[expert] ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron

2003-11-10 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Has anyone tried ATI Radeon 9800Pro with 64bit AMD Opteron? I saw the AMD64 RC1 is out now, but there was no mention. I want to setup a high-powered GNU/Linux graphics workstation. Tips appreciated JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] mount -o remount,ro / still shows up as (rw) in mdk9.0

2003-05-27 Thread J. Grant
on the 27/05/03 19:25, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:03, J. Grant wrote: Hi James, JG when you then attempt (after issuing the command in runlevel 1) to telinit to runlevel 5 does it complain about / being read only? 5 is reboot right? yeah, it complains, can't write

[expert] Connection sharing in mdk9 issue

2003-04-12 Thread J. Grant
Hi List, I setup connection sharing in the mdk control centre. However my ppp conection (via kppp) now does not work. I can connect but all programs give either Connection refused or DNS errors. /etc/resolve.conf has the correct IP addresses in it. And so does my laptop which I also tested

Re: [expert] keyboard shortcut for 'show desktop'

2003-04-12 Thread J. Grant
Well, its Desktop Access , find that and set a short cut key, its on the Special Button menu. Gambatte! JG on the 12/04/03 02:25, bascule wrote: i'm looking for a way to achieve the above, does any one know the command that is run by the 'show desktop' icon? unlike the other icons on the

Re: [expert] Stupid password loss

2003-04-05 Thread J. Grant
on the lilo prompt try: linux single or linux init=/bin/sh one of those should work Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB problems

2003-04-04 Thread J. Grant
could try the other usb kernel module if you are using uhci etc, try lsmod to see which you are using. See kernel HOWTO and modules config if you are unsure how to procede. Cheers JG on the 04/04/03 21:34, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I posted this message (similiar) twice to the newbie list and got

Re: [expert] Flash 6 vs 5

2003-03-23 Thread J. Grant
Did you try the version at http://macromedia.rediris.es/site_ri.html ? This works fine for me with mozilla 1.3 If this is really bug, why not email macromedia about it? they list an email address for contact

Re: [expert] Logitech USB Wheel Mouse

2003-03-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi Rob on the 22/03/03 06:25, Rob Blomquist wrote: I was able to solve my PS2 mouse/CD burning problem by shifting the mouse to USB. But here's the catch. I was unable to use mousedrake to configure it. It kept complaining that no usb bus found\n at /usr/sbin/mousedrake line 54. Bull, I type

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread J. Grant
I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in lilo.conf and /boot eg image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-2.4.19mdk root=/dev/hde2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 read-only but in /boot vmlinuz -

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi James, Thanks for the reply. on the 22/03/03 18:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 06:29, J. Grant wrote: I installed with rpm -Uvh, it still wiped out my other kernel in lilo.conf and /boot the -U is why... don't upgrade kernels install them with -i this will put everything

Re: [expert] ISO image from 1.2Gb folder

2003-03-22 Thread J. Grant
dar can make split archives, so can zip write a script to do that, then burn the 2 isos. or buy a dvd-r and avoid the issue :) JG on the 22/03/03 21:25, Gonzalo Avaria wrote: Hi experts, i would like to make a simple question, but i've been looking everywhere for the answer. I would like to

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi Vincent and others, Thanks for the help so far. After rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk I have found even though I am not booting it, my system is not stable. in X/KDE the whole system has crashed twice today when loading ~30MB text files. Which never happend before. I can not ssh in to

[expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have been searching for a newer kernel on: ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS rpmfind.net However, I can not find a 2.4.20 rpm. Are there rpms for mdk anywhere on the net? I found the cooker ISO's:

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi Jack, rpmfind.net has difficulty indexing Mandrake's RPMs -- try searching for kernel-2.4 instead of kernel. Thanks for tip. However, 2.4.19 is the newest i can find on rpmfind still. Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi James, The 9.1 kernel may or may not run as is on your box... The odds are better than 50 50 HOWEVER I've heard of a number of people who have built the 9.1 kernel on 9.0 without a problem. I would recommend doing just this.. get the source build the kernel. Ok, getting this now,

Re: [expert] New linux kernel for mdk9

2003-03-21 Thread J. Grant
I've installed the rpm now. What I am really surprised about is that it wipes out the old ones config. So if there had been a problem my computer would not have booted. Is there a reason for this mdksoft? Cheers JG I had to add this at the end again just incase there was a problem.

