[expert] Konqueror shortcuts with mozilla?

2002-05-19 Thread Stephen Boulet
Does anyone know if it's possible to use konqueror's internet shortcuts with mozilla? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now

2002-04-21 Thread Stephen Boulet
Unfortunately Civ3 doesn't work yet. As a transgaming subscriber, I vote for it every time, though... -- Stephen On Friday 19 April 2002 05:49 pm, Robert Fargher wrote: Well, so far with WineX 2, none of Civ 3 or either Serious Sams run. They all install OK but won't run. Want to buy

[expert] KDE 3.0 issues

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help

Re: [expert] Use of special characters

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
If you change your keyboard to us-international, you can use modifier keys to make special characters like you'd use in french or german. You can change your keyboard settings by running drakconf - hardware - keyboard. -- Stephen On Wednesday 03 April 2002 06:09 am, Alexander Arzberger

[expert] KDE 3.0 issues

2002-04-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
Problems with KDE3.0 (KDE rpms; not from cooker): kcontrol works for me, but not for my wife's user account. It comes up, but is mostly blank. A permissions problem? Also, I can't add icons to her taskbar. Are most people using the cooker rpms? Any word on a mandrake-packaged kde3? Any help

[expert] KDE 3.0

2002-04-04 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm surprised no one has talked about the kde 3.0 rpms the kde project has realeased. Did anyone install them? Experiences? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Open Off ice and anti-aliased fonts

2002-03-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
The fonts in Open Office's Calc spreadsheed aren't anti-aliased, and really don't look good. Anyone manage to get nice, anti-aliased fonts for Open Office? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Open Off ice and anti-aliased fonts

2002-03-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
Hmm. I imported them from Windows, and now they look nice ... thanks for the tip. -- Stephen On Thursday 28 March 2002 04:42 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 12:41, Randy Kramer wrote: Dave Sherman wrote: They work fine for me. I use both Times New Roman and Arial, and both are

Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install

2002-03-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:31 am, David wrote: Is your card supported under alsa? Look in/lib/modules/%kernel version/alsa for a .gz file that is named after your sound card. There might be more than one that _may_ apply. Yes, it's there under alsa. One thing I see is that in my

[expert] devfs and hdparm

2002-03-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
How do I execute the command: hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc with the devfs? I need to pass this to the cdwriter otherwise it has lots of trouble reading CDs. -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] No sound after 8.2 install

2002-03-25 Thread Stephen Boulet
Sound worked fine with my SBLive! card and LM 8.1. With 8.2, no sound. An lsmod showed a surprisingly large number of sound modules loaded, mostly alsa related. Have others had trouble with sound and 8.2? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] No sound after 8.2 install

2002-03-25 Thread Stephen Boulet
Does this list look excessive? There is everything but the kitchen sink in here: # clear;lsmod | grep snd | sort snd34272 1 [snd-synth-emux snd-seq-virmidi snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-card-emu10k1

[expert] MandrakeUpdate fails and empty rpm files

2002-01-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
I just ran MandrakeUpdate. Looking at /var/cache/urpmi: [root@mozart rpms]# ls -l * -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 at-3.1.8-4.1mdk.i586.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 30 06:17 bind-utils-9.2.0-0.rc3.2mdk.i586.rpm -rw-r--r--1 root root

[expert] Network printer under attack

2002-01-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
Jobs are being sent to my printer (HP LaserJet 2100TN with built-in ethernet), which keeps printing until all the paper is gone. At the head of the sheet that gets repeatedly printed is: POST / HTTP/1.1. Here is a tail from my /var/log/cups: 192.168.1.1 - - [20/Jan/2002:23:09:49 -0600] GET

Re: [expert] tuxracer, continued problems

2002-01-05 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:05 pm, you wrote: Ok, this is starting to irritate me. :) I'm running a fresh re-install of 8.1 Tuxracer doesn't run as a regular user, only as root. When I try to start it, as a regular user, it gets through the selection menus. But when you select race, it

