Re: [expert] linux_logo on thinkpad

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
Ahh, thank you! That was it. I plugged it in and rebooted - there it was - 363.965MHz. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! Bye the way, I was half asleep when I wrote the original post so forgive me for the subject line having little to do with the message; my brain was shorting out! :-)

[expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Is there a utility that would list processes which keep a drive locked, i.e which prevent unmounting ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] kdm failsafe

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
After using Mandrake 9.0 with kdm for a month without any problems, kdm suddenly does not allow any window manager and always runs failsafe window. It could have happened after unclean shutdown, but I'm using reiserfs journaling. I was able to run kdm configuration from KDE control center and

[expert] Java JBuilder

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Van Horn
Ever since I installed Mandrake 9.0, JBuilder has been crashing on me like mad. Every 10 minutes it just quits with no warning. Has anyone else experienced this - should I be looking at problems with JBuilder, or with my JDK or runtime? Under 8.1 I never had this kind problem. thanks for any

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-23 Thread Joerg Mertin
Hi Miark I got a Athlon 1.3GHz, 512MBytes of Ram and a NVidia Geforce3 Ti500 - and details set to low - I can even go onto huge servers and have not too big problems with speed (24Players). So - It's fast enough for me ;) If you want - I could send you my X-Config file for you to compare. I

Re: [expert] Java JBuilder

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Van Horn
Replying to myself, but I did remember some problems with earlier versions of JBuilder (I have 7) related to sound, and I noticed that none of my JBuilder sounds are working anymore. Thought someone might recognize the symptoms and provide a workaround for me, other than just disabling sound in

[expert] Baffled on permissions

2002-11-23 Thread Norman
Hi all, Having a really bad time with this one. Any help would be appreciated. Last year I set up a Linux Mandrake 8.0 box for a school and installed squid so all their students machines went through it to the internet. This has worked fine for over a year, never crashed or any other problems.

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
And on the subject of fast machines - I have a dual athlon 1900+ system - does UT2003 have the ability to use smp? I'm really annoyed that q3a only enables smp for windows machines - they note some 'bug' that made them decide to disable it in the linux version - I wish they would have just

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
Miark, you say it slows down in heated game play - is that single player or network? Could it be network related? Just a thought. Mike Yesterday, Miark mused: :-) Yes, I got the splash screen. I know when the nVidia drivers aren't working becuase TuxRacer is simply unplayable. But it's

Re: [expert] video Streaming with Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
I *think* mplayer handles that correctly. I seem to remember being able to watch something not too long ago with that stream type using mplayer. Mike Yesterday, villoing mused: Does anyone know where to find and how to install a soft which would allow me to see wideo streaming on

[expert] Netgear MA401 - ongoing saga

2002-11-23 Thread stefmit
Hi, all, I have just recently installed 9.0 and - obviously - my Netgear MA401 wireless card didn't work - so - first thing first, I started searching the 'net. Mandrake expert archive seemed like a good starting point, and - though I found helpful hints and I have it now (somehow) working, I

[expert] console questions

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
Hey all, ok, I'm starting to get more and more into using the console since I've been discovering how much faster it moves on my 366Mhz laptop :-) I've learned how to suspend jobs and put them in fg / bg; is it possible to start a console-based mp3 player and then, say, open vi and write

Re: [expert] Mandrake Documentation glitch

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
From what I have seen and experienced so far, the most IMPORTANT thing Linux needs now is good DOCUMENTATION. Windows, Mac, all of them have excellent user documentation thus making the user feel at home and not lost. You must be joking. Microsoft provides incredibly poor user documentation.

Re: [expert] Netgear MA401 - ongoing saga

2002-11-23 Thread Michael Holt
That is so odd. I have never had to take even a second glance at my MA401 card - yet it seems over the past couple of weeks that quite a number of people are complaining about it. Could it possibly be that the hardware is not functioning correctly (bad card)? Mike 2:59pm, stefmit mused:

Re: [expert] pflogsumm for mdk9.0

2002-11-23 Thread Jack Coates
I just rebuild from pflogsumm-1.0.4-t2.src.rpm, works fine. http://tis.foobar.fi/software/?postfix On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 21:28, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Has anyone seen a pflogsumm rpm for mdk9 around?? my 7.2 box has it running, and it was in the RPM I loaded.. very handy stats I

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Jack Coates
lsof On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:39, Milos Prudek wrote: Is there a utility that would list processes which keep a drive locked, i.e which prevent unmounting ? -- Milos Prudek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Netgear MA401 - ongoing saga

2002-11-23 Thread Jack Coates
or could people be running MandrakeUpdate and getting the broken initscripts package? If you have initscripts-6.91-13.1mdk you will need to search the list archives for the section of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/functions to comment out, it's a link checking function. initscripts-6.91-16.1mdk

