Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:27, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:24, James Sparenberg wrote: ... check out where your cell phone is sitting. I'm serious here. They really muck with monitors. James ... knew that one, but thanks for the reminder. There's also a third monitor

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:24:29 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % snip shows that both monitors are set at 85Hz, which ain't bad. So my crawly dim lines are probably caused by interference since the monitors are side by side. Maybe they need an AFDB :-) That would explain why

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:32:28 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:04, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:39, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works. I did not read the instructions and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart. I

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Gary Hodder
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:29, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:24:29 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % snip shows that both monitors are set at 85Hz, which ain't bad. So my crawly dim lines are probably caused by interference since the monitors are side by

Re: [expert] GIMP and truetype fonts

2003-10-14 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guy Van Sanden wrote: I'm having trouble using most truetype fonts with the gimp (gimp-1.2.3-20mdk). ... But many of them (about 70%) are not handled correctly or at all by the Gimp, they are shown in the list, but fail when selected. I fought

[expert] RPM looks like it's turned it's toes up

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew George
hi, never run into this error before...anyone know a fix? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa rpmdb: region error detected; run recovery. error: db4 error(-30981) from dbenv-open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30981) I've tried

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:00, bascule wrote: basename will remove trailing suffixes: mv $i $(basename $i .OK) this removes '.OK' from the end of filenames but nowhere else bascule On Monday 13 Oct 2003 9:15 am, Brian Parish wrote: for i in *.OK; do mv $i `echo $i | tr -d '.OK'`;done;

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-14 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:24, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 06:17, Bryan Phinney wrote: ... This really depends on what the web site or application is doing. If you code for Opera, then you can be 98% sure that it will

Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Holt
Rob Blomquist mused: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found www.bootdisk.com, now which image

Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:46 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install. This will build an rpm from the install process

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install. This will build an rpm from the install process

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks darklord, If I can't get decent performance out of regular wine, I may have to pay for the wineX. Until then I'll struggle :) In any case, yesterday I re-built DRI (Xfree86 that is). It took ages (for some reason its make

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 13:56, HaywireMac wrote: Look out world, I be buildin' RPM's! -- Starting to dig trenches here:) HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at 60fps; and kazaalite++ at the same time. What's great about linux is that

[expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut - Turgut Kalfaoglu: http://www.kalfaoglu.com EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Deutsch
Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:00, bascule wrote: basename will remove trailing suffixes: mv $i $(basename $i .OK) this removes '.OK' from the end of filenames but nowhere else bascule On Monday 13 Oct 2003 9:15 am, Brian Parish wrote: for

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Bown
Thanks Guys now got it working, it may be of interest to non Hams as gpredict predicts the orbits of other satellites as well -- Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:15, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:27, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:24, James Sparenberg wrote: ... check out where your cell phone is sitting. I'm serious here. They really muck with monitors. James ... knew that

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using productivity apps and also

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 06:34, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:54, Thomas Deutsch wrote: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:00, bascule wrote: basename will remove trailing suffixes: mv $i $(basename $i .OK) this removes '.OK' from the end of filenames but nowhere else bascule

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 02:54, Brian Parish wrote: ... Based on the above I would have thought that: #!/bin/bash for i in *.OK; do mv $i $(basename $i .OK) would do it, but I get: line 3: syntax error: unexpected end of file Do I have too many dollars or something (this has never been

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Backlund
Kwan Lowe kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Tiistai 14 Lokakuu 2003 17:23): I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for

Re: [expert] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Backlund
Tibor Pittich kirjoitti viestissn (lhetysaika Maanantai 13 Lokakuu 2003 23:14): On 13. October 2003 at 13:34, Thomas Backlund wrote: all of you with an nVidia nForce2 or Via KT400 board.. please try this one out... %changelog * Sun Oct 12 2003 Thomas Backlund ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install. This will build an rpm from the install process

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 14, 2003 07:34 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in

Re: [expert] Wine and OpenGL issues

2003-10-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:40 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: Thanks - I tried wineX, but I realised I was having better luck with wine itself. I reinstalled DRI (straightforward, but takes a long time), and Wine's CVS version. Now I have halflife in a 1024x768 window running at 60fps; and

[expert] Can't install into Intel D845GVAD2 MB with SATA drives

2003-10-14 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. Mdk 9.0 would not find the CD Drive - died right away. Mdk 9.1 would load some more from the CD, but then would fail looking for the

