Re: [expert] Should vfat systematically be checked with dosfsck?

2002-04-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 08:47, Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 08:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Fixing a vfat drive from inside linux (a truly unbiased/independent/seperate standpoint) has definite advantages. The only reason I stop short of using the adjective superior is because I

[expert] Default user paths in LM8.2

2002-04-04 Thread Nick Thompson
If I want to change the default path for all users, what file should I be editing? I have installed the xscreensaver rpms on LM8.2 but they are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (?) which is not on the path, so nobody can use them. Of course users could add this into .profile in their

[expert] why do I need kernel-headers-rpm if I compile a LM kernel fromsource

2002-04-04 Thread udo rader
hi listees, from my life before LM I am somewhat used to compile my own kernel instead of using precompiled ones. The normal procedure for this was to just download the kernel, install it under /usr/src/, run make menuconfig and then build the kernel. for mandrake things work different

Re: [expert] No sound from sound card

2002-04-04 Thread Onur Kucuk
PB Hi all, PB This would have already been solved, but after 3 PB days of trying i feel i am stuck. help needed. PB I have P4 system with motherboard (P4S5A) from ECS. PB This board has on-board sound. And all i can read PB about the board is that it is AC97 complient codec. PB When i

Re: [expert] No sound from sound card

2002-04-04 Thread Pavan Balellugari
--- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PB Hi all, PB This would have already been solved, but after 3 PB days of trying i feel i am stuck. help needed. PB I have P4 system with motherboard (P4S5A) from ECS. PB This board has on-board sound. And all i can read PB about the

Re: [expert] bootable CD

2002-04-04 Thread Mike Rambo
Jason Guidry wrote: Mike Rambo wrote: Hey, Before this thread goes away...where does the image come from. I tried asking a similar question a while back...I wanted to boot several mini-distros off the same disk. any insight on that? To which image do you refer? The floppy

Re: [expert] No sound from sound card

2002-04-04 Thread Onur Kucuk
PB --- Onur Kucuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PB When i do PBamixer set -c 1 Master 70 unmute PB i get PBThe ALSA sound driver was not detected in this PB system. PB Now i execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsa restart PB i see PB Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK

[expert] kde3 packages for 8.2?

2002-04-04 Thread falcaraz
I have read in the list that mandrake packages for kde3 are avalaible but I can't find them:-( Could anyone please be so kind to tell me the url? Thanks a lot in advance. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]

2002-04-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 02:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hot damn, LX! The more I see you post, the more I can see just how intelligent you are. I couldn't have said this better. As a great French leader once said (OK Mandrake folks, you should know who he is, and, no, it is not the Big

Re: [expert] kde3 packages for 8.2?

2002-04-04 Thread Steven Spears
Francisco: I just went to www.kde.org and then to their downloads and picked and FTP server. In there there should be a stable folder and then a 3.0 folder. In side will be the distros. Just choose Mandrake and then 8.2. That's all I did. They may even have better links up on the site by now

[expert] Single Network Firewall

2002-04-04 Thread Belkie, Dan
Has anyone had any luck with installing single network firewall 7.2? Any good or bad comments? I'm looking for a simple firewall solution but still have a mandrake install on the box so that I can ssh to and do backups to. Ideas? -- = Dan Belkie System Architect

[expert] (Slightly OT) Login shell/logo/ framebuffer

2002-04-04 Thread Tessone, Claudio Juan
Hi: I have a question about configuring the login shells in tty1, ... tty5. As a Mandrake user since version 6.0, I always have seen the penguin drawn in the text mode screen. Now, that even lilo comes with framebuffer support I wander how to add the penguin logo, but the real one,

[expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-04 Thread Oscar
Hi all, I have LM8.2 installed in several PCs and is working ok. But this afternoon I have installed it in a friend's computer. He cannot connect to internet (using kppp) The modem is a Conceptronic 56ET This is what I get if I run pppd from a console: [root@localhost ppp]# pppd ~ÿ}#À!}!}!}

Re: Re: Re: [expert] LM 8.2 xinetd leafnode

2002-04-04 Thread Jim Dawson
There aren't any uncommented lines in either file. If I remember correctly this means that there are no host restrictions. -Original Message- From: Andreas Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03 Apr 2002 23:50:28 +0200 Subject: Re: Re: [expert] LM 8.2 xinetd leafnode

[expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all, A strange problem that I was wondering if anyone else has noticed? My wife uses evolution but the first time she opens the program, she has to close it and re-open it before it will give her access to the inbox. Any ideas? I didn't notice this when I set it up for her and

Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-04 Thread Olly P
On Thursday 04 April 2002 13:44, óscar. typed: Hi all, I have LM8.2 installed in several PCs and is working ok. But this afternoon I have installed it in a friend's computer. He cannot connect to internet (using kppp) The modem is a Conceptronic 56ET This is what I get if I run pppd from a

Re: [expert] evolution: have to open twice before reading mail

2002-04-04 Thread Damian
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 16:10, Michael Holt escribió: Hey all, A strange problem that I was wondering if anyone else has noticed? My wife uses evolution but the first time she opens the program, she has to close it and re-open it before it will give her access to the inbox. Any

Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-04 Thread caret
- Mensaje Original - Remitente: Olly P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Jueves, Abril 4, 2002 7:15 pm Asunto: Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem On Thursday 04 April 2002 13:44, óscar. typed: Hi all, I have LM8.2 installed in several PCs and is working ok. But this afternoon I

[expert] ifconfig help - setting up a VPN

2002-04-04 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Hello all, I'm trying to set up a VPN so I can connect to work from home. I ran the Cisco 3.51 VPN software, and it created this interface, call it someipsec0. There's no docs, so I'm guessing that I need to run ifconfig on it to bring it up, maybe like: /sbin/ifconfig someipsec0 192.168.0.3

[expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid?

