[expert] MDK9.1 iso's and LG

2003-11-14 Thread Steve Cox
issued by the manufacturer for their hardware. Regards Steve rant sorry just dont like all the negative mdk stuff, its LG's fault, it's now weekend now so enjoy ! /rant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 iso

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Cox
would have suited me as a release, havnt found anything to complain about yet after a month or so. But people its the weekend so ENJOY ! Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mandrake 9.2 iso

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Cox
bit as well. James Umm, just in case eveyone is confused, this is proof that linux is better, and can support HW vendors that arnt all that compliant. Remeber this long and hard Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.2 made slashdot

2003-10-26 Thread Steve Cox
been running 9.2 since it started on cooker and I dont have any problems, just waiting for my Powerpak I pre-ordered to put on my other machines. And I agree keep up the good work Mandrake, I shalln't change distro for nothing ! Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] [Q] Time to marry 9.2 with a new laptop ... + semi-rant

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Cox
, and on, and on ...), with support for VMWare, of course - if that helps narrowing down the options (i.e. translated in good integrated NIC, good Wi-Fi integrated one, etc.), TIA, Stef I dont have any probs on an el-cheapo aopen, p4 1.7ghz running 9.2 cooker Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Bittorrent bandwidth maximization

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Cox
for two days now and I'm only at 5.9%. TIA LX I had the same problem + ALL adsl in South Africa gets capped at 3gig (up and down together) so I would never have got the 3 cds anyway. I just bommed it at 340meg after 48hours and ordered the Powerpak. I am running 9.2rc2 anyway. Good luck Steve

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

2003-10-17 Thread Steve Cox
dont the mirrors mirror the three iso's as torrents and then the general public can get the download advantage? Regards Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-22 Thread Kitchener, Steve
screens over a serial link. -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 14:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:47 pm, Kitchener, Steve wrote: Hi James, I know about ssh

[expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-19 Thread Kitchener, Steve
Hi, I need to be able to get at the screens that are displayed when you enter the key sequence CNTRL/ALT + F1 etc on a remote machine. I know that VNC will give me a display of my desktop, but is there a facility in VNC that isn't obvious or is there a text equivalent of VNC. Thanks Stephen

RE: [expert] remote access to text only screens

2003-09-19 Thread Kitchener, Steve
. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2003 11:03 To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] remote access to text only screens On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 02:42, Kitchener, Steve wrote: Hi, I need to be able to get at the screens that are displayed

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Browne
an Nvidia video card and a Viewsonic LCD; I had to download Nvidia's driver before I could get KDE to load onscreen. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Illuminati Tesuque, NM, Chapter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Kernel Update - NVIDIA Driver Problem

2003-08-04 Thread Kitchener, Steve
Hi... Sorry to but in - but I am waiting to install the new kernel .25 but I am holding off until I can find and build the new rams for Nvidia, I can find the rpm on the Mandrake club site, but I cannot find the src rpms, do they exist and if so, where would they be located. Thanks

[expert] configure touchpad on Aopen1845A laptop

2003-07-29 Thread steve
configure this, or what should I be reading up on. I am using KDE, but would probably change to ice when I get it working. Any help / pointers appreciated. Best regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [OT] Microsoft is a platinum sponsor for LinuxWorld Malaysia 2003 - eh?

2003-07-22 Thread Steve Cox
, This is perhaps a good thing. Competition is good for both sides. Of course in the long run Linux will do and is doing better. Some of us are forced to use M$ at work and stuff anyways. Less bickering = less time wasted = more time 2 develop. Regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-07-01 Thread Steve Cox - dig
On Sunday, 29 June 2003 01:32, John Wilson wrote: On June 27, 2003 09:56 am, Steve Cox - dig wrote: Hi there, This might be a little bit newbie, not sure. I want to keep an eye on my ip address off my adsl line, as it changes I would like a scirpt to run, basically uploading to a hosted

[expert] adsl logging ip add changes live

2003-06-27 Thread Steve Cox - dig
want to run dyndns just yet, but if this turns out to be the best solution, then so be it, I will. Oh, I am more a user, and not so good at bash scripting, so if there isnt an easy way, dont worry, I'll go the dyndns route. Best regards Steve Cox Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-13 Thread Steve Cox - dig
it aside) before trying, if you dare, again. (btw mine works.. not that this helps you at all.) James If you want/are running cooker, update the normal updates first after the fresh install, then cooker. I had some issues but came right. Running smoothly now. My 2 cents Regards Steve Cox Want

RE: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root?

