Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-02 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02 pm, John Haywood wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has

Re: [expert] mounting hfs remotely (afpfs won't compile)

2003-10-01 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 05:41 pm, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: Hello On searching the web I came across afpfs that allows me to mount hfs volumes. Unfortunately afpfs is too old and cannot be compiled at 9.2rc1. Does someone out there has a solution on how to mount hfs volumes remotely? Many

Re: [expert] !!! Install problems on compaq server!!!

2003-09-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:10 pm, Terje Heen wrote: Thanks for the info James. I will try some more when I come home from work Terje.. James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 00:16, Terje Heen wrote: Hi there all. (I did not get any avswer on the newbie list, so

Re: [expert] eud2mbox.pl doesn't like spaces in filenames?

2003-09-19 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:26 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I'm converting my mail archive from .mbx (Eudora windows) to mbox (to use with KMail and maybe one day Mutt with a GUI...) and I decided to use a script to save time (there are many folders and many files for folder). [SNIPPY] Not meaning to

[expert] Laptop NFS

2003-09-14 Thread John Haywood
I´ve just set up my file server to do NFS to make life easier in keeping track of data (I use Linux/windows, Mac laptop boxes all together at home), and I have one last point where there seem to be conflicting views: The server is not always available (have to shut it down at night or nobody

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Desktop Entries

2003-09-09 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:31 am, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, Sorry, if I was not precise enough. All entries above Bookmarks on the KDE menu are gone (e.g., Application, Configuration, Documentation, Networking, Terminals, ..., etc.). And the shortcuts that I created on the toolbar now only

[expert] rpm database corruption -severe

2003-08-14 Thread John Haywood
on installing the latest kernel n my laptop, there were various errors pertaining to lines in the rpm database No problema, just remove the __db* files, the rpmrebuildpid number and rebuild again, thought I ... now the whole thing segfaults OK, go to rpm.org,

Re: [expert] Realtek 8139

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work and explains where i am coming

Re: [expert] reading dvd (again)

2003-07-26 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 22:19, dfox wrote: followup of course it helps to link /dev/dvd to /dev/scd0 uh, er, yeah, that was going to be number 4... or, in devfs land... /dev/dvd - scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd -- john in sydney

Re: [expert] compiling k3b-0.9-1 source

2003-07-25 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:55 pm, R N dev wrote: Hi has anyone compiled this k3b-0.9-1mdk.src.rpm cooker? I found some errors into spec file, i had to change 0.8-i18n in i18n-0.9 but it does not work yet. It seems to loose something like buildroot/usr/lib/menus. Am I the only one? Any

Re: [expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-24 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:28 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: John Haywood wrote: [SNIPPY] I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex outputfile.txt

[expert] OT: regular expression help

2003-07-23 Thread John Haywood
Sorry to ask here -it´s just that I know someone here can fix me up (shameless grovel!!). I´m in a bit of a bind, trying to recover a corrupt file for a client. The first issue is that the file is 1.8gig, so I´m wondering if I´m going to have problems with cat file|grep regex

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! [SNIPT] Now, can anyone point me to the file (s) which might be causing this?. As previously

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 06:38 pm, KevinO wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Do you have any documentation for it? Nope. All I have ever seen was just the tarball... http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/soft/gogo2/readme_e.txt ...looks like a document to me ..., and on sourceforge there are the latest

Re: [expert] strange behaviour :grip

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 05:58 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: KevinO wrote: bascule wrote: any advantage over lame on a single cpu box? SPEED! Email off-list and will help you find/get a copy if you'd like to try it. It integrates well with grip or use standalone from the command line. The

Re: [expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 06:11 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:51, Robert Crawford wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 03:28, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 19:14, John Haywood wrote: I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time

Re: [expert] CPU Temperature monitor

2003-07-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I need a utility that will tell me what is going on with the cpu temperature. Haven't been able to locate one. Any of you guys out there got any suggestions? --LX you don´t say whether you want a cli or a gui, nor which gui if the latter,

[expert] mandrake-menus again!