[expert] Cups and a network printer

2001-11-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Do you need the cups daemon if you have a network printer with its own IP (HP Laserjet 2100 TN), or just the cups client? My laserjet shows the following ports open under nmap. I'm having trouble setting the printer up. Port State Service 23/tcp opentelnet 80/tcp

[expert] Fwd: Re: lilo doesn't boot into windows98

2001-10-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
into Windows 98 outside VMWare and use FDISK. As for transferring the system files, this was covered in my previous message. Dave Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:9rhmr2$esd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dave Walker wrote: Stephen, This is probably because the disk

[expert] PATH=$PATH:/foo in .bashrc or .bash_profile?

2001-10-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
I want to append to my PATH. Should this go in my .bashrc or .bash_profile? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] SSH Question

2001-10-19 Thread Stephen Boulet
Why don't you connect as a user, then do a su - to become root? On Friday 19 October 2001 07:46 am, you wrote: Hi, I have ssh on all my host. And I connet ones from another, and are case that i forget if are in my laptop or are in my host and give a reboot command, with a reboot not need over

[expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes

2001-10-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
After updating to Mandrake 8.1 and NVidia-1.0-1541, I'm having trouble running accelerated 3D as a regular user. The error is: $ bounce Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too resticitive. Please see the TROUBLESHOOTING section of

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.1/NVidia permission woes -- Solved

2001-10-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I modified the /etc/security/console.perms file like so: console 0660 dri0660 root.games xconsole 0660 /dev/console 0660 root.wheel xconsole 0660 dri0660 root.games Notice the entry for dri under console without the x. Before I

Re: [expert] devfs -- where's /dev/hdc?

2001-10-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks! Works great now. -- Stephen On Thursday 18 October 2001 02:45 pm, you wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: No /dev/hdc: # ls -l /dev/hdc* ls: /dev/hdc*: No such file or directory It is described as /dev/scd0 in my fstab, though. Maybe I can use the hdparm command for scd0

Re: [expert] Disabling apache for port 443

2001-08-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
that too. dianne --- Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to use port 443 for webmin, but apache has it now. Anyone know how to configure apache to only use port 80? I can't find the config file anywhere... -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Disabling apache for port 443

2001-08-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
I would like to use port 443 for webmin, but apache has it now. Anyone know how to configure apache to only use port 80? I can't find the config file anywhere... -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Where oh where is libgr-devel?

2001-08-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks, but it must be there for Mandrake somewhere, since you need it for libungif, and you need libungif for qt2, and I'm pretty sure Mandrake ships with qt2. ;) -- Stephen Boulet On Monday 27 August 2001 06:46 am, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 10:38 pm, you wrote

[expert] Secure java applets

2001-08-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
How do I get secure java applets to run in konqueror? (like the ssh terminal applet available in webmin?) When I run it under konqueror and blackdown, I get the error in the java panel: java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: https It doesn't work with kaffe either. Thanks. --

[expert] Where oh where is libgr-devel?

2001-08-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
Trying to rebuild libungif from source rpms for cooker finds this dependency: libgr-devel . But it doesn't appear on cooker's srpm list. Can anyone tell me what package supplies it? Thanks. --- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] GCC 2.96

2001-08-24 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks for answering one question for me: why the current python source rpm from cooker wouldn't compile on Mandrake 7.2's gcc. I compiled gcc-2.96 source rpm on LM7.2, then recompiled it using 2.96, and now will hopefully be able to compile the latest python on that platform as well. --

Re: [expert] Mouse questions

2001-08-24 Thread Stephen Boulet
Look at the imwheel site: http://jonatkins.org/imwheel/ You should be able to find something there. -- Stephen On Friday 24 August 2001 09:34 am, Daniel Axtell wrote: Hello, I'm using an MS IntelliMouse Explorer, the one with the buttons on the side. I have it plugged into the PS/2 port,

[expert] nslookup is where?