2003-06-09 Thread Steve Cox - dig
. Regards Steve Cox -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Blomquist Sent: Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:32 To: Expert Subject: [expert] Dumbest thing you have ever done as Root? Well, I was trying to correct a few weird permission faults today in my

RE: [expert] spamassassin kmail

2003-05-30 Thread Kitchener, Steve
Hi Eric, Could you send it to me as well - I have been looking to do this for ages - thanks -Original Message- From: eric huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2003 15:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jonathan Dlouhy Subject: Re: [expert] spamassassin kmail Could someone either

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

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Browne
. The UDMA setting is controlled by the manufacturer's software utility. I don't work with WD drives but I'll bet yours is set to UDMA2. Go to WD's Web site and there is probably a utility you can download to change the UDMA setting. IBM's utility runs under PCDOS on a single boot floppy. Steve Stephen

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Driver help needed Mandrake9 installation

2002-12-15 Thread Steve Browne
, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-18 Thread Steve Browne
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:45:42 -0400, you wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:55 pm, Steve Browne wrote: ... dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb This works for me on an ext2 system. Not sure about ext3 and the others. Warning: depending on your CPUs and drive sizes, the transfer can take a LONG time

Re: [expert] Best way to backup.

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Browne
, the transfer can take a LONG time. Like, five hours. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] how to test CPU-temperature, fan etc. ?

2002-10-10 Thread Steve Browne
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:17:38 +0200, you wrote: hi, does anyone have knowledge about progs or scripts, which are able to find out, which temperature the CPU have and perhaps RAM or other things ? thanks and bye hans Install gkrellm. It's on your installation CDs. Steve Stephen B. Browne

Re: [expert] Spanish question mark

2002-09-30 Thread Steve Browne
. The extended ASCII code is 168. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] compiling a c++ program in mandrake

2002-06-27 Thread Steve
faisal gillani wrote: hello there i have started using mandrake as one of my normal usage O/S but i still cannot make out how to do development in c++ for example in my windows i have turbo c 3 which i use IDE to develop programs if i want to make a program as follows how can i make complie it

[expert] Modifying $PATH in KDE3 terminal

2002-06-04 Thread Steve Browne
. I have no .profile in my /home/steve directory. There is nothing in .bash_profile or .bashrc which lists the directories of $PATH. Where else should I look, or is there a runlevel 3 command (as root) to reset user steve's $PATH ? Thank you. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit

[expert] Changing Desktop Manager?

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Browne
to the Gnome DM. How do I change that? Thank you. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Steve Browne
; he's sold on the hardware. The irony is, I recently read that IBM is getting out of the hard drive business. I don't know if that means selling off that arm, or stopping production. Anybody know more? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
the system shared libraries, thus Netscape can use its shared libraries installed in the system, and Opera will use its own that are compiled right into the binary. Hope this helps, Dave There is a newsgroup, opera.linux If your ISP carries it, you might find the problem discussed there. Steve Stephen

[expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
-plugins' I have no idea what this message means. Do you? Thanks, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
There is no available input plugin available to handle 'xine-ui version 0.9.8'. means that xine can't find the DVD, or is a piece of the software missing? Regards, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Xine error message

2002-05-13 Thread Steve Browne
On Mon, 13 May 2002 16:12:17 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:22:36 -0600 Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:16:37 +0200, you wrote: Stephen, Are you trying to run an encripted dvd? The plugin for those dvd are not supported by Mandrake, due

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Browne
the same problem, so I hope you get an answer. It has something to do with missing symbolic links. You could try asking this in the newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake; I often get quick answers there. Good luck, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] lm_sensors broken in 8.2

2002-05-06 Thread Steve Browne
and /etc/modules.conf Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] print servers

2002-04-21 Thread Steve
The Netgear PS110 print server is also a very good choice. I went thru two of the Linksys printservers, and never got either one of them to work. Of course maybe the store I purchased them from had a bad batch. I own alot of Linksys equipment, and never had a problem with any of it. The

[expert] best firewall

2002-04-14 Thread Steve
What is the best firewall to use with linux mandrake these days? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] monitor refresh rates

2002-04-04 Thread Steve
rate? I'm using a Geforce 256 DDR, with the latest drivers from Nvidia. I would appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks in advance. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] command for making a rpm

2002-03-13 Thread Steve Browne
that you just mentioned [rpm -tb x.tar.gz] would still work like I just quoted. Harold There is a program called Alien which will do this. You will have to rebuild Alien's rpm from the source code, which you can find at: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] Only root can use dri how to fix it?