2003-07-04 Thread John Haywood
I´ve just logged into kde 3.1 (Bamboo 9.1), and for the umpteenth time, found my menus gone! Now, I can fix this by mv .kde .kdeold, then restarting kde, whereupon the menus reappear, but this is a sledgehammer and nut fix, which involves resetting all my themes, window decorations, datafiles,

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:24 am, Brian Schroeder wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously, in cases where it isn't actually written on the stick. Oh well, Google it is, then http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=179

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion

2003-06-27 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:52 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: At home I am stuck forevermore with a godawful slow dialup connection. As a result, I rarely do a MandrakeUpdate from home - takes way too long with anything over a several megs of files. My laptop gets access to a fast connection at

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-26 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:09 am, Vincent Danen wrote: Anyways, doesn't matter. I've had nothing but problems with this radeon under Mandrake so I pulled it out. I've got better things to do with my time than muck around with proprietary drivers that need 5% skill 45% luck and 50% vo0doo to make

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-25 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:31 pm, charlie wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:29 pm, John Haywood had this to contribute :- 1. Black backgrounds sometimes print out as black -much waste of ink/toner (hmmm methinks I´ll buy epson shares now!!) Kprinter by default methinks, does not print out

Re: [expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:18 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:30, John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, lose all menus and toolbar customisations. Go to root mode and edit sys menus - no change Copy /usr/share

Re: [expert] Acer Aspire Documentation

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:36 am, Nisco wrote: Hi all, I've written a small dcoumentation page about installing Mandrake 9.1 onan Acer Aspire 1300xc Lpatop. Here: http://www.angelfire.com/blog/madrid/lap-ing.html Comments appreciated :) Cesare great to see documentation, and I liked the

Re: [expert] radeon 8500

2003-06-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:02 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: [SNIP cut to the chase!] Looks pretty similar. I have to use the binary drivers tho... no two ways around that. Oh well.. not that big of a deal. At least now I've got a decent resolution... =) Getting the games to behave is a completely

[expert] Menudrake shennanigans

2003-06-23 Thread John Haywood
OK, so now I´m a tad PO-ed go to menudrake as user, add 1 application to Amusements:Cards, save, lose all menus and toolbar customisations. Go to root mode and edit sys menus - no change Copy /usr/share/applnk-mdk directory into ~/.kde/share/applnk-mdk. No change Anybody help me out

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:05 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: You need to get spamd up and running. You can bring up mandrake control center, go to system, and then to drakxservices. Enable spamd at bootup. You could start it immediately by doing, as root/superuser /etc/init.d/spamd start. Yup,

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon 7000 DRI

2003-06-14 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 25 May 2003 08:07 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 14:53, J.C. Woods wrote: Jack Coates wrote: any one got this working? Driving me nuts. Card is an ATI Radeon 7000 PCI, XFdrake chooses the radeon driver, everything works fine in 2D -- but DRI is not enabled, and all

Re: [expert] SpamAssassin 2.5

2003-06-13 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: I´m running 9.1, so I just downloaded the Cooker source rpm from pbone and rebuilt it - I suppose I could send it on through if you so require, but the perl dependencies will still probably bite, as SpamAssassin is itself perly ... (my perl-base

Re: [expert] spamassassin- using spamd/spamc

2003-06-06 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 01:41 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Im sorry for bringing this topic up again, but after hunting through the readme files, etc. for a faster way to run spamassassin it looked like using spamc and spamd instead might work. Can anyone figure out how to use these in conjunction

Re: [expert] USB problems

2003-04-05 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 06:34 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Every so often, the mouse dies (no power). I can unplug it, plug it into another USB port (not with the same group though) and it is instantly back on. Unplugging it from the original port it was in and plugging it right back in has no effect.

