[expert] Second X with different xf86config.

2003-11-12 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. I'm trying to run a second X session ( :1 ) with a different configuration and resolution from the first one. As TFM says, in order to do it i have to use a second XF86Config file and call xinit like, assuming my second config file is called '/etc/X11/secondconfig' : xinit [command] --

Re: [expert] Second X with different xf86config.

2003-11-12 Thread Damian Gatabria
And how hould i call that from the command line? Anyway, thanks, i've already found a solution: xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :1 -- -xf86config XF86Config-4- :1 the problem was that i was missing the -display :1 for the xterm, which meant xterm was reading the $DISPLAY variable, and thus

Re: [expert] iptables and msn messenger

2003-11-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
Don't know what port should be open, but you could find out by using some -j LOG rules and checking out what port is it that the other side tries to reach... El dom, 09-11-2003 a las 23:57, Leonardo Sá escribió: I'm currently running a server who shares a adsl connection (masquerade nat)

Re: [expert] Cant Delete File

2003-09-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 29-09-2003 a las 15:24, Ronald J. Hall escribió: On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. Jack Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your undeletable file but I sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory.

RE: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-31 Thread Damian Gatabria
El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 19:49, Frankie escribió: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Password Question El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-31 Thread Damian Gatabria
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] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Saturday

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any windoz password. Can any linux distro password for root or any other user be reset. Say if you forgot it?

Re: [expert] Password Question

2003-08-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
El sáb, 30-08-2003 a las 18:24, Jack Coates escribió: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:44, Damian Gatabria wrote: El mié, 20-08-2003 a las 16:55, Bryan Phinney escribió: On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10:24 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Okay So I just read an article that said mandrake 9.1 can reset any

Re: [expert] IPTABLES

2003-08-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mié, 13-08-2003 a las 05:07, Thomas Gamble escribió: I have been trying to get iptables set up on my gateway machine, but it isn't working like I think it should. I have the following entry in the rc.firewall script to block incoming SYN packets: EXT_IF=ppp0 IPTABLES=//sbin/iptables

Re: [expert] does Mdk's php support mysql?

2003-08-04 Thread Damian Gatabria
El lun, 04-08-2003 a las 02:45, Vincent Danen escribió: On Mon Aug 04, 2003 at 01:52:16AM -0300, Damian Gatabria wrote: I'm trying to learn some php/mysql and i've came across this error message whenever i try to load a one-line php file that connects to a local mysql database: Fatal

Re: [expert] help!!!

2003-07-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mi? 09-07-2003 a las 13:29, pro8613 escribió: hello i have a ADSL USB MODEM ALE 130 and i don't now how install the modem maiby i need a driver if have this driver please send me help me please!!! Sorry, but most of the times USB ADSL modems need special proprietary drivers which are

Re: [expert] Block MSN Messenger

2003-06-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 26 de 06 de 2003 a las 18:48, Carlos Delzo escribió: Anyone know block the MSN Messenger with Squid or Bastille? Thanks, Carlos Delzo Networking Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doerun.com.pe why not block all connections going to messenger.microsoft.com? ..might

Re: [expert]

2003-06-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do gain access to my CD-rom drive? PS .. look inside /mnt then, follow the lights. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 14 June 2003 01:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 07:51 pm, Lorne wrote: I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything to soup

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 14 June 2003 13:06, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 10:27 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: OK, so i'm pretty much convinced it's not a bad drive.. you probably already tried, but did you fsck / ? (the one at boot doesn't count as AFAIK it's run with certain parameters

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Damian Gatabria
I wonder if it is a bad hard drive, and or controller. No errors during install? For it to die like that it just seems/smells hardware based. Are you running hdparm and doing anything to soup up to UDMA or anything? What about when you install. regular or expert install? Do you click the

Re: [expert] Re: KDE 3.1.2 impressions?

2003-05-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 19:24, Robert Crawford wrote: I've been struggling with Texstar's 3.1.2 for a week, and have Umm.. i've been trying to get 3.1.2 for about four days now.. Is it just me/my connection/location or is ibiblio SEVERELY busy? i'm getting speeds ranging from 0.8 KB/s to

Re: [expert] Say Y to RTC..?

2003-04-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:52, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:09, Damian Gatabria wrote: Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems

Re: [expert] GnomeMeeting video source

2003-04-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:06, Anne Wilson wrote: I want to set up GnomeMeeting, but have a problem with the video source. I have the choice of /dev/video0 and /dev/video1, with not possibility of entering another source so far as I can see. My camera is /dev/sdb, so I presume that I

[expert] Say Y to RTC..?

2003-04-04 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi.. i'm trying to get to build kernel-multimedia-source from the contribs.. just thought i'd add the extra bit of machine-specific optimisation.. but i'm having problems with it. If i just go straight ahead and type make modules (yes, i've done mrproper first) i get a compilation error

Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format.

2003-04-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:46, Frankie wrote: its not in xls format... its currently csv, and as far as I know, having a perl script create xls format data would be quiet hard.. Is saving as HTML not an option? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 24 de March 2003 03:11, eric huff wrote: Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data amongst youselves, but too

Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
There are also USB adaptors for IDE drives. They are like a case inside of which you put and connect your IDE drive (a CD burner, any HD...) and it plugs to the PC thru USB ports. It's a little big, especially if you need to carry it around, but it's unbeatable in many aspects... hot

Re: [expert] how to install kylix3 in the MDK 9 ?

2003-03-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 08 de March 2003 00:00, Emerson de Mello wrote: Hi All, A long time ago I asked if it was possible to install the Kylix3 in the MDK 9. Well, I tried but I had a problem. The following message of error was shown: Error Code: -10 And my RPM DB was corrupted. I saw that the

Re: [expert] Question on KDE

2003-03-01 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: All, I've suddenly lost kde It won't start anything and the only error I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm ...everything

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
This is like saying that Linux is faster than Windows because Bluefish loads faster than DreamWeaver. Put OOo on windows and do that comparison. I am not saying windows is faster than Linux. I'm saying MS Office is faster then OpenOffice and, yes, the Windows version of OO behaves pretty

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
One full minute? Are you sure you're not exaggerating a little bit? I don't use OO but use Staroffice now and again and it is slow but it certainly doesn't take a minute. I haven't timed it yet but I would be suprised if it actually took more than 20 to 30 seconds tops. My system:

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
That's strange, I have just the opposite experience. Agreeing with you that 7.2 was an exceptionally good release (and can hardly wait for 9.2 - it's the odd numbers I bet) I found that 8.2 and higher gave much better performance on low end P166's. AFAIK this was mostly due to Xfree4.2 on

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
ehhh, no mater what, or so I have heard, win 9x to win me will NOT boot with more than 512 megs ram. I can say that for sure with winME. it is really the way the ram is used, as far as I know, that makes the differences, that and the way it is tested by the kernal developers to decide what

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest achievable equivalent. Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i can disagree with you or even judge your knowledge... you are

Re: [expert] Kylix 3 vs. MDK9

2003-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 25 de February 2003 23:43, Emerson de Mello wrote: Hello All, I have a little and simple question. I'd like to know if the Kylix 3 works with MDK 9. Thanks, Emerson BRAZIL Yup. Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
In any case, the harddrive is new, the system memory is sound, the CPU is sound, the video card is sound (NVidia Ti4200). And what about the sound card? Any sound in there? Sorry, i know, stupid joke, you will probably want to beat me up for this, but i could not resist. Want to

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
Sorry for coming in late. I seem to be able to mount /mnt/cdrom2 without a cd being in the drive... Yes. once you have enabled supermount in the fstab, you have to call mount /mnt/cdrom2 to actually activate it. And from the moment that's done, it all seems to work... if I insert a cd,

Re: [expert] supermount

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
That fits with my experience. Also, if you panic and umount it from c/l you tend to upset it. Closing all, as you say, usually does it. One variatioon on your experience is that it may open and immediately close before you could possibly remove the disk. It then automatically mounts the

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-03 Thread Damian Gatabria
it doesn't work for me :( i put those lines at the end of my already-existing ~/.Xdefaults, logged out and logged back into kde. but i don't get anything other than the usual dull black cursor with a white outline. using kde3.0.3, mdk9, xfree 4.2.1. what could be wrong? i desparately want a

Re: [expert] Best Mandrake yet!!!

2003-02-01 Thread Damian Gatabria
Only thing I'm left wondering is what happened to the cute little mouse arrow that previously had a shadow and was much softer in appearance. Now it appears as the regular old dull cursor arrow. Whats up with that? :) I may be wrong, but AFAIK the pretty cursor was reported as a bug because

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?(OFF LIST)

2003-01-30 Thread Damian Gatabria
..OH! That guy is going to kill his neighbour! Quick! Let's nuke them both right off the face of the earth! Whew, what an accurate characterization of current events. Stop being a damn idiot. I'll stop being a damn idiot, sir, when you stop making arguable statements and insulting

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
Except when it comes to people that are not here, like the President of the United States. Better to talk in insults about people when they can't respond or see your emails directly, eh? ...Is Bush your uncle or something? -- -- I don't want Windows to

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
For the same reason however, I feel strongly that many people would die needlessly by the hands of dictators and terrorist regimes if the US did retract, similar to the deaths of those that have occurred already under ..OH! That guy is going to kill his neighbour! Quick! Let's nuke them both

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 18:56, Robert Goshko wrote: New flick, coming to a theatre of war soon: The Bush Administration In Association With The Other Bush Administration Presents Gulf Wars__ E P I S O D E I I Clone Of The Attack See the

Re: [expert] MandrakeSoft back to daily business

2003-01-28 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:13, Jim C wrote: Uh... FUD? What's FUD? Support by contradicting any Red Hat FUD http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9267/fuddef.html Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-28 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 03:49, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a future for MandrakeSoft. Hard to see.. the future is. Always in motion it is impossible to see. After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all

Re: [expert] OT Will there be a tomorrow?

2003-01-28 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 05:44, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:49, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Sorry to bother you, but we were discussing whether there will be a future for MandrakeSoft. After tonight I wonder whether there will be a future for us all and the world as we

Re: [expert] 9.1b2 observation/opinioin

2003-01-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
I think 9.1b2 is looking good :) I think the default looks of kde3.1 (that's pretty much what 9.1 is going to ship with, right? I've got KDE3.1 RC5 here and it looks really close to Mandrake9.1b2 screenshots i've seen) are a bit too bright for my taste, but hey, if it was my call, there would

Re: [expert] friggin test message

2003-01-18 Thread Damian Gatabria
Damian, some of us (ME) don't like to be accussed of thinking (my landlord forbids it as it makes the smoke alarms go off all over the neighborhood, and the smell is awefull) so just watch what you accuse me off... OK? grin OOps! Sorry et, Let's hope he doesn't find out. :o) Damian Want

Re: [expert] friggin test message

2003-01-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Friday 17 January 2003 03:10, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Mark; That made it! But, the list has been really quiet! It's not you! shhh!!! Be quiet! We're thinking! :oP Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:43, James Sparenberg wrote: Damian, Took a look at mine... Yep you are right on a number of font types I've found that below 8 (or even at 8) I get nothing... Times was the only one that went smaller. I suspect but I'm not sure that is because these fonts

Re: [expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
Is anybody at Cooker sure that OO is working fine for small fonts? Would you please check? please ignore this last part. I just made a post to cooker myself about it. bye Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Making OpenOffice StarOffice (or other app) launch faster

2003-01-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 19:03, Brent Hasty wrote: I have multiple useres on my MDK 9 Terminal Server, running on thin clients. I was wondering if there were a way to precash specific apps on say a ram disk or other suitable method to improve the launch time of common and often used apps

Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?

2003-01-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
bankruptcy PROTECTION != bankrupt you mean bankrupcy protection! = bankrupt right? really, it is possible that not all of the readers on this list are C programmers.. when trying to state something meant to be obvious, please do not save yourself from the hassle to type is different from

[expert] rebuilding OO....

2003-01-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. Some time ago i had the problem with fonts dissapearing from OO. I applied the usual workaround, and i can use it now, however my OO installation is unable to render text of size smaller than 8. Does anybody know if rebuilding the src.rpm for OO from Cooker will get rid of this problem

Re: [expert] There will be a good Mandrake Future?¡

2003-01-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
Actually, just plain math will do...at least here in Mexico we get to learn that != moans is different from when in 9th or 10th grade. Vox Well, make it just plain mexican math will do then :o) Over here, we are taught that is different from is symbolized with a striked-out =

Re: [expert] LICQ not working

2003-01-13 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:41, Ken Thompson wrote: The subject sez it all. Both 9.0 and 9.1b1 will not let LICQ or LICQ(kde) load and run.. Different systems entirely, funny thing is, it works on my buddy's system with no trouble. Also, it works on my Pentium II 400. It worked OK from 8.0

Re: [expert] LICQ not working

2003-01-13 Thread Damian Gatabria
== [ken@spooky ken]$ licq 20:43:59: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 5754) fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor fcntl: Bad file descriptor

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta screenshots please?

2003-01-12 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:30, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 22:23, Azrael wrote: You can send me 'big massive ultra fat yummy-licious oh my god that image won't even fit onto a DVD.. and I haven't even got a dvd-burner' sized pics ;) OK, gimme some time to take a

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied. -SOLVED

2002-12-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
I can't think of what else, except to look around at www.linuxprinting.org or www.groups.google.com. FWIW, here is what was, for me, the problematic tail of cupsd.conf, as is now working: Thanks for the example. i was adding the configuration lines in the wrong group ... That CUPS manual did

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused this is an initscripts security update, which was fixed by a subsequent update. Some people had problems that were fixed by a new foomatic. These are the current versions where CUPS works for me:

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 15 Dic 2002 21:25, James Sparenberg escribió: On the installs I've done. 7 boxes supermount works fine, on my laptop only am I having trouble. Seems that the supermount problems are related to hardware, not a generality (BTW the other boxes I've put it on don't have

[expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi. Does anybody know which file permissions i need to change so CUPS let's me change my printer settings? Currently i cannot do it (permission denied even as root) Thanks much. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] xfs_support.

2002-12-06 Thread Damian Gatabria
Modify mkinitrd not to look for xfs_support (and keep the old one around i wasn't aware about mkinitrd being a bash script! i just commented out the lines about xfs_support and xfs_dmapi in case you want to switch to an older kernel that needs it). DISCLAIMER: I didn't try 2.5.x, but 2.4.20

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Vie 29 Nov 2002 14:33, Tommy Wareing escribió: On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: IMHO it may be a lack of available space in /tmp which makes the tar-process stop at 2G. It's a kernel/file system limit. ?? current filesystems (and kernel) file size

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 30 Nov 2002 03:37, KevinO escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Gatabria wrote: current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. Not anymore, and not for some time. I have a 27 GB tar file on an ext3 filesystem on a Mandrake 8.0 system

Re: [expert] processes not stopping, but eating 100% cpu time

2002-08-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 20:50:28 + Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:00, en Joan Tur va escriure: Es Dimarts 20 Agost 2002 15:42, en Holger Schurig va escriure: Open a console, su to root, start mc... and then kill the console without having shut down mc.

Re: [expert] DMA problem

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 09 Mar 2002 15:07, escribió: Hello everibody, I get a problem with DMA and Mandrake 8.1 dmesg show: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0:hdc: timeout waiting for DMA hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } I believe that is a commom error from serie 8.x.

Re: [expert] open office or star office.

2002-03-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 09 Mar 2002 11:00, escribió: Hi, I wondering whether to use start office or open office. Can u guys tell me which is better and the benefits of the one recomended over the other. Regards, Hari Yellina. StarOffice is based upon OpenOffice, so they are a lot alike... i don't know

Re: [expert] Alert!!! HP is releasing a version of Mandrake Linux without GPL or source!

2002-03-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Jue 07 Mar 2002 05:47, escribió: All, Here is comes. A release of Mandrake without GPL or Source. If you go to http://www.hp.com/security/products/linux/eval/ You will find a 60 day timed copy of the iso (only way provided) that is a FULL working version of Linux. No links are

Re: [expert] Alert!!! HP is releasing a version of Mandrake Linux without GPL or source!

2002-03-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
( breathe... ) that one got me scared... anyway is there something we are supposed to do when we see companies violating GPL? contact the autor for the software? kill the company mascot? anything like that? On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 00:47:35 -0800 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All,