Re: [expert] 9.2 and BootDisk

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
to indicate it can be done as user. For me that wouldn't work, but as root 'mkrescue --iso' created a bootable image named rescue.iso (3.2 mb)in the directory I ran the command from. I burned it with 'biso rescue.iso' (alias biso='cdrecord -v -eject speed=12 dev=0,0,0 -dao') tom # rpm -q

Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
[AC97 Audio Controller] [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (actually the sound chip is an ADI AD-1980) ...and I'm using tom $ uname -r 2.4.22-21.tmb.2mdk The sound works just fine. I did have to install aumix-2.8-6mdk (it wasn't installed by default) and move all it's sliders to 100%, then do the same

Re: [expert] I think it's safe to say the 2.4.22 kernel series is screwed

2003-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
with the drivers that are used for it (3c2000, sk98lin) I just disabled it in bios an use an old D-Link NIC I had (8139too). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] garbage collection ?

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
and on on the cooker and lkml lists. It's also been my experience. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Thinking of switching to Mandrake

2003-11-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
work in older versions also, with no need for separate folders. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi questions

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
sources. EG, tom # urpmc club uses a synthesis file. Cannot output changelog. Will list package names only. Reconfigure the medium to use a hdlist file to get a changelog. kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk - kernel-source-2.4.22-25mdk Even ones you may have in your /etc/urpmi/skip.list (I have

Re: [expert] Re: MDK 9.2 ISOs Released (was:Public downloadable 9.2 ISO's for non club members)

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
Mandrake92-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] pc doesn't shutdown

2003-11-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
explain it better than I can. I searched it when Mandrake started usin it instead of =off. Basically it still disables acpi, but allows for cpu enumeration. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Mirroring contents of old drive onto new drive

2003-11-11 Thread Tom McLaughlin
about screwing this up. Thanks! Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Where can I get mandrake precompiled kernels .config files?

2003-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
-- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MDK9.1 to MDK9.2 Update Issues - Hope that this is not a Final ISO!

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
to about 500mb in a Windoze fat32 directory, C:\Mandrake. I was dual bootin Red Hat and Winblows at the time. I played around with phat for a short time, liked KDE, so I got 'real' Mandrake CD's and replaced RH ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
. urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v The no verify part get around the signature deal. I prefer wget as it retries better than curl. Unless you're positive the mirror you're usin is absolutely in order and up to date, --force could be a disaster. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] source of rpm contrib

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
the appropriate source and upgrade it too. No problemo (anymore, it's been so for quite a while) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
RC2 now, update to current cooker, and by Monday you'll have 9.2 final. The same is possible by adding cooker sources to 9.1 an updating to current 9.2. Whether the iso's (or bittorrent) are available or not. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 16 2003 09:16 am, Philip Webb wrote: a 3rd night of testing (generally) success! i still don't know what the FSB is auto'ly being set to, but the mobo is recognising the CPU correctly as a 2500+ setting the CPU frequency at 1833 MHz . What does this say? tom # cat

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo (3)

2003-09-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 16 2003 01:50 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:28:30 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this say? tom # cat /proc/cpuinfo Just curious, what's the full output from the above for your system? Charles tom # cat /proc

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
producers are probly 90% of the CDr's out there. At least in the USA. OTOH, production CD's have problems too. IIRC, many reported bad CD's for 9.1 were sent out in boxed sets by Mandrake's distributor. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Video processing box

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
' (you're the one that'll have to live with what you buy ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
the CD's you have to HDD, an try'n install that way. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RC2 installation

2003-09-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
often work well enough to get me thru the install after a few tries. In any event, I believe your system is just havin trouble with the CD's you were sent. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
, probly easier than re-getting RC2. urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v, on the main mirrors. At least they didn't play bittorrent games this time. Best way to turn broadband into a 14,4K dialup connection IMO. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday September 9 2003 04:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 9, 2003 03:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 01:34 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: From NL it should be at your adress on Thursday or Friday at the most

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
+ hours to go ;) The RC2 iso's were already burned 7 hours ago from an ftp d/l. Suppose I could start bittsh!+ before goin to bed, but that'd only be contributing to the mistaken delinquency and delusion of others ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
luck (and night), HarM HarM, post the link you posted to the 'other' list ;) No damn boat, pretty good size ship! Maybe you could contract some dredging as an affiliate venture? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
) an tracks. I was never able to over format an ext2 floppy with any utility. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Poll: Successful Boot Disk Creation

