Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-31 Thread ibi
I'm looking for a new CD-ROM. 6.0 doesn't like my old Mitsumi at all. Any suggestions? I don't want to upgrade L-M. Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console -- almost solved!

2000-01-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jean-Louis: Thanks for writing. You are right. I had to uncomment the alias color line in /etc/bashrc. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

[expert] txt_boot

2000-01-31 Thread Wahid Belhaouane
Hi everybody I made a boot disk using txt_boot.img , to install mandrake 7.0 from my hard disk but unfortunatly , it asks me only for a cdrom drive , nothing about hard disk. Also i used txt_bootnet.img , it asks only for a cdrom drive too. Can someone help me to install from my hard disk.

[expert] Mandrake 7.0 and S3 Trio 3D

2000-01-31 Thread Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy
A lot of people are having problems with S3 Trio 3D cards in Mandrake 7.0. I have got this combination works perfect replacing XF86_SVGA file by the one which comes in the xsvga-3.3.5-38.i386.rpm packet from SuSE. XFree-3.3.6 SVGA server from SuSE works only if I limit the vertical refresh to

Re: [expert] MDK7, somne small issues...

2000-01-31 Thread Rickard Ã…berg
Aureal claim they are SMP compilant. And yes.. the 2.2.13 kernel was compiled with SMP support. / Rickard On 27-Jan-2000 Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Is the AUREAL drivers SMP compliant? I heard somewhere that they aren't. Was the 2.2.13 kernel that you had uniprocessor kernel? At 06:59

Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.

2000-01-31 Thread Muryn Bartlomiej
I`v got the same problem, it is the issue of driver for this controller. I had a problem with instalation too - when installer says to insert a floppy to start the instalation from floppy - floppy recognise the controller but I have error in assignation of IRQ... Is there ANY POSSIBILITY that

Re: [expert] Accelerated 3D graphics

2000-01-31 Thread Warren Doney
AFAIK the stuff for TNT is only *beta* won't work properly 'till X 4.0 comes out. Warren. (Who's glad he's got a Voodoo3) - Original Message - From: "Cajus Pollmeier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:55 AM Subject: [expert] Accelerated 3D

Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console

2000-01-31 Thread Audrey Beck
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am experiencing a strange bash error IN THE CONSOLE ONLY, that is in the real console, NOT in xterm. At the user prompt (even after reboot), I type pwd, and I get the correct answer: $/home/sher But when I type "ls" I get a long series of

Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console -- almost solved!

2000-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Benjamin Sher wrote: Thanks for writing. You are right. I had to uncomment the alias color line in /etc/bashrc. Okay, that's better ... for now ! It still looks like your xterm (???) has a problem with ANSI escape sequences. But why ??? -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74

Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Pixel
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute. you can click on the green lights on the left - The formatting option does a quick format, not a

Re: [expert] gnupg

2000-01-31 Thread Karsten Roemling
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:49:30PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jack Coates wrote: I really need to get my public key exported so I can put it on my website and send it to people and (most importantly) give it to Lenny so he can verify my contrib RPMs. I've

Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread Civileme
AS T wrote: I have the following problem on my linux gateway machine (at my home). The machine has two NIC cards. Eth0 is DHCP via adsl. Eth1 has static ip for my internal network. IP_MASQ is on to forward packets from my internal network. Everything works nicely, except that if I went

RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread Lyle
What kind of NIC's are we talking about? And how do we know that it's not your ISP that's blocking the pings? Where do the traceroute's end? A traceroute when it works and when it fails would be usefull here. Also my ISP changed routers last summer and they now block all pings traceroutes

Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mattthe "back" button is the column of colored circles on the left side of your screen. Alan "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: Finally gave up and went with RedHat 6.1. Maybe when LM7.1+ comes out I'll take another look... Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I was running

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Darin
Did you use DiskDrake to re-size your fat32 partition? I did and lost everything on my 10 gig drive in the process. After recovering from my Ghost image, I re-installed 7.0 on a second drive. But, all was not well.. I chose to do a beginner install. I thought I'd see just how well it would

[expert] M13

2000-01-31 Thread Ramon Gandia
Is it me, or is it M13? I downloaded it, and it worksbut. It sure is quirky. Loading pages, it jerks around. It does not seem to allocate space for images, and then jerks the page around to accomodate them. Like IE in Windows does. It is also very slow on my Pentium II-300 running MDK

Re: [expert] What is going on?