2001-08-20 Thread Stephen Boulet
Is there an nslookup command? Anyone know where to find it? -- Stephen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] lilo problem?

2001-08-13 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm wondering if you might have to do some drive mapping. My windows install is on hdb, so to get it to boot, I do: other=/dev/hdb1 label=windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 This is just a guess, but maybe

Re: [expert] ip_masq in 8.0 ?

2001-07-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
No joke. I installed the kernel-2.4.6-5mdk kernel from cooker, and my iptables script wouldn't work. Then I installed the iptables rpm and it did. There is both an iptables and an ipchains rpm. -- Stephen On Tuesday 31 July 2001 02:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 30 Jul at 22:53:27

Re: [expert] ip_masq in 8.0 ?

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
Why don't you just install the ipchains rpm? -- Stephen On Monday 30 July 2001 04:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That reminds me, I've been meaning to mention how big of a pain in the ass it is (well, not really, but I just think it could have been done better) that iptables is built in

[expert] What's that make install-to-RPM tool?

2001-07-23 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm not sure whether I heard of it on this list, but there is a program that takes the part of the 'make install' command, and puts the files to be installed in the RPM database (this would help to ease removing them later, etc.). Anyone know what the name of this program is? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer

2001-07-16 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Monday 16 July 2001 05:24 am, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: * Stardate: 2001-07-15 17:59 * Incoming subspace signal from Stephen Boulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] : It's easy. You select the US keyboard (international) in the Mandrake control center - hardware - keyboard. Then you can make use

Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How?

2001-07-16 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:51 pm, Laurent Duperval wrote: 2. Is there a way to sacrifice a different key? (Instead, can we assign the back-slash key to be the 'dead' key?) Yes. To do that, you can use xmodmap. Read the xmodmap page or take a look at the example xmodmap's in the source

Re: [expert] Accessing French German ASCII Characters? How? -- Answer

2001-07-15 Thread Stephen Boulet
It's easy. You select the US keyboard (international) in the Mandrake control center - hardware - keyboard. Then you can make use of deadkeys to type characters like ä (single quote followed by a), è (backquote followed by e), é (single quote followed by e), ç (second alt, equals sign, c --

Re: [expert] Out of Office Replies??? What Gives???

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
The mailing list software should really not pass on to the list messages that begin with out of office. It just needs to be configured that way. -- Stephen On Sunday 01 July 2001 01:47 am, jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote: What gives is that someone on the list (Wehling, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [expert] iptables support

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Did you install the iptables rpm ? -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 03:47 pm, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am using LM 8, trying to configure firewall thro Linuxconf. I get an error kernel doses not support firewallling, something to that effect. Does the stock kernel with LM 8

Re: [expert] How do change the default WM in MDK8?

2001-07-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
Uninstall gdm or kdm, change your runlevel to 3 (i.e. change your /etc/inittab file for runlevel 3), and create a .xinitrc file with exec twm in it. -- Stephen On Saturday 30 June 2001 04:13 am, George Abdo wrote: Hello all, In Mandrake 7, I edited my own .xinitrc to start twm (yes, the

Re: [expert] URL for moina

2001-06-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
Sorry about that post. My kmail bookmarks for my home address and the expert mailing list are side-by-side... On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:32 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote: http://www.santafefish.com

Re: [expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq

2001-06-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
anti-aliasing). Stephen Boulet wrote: Has anyone gotten bad fonts after upgrading to MandrakeFreq for LM8? How can you fix this. I have anti-aliasing turned on, and am using NVidia's drivers for the geforce2. -- Stephen

Re: [expert] How (or can) I

2001-06-27 Thread Stephen Boulet
What if you boot into X directly (runlevel 5)? Will the command in rc.local work then? Maybe not. I wonder how to script a login session. Maybe then you could run startx and then run your program. -- Stephen On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:11 pm, Mike Rambo wrote: David Joham wrote: You can

