Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-18 Thread anton
that's right... it conflicts with initscripts and ppp it wouldn't install - I have no idea how to resolve these issues so just gave it away. Cheers anton Anton. Don't use dialup ATT myself but I think the rpm you need is called gpppwrap just do urpmi gpppwrap and try it out. James

Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-17 Thread anton
I'm using kppp in Gnome. It takes an age to start, and won't minimise into the bottom panel (or if it can then I'd like to know how...), but can't see anything else even remotely as good. I think my experiment with gnome will probably end quite soon... Anton Praedor Atrebates wrote

Re: [expert] test - do not read.

2003-10-15 Thread Anton
So you mean it was this that I wasn't supposed to read, or one of the previous two? A :-{) Praedor Atrebates wrote: -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

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-06 Thread Anton
. It is set to (in drakXServices) but doesn't. No idea why - there seem to be quite a few services checked to be started which aren't running... still lost Cheers Anton Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Oct 6 23:13:05 machine modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

[expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Anton
Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? Thanks Anton Hi, I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box

Re: [expert] Read/Write permissions on a VFAT partition

2001-01-03 Thread Anton Graham
is a mount option set in /etc/fstab or as part of a -o parameter to mount Why arn't world read/write permissions command line options for mount?? (where they belong!) see above -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon

Re: [expert] CUPS printing...

2001-01-01 Thread Anton Graham
"/usr/sbin/printerdrake --lpr". This undocumented option (and I have complained about the lack of documentation before) forces it to configure the old fashioned way :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon r

Re: [expert] Which file to change between gdm kdm login?

2000-12-31 Thread Anton Graham
respectively. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Do not meddle in the affairs of the undead, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

Re: [expert] 2.4 and ReiserFS

2000-12-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Dec-00 by Reggie Burnett: How do I install the 2.4 RPM on a Reiser system and have it work? When I boot, I get a kernel panic trying to mount / You don't... ReiserFS is conflicting with something in current 2.4 kernels. Chmoel is working on it. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Unmount supermount without reboot

2000-12-22 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 22-Dec-00 by Viktor Lakics: Does anyone know how to unmount (suspend supermounting) a supermounted removable disk without editing out the corresponding entry in fstab and reboot? Eg. to use ext2fsck on a zip disk? umount /mnt/zip -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key

[expert] Chinese fonts in Netscape?

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
howto, fiddled with netscape settings, etc; but cannot seem to find the source of the problem. Any insights would be appreciated. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Clothes make the man. Naked people

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
of fonts - PFBs and AFMs that need to be lowercase names). for i in *[A-Z]*; do mv -v $i $( echo $i | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' ); done Should work for sh, bash, and zsh. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request

[expert] PUMP or DHCP (Client)

2000-12-16 Thread Anton J Aylward, CISSP
I always used PUMP under RedHat. Any suggestions as to whether to use this or the DHCP client under mandrake 7.2? Experiences and warnings? /a Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-15 Thread Anton Graham
to accomplish it: function tolower { tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' } and then just echo or cat the text and pipe it through the function (i.e. cat file.txt | tolower filenew.txt ) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request

Re: [expert] suddenly problems with the soundcard

2000-12-14 Thread Anton Graham
es to /etc/conf.modules into your /etc/modules.conf file then remove the conf.modules. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spacebal

Re: [expert] Postfix - YIKES!

2000-12-13 Thread Anton Graham
... Redirect all output from the job to /dev/null and cron won't have anything to mail. cron assumes that any output from the job is important and mails it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request A copy

Re: [expert] 7.2, alsa, and yamaha DS-XG

2000-12-12 Thread Anton Graham
i modprobe snd-pcm-oss -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] RPM Error: Wrong Architecture in LM 7.1

2000-12-08 Thread Anton Graham
will get segfaults caused by illegal instructions whenever an app issues a 586 instruction. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free

