[expert] Postfix does not work after migrating to 9.0

2002-12-16 Thread Stefano Pogliani
I migrated yesterday to 9.0. I saved my account and the etc structure so that (I thought) I could reconfigure easily. So, In 8.2 I had an IMAP service on my PC which was using the Postfix SMTP. My server is scarlet.poglianis.net (the domain does not exist in reality, it is just inside my

Re: [expert] Postfix does not work after migrating to 9.0

2002-12-16 Thread Vox
This time Stefano Pogliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: I migrated yesterday to 9.0. I saved my account and the etc structure so that (I thought) I could reconfigure easily. So, In 8.2 I had an IMAP service on my PC which was using the Postfix SMTP. My server is

Re: [expert] is it possible to have the 3 iso of mdk 9.1 in a dvd iso?

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Naish
Well yes, I have a DVD iso, came on the cover of a agazine, Linux format or Linux magazine, afraid I dont remember which. - Original Message - From: francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:22:35 +0100 To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] is it possible to

[expert] XFree 4 resolutions

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I have a slight problem with XFree. I set up my parent's PC to watch DVD's on a TV. To to this, the resolution needs to be switched to 800x600 under their USERID's (no root). This works by pressing CTRL-ALT-+/- The monitor switches to 800x600 but the desktop doesn't. It is now larger

[expert] Evolution Weirdness

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello I'm having a very weird problem with evolution... Currently, I'm running 1.2, but it was there too on 1.0.8. My system is Mandrake 9.0. My mail-list-display shows times in 12 hour format, where my locale is set to use 24 hour. All other apps (like sylpheed) detect this correct. But here

Re: [expert] [repost] DVDrip and transcode

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Thanks for the suggestion Pete I checked it: locate libdvdcss.so /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.0.0.3 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.0 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2.0.3 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2 /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so rpm -qf /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so libdvdcss2-devel-1.2.3-1plf But transcode is still dead in the water...

Re: [expert] [repost] GPG encrypted disk image

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:52, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 07:30, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello everyone snip If your system has been compromised to the level that an attacker can read an encrypted or decrpyted disk image in your home directory, then that attacker is just as

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-16 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Thanks, Well...I'll relent and go with 9.0 as the kde rpms I've built don't work properly vis a vis alsa. As a matter of fact, one of the things I had to do to get one of the rpms to build (arts? I don't recall) was update my kernel alsa-driver from 0.5.12a to 0.9.0rc2. I got everything

[expert] Problem with X and mandrake

2002-12-16 Thread Xingyuan Zhang
Dear Mandrake experts, I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC. It is an old RM machine, with ATI display card and Taxan Ergovision 730 display. After restarting X, thedisplay begin to flick on and off at a frequency of once 2-3 seconds. I can hear click sounds from my display. Do

RE: [expert] LDAP

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Thank you! I'll be looking at that today. At first glance, my configuration looks good.. it just doesn't work.. ;) (obviously, I'm missing something somewhere, and I need to look deeper). Ric -Original Message- From: Todd Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002

Re: [expert] Postfix does not work after migrating to 9.0

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Tarvid
postfix runs chroot in default mandrake installs. check /var/spool/postfix/etc to make sure it is identical to the same files in /etc. Jim Tarvid On Monday 16 December 2002 03:58 am, you wrote: I migrated yesterday to 9.0. I saved my account and the etc structure so that (I thought) I

[expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I downloaded kazaa for linux a few weeks ago. needed to install an old ncurses to get it to run, but it is not ever connecting. Support seems to be missing from the kazaa.com site as well now. Has anyone got this working? or found a better working p2p network client for GNU/linux?