Re: [expert] SMC EZ Card 8041TX NIC and Dell Inspiron 4000 problem (revisited)

2003-03-22 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 06:58 am, Technoslick wrote: With the problem resolved, I wanted to thank those people who had contributed their time and efforts in helping me. [SNIPT Praise and thanks] Now, with all the formalities behind you - :) do you think you could share the process in one posting

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-21 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 02:13 pm, Dave Seff wrote: On this topic, does anybody know of any project that aims to be a drop-in replacement for exchange? Well, you might look at CommuniGate Pro (commercial) with the new plugins. It might not have everything, but it certainly is moving along -- john

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-16 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 09:59 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: 1. The problem is that the module from ATI doesn't load if agpgart is not loaded, or am I mistaken and there was some other strange reason for my X server failing?!? 2. Do you have the agpgart loaded? The agpgart module is not loaded on

Re: [expert] A7N8X and Radeon 9700 Pro under ML 9.1?!?

2003-03-14 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny stuff which I don't really understand is that in installer I could select my radeon, and XFree86 4.3.0 with hardware acceleration with no prob and the test would show the X screen in my chosen resolution and

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-04 Thread John Haywood
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:01 pm, Gustavo Alberto Homem wrote: No, the latest drivers include the whole schemozzle, right back to the original Radeon - it says so in the post install script of the rpm, and detects fine in the XFree log You mean that the latest binaries from ATI support the old

Re: [expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-03 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:18 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: John Haywood wrote: [SNIP] It looks like it tries to use a driver called fglrx for 3D acceleration, but then binds itself to 2 (in my case) PCI card addresses 1:0:0 and 1:0:1 I attempted to munge this with the Mandrake stock config

[expert] ATI Radeon drivers

2003-03-01 Thread John Haywood
I'm getting a little confused here, as far as I can see I have a couple of possibilities for getting an accellerated driver for XFree on MDK 9, and I'm wondering whether there is a point to pursuing one of these, or if it might be a feature of 9.1: I tried the ATI driver, which has its own

[expert] OT - Comparing a remote file

2003-02-22 Thread John Haywood
Folks, a little help here would be appreciated, if you have a mo' I have a local virus definition file on a MDK 9 ftp server that needs to be kept up to date, so that client machines will be updated when they log in. The latter part is accomplished by using a perl script invoking the virus

Re: [expert] OT network backup solutions

2003-01-17 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:16 am, Todd Lyons wrote: Amanda is a good free choice. Requires a bit of patching for simple features like fill unused portion of tape. Amanda is commandline oriented (ie no gui and no curses access). Todd, I've been looking around for a couple of weeks now (not full

Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config

2003-01-10 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 07:12 am, Brian York wrote: If anyone is using these two together would someone please send me some configuration files. I have a teriable time getting it to work. If they go in more than one place zip them in the file structure in the place were they should go. Brian, go

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-10 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:34 am, Mark Weaver wrote: I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there, but the cooker packages won't install on a 9.0 machine! I'm getting endless dependencies. What's up with

Re: [expert] Fonts issues for OO and Mozilla

2002-12-31 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 30 December 2002 09:22 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: After having installed some packages from TexStar, I do not see anymore the MenuItems in OpenOffice (only - signs). I tried to change the AUTO option in /etc/openoffice/openoffice.cfg but with no luck... Also I noticed that I

[expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
Steve Pugh wrote: Are you interested in second-hand? I have a powercolour 128mb 9000pro surplus to my requirements. http://www.power-color.com/html/rv25a-c3p.html In box with all contents and original receipt so you would still have plenty of warranty. Available for immediate pickup in

Re: [expert] Steve Pugh scpugh@bigpond.net.au

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
Sorry about that folks, my system just hardlocked on a java website, and somehow the mail got sent to the open mail group ...back to the normal channels after a brief but nail-biting dip into xfs_repair... :) -- john in sydney Mandrake Linux 9.0, Kernel version: 2.4.19-16mdk OpenPGP

Re: [expert] Mount problem on XFS partition

2002-12-28 Thread John Haywood
On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:14 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: partition (some special commands, some special maintenance etc) or, for the sake of using it, it is just like an ext2 one ? I'd definitely become familiar with the xfsprogs-installed applications. xfs_repair is particularly

Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0

2002-12-27 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 23 December 2002 11:32 pm, James Francis wrote: Thanks heaps for the info - I was actually giving supermount a second (or third, or fourth ) look. Turning it off and manually editing fstab was the thing that got it going, plus your help in the /dev linkage. I also made the raw