Re: [expert] hard disk duplication and partition growth

2003-03-19 Thread J. Grant
Sounds like you want cp -dpr, info cp gives you more details. cheers JH on the 19/03/03 12:28, Christopher Joseph wrote: First apologies. I have had some problems getting the search function on the mail archives to function properly this morning so I have not been able to trawl for past

[expert] Anyone using vcr on mdk9?

2003-03-17 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I was tempted by the lure of a digital video recorder. I found this http://www.geocities.com/slothmud/VCR-HOWTO-3.html It seems great, my tv card is working fine with xawtv, so i checked vcr out. However, there are so many deps, I cant even get the avifile src on this site to build,

Re: [expert] /tmp size

2003-03-08 Thread J. Grant
I have a computer with only 128MB ram, it chuggs along very slowly in X Windows. in fstab there is a /tmp tempfs ramdisk, I commented it out so that it now uses the root /tmp. However, performace is still about the same, odd considering there should be about 64MB of ram extra available. Any

Re: [expert] Any CVS wizards out there?

2003-03-07 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have a different problem, I'm just hijacking james's thread though :) I have been unable to get cvs diff -uN to work, the -N flag should include new files in the patch. I can not add files to the local repository with cvs add which I believe I should be able to. I do not have a cvs

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant
Hi Keith, Using HTTPS is much more secure than sending via post. I am also in the UK, I have never been the victim of online fraud. However before the net revolution some one did charge my CC and it was refunded. All online CC have a garentee against fraud just like anything else. MDK could

Re: [expert] How to check for open ports?

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant
I use netstat -ntl JG on the 05/03/03 23:46, Simon Prosser wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Jim C wrote: I remember asking this question a couple of months ago but I can't remember the answer, or find the email, to save my life. What is a

Re: [expert] ML9.0 installation fails on step 'Hard drive detection'(WDC WD800AB-00CBA1)

2003-03-05 Thread J. Grant
Is it SCSI then? I thogught it was IDE I have: hde: WDC WD800BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive Works ok, as long as I set it as udma2 in the bios, have you done this? have you checked its got the right jumper settings? Cheers JG on the 05/03/03 22:07, Andreas Weiss wrote: hi, the installation of

Re: [expert] UT2003 help?

2003-03-02 Thread J. Grant
Have you tried running it in gdb ? then doing what ever you do to make it SIGSEGV I've found div-by-zero and other bugs this way. Cheers JG on the 02/03/03 15:23, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: If you are the one with the different drivers, try and

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] Samba-Only Windows Clients can write toshares

2003-03-02 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I am not a samba expert, but could it be as simlpe as smbmount mounts read-only by default. My /etc/fstab entries for my samba shares have rw set in the options. I recall having to explicitly set this after install. something like this should work. //ps2/now3d /home/now3d/ps2 smbfs

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-27 Thread J. Grant
Hi Civilme, Thanks for the reply. well first of all, if you can split ide drives to one per channel, that would be more efficient. ONly one device per channel on IDE may be active, and two disks on the same channel really slows down disk-to-disk operations ok, I will give this a go soon.

Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-25 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere in Europe? Cheers JG tarvid wrote: it is time to plan 9.1 release parties i propose part celebration part installfest we are planning to have a local mirror and a half dozen KVM stations for installs and a cd (maybe

Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-25 Thread J. Grant
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:32 am, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Sounds good, is it going to be in France then? or the UK? or somewhere in Europe? I vote for a place that all members can agree upon...Downtown Baghdad. Heh, well

Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-25 Thread J. Grant
I'm in UK. As for a UK distro... I once heard of something called Eridani Starsystems .. I think. Was more of a redistribution of Red Hat with some of the latest software. And I never used it. ah, checked their website, they are using RH6.2 as their base. I think i'll give it a miss, supporting

OT Re: [expert] 9.1 party

2003-02-25 Thread J. Grant
hi Jack Coates wrote: A UK-specific distro is kinda scary, I'm imagining all this Austin Powers theming going on :-) And of course it would have to use the Slackware .tgz packaging system, just to be anachronistically different than the EU... heh, and we all still wear bowler hats and pin strip

Re: [expert] Playing DVDs, Part II

2003-02-23 Thread J. Grant
Hi Rob, Basically installing these rpms from plf will work with your existing xine, with no extra config required! xine_dmd_plugin-1.0.7-1plf win32-codecs-1.0-1plf libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdcss-ogle0-0.0.3-9plf xine-d5d-0.2.7-2plf xine_d4d_plugin-0.3.2-2plf xine-win32-0.9.13-8plf I also have

Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi guys, Thanks for the sugestions. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Try this: rpm2cpio rpm file newfile.cpio cpio -ivd newfile.cpio That should get you going... Cool, thanks that worked. compiled rpm does not seem to require a .spec file, the src had it though, so i know the ./configure

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply vox. Vox wrote: This time Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-22 Thread J. Grant
with the veto files token not working correctly. David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Grant Sent: 10 February 2003 15:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs? Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen

Re: [expert] Building from .src.rpm

2003-02-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Does anyone know how to exract a .spec file from a compiled rpm? I tried using cpio and some other stuff, but cant get it. rpm --rebuild sss.src.rpm is meant to put it in the SPECS dir, but it isnt there either. Also there is one in the tgz of the soft, but thats generated for a

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Praedor Atrebates wrote on Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:48:15PM -0500 : whatsoever, no beeps, no messages. Logs are totally devoid of any information on the 2.4.19-24 kernel. It is absolutely, totally, without doubt a dead,

[expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I've got one Abit KT7 RAID MB system running stock mdk9 kernel. Its running, however, the hd speed is slow because it only works with no dma etc. I am using the correct ata100 cables with only a single drive on each channel. Has anyone else experienced this with this motherboard using the

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the info. I did download the propreitary hpt370 kernel module, but it was only binary and I could not get the root disk to work. Perhaps I should try a newer kernel than 2.4.19-16mdk, have you tried with the default mdk9 kernel on your board at all? I have the latest bios for my

Re: [expert] Abit KT7 RAID MB (VIA chipset)

2003-02-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the quick replies drjung, civilme, rolf and sridhar. Jus wondering, have up updated ur bios. Just wondering, are you using WD harddrives? drjung I was wondering the same thing. I am aware that Andre Hedrick has campaigned for a while to keep WDs off of udma3 or higher

Re: [expert] Large IDE HD on Mdk 9.0?

2003-02-16 Thread J. Grant
If there is a jumper on the disk to reduce the size, try that (for testing), this might eliminate the possiblity that the drive is faulty. Although it works in win2k, have you done a surface scan there? It really does sound like its the kernel thats the problem though, you could search google

Re: [expert] ML9.0: Fresh install, found one file 2 GB big, e2fsck-f -c /dev/hda2 returns errors:

2003-02-15 Thread J. Grant
Hi, [root@mycom root]# e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2 e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) /dev/hda2 is mounted. WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes You did not remount your /dev/hda2 read-only, then you said yes when it

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-14 Thread J. Grant
e2fsck -f -c /dev/hdX can do it for you now, make sure you are in single user mode though and your HD is mounted ro. I already reinstalled ML9.0, but I tried on this new install e2fsck -f -c /dev/hda2: and it returned a bunch of errors. And this is after a fresh install. I'll complain about

Re: [expert] locales problem

2003-02-12 Thread J. Grant
I don't know why you have quotes, but anyway, is the output of locale any different? you could edit your ~.i18n file, that :en seems uncessary too check /etc/sysconfig/i18n too, might be something there. Unless this is because you su instead of su - (using a real login as root)? Cheers JG

Re: [expert] ML9.0:file system completely crashed ext3,could notfind mime type,kde3.0.3

2003-02-12 Thread J. Grant
hi vatbier, vatbier wrote: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The X66 is safe to use as you have described it. What is dangerous is overdriving. hdparm -k1 -d1 -X66 /dev/hda (66:UDMA2) I guess you mean if I change the hard drive setting with DataLifeGuard and then do hdparm -d1 X69

Re: [expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-10 Thread J. Grant
Hi, If you mean you don't want them seen on the windows box, it's the show hidden files setting in windows explorer. I did think there was an smb.conf option as well as this explorer option. I'm sure I saw it before, now when I need it I can't find it! Cheers JG Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] Samba hide . prefixed dirs?

2003-02-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Its a trivial question, but i cant find the answer, could someone tell me how to hide . prefixed dirs in samba please? I remember seeing an option in smb.conf but I can see it in the mdk9 version. Regards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant
Hi Gwenole, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: Could deps be created so that the dictionarys are installed and then configured automatically? This would save time for all users. Deps already exist. Global configuration is already performed. i.e. updates

Re: [expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-02-02 Thread J. Grant
Hi, The Require is for AN myspell-dictionary not specifically en_CA. That 1 happens to be the 1 installed by default because it is the 1st listed en dictionary. Had you installed a second myspell-dictionary you would have received no error when you ran rpm -e myspell-en_GB OK, I just tested.