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
install CD's. So who needs a boot floppy anyhow? ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 1 2003 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 01 Sep 2003 10:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Anne, 'dmidecode' (as root) will tell you what voltage the AGP slot has, among other bios settings. EG (excerpt from mine), Handle 0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes

Re: [expert] OT: Hardware guru please - advice needed

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
0x001B DMI type 9, 13 bytes. Card Slot Slot: AGP Type: 32bit Long AGP Status: In use. Slot Features: 3.3v -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [expert] 9.2-RC1 VT8233 sound

2003-09-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
for everything else. Try runnin 'draksound' from a console as root. Make sure both aumix and kmix aren't muted, or have sound levels set to 0. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.1 Pentium 4

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
? An coolin? Fancy cpu coolers are for the kiddies, jus keep the case at room temp an a generic cpu hs/fan will do jus' fine. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MP3 to Wave

2003-08-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
on an 80 minute CDr. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] dev/sound

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
' -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi force

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
and with caution ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Dumb URPMI question

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
times it's necessary to try several mirrors as some files may be missing on some mirrors, or the hdlist is incorrect. SSM (edit-urpm-sources.pl) makes this quick an easy. Just check or uncheck the sources you want to dis/enable, ie, to switch mirrors. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] STOOOOPIDITY...

2003-07-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
also be throttled, and it will resume broken d/l's. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] XCDRoast annoyance

2003-07-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
tried Gcombust. I'll have a play with it when I have time Anne You might try simplecdrx-1.3.1-1mdk.i586.rpm Tho it's even simpler with a few aliases an the CL ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] perl(Authen::Smb::Smb)

2003-07-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
-part, as I'm sure my reply will. I believe the Mandrake footer that sympa adds is responsible. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 16 2003 08:14 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: [root /tom] $ hddtemp /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 67°C /dev/hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2: 47°C I don't know whether to believe this output or not. They're good performing HDD's, not a hint of problem. Jeez, I could

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
cycles of this were needed before they could get all the data off of it, and then trash it. (Why I like seagates new drives they run super cool.) James hddtemp-0.3-0.beta4.2mdk (rpm) [root /tom] $ hddtemp /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 67°C /dev/hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2: 47°C I

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday July 16 2003 05:58 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: hddtemp-0.3-0.beta4.2mdk (rpm) [root /tom] $ hddtemp /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0: 67°C /dev/hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2: 47°C I don't know whether to believe this output or not. They're good performing HDD's

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 15 2003 01:11 pm, Thomas K. Gamble wrote: Anyone know which mbs have the core temp sensors? From reading, not experience a few Asus, Gigabyte and a coupl'a others for new AMD XP's. IIRC, I read it to Tom's Hardware Guide. Check there or Google. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
of the rar's. Or use file-roller. Bring up the rar's in a file manager, click on the first part, then OK. Both the CL and the GUI for it will stop if one of the parts is missing. Both display progress while the movie is being extracted. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
reporting, you can expect the temps to go up as the cpu ages. Say about 5C after around 18 months. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CPU temperature question

2003-07-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
for servers. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Kazaa Lite

2003-07-10 Thread Tom McLaughlin
googling and found other references to this error when running Kazaa Lite on MDK 9.1 but I found no answers. Has anyone else had this and do they know how to fix it? I have tried three different versions of wine multiple DLL sets. Thanks. Tom On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 17:43, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 02:32 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 11:27, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's an IDE burner, not SCSI. I'm not interested in burnin at over 8x. Most of the time I burn at 4x. Other than the quality drives (Plextor and Yamaha), I just thought it might

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 01:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Tom, I don't even have those CDs anymore - they were 4 CD's of the Lord Of The Rings that he ripped. I eventually bought the store version and threw them away. TBH, since I've thrown them away, I can't remember if they were true 800 meg CDs