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
I know about lsof, but I failed to find parameters that would list these processes. Below is a result of /usr/sbin/lsof|grep dev (I have /dev/scd0 mounted on /mnt/burner). There is no line about /dev/scd0 there. lsof On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:39, Milos Prudek wrote: Is there a utility that

[expert] apache 2, choosing html page to be displayed

2002-11-23 Thread Jorris Graad
I've installed apache 2 successfully, then test the page, and the english version of apache page is displayed. I just want to know how to change the conf file if I want to display the japanese or other languages of apache page. Should I use modules.? I've read a lot about modules but I can't

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Jack Coates
huh, that's funny. I just tried the same thing on mine and it doesn't work here either -- in fact, I opened a file on the disk and lsof doesn't report its existence at all. On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 08:12, Milos Prudek wrote: I know about lsof, but I failed to find parameters that would list these

[expert] Partimage

2002-11-23 Thread Rick Friedman
I have a question about Partimage. I recently downloaded it (version 0.6.1-1). When i run it, I get the gui that shows up on the console. However, for the life of me, I haven't been able to figure out how to change certain selections. For example, on the very first window, if I wanted to Restore

Re: [expert] Netgear MA401 - ongoing saga

2002-11-23 Thread stefmit
I already did fix that (i.e. commenting out the grep part), as I mentioned in my original message, when talking about the network-functions). Hardware is OK ... tested fine with Win :( Thx for suggestions. Stef Jack Coates wrote: or could people be running MandrakeUpdate and getting the

Re: [expert] Partimage

2002-11-23 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Just do partimage --help and you can select every command with options from the command line. Regards, Lieven Op za 23-11-2002, om 17:55 schreef Rick Friedman: I have a question about Partimage. I recently downloaded it (version 0.6.1-1). When i run it, I get the gui that shows up on the

RE: [expert] pflogsumm for mdk9.0

2002-11-23 Thread Franki
thanks heaps.. works like a charm... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Coates Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2002 11:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] pflogsumm for mdk9.0 I just rebuild from

Re: [expert] Partimage

2002-11-23 Thread Lieven Van Acker
Just do partimage --help and you can select every command with options from the command line. Regards, Lieven Op za 23-11-2002, om 17:55 schreef Rick Friedman: I have a question about Partimage. I recently downloaded it (version 0.6.1-1). When i run it, I get the gui that shows up on the

Re: [expert] video Streaming with Mozilla

2002-11-23 Thread villoing
for now, I've installer crossover and them few plugins, but these plugins appears in Mozilla but with this message : Unable to load the windows plugin library. Could somebody help me ? Michael Holt wrote: I *think* mplayer handles that correctly. I seem to remember being able to watch

Re: [expert] Connection sharing - Wierdness

2002-11-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Friday 22 November 2002 07:30 am, Manuel Soto wrote: This wizard does not for me too, try w/ this: Install iptables set up this with the following settings: == cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Generated by iptables-save v1.2.2 on Sat May 4

Re: [expert] console questions

2002-11-23 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, Thing is, when I hit '^z' to leave the mp3 player, the sound stops too. I would like to leave the sound on and then do something else in the foreground. After you do the CTRL-z, type bg and the 'job' will

RE: [expert] Communigate Pro

2002-11-23 Thread James T. Nelson III
Regardless of what the RPM info says, if you want to find out where the files in an RPM are, use 'rpm -ql package.rpm' and it will give you a list of the files with their complete path. I'm pretty sure that it even reflects the correct path if you use the '--relocate' parameter, but I haven't

Re: [expert] Configuring Screen

2002-11-23 Thread Robert Wohlfarth
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 16:55, Bob Sherron wrote: I need to figure out a way to launch two programs sharing a split screen immediately after login. I figured I'd edit my .bashrc to start screen, but after that I'm stuck. Screen requires several key combonations to split correctly, and I can't

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Larry Sword
Milos Prudek wrote: I know about lsof, but I failed to find parameters that would list these processes. Below is a result of /usr/sbin/lsof|grep dev (I have /dev/scd0 mounted on /mnt/burner). There is no line about /dev/scd0 there. If you have a file open on the cdrom then try:

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Milos Prudek
Below is a result of /usr/sbin/lsof|grep dev (I have /dev/scd0 mounted on /mnt/burner). There is no line about /dev/scd0 there. If you have a file open on the cdrom then try: /usr/sbin/lsof -V /mnt/cdrom2 Absolutely correct. The -V option is not neccesary. I was searching for /dev/scd0,

[expert] md5sum

2002-11-23 Thread engage
I guess I just needed to clarify the use of md5sum. When executing md5sum -c Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso, why do I get md5sum: Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found? When I execute md5sum Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso I get an md5sum displayed which