Re: [expert] Mozilla Language packs??

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant
IE exported charsets have not been a problem for me. make sure your fonts are installed in X etc. Btw, sugest your translator uses mozilla/composer in ms-windows, then at least your html files you get from him will be clean. I sugest you use UTF-8 for all your html files. Regards JG Jason

Re: [expert] Xawtv and UK tv channels

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant
UK is PAL-M right? JG Lorne wrote: Make sure you have the right frequency table set. I think it may default to us-cable. There are like 11 different choices. Long shot here. :) On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:11 am, Roger Munoz wrote: Hi I've have installed a hauppauge wintv card on my

Re: [expert] X: 2 mouses with different speeds?

2003-01-10 Thread J. Grant
KDE has some configure options for this. However, i have the same problem as you. kde scale 0-10 i think it was anything more than 1 was too quick. and it goes up in steps of 1 ! i've emailed them, but no reply JG Robert Goshko wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 13:55, Joan Tur wrote: -BEGIN

[expert] Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-01-06 Thread J. Grant
Hi, The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected during the install process I beleive. Currently I have to setup OOodi to download and install english dictionarys, North american english is the only

[expert] Re: Dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution

2003-01-06 Thread J. Grant
Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, J. Grant wrote: The dictionarys for OO are not in the mdk distribution. Is there a reason for this? They should be installed for all the locales selected during the install process I beleive. Dictionaries for OOo are in the MDK distribution. Look

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-30 Thread J. Grant
Jason J. Grant wrote: Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed. If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too. JG Jason wrote: Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can

Re: [expert] mldonkey, kazaa, emule

2002-12-29 Thread J. Grant
Hi, 2.0.3 kazaalite crashed like this for me, but 1.72 kazaalite works fine, i downloaded a default registry, ran the installer, got some windows shared libs and it worked. http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html

Re: [expert] USB Flashcard Reader problem under 9.0

2002-12-28 Thread J. Grant
Well have you got the usb modules loaded? And i assume there are other working usb devicies? you do not mention if your mouse is listed. If not get the lastest libusb recompile the latest kernel too. JG Jason wrote: Ok, I am still having problems so I hope someone can help me out here. I had

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-27 Thread J. Grant
mask guidelines needs to have their head examined. /rant Jack On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 17:51, J. Grant wrote: is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
No one has mentioned the share option yet, I'm taking this up, its less than market value and you might even get your money back. JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi Vincent, And I thank you for that, James. The issue at this instant in time, if we could freeze on today, is not new users; it's existing users that aren't doing their part (freeloaders if you will). Mandrake Linux is perhaps one of the most popular Linux distributions out there, but

Re: [expert] cron smbtar

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
is it really broken? The reply-to should not be changed/added by the list. It is the mdk config problem I believe. JG Jack Coates wrote: Argh, another broken reply-to... (yes, I know it's RFC-compliant to do this... it's also RFC-compliant to have a non-contiguous IPv4 subnet mask and you

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-26 Thread J. Grant
2.27 €, but they are selling for 2.2 to us :) anyway i emailed them, they replied asking for my name, that was the last I have heard. perhaps the amount I wanted was not enough, but then asking users for support is never going to generate 300K €. JG Mcleod, Ian wrote: What are the Mandrake

[expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows: Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001 ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7 maestro: subvendor id: 0x001114c0

Re: [expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968 specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf) David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :) JG J. Grant wrote: Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows

Re: [expert] problem with sound on mkd9 install

2002-12-20 Thread J. Grant
Hi, It is working currently, after changing the module to es1968 specifically in mdk control centre (which updated /etc/modules.conf) David Bowie is playing a reasonable speed again :) JG J. Grant wrote: Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows

Re: [expert] hosts.allow format question

2002-12-19 Thread J. Grant
there is a pdf on linuxsecurity.com that lists all this and more Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 01:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man /etc/hosts.allow should give you everything you need Err...all that does is display

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat. Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote: Hi Dave, I

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
Hi, What is the WD email support address please? their site is terrible Regqards JG Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
by root at startup Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 07:44, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Thanks for the reply. after making it suid root it still said you need to be root to unmount perhaps there is something else stopping it working that we don't know. Strange how it works in redhat

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-17 Thread J. Grant
for the install of Linux in any way. Customer (J. Grant) - 12/17/2002 11:52 AM Civilme: I have CC'd you as Jason is sure that WD drives work fine with GNU/Linux and do not in fact have CRC problems. Could you offer some insight on the problem I am having with my WD800BB-00CAA1 80GB HD

[expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I downloaded kazaa for linux a few weeks ago. needed to install an old ncurses to get it to run, but it is not ever connecting. Support seems to be missing from the kazaa.com site as well now. Has anyone got this working? or found a better working p2p network client for GNU/linux?