Re: [expert] Supermount

2000-12-06 Thread Anton Graham
). So, how do I re-enable it? First, comment out the portion of /etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime that disables it. Then /usr/sbin/supermount --enable. After that, check your fstab to ensure that it is correct. Finally, mount -o remount -a. That should fix you right up. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Need rsh capability in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-05 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 04-Dec-00 by David C. Hoos, Sr.: Hi, I looked for rsh, but didn't find it. Is it in some rpm? Thanks a lot for the quick reply. (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which rsh) rsh-0.17-4mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key

Re: [expert] Supermount

2000-12-05 Thread Anton Graham
it will be and disable it at boot time if they can't find the module. (I sent in a patch before the 7.2 beta cycle but it wasn't included). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Kindness is the beginning of cruelty

Re: [expert] Aurora Instalation

2000-11-28 Thread Anton Graham
. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in private and you wash your hands afterward. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-23 Thread Anton Graham
/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 after the modem init string and before dialing. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" huff, huff Keep in touch

Re: [expert] ppp-on-demand

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
p0 " to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local 7. i start my "/etc/ppp/masq start" 8. i start "pppd :10.0.0.2"(And here it hangs and doesn't gives me back prompt, is it ok?) More than likely. Try accessing the 'net afterward. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Glibc_2.2

2000-11-22 Thread Anton Graham
, it will also keep your box all RPM as you stated was your desire. glibc 2.2 is available on the Cooker mirrors, but it is in a state of flux atm, and I wouldn't suggest upgrading it for at least a week. I believe there is also a compat RPM that contains the glibc 2.1 libraries. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-21 Thread Anton Graham
and recompile locally as much of contrib and most of cooker have now been built with libraries and a compiler that are not part of your 7.x distribution and any c++ binaries generated by gcc 2.96 are not binary compatible with 2.95. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] 3Dfx OpenGL acceleration breaks after changing resolutions, and doesn't come back.

2000-11-19 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 19-Nov-00 by Sean, Sharon Kyle Harbour: Oh yeah, if I set the resolution to 32bit, 1280x1024, the way I like it, during the install, OpenGL 3dfx's accelleration only works at 16 bpp under any OS. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Accelleration for Voodoo3-2K PCI

2000-11-18 Thread Anton Graham
card with working accelleration? And if so, could you clue me in to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks :) Attachments: xmsgs, XF86Config-4 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will a

Re: [expert] CP command

2000-11-15 Thread Anton Graham
partitions. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[

Re: [expert] fonts

2000-11-15 Thread Anton Graham
the RPM's both linked from Skunk's page and on your Mandrake mirror/cd. It's 100% painless. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things

Re: [expert] CP command

2000-11-14 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 14-Nov-00 by Maximo Monsalvo: I try to copy a copy of my linux from the disck (ext2) to partition fat16 mounted in my linux but i can't copy ( link synbolik no created) This is because the FAT-16 (and -32) file systems have no ability to support symbolic links. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

2000-11-12 Thread Anton Graham
more Windows-like such as KDE/GNOME. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" huff, huff Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe t

Re: [expert] Has Mandrake removed xfce in ver 7.2?

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
xfce* xfce-3.5.2-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salv

Re: [expert] Expert

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
or you can simply remove the = yourself. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. -- Muad'dib [Frank Herbert, "Dune"] Keep in touch with http://mandrakef

Re: [expert] Now Trying Gnome AAAARRRRGGGG!!

2000-11-10 Thread Anton Graham
friends mad? I've heard good things about balsa. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." -- Z

Re: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
file as shipped with 7.1 was screwy and confinually rotated the already rotated logs, eventually filling the drive. There is an update available. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural t

Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
the kernel. On top of that, they do not supply the configuration file they used to build the pre-built kernel!! And the .config file (for the umpteen-millionth time) *is* provided. Look in the /usr/share/doc/kernel-version directory. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78

Re: [expert] 7.2 and nfs

2000-11-07 Thread Anton Graham
of unresolved symbol errors? try depmod -a and see if it rebuilds its dependancies (and module database) correctly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog

Re: [expert] Helix Gnome doesn't work in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Anton Graham
they have placed a GNOME entry in /etc/X11/window-managers which is no longer used in 7.2. Try adding the following file as /etc/X11/wmsession.d/2gnome: NAME=Gnome ICON=gnome-logo-icon-transparent.xpm DESC=Gnome Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session SCRIPT: exec gnome-session -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
to root and members of that group, and nobody else can even cd into the mount point. What do I have to do AS ROOT to do this? I cannot do "chmod 777" on it, let alone ANY other variation of chmod on /mnt/DOS_hdb6 OR any subdirectory on it. Why not? See above. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Making partition writeable to user

2000-10-21 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 21-Oct-00 by Praedor Tempus: Reboot? Can you not simply unmount the volume and then mount it again? I thought that when you remount in this way, the fstab is read again and that would be that. Indeed you can :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541

Re: [expert] LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2)

2000-10-20 Thread Anton Graham
for many users. I was able to easily upgrade a 6.0 box to 6.1, then 7.0 and 7.1 as they came out. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little i

Re: [expert] Well, well...building the NEW XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.src.rpm

2000-10-15 Thread Anton Graham
The module requires XFree86-server = 4.0.1-26mdk, As I suspected, one missing file :(. Now you need to sift through the build output for where that module is supposed to be built to find out why it isn't (headache city). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Some more on inability to build XFree86-4.0.1

2000-10-12 Thread Anton Graham
from one subpackage. It processes all of the packages but generates no rpms. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's st

Re: [expert] /usr/bin unuseable in msec level 4

2000-09-29 Thread Anton Graham
, try using an explicit path to reach /usr/bin/tcsh (and why is it in /usr/bin? It installs by default as /bin/tcsh) (%:~)- which tcsh /bin/tcsh (%:~)- rpm -qf $(which tcsh) tcsh-6.08.00-9mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-23 Thread Anton Graham
for the patch. That last is certainly time consuming, but it is really the only way to get some patches to apply. For example, the most recent supermount patch for 2.2 kernels is for 2.2.16, expect problems applying it to 2.2.17 or 2.2.18pre? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID

Re: [expert] How does LM 7.1 setup my CD-burner?

2000-09-22 Thread Anton Graham
the corresponding line in your setup for the original kernel. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs Keep in touch

Re: [expert] kernel patch problems

2000-09-22 Thread Anton Graham
id patches (170 in all). A list of patches is attached (I include only the obvious ones). This list is taken from rpm -qpl kernel-2.2.17-11mdk.src.rpm -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Live fast,

Re: [expert] permissions on swap partitions

2000-09-20 Thread Anton Graham
, 0600 suggested snip Should I change column 4 to "defaults,mode=0600"? No, you need change the permissions on the devices themselves (i.e. in the /dev/ directory). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon requ

Re: [expert] RPM problem

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
re. See above. RH is looking better all the time! To each his own :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the hu

Re: [expert] RPM problem

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
. It isnt. %make is a new RPM macro that automates division of jobs in the compilation process based on number of CPUs. Just remove the % from the %make line and everything should be much better. Don't do this :) Upgrade RPM. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Public Keys in Signatures (was: Ulysses beta 2)

2000-09-18 Thread Anton Graham
he message is transformed into an attachment to a blank body. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs Kee

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate

2000-09-12 Thread Anton Graham
upgrading to a newer version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton Keep

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate

2000-09-12 Thread Anton Graham
-23mdk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -- Somerset Maugham Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-11 Thread Anton Graham
of sharing interrupts and some newer drive controllers being able to do the same. Even serial boards have made tremendous advances in this regard, but the architecture is limited by its roots. As the ISA bus get phased out this will become less of an issue. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-10 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 09-Sep-00 by Stephen Bosch: 2.2.17 isn't an official kernel patch (i.e., it's a Mandrake patch I'm afraid you are mistaken. 2.2.17 *is* official. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-09 Thread Anton Graham
). 2 GB represents a 31 bit number :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natural to man to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."

