Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Patrick, I used the Nvidia rpms for 9.1 of textar (www.pclinuxonline.com) and dri is runing fine without any further XF86Config-4 change. El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 01:18, Patrick Mayer escribió: Hi all, I've just completed the installation of Mandrake 9.1. I've met a few roadblocks in

[expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-29 Thread SainTiss
Hi, I seem to have stumbled upon an oddity: I was trying to install gkrellm-themes, which is in the contrib repository, and indeed, drakconf lists gkrellm-themes-0.2-4. However, when trying to install it, I get a download error in the style of FTP couldn't RETR file. I found this to be weird, so

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Frederic Soulier
The easiest way is to get both SRC RPMS from nvidia web site then rebuild them (as per indicated in doc) then install them (kernel rpm first then GLX rpm). Then edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and replace (in the device section) nv by nvidia and double check you have load glx in the module section (it

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Mar 2003 11:29 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 flacycads wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:27:56PM -0500 : I've never used urpmi- heard that it doesn't work good for kernels. This was a problem way back with 8.0. Since then there have been

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 2:48 am, flacycads wrote: Correct. If you wanted to upgrade, you would use rpm -Uvh *.rpm. But if it failed, you wouldn't still have your original working kernel to fall back on. I would never use -U with a kernel rpm. Read the docs at muo, especially page 2. It's a

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 6:04 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:04, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - but this will install, not upgrade, won't it? If so, I'll try it this weekend. Thanks Yes ... and you want to install.. not upgrade. Also to Once it's done be sure to edit the

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Tom, Charles, Thankyou for your responses. My point is that mandrake 9.0 suppports all my IDE combinations, Mandrake 9.1 does not. I do not use any raid. Therefore, ipso facto, plainly, without doubt, as surely as the sun rises in the

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine Ann, unless you install from your hd, as is Ron, you should have no problem. I have done the 9.1 install from cd on 2 systems, both with dual ide

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:44:23 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? The nvidia driver will only work with the kernel for which it was built. You can still use both kernels but you will need to edit your X86Conf-4 each

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:44 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia card. What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-29 Thread Rolf Pedersen
SainTiss wrote: Hi, I seem to have stumbled upon an oddity: I was trying to install gkrellm-themes, which is in the contrib repository, and indeed, drakconf lists gkrellm-themes-0.2-4. However, when trying to install it, I get a download error in the style of FTP couldn't RETR file. I found this

[expert] Unreadable font size in Yahoo Messenger

2003-03-29 Thread Ken
Hello all, Using Mandrake 9.1 RC3 and trying to get Yahoo Messenger to show readable text in the message window. I can't make any changes that affect the size of the recieved font or the text that shows in the message window after a message is sent. The text always shows up extremely small -

[expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the printer or files on the linux machine. Ive rtfm'd several docs which just causes more confusion. It just about worked ,

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:23, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the printer or files on the linux machine. Ive rtfm'd several docs

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:23 am, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup Why do it off-line. That is what this list is for. using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000) machine to see the

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Thanks for the quick reply On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:44, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:23, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup using SWAT looks OK, but I cant get the windows (2000)

[expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even vcd (xine) for the first time (previously nor linux neither windows could). Acpi is finally runing, but the resume function, I had enabled in the BIOS, doesn't run with acpi enabled

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread richard bown
Hi Greg On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 15:56, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 10:23 am, richard bown wrote: Just moved up to 9.1,,,nice :)) Is there anyone will to assist me off line setting up samba, the setup Why do it off-line. That is what this list is for. Well there are some

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Joeb
Ron, I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it will work or not. What happens if you make a boot floppy to do your install, but use the floppy image from the 9.0 release that supports your on-board controller? Once booted, install 9.1 from your hard drive (that's what you're trying to do,

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday March 29 2003 03:56 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:44 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm kernel for lack of proper driver registration for my NVidia

Re: [expert] NVIDIA Drivers RPM: Solution!