2002-02-19 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, For some reason I dont know but today when I run bzflags as normal user, things are terribly slow ; even I have to reset the computer, I guess something wrong with dri. After reboot, I try to run it as root and it is good. Some permission is wrong but I dont know how to fix it; probably the

[expert] Mouse flicky wacky :-)

2002-02-12 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I dont know if some one has ; in one of my box, amd athlon Duron 900Mn, S3 savagepro video card (I have to use the latest savage_drv.o to work,not working by default in Mandrake 8.1) . The problem is with the mouse movement, If the setting by KDE default, (accel 2 threadshold 2) it is too

[expert] Mozilla 0.9.7 question

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Is there any way to tell mozilla not to unzip a tar.gz file when downloading (save link as) ? I try edit preferences and helper application file type but it doesn;t show any hint, just two file types there and not the tar.gz one, why mozilla always runs helper to extract and save and the

[expert] Shell scripting question

2002-02-05 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, How can I tell ls to display the \ in a file name or directory name Usually if I do mkdir Test\ This ls Test This How can I tell ls to make its output as a continuous string like Test\ This Well the real problem is ; I want to convert every mp3 file in a directory to ogg vorbis, and

Re: [expert] System freeze on kernel compilation

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Kieu
5. Run 'make modules_install make install'. I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to /boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-) This process used to work perfectly, but now the process freezes my whole computer

Re: [expert] Memory leak?

2002-02-02 Thread Steve Kieu
The VM in the kernel 2.4.x has problems this is a _hot_ topic in the LKML; so the kernel in MDK8.1 From my experience I use 2.4.13 and it is quite good in terms of VM management. Try it first. Regard --- David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 8.1. After starting my system,

Re: [expert] Memory leak?

2002-02-02 Thread Steve Kieu
--- David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Kieu grabbed a keyboard and wrote: The VM in the kernel 2.4.x has problems this is a _hot_ topic in the LKML; so the kernel in MDK8.1 From my experience I use 2.4.13 and it is quite good The kernel I mentioned is the official 2.4.13

[expert] Mozilla 0.9.7 for mdk 8.1?

2002-01-31 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi I am looking for mozilla-0.9.7 for mandrake 8.1 ; if any one knows where or compiled it sucessfully from cooker source pls let me know. I try to compile from source but it gave me segmentation fault when it nearly finshed the compilation. And binary package from cooker depends a lot of other

Re: [expert] Cases

2002-01-27 Thread Steve
Lian-Li cases are really awesome. They're made of aluminum, they're light, no sharp edges, and very high quality. Bruce Endries wrote: What are you looking for in a case? I have been assembling computers for 10 years now, and have used a lot of different kinds. Currently, for a normal

Re: [expert] urpmi problems

2002-01-27 Thread Steve Kieu
I got it ; I think we should file a bug report to mdk; its MandrakeUpdate for 8.1 is really buggy. I have to reinstall from scratch and now I still can not update, (If I use it is back). Just use it to install packages from cdrom ; --- NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason

[expert] sb driver suported?

2002-01-27 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, This is not running in mdk8.1 as the machine is too old, 486 100Mh box 18Mb RAM, and a sound card (I am not sure its type) working with sb.o driver in OSS Free (the linux kernel) . I am trying to use it with alsa but no success so far, tried using snd-card-sb8.o ; snd-card-sb16.o ,

Re: [expert] Cases

2002-01-27 Thread Steve
lost focus. ;-) How much are they, and where can you buy them? Mike Steve wrote: Lian-Li cases are really awesome. They're made of aluminum, they're light, no sharp edges, and very high quality. E-mail scanned by McAfee

