Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pierre Fortin wanted us to know: Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed to find it... rsync -avp --progress

Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore

2003-07-26 Thread Jeremy Gregorio
It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's working now :). Still,

Re: [expert] orinoco gold pcmcia card and mandrake 9.1

2003-07-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:58, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brent Bailey wanted us to know: Ive recently installed mandrake 9.1 on my laptop .. i also have a Orinoco gold wireless pcmcia card that id like to use . Does 9.1 support this card ?? if so

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread charlie
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed to find it... I am uncertain if I understand your problem Pierre but I am using Mozilla-1.3-1mdk and have done in :-

Re: [expert] Removal of scanner

2003-07-26 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Nice idea, did not think of that one, will give it a try... Peter On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 08:44, Michael Adams wrote: Bit late here. How about removing the sane RPM. Seems to work with lots of these stuck proggies. On 23 Jul 2003 10:10:15 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [expert] Dumb URPMI question

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday July 25 2003 02:47 pm, Miark wrote: I don't mess with Cooker, but I'm guessing it's as straight-forward as this: 1) Use urpmi.addmedia to add a Cooker urpmi source. 2) Do a: urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-verify-rpm --media cooker_source_name Miark urpmi.setup

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday July 25 2003 01:41 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A temp fix: do a mv /tmp /tmp-old and creat a new /tmp that is a link to your REAL download location. Once the download completes, delete the symlink

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe the problem is that until the download is complete, Mozilla stores the partially downloaded file in /tmp THEN transfers the finished download to the selected location. If you have a large '/' directory and/or have setup /tmp on its own

[expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't understand this... I recently had to replace a hdd due to failure and reinstalled 9.1. After initial bootup and login to KDE, when I was finished and clicked the logout button, I got the nice dragon combo box with 3 options in it: logout,

Re: [expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't understand this... I recently had to replace a hdd due to failure and reinstalled 9.1. After initial bootup and login to KDE, when I was finished and clicked the logout button, I got the nice dragon combo box with 3

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Philip Webb
030725 Pierre Fortin wrote: Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I finally have partitions available to test...); yet after over 300MB EACH downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack of disk space. yes, we all trip over something occasionally (soothing look). no-one

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 08:21, Philip Webb wrote: 030725 Pierre Fortin wrote: Used Mozilla to download 9.2beta1 to *MY* choice of target disk (yup, I finally have partitions available to test...); yet after over 300MB EACH downloaded, cd1 bombed out for lack of disk space. yes, we all trip

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:27, John Wilson wrote: ... Use wget, ftp, Opera or anything else you can think of, even Mozilla based Konq seems to work better than Galleon or Mozilla itself. That leaves me to believe that it's in the wrappers around the rendering engine rather than part of it.

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 08:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:27, John Wilson wrote: not to pick nits in your otherwise correct guidance, but Konqueror is not Mozilla based -- they wrote their own browser more or less from scratch. I seem to remember that they use the rendering

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Bill Mullen
John Wilson said: On July 26, 2003 08:32 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:27, John Wilson wrote: not to pick nits in your otherwise correct guidance, but Konqueror is not Mozilla based -- they wrote their own browser more or less from scratch. I seem to remember that they

[expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am having trouble copying a file across an NFS connection that has been around for awhile. [EMAIL PROTECTED] robbo]$ cp --verbose Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso share/computer/iso/ cp: overwrite `share/computer/iso/Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso'? y `Mandrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso' -

Re: [expert] RPM binary doesn't seem to be working

2003-07-26 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Rick Salsa wrote: Hi, I've come across something that I haven't seen before, but my RPM binary doesn't seem to work. If I try to install or upgrade any RPMs, it just sits and doesn't do anything. rpm -qa, rpm --help, and rpm --version work, but that's it. I tried rpm --list to see if the last rpm

[expert] Re: TMOUT + PATH

2003-07-26 Thread Björn Lundin
Todd Lyons wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/profile.d]$ grep TMOUT * msec.csh:if ( ${?TMOUT} ) then msec.csh:set autologout=`expr $TMOUT / 60` msec.sh:[ -n $TMOUT ] typeset -r TMOUT What you could do is comment out that line, which will make it not be readonly any more, but honestly it

[expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
I think I found a problem in /etc/lilo.conf Originally I had /dev/ram3 in the 2.4.19-35 image, and that didn't work. Also I noticed boot= set to /dev/hda, which is /var, and my boot is on /dev/hdb. However, I have a boot.0300 file. I'm going to switch it back to /dev/hda for now. I think my lilo