2003-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 29 March 2003 04:10 am, Frederic Soulier wrote: Note: Most likely Fast Write and SBA Side Band Addressing will are disabled. check cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status If someone knows how to activate those by default please let me know. /Fred Fred, I've not tried it but aren't

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 12:16 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:22 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes me nervous - your ide config sounds very similar to mine Ann, unless you install from your hd, as is Ron, you should have no problem. Comforting

[expert] kdvi problem in MDK 9.1

2003-03-29 Thread Momes
Hello: I've just installed the new Mandrake 9.1 and found a problem with Kdvi, that do not display *.eps images. It's not a problem with the folder where *.eps files are, because Xdvi display them without any problem. In fact, if I change the dvi file to a different

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Saturday 29 March 2003 12:08 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday March 29 2003 03:56 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:44 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: I installed 9.1 and the NVidia video card drivers for the standard kernel, and I find that I cannot boot the mm

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-29 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:26, richard bown wrote: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MDKGROUP netbios name = FW-GB7TF server string = Samba Server %v encrypt passwords = Yes map to guest = Bad User log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

[expert] Strange characters appearing in mySQL database

2003-03-29 Thread Stefano Pogliani
Since when I installed MDK 9.0, I have some problem with my little portal. When I enter articles using the portal interface, some characters (typically the apostrophe) are not correctly stored in the database. Instead an unreadable character is stored. I am using MDK 9.0. For the portal I use

Re: [expert] Install a newer kernel?

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 05:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 6:04 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:04, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - but this will install, not upgrade, won't it? If so, I'll try it this weekend. Thanks Yes ... and you want to install.. not

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 07:25, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:44:23 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the multimedia one? The nvidia driver will only work with the kernel for which it was built. You can still use

Re: [expert] erroneous contrib synthesis.hdlist2.cz

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 04:04, SainTiss wrote: Hi, I seem to have stumbled upon an oddity: I was trying to install gkrellm-themes, which is in the contrib repository, and indeed, drakconf lists gkrellm-themes-0.2-4. However, when trying to install it, I get a download error in the style of

Re: [expert] Unreadable font size in Yahoo Messenger

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:18, Ken wrote: Hello all, Using Mandrake 9.1 RC3 and trying to get Yahoo Messenger to show readable text in the message window. I can't make any changes that affect the size of the recieved font or the text that shows in the message window after a message is sent.

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:15, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even vcd (xine) for the first time (previously nor linux neither windows could). Acpi is finally runing, but the resume function,

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:53 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 07:25, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:44:23 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to use both kernels, or just the

Re: [expert] 9.1, NVidia video and the Multimedia kernel

2003-03-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 29 Mar 2003 07:53:17 -0500 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I don't own any Nvidia video cards I'm curious on one thing. Rebuilding for each kernel makes sense. But the editing the XF86Config file throws me a bit... What is it that makes this necessary? If using the

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-29 Thread Francisco Alcaraz
Thanks so much James, I will test the things you comment. El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de 2003 14:14, James Sparenberg escribió: On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 11:15, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Well, Mandrake 9.1 is broken any other linux distributions. My laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4090) is runing even

[expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
cheers folks, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and encountered an strange (and serious to me) bug: I can't mount an encrypted fs (booting, mount -a) Details: (tried during install and with Control Center) /dev/hda7 ext3 (even tried ext2) options= noatime, encrypted 1019 MByte

Re: [expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:06 pm, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: cheers folks, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop and encountered an strange (and serious to me) bug: I can't mount an encrypted fs (booting, mount -a) Details: (tried during install and with Control Center)

Re: [expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Really strange: I _can_ mount it (without being prompted for password) with Control Center / Disk Drake / Mount EXACTLY the same thing I discovered about 5 months ago. I told Mandrake in here for sure, and I think I did a bugzilla report. Apparently never fixed. Uh, it worked with