[expert] Tyan Dual AMD board

2002-01-24 Thread Steve
the chipset correctly, the kernel causes other things to break. Does anyone have any suggestions on what would be the best kernel to use on my system? Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Package for Printting Unicode document

2002-01-23 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Which packages in mdk 8.1 needed to print a utf8 html page and retain its WYSIWYG , ? I got several pages using utf8 and truetype font Times-New Roman. It is displayed correctly in both Mozilla and Konqueror but when print out, it is not, Thanks a lot in advance = S.KIEU

Re: [expert] Recording vcd's

2002-01-19 Thread Steve Kieu
Also what app's are used to build vcd's under linux? I heard of vcdimager, it is quite nice tool All the instructions I have found so far depend on xawtv to create a .mov to start the process, or have difficulties in one area or another for me - high processor usage, low frame

[expert] Best mp3 encoder ?

2002-01-16 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I was confused, lame package in mdk is not mp3 encoder :-) and the name is so confusing. I compile lame from source but when running it gave segmentation fault after working for a while, just wondering what is the best mp3 encoding should I use? bladeenc included in mdk but last time I try,

Re: [expert] xine problems.

2002-01-16 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded everything I need to install xine 0.9.7-3 (cooker rpms). Installed all the plugins etc. now when I want to play a divx file sometimes the frames just hang during a video. Also sometimes it takes 10 secons or so before I hear sound, if I

Re: [expert] SSH message not to panic

2002-01-16 Thread Steve
I have a Solaris server at work running SSH-2.0-2.0.13 and lately I've noticed weird addresses in the logs attempting to connect to the sshd server. It seems that we have similar problems. Here are a few examples of the log entries: Dec 27 18:55:10 sshd2: refused connect from

[expert] Is there any update for kppp?

2002-01-16 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, kppp has its known memory leak bug but I am not sure if there is any update / fix or work around this bug for Mandrake 8.1 Thanks = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Can not play music CD with alsa

2002-01-15 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I have searched the bug database in alsa site but found nothing similar, the thing is very strange. I got via686a card ; two cd using ide-scsi for all as one is cd-writer, alsa-0.5.12a ; everyhting is fine (play xmms, etc..) except cd music doesn't play no matter I try. When iserting music

Re: [expert] Can not play music CD with alsa

2002-01-15 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WinME does not need the cable to play Audio CD's From Win ME onwatds Windows Media PLayer uses the Yes u are rigth, I tested this IDE interface to play CD's. Some cheapskate manufacturers now save themselves 10p by not supplying the cable!!

[expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi all, When installing mdk8.1 it suggests that I should use XFree 3.3.6 if I want 3 D accelation with this cards Riva TNT2, I did and some program (game) using OpenGL doesn't work, (some work!) Then I read from the web that nvidia has its own driver and works with 4.1.0 ; admit that XFree

RE: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
screen. you haven't done that you are still using the original Linux drivers. Check out www.mandrakeforum.org site or www.nvidia.com and look for documentation for the drivers. -Original Message- From: Steve Kieu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 12:14

Re: [expert] nvidia mkd8.1 question SOLVED

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Steve Kieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] grumbled this: Anyhow here is the link to the site I forgot to add to the last email: http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake8/ Yeas I checked that site read info there, but no file to download ; When reading I found that may be the other

[expert] Printer question.

2002-01-14 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, The printer I got is Epson Stylus C60, and it is supported with CUPS+gimp-print-4.2.0 . If I run Printer from Control Center it doesn't list this printer. So I pull a gimp-print source code, compile it with cups ; but after that I can not see the entry in Printerdrake as well as access

[expert] Java Virtual Machine problem

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I guess that there are many people having no problem with jdk but I have, that is strange; Any way, here is what I did, I got a machine running debian woody and install jdk1.3.1_01 in /usr/local; I make a tar.bz2 of the directory and extract it to /usr/local in the mandrake machine. Insall

Re: [expert] Java Virtual Machine problem

2002-01-13 Thread Steve Kieu
Thanks the problem turns out to be rather stupid :-) but I did not find it out, then reading your hint, create a symbolic link to matches your java version /usr/bin/java - /usr/java/jre1.3.1_02/bin/.java_wrapper /usr/bin/java exists and it is a wrapper to run kaffe in Mandrake, not my jdk,

Re: [expert] Video card help urgent pls,

2002-01-12 Thread Steve Kieu
for the response download the newest Xfree packages. These will solve your problems with the driver. Then boot into X and go from there. Nelson On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 16:24, Steve Kieu wrote: Hi, I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is supported by Mandrake and if yes how

[expert] Video card help urgent pls,

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I would like to know if the card S3 ProSavage KM133 is supported by Mandrake and if yes how or which documentation for setting it up; Thanks alot = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] Problems after adding a SCSI card.