Re: [expert] Another Windoze feature in 9.1: kernel freezes routinely

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
' driver. You'll also need to replace the nvidia tainted kernel. Uninstall any other closed source proprietary unknown apps or drivers. At least till you this problem sorted out. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
for myself, but got an 'under construction' message. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
for everything in my next system. I'm not a fan of direct CD to CDr copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday July 7 2003 12:15 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 07 July 2003 11:51 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: copying anyhow, and burners are better readers than cdrom's ;) I can testify to that - my younger brother made some 800 meg CDs one time for me...only thing I had on 3 comps that would

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] CDRW

2003-07-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday July 6 2003 08:25 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 08:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R Mine Using generic SCSI-3

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
to use them, but maybe I'm missing out on a great product. As I answered before, it's still an issue. For your own take search recent lkml archives. I've seen various posts about WD's lack of proper CRC checking in just the last week, even with the latest kernels. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 29 2003 07:16 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: Thanks Tom and Olaf for your replies. I will have a play with Sandra and see what I come up with. Brian. At 01.24 27/06/2003, you wrote: Does anyone know of an easy way to work out the rating of SDram (ie. 66, 100, 133)? Obviously

Re: [expert] Western Digital drives and error correction (ECC)

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
with Linux the usual kernel guru's advice is to never use them above udma2 (ata/33), or disable udma altogether for WD drives. This will not alleviate the data corruption problems WD's inflict when placed on the same ide channel with certain other brand drives tho. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Compiling kernel from .src.rpm

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
to rpm -Uvh the kernel-source rpm and compile the kernel. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT: Determining Memory Speed

2003-06-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
output. Most quality mobo's furnish over spec IOv by default, usually 105%. Corsair XMS, probly te best ram currently available, won't run worth a damn on a PC Chips motherboard, with substandard caps, fed by a wobbly generic oem PSU. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

Re: [expert] Multimedia-Kernel

2003-06-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
power than other kernels. It's mostly for professional audio, but for other users it does have the low latency and preempt patches, plus a new and improved supermount. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Get your burners warmed up folks

2003-06-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
other release. Miark ...and less bugs the more people use and test cooker, monitor the cooker list, and submit usable bug reports to bugzilla. Mandrake is for all practical purposes, a community based distro. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
start over with my /home partition too. Thanks! John Drouhard http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2003-06/msg01423.php (the mirrors are still not fixed) http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerfaq.php3 -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [expert] cooker installation

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 22 2003 11:08 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:39 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html This was the beginning of a document that has become part of the cooker TWiki. You can find the much more complete version of this here: http

Re: [expert] No Sound (again)

2003-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
SB live! When the mirrors finally do get straight there should be a new 2.4.21 marcelo kernel. Maybe it would straighten out your problem. Or try the mm kernel in contribs (/RPMS2), 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk. It's the one I use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 14 2003 10:59 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: That means you've got no problems with cpu/cache/ram and that your cooling is adequate under extreme load. I suspect your problem involves some files or such that got

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 07:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: 'locate -u' == 'updatedb'Sorry I must'a missed the part where you've had this problem even after a fresh install. You could try 'bonnie++' to see if your drive(s

Re: [expert] weird cdrom problem

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 04:47 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: Does urpmi --update kernel do anything different? Look in /etc/urpmi/inst.list ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Running updatedb crashes my comp!

2003-06-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
don't know what slocate uses to build the db, I suspect it doesn't do it all by itself. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
latency, preempt, and improved supermount ? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] New Con Kolivas 2.4.21-rc7 kernel patch

2003-06-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday June 10 2003 06:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:00, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday June 10 2003 11:49 am, Robert Crawford wrote: For those interested, there's a brand new Con Kolivas -ck1 patch against kernel 2.4.21-rc7. I just tried it on Mandrake

Re: [expert] Linux Flash Player trouble.

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
my box or can others duplicate this problem. My cpu usage hovers around 50% on that page using konq with libflashplayer working. I have an AMD 2400+ Mine is about 50% too, I use Mandrake's flash rpm (FlashPlayer-6.0-3mdk) with konqueror. 1.5gig Athlon. -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [expert] Saving monitor power

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Pollerman
. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.0 to 9.1

2003-06-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
of supermount is found in the mm kernels, currently 2.4.21-0.18mm-mdk -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Lockups in LM91

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
that the continence is correct, if the continence of your /etc/hosts file is not correct that will cause lockups.. Cheers Mark For tmdns, I just went to MCC, System Services and stopped it from running. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.2 (login problem SOLVED)

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
is fixin to begin in June with a release of ISO's**. I'll do a re-install then, and in the meantime I use GDM. I only need it for log-out/ins after (mostly kde, XFree) cooker updates anyhow. ** http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/CookerHOWTO.html -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

Re: [expert] Radeon: Anyone using: Option AGPFastWrite true with VIA KT400 ??