2002-04-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
I think Borland might be getting a little carried away. I dled and installed JB6 today and here is a facsimile of the License Key they sent. %40%C6%89%99%00%00%02%24%D6%E3 %23o%D5%95%D0R%E2W%1E%C8%A3%EC O%FFY%06%D6%CD%B6u%82%1E%3E%B0 %9E%BA%1C%DDd%23%BF%D6%A3%19%8 7Q%03%FD%D4%EDx%8FTa%85%9B%AF%

Re: [expert] OT-Borland getting paranoid?

2002-04-04 Thread jipe
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:46:44 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Borland might be getting a little carried away. I dled and installed JB6 today and here is a facsimile of the License Key they sent. %40%C6%89%99%00%00%02%24%D6%E3 %23o%D5%95%D0R%E2W%1E%C8%A3%EC

[expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2

2002-04-04 Thread Thomas Gamble
Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to 'None'. After a couple of login cycles this reverts back to 'All but no show'. I've seen this same bahavior on three separate installations of MDK8.2 all clean

Re: [expert] Default user paths in LM8.2

2002-04-04 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Apr 04, 2002 at 09:44:58AM +0100, Nick Thompson wrote: If I want to change the default path for all users, what file should I be editing? I have installed the xscreensaver rpms on LM8.2 but they are installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver (?) which is not on the path, so nobody

Re: [expert] Problem with LM82 and modem

2002-04-04 Thread Olly P
On Thursday 04 April 2002 15:42, óscar typed: Thank you for your answer. But I'm afraid that this is not the problem. In fact, the modem is *not* dialing. I believe that the problem is in the modem initialisation. If I activate the log viewer in kppp I can observe that it does not show the

[expert] monitor refresh rates

2002-04-04 Thread Steve
Can someone please help me with setting up my monitor refresh rates? My monitor( CTX PR710) is capable of 1152x864 with a vertical refresh rate of either 85Hz or 100Hz, but X keeps on wanting to set my monitor at a refresh rate of 75Hz. How in the heck can I setup X to use the right refresh

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]

2002-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 02:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hot damn, LX! The more I see you post, the more I can see just how intelligent you are. I couldn't have said this better. As a great French leader once said (OK Mandrake folks, you should know who he is, and, no,

Re: [expert] bootable CD

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Holt
On stardate Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: No, not quite (i don't think). I want to somehow, through ISOLINUX or whatever, multi boot a cd with several mini-*nix distros designed to run off a floppy or cd or something. for example, the ideal would be an aurora-like boot screen with

Re: [expert] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]

2002-04-04 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 02:18, J. Craig Woods wrote: Hot damn, LX! The more I see you post, the more I can see just how intelligent you are. I couldn't have said this better. As a great French leader once said

[expert] KDE3.0

2002-04-04 Thread Angus Beath
Hey guys/girls. I've just installed KDE3.0, just to have a peek, but mainly for the new office stuff. All this is well and good, however, I keep getting these errors. I upgraded the packages as opposed to a straight install, and KDE2.2.2 is still working just fine. The errors are as

[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

Re: [expert] [Fwd: socket error on remote dial up]

2002-04-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:01:58 -0700 Frederick Gleicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having this problem since replacing redhat 7.0 with mandrake 8.0. The company server has dsl internet thru eth0, with a LAN on eth1 ( thru a hub/switch ). It also has a dialup modem, ppp0 in the server

Re: [expert] LM 8.2 xinetd leafnode

2002-04-04 Thread Rob Gillen
FYI, the man pages [hosts_access(5)] are part of the tcp_wrappers-7.6-20mdk.rpm package. Andreas Müller wrote: Am Mit, 2002-04-03 um 19.59 schrieb Jim Dawson: I have configured xinted for leafnode as described below and it still doesn't start. I can't even find any indication in the logs

Re: [expert] kdm wierdness in 8.2

2002-04-04 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 16:07, Thomas Gamble wrote: Since upgrading to 8.2 I have noticed that changes to the login manager don't stick. In particular, changing 'Show Users' to 'None'. After a couple of login cycles this reverts back to 'All but no show'. I've seen this same bahavior on

Re: [expert] system upgrade -- moving users

2002-04-04 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:11:44 -0500 synrat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a new server for my mail-web-file server setup. While I'm not worried about recreating configuration files for most servers, I don't know what to do with the users home directories and password files. Will

[expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-04 Thread Phil
Hello All, A friend has a GWBASIC program that he wants to run under Linux. I remember reading about a BASIC interpreter for Linux however a quick search didn't reveal anything useful. Can anyone help? -- Regards, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Running GWBASIC programs

2002-04-04 Thread J. Grant
search for yabasic on google or freshmeat.net or tell your friend to learn C :) JG Phil wrote: Hello All, A friend has a GWBASIC program that he wants to run under Linux. I remember reading about a BASIC interpreter for Linux however a quick search didn't reveal anything useful. Can

[expert] changing default document on apache in 8.2

2002-04-04 Thread faisal gillani
i am having some problem in changing the default document name in apache server cant seem to find it can you tell me where to change it ? = One day of lion's life is better then 100 day life of the jackel's *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