2002-01-10 Thread Steve Helder
through each one? (I might miss one, heh.) Any assistance or guidance to the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Steve Helder Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] kernel update question

2002-01-09 Thread Steve
installing them? I would appreciate any help. Thanks. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV

2002-01-08 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What video card to use in Linux to watch movies on my TV In other words. Which video card has the best tv-out support in Linux? Please do not reply with theoretical bullshit, but would like to hear some practical examples. IF you say so, why not

[expert] Xine and mplayer in mandrake 8.1?

2001-12-25 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I got several problem with xine and mplayer with mdk 8.1 with my friend machine. Xine; compile latest version and install ok; but crash the whole system in my friend comp (intel pentium 3 S3 savage4 rev 2 according to the XFree86 log file in /var/log ) not leave any messages at all the

[expert] Mandrake in low mem machine.

2001-12-24 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, My friend has a pentium 100Mh box with only 16Mb ram. I need an advice on how to install mandrake 8.1 on this machine, is it possible? Probably I need to install in text mode? By the way I would like to ask if any one has the same problem, that is if I install Mandrake using the

[expert] epson stylus c60 in mandrake 8.1 help

2001-12-22 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, This printer is marked as fully supported but I can not see the entry when using mandrake printter tool, pls help = S.KIEU http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WMA in Linux?

2001-12-19 Thread Steve
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:29:57PM +0100, Tobias Marx wrote: Am Mon, 2001-12-17 um 17.53 schrieb Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN: look at http://xine.sourceforge.net They state that with the win32 codecs (downloadable) you can play Win Media 7/8 files imho mplayer can play wma files, too

[expert] AMD 760MP setup...

2001-12-17 Thread Steve
Everyone I need your help here. I just build a new computer using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460 motherboard. For those of you that don't know, this motherboard has the AMD 760MP chipset which supports the dual Athlon MP processors. Anyway I have the Tiger MP with dual AthonMP 1.2 gig processors

Re: [expert] AMD 760MP setup...

2001-12-17 Thread Steve
This bios recognizes the drive as a UDMA mode 5 drive which is ATA100, but Mandrake does not. Darwin Gottfried wrote: 20011218032158.DSYB15616.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@there"> On Monday 17 December 2001 19:39, you wrote: Everyone I need your help here. I just build a new

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-14 Thread Steve
signature which mutt puts under my mail body. One possible solution may be running the script by a cron job every 5 minutes during 'mail writing hours'. Since you're using mutt, one can put the uptime in the headers as well. I prefer this over the signature tag line. shrug. --Steve Want to buy

[expert] $REMOTEHOST in mdk 8.1 question

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, Whenever I login from other machine, the variable $REMOTEHOST is set to the hostname of that machine, but it is not in Mandrake. How can I enable this? Thanks = S.KIEU http://shopping.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Shopping - Free CDs for thousands of Priority Shoppers! Want to buy your

Re: [expert] galeon-1.0 and mozilla-0.9.6

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Browne
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:11:19 +0600, you wrote: has anyone successfully build galeon-1.0 from mozilla-0.9.6?? mark Someone said that if you have mozilla-0.9.6 you can install galeon 1.0-1 from the i386.rpm (without rebuilding from source). If this works, let me know. Steve Stephen B. Browne

Re: [expert] galeon-1.0 and mozilla-0.9.6

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Browne
Good luck! You sure you don't like rpms? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mozilla upgrade bbqs galeon?