2000-01-31 Thread Darin Martin
I have a mitsumi 32x that has worked fine with 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0. - Original Message - From: "ibi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:54 AM Subject: Re: [expert] What is going on? I'm looking for a new CD-ROM. 6.0 doesn't like my old Mitsumi at

Re: [expert] problems with modules

2000-01-31 Thread me
Elizabeth Dolan wrote: i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have no sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what was said in the driver readme file so i

Re: [expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition

2000-01-31 Thread Muryn Bartlomiej
I think it is too late... the *.mov files can now be played by soft "xmovie". http://heroine.linuxbox.com/xmovie.html Bartek Alan Shoemaker wrote: BenI'd gladly sign a petition for them NOT to port it to Linux. Alan Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > If you would like to see

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Jeanette Russo
What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Ron Stodden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 9:11 PM Subject: Re:

RE: [expert] Mount broken for cdrom

2000-01-31 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I had that problem with my cd-rw. I had to change my type from auto to iso9660, and all is well in Mdk. 6.1 I used /dev/sr0 as well... Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) -Original Message- From: Ron Stodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday,

RE: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread AS T
It is not my ISP simply because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Also the traceroute stops at my machine when it doesn't work. Again the funny thing is the network comes back alive after some times (between 10 min and 40 min). I also tried several NIC (3com and Reltek ) and the

Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread AS T
I think you migh have hit it. Because when I boot under NT the problem goes away. Could you please tell me how to work around this. And perhapse if you can point me to some doc about this feature. Thanks alot. --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AS T wrote: I have the following

Re: [expert] QuickTime for Linux -- Petition

2000-01-31 Thread Andrew Post
Muryn Bartlomiej wrote: I think it is too late... the *.mov files can now be played by soft "xmovie". http://heroine.linuxbox.com/xmovie.html Bartek There's the misunderstanding. Quicktime 4 uses two codecs (Sorenson, and I've forgotten the name of the other one) for which Apple has signed

Re: [expert] ntfs LM-7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 12:32:32PM -0600, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: - I am using dual boot on one pc, Main OS Linux, secondary Win98... - - well, just upgraded to Win2000-Pro and switched from FAT32 to NTFS - - obviously the files are not being seen by linux, what should I use - - now in fstab,

Re: [expert] getting set prompt=$p$g functionality in bash

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, Where would I put the Linux equivalent to the above dos statement in order to get a prompt showing the current directory ($p) and the greater than ($g) symbol? Is there some documentation as to all of the options I can put into my bash prompt? man bash

[expert] Mozilla M13 and Opera

2000-01-31 Thread WH Bouterse
I agree with Ramon I find this latest M13 to be quirky and actually less stable on my machine than M12 was and all that extra Communicator emulation stuff is unnecessary. Anyhow M12 worked better for me without the mail which does in fact really bog M12-13 down to an unusable level. So far I

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Jack Coates
Ron Stodden wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and start ppp, it

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Phil Edwards
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this effect on the Mandrake web site. Would you care to

Re: [expert] M13

2000-01-31 Thread Jean Meloche
OK... I posted a question about M13 a few days ago. I'm not dreaming! M13 is pretty bad with LM. It crashes continuously on me both with 7.0 and with 6.1. I was wondering how it does on RH. Presumably not better. -- Jean Meloche

[expert] Dupe Loops

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
I'm seeing what appear to be dupe-loops. Is anyone else seeing this? It's almost as if someone has subscribed this list to itself or something Axalon, would you look into this? Thanks... John

[expert] problems with titlebars icons

2000-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Dolan
i have a annoying problem with the titlebar shortcuts within a window the buttons that go back or forward through the windowsis not there but in fact has a scambled mess does anyone know how to kix this problem thank you

[expert] problems with modules

2000-01-31 Thread Elizabeth Dolan
i recently compilied and installed 2.2.14 kernel due because i have no sound so i downloaded the the kernel sourse as well as th cmi8338 source code everything i think went well anyway i got to do what was said in the driver readme file so i did: modprobe -a \* -displays all

RE: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
-Original Message- From: Pixel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1 - The formatting option does a quick format, not a detailed

Re: [expert] Journaling (EXT3;ResierFS)

2000-01-31 Thread Karsten Roemling
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:47:30PM -0500, William Ahern wrote: Could somebody point me to some resources on building a system resting ext3 or reiserfs? I'm not too interested on some sort of hybrid system that boots ext2 and mounts another partition for ext3. i'd like to keep it simple as i

[expert] What Happenned to the Newbie List?

