Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Aug 2003 3:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 August 2003 11:36 am, Felix Miata wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported? It is a RhineII and uses the via-rhine driver. Works fine here, what's your trouble. My

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 10 August 2003 02:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:29 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - Twiki entry, please? On-board devices worry people when choosing

Re: [expert] SSH Server problem

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:11 pm, João Candido A. Milasch Filho wrote: Hi! I sent this message b4 to newbie list, but I got absolute no answer. I hope someone can help me here... Thus, I tried to run telnetd from xinetd, no success, tried to configure the listening ports to the standard

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.0???

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 11 August 2003 03:48 pm, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, a friend of mine just asked me if there are KDE 3.1.3 RPMS for 9.0. Anyone know if there is such an animal?? My guess is it definitely won't happen as an official upgrade provided by MandrakeSoft and since Texstar isn't building

Re: [expert] Soyo Dragon KT400 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 August 2003 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Aug 2003 3:27 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:50 pm, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know if the built in NIC in this motherboard is unsupported

Re: [expert] Where are the Cooker GPG keys

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 August 2003 06:52 am, Alex Bennee wrote: After a 2 months without a working machine I've come to update my cooker install. It however keeps complaining of bad GPG keys. I currently have This is a known problem with cooker right now. It has been reported to be fixed in the next

Re: [expert] Software RAID (IDE) - Setup On Existing Install?

2003-08-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 14 August 2003 06:27 pm, Sevatio wrote: I am running LM9.0 . Is it possible to add another IDE harddrive of the same size and make that a mirror of the first drive using software RAID without having to do a full re-install? The Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo : Software Raid mini-HOWTO

Re: [expert] Installed cable -- now host = HWaddr of NIC

2003-08-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:02 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 02:19 pm, Dave Sherman wrote: You *might* be able to edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and make sure there is in entry that looks like: NEEDHOSTNAME=no You would also

Re: [expert] brouser gets redirected

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:39 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with mozilla,netscape and konqueror getting redirected to bad sites when visiting certain sites such a bandwidthplace.com. No problem with galeon. I,ve tried disabling java, javascript and popups with no luck.

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:33 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: I have a Hpt372 on my motherboard and had to turn it off in the BIOS since with standard 9.1, it causes a kernel panic that kills Mandrake. I did recompile the kernel with the Highpoint drivers and got it to the point where it wouldn't

Re: [expert] ATA RAID

2003-08-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:50 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2003 08:31 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I have a 372 on my Motherboard, Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra that works fine as a standard ATA controller. RAID can then be achieved with the Linux RAID-tools. Are you sure

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 12:09 am, lorne wrote: On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:07 pm, lorne wrote: I've done some searching and haven't found any previous traffic on this exactly. I have two problems. I'm beginning to think they may be related: Copying files from my XP system to my 9.1

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:13 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I was the one who asked the question about slow transfers using Samba. I asked on this list and on the newbie list. Still have not received any answers resolving the issue. When a transfer to or from a Samba box is

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 04:44 pm, Mark wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else seeing this happen? What I mean is the system boots just fine to the GUI login screen, but after I've logged out of my Xwindows session it doesn't remain in init 5, but drops to init 3, and the console login

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 03:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:22 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 11:09 pm, Steve Browne wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:40:50 +0100, you wrote: I was installing 9.1 on David's box while he was out.

Re: [expert] keeping 9.2 rc1 current

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 September 2003 08:15 pm, Greg Sarsons wrote: I'm drawing a complete blank at figuring out how to update the rc1 installation with all the fixes that have taken place. What is the command that I should use. The Cooker HOWTO has this info.

[expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership of this list has really taken to the concept. I also see a lot of questions on this list about how to deal with

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 08:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Hi folks. This is just a general information post about our wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote: If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as the reason for not starting? There are no error messages. KDE is obviously trying to start up. I hear the

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 09:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 2:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Do you mean an intro in the Community Wiki with a link to the Cooker HOWTO? That's what I was thinking I will do it tonight. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 04:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Forcing it to recognise that it is a Matrox card, not a SiS did the trick. I've done all the upgrades now. It seems unbelievable, but I couldn't get eth0 up either, and as soon as the video problem disappeard eth0 was fine! So

Re: [expert] Sending mail throughout several smtp servers?

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:07 pm, Francisco wrote: But bascule, If you use postfix you do need to buy a domain name, don't you? Postfix will make a direct smtp connection with the recipient's mail server and you can use it to send without using it to receive, in fact that is what I am

Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 07 September 2003 02:04 pm, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi All, Am back again with a small prob. :) After I saw the electricity invoice and recovered from the heart attack:) I decided I might want to stop keeping my server/firewall online all the time. I only have a small server and

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:00 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: I just tried 3 times to d'l the first ISO of RC2. First I used the browser (Mozilla) with a German mirror (ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de). The download stopped at 50KB left(!) and tiemd out. Trying to resume failed because the browser told

Re: [expert] Failed downloads of RC2

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 03:34 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: *** Wolfgang Bornath Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:32:40 +0200 : I chose nluug because Thorsten reported it as a good source. But both connections timed out at the same time during my coffee break. :( Good thing is that the ncftp