Re: [expert] 2.2.17 Kernel - Automount Feature Missing

2000-09-09 Thread Anton Graham
ilable at kernel.org and its mirrors, but a patch. Also, unless you have hacked your initscripts, building supermount into the kernel (as opposed to building as a module) kills supermount at boot time. I run a 2.2.17 pre kernel and haven't seen the config problems you describ

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 07-Sep-00 by Ellick Chan: 32-bit OS's typically have a 2 gb file size limit(2^31 why is it missing 1 bit?), ext2 has that as well as Reiserfs currently. Because it's a signed long. Setting the 32nd bit would make it a negative number. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
Do you have other serial ports in the machine and might another of them be /dev/ttyS0? What does "dmesg | grep ttyS" show? -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "It is as natura

Re: [expert] Modem Busy? IRQ conflict?

2000-09-08 Thread Anton Graham
Q 9? I've had to do that with an internal modem when 5 wasn't available (jumperless soundcard took it). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There is nothing wrong with writing ... as long as it is done in priva

Re: [expert] multiple logons

2000-09-07 Thread Anton Graham
as /dev/pts/?). xterm and konsole apparently do not handle things in a sufficiently similar manner for this to catch them (no pty). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request There are three rules for writing

Re: [expert] Insanely Large IDE disk Mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread Anton Graham
thout having to boot linux, edit a config file, reinstall the loader, then reboot again just so I could play a game of Tomb Raider :) (OT: If dosemu were 32-bit clean, I might even be able to try playing my old games in Linux :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-05 Thread Anton Graham
to Earthlink (on an old Mindspring POP) sent her troubles away. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Authors (and perhaps columnists) eventually rise to the top of whatever depths they were once able to plumb

Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-05 Thread Anton Graham
is in danger of bankrupcy. I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop updating the drivers. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "First things first -- but not necess

Re: Re [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-09-04 Thread Anton Graham
client automagically detects the authentication protocol in use. But at least you now know why they were hanging up on you :) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have

Re: [expert] Auto-menu editor

2000-09-04 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Leopold Palomo: someone knows some graphical app to edit the menu? MenuDrake (from cooker) or how to do it? Umm.. It's fairly well documented in /usr/doc/menu-{version}, or even just look at some of the entries in /usr/lib/menu to see how it works. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
. a dialup without a lan, you can do: /sbin/ifconfig | grep addr | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2'}' | awk -F: '{print $2}' (That should be all one line.) HTH -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
D. As far as detection goes, most internal modems that are supported do not use the irq's that linux automatically assigns to them (3 and 4). As a result, you need to determine this information, and put it into your configuration file. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Internal Modem

2000-09-01 Thread Anton Graham
device when kudzu does it's little detection thing when levels 2-5 start. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Anton Graham
detection, loading of modules from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, starting RAID devices, and execution of the mandrake_everytime script. So yes, there is quite a lot of difference between the two ideas. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key

Re: [expert] Mounting cdroms and floppies in LM7.1

2000-08-30 Thread Anton Graham
=/dev/cdrom,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salv

Re: [expert] Converting Partition Types

2000-08-30 Thread Anton Graham
to abandon linux ran into difficulty removing the linux partitions from Windows (fdisk knew the extended wasn't empty and wouldn't allow removal, but couldn't see the partition in it to remove them). -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] Copying data to another HD

2000-08-28 Thread Anton Graham
to another hd, when the destination is a different size than the original? It has been my experience that cpio works wonderfully: find / -print | cpio -p --preserve-modification-time --make-directories --dot \ /mnt/newdisk -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] pppd dying unexpectedly

2000-08-28 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 28-Aug-00 by Stephen Bosch: And again -- that SIGHUP is damn peculiar -- who is sending it? I suspect that that is modem generated. Every modem i have ever owned generates a SIGHUP when the other end hangs up on it. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541

Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
f you know of such a thing, let me know; quickly! Sorry :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.

Re: [expert] Mandrake + Xfree 4.01 Problem!!!

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
are satisfied only by checking the RPM database. If you have XF 4.01 and RPM thinks you have XF 4, then you won't be able to install packages that specifically require XF 4.01. Yes, I have tried it, I have been running XF 4.01 practically since it became available. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] Can Not connect DHCPCD failed Mandrake 7.1

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
have to download them.) -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!" huff, huff

Re: [expert] Supermount_Put_Write_Access --- Problem!!!