2000-01-31 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Is it me or did the Newbie List just dropped out of sight? Seve

[expert] ISDN adapter questions

2000-01-31 Thread Joachim Holst
Hi ! I've just got ISDN installed and am in the process of deciding which ISDN TA to buy. I have decided that I want an internal PCI/ISA adaptor and have found two models that I think might be quite good. However, I'm not familiar with ISDN and the technology that comes with it. The cards that

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic Using SMP and Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 and have an Abit MB and two 366 celerons overclocked to 550. When I install mandrake everything goes good. When I use the Linux config. from LILO it crashes with a kernel panic. When I use the Linux-up config it runs fine. I have tried

RE: [expert] problems with titlebars icons

2000-01-31 Thread Schiavon, Jose
Are you using KDE? If so there is a known problem and fix at: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick2.html#Pixmaps i have a annoying problem with the titlebar shortcuts within a window the buttons that go back or forward through the windowsis not there but in fact has a scambled

Re: [expert] Dupe Loops

2000-01-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Yep, seeing it here too! Alan John Aldrich wrote: I'm seeing what appear to be dupe-loops. Is anyone else seeing this? It's almost as if someone has subscribed this list to itself or something Axalon, would you look into this? Thanks... John

Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-31 Thread Christopher Cox
With all due respect, if Mandrake, Redhat, SUSE, Caldera, Slackware and who-ever start modifying the kernels so that drivers and binaries will not run between them, You just killed the movement and handed power back to Microsoft. I have been through this garbage in the Unix world and it divides

Re: [expert] Sever Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Christopher Molnar
I guess that answers my questions if I am going to go to Mandrake or stay on RedHat. On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, tommiy wrote: Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be betterwhat a dissappointment. I selected an upgrade and now

[expert] Resend of HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.

2000-01-31 Thread David Stringer
Sorry to spam the mail list, I am resending this because it was originally formated in html. Original Message dated 31/01/00, 05:57:47 AM Author: "David Stringer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer

Re: [expert] Journaling (EXT3;ResierFS)

2000-01-31 Thread Matt Stegman
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/jfs/ Is Stephen C. Tweedie's "official" ext3 ftp site, with patches and such. The README there explains everything. If you're interested, there's even a gzipped postscript file that explains how journalling works. This release seems relatively stable.

[expert] stunnel v. sslwrap

2000-01-31 Thread William Ahern
anybody have experiece w/ stunnel and/or sslwrap for encrypting pop and imap services? stunnel seems to operate as a deamon, whereis sslwrap runs from inet and loops back to the unencrytped service.

[expert] Sources of the installer

2000-01-31 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Can someone tell me where to find the sources of the install routines of LM? I need the ones of "install" in the bootnet.img initrd. Thanks, -Cajus

Re: [expert] HPT366 Boot help, I've been through the archives blah blah blah... but there seems to be no answer to my problem.

2000-01-31 Thread John
Muryn Bartlomiej wrote: I`v got the same problem, it is the issue of driver for this controller. I had a problem with instalation too - when installer says to insert a floppy to start the instalation from floppy - floppy recognise the controller but I have error in assignation of IRQ... Is

[expert] LIDS, Openwall and IPSec questions...

2000-01-31 Thread William Ahern
Hi, Has anybody used LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) and/or patches from the Openwall project before? These look really exciting from a security standpoint Also, I get the impression that IPSec and IKE are much more mature on OpenBSD then on Linux (given the confusion w/ FreeS/Wan

Re: [expert] gnupg

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Ok, I'm trying to export my key using the gnupg that comes with LM7.0 and it's screwing up my console bigtime. When I use "gpg --export" I get a bunch of high ascii and it turns everything into high ascii, including prompts and everything. I really need to

Re: [expert] What Happenned to the Newbie List?

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: Is it me or did the Newbie List just dropped out of sight? Just you, my friend! I've been getting TONS of messages in there today! John

[expert] Compile Kernel

2000-01-31 Thread Allen Denton
How do you maintain your current config. when re-compiling a kernel? Every time I compile the kernel something else does not work so I have to go in and do it all over again to get it working again. Thanks..

