Re: [expert] Mandrake in kiosk mode

2003-06-26 Thread mikalzet
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Francisco Castanheiro wrote: I would like to know if there is a way of have user logins time limited. Can i have a server with NIS (or something else) where my web cafe clients have a standart unix account, and the clients (the computers) that login at the server through

Re: [expert] System locks on logout

2003-06-23 Thread mikalzet
Mandrake 9.1 PS/2 mouse and keyboard through Belkin KVM. Radeon VE Graphics card. Using the radeon driver. Hardware exceleration on or off is the same. Booting to init5. There are known issues with Mandrake's stock Radeon driver and DRI being enabled. But if DRI is *disabled*,

[expert] gpm + mc bug persists in 9.1

2003-04-05 Thread mikalzet
All right, I know I can't complain because I don't pay Mandrake; but I would have thought that known bugs might have been ironed out for a new distribution regardless. Just for the records: in mandrake 9.1 use of gpm (mouse control) in text consoles as ordinary user (but not as root) is

[expert] MC + gpm in mdk 9.1

2003-03-09 Thread mikalzet
I can't keep up with beta and rc versions unfortunately so I haven't been able to check this on my own; anyway there is an as yet unresolved and (to me) very bothersome bug in mandrake 9.0 - I am wondering if it is still present in 9.1. To the point: in 9.0 mouse support with gpm for midnight

[expert] Is devfsd preventing access to lp0 ?

2002-11-12 Thread mikalzet
I have a mandrake 9.0 distro and a colorado 300 parallel-port primax scanner; with previous distro's I always got it working with a standalone driver which has lately also become a sane driver (it uses the sane net). This time I downloaded the sources for libieee1284, compiled and installed,

[expert] more on text terminals, gpm and mc

2002-10-16 Thread mikalzet
A step forward (?) in my mandrake 9.0 problem: mc will not work as user in text consoles with gpm enabled. It will work as root, and strangely enough a _second_ instance of mc will work while the first is spewing out debugging information. I have recompiled gpm and mc packages from source,

[expert] gpm broken in 9.0 ?

2002-10-11 Thread mikalzet
Well, this folows up from a previous post about mc. mc wasn't the real problem. I've had to disable gpm in my brand new 9.0 installation, XFree 4.2, because it seems to be broken. All gpm seems to do in text console mode is make a large white rectangle which moves with the mouse but doesn't

Re: [expert] gpm broken in 9.0 ?

2002-10-11 Thread mikalzet
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Dianne Marie Montesa wrote: i dont know if we got the same problem. when i upgraded to mdk 9, i didnt format my /home dir which contains all my previous KDE, X, mozilla settings for 8.2. when i started up KDE on mdk 9 there was weird displays and a lot of stuff on

[expert] mc in mandrake 9.0

2002-10-08 Thread mikalzet
This is weird. While in runlevel 5 I like to work on a normal text console (ALT-Ctrl-F1) quite often. midnight commander (mc) is very useful in this context, and it has always worked ok with previous versions of mandrake. Now in mandrake 9.0 if I use mc the screen fills up with garbage

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-30 Thread mikalzet
On 29 Sep 2002, Andy Weller wrote: I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 8.2 I had no problems at

[expert] Really BAD update bug on Mandrake 8.2

2002-08-15 Thread mikalzet
All right you people, just try this (I repeated the procedure twice with the same result): 1) install a fresh 8.2 system install the openoffice rpm included in 8.2 distro everything works ok. 2) uninstall the openoffice rpm install openoffice.org 1.0.1 downloaded from openoffice.org site