Re: [expert] mdk8.2 with japanese user

2002-05-31 Thread Chris Spackman
for it to start properly (running the cc from a different window manager, i assume). on the bright side, at least mandrake's ghostscript can finally handle japanese. -- Chris Spackman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-07 Thread Chris Spackman
) -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] i18n and KDE problem on Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-19 Thread Chris Spackman
changed /etc/menu-methods/lang.h to make lang() and languages() return en_US only. Now, running locale shows the following: [snip] Quick thought, and perhaps obvious, but have you tried either running localedrake or changing the language settings in the kde control panel? -- Chris Spackman

Re: [expert] Help with USB Camera/gphoto/mass storage problem in Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
camera is /dev/sda1. The fstab entry looks like this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 so, mount /mnt/camera cp /mnt/camera/blah/*jpg ./ is all you need. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want

Re: [expert] Help with USB Camera/gphoto/mass storage problem in Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Spackman
deleting them. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] multi-user, multi-lingual??

2002-04-16 Thread Chris Spackman
overriding the mandrake one? good question. i do not know. i am using gnus and the reply-to is set in the .emacs or .gnus file. shouldn't be a problem, but maybe it is? I changed it manually this time (to point to the list). did it work okay? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E

[expert] multi-user, multi-lingual??

2002-04-15 Thread Chris Spackman
is not a problem. But when the main i18n file is set to english and the ~/.i18n file is for japanese, kde will not load, it just crashes back to the gui log-in screen. Any ideas? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Photo Printing

2002-01-31 Thread Chris Spackman
Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know the printer works. I just need a graphics package that will allow me to print photos. Maybe this isn't what you are looking for, but . . . xpp knows how to print jpg files (don't know about tif's). have you tried that? -- Chris Spackman gpg

Re: [expert] Package for Printting Unicode document

2002-01-26 Thread Chris Spackman
up and tell you so. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] floppy access in 8.1

2002-01-25 Thread Chris Spackman
ext2 user,sync,exec,noauto 0 0 BUT this is just a guess. hopefully someone can confirm this one way or the other. Maybe, if you want to use both fat and ext2, a filesystem type of `auto' instead of `ext2' would work? the mount man page has some info on that. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Spackman
be willing to help a bit with getting Japanese mandrake going, let me know if you want some help on the howto. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-17 Thread Chris Spackman
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They have control centre etc in english and japanese, seems to change the setup when i log out of kde after chainging, rather fancy eh? Well, it is a good start at least. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
as entralled with MS as the States are. I could probably get my office to try Mandrake if it was in Japanese. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
release. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (Way OT) Quake 3

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
free for all, team deathmatch, tourneyment, and capture the flag. that isn't the case with the game you have? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Japanese input in KDE

2002-01-16 Thread Chris Spackman
for the open source community. Unless you really don't like Red Hat I would suggest them before TurboLinux. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] X Login Manager

2002-01-06 Thread Chris Spackman
and not a graphical login manager from level 5, but should it really make a difference? Does `DESKTOP=' include the meaning `and use the associated gui login manager'? -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] X lockup with audio CDs

2001-11-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:00:50PM +, Nick Thompson wrote: Hi, In LM8.1 w/standard KDE2.2.1: If I play an audio CD in my CD-RW drive with the KDE cd player (not tried other players), then I get a few messages in /var/log/messages saying something like /dev/sr0 not ready please

Re: [expert] Sony usb Camera

2001-11-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:27:37PM +1100, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi people, I am haveing some problems setting up my Sony dsc-s70 digital camera ,I have read a couple of articles informing me that I should use usb-storage mod which I have . So I opened Hard Drake and saw it listed under Disks

Re: [expert] CD writer non-root access

2001-11-15 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:07:21PM +1030, Aristotle wrote: Hi, I can only access the CD writer if I run Gcombust from root - does anyone know of a work around? I am running Mandrake 8.1 Try adding yourself (your user id) to the cdwriter group. logout, log back in, and you should be good

