Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Lawson, Jim wrote: I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. 120 is the silver level, 60 is for standard. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-18 Thread Eric Fernandez
Lawson, Jim wrote: What is the difference? Does silver offer anything more? Silver members could download the isos of the powerpack through bittorrent. However, standard members have the download edition + access to all commercial packages, so you have exactly the equivalent of a powerpack.

Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 01:41 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: Thomas: Thanks for clearing this up. -- cmg Yes, they are identical to those that have been released to the members. I guess Mandrakesoft does not want to give freeloaders a better product than the paying

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.2 issues

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Fred Albrecht wrote: Steffen Barszus wrote: Hi ! I have installed 9.2 PP d/L on a friends machine and got some massive problems. He is now running 9.1 again, but i thought it might be worth to share experiences. a) totem crashed immediatly but was standard app for playing mp3's. I don't know

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

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, what is the tmb kernel? It's a kind of cooker but for the kernel only. It receives untested patches, that are backported to the normal kernels when they have been thouroughly tested. Now there are 11 kernels, that are

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0 (and maybe even before). Am I mistaken ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-16 Thread Eric Fernandez
Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003 07:28 schrieb Joeb: I don't have broadband at home, but I do at work. Therefore, installing 9.2 at home but not having the kernel sources is a real problem (since it also effectively kills off my modem, since I can't compile it's drivers

Re: [expert] DVD backup

2003-10-15 Thread Eric Fernandez
Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to make backups of dvd's under linux, e.g. keep the original pristine and play the backup dvd-r copy. I haven't been able to find out much about this. Is there any software that makes this easy?

Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-26 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for the info. I've just spent the past hour chasing this gremlin and come to find out that it appears the samba client packages did not install correctly which is why I'm having trouble accessing this share. Are you talking about updating all of the

Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-25 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-19 Thread Eric Fernandez
Richard Bown wrote: Hi All, I've persuaded a friend after a lot of nagging to move over to linux, so he's bought the boxed MDK 9.1. The onboard network card was found but the interface eth0 would'nt come up as it complained the device was busy. So onboard NIC disabled in the bios and a card

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Today, Mandrake has issued a security update to ssh (BTW, if you did not update it yet, you better do it soon, before the exploit starts circulating). I updated all the sources but urpmi --update --auto-select told me that everything is up to date. Tried the

Re: [expert] Tuxtype2

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hi I was trying to install tuxtype2, but both the RPM and building from source fail. Has anyone been able to get this running? I'm on Mandrake 9.1. Thanks Guy Could you provide the compilation error ? Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi Jack, Thanks for the reminder... However I should have been more clear in what I was trying to say. We can all agree that Mandrake is known as the newbie's Linux while of course still remaining a powerful operating system. I was suggesting that Mandrake include some type of update app

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Fernandez
T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf-space in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box. There are Mandrake boxes

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Fernandez
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 9:46 am, Eric Fernandez wrote: T. Ribbrock wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:08:49AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Fernandez
ed tharp wrote: When you look, see if the box has any mention of McMillian Publishing. THese are the same company that puts out Que books, and at one time was the USA (possibly IIRC for the English language Areas version) distributor for MDK, and may still be. The boxes I saw in Canterbury were

Re: [expert] I need a sound editor for mp3 and or wav files

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Fernandez
lorne wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:00 am, lorne wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 10:17 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 08 September 2003 07:55 pm, lorne wrote: I know that previous version of Mandrake did have an editor. Darned if I can find one now. I have some wave

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
BTW, can't we just use Redhats newly formed Linux Legal Fund to help Mandrake become solvent? big grin French law does not allow donations to a company (except the French state however) Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] EXT3 File Corruption?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:41, Todd Lyons wrote: I don't care that you are using a journalized filesystem like ext3, I want you to do a full blown filesystem check as if you were ext2. So why does it do this on bootup, on the root filesystem? What is the advantage to

Re: [expert] SCO

2003-08-06 Thread Eric Fernandez
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: * Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-06]: BTW, can't we just use Redhats newly formed Linux Legal Fund to help Mandrake become solvent? big grin French law does not allow donations to a company (except the French state however) Wrong. See MandrakeSoft

[expert] ADSL PPPoE modems/routers : advices ?