[expert] printing from an XP machine to a CUPs printer

2002-12-27 Thread John Haywood
As the subject says, I've got a client machine running XP which can browse the server, see the shares, see the printer, but when trying to access it says that permission is denied, or somesuch (in Windowsspeak) Now, the server has the printers defined with guest access, client-side drivers

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-25 Thread John Haywood
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 11:31 am, tarvid wrote: PayPal, here I come. Argh. Sign up for PayPal. Then get their debit card. Then you can either transfer money into the PayPal account or they can hot your bank account directly. It will take a few days (2 or 3) but it comes in

Re: [expert] kdm xscreensaver

2002-12-25 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:44 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 29 November 2002 21:25, Philip Webb wrote: 021129 Guilherme Cirne wrote: Is there some way to get xscreensaver working with kdm? Following the instructions from man xscreensaver I added to

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-24 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 01:18 pm, civileme wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. Welcome back - its great to see such loyalty, and expertise not going to waste :) 2. All

Re: [expert] Stable video card

2002-12-24 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 18 November 2002 01:00 pm, luke wrote: Hey guys, i'm going to be buying a new video card (PCI) for my mandrake 9.0 installation, I was hoping to get a 32 mg card with 3d acceleration that works well in mandrake. Any suggestions? I have a couple ATI cards that work, but the 3d support

Re: [expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0

2002-12-21 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:14 am, John Haywood wrote: I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I had configured correctly: /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd the scsi modules are loaded, but ... 1

[expert] Adding a DVD/CDR combo in 9.0

2002-12-20 Thread John Haywood
I've just added a DVD(ro)/CDR combo drive in to my system, and I thought I had configured correctly: /dev/cdrom is linked to cdroms/cdrom0, which is linked to ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd the scsi modules are loaded, but ... 1. cdrecord -scanbus errors 2. no dvd any ideas or url? The

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-26 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 26 October 2002 15:45, you wrote: John Haywood wrote:  Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it  crashes again. (you don't have to move the all the stuff back - cache files spring to mind) I suspect the bug will reappear with this. But should we

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-25 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 26 October 2002 00:26, you wrote: the quick fix was to delete the contents of ~/.mozilla (make sure your mails are not in there though). Quick, but unsafe - as you noted! Instead just mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old, then move stuff back until it crashes again. (you don't have to

Re: [expert] How to identify tape drive in ML 9.0?

2002-10-18 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 13 October 2002 19:24, you wrote: I hope someone can help me with this... :-) I've got a Travan TR-4 (IDE) tape drive in my system. It's in the slave spot on the IDE cable in IDE controller 1, with the CD-ROM in the master position. When I fire up Mandrake Control Center and click

[expert] Trasferring/upgrading server

2002-10-12 Thread John Haywood
I have an internal Web/FTP/File server running MDK 8.2 which I need to transfer to a new box. The current filesystem is as follows: /dev/sdb1 / /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda6 /tmp /dev/sda?/swap /dev/sdc1 /home /dev/sdc2

Re: [expert] Tape backups in Linux?

2002-10-12 Thread John Haywood
On Friday 04 October 2002 18:06, you wrote: Two questions:  How do I reference the tape drive?  Since it's not a disk type device, I don't think that /dev/hdd will do it.  Would it be as simple as /dev/tape?  Something else?   /dev/st0? Also, is there a reasonably good backup program

Re: [expert] Network Client Billing Solution needed

2002-08-02 Thread John Haywood
On Friday 02 August 2002 15:17, you wrote: On 2 Aug 2002 at 7:45, John Haywood wrote:  Has anybody come across any decent solutions? I've checked Sourceforge, but most projects are either pre-alpha, dead, or contain no files You might look at ntop http://www.ntop.org It should do

[expert] Network Client Billing Solution needed

2002-08-01 Thread John Haywood
I've got a situation whereby a client allows its building's tenants to use their LAN, and in some cases their mail server within the firewall. They will also be able to set up their own servers in a DMZ for such things as web/mail/sftp hosting. What we need to be able to do is be able to