Re: [expert] md5sum

2002-11-23 Thread Rolf Pedersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the md5sum embedded in the iso so that the -c switch will work? No. You need to run md5sum -c MD5SUM.txt in other words, run it against the md5sum text file for the iso's in the same directory on your download mirror (in your local directory where you have the

[expert] The default Web browser in Evolution

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Williamson
Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up the default web browser, but after Evolution is running, is there any where that one can change it's default Web browser? Cheers Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] md5sum

2002-11-23 Thread Vox
This time [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: I guess I just needed to clarify the use of md5sum. When executing md5sum -c Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso, why do I get md5sum: Mandrake81-cd3-supp.i586.iso: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found? When I execute md5sum

[expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:21:31 -0500, Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Vox
This time Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set

[expert] iptables help?

2002-11-23 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I am having problems with a internet connection share. Oddly, I had it working for a while last evening but then, suddenly, it died and I was unable to communication computer to computer via wlan (sharing a modem connection on one of them). Running Mandrake 8.2, I have a usb wlan device on my

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:35:19 -0600, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: This time Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I

Re: [expert] display processes keeping a drive locked

2002-11-23 Thread Jack Coates
did a little more poking around and it works as expected with a CD, but not with a DVD. On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 08:50, Jack Coates wrote: huh, that's funny. I just tried the same thing on mine and it doesn't work here either -- in fact, I opened a file on the disk and lsof doesn't report its

[expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped and the last thing the console says is Power down but the power does not go off. Since it

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Paul Kaplan
What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I have a Pentium4 box that used to hold XP. When XP shut down, it turned the box off. I moved XP to another box and installed Mandrake. When I execute poweroff as root, the os is stopped

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:42:54 +, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul Nope. It still stops at Power down and does not shutoff. That's why I thought /sbin/poweroff was the answer. It ain't. On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Nelson Bartley
Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power save options are at. Check your ACPI options in your BIOS as well. You

[expert] SquirrelMail themes

2002-11-23 Thread mdw1982
Hi List, Anyone have a quick suggestion on how to change the themes in Squirrel mail using the configuration file conf.pl? thanks, Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for power off options, as well as seeing what the current power

Re: [expert] SquirrelMail themes

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi List, Anyone have a quick suggestion on how to change the themes in Squirrel mail using the configuration file conf.pl? thanks, Mark O God! I feel like an idiot! never mind. I found it. -- Mark Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high! Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Help with fetchmail/fetchmailconf

2002-11-23 Thread Philip Webb
021121 Praedor Tempus wrote: I have fetchmail 6.1.0 and fetchmailconf. I ran fetchmailconf to configure fetchmail during an initial test but now the test is over and I want to change its polling behavior. I try to run fetchmailconf now and it errors out with this: Can't read configuration

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 13:24, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your BIOS for

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-23 Thread Miark
No, it's single player. Miark On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 06:32:30 -0800 (PST) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark, you say it slows down in heated game play - is that single player or network? Could it be network related? Just a thought. Mike Yesterday, Miark mused: :-) Yes, I

Re: [expert] UT2003 and linux

2002-11-23 Thread Miark
Yes, that would be cool. Thanks. Miark On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:31:26 +0100 (CET) Joerg Mertin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Miark I got a Athlon 1.3GHz, 512MBytes of Ram and a NVidia Geforce3 Ti500 - and details set to low - I can even go onto huge servers and have not too big problems

Re: [expert] xinitrc problem

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew Van Horn
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 07:30, Todd Lyons wrote: Ron Stodden wrote on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:39:53PM +1100 : Since you are going from 8.1 to 9.0, this is a major step (8--9) and compatibility may not be assumed. This is true. The upgrade process is really intended to go from the

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:41 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 13:24, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At

Re: [expert] iptables help?

2002-11-23 Thread Woody Green
On the sharing machine, run iptables-save and post the output here. Woody Praedor Atrebates said: I am having problems with a internet connection share. Oddly, I had it working for a while last evening but then, suddenly, it died and I was unable to communication computer to computer

Re: [expert] The default Web browser in Evolution

2002-11-23 Thread Woody Green
It should use the Gnome defaults as listed in the Gnome Control Center. Woody Mark Williamson said: Hi Everyone, On the setup of Evolution it gives you a chance to set up the default web browser, but after Evolution is running, is there any where that one can change it's default Web

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem with your linux install. At this point I would suggest checking your

Re: [expert] console questions

2002-11-23 Thread pesarif
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 02:09, Michael Holt wrote: Hey all, ok, I'm starting to get more and more into using the console since I've been discovering how much faster it moves on my 366Mhz laptop :-) I've learned how to suspend jobs and put them in fg / bg; is it possible to start a