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Ree
Kazaa for linux will never connect. If you want to use kazaa you need to install wine and then check out http://www.kazaalite.com. The install for linux instructions get the job done. Simon J. Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I downloaded kazaa for linux a few weeks ago. needed to

[expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
Well it seems that this is more serious than I first thought. I just tried an install to this new WD 180GB drive. Seems there is some limitations to the size of the drive, or the drive is junk. ?? Maybe truly a kernel bug. ? End_request: I/O error, Dev 03:47 (hdb), sector numerous sectors

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-16 Thread flacycads
You can get the 3 cd 9.0 set from Cheap Bytes or SpiderTools for $3.49, shipped. Just a thought, but perhaps it is a 2.96 compiler problem. As I recal, 8.2 used gcc 2.96, which had a few weird problems. I did finally get KDE 3.0.1 installed on 8.2, but I believe I had a problem with multimedia

Re: [expert] clonning HD

2002-12-16 Thread Felix Miata
Lieven Van Acker wrote: partimage: cloning partitions parted: resizing partitions Partition Magic: cloning and resizing and formatting and more -- If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . . Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata ***

Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

2002-12-16 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Sunday 15 December 2002 8:13 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have been trying and trying and trying to build a functional KDE 3 system for days now. I have tried with mandrake 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 src rpms and have managed with varying success to get most of kde built. The latest

RE: [expert] hdc lost interrupt

2002-12-16 Thread Albert Charron
Got this problem one time... Changed the CDrom drive and it solved the problem. Albert Charron Trisotech Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lorne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 décembre 2002 14:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread SainTiss
Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc, but kazaa crashes at startup... it shows the window for a few seconds, but then I get uncaught exception... Any ideas? Thanks Hans On Mon,

Re: [expert] clonning HD

2002-12-16 Thread Lieven Van Acker
partimage: cloning partitions parted: resizing partitions don't know locations. Try google... regards, Lieven Van Acker Op vr 13-12-2002, om 12:49 schreef Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva: Hi List, I have an idea about how 'dd' can be powerful. However I don't know if it's able to clone

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Todd Franklin
Please take no offense, but why do you need kazaa for linux when you have gtk-gnutelk, qtella, limeware, etc. ? SainTiss wrote: Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and put the HOSTS file in /mnt/win_c/windows as well as in /etc, but kazaa

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have not got it working yet, here are the URL's I'm reading, it seems posible. JG http://www.christian-gerner.de/computer/linux/kazaa.htm http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 SainTiss wrote: Hi, actually, I don't get that working either... installed it, replaced the .exe, and

[expert] maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is logical given the partition size. So it shouldn't be reiser... maybe the drive is malfunctioning, or it is not supported by your

Re: [expert] [repost] GPG encrypted disk image

2002-12-16 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Just thought I'd let you all know. The upcoming reiserfs4 will include Encryption On Commit. This does approximately what I described below, but not on a fs image, but on single files withing the filesystem. The encryption is done through plugins to reiser. The current schedule puts its

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damian Gatabria wrote: Hi. Does anybody know which file permissions i need to change so CUPS let's me change my printer settings? Currently i cannot do it (permission denied even as root) Thanks much. Damian I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused

[expert] pdfnup (as in psnup) - can i find one?

2002-12-16 Thread Eduardo Mendes
Hello Although I have written a pdfnup (pdf2ps, ps2pdf and psnup) script for my own use, I am not happy with the results. The original file has 7 MB and two-page-per-sheet outcome 30 MB. (These are pdf files - when they are converted to PS, things go worse). My HP 4100 chokes with the latter.

[expert] Fwd: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package

2002-12-16 Thread Brent Hasty
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Cooker] rosegarden-4-0.82mdk.rpm midi notation package Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:22:43 -0800 From: Brent Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: List Cookers [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED], List MDK Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am

[expert] and yet another test

2002-12-16 Thread Udo Rader
... sorry ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 08:06, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is logical given the partition size. So it shouldn't be reiser... maybe the

Re: [expert] clonning HD

2002-12-16 Thread Lieven Van Acker
partimage: cloning partitions parted: resizing partitions don't know locations. Try google... regards, Lieven Van Acker Op vr 13-12-2002, om 12:49 schreef Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva: Hi List, I have an idea about how 'dd' can be powerful. However I don't know if it's able to clone

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, So these programs are good now? limeware was poor last time i tried, and the gnutella was nearly as bad. I got Kazaa 1.72 working, 2.02 would not work. I start it like this wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n zazaa.exe if that is useful for anyone. JG Todd Franklin wrote: Please take

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread James Sparenberg
Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not follow DMA standards. Linux does rather strict checking and WD

RE: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
My WD 40G drives always work without a hitch. Brian D. Klar - CVE Multimax Network Engineer WPAFB -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:10 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't