Re: [expert] ISDN adapter questions

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi ! I've just got ISDN installed and am in the process of deciding which ISDN TA to buy. I have decided that I want an internal PCI/ISA adaptor and have found two models that I think might be quite good. However, I'm not familiar with ISDN and the

Re: [expert] Network goes away after some idle time

2000-01-31 Thread WH Bouterse
I too had this problem with a static IP and cable-modem setup. Civileme and Axalon helped me through my gripes and confusion, and yet it took me almost two weeks and talking on the phone with not one, not two, not three, but four tec-support individuals to track down the problem and it was one

[expert] KDE Menu

2000-01-31 Thread Helmut Halfmann
Hey! I join this mailingslist just a few days and i didn't find the answer in the (not existing) FAQ for mandrake 7, so i don't know if some else asked this question... I changed the KDE menu for a normal user and after a reboot, the personal menu was filled up with the default gnome menu stuff

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic Using SMP and Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Allen Denton
I have already tried that and I get the same thing. Everything was working fine when I was using 6.1, NT also works fine so I don't think its that. I thought maybe I would recompile the kernel but I cant always get the same settings back to do that. John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you

Re: [expert] Compile Kernel

2000-01-31 Thread Matt Stegman
When running your chosen config script (I know menuconfig and xconfig allow this), choose "Save Configuration to an Alternate File," and you'll be able to load it next time you want to configure your kernel. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Allen Denton wrote: How do you

Re: [expert] Compile Kernel

2000-01-31 Thread David Stringer
There is the option to 'save kernel as', save it to a good place. Then reload that config next time you need it. David Stringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Allen Denton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: [expert]

Re: [expert] M13

2000-01-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Ramon and friends: My thanks to Ramon and other gurus for your evaluation of Mozilla 13. As a non-techie, it is all too easy for me to be won over by the lovely design and shiny chrome. It's good to know that what's under the hood still needs a lot of work. I am, of course, disappointed to

Re: [expert] Misbehaving ls error in console

2000-01-31 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Audrey: Thanks for writing. I have corrected the problem by commenting out the "alias ls=color" line in /etc/bashrc. Thanks again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [expert] gnupg

2000-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Are you giving it a file to go into? gpg --export mykey.asc I didn't think that would make a difference, but I tried it. Sorry for You have to wrap it into an ascii armor: gpg -a --export mykey Aha! Thanks to everyone who

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Ron Stodden
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeanette Russo wrote: What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? I refer you to my previous messages in this mailing list (please keep up to date) on this subject, and

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Ron Stodden
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Phil Edwards wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial release. Quality was the given reason. Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this effect on

[expert] releasing ipaddress

2000-01-31 Thread Jack Malone
I have to release the ipaddress of the cable modem from my isp an, it used to not be that way . I could switch back an fore from my windows an linux machine with the cable an not have to release the ip to get a lease on the other machine. what is the linux command to release the ip address

[expert] Lilo question...

2000-01-31 Thread Christopher Quale
I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM and 98, but I can't get lilo working

Re: [expert] Compile Kernel

2000-01-31 Thread Stephen Boulet
Not too hard. Once you've run make menuconfig from /usr/src/linux, do something like: cp .config ../myKernelConfig Since that would put it one directory up, you can then copy it back into the linux directory next time you need to recompile. -- Stephen On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, you wrote: How do

Re: [expert] Aureal disappointment

2000-01-31 Thread S. Newhouse
Well, I must not understand your post! 1. It seems to me that drivers written for say the Turtle Beach Montego II card are of little or no use to one who has not bought the card. 2. Why not supply the source to the driver so that anyone can compile a kernel which will run the card? They

Re: [expert] Lilo question...

2000-01-31 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Christopher Quale wrote: I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM

[expert] M13

2000-01-31 Thread ibi
Alpha version of Mozilla makes debut Mozilla.org has released the long-awaited "alpha" version of its open source Web browser, dubbed M13, in a signal that the troubled project may finally be putting some of its problems behind it. With the alpha, which is posted on Mozilla's

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronwell I for one still don't understand. I read your previous message and the message from Jeanette was in response to that message, so she obviously didn't get it either. Where would we have been able to see this "README.img announcement" before its "apparent withdrawal"? Do you have a

[expert] PPP strange in MDK

2000-01-31 Thread Mike
The only major problem I have with Mandrake on the install is setting up PPP. I can get it to find my modem and actually dial, but it wont hold the connection (not a winmodem :) ) I did some poking around on the mandrakeuser.org site and found a really strange PPP setup. Will regular scripts

[expert] [devel] gnupg

2000-01-31 Thread Vincent Danen
Ok, I'm trying to export my key using the gnupg that comes with LM7.0 and it's screwing up my console bigtime. When I use "gpg --export" I get a bunch of high ascii and it turns everything into high ascii, including prompts and everything. I really need to get my public key exported so I can