[expert] mergeant and gda

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
anyone tried to use mergeant as a front-end to a Postgresql database? no workee here -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Can't install into Intel D845GVAD2 MB with SATA drives

2003-10-14 Thread Thomas Backlund
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 15 Lokakuu 2003 00:38): Hello, I'm trying to load Mandrake on a brand new P4 2.8ghz system using the Intel D845GVAD2, with two 10K ROM SATA drives. I have an IDE CDROM drive attached. What SATA controller? That board

Re: [expert] mergeant and gda

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:03, Jack Coates wrote: anyone tried to use mergeant as a front-end to a Postgresql database? no workee here ah, because Mandrake's RPMs break two packages into several different RPMS, and then fail to keep in step. Compiling from source with help from the gnome-db

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Sherman
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be general purpose using

[expert] upgrading on twiki

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
Recently there wa sa flurry on how to upgrade, so i compiled it and put it here: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade If i got anything wrong, please let me know or fix it. (i plan to use the page when i get around to upgrading!) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

[expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
test I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
All was fine for a while. I run postfix, procmail, and fetchmail on my local box (stonekeep.ravenhome.net). I was able to send emails without problem to myself, to the list, wherever. Now, all I get are deferred messages and timeouts on any smtp server I try to connect to...or nameserver

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Tempus
A little more info from my syslog, showing what happens when I try a test message to myself (to my yahoo account): Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3396]: 208C882E: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=3849, status=deferred (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[66.218.86.253]: Network is

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:14 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: A little more info from my syslog, showing what happens when I try a test message to myself (to my yahoo account): Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3396]: 208C882E: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=3849,

Re: [expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:51 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: test I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? Yep. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I said don't read. Are you blind? -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion. --Richard Dawkins Key fingerprint =

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A little more info from my syslog, showing what happens when I try a test message to myself (to my yahoo account): Oct 14 21:07:50 stonekeep postfix/smtp[3396]: 208C882E: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=none, delay=3849, status=deferred (connect to

[expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I said don't read. Are you blind? - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of

[expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I said don't read. Are you blind? -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any religion. --Richard Dawkins Key fingerprint =

Re: [expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:30, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:51 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: test I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? not here, did what get through? and I did not read any other 2 tests from you.

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 07:20, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:15, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:27, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:24, James Sparenberg wrote: ... check out where your cell phone is sitting. I'm serious here. They really

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 7:19 pm, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I have good luck with Thinkpad R40 and Mandrake 9.1. I did upgrade its kernel to the latest, and DRI. -turgut can you give some more info on cpu, chipset, video system? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony,

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 7:53 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 8:56 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 14, 2003 07:34 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 4:48 am, Dave Sherman wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for

Re: [expert] testing - problems with postfix?

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
I suddenly can no longer send emails from my local mailserver. Is THIS getting through? The best way to test this is usu to look at the archive: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/ That way, you can tell w/o waiting for a response or getting it yourself. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:44, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install.

Re: [expert] libgal

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:52, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:33:49 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Best of the middle ground worlds. do a urpmi checkinstall. Then do the normal configure and make. Then instead of make install do a checkinstall make install.

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 06:34, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux for wireless connection. Mine will be

Re: [expert] Help! Something's wack with my mailserver

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, I do own my domains. I have been trying to get email from my postfix to be user@ravenhome.net instead of the user@localhost.ravenhome.net but apparently in trying to fix this one simple thing, it prevented my system from working

[expert] corrupt tar fil

2003-10-14 Thread Eric Huff
I have a corrupt tar file from way back: /stuff/keep_huff_sort/NewDir $ tar -xvf KEEP.TAR keep/ keep/c/ keep/c/arrays.c tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Emacs can see the file all the way thru, but i

[expert] One more test...

2003-10-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hopefully all is well again. - -- I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Faith, being belief that isn't based on evidence, is the principal vice of any

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Turgut Kalfaoglu
Sure; it's a P4 running at 2GHz; ATI radeon 7500 32MB DDR video , 256M DDR ram, 40G disk. ICH4 AC97 sound chip, 82801BD ethernet. slamr winmodem (driver works well now; I did a few patches myself :) firewire and USB ports, DVD+CDW combo.. -t On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday

[expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread James Sparenberg
Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! I'm not a member, but there are **tons** of complaints on

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:39 am, many eyes noted that HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. There was a whole long thread

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread Vox
On September 1993 plus 3696 days Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the