RE: [expert] LDAP -Got it -

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Thank you for the assist. Vincent: An excellent write up on LDAP! With that write up in hand, I got my client to connect to the company LDAP server. Ric Now if I can just solve that pesky lock up problem.. -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: [expert] performance issues - named and apache

2002-12-16 Thread Albert E. Whale
Jim Jack, Sounds to me like the 'dreaded' rndc.conf failure. try the named -g command. If you have an error concerning the 'couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953' then you need to configure the rndc.conf information in the /etc/rndc.conf and /etc/named.conf files. Check man -k rndc and

Re: [expert] named, httpd dysfunctional on reboot (sometimes)

2002-12-16 Thread Albert E. Whale
I ran into this issue and found a solution for this information. Here goes: From what I've discerned this is a problem with the rndc (Name Server Control Utility) not being configured. I experienced this issue in bind-9.2.1-2.2mdk. Try the named -g command. If you have an error concerning the

RE: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the default nv driver. Check the documentation. You need to install the nvidia drivers to get that. Ric -Original Message- From: Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD drive in it! as they don't follow the standards or support their drives under free software OS's. This is why you dont want WD, email them and tell them this as well. I've got an 80GB drive running about twice as

[expert] Re: [sane-devel] Failing to scan over network

2002-12-16 Thread Brent Hasty
On Saturday 16 November 2002 03:05 am, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: your tips hear were helpfull and got me alot closer to having network scanning ability. acessing scanimage on localhost is confirmed to work so I next issued this command on a computer without scanner Client I am trying to be

Re: [expert] Problem with X and mandrake

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Xingyuan Zhang wrote: Dear Mandrake experts, I have just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my PC. It is an old RM machine, with ATI display card and Taxan Ergovision 730 display. After restarting X, the display begin to flick on and off at a frequency of once 2-3 seconds. I can hear click sounds

[expert] error loading libGL.so and libMesaVoodooGL.so But it used to work three days ago

2002-12-16 Thread Roberto Armenteros
Hi guys, I had quake 3 installed in my system for more than a year, but just a couple of days ago I tried to install other games and some libraries and when I try to run quake 3 now I get the error. ...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libGL.so from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir:

Re: [expert] cannot locate block device '/dev/dvd' on Toshiba 2400

2002-12-16 Thread Serge
Hi symlink /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom On Monday 16 December 2002 07:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm migrating my Mandrake 8.2 system to a new laptop (Toshiba 2400). This machine has a DVD/CDROM drive, but when I boot I get the following message: Assigning raw devices: cannot locate

[expert] rpmdrake error on MD9.0

2002-12-16 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Ladies and Gents, There seems to be an issue with MandrakeUpdate, rpmdrake, draktools, and everything under drak. I guess I have an older version of perl which does not support i386-linux-thread-multi directory option, whatever. I am running 5.8.0 perl. Here is a link to the problem

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
issue may be fixed with your speed.. try hdparm, and look at the faq on: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html On Monday 16 December 2002 12:30 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Here's a common joke, How do you bring a computer to its knees? Put a WD drive in it! as they

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
This is the stat on my WD drive (10gig) /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.83 seconds = 69.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.61 seconds = 17.73 MB/sec On Monday 16 December 2002 12:30 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, Here's a common joke, How do you bring a

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday December 16 2002 05:50 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi, So these programs are good now? limeware was poor last time i tried, and the gnutella was nearly as bad. I got Kazaa 1.72 working, 2.02 would not work. I start it like this wine --dll shlwapi,shfolder,shdocvw=n zazaa.exe if that is

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. Cheers Jason Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 05:50 pm, J. Grant wrote:

Re: [expert] linux on nvidia nforce

2002-12-16 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Williamson wrote on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:08:19PM +1100 : On the installation of the Mandrake Linux just install as like any other PC, till the part were LILO is to be configured, and make sure

Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos! HEAVENS!!!