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:08 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:03 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, When running VNC server (and tightvnc server) from any Mandrake 9.1 machine, any attempt to connect to vnc host results in only the wallpaper displaying

Re: [expert] VNC server bad display on all MDK 9.1 machines

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 09:16 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 14:16, James D. Parra wrote: Thank you for all of your responses. One question though, update the gt on the host vnc machines or the clients? My vncviewer works well from my Mandrake box to any

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.3 for 9.1 : go or no-go ?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:47 am, Stefano Pogliani wrote: Would it be ok now to migrate to KDE 3.1.3 for MDK 9.1 or is it still unstable ? In case of yes, which is the most stable source : TexStar or the Mdk Club ? I am using Texstar's packages and they work great. Unfortunately, I

Re: [expert] removing boot themes

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:42 pm, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Running Mandrake 9.1 and I would like to remove the boot up themes. How can this be done? From the Mandrake control panel applet, I uncheck the use themes check box, but this doesn't work. Just remove the bootsplash

Re: [expert] I need to update my mandrake box but my connection is expensive and pretty slow. What can i do ?

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:32 pm, Luis Duran wrote: Hello fellas, i would like to update all my packages of Mandrake, one week ago i tried to do it but the files size are quiet long, i have a dial-up connection that is expensive and way slow. I got this idea, take my computer to a cyber

Re: [expert] compiling kernel- what is 'vmlinuz' file?

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 September 2003 11:42 pm, bascule wrote: well that makes sense, thanks now i don't suppose you know why a 2.4.19-35 kernel would run an opengl screensaver like molasses while an earlier 2.4.19-16 is as smooth as silk? :) oh well maybe 9.2 will make it go away! You don't have

[expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 05:10 am, you wrote: 030727 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 04:13 pm, you wrote: 030725 Greg Meyer wrote: Seems you may have tripped over a bug that affects true 333fsb processors very specific video chipsets. i've sent the mobo to Soyo via

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. I have experienced Yes, this is

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 09:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names: there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3 in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.; Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'. can anyone offer clarific'n ?

Re: [expert] Re: SOYO + AMD XP2500: new mobo

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:57 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: IDE0 (VIA Primary) hde, hdf == My burner attached here IDE1 (VIA Secondary) hdg, hdh == My cdrom IDE2 (Highpoint Primary) hda, hdb == My boot drive IDE3 (Highpoint Secndary) hdc, hdd == My spare drive

[expert] Memory Leak in XFree updates

2003-09-19 Thread Greg Meyer
Hi. Ever since I updated my XFree packages last week, I have been seeing X use massive amounts of memory and I am concerned there may be a memory leak or something. Here is some output from top. See how X is using 212M. Way more than it used to. Has anybody else experienced anything like

Re: [expert] Re: Memory Leak in XFree updates

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:33 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: For which version? 9.1? or 9.0? I am running 9.1 w/ all updates 9.0 shouldn't have anything funny in there at all... that was just some minor changes to fix the font issues. The 9.1 packages had some fixes due to some ATI

Re: [expert] 9.2 pre-orders

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 20 September 2003 11:31 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 9.2 is supposed to go final RSN (Monday?), but neither the Mandrake home page nor the Mandrake Store have any mention about accepting orders for it. There's a thread on the Club Forum about this (and yes, I did add my two cents

Re: [expert] grub-install won't

2003-09-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:33 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote: FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed 9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4 00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since last install. Is

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why does MandrakeUpdate show a new kernel-source but not a new kernel?

2003-09-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:18 am, vatbier wrote: MandrakeUpdate shows a new kernel-source and kernel-doc but to install the new kernel you have to use RpmDrake:Install Software. MandrakeUpdate replaces the old kernel-source and -doc with the new ones, RpmDrake must be used for the kernel

Re: [expert] Xmixer and Gramofile

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 22:29, Rob Blomquist wrote: Apparently one needs to get xmixer to set audio levels for Gramofile's record characteristics. I am attempting to record some old commercial tapes that I have laying around, and they are all distorted and noisy. I hope setting

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 October 2003 14:06, zephod wrote: Would you please be so kind to fix your Reply-to setting ? As it is now it sends a reply only to you; not to the list. Thanks! If you can point me where I can do this in kmail 1.5.3, I will be glad to do so. It seems that there is only a

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 04 October 2003 23:13, Anton wrote: Sorry but there is a stony silence on newbie... there seems to be a lot of political traffic though... if this is not the place to be asking the sorts of questions I'm asking could someone please direct me to the right place? My patience with

Re: [expert] ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root? (Konqueror timeout errors)

2003-10-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 05 October 2003 03:45 am, zephod wrote: So, since your from and reply-to are the same, just clear the reply-to. After all these years I finally got to learn something new about mailing. Thanks for the tip ! Thanks for being open and listening. -- Regards, /g Outside of a dog,

Re: [expert] Texstar KDE 3.1.4

2003-10-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 05 October 2003 10:36 am, Damien wrote: Hello, I've recently installed (tried to actually...) texstar's KDE 3.1.4 binaries. Everything seems to install fine (except for some harmless dependencies), but on the launch, when KDE shows up I keep getting : Unable to create io-slave:

Re: [expert] Re: Switch to another window manager?