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi everyone. I am looking for an ADSL PPPoE modem/router. Can some people do suggestions ? I was looking to the web, netgear seems to be nice (G814) but seems to have a lot of problems of synchronisation. The Efficient 5400/5500 has good review though, and an integrated firewall. Have you some

Re: [expert] Reinstall missing files from RPM package

2003-06-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
Guy Van Sanden wrote: In my quest to get networking running on my portable, I got some files from the initscripts package to go missing. Can I reinstall them without having to 'rpm -e' the package first? (Some scripts/settings have been modified by drakconf) I tried 'rpm -F', no success... Thanks

Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Fernandez
I also use mencoder to record tv. This is a script I use : #!/bin/sh case $1 in 1 ) freq=647.25 chaine=tf1 ;; 2 ) freq=687.25 chaine=france2 ;; 3 ) freq=735.25 chaine=france3 ;; 4 ) freq=823.25 chaine=canal+ ;; 5 ) freq=671.25 chaine=arte ;; 6 )

Re: [expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Fernandez
this? I might get some time to work on it this weekend. _Thanks Richard --- Eric Fernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also use mencoder to record tv. This is a script I use : #!/bin/sh case $1 in 1 ) freq=647.25 chaine=tf1 ;; 2 ) freq=687.25 chaine=france2 ;; 3

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked the question, and not filed a bug report. This is not at all uncommon on this list. But thank you for being yet another, self appointed list moderator. It's good to know there are so many out there willing to

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm making a statement of personal/political basis. I'm personally boycotting Mandrake Linux. When the French remember who their firends are, and support them, then perhaps this American will return, and support the French again. Until then, you can kiss my American dollars

Re: [expert] Boycotting MDL

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: My two posts are totally dis-related. So you ask for help/advice about 9.1RC2, and five minutes later you decide to declare publicly that you want to boycott Mandrake ? This sounds very logical... Everybody is free to do what he thinks is just. Personnaly I still buy some

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Eric Fernandez
Ric Tibbetts wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:08:37PM -0600, Paul Cox wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:06 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange thing. In

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 release date?

2003-02-26 Thread Eric Fernandez
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:05 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:45:14AM -0800 : I was just wondering if someone knows the expected release date of the actual 9.1 version?

Re: [expert] How to add MDK 9.0 CDs to urpmi database?

2003-01-22 Thread Eric Fernandez
Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the well-regarded site: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ to fix my urpmi. It did, incompletely. Many of the sites were either unavailable or broken such that urpmi still fails quite often when I try to use

Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...

2003-01-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Dave Laird wrote: I have a customer who, against my better judgement, runs an ATI All-in-Wonder PCI TV card under Windows, and it works flawlessly using the default ATI software. Despite my comments about you are what you see he consistently

Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...

2003-01-20 Thread Eric Fernandez
For recording tv with any working tv card, I recommend using mencoder. It can handle nicely tv, and can use ffmpeg encoders to compress image in real time (depending on the power of your CPU, choose your codec wisely) Try that script : #!/bin/sh case $1 in 1 ) channel=53 chaine=bbc1

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

2003-01-16 Thread Eric Fernandez
Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Please, it's to me understand. I believe that here in Brazil we have something similar to US-Chapter 11. So, this C.11 would be like a moratorium? Like what is happening to Argentina this moment for example. Because, certainly, things don't take place here

Re: [expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control

2003-01-06 Thread Eric Fernandez
s wrote: I don't have the same device as you guys (mine came with a pixelview playtv pro - uses lirc_gpio), but I have the same problems as you Eric. I have all the configs in place, the drivers and deamons get loaded - but no device made. I'm jumping in here cause you say you might try

[expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control

2003-01-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
I face a lot of troubles to set up lirc on Mandrake 9. I searched in mailing lists and modified some scripts but with no success. I have a TV card Hauppauge PCI (BT878) with IR remote control. The TV card works well but I cannot make the IRRC work. It works well under windows though. I

Re: [expert] lirc and Hauppauge remote control

2003-01-03 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mark Chou wrote: I'm using an earlier distro, but have it working. Have you tried just using DEVICE=/dev/lirc i.e. not using devfs node? If I recall correctly, the lirc modules aren't automatically loaded unless you run lircd (or /etc/rc.d/init.d/lircd). Also, are you sure you have a TV card