Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 05:38, Damian Gatabria wrote: El dom, 31-08-2003 a las 08:47, KevinO escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Gatabria wrote: El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 19:49, Frankie escribió: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] network.img 9.1 install - eth0 won't start from rc

2003-09-01 Thread Felix Miata
No problem doing nfs install on machine that never had any Linux before. Did automatic updates at the end of install too. However, boot messages include: bringing up interface eth0: [FAILED] This is repeated in /var/log/messages, along with a couple other eth0 messages:

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1 samba server is HORRIBLE! Say I'm copying 650mb of Wav

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1

RE: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Katinka Mills
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:15 pm, Katinka Mills wrote:

[expert] FTP Script

2003-09-01 Thread Timothy Brown
I am resending this becasue it doens't look like it ever made the list. List, I need to know how to write a shell script that ftps a couple of files up each day. Any one have any ideas? Tim -- - Timothy R. Brown Webmaster The Daily Star 102 Chestnut St.

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 12:42 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: Sorry for the delay, I could not find the page I liked to show people (I think the site is down) if you go here http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_PCI_Pins.html A1 / B1 is the back of the computer. and the pins count towards you. If you

[expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments containing .exe and the like. I can't find any way of filtering on attachments For that matter I can't

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments containing .exe and the like. I can't find any

[expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings, but although I have

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread stefmit
Are you using CUPS? Have you tried replacing lpr with xpp (after installing xpp, of course), in the print -- properties -- print command line? xpp would offer you much more options in regards to margins, etc... Stef On Monday 01 September 2003 07:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some

[expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed that MC, the

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it into the install. I've also noticed

[expert] Some process changing groups and permissions

2003-09-01 Thread Dan Jones
I would like my /usr directory to belong to the wheel group and for the group to have write privileges. I can set these options, but when I go back later they're reset to root as the group owner and the group having no write privilege. I suspect this is some sort of security process running in

[expert] TWiki organization

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
There was some banter here about organizing the TWiki database that fell under the Postfix subject. (one of us, probably me, hijacked it) Anyway, Anne made a section to discuss it http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Input is requested, so far it has just been Anne and me. Even if

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Richard
On Mon September 1 2003 11:51 am, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was a specific reason that didn't make it

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups and permissions

2003-09-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:44, Dan Jones wrote: I would like my /usr directory to belong to the wheel group and for the group to have write privileges. I can set these options, but when I go back later they're reset to root as the group owner and the group having no write privilege. I suspect

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Richard wrote: On Mon September 1 2003 11:51 am, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of and that was Konsole. I was wondering if there was

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Björn Olsson wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. Is that really possible? I thought cat only worked with pure

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Sunday 31 August 2003 09:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread R N dev
Hi Anne, i'm quite sure it is. I use kprinter --stdin, but i think that Mozilla (or Netscape) converts the output to ps and after passes it to command line. So try to change the page setup option to have your correct output and see what happen... Angelo Hi, Stef. Yes, I generally use xpp, but

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups and permissions

2003-09-01 Thread HaywireMac
On 01 Sep 2003 11:44:22 -0400 Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I would like my /usr directory to belong to the wheel group and for the group to have write privileges. I can set these options, but when I go back later they're reset to root as the group owner and the group having no write

[expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
This just in 9.2 rc1 cooker... the software manager seems to be broken, and I can't add any sources - was trying to revamp the sources to include the new CDs as opposed to the old ones. Software Manager quietly dies after I tell it where to go for the CD. Also I tried to add in cooker main and

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file.

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Björn Olsson
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file.

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-01 Thread Felix Miata
Jack Coates wrote: google msec and read up on it. You'll want to put your specific settings in /etc/security/msec/perm.local I found http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/prog-msec.html, but neither it nor the man page adequately explain how to edit this file to change the default user

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 September 2003 01:18 pm, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. Mark, you can do cat *.(file_extension) yourfile.ext but I don't think it combines some files

[expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread Mark Belanger
I don't suppose anyone has an onboard VIA VT8233 sound and has sound working with 9.2 RC1? Being an RC, I don't want to start banging my head if there is something wrong with sound, other than my cheapo sound card. -Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-01 Thread Niclas Jacobsson
Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to "loose" mouse and get it back working after switching, but Mandrake is loosing contact with the mouse until I log out from session then it comes alive again. Anybody

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 September 2003 20:03, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Björn Olsson wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. Is that

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 2:26 pm, stefmit wrote: Are you using CUPS? Have you tried replacing lpr with xpp (after installing xpp, of course), in the print -- properties -- print command line? xpp would offer you much more options in regards to margins, etc... Hi, Stef. Yes, I generally use xpp,

Re: [expert] Configuring apcupsd

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 4:13 am, david wrote: Anne, I am presently running apcupsd, and if I recall, it required nothing more than rpm -Uvh acp.rpm on my 7.2 box. It has been running since '01 without a hickup. The trick is to figure out what information your APC box will deal out.

