Re: [expert] arts not working in two displays at once

2002-10-24 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2002 03:09 schrieb bascule: this devfs thing is really starting to hack me off, i see no reason why the 'first' user to log on locally gets to be 'king of audio'. if i try to avoid using devfs will this behaviour change?

Re: [expert] Using gcc 3.2: 'cc1' warning message

2002-10-24 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2002 21:30 schrieb Aleksey Naumov: Dear experts, I am using gcc 3.2 (on ML 9.0) and I get a lot of warnings from cc1: cc1: warning: changing search order for system directory /usr/local/include cc1: warning: as it has

[expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi all, I use a dumb terminal to login and run a menu script as root. After a short period of no activity the session is automatically logged out. How can I stop this or increase the time before auto logout? Thanks Gary. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] arts not working in two displays at once

2002-10-24 Thread bascule
yey! took your advice, looked at man pam_console, i edited /etc/security/console.perms to comment out the line for the sound permissions: #console 0600 sound 0600 root.audio and made my users part of the audio group, chmod 660 /etc/sound/* and arts works in both kde sessions, fingers

[expert] funny xine bug in Mandrake 8.2

2002-10-24 Thread t_gecks
Bug (with solution) I'm experiencing a funny bug here with xine. It only shows the video output when xmms is up (but not playing anything). Audio works flawlessly anytime. If xmms is missing the video output is represented by a green area only. This thing happens to me on two different

Re: [expert] arts not working in two displays at once

2002-10-24 Thread bascule
also need to chmod 660 /dev/snd/* (or else no xmms!) bascule On Thursday 24 Oct 2002 9:15 am, bascule wrote: yey! took your advice, looked at man pam_console, i edited /etc/security/console.perms to comment out the line for the sound permissions: #console 0600 sound 0600 root.audio

Re: [expert] OpenOffice crashes

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Williamson
I am not sure but this happened to me, I had a font issue at one stage, that stopped me starting OpenOffice, till I removed some of the fonts that I had added.. Cheers Mark On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 07:53, Christopher Cali wrote: Nothing has fixed the problem yet. Here's what happened after I did

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 goes instantly to suspend mode every 10 min!

2002-10-24 Thread Panagiotis Melas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Panagiotis Melas wrote: | Hello, | | I've posted the same problem before few weeks ago but none of the It is not easy to describe, it is very similar like doing apm -s (suspend) every 10 min on a desktop i.e. X-windows disapear I guess it

[expert] mdk 9.0 -- missing gnome panel

2002-10-24 Thread A V Flinsch
This is an odd one, I just upgraded from mdk 8.2 to 9.0 and am now missing the gnome panel / menu whenever I start gnome. KDE and other desktops all work fine. So far I have tried the following deleted all .gnome* directories and restarted, still no gnome panel uninstalled all *gnome* rpms and

Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Ignore bropken man pages and do this: /mnt/etc/auto.drives --timeout 20 the = doesn't work. use a space. Yes! It works. Thank you, Bryan! -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi, WindowMaker is broken in Mandrake 9.0. Someone told me that I must create a symlink and WindowMaker will work. Which symlink is it? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] autofs not unmounting

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
I have no problems whatsoever with autofs unmounting after the timeout. My auto.master file is as below: /mnt/etc/auto.misc --timeout=10 /net/etc/auto.net --timeout=10 That's strange. I had to delete the equal sign to make it work. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Lars Nordin
From info page for bash `TMOUT' If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary prompt when the shell is interactive. Bash terminates after that number of seconds if input does not arrive.

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Dianne Marie Montesa
hi gary check out an environment variable TMOUT from your system's /etc/profile or your own profile ~/.profile. its the one that controls logging out when there was no activity for a period of time. man bash to know more about it. hth dianne --- Gary Hodder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [expert] mdk9.0 with japanese user

2002-10-24 Thread J. Grant
Hi narfi and others, Now japanese UTF-8 Env is working well, but the manpages do not include a UTF-8 formated version. So we have to set LC_CTYPE=en_GB to be able to see the sumbols - = + etc in the man pages. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? perhaps it is to do withe locale.alias

Re: [expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-24 Thread Alan Carbutt
Not broken as far as I can tell. Happily using it since my upgrade a few weeks ago. Milos Prudek wrote: Hi, WindowMaker is broken in Mandrake 9.0. Someone told me that I must create a symlink and WindowMaker will work. Which symlink is it?