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 03:59 am, John Vickers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: [...] Try puttin 'mem=nopentium' in your lilo or grub append line. Don't forget to run 'lilo'. Since it's a kernel parameter, you'll need to reboot. You appear to be making an oblique reference to the AMD AGP

Re: [expert] Benefits of recompiling the kernel

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
are stagnant, and nothings showin up yet. The why not?, and how come? has been asked on the cooker list, but nobody in the know at Mandrake has said anything. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] updatedb

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
in 9.0. A switch from daily, since so many users were complaining about HDD trashing at start up (anacron). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
the latter reason this time. Could be it's still frozen, tho I don't see why since the CHRPM list is so active. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mobo query

2003-04-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
:) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
the recent cooker ML archive for the discussion. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday March 29 2003 04:05 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: It can be done in the manner Tom used but I have a strong aversion to doing a force install. I prefer editing XF86Config-4, rpm -e the current nvidia rpms, rebooting the new kernel to init 3, rebuild and then install the nvidia rpms

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
report through Bugzilla... This is a definite problem. James An inconvience, not a bug or a problem. It happens from time to time. I expect it to resolve Monday when whoever's maintaining the primary mirror comes back to work after a weekend off ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) But to tell the truth, the MM kernel doesn't add any noticible zip. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
with realtime priority. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
in mind tho, no matter how many ide ports you add, or are built in, they all have to work at taking their turn, thru your one 33mhz pci bus. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday March 28 2003 09:34 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:36:11 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems simple to me, avoid buying Win-motherboards with built in fake raid. Add on a real controller on a motherboard suitable for Linux if you need so

Re: [expert] 9.1 and 2.5.xx kernel questions

2003-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday March 28 2003 11:23 am, flacycads wrote: Thanks Tom! That's just the info I've been looking for. If I may ask, what is the source of this information? Robert Crawford I've got kio_rpm-0.0.6-6mdk installed. With that, and usin 'rpm:/' as the URL in a browser, you can browse thru

Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
, if you update to current cooker this weekend, you'll have 9.1 final ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] anyone know of a good hardware diagnostics tool for linux?

2003-03-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
, take the diag's in the above order. Otherwise go right to cpuburn. The acid test for cpu/cache/ram/PSU/motherboards. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] rpm appears screwed...how to fix?

2003-03-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
--rebuilddb -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
is prior to 2000. This parameter overwrites acpi=off. pci=noacpi -- This parameter disables the PCI IRQ routing of the new ACPI system. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
. 'Course the easy work around is to get the RC2 iso's and update from any cooker mirror. By mid March, you'll have 9.1 final. ... or join the Club ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] sametime in lotus notes

2003-03-01 Thread Tom
I was able to observe sametime operating in Lotus notes. It looks like an instant messager clone. Is there a Linux equivalent which can correctly communicate with sametime? And what needs to be done to get it working? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Clean-up

2003-03-01 Thread Tom
I had a HD crash and the normal recovery at boot up fixed 99% of the mess. However, I have a directory which resist efforts to delete it. Have a look-see at this ls: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mine]$ ls -al BAD-DIR total 116 drwxrwxrwx4 tko tko 4096 Mar 1 12:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x7 tko

Re: [expert] Automatic e-mail notification

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
notifications, New mail arrived, there's settings to play a sound, popup a mesg window, log to a file, etc. But I doubt there's any use for this unless you also configure kmail to check for mail at regular intervals. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
is sent to each new subscriber specifically requests that all posts be as plain text, and that HTML should not be sent. So to do so is arrogant, inconsiderate, and rude, or just plain ignorance of netiquette for any public list. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

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

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
Strange, is the drve the only drive in your machine? Just curious. I just installed a 250 Gig drive in my wife's machine. Windows ME was unable to correctly partition the drive. I installed ML9.0 on the system Sliced the drive into 4 partitions via Mandrake and placed ML in partition 2. Then

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