Re: [expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
difficult to write something similar for kde-1.1.2's audioserver (if it hasn't yet been written)? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman

[expert] Audio problem with xmms and kde. . .

2001-01-23 Thread Norvell Spearman
with this. ---Norvell Spearman

[expert] 7.2 and possible marital problems. . .

2000-12-17 Thread Norvell Spearman
. Because of a few other slight problems with 7.2, I've been thinking about returning to 7.1 and I'd like to have hardware accel for my video card---unless that's the root of the lockup I had with 7.2. Thanks very much for any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman Keep in touch with http

[expert] 7.2, removing cups. . .

2000-12-17 Thread Norvell Spearman
do I fix this? Thanks for any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] ramdisk

2000-09-06 Thread Norvell Spearman
mdisk than the kernel allows, you'll need to recompile the kernel. Hope this helps. . . ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Lost and Found ?? ?

2000-09-06 Thread Norvell Spearman
in the filesystem to store a large number of unlinked files. This ensures that e2fsck will not have to allocate data blocks in the filesystem during recovery. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

[expert] netscape stalls over ppp. . .

2000-08-30 Thread Norvell Spearman
and 6.1. Thanks for any help with this. . . ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Secure kernel

2000-08-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
. You may want to try telling your e-mail program to compose in plain text as opposed to HTML. I may want to try a different mail reader. . . ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] ide tape, Linux-Mandrake 7.1 problems. . .

2000-08-26 Thread Norvell Spearman
with my colorado 5gig. It worked fine with Mandrake 7.0. I'm kinnda stuck with my data on the tape and I cannot extract it. Hope you found a solution for my problem. -- _ Marc Bourget ---Norvell Spearman

Re: [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-20 Thread Norvell Spearman
, as we are interested in freedoms. And also, how fast is it to sign up for another acct on a free e-mail? That takes a matter of minutes, where tracking down the cause of the flames may take days of messages to find out. -- Regards, Ellick Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 20 -- ---Norvell

[expert] Painless disaster recovery. . .

2000-08-18 Thread Norvell Spearman
this is in a HOWTO which I missed, I apologize for the superfluous posting. . . ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set the default editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Norvell Spearman
:-) (that was a joke, not flame bait) ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

[expert] drakfloppy and disaster recovery. . .

2000-08-09 Thread Norvell Spearman
/gzip or dump/restore? Should I copy fdisk and mke2fs to the bootfloppy, run fdisk and mke2fs to recreate my file systems, and then just untar/restore from the tape? Thanks for any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip

[expert] netscape pukes when pppd is down

2000-08-05 Thread Norvell Spearman
. Is this a netscape problem, or does it have to do with a possible change in the script files that call 4.72 and 4.73? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

[expert] netscape = 4.73 pukes w/o connection. . .

2000-08-02 Thread Norvell Spearman
know that /usr/bin/netscape is really a script that calls the binary. Could the problem be in the script, or something lacking in 4.73's script? I used Mandrake's rpms for 4.73 and netscape's tarball for 4.74. Thanks much for any help with this. . . ---Norvell Spearman

[expert] kernel-secure and NetHack. . .

2000-07-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
with this. . . ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Need help....

2000-07-29 Thread Norvell Spearman
---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Urgent! KDE won't log off to console!

2000-07-26 Thread Norvell Spearman
near you. I'm sure I saw at least a version 4.01 somewhere. Wish I could be more helpful. . . ---Norvell Spearman Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Just bought and installed LM 7.1. The installation went fine but I have one urgent problem: Normally when I log off from my default desktop

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-25 Thread Norvell Spearman
at home :-). Thanks. Steve Browne wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:59:23 +0100, you wrote: Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman

Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems

2000-07-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape using tar/gz, taper, or kdat? Thanks. ---Norvell Spearman Jeff Groves wrote: Check out Mondo-Rescue http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/03/20/953566206

Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems

2000-07-20 Thread Norvell Spearman
. root seems to have taken a beating. Sorry to butt in on this, but I noticed the same thing when using 7.1: root's right-click menu wasn't complete, as compared to regular users. If this is already general knowledge, again, all apologies. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble

[expert] /etc/skel

2000-07-15 Thread Norvell Spearman
are copied to the new home directory. Any suggestions for a simpler/more elegant solution? Thanks much. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe

Re: [expert] Problem with RPM hanging...