Re: [expert] busybox kernel panic can't boot anymore

2002-10-24 Thread Jan Hendrik Mangold
As so many times before I have to reply to myself ... I screwed up the modules, some where actually not compiled, and that of course hosed the kernel boot. I just installed a vanilla kernel from the distribution. Now I can continue to fiddle wth swsusp. Jan Want to buy your Pack or

[expert] No kio_audiocd nor ko_help when not root!

2002-10-24 Thread Guy Zelck
Hello all, I've recently installed kde3 3.0.4 for Mandrake-8.1 using rpms. I can work fairly well until I discovered I couldn't 'audiocd:/' nor 'help:/' in konqueror. Funny thing is I can do all this being root! So it seems to be sth. related to access rights? I can't see any unusual rights on

Re: [expert] mdk 9.0 -- missing gnome panel

2002-10-24 Thread ddc_prueba
I'm running 8.2 (by now ;-) ... but, if I do ps-ax it says: panel --sm-config-prefix /panel.d/default-/ --sm-client-id (where and are someting similar to a pseudorandom string that I replaced just in case it's a security issue O:-) Check again the parameters of it as grep will

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 goes instantly to suspend mode every 10min!

2002-10-24 Thread Larry Sword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Panagiotis Melas wrote: |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | |Panagiotis Melas wrote: | || Hello, || || I've posted the same problem before few weeks ago but none of the | |It is not easy to describe, it is very similar like doing apm -s

Re: [expert] funny xine bug in Mandrake 8.2

2002-10-24 Thread ddc_prueba
I'm using 8.2 with: libxine0-0.9.13-3plf xmms-1.2.7-4mdk and does NOT have that problem (and have never had it before updating xine from http://plf.zarb.org/ anyway maybe you should try to upgrade if not having done to see if that helps. Good luck. El jue, 24-10-2002 a las 10:23, t_gecks

Re: [expert] WindowMaker

2002-10-24 Thread Milos Prudek
Alan Carbutt wrote: Not broken as far as I can tell. Happily using it since my upgrade a few weeks ago. Broken on a vanilla Mandrake 9.0. I agree it is not broken on an upgrade. -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: DNS problems on 9.0

2002-10-24 Thread Jim C
I think you were right Alice. I think it's definately a problem with shorewall / iptables. I just did some tweaking with it and on the one hand got bumped off of ICS and on the other suddenly my name service works. So now I just have to nail down what it is specifically. I suppose it is about

[expert] LM 9.0 XFCE is broken?

2002-10-24 Thread Joseph Braddock
Has anyone been able to get XFCE working in LM 9.0? The rpm installs fine, but any type of configuration changes generates an error message about not being able to create some file. Any help would be appreciated. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] LM 9.0 XFCE is broken?

2002-10-24 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:19, Joseph Braddock wrote: Has anyone been able to get XFCE working in LM 9.0? The rpm installs fine, but any type of configuration changes generates an error message about not being able to create some file. Any help would be appreciated. Joeb Want to

Re: [expert] Wish for 9.1

2002-10-24 Thread James Sparenberg
KHelpCenter is now a part of kdebase. If you click on help in any KDE app it will open the KHelpCenter. Or if you enter khelpcenter at the command line. On the menu if you go to what to do then Read Documentation then Read KDE Documentation you'll open it up that way. James On Wed,

[expert] Fdisk errors

2002-10-24 Thread Dan Axtell
I have a small webserver running LM 8.2, latest updates, kernel 2.4.18-8.1mdk. Recently it crashed, and when I brought it home I noticed fsck gave me a unconnected directory inode on the / partition. I ended up having to run fsck several times to fix a series of inodes like this (about 10)

Re: [expert] Scanner/Digital Camera Problem

2002-10-24 Thread Salane
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 02:54 pm, andy wrote: Ok, it seems i've run into yet another problem. It seems that Linux knows that my Hewlett Packard ScanJet 3300C Scanner is there, and so too with my Intel Pocket PC Camera, but can't run either of them. Is it because I don't have any drivers

[expert] Simple BASH question - no flames please

2002-10-24 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I'm suffering from a cranal-rectal inversion and just can't seem to figure out how to redirect output to BOTH a log file and to stdout at the same time. I just want the output to appear on the screen and in the log file. I did rtfm, but the stdout 2 stderr, then vice versa, and

Re: [expert] wireless wlan-ng drivers? Any success anyone?

2002-10-24 Thread Todd Lyons
Removed cooker from the cc as it doesn't seem to really be a development issue. Mcleod, Ian wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:38:49AM +1000 : What - wlan-ng mandrake RPMs I can install?? I would really like to get these drivers installed and working so I can use kismet and other nice tools

Re: [expert] Simple BASH question - no flames please

2002-10-24 Thread Todd Lyons
David Rankin wrote on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:49:28PM -0500 : Listmates, I'm suffering from a cranal-rectal inversion and just can't seem to figure out how to redirect output to BOTH a log file and to stdout at the same time. I just want the output to appear on the screen and in the log

RE: [expert] wireless wlan-ng drivers? Any success anyone?

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
so the prism2-utils package installs the wlan-ng driver? Do I need to un-install anything else so kismet and other cool applications will work? I've heard the default Mandrake PRISM2 driver is obsolete and does not allow much functionality. -Original Message- From: Todd Lyons

Re: [expert] Simple BASH question - no flames please

2002-10-24 Thread David Rankin
Todd, your awesome! It worked. Thanks. Todd Lyons wrote: David Rankin wrote on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:49:28PM -0500 : Listmates, I'm suffering from a cranal-rectal inversion and just can't seem to figure out how to redirect output to BOTH a log file and to stdout at the

[expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-24 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I discovered a reproduced mozilla 1.1 bug in LM 9.0. Would someone test if this also true on his/her machine? To activate it select \Edit\Preferences...\Mail Newsgroups\Addressing. Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-24 Thread Lorne
On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:20 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I discovered a reproduced mozilla 1.1 bug in LM 9.0. Would someone test if this also true on his/her machine? To activate it select \Edit\Preferences...\Mail Newsgroups\Addressing. Norman Okay, I did that. What next? Want

Re: [expert] mozilla bug

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 7:32 am, Lorne wrote: On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:20 pm, Norman Zhang wrote: Hi, I discovered a reproduced mozilla 1.1 bug in LM 9.0. Would someone test if this also true on his/her machine? To activate it select \Edit\Preferences...\Mail Newsgroups\Addressing.

Re: [expert] Root login timeout

2002-10-24 Thread Gary Hodder
Hi Dianne, I have checked checked bash --verbose and TMOUT=0 The timeout only happens on the dumb terminal plugged in via a serial port and not on the console. Have tried adding a long timeout on the agetty command line in inattab with no luck. What else can I try? Thanks Gary. On Thu,

[expert] No innovation in Linux / Steve Ballmer in town (October 22)

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5331307%5e15317%5e%5enbv%5e1 5306,00.html I REALLY like this bit Linux is very, very, very expensive for customers to take care of, he said. Linux is a cloned operating system - it cloned Unix and now it wants to clone Windows. It would be nice to

[expert] wireless wlan-ng drivers? Any success anyone?

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Has anyone had any success installing the wlan-ng drivers on Mandrake 9.0? Apparantly they provide much much more functionality than the default Mandrake 9.0 wireless drivers for PRISM2 based wireless cards. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] wireless wlan-ng drivers? Any success anyone?

2002-10-24 Thread Todd Lyons
Mcleod, Ian wrote on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:39:36AM +1000 : Has anyone had any success installing the wlan-ng drivers on Mandrake 9.0? Apparantly they provide much much more functionality than the default Mandrake 9.0 wireless drivers for PRISM2 based wireless cards. What version is the one

RE: [expert] wireless wlan-ng drivers? Any success anyone?

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
really? What - wlan-ng mandrake RPMs I can install?? I would really like to get these drivers installed and working so I can use kismet and other nice tools and start mucking around with the card - apparantly one can do heaps of cool stuff.. -Original Message- From: Todd Lyons

[expert] When will Mandrake Club accept AMEX or other payment?

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
I live in Australia and would love to subscribe but I don't know how. Also as our currency is near worthless - the silver club is out of my budget but this provides lots of other cool stuff? It seems a lot of 'silver and above' membership only stuff is around - but that's $240 for me - big

[expert] found information on wireless wlan-ng drivers and Mandrake 9.0

2002-10-24 Thread Mcleod, Ian
Found this on using the wlan-ng drivers under Mandrake 9.0. Any comments or follow-ups more than welcome - I have not tried it yet. I have attached a second email below (a reply to some of my questions) -Original Message- From: James Campbell [mailto:jcampbell;omnigon.com] Sent: Friday,