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
David E. Fox wrote: This just in 9.2 rc1 cooker... the software manager seems to be broken, and I can't add any sources - was trying to revamp the sources to include the new CDs as opposed to the old ones. Software Manager quietly dies after I tell it where to go for the CD. Also I tried to

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 September 2003 21:00, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: pdf2pdf ?.pdf that obviously should've been pdf2ps on the first line, sorry! -- Good luck, HarM Mandrake HowTo's More:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:12 pm, R N dev wrote: Hi Anne, i'm quite sure it is. I use kprinter --stdin, but i think that Mozilla (or Netscape) converts the output to ps and after passes it to command line. So try to change the page setup option to have your correct output and see what happen...

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 1:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 12:42 pm, Katinka Mills wrote: Sorry for the delay, I could not find the page I liked to show people (I think the site is down) if you go here http://www.interfacebus.com/Design_PCI_Pins.html A1 / B1 is the back

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments containing .exe and the like. I can't find any way of

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:16, lorne wrote: On Sunday 31 August 2003 09:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:00 pm, Mark wrote: What version of Mozy are you using. I've not heard anything about a bug in Mozilla that would produce a problem like this. That is not to say that it's not possible, however, it sounds more like a problem with the printer drivers then anything else.

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:27 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: If that level of detail is of interest, you will love The Indespensable PC Hardware Book: Your Hardware Questions Answered by Hans-Peter Messmer. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201876973 Very low level. Very complete. I've too many irons in the

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:03 pm, Mark wrote: Procmail should be able to do this nicely for you. Even if you're pulling your mail down from your ISP's mailserver. In order to employ procmail to filter, you'd simply using Fetchmail to bring the messages down. They'd then be deposited in

[expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf les_csharp_12_p2.pdf les_csharp_12_p3.pdf

Re: [expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread PlugHead
I'm using the via82xx driver. It works, *but* I've had some real problems getting the default mixer setting to stick. So far, I've had to open the KMix mixer panel and restore the default settings by hand every time I log into the machine (this is true of both beta2 and rc1, fresh install or

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 1:36 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to delete on server emails that contain attachments

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - Sorted

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
Son-in-Law just called - card in, now working correctly. He has W2K installed and it has been a huge struggle, particularly since it insists that the driver disks for both graphics card and monitor are corrupt. Internet of course has furnished the necessary, but I'm really looking forward to

[Fwd: Re: [expert] FTP Script]

2003-09-01 Thread diego
Your message DID get to the list indeep!! -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia /\ Spain \/ |__ __| \/ ---BeginMessage--- Try ncftpput as it takes the files from

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:21, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:24, Felix Miata wrote: Jack Coates wrote: google msec and read up on it. You'll want to put your specific settings in /etc/security/msec/perm.local I found

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any answers resolving the issue. When a transfer to or from a Samba box is

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:18, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to combine into just one file. les_csharp_12_p1.pdf

[expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
All, There is an interesting discussion on pclinuxoneline.com (texstar's site.) Dealing with the upgrade cycle and some people wondering if the 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade is going to be worth it. http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?mop=modloadname=Forumsfile=viewtopictopic=2045forum=44 is the

Re: [expert] Mouse locks in KDE Gnome

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:47, Niclas Jacobsson wrote: Hi all! I am co-using mouse and monitor with an MS XP Home Client through one of those mechanical switchboxes. XPH manages to loose mouse and get it back working after switching, but Mandrake is loosing contact with the mouse until I

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:04, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 21:00, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: pdf2pdf ?.pdf that obviously should've been pdf2ps on the first line, sorry! HarM, Nothing shameful if it works... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] urpmi lccked There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to drakxtools to

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Mark
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, KevinO wrote: -pgpenvelope processed message Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do something that I used to know how to do. That is, using cat to combine a list of files into one single file. The problem: the list of files below, I would like to

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread lorne
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups and permissions

2003-09-01 Thread HaywireMac
On 01 Sep 2003 11:44:22 -0400 Dan Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I would like my /usr directory to belong to the wheel group and for the group to have write privileges. I can set these options, but when I go back later they're reset to root as the group owner and the group having no write

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to drakxtools to add sources. See the problem? I am coming

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Rolf Pedersen
dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [expert] urpmi lccked There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to

Re: [expert] forgotten knowledge...

