Re: [expert] microsoft dirty tricks

2003-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote: Thanks Thomas I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself. I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine with 2 HDs one has winxp

Re: [expert] CD and k3b

2003-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Charlie wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:11 pm, many eyes noted that Larry Sword wrote: Charlie wrote: In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer. I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems

Re: [expert] POP filters in KMail don't work

2003-11-02 Thread Larry Sword
Artemio wrote: Hi everybody! I try to use POP filters in KMail but they don't work. What I do is: 1. Create a new POP filter 2. Use match any of the following 3. Set rule any header contains penis 4. Set rule any header contains viagra 5. Set action delete from server But I still receive

Re: [expert] CD and k3b

2003-11-01 Thread Larry Sword
Charlie wrote: In case this is one assistance to anyone who might not have been able to get k3b to recognise their writer. I use LiteOn CD readers and writers exclusively on any of my own systems or systems that I build. Using Mandrake 9.1 On one of my systems I had a reader and writer on

Re: [expert] Macros and OO

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Sword
Try here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This isn't specific to Mandrake in any way, but I was hoping someone could point me to a good site that might explain how to setup macros in OpenOffice? I get to handle purchasing in my

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-26 Thread Larry Sword
Patricia Fraser wrote: Tried your suggestion. We must have different versions or something is not loading completely on my system. If I go to KaudioCreator - Settings - Configure KaudioCreator - Options - KAudioCreator, I find 3 icons, the first CD Config and the Configure AudioCD ioslave in the

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Larry Sword
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Go to the KAudioCreator options and then click

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Larry Sword
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:15 am, Larry Sword wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set

[expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Sword
How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Larry -- Abit VP6 Dual Pentium III 1GHz Mandrake 9.2 Kernel 2.4.22-18mdkenterprise SMP Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera

2003-10-21 Thread Larry Sword
James Sparenberg wrote: it's a known bug. If it doesn't bugs.mandrakesoft.com *grin* James Heck tmb's kernels are there now... Why wait, try it now. If it works I'll give it a try later.. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 and USB flash memory

2003-10-21 Thread Larry Sword
D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Oct 2003 at 12:20, Markus Ueberall wrote: I mounted the stick myself and put the following in my /etc/fstab (after that, an icon called /mnt/usbstick appeared on the desktop the next time I used it)--ignore any linebreaks:

[expert] 9.2 usb camera

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Sword
I just installed ML 9.2. Now when connecting the camera to the usb port the computer will do a hard lockup. The only way to recover is to disconnect the usb camera and reboot. I think this was previously discussed in the expert list. Problem is that when trying to search I get the following

Re: [expert] 9.2 usb camera

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Sword
phriedrich: The camera is a SiPix StyleCam Deluxe. It's listed but when it starts to connect the lockup accrues. I just saw in the http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake92; * /Error Scenario/: *When plugging a USB webcam (some Philips webcam's, maybe others), system

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Larry Sword
HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. There was a whole long thread about that on the newb list just a short time ago,

Re: [expert] forcing a complete logrotation

2003-10-08 Thread Larry Sword
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I cannot recall the command and reading the man pages doesn't really help me (all too often the man pages are either out of date or too cryptic for someone not well-versed with a given app). How do I do a logrotate on all

Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-06 Thread Larry Sword
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci I would

Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-06 Thread Larry Sword
Traci Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:05, Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess: Try booting with acpi=off switch. Larry I have tried booting with acpi=off acpismp=force, are you suggesting that I take out the acpismp switch as well as turning off normal acpi? Traci Traci

Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-06 Thread Larry Sword
Traci Collins wrote: Thank you for these suggestions. I'll be trying both later today. Just a quick question, if I use noinitrd how does the system know which img file to use? Traci noinitrd This boot time option disables the two phase boot-up operation. The kernel performs the usual boot

Re: [expert] Hyperthreading and Mandrake 9.1

2003-10-05 Thread Larry Sword
Traci Collins wrote: Hi! I have a Mandrake 9.1 box running on an Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading. When I installed Mandrake it correctly identified my hyperthreading capabilities and installed the smp version of the operating system and defaults to that version in lilo. When I permit the

Re: [expert] Toshiba laptop + updated X = screw-up

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just worked on my laptop last night, and, while doing other things, decided to check the updates and chose to allow the X update to go through. Of course everything worked fine (update and such), but once shutting it down and restarting it this morning, in the office -