Re: [expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:26 pm, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Really strange: I _can_ mount it (without being prompted for password) with Control Center / Disk Drake / Mount EXACTLY the same thing I discovered about 5 months ago. I told Mandrake in here for sure, and I think I did

[expert] double click close

2003-03-29 Thread Lorne
I have noticed that I can no longer double click on an application in the upper left corner and get it to close. For instance, I'm in Kmail right now... the upper left has a small icon and I used to be able to double click it and it would close. Since the 9.1 update, it opens up to

Re: [expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Really strange: I _can_ mount it (without being prompted for password) with Control Center / Disk Drake / Mount EXACTLY the same thing I discovered about 5 months ago. I told Mandrake in here for sure, and I think I did a bugzilla report. Apparently never fixed. Uh,

Re: [expert] mount encrypted filesystem bug

2003-03-29 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 29 March 2003 07:43 pm, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Really strange: I _can_ mount it (without being prompted for password) with Control Center / Disk Drake / Mount EXACTLY the same thing I discovered about 5 months ago. I told Mandrake in here for sure, and I

[expert] kdeinit

2003-03-29 Thread Jay
Anyone having problems with kdeinit. I tried running several apps in KDE, installed twice and am still having problems. kdeinit takes up roughly 90% of my cpu and causes my harddrive to really chug the minute I do anything... so I am using Gnome. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Nvidia Kernel Driver

2003-03-29 Thread Jay
Jay said: Anyone else having problems building the Nvidia Kernel Driver RPM for 9.1? I installed the kernel source package, then I was able compile and install the Nvidia src.rpm's Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 5:03 am, Ron Stodden wrote: Tom, Charles, Thankyou for your responses. My point is that mandrake 9.0 suppports all my IDE combinations, Mandrake 9.1 does not. I do not use any raid. Therefore, ipso facto, plainly, without doubt, as surely as the

Re: [expert] 9.1 says No DISK drive!

2003-03-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Joeb wrote: Ron, I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it will work or not. What happens if you make a boot floppy to do your install, but use the floppy image from the 9.0 release that supports your on-board controller? Once booted, install 9.1 from your hard drive (that's what you're

[expert] fast mirror

2003-03-29 Thread Preston-Campbell
For anyone interested, I just downloaded 9.1 from a fast mirror in Denmark. I did an MD5 checksum and everything is good. Here is the location: ns.sslug.dk/pub/mirror/mandrake/mandrake-9.1 Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] 9.2 MakeCD produces errors...

2003-03-29 Thread Ron Stodden
9.2 MakeCD produces errors... ... mkcd_build_hdlist: write /local/spare/iso9660/mandrake/cd-9.1-650/tmp/Cooker/1/synthesis.hdlist.cz getSize getSize list 1 ERROR check_version: shadow-utils-4.0.3-4mdk.i586 provides shadow-utils == 4.0.3-4mdk but util-linux-2.11x-3mdk.i586 needs shadow-utils =

Re: [expert] 9.2 MakeCD produces errors...

2003-03-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Ron Stodden wrote: 9.2 MakeCD produces errors... ... mkcd_build_hdlist: write /local/spare/iso9660/mandrake/cd-9.1-650/tmp/Cooker/1/synthesis.hdlist.cz getSize getSize list 1 ERROR check_version: shadow-utils-4.0.3-4mdk.i586 provides shadow-utils == 4.0.3-4mdk but util-linux-2.11x-3mdk.i586

Re: [expert] acpi and resume on a Toshiba Satellite 4090

2003-03-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:21, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: Thanks so much James, I will test the things you comment. No problem... Hope it works as well for you as it does me.. Now if you happen to have a magic wand for wireless cards let me know *sigh* James El Sábado, 29 de Marzo de

RE: [expert] fast mirror

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Walker
I have also set one up in south Florida ftp.unspeakable.org/pub/Mandrake-iso Has 9.1 ISO's current. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Preston-Campbell Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] fast