another area where I am a professional, technical writing, there is nothing... well, nothing without

Re: [expert] Using SSH without passwd

2003-03-16 Thread Jim C
Vincent Danen wrote: I'd really like to know where you heard that from. Beat them with a wet noodle or a 100lb sledge... your choice. At any rate, it's very wrong. I'll take the wet noodle since it may have been a case of failing memory on the part of my brain. The fact that I don't remember

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread Damon Lynch
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:53, Mark Belanger wrote: Rather than missing civilme's free advice, and bemoaning his absence from the list, why don't we all use whatever contacts we have and try to get work for this guy. I'm doing what I can. Me too, and I live in NZ :-) I hope Americans

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 March 2003 06:31 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: Heck, I even have a dual-boot Windows box just so I can play EverQuest (although this may change since EQ for the Mac is coming out soon). Just thought I'd point out that Winex v3.x has support for EverQuest (although I don't know to what

[expert] htdig - having a devil of a time getting it going

2003-03-16 Thread tarvid
urpmi htdig urpmi htdig-web rundib -vvv the first part runs instantly, the final error takes a couple of minutes I don't understand the host not found message. Jim Tarvid [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rundig -vvv ht://dig Start Time: Sun Mar 16 21:58:57 2003 1:1:http://nuhorace.ls.net/ New

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 14:48, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote on Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:44:21AM -0800 : the meeting is often the time at IHOP. If you go next month maybe I'll run into you. I'll be in the back on a laptop running

Re: [expert] Off list for a while

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 17:53, Damon Lynch wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:53, Mark Belanger wrote: Rather than missing civilme's free advice, and bemoaning his absence from the list, why don't we all use whatever contacts we have and try to get work for this guy. I'm doing what I can.

Re: [expert] GETTING SB-Live Platinum TO work

2003-03-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 06:55, Ken Thompson wrote: On Sunday 16 March 2003 02:15 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Mar 2003 2:08 pm, Ken Thompson wrote: Hi all, I just installed a SB-Live Platinum in LM9.0 and now I have no sound at all. I get this error message just after boot up and

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Anne Wilson wrote: Way back, and English duo sang I'm a g-nu, a g-nother g-nu --- nor am I in the least like that dreadful hartebeast, Oh g-no, g-no, g-no, I'm a g-nu! Anne (Michael) Flanders (in his wheelchair) (Donald) Swann (piano). Both now 'late' I believe? Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the I've been trying that method more or less with success for many different

[expert] Fuji FinePix 2650, supermount, and Removable media

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
I got my fuji finepix connected to the machine today, and I have a few lingering questions: 1. I modprobed a series of drivers to get it all running: usbserial, usb-ohci, and the like, set /etc/sysconf/usb to look to get my mouse, visor and mass storage devices. I may have forgotten one from

Re: [expert] Pentium4 motherboards keeping ISA slots

2003-03-16 Thread David E. Fox
I'm enrolled in a project for automating a telescope for robotic use. It's our aim to control the whole system under Linux. A google search on 'linux and telescope automation' shows a link at lowell university where someone is apparently doing just that.

Re: automatic upgrades via install + drakautoinst WAS: [expert]Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-16 Thread Vox
This time [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) becomes daring and writes: The drakautoinst method I'm imagining would avoid all the issues and (most of the) complications involved with using urpmi (or apt-get or similiar program) to upgrade an installation. In terms of package management the

Re: [expert] howto set default url-handlers for gnome2

2003-03-16 Thread Robert W.
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 07:02, Udo Rader wrote: I'm wondering how to set evolution (or anything else) as my default mail-handler for all gnome2 applications (like galeon). I don't see any url-handler item in the gnome-control-center, so has anybody else got an idea how to do this? It used to

Re: [expert] Interesting filter(?) result

2003-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Anne Wilson wrote: A message on another mailling list has come up with this in the header: content-transfer-encoding: 7bit x-plaintext: IMSTP.gif of type image/gif deleted content-type: text/plain; type=multipart/alternative and lower down: -- -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 10:24:01PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: There likely is, but I don't know it. I'm probably using 20% of mutt's full potential. I can delete an entire thread, but it keeps coming back the next time I'm in the mail box. I don't think mutt remembers this