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:17:16 +1000 charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed to find it... I am uncertain if I understand your problem

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2003 09:57 am, Bill Mullen wrote: AIUI, the Konqueror rendering engine is called KHTML, and has also been used as the basis for Apple's OS X web browser, Safari ... http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6565 http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 13:03, David E Fox wrote: I think I found a problem in /etc/lilo.conf Originally I had /dev/ram3 in the 2.4.19-35 image, and that didn't work. Also I noticed boot= set to /dev/hda, which is /var, and my boot is on /dev/hdb. However, I have a boot.0300 file. I'm going

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
Try this move /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bkp then create a new lilo.conf this way Hmm. I tried something along those lines and still had the same issue. 2419-35 boots in vga mode and tries to find the root partition, then panics. 'linux' starts up but can't get past the fixing module

Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore

2003-07-26 Thread Larry Sword
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's

[expert] 25mdk kernel.

2003-07-26 Thread James Sparenberg
Juan and Vincent. So far, so very good. Works better than 18mdk in that I've got sound with it *grin* As for what can be done in addition. I've gotten both the ck2 patch and win4lin installed into it and rebuilt the kernel. All seems to work. All in all. I'd say it is a solid build. Note

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:58 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Are you having trouble with all files or just the

Re: [expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wanted us to know: initial bootup and login to KDE, when I was finished and clicked the logout button, I got the nice dragon combo box with 3 options in it: logout, reboot, shutdown. After this one time, this box no longer comes

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Ken Thompson
On Saturday 26 July 2003 02:53 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 10:17:16 +1000 charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:01 am, Pierre Fortin wholly or partly mentioned :- : If there's a way to override this behaviour, it's not obvious and/or I'm too pissed

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: I think I found a problem in /etc/lilo.conf Originally I had /dev/ram3 in the 2.4.19-35 image, and that didn't work. Also I noticed boot= set to /dev/hda, which is It sounds like you installed the kernel rpm in rescue

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread David E Fox
It sounds like you installed the kernel rpm in rescue mode. When you do that, it grabs the current kernel commandline and attempts to keep all That may explain what happened. You might know that originally I managed to hose (or I think I did) my /dev/hdb7 install which was cooker, when

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:17:17 -0600 Ken Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been playing with opera; but I still haven't decided which browser sucks the least -- none are good. Pierre, Have you tried Kget integrated into Konqueror??? Pretty durn nice.. I'm thinking of going back to basics...

Re: [expert] reading dvd (again)

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:19, dfox wrote: followup of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 uh, er, yeah, that was going to be number 4... or, in devfs land... /dev/dvd - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -- john in sydney

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 21:57, John Haywood wrote: gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c -I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h and for the pci-scan module: cc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:58 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the

Re: [expert] followup to boot failure message

2003-07-26 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E Fox wanted us to know: installing a new DVD/CDRW combo drive last weekend. I rebooted the system (which had been rebooted before, successfully) and the system hung completely at finding module dependencies (I think). My cooker box did the

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-07-26 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw So thought I'd try the MP3 to audio procedure. Opened a new audio project and drag 'n drop 19 MP3's and started the burn. I did uncheck I tried the same thing. Well I got error messages from k3b in that it couldn't decode the uudio. So I

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 26 July 2003 10:41 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:58 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be

Re: [expert] Copying a file across NFS

2003-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am seeing a lot of collisions at my hub and in ifconfig. Is it possible that I have a NIC going bad? Or might there be another reason? I have 8.0 Gb free on the drive recieving the file. Are you having trouble with all files or just the iso's. I think we need to determine

[expert] advice please postfix ect.

2003-07-26 Thread Richard Bown
Hi I have a mjor problem with e-mail here, and its nothing to do with Mandrake9.1. Since my ISP has really got into bed with microyuk, their POP3 server can take anything up to 10 mins to authenticate the password. so Evolution keeps asking for the password, and gets it knickers in a right

Re: [expert] Shutdown/reboot for users

2003-07-26 Thread Luis Duran
Maybe i am a lot confuse, or my bad english lost me in your request, but try with Ctrl+Alt+F1 or F2 or F3 to start a pure text shell session, login as root and execute the drakconf utility, maybe you can find something usefull inside (i understand you can not even see your kde desktop), probably