2003-09-01 Thread Guy Van Sanden
either do: cat [file] [file] [file] [file] ... CSharp_LESSON12.pdf or (cleaner) for i in les*.pdf; do cat $i CSharp_LESSON12.pdf; done I don't think you can just cat pdf's together though... (headers etc.) On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 19:18, Mark wrote: Hi List, I've forgotten how to do

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups permissions

2003-09-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:24, Felix Miata wrote: Jack Coates wrote: google msec and read up on it. You'll want to put your specific settings in /etc/security/msec/perm.local I found http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/prog-msec.html, but neither it nor the man page adequately

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:03 pm, Eric Huff wrote: There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 one. I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to

Re: [expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread Trey Sizemore
I am having sound issues as well, but I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI card. I got it working OK with MDK 9.2 Beta 2. :-( On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:52, Mark Belanger wrote: I don't suppose anyone has an onboard VIA VT8233 sound and has sound working with 9.2 RC1? Being an RC, I don't want to start

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 1:36 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I know I should be sorting out a mail server, but until I have enough time I need short term solutions. In kmail I'd like a pop-filter to

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:07:34 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only problem I've had with multi-gnome-terminal (which is what you have) comes in ssh'ing into a variety of boxes. Some of the commnands like backspace get lost (like with ftp) and as a result it's a pain. I love

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 02:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 5:27 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: If that level of detail is of interest, you will love The Indespensable PC Hardware Book: Your Hardware Questions Answered by Hans-Peter Messmer. Addison Wesley. ISBN: 0201876973

Re: [expert] Some process changing groups and permissions

2003-09-01 Thread Dan Jones
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 11:44, Dan Jones wrote: I would like my /usr directory to belong to the wheel group and for the group to have write privileges. I can set these options, but when I go back later they're reset to root as the group owner and the group having no write privilege. I suspect

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:32 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have struggled with getting kmail to directly delete filtered crap myself for some time. It just occurred to me, based on this thread, that there may be a clunky way to do this. There is no direct way to set kmail folders to point to

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Anne, 'dmidecode' (as root) will tell you what voltage the AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from mine), Handle 0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes. Card Slot Slot: AGP Type:

Re: [expert] something interesting about 9.2RC1

2003-09-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:02, Mark wrote: On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Richard wrote: On Mon September 1 2003 11:51 am, Mark wrote: Hi list, I've been playing with 9,2RC1 since yesterday when I installed it, and I've noticed there are a few things missing. One of which I used a lot of

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
Look for a lock file (.lck ?) probably in the same directory as the urpmi sources or under /var. Then delete it. Nothing there. Well, I fixed at least partially the problem by remaking urpmi directories underneath /var/lib and /var/cache just to be on the safe side. Adding distribution media

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Larry Sword
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings,

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Failed. It crashes kmail. I tried to create a new folder in Maildir format, delete it, create a symlink by the same name to /dev/null. I then tried to move an email in one of my other folders into the new /dev/null folder...it crashes kmail with

[expert] realtek rtl8180 wlan card -- drivers/modules.

2003-09-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I'm trying to get my wlan card to work in my laptop. It's a sweex pcmcia card with rtl8180 chip. Now realtek offers download for drivers but not specifically for the mdk kernel (I'm using the stock 2.4.21-0.13mdk with 9.1). The closest are IMO the redhat9.0 and/or suse8.2 Anybody

Re: [expert] Can KMail be set to filter attachments?

2003-09-01 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No worky. Don't try it. If you create a folder in the default Maildir format, it creates cur, new, and tmp subfolders within the new folder. If you delete these subfolders and make them symlinks to /dev/null, you will crash kmail (it complains

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
*** James Sparenberg Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:27:29 -0700 : All, There is an interesting discussion on pclinuxoneline.com (texstar's site.) Dealing with the upgrade cycle and some people wondering if the 9.1 to 9.2 upgrade is going to be worth it. OK, James, thanks for the info, but

Re: [expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 02:37 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I am having sound issues as well, but I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI card. I got it working OK with MDK 9.2 Beta 2. :-( On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:52, Mark Belanger wrote: I don't suppose anyone has an onboard VIA VT8233 sound and has

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
As I said, the problem with the gui does not (for me) preclude using the command line urpmi.addmedia. It might help to replace the files you No, it shouldn't. I figured that it might be easier to add the distribution media (actually replace them, based on new content) with the media manager.

[expert] locked -- ps related stuff

2003-09-01 Thread David E. Fox
What would cause the following - other than hardware issues - I've only seen this type of behavior a log time ago when I had intermittent power to my HD drives. And that was with an older system. Specifically, any number of ps/w/top or related commands are hanging the shell. urpmi.update -a also

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any answers resolving the issue. When a transfer to or from a Samba