Re: [expert] how to burn an ISO

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
This is how I burned my MandrakeFreq iso: cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 MandrakeFreq-20010619-ext.i586.iso I'm thinking that the -data option you're using is the problem. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 07:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greeting Folks, First off an apology if this

Re: [expert] Audio CDROM is invisable

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
I didn't think it was possible to look at audio cd's with konqueror in mandrake 8. Isn't that a more recently added feature of koqueror? You should be able to play the CDs though. -- Stephen On Monday 25 June 2001 06:12 pm, Andy Weir wrote: Hi for the final time (for now), When I try to

[expert] Bad fonts after updating to MandrakeFreq

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
Has anyone gotten bad fonts after upgrading to MandrakeFreq for LM8? How can you fix this. I have anti-aliasing turned on, and am using NVidia's drivers for the geforce2. -- Stephen

[expert] URL for moina

2001-06-26 Thread Stephen Boulet
http://www.santafefish.com

[expert] After MandrakeUpdate upgraded imap, I have 2 imaps

2001-06-12 Thread Stephen Boulet
Now after the security upgrade, I have versions 2000c-4.4mdk and 2000-6mdk. Anyone else notice this? Are both necessary? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] php displays as text files

2001-06-10 Thread Stephen Boulet
Yes: $ rpm -qa | grep php mod_php-4.0.4pl1-6mdk php-common-4.0.4pl1-6mdk php-4.0.4pl1-6mdk On Sunday 10 June 2001 12:04 am, Digital Wokan wrote: Does that include installing mod_php? Stephen Boulet wrote: I installed the apache and php rpms for LM8, but php scripts display as text

Re: [expert] .bashrc, .bash_profile don't DO anything

2001-06-10 Thread Stephen Boulet
May be a dumb question, but does: $ echo $SHELL report /bin/bash? I have this in my .bash_profile, and ~/bin is the first thing in my path. # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then PATH=~/bin:${PATH} fi -- Stephen On Sunday 10 June

[expert] php displays as text files

2001-06-10 Thread Stephen Boulet
I installed the apache and php rpms for LM8, but php scripts display as text files. At the very end of my httpd.conf file, I added the following line and restarted httpd, but it didn't help: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 Anyone know what I should do? -- Stephen

[expert] IPtables question

2001-06-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm wondering about the functioning of IPTables on my LM8 install. I have two ethernet cards: eth0 is external and eth1 is internal. Using nmap, I get: [root@mozart root]# nmap -sT my external IP: 6000/tcp openX11 among other entries. When I do: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp

Re: [expert] ssh setup help needed

2001-06-03 Thread Stephen Boulet
There is an excellent intro to ssh on mandrakeuser.org. -- Stephen On Sunday 03 June 2001 02:08 am, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Are there any ssh gurus out there? I'm trying to set up a new server on MDK 8.0, and ssh(d) is giving me fits. Could someone that understands this beast drop me a note,

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I know that it isn't a good idea to give normal users root access, but I need to set up a couple of Mandrake boxes (they will only be in text mode, as these will be remote terminals to a Unix network) so that a normal user can

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen Boulet
I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have to start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works. On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:17 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: On Saturday 02 June 2001 01:24 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Hello I know

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-06-02 Thread Stephen Boulet
You did add your users to the group shutdown, right? --stephen On Saturday 02 June 2001 02:39 pm, Darcy Brodie wrote: Stephen Boulet wrote: I find it goofy when changes in permissions take effect. You might have to start a fresh konsole/xterm or logout before it works. On Saturday 02

Re: [expert] Noatun crashes on launch

2001-06-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:20 am, Civileme wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 07:42, Stephen Boulet wrote: Anyone experience noatun crashing on launch? -- Stephen Everyone who does should be reporting it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems never to have worked properly and the kde-core-developers

Re: [expert] NVidia drivers crashing with OpenGL

2001-06-01 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Friday 01 June 2001 07:26 am, Civileme wrote: Interesting. I think I'm going to switch to runlevel 5. Anyone else notice how fonts look bigger (= better, I think), with the 1.x driver than with the 0.9x driver? -- Stephen Which NVIDIA drivers? The 1.0 version seem to segfault if you