2003-10-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 06:57 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: I've jsut found one way of doing it: The First Time Wizard asks for it and sets it. Apparently, it sets a file called .desktop in $HOME, containing the choice. I don't know how to run that functionality from the console, but I'll

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:46 am, HaywireMac wrote: How would one configure Apache so that anyone using IE would be met with a nice friendly message that they are not welcome? Considering the effects of compromised home computers running XP on the 'net, I would like to start a campaign

Re: [expert] This Host Wont Die/Shutdown!!

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 10 October 2003 04:05 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Greetings, shutdown -h now, halt, reboot, shutdown -r now, kill -9 1, kill -KILL 1, init 6, system still going strong!!! Finally, pulled out power plug!! Anyway to troubleshoot this further...?? Second shutdown in

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 11 October 2003 07:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: I'm almost positive there was a thread on this just a short while ago, and I do believe that was the crux of the problem. IIRC, it involved disabling FrameBuffer mode altogether, but I may be wrong. Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? There is a

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker)

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 12 October 2003 08:19, Greg Meyer wrote: I already have the new kernel running on my 9.1 install, and all seems to be going well. Win4Lin is working and the nVidia drivers are installed. The balance of my plan is as follows: 1) remove all plf and Texstar packages 2

Re: [expert] OT: Big Disks, Old Mobos and Autotranslation???

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Yesterday, I went out and innocently bought an 80Gb drive for a little server I was planning on rebuilding. So I swapped the components from the P-166 into the AMD-K6/2-450 box (FIC VIA-503+ mobo), connected up the drives, and

Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could find a winders confuser to do the job, but hey, can it be done on a Linux box? I was just poking around and found

Re: [expert] DOS bootdisk??

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:46 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 09:43 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 14 October 2003 12:21 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Is there an image of a DOS boot disk that can be made under Linux so that I can flash my bios? Now of course, I could

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:49 am, Vox wrote: I tried doing that, but I'm getting a weird error from it...if anybody's got a clue, I'd be happy :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] vox]$ btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate 10 /home/vox/mytorrent-vox.torrent These errors occurred during execution:

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 02:06 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 22:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:50 am, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:38:50 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the club and get your

Re: [expert] MDK9.2 for Club members.

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:35 am, Mark wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:38, James Sparenberg wrote: Go to the club and get your bittorrents running. Mainly because right now I think I'm dang near the only one on the torrent *grin* I need some speed!!! James Hmm your the lucky

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 08:37 am, Richard Bown wrote: I'm going nuts ! I've installed bittorrent exactly as per the FAQ on the club pages. All the RPMS installed and bittorrent3.3.2, and the gui version. I'm running Gnome here so on the menus under networkingfile transfer I have 2

Re: [expert] 9.2 and Windows Compatibility

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 09:31 am, HaywireMac wrote: I was going to send a link to some friends about the availability of this Discovery Edition, but there's one thing I'd like to clarify, if anyone can. It claims: 9- Compatibility: Run Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer

Re: [expert] new brain please: bittorrent

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:28 am, Richard Bown wrote: Hi Greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ rpm -qa python python-2.3-3mdk So yes its there Maybe the test file you are trying to download no longer exists, or if you are on dhcp and have a new ip address, you will have to get a new

Re: [expert] Kernel source missing from 9.2 ISOs

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:25 pm, Joeb wrote: Evidently, the 9.2 ISOs don't contain the kernel-sources. They exist on the 9.2 tree on the ftp sites, but not on the CDs I DLd. Is it just my CDs or were the ISOs bad (again). I can DL the sources, but it would have been nice if they were

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint

Re: [expert] network cards running at 10mb/s instead of 100 - why?

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 08:31 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: # mii-tool eth0 -F 100baseTx-FD has no effect. Any clues as to what I should do next? IIRC, most cable and dsl modems run 10Mb/s half duplex. is eth0 the public interface? -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 10:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? Also, kernel2.4-marcelo could be dropped, there are also 4 kernel-doc packages, one (or even none) would

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:55 am, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: I think that Mandrakesoft should explain somewhere how to build a forth install CD: having the RPMs burned in a CD or having them in a CD added to the urpmi (+GUI) sources is different... And to add the CD to the sources there must

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 18 October 2003 11:38 am, D. R. Evans wrote: On 18 Oct 2003 at 10:21, Avi Schwartz wrote: I had a similar problem and no, I did not install Mozilla. There seems to be a problem in rebuilding (or lack of) the menus in 9.2. I found there is a program /usr/sbin/update-menus which

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 18 October 2003 12:44 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: I also had the issue of my menus disappearing in 9.2 and found the problem was a malformed menu entry in /etc/menu/menudrakeentry This is a bug in the fluxbox package which compounds the menu problem. I have reported it. It has

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 18 October 2003 05:42 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Here's a nice one to get your battered brain in gear: Got any tips on an easy way to keep all the other PC's on the LAN in sync without each and everyone ftp-ing and rsyncing over the www? It just seems a waste of bandwidth to me

Re: [expert] