Re: [expert] X 4.0.2 and the RPM database

2000-12-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Civileme wrote: If it were that simple you would see it in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported where we put updates that do not qualify as critical or security. Is unsupported a response to reported bugs (same version but a higher mdk patch level) or is it just a mandrake release of a a new

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines. Thanks, Dan Mark Weaver wrote: Dan, What you first have to do is make sure that fetchmail is checked to start automatically in Drakeconf-Startup Services. When

Re: [expert] RPM 4 nightmare, Updating ?

2000-12-25 Thread Onur
Hello Julián, Sunday, December 24, 2000, 2:07:04 PM, you wrote: JMD Are we going crazy with RPM 4 ? JMD 1) I do not find RPM4 for Mandrake JMD 2) Some new sofwares and updates (for example licq) are beeing released JMD with rpm4, including de src.rpm :-(( The RPM coming with mandrake 7.2

[expert] Uninstall hangs my machine !

2000-12-25 Thread Santosh Dawara
Hi all, I want to report a problem, I installed Mandrake 7.2 about a month back. Its definitely better than the other distros I have used. Kudos on that. I ran Mandrake-Update as root and upgraded a few packages including everybuddy bind-utils. While attempting to rpm -Uvh everybuddy

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Mark, I don't have an /etc/ip-up.local. Did you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up? I'm not running ppp on this machine,I use a gateway firewall on another machine with demand dialing to access the internet.I hope to run the server headless and use webmin to administer it.The reason I want to start fetchmail

[expert] Off Topic

2000-12-25 Thread Pj
Listers, For the "Expert" members that celebrate a holiday this time of year, I wish you joy, peace and prosperity for the coming year. For the "Mandrake" team that monitors this list, I wish you the same, especially peace, and hope you will join our spirited group more often. Happy Holidays,

Re: [expert] Off Topic

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 12:43, you wrote: Listers, For the "Expert" members that celebrate a holiday this time of year, I wish you joy, peace and prosperity for the coming year. For the "Mandrake" team that monitors this list, I wish you the same, especially peace, and hope you will

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines. Thanks, Dan Dan, You may want to add it to the list then. You can do that with Linuxconf. It's one of the last things

Re: [Fwd: Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail]

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 12:31, you wrote: Mark, I don't have an /etc/ip-up.local. Did you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up? I'm not running ppp on this machine,I use a gateway firewall on another machine with demand dialing to access the internet.I hope to run the server headless and use webmin to

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
I don't have either one of those things installed on my Mdk 7.2 system and the java is working fine. I don't get the feeling that it's needed. If it is installed I'm not aware of it being there. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is

Re[2]: [expert] Quake2 - won't run...??

2000-12-25 Thread Onur
Hello civileme, Sunday, December 24, 2000, 8:01:22 PM, you wrote: c On Saturday 23 December 2000 15:36, you wrote: Hi list, Recently I downloaded Quake2 and got the thing installed, but when I try to start the game per the instructions in the readme file I see this message displayed in the

Re: [expert] XFree86 for i686 architecture

2000-12-25 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Gerald Williams wrote: There are some xfree86 rpms for the i686 architecture on the unsupported site. My question, and I believe it was asked before with no reply that I saw, are they okay to use on a pentium based machine? When I try to install them, I get the error message that they are

[expert] WorkAround for LM-7.2 Partial Install?

2000-12-25 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I'm trying to install all of LM-7.2 but it will only allow 1.5 gigs. The partition is 3.5gigs so there should be plenty of room. How do you get LM-7.2 to install all applications? Seve

Re: [expert] WorkAround for LM-7.2 Partial Install?

2000-12-25 Thread Roger Sherman
Prolly a silly question, but what kind of install did you do? Recommended? Custom? Expert? If expert (I dont know if these options are given for the other two), did you check fullinstall? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Sevatio

Re: [expert] WorkAround for LM-7.2 Partial Install?

2000-12-25 Thread Sevatio Octavio
I chose "Expert" and every available package along with %100 on the slidebar. Seve Original Message On 12/25/00, 1:10:10 PM, Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [expert] WorkAround for LM-7.2 Partial Install?: Prolly a silly question, but what kind of install did you do?

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Daniel Anderson
Mark, Many thanks,that did it.fetchmail is now managed and started by Linuxconf. Dan Mark Weaver wrote: On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply that fetchmail is'nt listed in startup services on either of my machines.

[expert] KDE bar problem

2000-12-25 Thread Guido Milanese
I have a very stupid problem, but I cant' get rid of it... The application bar in KDE froze today when I tried to remove an application -- I had wrongly added two additional copies of the KMail icon to the bar and wanted to remove one; I moved some icons and the bar is now the bar empty. I

[expert] CDwriter

2000-12-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I have just installed a nice new sony CRX140E cdwriter in my machine but cannot get it to work. Mandrake 7.2 was already installed, and the bios finds the drive. Details are: HDA hard disk HDB hard disk HDC LS120 IDE-floppy (not set up as yet.) HDD CDWRITER I have used the test script from

Re: [expert] KDE theme manager

2000-12-25 Thread Mike MacCana
They don't make it obvious, so here `tis [from the README supplied with one of the first KDE2 themes] --- To install: 1. Unpack aquatica.tar.gz. You can use archiver(ark) program from KDE. 2. Now you have Aquatica folder with two folders in it: a) Pixmaps folder and b) Themes folder. 3.

Re: [expert] XFree86 for i686 architecture

2000-12-25 Thread Gerald Williams
On Sunday 24 December 2000 19:57, you wrote: Gerald Williams wrote: There are some xfree86 rpms for the i686 architecture on the unsupported site. My question, and I believe it was asked before with no reply that I saw, are they okay to use on a pentium based machine? When I try to

Re: [expert] Desktop device icons, folders, etc, don't work

2000-12-25 Thread Pierre Fortin
b5dave wrote: Wow! Is that the result of installing every language available? No; that seems to be what I got doing a English only install... I'll stay off the "install" soapbox since it's Christmas... Pierre On 24-Dec-2000 Pierre Fortin wrote: Praedor Tempus wrote: Could someone

Re: [expert] Starting Fetchmail

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Awesome...glad I could help. Mark On Monday 25 December 2000 21:47, you wrote: Mark, Many thanks,that did it.fetchmail is now managed and started by Linuxconf. Dan Mark Weaver wrote: On Monday 25 December 2000 12:00, you wrote: Hi Mark, Forgot to mention in my last reply

Re: [expert] Cups and extra (banner?) page

2000-12-25 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Till Kamppeter wrote: Please tell me which printer and which driver you use. Send me /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd Please find the files attached. Sorry for the delay. Thanks in advance (TIA). Ron ./. and tell me whether your printer is

Re: [expert] Cups and extra (banner?) page

2000-12-25 Thread Ronald L. Chichester
Till Kamppeter wrote: Please tell me which printer and which driver you use. Send me /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd and tell me whether your printer is connected via USB or via the parallel port. Print also to a file from your application

Re: [expert] CDwriter

2000-12-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Still no go - from reading it looks like Mandrake sets up the system to whatever CDROM you have on install. If you change it, the system doesnt re-adapt!. There no list of what has been done that I can find - can you send me your "modules.conf" and I'll see if that gives a clue?. Thanks for

Re: [expert] CDwriter

2000-12-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have just installed a nice new sony CRX140E cdwriter in my machine but cannot get it to work. Mandrake 7.2 was already installed, and the bios finds the drive. Since there was no ATAPI IDE CD-writer present at install time, you won't have SCSI emulation set up for

[expert] Dialup Trouble...

2000-12-25 Thread Adam Koch
Hey all, I've just started using the ifup and ifdown scripts instead of KPPP for dialup. Just one problem though...I get an "Users cannot control this device." error every time I try to run the scripts. I've done a chmod 755 on /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS1 as well as each of the scripts. Any

Re: [expert] Dialup Trouble...

2000-12-25 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 25 December 2000 15:35, you wrote: Hey all, I've just started using the ifup and ifdown scripts instead of KPPP for dialup. Just one problem though...I get an "Users cannot control this device." error every time I try to run the scripts. I've done a chmod 755 on /dev/modem and

Re: [expert] CDwriter

2000-12-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Its fixed. Last problem was that the append line in lilo had a mistake (emabarrasing!) Thamks Larry and Ron for responding. I will try later and get grub to recognise an append line, at leats lilo works. Thanks, billk * the chorus of "install it in my windoze machine" was getting louder,

Re: [expert] Dialup Trouble...

2000-12-25 Thread Pj
- Original Message - From: Adam Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: [expert] Dialup Trouble... Hey all, I've just started using the ifup and ifdown scripts instead of KPPP for dialup. Just one problem though...I get an