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
/etc/fstab. There may be a partition being supermounted or something equally silly. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels

Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card

2000-08-27 Thread Anton Graham
nd-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias sound snd-card-0 -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned thing

Re: [expert] ESS 1868 sound card

2000-08-26 Thread Anton Graham
ition to the generic ALSA options for OSS compatibility and such: alias snd-card-0 snd-card-es18xx options snd-card-es18xx snd_index=0 snd_id="ES18XX" This allows for a consistent config across several machines which have the card cofigured differently (typically differen

Re: [expert] supermount not working for floppy

2000-08-25 Thread Anton Graham
v/fd0, you will generate several warning/error messages because the device is incompatible with the disk format. And, if you're using supermount on that device, those errors will be followed by a kernel panic. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Fw: Startx - (was Configuring X in LM 7.1)

2000-08-24 Thread Anton Graham
d it is one of those that is broken is some way. You aren't getting far enough for it to be an X problem :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Authors are easy to get on with -- if you're fond of children.

Re: [expert] Desktop Icons In Gnome

2000-08-24 Thread Anton Graham
to multi-color icons? Known (and frequent) problem. delete the file ~/.gnome/metadata.db and restart gnome. It will regenerate a useable version. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Perhaps no person can

Re: [expert] Auto-Menu's in Mandrake

2000-08-24 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 24-Aug-00 by Henry Stanaland: Does someone know how to turn off those #$@* auto-menu's in Mandrake? I am surprised nobody else ever mentions this. But whenever I install an RPM it returns my system KDE menu to some default. rpm -e menu -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
.rpm kdegraphics-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-1.93-2mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-1.92-15mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-1.93-1mdk.i586.rpm -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
problems building the latest kdetoys. It's better to not release it than release it in an unusable state. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human

Re: [expert] kde2 rpm's

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
o /usr/bin instead of /opt/kde2/bin, so it would require some tweaking and perseverance on your part. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you fr

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N: Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon. But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK ).. Know problem. Chris has said to use --force on it. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Chmouel Boudjnah: and i'm sure Chris would never want to violate the FHS (and if he don't care i'm sure some others mdksoft developers care about this ;). Well I wasn't going to mention that part :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL

Re: [expert] g++ can't find iostream.h!

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
3 to the g++ command line should work. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -- Flaubert

Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
or 2 GB max physical memory. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls out a sword I'd like to see you get up there with your Bic.

Re: [expert] Memory above 1GB

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
.. the initial screen dosn't show the right amount detected! That number comes from the linux_logo program. Please contact the author of said program ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to see about a fix. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available

Re: [expert] modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-00

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
to run dos programs, WINE to run Windows binaries, or a Java VM to run java applications. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request Death comes on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower; Each season h

Re: [expert] wishing for a second machine

2000-08-21 Thread Anton Graham
ughty@spammer\\.com" :0 ^From:.*($PITAs) /dev/null -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem - No boot possible

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
as the failure should be a bit prior to the swapon call. That being the case, possibly the mount program looked at fstab saw two entries for hdc7 and didn't know what to do. Perhaps it was trying to mount the swap as /, which would obviously produce a system freeze when the mount failed. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] 32MB Mdk 7.1 systems?

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
configuration and much lighter than any GNOME/KDE stuff. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request "Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin." -- Michael O'Donohugh

Re: [expert] wishing for a second machine

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
seen some of this as the docs and info/man pages have moved. It will be important to upgrade your man and info packages (they may also make them available in the updates directory after 7.2 final) in order to have compatibility between your 7.0x system and new packages. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] telnet/ssh problems

2000-08-20 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 20-Aug-00 by Peter M Aarestad: Any other config files I should check? Okay, this is probably "too obvious", but what does /etc/hosts.deny say? It sounds like you have the machine locked down to refuse all connections. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID:

Re: [expert] Unable to mount root filesystem - No boot possible

2000-08-19 Thread Anton Graham
forgotten? Hmm... LILO is booting the correct partition as root, or you would get no init found. So, fstab must not be correct. Double check that it's mount point for / matches what lilo thinks the root is. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED

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