[expert] GDM Locale Probs

1999-12-28 Thread Andreas Spengler
Hi folks, I have a problem with the recent versions of GDM (gdm2, that is)... No matter what language I set in the GDM greeter, when I start Gnome it uses English as language for all its texts. In the shell all LANG Variables are correctly set... I would appreciate any help, Andreas Spengler

Re: [expert] Major RAM Problem

1999-12-28 Thread Alwyn Schoeman
Not RAM=128Mb, BUT mem="128MB" or is it mem=128? Payne Stanifer wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne

Re: [expert] Major RAM Problem

1999-12-28 Thread John E Connell
Alwyn Schoeman wrote: Not RAM=128Mb, BUT mem="128MB" or is it mem=128? Payne Stanifer wrote: I am having troubles with Linux not recgnizing my 128mb of ram. I added the append RAM=128MB to my lilo.conf, but it didn't work. By the way, this is caldera 2.3. Please help. Payne

[expert] Modem Speed

1999-12-28 Thread Alejandro Arredondo
Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux Thank You!

Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?

1999-12-28 Thread Dana Laude
Payne, Edit your lilo.conf file in the /etc directory and then just type "/sbin/lilo" (minus the quotes) and your set. If you have any errors it will let you know. (you should do this all as root btw) Regards, Dana On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will

Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?

1999-12-28 Thread Alejandro Arredondo
Payne Stanifer wrote: How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will recognize my 128MB of RAM? Thanks. Payne __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Dear Payne, If you have already changed your /etc/lilo.conf you just

Re: [expert] Netscape issue, redux

1999-12-28 Thread Barry Marler
Opera is quite obviously pre-alpha -- a promise delivered and little else. I've downgraded to Netscape 4.51, and so far, I've not had the problem. Of course, it's only been a few minutes ;-). -- Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia

[expert] KDE-1.1.2 Miscellaneous problems

1999-12-28 Thread Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
I have just installed Mandrake/Helios on my K6-2/300 and am using the KDE desktop only. I have several questions. I have installed and configured kwvdial (as root, initially). It dials out, connects to my ISP and stays connecte, but every app that I try, Netscape mail tool and XFMail, as

[expert] Asking about kernel

1999-12-28 Thread pipit
Dear all (specially Mdk team also oxygen tester), I'm using mdk 6.1 now. I was try to compile the 2.2.13 (from kernel.org) and use the ide patch (cause my Ali 15XX). But, after i compiled kernel, kppp said my kernel not support ppp. But if i check there was a ppp.o under the

[expert] Star Office help

1999-12-28 Thread Alejandro Arredondo
I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 I have tried to run Star Office and I get the following errors: ./soffice : line 130: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ''' ./soffice : line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of file I installed it as root in

[expert] ark (kde archiver) problem

1999-12-28 Thread Davor Cengija
I'm using kdeutils package as shipped on Mandrake 6.1 cdrom. kdeutils-1.1.2-4mdk It seems that ark program (archiver) is broken: when I open tar.gz file in it the seconds from the time information are concatenated with the name of the compressed file (as found in

Re: [expert] xemacs info files

1999-12-28 Thread Davor Cengija
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Mike Fieschko wrote: "Davor" == Davor Cengija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Davor I recently installed xemacs packages from my ML 6.1 Davor distribution CD. Davor Since it's completelly new editor for me, I Davor definitelly need documentation, but

[expert] Radius

1999-12-28 Thread Ramon Gandia
Right now I have an overloaded server, running Radius, my accounting program, Web, FTP and mail. I need to separate these functions, but of course they all need authentication. I have thought of rsync or NIS, but would perhaps like to see if RADIUS can be made to work. Here is what I want, as

Re: [expert] Star Office help

1999-12-28 Thread Phil Risby
Alejandro Arredondo wrote: I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux Mandrake 6.1 I have tried to run Star Office and I get the following errors: ./soffice : line 130: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ''' ./soffice : line 147: syntax error: unexpected end of

Re: [expert] Radius

1999-12-28 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:57 AM 12/28/99 -0900, Ramon Gandia wrote: Right now I have an overloaded server, running Radius, my accounting program, Web, FTP and mail. I need to separate these functions, but of course they all need authentication. I have thought of rsync or NIS, but would perhaps like to see if

Re: [expert] More RAMproblems

1999-12-28 Thread Jack Coates
Payne Stanifer wrote: I added the line append="mem=128mb" to my lilo.conf and I ran the /sbin/lilo , but Linux still doesn't see my 128 MB of RAM. Do I have to reboot before it will see the RAM, or what? Someone please help. Payne PS Thanks for all the help so far.

Re: [expert] Asking about kernel

1999-12-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote: Also i now try to install the new kernel from oxygen. What is the different from kernel with this word at the name : secure, fb, linus ? Which one must i use ? Has it support Ali 15XX ? fb kernel is the "Frame Buffer" kernel for better support of poorly

Re: [expert] Modem Speed

1999-12-28 Thread William English
i would like to know too Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible to change in Linux Thank You!

RE: [expert] KDE-1.1.2 Miscellaneous problems

1999-12-28 Thread Kevin Kallsen
I had this problem too. The only solution I found was to check the "disable local dns's" button in the kppp setup. This worked imediately. Kevin Kallsen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Sent: Monday, December

Re: [expert] Syntax to add an extra append

1999-12-28 Thread Larry Sword
Payne Stanifer wrote: I need to add the infamous append = "mem=128M" to my lilo.conf , but I already have an append and when I add the extra append it tells me I have a syntax error on line * and that I have an extra "append". What do I need to do to add the extra append? Thnks for

Re: [expert] Radius

1999-12-28 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
This is the problem of every ISP, and I haven't found a way around it yet. But it's on my work schedule. NIS is not secure, because it lets you "ypcat" the /etc/shadow file, unless you make big modifications to it. In other words, don't even think about it. Radius authentification would be

Re: [expert] Re-running /sbin/lilo?

1999-12-28 Thread Kirk Whiting
if your system is having a hard time seeing all the memory add this line to lilo.conf append="mem=128" then run lilo [you @yourmanchine]#lilo How do I re-run my /sbin/lilo so Linux will recognize my 128MB of RAM? Thanks. Payne __

Re: [expert] Star Office help

1999-12-28 Thread Civileme
Well, you installed into a vfat partition which may cause some cross-filesystem incompatibilities This is new to my experience. Do you have room to put the SO into an ext2 filesystem? Civileme Alejandro Arredondo wrote: I installed Star Office 5.1 in my computer. I am running Linux

Re: [expert] Modem Speed

1999-12-28 Thread Civileme
William English wrote: i would like to know too Alejandro Arredondo wrote: Hello everybody, Does anyone know how can I spped up my modem connection. In W98 I changed the MaxMTU, MaxMSS, and the Default TTL in the registry and it worked very good. I wonder if it is possible