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday December 16 2002 07:02 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Actually, there is no acceleration for an nVidia card under the default nv driver. Check the documentation. You need to install the nvidia drivers to get that. Ric I didn't bother responding to the first post of the sort that

Re: [expert] mplayer and software manager + a bit of a rant

2002-12-16 Thread David Robertson
I must sound like a broken record here but this is really getting me down. I got fed up with all the difficulties installing software, being unable to run mozilla as a user, my menus suddenly disappearing, that I reinstalled LM 9.0 (again!) This time, I didn't update during installation. Again, I

[expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Narfi Stefansson
Hi everybody. I know this is a frequently asked question on this list, but I have a list of candidates and I would like your recommendations for the best cards, using only free drivers. I have the following cards in mind: Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out Asus V7100 Pro

[expert] IDE problems PlatiniX 2E /var/log/dmesg PARTIALLY SOLVED

2002-12-16 Thread James Beam
Hi all, I've downloaded Kernel 2.4.20 from kernel.org. I've configured it, compiled it and installed it. The error message saying PCI: 00:0f.1 device not available due to a conflict o resources continues, but I've been able to hdparm -d1 and hdparm -c1 my hard disks. My X-Windows didn't work,

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
The only advice I can offer is not to use anyhting that contains an SIS Chipsetthey perform, um, erratically with XFree86. Regards J Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi everybody. I know this is a frequently asked question on this list, but I have a list of candidates and I would like your

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Ron Stodden
Jason Greenwood wrote: Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. I don't think that's true. Many licences are qualified as

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, I concur. It IS possible for the copyright holders but a royal pain in the a** to prosecute someone who downloads maybe 1-3 songs per week, that may or may not be copyrighted. Cheers J Ron Stodden wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:59:24 -0600 Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out Asus V7100 Pro Pure MX400 64MB AGP Gainward GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP Toss-up, they all use the same chip. None are fully supported unless you use the

Re: [expert] error loading libGL.so and libMesaVoodooGL.so But it used to work three days ago

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 19:57, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi guys, I had quake 3 installed in my system for more than a year, but just a couple of days ago I tried to install other games and some libraries and when I try to run quake 3 now I get the error. ...loading libGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate issues

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Fotheringham
On Monday 16 Dec 2002 05:23, Joseph Braddock wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 23:56, James Sparenberg wrote: If your are using urpmi from the command line you can use the switch --noclean and it won't erase the rpms. I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to go into menudrake and

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
Quoting Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:59:24 -0600 Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out Asus V7100 Pro Pure MX400 64MB AGP Gainward GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP Toss-up, they all use the same chip.

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:59, Narfi Stefansson wrote: Hi everybody. I know this is a frequently asked question on this list, but I have a list of candidates and I would like your recommendations for the best cards, using only free drivers. I have the following cards in mind: Leadtek

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has

[expert] boot partition

2002-12-16 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I have an Intel Server (SE7500WV2S) that comes with Intel server monitor software. The software is installed on the a service partition on the first disk (/sda1). Then I installed LM9.0 with boot partition on (/sda5). But system won't boot even I set LILO to load /sda5 during the setup

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Joe Braddock
Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Problem is, if you're booting from CD-ROM, the system never get's the chance to read the new

Re: [expert] video card recommendations

2002-12-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:30, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:59:24 -0600 Narfi Stefansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leadtek WinFast A170 TH GeForce 4 MX 420 64MB AGP TV-Out Asus V7100 Pro Pure MX400 64MB AGP Gainward GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP Toss-up, they all use the

Re: [expert] Kazaa for linux

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday December 16 2002 11:16 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding. I

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:34, Joe Braddock wrote: Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Which is a rather horrid solution, unless you're

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 11:09 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it has something to do with the way WD has chosen to not

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-16 Thread Toshiro
El Lun 16 Dic 2002 00:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Toshiro wrote: I've downloaded the latest NVIDIA source rpms, I successfully built the GLX rpm, but when I try to build the NVIDIA kernel rpm, I get an error (see the full message below); it seems that is looking for

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-16 Thread Toshiro
El Dom 15 Dic 2002 23:55, PlugHead escribió: Have you installed the kernel-source rpm appropriate to your kernel? -Jason Yes, I installed the RPM that comes with MDK9 -- Toshiro Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 09:06 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is logical given the partition size. So it shouldn't be reiser... maybe

Re: [expert] maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 10:40 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 08:06, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Reiser 3.5 and 3.6 can handle up to 17.6 Terrabyte in a single filesystem. (check www.namesys.com) Practically speaking this is also the maximum file size, which is logical given the

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 03:34 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the drive to overwrite the system's drive table. Problem is, if you're booting from

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 06:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:34, Joe Braddock wrote: Is it possible that the size is too large for your bios? Most of the large WD drives come with floppy to install ez-bios or something like that on the drive to overwrite the system's