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Larry Sword
Philip Webb wrote: 030914 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an

Re: [expert] HP Wireless Mouse Help

2003-09-13 Thread Larry Sword
Benjamin Hiller wrote: Hello I have an HP Wireless mouse and keyboard. The keyboard works but the mouse thinks the left button is the center button. Please help It really makes my computer unusable. You didn't say what program you are running, maybe KDE? Anyway try running

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-06 Thread Larry Sword
David E. Fox wrote: I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this Use a special device for that format you want. I'd suggest first trying # fdformat /dev/fd0h1660 see what

Re: [expert] Interesting times with sound

2003-09-06 Thread Larry Sword
Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi folks, I'm hoping that someone will have been through this! I've got a new PC, and I'm attempting an install of 8.2 (waiting for the 9.1 CDs to arrive). I've installed ALSA, with some success - the sound is an onboard VIA8233/AC97, and I can play MP3s, I'm getting

Re: [expert] RC1; mount points are _what?_ (bit wordy, sorry)

2003-09-05 Thread Larry Sword
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy; As is my usual practice since Mandrake 7.1; somewhere during the run-up from cooker to final I do a re-install. This time I did it at the RC1 stage. A few interesting things to report, and maybe a question or two. As usual

Re: [expert] Print problems

2003-09-01 Thread Larry Sword
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm having some problems when I print from Mozilla, and I think they are related. I cannot print the url in the header or footer, when printing from a website, and I frequently lose a couple of lines at the page changeover. I think both are related to the margin settings,

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:28 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Should only effect the users system. As for Kwrite I used this as example. The print panel will be used for all programs that use kdeprint. Well, I just tried this with kedit and the headers still do appear

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Larry Sword
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 25 Aug 2003 9:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print but haven't found out where

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 04:38 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Ronald, This has turned into a bucket of worms. I didn't have these headers until I starting playing around with the setting. Now I can't get rid of them Has something to do with the cups and kde_print

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:22 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Well after some sleep last night I renewed my search. My face is quit raw from the slapping myself silly inflected on myself. The solution was right there on the print panel: 1. From within KWrite go to print screen

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tried this under the newbie list - didn't solve it. I just want to print out (kedit or the printer icon I manually put on my KDE desktop) plain ASCI files without the header being appended to it by CUPS. Anyone have any idea how to turn it off? I went thru KDEs control

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-25 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 25 August 2003 12:28 am, Larry Sword wrote: You need to review two docs: file:/usr/share/doc/cups/sum.html and man lpoptions. Look for headers and prettyprint. Larry Hi Larry. Thanks for the reply. I looked at sum.html and according to that, lpoptions -r

Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-24 Thread Larry Sword
engage wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:11 am, Larry Sword wrote: Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord

Re: [expert] hardware question..

2003-08-21 Thread Larry Sword
Alfredo C. López wrote: HI! We have a cluster of machines. I made a soft to boot machines without harddisk with linux-mandrake trough the network. So.. till now the motherboards could be used without a vga card conected to the motherboard. So we put all the machines in a shelf and forget

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-17 Thread Larry Sword
deedee wrote: However, when I returned to Linux, the list of modems had grown to include all kinds of devices that I'm sure are not there. There still was no /dev/usb/ttyACM0, but a device I knew was physically on the system had now shown up -- /dev/usb/acm/-0 -- and I connected.

Re: [expert] Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-17 Thread Larry Sword
Helge Hielscher wrote: Hello, what software (in 9.1 or cooker) may I use to record DVD-R or DVD-RW disks (if there is any)? Try cdrecord. If you are using KDE then open a Komqueror window and type man:/cdrecord. Using cli a plain man cdrecord. Since most of the frontends use cdrecord they

Re: [expert] Cups web interface files missing

2003-08-17 Thread Larry Sword
future cups release. I think the problem resides in the cups rpm configuration. Maybe it requieres another package to be installed in order to install these files. Anyway urpmi has never reports any error. El Saturday 16 August 2003 19:02, Larry Sword escribió: Carlos A. Siso wrote

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-16 Thread Larry Sword
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 09:45 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Larry Sword wanted us to know: I have supermount and K3b runs flawlessly. And so I stand corrected sigh How have you pulled this off? I have tried, off