Re: [expert] Installing 8.2 - not a happy camper

2002-06-04 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 03 June 2002 13:06, you wrote: Ummm at the boot splash screen esc then linux noapic If that works, then put noapic in the append line of every linux boot sound of smacking lips Kiss, kiss, kiss..!! w00t!!! Now, back to sobriety - anyone any clues on how to set

[expert] Installing 8.2 - not a happy camper

2002-06-01 Thread John Haywood
Thought I'd start the upgrade path on the machine whih originally brought me to Mandrake - my Digital HiNote VP. Tarred up the /etc, /home, chucked them on server, installed 8.2 All well so far, not a problem, until .. on reboot, disk thrashed around for ages, just after the

Re: [expert] makefile problems

2002-05-31 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 14:45, you wrote: DrJung,   Does this mean I can now teach him that it's slash not forward slash? *grin* Nope... ... it's slash*dot* G -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 2 days 7

Re: [expert] Boot Shutdown problems on Gigabyte mobo

2002-05-20 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:18, you wrote: John Haywood wrote:    I've just transferred my setup into a new case/motherboard - a GA-5AX, and a couple of problems have arisen:    1. I can only boot into Linux via floppy or failsafe (worked fine on another board - Gigabyte GA-5AA). Oh, I'm

Re: [expert] OT: HD upgrade

2002-05-11 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 12 May 2002 01:58, you wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 08:54 am, David wrote: I have bought a new harddrive and would like to _move_ my current Mandrake installation over to the new drive without having to re-install. Is this possible? How would I go about doing so? My guess is

Re: [expert] X - I give up!! - What's a good video card for 8.2

2002-05-06 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 12:26, you wrote: That's it, I've had it, I'm ripping that sucker out by the RAMDAC. Then I'm going to see how far that square frizbee will fly! I've given up trying to sort out the #9 Imagine 128 video problems with X4.2 and X3.3.6 (for now). Why it works

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-06 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:05, you wrote: /WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. Historical - printing used to be extremely expensive slow. It's really only now starting to be

Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing

2002-05-04 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. not just KDE3 if I'm right. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's

Re: [expert] Anything else better than NFS in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-03-30 Thread John Haywood
On Saturday 30 March 2002 11:57, you wrote: May be there is a AUTH system that could be used for NFS..  but a lot of text that I read just keep telling me how insecure that NFS is.. Isn't that what NFS stands for old 'nix joke approaching No f**îng Security .. -- john in sydney

Re: [expert] Corrupted filesystem after normal shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 04:43, you wrote: Yes I agree with Ed , western Digital Hard Disks have problem Sharing IDE CABLE , this question may destroy your disks. Got another go figure with a Western Digitalis . On one box, I have to set the drive as Master, on another, the *same* drive

Re: [expert] Cannot print to cups 1.14 from Windows 2000 SP2

2002-03-11 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 11 March 2002 03:52, you wrote: Hi. I'm running cups 1.14 on a current Mandrake Linux cooker.  Since I've updated to 1.14, I cannot print from my Windows 2000 machine anymore :( Leaving CUPS to one side, how is your samba setup? Is it also upgraded squeakily clean??? --

Re: [expert] RPM bug MDK 8.1?

2002-02-18 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 18 February 2002 02:25, you wrote: Has anyone else seen this problem n MDK 8.1? su'd as root, occasionally RPM will start locking up, I think reading its database. So, if I do rpm -qa for example, I'll get half the list and it stops. It's hung until I break it. As soon as it

Re: [expert] Conflicts when Upgrading Apps

2002-02-16 Thread John Haywood
On Sunday 17 February 2002 09:04, you wrote: I would like to upgrade the applications on my Mandrake 8.1, like Galeon for example. But usually, grabbing an RPM from the net somewhere only leads to a mess of dependency problems. I always try to chase down the dependencies at least once or

Re: [expert] Keyboard problem

2002-02-15 Thread John Haywood
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 19:45, you wrote: For some reason I have no access to the single/double quote key while using Opera. On Xterm, Netscape, and Kword the key works but I have to hit it twice to get it to display once. Sounds like you've chosen an international character set w/dead

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!! I'm disturbed!!!