Re: [expert] Error building NVIDIA rpm

2002-12-16 Thread PlugHead
On Monday 16 December 2002 08:32 pm, Toshiro wrote: El Dom 15 Dic 2002 23:55, PlugHead escribió: Have you installed the kernel-source rpm appropriate to your kernel? -Jason Yes, I installed the RPM that comes with MDK9 I would do a 'rpm -qa | grep ^kernel' and make sure that the kernel

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 20:45, Lorne wrote: One question I'm wondering about right now is the make/model of the system board. ? A brand new Intel D845PEBT2 with a 2.4ghz P4 CPU. Looks like a WD problem. Western Digital strikes out again. LX --

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Monday 16 December 2002 12:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a more complete explanation but if I remember right it

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:36 am, Lorne wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme, as I relate to his past reports, said it was due to CRC short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from firmware to software. He also reported that WD's response

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Monday 16 December 2002 8:36 pm, Lorne wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday December 16 2002 06:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Civilme should be here on this one. If you do a search through the archives for Civilme + Western Digital you'll find a

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused this is an initscripts security update, which was fixed by a subsequent update. Some people had problems that were fixed by a new foomatic. These are the current versions where CUPS works for me:

Re: [expert] CUPS permission denied.

2002-12-16 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Damian Gatabria wrote: I had such a problem in 9.0, after no problems since 7.1. One thing that caused this is an initscripts security update, which was fixed by a subsequent update. Some people had problems that were fixed by a new foomatic. These are the current versions where CUPS works for

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Dave Sherman wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 12:07, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I'm seeing

[expert] Novell IPX over IPSEC tunnel

2002-12-16 Thread Darcy Brodie
I am attempting to setup a VPN tunnel between 2 locations, and transfer Novell IPX protocol over this tunnel (I know, IPX will not go over the IPSEC VPN natively) It has been suggested that I use GRE to create a tunnel in the IPSEC VPN, but to date I have not been successful in getting the

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday December 17 2002 03:01 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 12:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme reported that WD's no longer supported CRC checking other that in Windoze. I believe he pronounced them as Win-harddrives. As an old timey overclocker, we

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Monday 16 December 2002 5:29 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday December 17 2002 03:01 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 12:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme reported that WD's no longer supported CRC checking other that in Windoze. I believe he pronounced them

[expert] USB hard drive as backup

2002-12-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I'm thinking of buying a USB hard drive to use as a backup. Any reccomendations would be helpful. Brands, compatabilty, etc. I was considering Maxtor since it seems to be the drive du jour. BTW, I'm using LM9, two WD drives, ASUS mobo PIII 450mhz , two USB ports, ATI videocard, your basic

[expert] IP

2002-12-16 Thread Brian York
How can i find out the ip address of a machine that has been assigned an ip by DHCP. Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Wierd unmount only permitted as root

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:35, J. Grant wrote: Hi Dave, I am surprised that works, here chmod +s only gives user and group +s so my normal user can still not run it. Any other ideas? I could use a script, but there must be something more elegant Regards JG Here are the relevant

Re: [expert] IP

2002-12-16 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:14, Brian York wrote: How can i find out the ip address of a machine that has been assigned an ip by DHCP. Thanks Brian /sbin/ip addr on the machine in question, or tail /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases on the server. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] IP

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 23:14, Brian York wrote: How can i find out the ip address of a machine that has been assigned an ip by DHCP. Thanks Brian /sbin/ifconfig -- Dave Sherman MCSE, MCSA, CCNA If we wanted you to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [expert] cannot locate block device '/dev/dvd' on Toshiba 2400

2002-12-16 Thread david . whiting
Aw! As simple as that! Thanks, it works now. Dave On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Serge wrote: Hi symlink /dev/dvd to /dev/cdrom ... Assigning raw devices: cannot locate block device '/dev/dvd' (No such file or directory) -- Dave Whiting Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Re: [expert] Western digital drives don't work?/maximum capacity

2002-12-16 Thread Lorne
On Monday 16 December 2002 02:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday December 17 2002 01:36 am, Lorne wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 10:47 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Civileme, as I relate to his past reports, said it was due to CRC short cuts. To save a few $$'s, WD transfered this from