Re: [expert] Cups web interface files missing

2003-08-16 Thread Larry Sword
Carlos A. Siso wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings: I am trying to setup a Cups print server using Mandrake 9.1. I installed 9.1 from CD's without any additional packages and installed Cups using the urpmi command urpmi cups. While the cups server is running, the

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-15 Thread Larry Sword
, there are no serial or PCI ports on this computer. Thanks, deedee Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:08:22 -0700 From: Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately

Re: [expert] k3b CD writer

2003-08-15 Thread Larry Sword
David Guntner wrote: I've got something weird going on and hope someone can help me out here. I'm running ML 9.1 with the latest version (from the update site) of the various packages. I've got a CD Writer (HP 9100i) installed in the slave on the secondary IDE controller. Mandrake sees it and

Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Sword
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 17.32 04/08/2003, you wrote: Olaf, Within KDE try: Kstart - Configuration - Other - LocaleDrake and select the language you wish to use. Larry It worked, thanks! Now I'm fighting with the modem, it connects to the internet and it's able to ping an address (I had

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Sword
John Drouhard wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:58:58 +0200 Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it make any difference that my plugins are .so files ? They should be, actually. Your helper applications list should be empty, also. The plugins take care of calling the apps when

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Sword
deedee wrote: I have a USB Zoom V90 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0 (that's a zero not a capital o). How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. The

Re: [expert] Oh, and BTW...you guys owe SCO $1399.00

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Sword
* IBM on Thursday filed counterclaims against the SCO Group in the continuing legal battle over the Linux operating system. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5060965.html * On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 03:24 pm, Frankie wholly or partly mentioned :- I think IBM and Novell should get together and

Re: [expert] Accessing ACM device -- USB Modem

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Sword
deedee wrote: Thanks for responding, Larry. When I type modprobe acm it returns me immediately to the prompt without any messages. When I tried insmod acm, it told me acm was already there. What kind of program is mincom? I couldn't find it on my CDs, but maybe I have something similar. A

Re: [expert] Playing .ra files

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Sword
Stefano Pogliani wrote: The Helper Applications list is EMPTY on my mozilla installation. Do not know why. I have lots of plugins that are declared to be installed (xine plugin, shockwave flash, default, javarpnp, nppdf) but NOthing in the Helpers. So, may I ask you a favour? 1. how could I

Re: [expert] Languages and 9.1

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Sword
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I just installed Bamboo, everything worked fine (P4 1.8, 256DDR, mobo MSI645Ultra and Ge2MX400). I selected italian as primary language and english as secondary lenguage during installation, and when I started Mandrake Control Center it was in italian. After that, I added

Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore

2003-07-26 Thread Larry Sword
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: It's weird. All the options for audiocd:/ disapeared from Konqueror and the control center. They just weren't there. I finally got brave and grabed the tex kde 3.1.2 rpms with rpmdrake, and it's working again. I'd like to know what caused it to stop, but at least it's

Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore

2003-07-25 Thread Larry Sword
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: Thanks for the suggestion (I hadn't realized there was a way to pass options to it) but it's still trying to treat the 'audiocd:/?device=/dev/sdc' as an url, and heading off to google. What really bugs me is I know it's worked before, and I don't know what made it

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-25 Thread Larry Sword
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, Yes, this is probably an IO problem. I tried but the installation still stops with an error. Other ideas ? Regards, Stephane Go back and double check your dip settings for the hard drive and the cd-roms to insure they are set correctly as 'master or slave Try

Re: [expert] kioslave audiocd:// not working anymore

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Sword
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: When I enter 'audiocd:/' in the location bar of konqueror, it treats it as a web url (or sometimes decides to search google with the pharse 'audiocd:'. Thing is, I've used it before on this install. Am I doing something wrong, or did something get foobared along the

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Sword
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Larry, I indeed saw several reports of ASUS A7M266-D running Linux on the net, which is why I bought an AMD bi-proc mobo in the first place: I was sure that it would work smoothly... Very strange, this WD drive stuff. I also have a WD drive ! The 120GB model with

Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master

2003-07-22 Thread Larry Sword
Stephane Junique wrote: Hello, First of all, greetings to all of you ! My name is Stephane Junique, I am new on this list. I have been a Mandrake user for a few years and a Linux user since 95. I hope I'll get everything right from the first post :-) I am looking for someone with a Linux

Re: [expert] no USB mouse in 9.1

2003-07-20 Thread Larry Sword
Jeremy Gregorio wrote: First off, thanks man. I'm using grub to boot (since I'm still on Redhat 9 as my main OS), but the options are simular. Here's the relevent part of my grub.conf: title Mandrake 9.1 root (hd0,7) kernel (hd0,7)/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk root=/dev/hda9

Re: [expert] aiuto!!!