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have not got it working yet, here are the URL's I'm reading, it seems posible. JG http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 SainTiss wrote: Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, So these programs are good now? limeware was poor last time i tried, and the gnutella was nearly as bad. I got Kazaa 1.72 working, 2.02 would not work. I start it like this wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n zazaa.exe if that is useful for anyone. JG Todd Franklin wrote: Please take

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD drive in it! as they don't follow the standards or support their drives under free software OS's. This is why you dont want WD, email them and tell them this as well. I've got an 80GB drive running about twice as

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing

[expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-15 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I'm seeing some strange effects, this has been going on for a while, but i've not got around to asking if there is a solution, basically, even though I have user in my fstab I can only unmount my cdrom as root. Any ideas or solutions? Regards JG $ umount /mnt/cdrom umount: only root

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-14 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have this working now. However I'm considering buying a PPC PowerBook. Do DivX plugins work with PPC if they are using wine? Or does anyone know if there are native versions? Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 03 December 2002 23:16, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Although mdk9

Re: [expert] Java

2002-12-13 Thread J. Grant
about:plugins in mozilla will tell u all u need JG Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:00, Felix Miata wrote: # rpm -qa | grep ava # OK, what's the secret code to find out what java version is installed? -- If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . . Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team

Re: [expert] second mouse ?

2002-12-12 Thread J. Grant
Myabe define 2 different layouts, thats the way i do it on my laptop (still not tested on mdk9) This should work, providing both of your mice at working separatly. The SendCoreEvents will mean you have interference eg on a laptop knocking the touch pad will mean your cursor might get moved

Re: [expert] Hangul (Korean) character entry

2002-12-09 Thread J. Grant
have you used drakeprofile to change the setup? JG Jones,Daniel E. wrote: I am trying to set up my Linux KDE system to accept input of Hangul (Korean) characters. The motivation is to have a separate account for my Korean-born wife. Since I do not read Korean very well, my account has to

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-06 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Well I have it working now, i just click on the d5d button on the GUI, DVD button still does not work, i guess thats just the inbuilt code etc. thanks for the info JG Steffen Barszus wrote: input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-05 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have it working using xine-d5d now, so i just click on the d5d button instead of the DVD one to play dvds. Regards JG Steffen Barszus wrote: input_dvd: Sorry, this plugin doesn't play encrypted DVDs. The legal status of CSS decryption is unclear and we can't provide such

[expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Although mdk9 includes xine, I still have to install the encrypted dvd decoder. I had this working in 8.1 but it is not going well atm. As xine is installed already I added the following: libdvdread2-devel-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdcss2-1.2.3-1plf libdvdread2-0.9.3-2mdk libdvdread-utils-0.9.3-2mdk

Re: [expert] xine dvd playing

2002-12-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 03 December 2002 23:16, J. Grant wrote: Add contrib to your sources: Output here : # urpmi xine-dvdnav Um die Abhängigkeiten zu erfüllen, werden die folgenden Pakete installiert (0 MB): libdvdnav1-0.1.3-1mdk.i586 xine-dvdnav

Re: [expert] NVdriver problem w/ recompiled kernel

2002-12-01 Thread J. Grant
Perhaps you should (if you did not already) make clean; make dep; in your kernel dir (with new sym link to /usr/src/linux) before compiling the nvidia src's JG Jorris Graad wrote: I've installed NVdriver successfully on mandrake's origin kernel. I used the tar.gz files. Then I compiled the new

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-30 Thread J. Grant
Just use smoothwall.org its great, even if the developers are cocky and not arogant :) JG Jim C wrote: Why not suggest it? Surely they must have a means of getting input from thier users and if they don't have a suggestion box perhaps they should get one. Want to buy your Pack or Services

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

2002-11-29 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Is there a way to split tar.gz archives in this way? I would like to find an eqivelent of winrar so i can split backups into 730,000,000 byte files. Regards JG Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi, read about -L option in 'man tar'. So you can create several files (2Gb). I hope that's

[expert] Is UTF-8 i18n working in cooker?