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:26 pm, IH8Spammers wrote: I could but I do not want to :-) First of all it's the OS that must adapt itself to my tastes and not the reverse. And neither konsole nor xterm allows for transparency. OK, it's not a very technical reason to abandon a distro but I don't

[expert] Noatun crashes on launch

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
Anyone experience noatun crashing on launch? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] Quick Help locating a file

2001-05-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
crontabs-1.7-11mdk -- Stephen On Thursday 31 May 2001 03:56 pm, Mitch Thompson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Could someone please take a moment and tell me which rpm provides the program 'run-parts'? I seem to have deleted it. Thanks in advance. - -- Mitch

Re: Fwd: [expert] Accenting in aterm with Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-30 Thread Stephen Boulet
I was able to reproduce it, but I have no idea why it happens. Can't you just use a terminal that it works in? -- Stephen On Wednesday 30 May 2001 05:50 am, IH8Spammers wrote: Doesn't anybody know? I am almost giving up Mandrake because of that annoying behaviour :-( -- Mensagem

[expert] Bastille-netfilter issues

2001-05-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
A few problems with Bastille-netfilter: a) it is not started a boot up, even though it is selected under bastille-firewall in the services subsection of the system section of the Mandrake Control Center. b) trying to start it in the control center by pressing the start button gives the

Re: [expert] Reiserfs stability (was: Konqueror - https 'dies unexpectedly')

2001-05-29 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:44 pm, Civileme wrote: To make it happen you install a / only system with lotsa unused space. The / can be reiser--that's automatically a notail mount. But, if I understand it correctly, you can have a root reiser partition mounted without the notail option if you

[expert] Starting up with the bash shell

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
How do I make it so that all of the users on my box start up with the bash shell? What happened to the user configuration that was part of the Control Center? -- STephen

Re: [expert] cdrom/cdr problems

2001-05-28 Thread Stephen Boulet
I've seen something similar to this before. It happened when I didn't use the -J option on mkisofs. Usually when I want to burn a cd of a directory, I just do: mkisofs -r -J /path/to/where/data/is | cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=4 - -- Stephen On Sunday 27 May 2001 10:24 am, rob wrote:

Re: [expert] getting time right

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen Boulet
I really like using webmin for this. There is a nice module to synchronize your system time and hardware time with a time server. -- Stephen On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:30 pm, D. R. Evans wrote: On 25 May 01, at 0:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach D. R. Evans am Thu, May 24, 2001 at

Re: [expert] Tuxracer

2001-05-24 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Thursday 24 May 2001 03:05 pm, Randy Donohoe wrote: I was going to let my girls play Tuxracer on a new install of Mandrake 8.0 and it wouldn't start. I tried from the console Just to make sure I understand, you are starting tuxracer in X and not in the console, right? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] Mandrake going under

2001-05-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 05:52 pm, Civileme wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2001 06:10, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: Hi Just read some wired things about mandrake at newsforge and slashdot is this true ___ Mvh./Yours sincerely Lars Rumors of our impending doom have yet to prove

Re: [expert] Stability Concerns

2001-05-19 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:02 am, you wrote: How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake 8 boxes? I've been having some problems No problems here with my via chipset and overclocked asus motherboard with PIII, SBLIve!, and Geforce2: $ uptime 6:52pm up 8 days, 5:09, 3

Re: [expert] imwheel

2001-05-16 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 03:49 am, you wrote: I'm still searching for a solution for my XMMS and other multimedia programs problem (sound comes only from rear speakers). But now I have another problem. I have a Microsoft IntelliMouse (I only love keyboards and mice of Microsoft :) ). I'm

Re: [expert] Adding users to groups takes effect when?