2003-07-16 Thread Larry Sword
stefano macchiavelli wrote: Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Stefano e vi scrivo da Bologna. Tempo fa ho installato Mandrake 8.2 ma ho avuto da subito dei problemi con i dispositivi cdrom e floppy. Ogni volta che tento di accedervi compare una finestra che mi nega l'accesso. Gli how-to che ho letto in

Re: [expert] sending openoffice document as fax with kdeprintfax

2003-07-15 Thread Larry Sword
R N dev wrote: Hi, A friend of mine need to send documents by fax using kdeprintfax (trying to forget windoze;-) Is there a way to send an openoffice document with it? do i Have to suggest to add a filter? something like soffice/* soffice -tp %out %in or similar? Thanks Angelo There is

[expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs

2003-07-08 Thread Larry Sword
**From:* Roger Ellison * *Subject:* [expert] installing 9.1 on laptop hangs * *Date:* 6 Jul 2003 21:03:58 - I just got a Compaq Presario 2500. The 9.1 install hangs in the graphical installer with the

Re: [expert] Shorewall

2003-07-04 Thread Larry Sword
Joseph Loo wrote: I recently installed a fresh copy of Mandrake 9.1 and included the shorewall firewall. I have a modem hookup. When I try to ping a site e.g. www.ibm.com the system never seems to respond. It looks like the firewall is preventing something from happening. I have enable the

Re: [expert] other OS booting real slow after install of Mandrake(lilo used as multiboot)

2003-07-03 Thread Larry Sword
Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi everyone, Before you flame me for using Windows 2000 Pro :) , I am a gamer and since my favourite games don't exist for linux, I have to dualboot. I already installed Mandrake 3 times on this machine :) after managing to thrash my linux severely when my mobo was

Re: [expert] HELP - ext3 filesystem data loss?!

2003-06-30 Thread Larry Sword
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, My computer gave me a message during boot up saying that there were problems in my root filesystem. He proceeded to check them and then suggested that he could fix them but that some data might get lost. I pressed yes and let him proceed. During the recovery process

Re: [expert] pioneer dvr-105 issues

2003-06-28 Thread Larry Sword
Azrael wrote: Just bought and installed a pioneer dvr-105 (dvd-r/rw burner). I've installed it as /dev/hdc. Two issues: 1) In xcdroast it only appears as an atapi device, rather than available as emulated scsi, unlike my plextor cdrw which appears as both. I tried to remedy this with adding

Re: [expert] Feature request/suggestion - addition

2003-06-28 Thread Larry Sword
Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:31 am, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:52, Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote: How about giving MandrakeUpdate an autoresume ability?

Re: [expert] Monitor refresh rates

2003-06-26 Thread Larry Sword
Anne Wilson wrote: I want to put a lcd monitor onto my old box. The refresh rate, as it was on the ancient monitor is too high for this, so it won't let me boot into x. I tried failsafe + text mode, and tried to run XFdrake from the command line, but only got a blank screen. There must be

Re: [expert] joypad and cs46xx ?

2003-06-26 Thread Larry Sword
Steffen Barszus, Have you tried loading module cs461x? Hi! I have an analog joypad here (interact pc powerpad pro) with a gameport connector. My soundcard is a Terratec Xfire 1024 (cs46xx). According to lsmod the modul gameport is loaded. Any hints what else have to be done to get this

Re: [expert] Routing with 2 different subnets

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Sword
On Monday 23 June 2003 04:03, Ken Walker wrote: what's cli command to show the following ? /sbin/route Ref: 1. man route many thanks Ken Destination GatewayGenmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-22 Thread Larry Sword
Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:26, Thomas Gamble wrote: At 03:45 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i remember correctly, fat32 has a 4gb limitation no it is not true. He may be thinking of the 4GB file size

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-21 Thread Larry Sword
richard bown wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 06:42, Larry Sword wrote: richard bown wrote: Hi Larry, read your mail , unticked the on the fly box and action and then it did this Wrote 17 of 24 MB. ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF F1 E3 00 00 1A 00 status