2002-11-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi everyone, I have changed all my locale, kde and email settings to UTF-8 as I do some internationalisation work. However there are some things that still do not work quite correctly. man pages and KWrite corrupts sometimes. gcc − GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc

[expert] ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0

2002-11-26 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I'm looking for the ideal web cam supported by mdk9.0. I checked the mdk hardware db http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3 but it does not seem to have a section for web cams. (would not let me search the whole catagory too for some reason) Could anyone recommend a good one, I

Re: [expert] crossover plugin

2002-11-25 Thread J. Grant
Is the crossover site with all its docs and FAQs down? JG villoing wrote: Hello! I have two problems resulting from the installation of the crossover plugin. 1) I've installede crossover as root and the windows plugins only run if I launch mozilla as root. How can cahnge that to be able to

Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk

2002-11-21 Thread J. Grant
just ssh in and shutdown, cygwin has both, or u could install one of the hundreads of trojans that have this feature for windows :) JG ps its not polite eticate to have such a large signature Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know how to shut a w2k box down remotely from MDK9.0

Re: [expert] w2k shutdown from mdk

2002-11-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastien Routier wrote on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:45:08PM -0500 : I am curious as well about your reason(s), but I can see three things that could annoy me: - It is not scriptable. - It requires a GUI on the UNIX side

Re: [expert] Rippers for Real Audio streams?

2002-11-19 Thread J. Grant
run the realplayer thu a proxy configured to only use http port 80, nab the url and download it with wget JG Aristotle wrote: Anyone know how to save Real Audio streams to disk? On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 16:33, Marek wrote: Hi Has anyone got RealOne to work on Mandrake Release 9 ? I

Re: [expert] system can not shut down the display manager - ML9.0

2002-11-11 Thread J. Grant
Is it not possible to just ssh login? I've recovered from most X probs with this, then execute reboot as r00t and your away. JG Brandon Long wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get this too, but only internittently, maybe one out of 20 shutdowns the shutdown process will

Re: [expert] Turning off all power management... (was system resouceproblem)

2002-11-09 Thread J. Grant
try this too Option DPMS off or APM off in XF86Config-4 man XF86Config for more info JG . wrote: use chkconfig to keep /etc/init.d/apmd from running at boot up. Turn off all your power management in the BIOS too. Franki wrote: Hi guys, I think I have isolated the problem when I

Re: [expert] Hardware ide raid question

2002-11-05 Thread J. Grant
Why not just look in the linux kernel config? JG aginies wrote: The ide raid controler is Promise 20276 and it seems it does not work under Linux. try to look here: http://www.gigabyte.co.jp/support/d_other.htm its seems that there is beta driver and utlity for promise 20276. Want to

Re: [expert] Unformatting a vfat partition

2002-11-03 Thread J. Grant
well if you were using the commandline format tool you could have just pressed ctrl+c right up until 99% or so, as its just checking the drive. Other than that, put it in another MS PC and hope for the best, u might have to buy some software to recover it JG Brian Schroeder wrote: I think I

Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?

2002-10-29 Thread J. Grant
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to

Re: [expert] Send AOL IM from the console?

2002-10-29 Thread J. Grant
micq.org is using the same protocol as AOL but wthi icq, it is console based. Perhaps you could use this instead JG Barry Michels wrote: I'd like to send an IM from PHP whenever someone leaves a message in my site. The only thing I've found is naim, but I haven't been able to get it to

Re: [expert] Network Profile swiching With MDK 9.0

2002-10-28 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I posted a similar msg when using my laptop with multiple profiles, I use fixed IP now so i dont get the wait problem you have (assuming that is a dhcp DNS prob). There were some command line scripts to change the network IP etc etc or you could just use static IP and change IP with MCC.

Re: [expert] Can't get Zip drive to work. Can't get LICQ to work,possible permission probs..

2002-10-28 Thread J. Grant
Hi Ken, Re: LICQ I'm assuming you are not the Ken Thompson who developed linux and C with Dennis Richie? (I think that was his name) I gave up on Licq and now use micq.org, its very uptodate, workign with the v8 OSCAR protocol, runs from any shell so you can use it from any pc and even works

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