2001-05-14 Thread Stephen Boulet
Yes. I logged out and back in again, and the changes seem to have taken effect. Too bad that there's not a command you can issue; but at least you don't have to reboot. --- Stephen On Monday 14 May 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2001 06:39, you wrote: Under LM8, /usr/src belongs

Re: [expert] REBUILT RPM Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Where is it?

2001-05-13 Thread Stephen Boulet
It's usually in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/. -- Stephen I just rebuild a Red Hat source rpm on LM 8.0. What I find curious is that a) I am not sure it was a success and b) if it was a success, where is the new rebuilt Mandrake RPM file? Here is the data: 1) RPM --REBUILD

[expert] Adding users to groups takes effect when?

2001-05-13 Thread Stephen Boulet
Under LM8, /usr/src belongs to the group adm under medium security. I added myself to the group adm (via webmin) but still get permission denied when trying to do a ls /usr/src. How do I make adding myself to a new group take effect? -- Stephen

[expert] Changing user's icon

2001-05-11 Thread Stephen Boulet
Does anyone know how to change the user icon shown in the kdm screen (the one that comes up by default if you boot directly into X)? -- Stephen

Re: [expert] Reiser and building a kernel

2000-12-26 Thread stephen boulet
I found out how to do this. Compiling reiserfs into the kernel won't work; what you have to do is use "mkinitrd" to make a ram disk with the reiserfs module in it, and then link that in "lilo.conf". -- Stephen Stephen Boulet wrote: I downloaded the source

Re: [expert] Nvidia GLX? How do i get it t owork?

2000-12-13 Thread Stephen Boulet
Do a search for Geforce at mandrakeuser.org -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Kernel-linux won't mount reiser volumes

2000-12-10 Thread Stephen Boulet
I installed the kernel-linus, only to have it panic on boot up since it couldn't mount the root partition, which is reiserfs. Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks! -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Starting X at 640x480

2000-12-10 Thread Stephen Boulet
I got some help from another list. For those interested in doing this, a second X session can be start from the console in a different resolution by using an alternate config file: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 -xf86config /etc/X11/X-starcraft where /etc/X11/X-starcraft is a copy of XF86Config-4

[expert] Starting X at 640x480

2000-12-09 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'd like to start a second X session at 640x480. If I start it like this: startx -- :1 -bpp 8 I get the bit depth I need but not the resolution. Thanks. -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Getting to the console with KDE

2000-12-07 Thread Stephen Boulet
How do you get to the console while in KDE? The normal alt-F2 doesn't work. What I'm trying to do is to start a second X session for playing Starcraft under wine with "startx -- :1". Now I need to figure how to make this 640x480 at 8 bit color. -- Stephen Keep in touch with

[expert] Reiser and building a kernel

2000-12-07 Thread Stephen Boulet
I downloaded the source to the 2.2.17 kernel, applied the patch for the reiserfs, and built it in to the kernel. But I still get a kernel panic when I try to boot my LM 7.2. Any one know how to fix this? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread Stephen Boulet
I just subscribed to the joystick list (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/) If I get some answers there, I'll post them to the list. -- Stephen On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen Boulet wrote: No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-05 Thread stephen boulet
Very interesting. The module "emu10k1-joy" is not included in a stock LM7.2, as far as I can tell. I wonder if a kernel compile is really necessary... I guess it's time to do some compiling. -- Stephen On Monday 04 December 2000 18:29, you wrote: Has anyone been able to get a digital

Re: [expert] Sound Blaster Live!

2000-12-05 Thread Stephen Boulet
I just downloaded the emu10k1 source too and got the same result. I would appreciate it if anyone could say what's going on with this. -- Stephen Hello Everyone. After running Mandrake 7.2 for weeks i decided i wanted to try some of the newer SBlive drivers on the opensource.creative.com

Re: [expert] Joysticks

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen Boulet
No. :( Has anyone been able to get a digital joystick running in LM7.2? Spence Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] Logitech extreme digital 3D joystick and SBLive card