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-20 Thread Larry Sword
richard bown wrote: I edited out the previous post as it was getting long. Like others I want to dump using winxp and nero and K3b is very similar in style to nero. I'm trying to run K3b in Gnome, some seem to be getting success with K3B while others like my self ar'nt. So who's is running K3b

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-20 Thread Larry Sword
richard bown wrote: Hi Larry, read your mail , unticked the on the fly box and action and then it did this Wrote 17 of 24 MB. ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF F1 E3 00 00 1A 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 71 00 04 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 91 41

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-19 Thread Larry Sword
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 10:09 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:10:01 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:03 pm, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: Fat16 has suport to 4gb, but its not recommended to driver

Re: [expert] USB CDR/RW include on fstab (SENT-AGAIN)

2003-06-19 Thread Larry Sword
Gonzalo Avaria wrote: First you need to make sure where is the correct mount for the drive. cdrecord -scanbus this command will display the scsibus0 and / or scsibus1 and the drive that is on this channel. I'm not sure of the cd-writer but the first drive on the bus normally is /dev/sda1. You

Re: [expert] KDE K3b cdrw

2003-06-19 Thread Larry Sword
charlie wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:23 pm, Colin Close had this to contribute :- richard bown wrote: Hi has anyone on the list had experience of setting up K3b, I can burn data files but not audio. selecting audio project reports no cdrd driver found when a burn is started, yet its

Re: [expert] create fat32 file system

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Sword
David, Have you tried it with the -F switch? mkfs.vfat -F 32 Hi, when i type mkfs.vfat /dev/hdb1 it says ..Attempting to create too large file system. Why? /dev/hdb1 is 20GB large. Thanks David Hlacik Want to buy

Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??

2003-06-17 Thread Larry Sword
Robert Crawford wrote: On Wednesday 18 June 2003 00:13, PlugHead wrote: [Re-directed to the list, after replying to Rodrigo...] IIRC, you should *always* use rpm -i (install) for kernel rpms, not -F (freshen, i.e. update.) Doing so could (will?) result in a non-bootable system (because update

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release

2003-06-14 Thread Larry Sword
Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release

2003-06-14 Thread Larry Sword
Yes that's the one as released and announced by Mandrake Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:066. Interesting thread. However - I only see the kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm in the updates section. Is that the kernel you folks are talking about ? If that's the case - then the agpgart patch for the

[expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Sword
Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running fine with the old kernel even though I had to add the acpi=off to the

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Sword
James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 19:20, Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.21-18 latest release

2003-06-13 Thread Larry Sword
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 10:20 pm, Larry Sword wrote: Mandrake's latest kernel release version 2.4.21-18mdk is a fine kettle of fish. It broke my system. I know it's suppose to fix several systems with problems with acpi but it broke my system severally. Abit VP-6 was running

Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse

2003-06-10 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I apologize if this will show up as duplicate but the original seemed not to reach the list] I have installed linux Mandrake 9.1 on my SONY VAIO GRV6161S Laptop. Since the VAIO has no PS/2 ports I bought the following adapter to attach a PS/2 keyboard and mouse to

Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse

2003-06-10 Thread Larry Sword
James Sparenberg wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Linus might not like this *grin* sorry couldn't resist it. Wow, a slip of the fingers and I find myself being internally intrusive. Apologies to the big guy :-[ . On a serious note I think Larry is

Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse

2003-06-10 Thread Larry Sword
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Sword wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Larry that was the very first thing that I tried, with no help. I told mousedrake I have a USB mouse (as under WinXP it is seen as a HID-compliant mouse) but with no luck. Sounds

Re: [expert] PS/2 to USB adapter - can't see mouse

2003-06-10 Thread Larry Sword
James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 18:16, Larry Sword wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: ??? Try ,within linus, running /usr/sbin/mousedrake. Linus might not like this *grin* sorry couldn't resist it. Wow, a slip of the fingers and I find

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-09 Thread Larry Sword
Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support

Re: [expert] Problems after bios upgrade

2003-06-09 Thread Larry Sword
Larry Sword wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc

Re: [expert] Avery business cards

2003-06-07 Thread Larry Sword
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there a program or a way to use a word processor to print business cards using Avery cards? There are 10 cards/sheet and each card is 2 x 31/2. Thanks, Sure, use openoffice writer. File - New - Business Cards. There is a setting (template) for Avery Cards. Larry