Re: [expert] ide-scsi question

2001-11-15 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:44:45AM +1100, Darren King wrote: The problem was that I added hdc=ide-scsi to an existing append line in lilo.conf, it already said append=quiet so I just added a comma and then hdc=ide-scsi. Guess it didn't like that. I added hdc=ide-scsi as the only append item

Re: [expert] Nvidia on Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-05 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:35:11PM +1030, Aristotle wrote: Hi people, I have installed the Nvidia drivers as per the instructions on the Mandrakeruser.org web site, yet the X server crashes when I attempt to run an accelerated application and the X log tells me something about not being

Re: [expert] RE: [Expert] How to fix an X lockup

2001-07-02 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:45:09AM -0600, Praedor S. Tempus wrote: I will try the Alt-SysRq-K option and/or the Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-B combos next time but... I am not certain that even this will do anything since when Terminus goes down, it appears that keyboard and mouse input are no longer

Re: [expert] log: auditin

2001-06-25 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:43:21PM -0500, Craig Woods wrote: Chris Spackman wrote: Hi, every day i get something like this in my logs (and right on the terminal as well). I think it is someone trying to connect, but then shouldn't portsentry catch it and block it? [snip] Chris

[expert] log: auditin

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Spackman
Hi, every day i get something like this in my logs (and right on the terminal as well). I think it is someone trying to connect, but then shouldn't portsentry catch it and block it? Jun 25 08:03:12 musashi kernel: auditIN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:90:XX:03:f7:96:00:05:XX:52:58:1c:08:00

Re: [expert] Installing NVidia drivers in Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-12 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:48:35AM -0500, Sergio P.Korlowsky wrote: [some good advice snipped] And I am using the latest NVidia drivers, NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1251.tar.gz NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1251.tar.gz Wish you luck! Sergio Korlowsky or get the src package and rebuild it the install

Re: [expert] Fwd: [newbie] Linux compatible vid cards

2001-06-08 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:16:24PM -0700, John wrote: Excuse the forward the mail got bonced! Does anyone have a recommendation for a video that will work in Linux that is not Nvidia based. I have a geforce 2 mx 32MB right now that likely will be going back to Best Buy as I cannot

Re: [expert] grip in Mandrake 8.0

2001-06-03 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 06:35:50PM -0500, Paul Cox wrote: I beleive it's because of patent issues with the .mp3 format. I think mp3 encoders are supposed to pay a 'usage fee' to the patent holders for using it, and obviously lame and bladeenc don't do that. =) It's a grey area legally.

Re: [expert] Nedit commands keys problems

2001-05-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:25:57AM -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: I was using gEdit, but switched to nEdit because it has more features. The only thing I really don't like about nEdit is that the editing window is always white. In gEdit you can change the window color. Actually, there are command

Re: [expert] Delete vs. Shred

2001-04-14 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:20:41PM -0400, Eric Krout wrote: What's the difference? Can 'delete'd files still be recoverable by experts, but 'shred'ed ones cannot? Thanks, Eric Well, they say that the only way to be 100% certain is to steamroller the disk, but I think its safe to say that

Re: [expert] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!

2001-04-07 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +, Benjamin Sher wrote: That's why I didn't even bother to test their KDE 2.1.1 before making my announcement. Furthermore, while their Mozilla 0.8 (based on the Feb. 17, 2001 version) installs and works perfectly (except for Mozilla's fonts bug in

Re: [expert] Editing GUI log-in dialog

2001-04-04 Thread Chris Spackman
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:00:47PM +1000, Phil wrote: Hello all, I want to edit the users that appear in the GUI log-in dialog, the one that's headed "Welcome on Localhost". I've seen a menu item that allowed the dialog to be edited but I can't find it now. Can someone refresh my

Re: [expert] problem running sound as non-root user?

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 06:56:54PM -0400, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: this is driving me nuts. for reasons not relevant here, i have done a reinstall of 7.2 4 times in the last 24 hours. some of the time, as a non-root user, i can play mp3's. the rest of the time (using the mpg123

Re: [expert] any opinions on SBlive Platinum?

2001-03-25 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 02:36:55PM -0600, Chubby Vic wrote: Hello. I am considering upgrading my sound card from AWE64 ISA to the SBLive Platinum. Does the wavetable midi still sound as good (or better) than the old awe64 or does it even use the same kind of synth? I should have

[expert] licq security update

2001-03-21 Thread Chris Spackman
I just updated licq to the packages mentioned in the security notice. Now licq -p qt_gui won't work. First it said: 18:41:20: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt_gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt_gui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. looks like someone named it licq_qt-gui.so

Re: [expert] Cron error

2001-03-07 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:11:47AM -0800, Expert User wrote: Ever since I have installed LM 7.2 I'm getting this mail to root with subject: Cron root@localhost run-parts /etc/cron.daily (sent by cron Daemon) -- Contents of mail - DB2

Re: [expert] syslog playing up

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:59:49PM +, Tom Strickland wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:06:49PM +0100, Matthias Grund wrote: Another problem: Recently the computer started freezing at startup unless I did the following: 1) start as single user 2) start syslog: #

Re: [expert] cd-rw install help

2001-03-03 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:02:20PM +, Larry Marshall wrote: Vic wrote: Why did cdrecord screw up a cd that I tried to make and xcdroast did not? You got lucky? I haven't looked closely at xcdroast but all of the GUI cdburner programs I've looked at use cdrecord to do the real

Re: [expert] cd-rw install help

2001-03-02 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:50:20AM +, KompuKit wrote: someone PLEASE help me..get my HP 9150i cd-rw to function correctly...I have scsi emulation I can access , mount , and use it regularly... but...when I bringup x-cd-roast it can't find it...or set it up...it says something about

Re: [expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help

2001-02-24 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:53:23PM -0500, A V Flinsch wrote: On Friday 23 February 2001 13:26, you wrote: Dear friends: [original request snipped] Would very much appreciate your help. Benjamin you need to load the following modules (note you may need usb-ohci instead of

Re: [expert] USB Zip on LM72 -- Please help

2001-02-24 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 07:41:04AM -0500, A V Flinsch wrote: On Saturday 24 February 2001 05:55, you wrote: [snipped] use fdisk to delete partition 4, then mkfs to create a new file system -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) Thanks again. I

Re: [expert] firewall

2001-02-10 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:41:53PM -0800, Michael O'Henly wrote: I'll second the suggestion of pmfirewall. It's very easy to set up and does exactly what it's supposed to do. [snip] -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design I would suggest using portsentry in addition to something like

Re: [expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:04:30AM -0500, Matthew Micene wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2001 03:13 am, you wrote: the deny line looks a little like this: [snip] input DENY eth0 PROTO=17 127.0.0.1:2301 255.255.255.255:2301 [snip] (#32) Is it possible that someone on the network is actually

Re: [expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Spackman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:06:37AM -0500, Pierre Fortin wrote: Chris Spackman wrote: [snip] Is it possible that someone on the network is actually broadcasting to everyone their attempt to connect to localhost? What is this? Could it be coming from my box? The loopback address

[expert] DENY 127.0.0.1 in logs??

2001-02-07 Thread Chris Spackman
Ok, this one is interesting, I think. I have a cable modem, which is connected to a local (172.x.x.x) net and masqueraded on the internet. (I think that is how it works). Anyhow, some idiots on this internal net have services broadcasting to everyone and so are constantly filling my logs with

Re: [expert] Article about Mandrakesoft's new direction

2001-02-06 Thread Chris Spackman
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:10:48AM -0500, philomena wrote: I have an SBLive! card, and had no problem with SuSe and sound in 6.4 and 7.0. I would download the current emu10k driver (not a patch, the actual driver)from creative, compile, and sound was beautiful. On the other hand, until

Re: [expert] OpenGL doesn't work on my Matrox G200

2001-02-06 Thread Chris Spackman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:10:49AM +0100, Joseph Markham wrote: Dear Friends I've got a Matrox G200 8Mb AGP video card on my PC with LM 7.2 installed. When I try to run an openGL games such as Quake, the game starts but crashes soon after. I've tried Xfree 3.3.6 and Xfree 4.0 as a server

Re: [expert] I am not asked which CD's I have in 7.2 with expertinstallation!

2001-02-04 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 05:38:50PM +0100, Alen Salamun wrote: Hi! I didn't, and I installed expert installation over 10 times now. Always the same. Like I have "jed" selected, but the package is not installed (since it is on CD 2) and I am never asked for CD 2! Bye, Alen I have only

[expert] changes to suid root files

2001-01-21 Thread Chris Spackman
Anyone know why the following files would occasionally show up in the security check as "removed suid root file" and "added suid root file"? /usr/X11R6/bin/xman /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock /usr/bin/Wnn4/jserver They also (today at least) show up with different checksums. I have had this happen maybe 5

Re: [expert] changes to suid root files

2001-01-21 Thread Chris Spackman
Sorry, I should have mentioned in my original post that I checked the md5sums from /var/log/security/suid_md5sum.today and .yesterday against the the entries in a list of md5sums that I made just after installing the system and ALL are identical. But they were reported as having changed. --

Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:14:00PM -0600, Joseph Red wrote: If your power supply fan is not working it can cause a spontaneous reboot. I know that's true for ATX, and suspect it's true for AT style psu. Quick check, stick your hand in front of the fan, if it's blowing warm air it's

[expert] using japanese language

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Spackman
Has there been any discussion on this list about the inputting Japanese text with LM 7.x? With 7.1, the jserver wouldn't shut down properly, it had to be killed. With my current 7.2 setup, jserver starts up and shuts down ok (at least with the "service" command) but I am having trouble using

Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:54:51PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: Check the cpu fan/heat sink for dirt - quite a common cause of reboots, particularly with K6 chips in my experiance. Also make sure the box is well ventilated - one of my machines reboots if the room temperature goes over 28

Re: [expert] glibc and reboot (con't)

2001-01-20 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:25:18AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes. Try compiling a kernel, if it errors out in different places, your problem is hardware. Try 'cpuburn', if you get reboots/errors, it's hardware. Otherwise boot your install CD and choose upgrade to fix unknown problems

[expert] glibc upgrades and accidental reboot

2001-01-19 Thread Chris Spackman
Here's an enjoyable one: I was upgrading the glibc packages today when I accidently hit the reboot button (stupid, but many accidents are). Just as glibc-profile-whatever was finishing. glibc-whatever-version was already done, as was glibc-devel-whatever, but as I said, glibc-profile was in the

Re: [expert] glibc upgrades and accidental reboot

2001-01-19 Thread Chris Spackman
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:16:17AM -0500, D. Stark - eSN wrote: I'd try using the --force. Like, wow. I made a funny. Seriously, though, maybe --force the new one in. It sounds like the rpm database took a little hosing. Derek Stark IT / Linux Admin eSupportNow xt 8952 thanks, but no

[expert] glibc and reboot (con't)

2001-01-19 Thread Chris Spackman
I wrote earlier about an accidental reboot while upgrading glibc. Someone suggested using --force. Good idea, but didn't work. Someone else suggested trying to --rebuilddb, which I proceeded to try. My machine rebooted during the rebuild. This time I am absolutely certain that no one touched the

Re: [expert] webmin

2001-01-13 Thread Chris Spackman
) --- http was running webmin was running and i think everything was fine.. i have using mandrake for a long time some example for 7.1 i\'ve no problem. # Linuxconf network access was enable also try https: instead of http: and see if it works. -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-13 Thread Chris Spackman
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:09:22PM -0600, duane voth wrote: Chris Spackman wrote: Likewise, lsof /dev/dsp showed nothing - literally, no results at all. So /dev/dsp is not being used at the times when you run lsof manually. I am beginning to think this must be an mpg123 problem

Re: [expert] Konsole Problem

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Spackman
session will not be saved in bash history. Using "exit" saves everything. -- Chris Spackman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] mpg123 device still busy

2001-01-12 Thread Chris Spackman
- ../proc/asound/dev/ but with the last two in white letters with flashing red background, which I believe means that they don't exist, or at least the proc/asound/dev doesn't). Could this have any relevence to the mpg123 problem? Or does it simply not exist because nothing is currently using it?) -- Chris Spack