2002-01-28 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:56, you wrote: Hi Folks, Good question.  We have a cluster here working in XFS (scsi HD). No problem at all and it was choosen due to documentation and SGI name. But it's using Red Hat.  Does MDK work fine with XFS?  Is the procedure installation of XFS

Re: [expert] Problems with gkrellm plugin, GKrellWeather and Message.pm -- fix before 8.2?

2002-01-28 Thread John Haywood
On Monday 28 January 2002 11:33, you wrote: This has been going on for quite some time, and we've finally tracked it down. When running gkrellm and the GKrellWeather plugin, it fails on the following: 400 FTP return code 500 at /usr/X11R6/bin/GrabWeather line 49. which eventually tracks

[expert] PCMCIA Ethernet 100 card only at 10?

2002-01-23 Thread John Haywood
I've just changed my laptop over from RH to MDK 8.1, and the PCMCIA card, while using the same module (xirc2ps_cs), now will only transfer at 10, as opposed to the 100 I was getting before (same network, same cabling). This would suggest a parameter or option passed in some script or another

Re: [expert] linux on compaq Proliant 2500

2002-01-19 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:31, you wrote:  William R. Nash wrote:    Hello,    I just receive a new/used computer a compaq Proliant 2500R.  with this  computer there was no operating system on it.  I need to know if I  need the smartstart software so I load Linux mandrake 8.1 pro.    if I

Re: [expert] Weird Problems #3: Copy/Cut and Paste

2002-01-15 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:16, you wrote: You guys have given some great input on this thread. Hell, I am convinced! At this point, I am not sure how I have made it without a mouse wheel... ...and in the interest of completenesss (or complete utter overkilll) get a logitech USB optical

Re: [expert] Intergraph Intense 3D PRO 2200

2002-01-11 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:32, you wrote: Anyone out there been able to get one of these to work with X? Can't seem to get the resolution above 800x640 w/ 256 colors (yeach) Quick google search seems to indicate that the accelerated mode is not supported in XFree86 4.1.0 - have you tried 3.3.x?

Re: [expert] Joystick Detection

2002-01-11 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 07:27, you wrote: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o.gz Is there a difference between emu10k1-gp and emu10k1 Yes - emu10k1 is for the soundcard itself, while emu10k1-gp is specifically for the gameport -- john in sydney

[expert] mozilla segfaulting

2002-01-07 Thread John Haywood
The window starts to come up, with the default URL (/usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html, I think), then crash, boom! I have deleted the .mozilla directory, created a new profile, but no go! It seems to get hung up on this gettimeofday call, but I may be wrong here Any suggestions, or places to

Re: [expert] External modem blues.

2001-12-29 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:11, you wrote: [SNIPT] Yep, Tried everything I could think of and used all the tricks learned from 10 Years as a computer builder/reseller/tech support... Set the first serial port (using the 9Pin cable so I use the COM1 BIOS setting) in BIOS to each of the 4 standard

Re: [expert] Where did LM 8.1 hide /dev/sda4 (parallel zip)?

2001-12-29 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:50, Tarragon Allen wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:32, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: [SNIPT] How can I create /dev/sda4? Or how can I mount /dev/sda4? Many thanks Ed The 4 in the sda4 is supposed to refer to a partition number on the drive. I suspect that Zip

Re: [expert] Linux on a IBM pc server 500?

2001-12-01 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:02, you wrote: A bud of mine picked up an old IBM PC server 500, and unless it is not a bios problem, the stupid thing keeps asking for a Reference disc I don't know what it wants exactly, I tried formatting a Linux boot disc for it, but its too stupid to read it I

Re: [expert] Changing video cards and disappearing NICs

2001-11-15 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:44, you wrote: Ok. The server that you guys helped me with 2 days ago needed a bit of adjustment. I have a Trident ProVidia 9685 (?) card in it and had the resolution set to 800x600x16. This really wasn't enough for me, so I set it to 1024x768x16. This is a

Re: [expert] Re: Best Video cards for Linux?