2000-11-22 Thread Stephen Boulet
I'm having trouble getting my joystick to work. I have a Logitech wingman extreme digital 3D and a soundblaster live card. When I try to load the logitech module, I get: [root@mozart /root]# insmod joy-logitech Using /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/joy-logitech.o

[expert] pilot-link errors

2000-11-21 Thread Stephen Boulet
I get this error when trying to execute jpilot or binaries like "addresses" that comes with the pilot-link RPM: pi_bind Permission denied /dev/pilot and /dev/ttyS0 are owned by the group tty, of which I'm a member. Anyone know why I get this error? Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:57, you wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote: stupid question, but what is gears? It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run it is from a term. just type 'gears' That way you'll see the frames per

Re: [expert] SOF and mandrake 7.2

2000-11-16 Thread Stephen Boulet
SOF has been ported by Loki (lokigames.com). I understand that Halflife works really well under WINE. There is a Halflife linux server, but no client. -- Stephen On Tuesday 14 November 2000 14:20, you wrote: Um, how can we play SOF or Halflife under Linux? Thanks, -turgut Keep in

[expert] switchdesk

2000-11-14 Thread Stephen Boulet
Is the switchdesk program available anymore? Which RPM is it in? -- Stephen Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

2000-11-13 Thread stephen boulet
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Stephen Boulet am Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0600: I'm still doing modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver Is alias char-major-195 NVdriver in /etc/modules.conf? If not, add

[expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread stephen boulet
I've been having some trouble with Mandrake 7.2 and the geforce 2. It seems like some things have changed from 7.1 to 7.2. For example, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is not there anymore (most FAQs tell you to rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGL.* ). My first

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread stephen boulet
On Sun, 12 November 2000, pgeorges wrote: stephen boulet a écrit : I've been having some trouble with Mandrake 7.2 and the geforce 2. It seems like some things have changed from 7.1 to 7.2. For example, the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions is not there anymore (most FAQs

Re: [expert] Strange problem

2000-11-12 Thread stephen boulet
On Sun, 12 November 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: Well, I'm got a bizarre little problem that kind of bugs me, Currently my system is configured as follows; hda - 5.1GB - / and swap hdb - 2.1GB - /home sda - 4.3GB - /home/data sdb - 4.3GB - /backup hdc - Memorex CRW-1622 2x2x6

Re: [expert] Strange problem

2000-11-12 Thread stephen boulet
In that case, other than to suggest trying a different cable, I'm stumped. -- Stephen On Sun, 12 November 2000, Anthony Russello wrote: No, the problem is that Linux no longer sees it at all, not even during the bootup. The BIOS listed both CD-ROM drives when booting during POST,

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

2000-11-12 Thread Stephen Boulet
when I moved them around. -- Stephen I did not get this directory unless I did an expert install and chose Xfree86 4.01. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/12/2000 at 12:46 PM stephen boulet scribbled: On Sun, 12 November 2000, pgeorges wrote: stephen boulet a écrit : I've

Re: [expert] Computer Freezes with Mandrake 7.2 SMP Kernel

2000-11-11 Thread stephen boulet
Which bios version do you have? Are you overclocking? -- Stephen On Sat, 11 November 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: Using the smp installed kernel on Mandrake 7.2 on my dual Celeron BP6, after running for 1 to 10 minutes, the computer just stops functioning. The display freezes, the mouse

Re: [expert] More smp

2000-11-06 Thread Stephen Boulet
One quick tip for comiling: Do a "make -j 4" instead of just make; this will start 4 threads going. Works great for kernel compiles (but just don't do it for "make dep" or "make install". Someone benchmarked it and found that 4 or 5 threads were about optimum. -- Stephen On Mon, 06 Nov

[expert] 7.2 doesn't boot after install on Abit BP6

2000-11-05 Thread Stephen Boulet
I have the dual celeron motherboard from Abit, the BP6, with a matrox millinium II 4MB graphic card. I burned 7.2 disks 1 and 2 and checked the md5sums. I elected to erase my current hard drive entirely, and have the recommended install. The install works fine. But after it's finished and I

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