2001-11-26 Thread Steve Browne
dependencies not included in Mandrake 8.1. So I'm sticking with the old 0.12 until Mandrake cooker offers 1.0. It is getting more and more difficult to upgrade just a part of a release because of all the changing dependencies. So why bother? Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras

[expert] Hi Group I don't think my previous question made it

2001-11-25 Thread steve
. If this ? mechanism ? is an Xsetroot, how do I convert the jpeg to a pm files easily. Again thanks in advance for your advice. Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] hello all

2001-11-20 Thread Steve
but can't seem to figure this out. -Steve Hare

[expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread Steve
If anyone is using the Tyan Tiger MP S2460, could you please tell me how you were able to get udma 100 to work properly. Mandrake 8.1 wants to use udma 33 instead. I figure it may have something to do with Mandrake detecting the AMD 760MP chipset. If you have any pointers on setting up

Re: [expert] Tyan Tiger MP and linux...

2001-11-19 Thread Steve
what happens. Do you know if the lm sensors package will work with this motherboard? J Grant wrote: Hi Steve I do not know the state of the current kernel but my mdk8.1 box had and is still having problems with my adaptec SCSI card did not work, IDE CDROM would not work, finally I got another

[expert] AbiWord hoses KDE desktop

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Browne
this happen? Installing one program SHOULDN'T interefere with another program. Thank you, Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] AbiWord hoses KDE desktop

2001-11-16 Thread Steve Browne
, because when I removed AbiWord (rpm -e abiword) and relogged in, the KDE desktop was back to normal even though I have left libpng3 installed. The fault is with AbiWord OR its interaction with libpng3. BTW, AbiWord was working fine with libpng3. Further thoughts? Thanks. Steve Stephen B. Browne

[expert] terminal problem with period char

2001-10-18 Thread Steve
suggestions? Thanks. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764 /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X

Re: [expert] terminal problem with period char

2001-10-18 Thread Steve
for the suggestion however Bill. On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 21:33, Steve wrote: Wierd problem I'm having just recently. After my box has been up for a couple of days the period char won't appear when I type it in a terminal. Using rxvt but the same happens in xterm or aterm. Restarting Xserver fixes

[expert] setting up new linux workstations

2001-09-30 Thread Steve
If you were asked by someone to build two linux workstations where one had to be pentium 4 based and the other athlon based, what two motherboards would you use? For the pentium 4, I was considering the Abit TH7II-Raid (i850 chipset). I am not for certain if there are any known issues with

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Steve
, and that NetBSD is considered the most ported UNIX. Other than that, the web sites will be much more informative Don't forget BeOS as well will run quite nicely on a Nubus box. Still available for free last time I checked. -- Steve - Toronto ICQ 35454764

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Steve
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0400, Steve wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I

RE: [expert] spaces and command line

2001-09-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Backquote them. For example cd A\ directory\ with\ spaces Don't forget you can always uses filename completion by typing part of the name and hitting tab. As for scrolling back up console screens, you can use SHIFT-ARROW-UP or PAGE-UP Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386

Re: [expert] Promise 'LI' at boot

2001-09-14 Thread Steve Browne
booting, type from the command or Xterm line, lilo. That will reconfigure lilo. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas odit moras Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory

2001-09-07 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Cheers Laurent - perfectly acceptable answer from Jeff, and I can see the logic behind it. Thanks for looking into it for me. Satisfied my curiosity anyway! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Laurent Duperval [SMTP

RE: [expert] Find Command

2001-09-05 Thread FLYNN, Steve
This works here... Remove all files in your home directory named a.out or *.o that have not been accessed for a week: find $HOME \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' \) -atime +7 -exec rm {} \; Note the '*.o'... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original

RE: [expert] Netscape wish using up memory

2001-09-05 Thread FLYNN, Steve
for performance increases, but it appears to fail as it causes swapping itself! Have I got the wrong end of the stick? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Laurent Duperval [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September

RE: [expert] Fast KDE

2001-09-04 Thread FLYNN, Steve
This might be a silly question but how do I actually perform this pre-linking act. I've only just upgraded to MDK 8.0 from 6.5 so I've never had this problem before, but I have noticed a considerable difference in KDE startup time since performing the re-install... Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration

RE: [expert] kapm-idled????

2001-08-23 Thread FLYNN, Steve
HD activity on your box when this happens? Also, I notice that X seems to consuming a hell of a lot of ram on your machine - I don't have an Mandrake 8.0 machine here at work, to check but I'm sure my box with 256 meg doesn't have 37M sucked up by X! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst

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