2000-07-09 Thread Norvell Spearman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that when I invoke: rpm -ivh package.somerpm.rpm that the rpm binary hangs and keeps processing forever (until I reboot). Any ideas on this one? It seems to eat up my resources too; I can't even login on another terminal to monitor what's

Re: [expert] Problem downloading 7.1 ISO file

2000-07-07 Thread Norvell Spearman
bobby dowling wrote: I just finished downloading from sunsite.utk.edu and free.fr ...no problems with either iso image. If every site you download from stops at the same point downloading the same file (weird!), then maybe the problem is on your end...? Hi, I tried to download the

[expert] ide-tape again; don't call PETA yet. . .

2000-07-03 Thread Norvell Spearman
that it works with 7.1 (without re-compiling the whole kernel)? If possible, how would I do so? Thanks for any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman

Re: [expert] KPPP problems with Mandrake 7.1

2000-07-03 Thread Norvell Spearman
Jon Hewitt wrote: Heeep! After installing MD7.1 I found that KPPP would not work, it would dial,make the connection and seeminly login, then immediately log off. I found that going to DrakConf/Network Configuration/PPP/Slip/Plip I could make the connection, close everything and

[expert] UDMA66 Mandrake 7.1. . .

2000-07-01 Thread Norvell Spearman
Linux-Mandrake 7.1 has UDMA66 support ``out of the box,'' right? Is there a way to disable it or make 7.1 use only UDMA33 for all IDE devices? I'm pretty sure I have no UDMA66 drives. Thanks for any help with this. . . ---Norvell Spearman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] UDMA66 Mandrake 7.1. . .

2000-07-01 Thread Norvell Spearman
? ---Norvell Spearman P.S. All apologies to anyone to whom my numerous postings have become tiresome. If I have to, I'll go back to 7.0, but 7.1 has so many features I like. . . --- [root@localhost blah]# tar xzvpf /dev/ht0 tar

Re: [expert] UDMA66 problem

2000-06-28 Thread Norvell Spearman
In what way could the hard drive not be up to spec? The original post said the problem didn't exist with Mandrake 7.0. Not trying to butt in, but I also have an IDE device which did work with 7.0 but does not with 7.1. ---Norvell Spearman John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, you

Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So anybody fixed it ? It is not problem with MC i did try a few different versions Well, I just uninstalled the mc which comes with Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (`rpm -e --nodeps mc') then installed the mc off my 7.02 CD and I can now browse rpms again. And the file listing

[expert] using menu system in 7.1 for 7.0

2000-06-24 Thread Norvell Spearman
Since I can't get my tape drive to work after installing 7.1, I'm downgrading to 7.0. Anybody know how to incorporate the new X menu system from 7.1 into 7.0? Thanks much. ---Norvell

Re: [expert] mc listing and rpm problem

2000-06-21 Thread Norvell Spearman
as I could before (mc still works with tar.gz files, however). Anyone else already figured out how to fix this? ---Norvell Spearman

Re: [expert] fonts in 7.0

2000-06-20 Thread Norvell Spearman
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: Is there an easy way to add windows fonts for usage in Linux with 7.0 ?? Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) You should be able to download install the rpm for DrakFont (it's a GUI program) from the 7.1 distribution and

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-15 Thread Norvell Spearman
The second link is the source for defrag which contains an interesting README comparing bootup times before and after running defrag. http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2.html ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs/defrag-0.70.tar.gz ---Norvell Spearman

[expert] ide tape, Linux-Mandrake 7.1 problems. . .

2000-06-15 Thread Norvell Spearman
it. I'll include the error messages below. I've tried backing up and restoring a few files to/from /dev/fd0 with no problems, so I guess it's safe to say the problem is not with tar or gzip. I'd greatly appreciate any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-12 Thread Norvell Spearman
provements. ---Norvell Spearman

[expert] Linux-Mandrake 7.1, ide tape, and installation. . .

2000-06-11 Thread Norvell Spearman
is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors --- Thanks very much for any help with this. ---Norvell Spearman