2001-11-13 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 02:56, you wrote: First of all I must say I am not an nvidia fanatic or so, I dont like the drivers be closed-source either. But I believe that nvidia cards are the best opengl cards around,and despite the source is closed, nvidia is doing a great job for linux. For the

Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon

2001-11-13 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:02, you wrote: What I am thinking is that somehow Mozilla/Galeon are loading the wrong version of libpng, and thus are not able to properly render .png images. Is there any way I can confirm if this is the case, or is there something I am missing? Although I haven't

Re: [expert] Using SMB shared printer from LM 8.1

2001-11-12 Thread John Haywood
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 07:57, you wrote: I am having trouble using a printer connected to my w2k machine from my lm 8.1 machine. I used the printerdrake and selected SAMBA printer and all the other screens. It says it has configured the printer right but when I try to print a test page nothing

Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating

2001-11-12 Thread John Haywood
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:40, you wrote: Check the personalisation settings in kcontrol centre, and make sure kmail is the preffered client. Tom, bin there, tryed that! It is set, and still no go. The funny thing is, it switches to kmail, but doesn't open a new mail message stumped -- john in

Re: [expert] libpng not working in Mozilla/Galeon

2001-11-12 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:50, you wrote: Hello everyone, Hoping someone can shed some light on this problem. I recently upgraded (from Cooker) to Mozilla 0.9.5, and the latest Galeon as well. Along the way, I als ohad to upgrade libpng from version 2 to 3. Everything seemed to go well, I was

Re: [expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating

2001-11-12 Thread John Haywood
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:47, you wrote: Try clearing the setting.  It will default to kmail, and should pass the correct parameters. That worked! Ta for that!! -- john in syd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Kmail/konqueror/knode not integrating

2001-11-10 Thread John Haywood
Have just noticed that I can not simply click on a mailto: URL and have kmail open up with a new message containing the recipient. The system switches to kmail all right, but no new message is opened, much less with a recipient Any ideas appreciated (probably one of them . files,

Re: [expert] MDK Kernel Configuration File

2001-11-09 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:35, you wrote: Hello All, I have just downloaded the Linux kernel 2.4.14 and wanted to upgrade for a project that I am working on. I was wondering where I could find the base Mandrake configuration file that is used to compile the distribution kernels that come with

Re: [expert] Linux Mandrake 8.1..... yes or no?!?!?!?!

2001-11-08 Thread John Haywood
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote: Whatever the technical reasons, as a desktop user I am not really interested in knowing all that. However, if you subscribe *totally* to the consumer mentality you seem to be espousing while dealing with OpenSource (or its variants), you're in for a

Re: [expert] Load a kernel module at boot

2001-10-30 Thread John Haywood
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:25, you wrote: [expert] Load a kernel module at boot From: Bill Witherspoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone tell me where I can add: modprobe esssolo1 to my boot scripts so that my sound card module is loaded automatically? I don't want to

Re: [expert] Backward compatibility

2001-10-25 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:19, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alfredo C. Lopez wrote: I think you could use the packages , some are in the mdk 8.0 cds compat-glibc-7.2-2.1.3.3mdk.i586.rpm compat-libs-5.3-8mdk.i586.rpm others in previous versions: ld.so-1.9.5-13mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [expert] Prelinking qt and kde

2001-10-25 Thread John Haywood
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:40, you wrote: Is there a website that someone could point me to that goes through the steps to prelinking qt and kde? I must say that there is a DEFINITE slowdown in KDE speed after upgrading my install from Mandrake 8.0 + Cooker + Texstar prelinked qt2 and kde to

Re: [expert] upgrading Glibc-2.1.3 to 2.2.1

2001-09-29 Thread John Haywood
On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:26, you wrote: Franki wrote: speaking as someone who has done this, I give you this message... DON'T !!! you will be successful at installing it, and you will be able to run software written for it, but some or alot of your old software will break,, I had

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