Re: [expert] Hardware compatibility 2.0

2003-06-06 Thread Larry Sword
r. wrote: Hello all! Six month ago, I bought a new mobo ... onboard, my new mobo have the Promise chip PDC20276 That offers the possibility to add 4 hard disk more and set them like Raid 0 or Raid 1 (MotherBoard : Asus P4T533 ) ... I was running MDK 9.0 ... and all my five hard disk was working

Re: [expert] Hardware compatibility 2.1

2003-06-05 Thread Larry Sword
-interface usb-uhci usb-ohci ehci-hcd above snd-cmipci snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 3c59x alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci But, It didn't work ...--- Rodrigo Sanchez DGF, U. de Chile Larry Sword wrote: Just a guess Have one motherboard with raid controllers, Abit with HPT, but I don't use raid

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound

2003-05-27 Thread Larry Sword
Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec:

Re: [expert] xcdroast -iso files

2003-04-05 Thread Larry Sword
richard bown wrote: Thanks Jack, but I just managed to make a straight copy on to the cd, so there's a bit I've missed ? TIA Richard Ref: file:/usr/share/doc/xcdroast-0.98/FAQ Q: 17. Uh...I feel stupid but how to write downloaded ISO-images? A: If you downloaded an ISO-image (e.g. a linux

Re: [expert] Re:[OT] Copernic equivalent for Linux?!? ... now we'retalking search fundamentals!

2003-03-06 Thread Larry Sword
stefmit wrote: Thank you - didn't know about this one. I will investigate those engines, in the hope for a Linux capable one. But talking about (re)search of Internet, and because you mentioned/quoted the paragraph below, then allow me to advise you to visit one very interesting site related

Re: [expert] IDE CDR device not working

2003-02-20 Thread Larry Sword
- Original Message - From: Daniel Axtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:15 Subject: [expert] IDE CDR device not working First, have you placed yourself as a member of the cdwriter group? I'm running LM 9.0 and can't get my CDR to work.

Re: [expert] Fwd: [MANDRAKE-ONLINE ADVISORY] libsane1-1.0.9-3.1mdk.i586.rpmfor bejor -- Are these for real?

2003-01-23 Thread Larry Sword
mike wrote: I keep on getting these messages, but when I run the update tool it says the list is null, I must have them all. But plainly, I don't as these are new messages. thanks for any insight. mg -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [MANDRAKE-ONLINE ADVISORY]

Re: [expert] dual head with G400

2003-01-20 Thread Larry Sword
Evaristo Ferrari wrote: Just install MDK9 inside a system with old G400DH but can't enable second monitor. I've heared that there are big problems setting up DH with G400 vcards. Can anyone help me ? TIA Evaristo http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/Ultimate.cgi Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Recognising Linux Burned CDs Under W*v

2003-01-18 Thread Larry Sword
Daryl Johnson wrote: There appears to be something seriously wrong with the setup here. The writer (an HP 9100) appears to be /dev/scd0 mounted as /mnt/cdrom2. Permissions are as follows: /dev/scd0 Block Device rw-rw daryl cdwriter scsi/host1/bus0/target2/lun0/cd

Re: [expert] Gnome Toaster question

2003-01-05 Thread Larry Sword
Phil wrote: Hello All, While demonstrating the merits of Linux to an acquaintance I was asked to burn an mp3 file to a CD in audio format. This is where my troubles started. Xcdroast apparently will only accept wave files, and Gnome Toaster would only burn the mp3 file as a data file no

Re: [expert] docbook SGML

2003-01-02 Thread Larry Sword
Philip Webb wrote: i recently wanted to use a program whose dox were all in Docbook SGML. can anyone tell me how to read such documentation? file:/usr/share/doc/samba-doc-2.2.7/docs/docbook/docbook.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] Somebody with a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK9.0?

2002-12-23 Thread Larry Sword
Stefano Pogliani wrote: If someone has a WORKING Crystal Sound 4232 on MDK 9.0, could you please help me in configuring mine? I have no sound from it since when I installled 9.0 So far, 9.0 has been great for me except for this annoyance. Thanks a lot in advance for any help. Best

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

2002-12-17 Thread Larry Sword
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 02:04 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: What is amazing to me is that nobody has had anything to say (positive or negative) about: 1) IBM drives 2) Seagate drives I have my own personal experiences with them, but am curious what others have seen. Blue

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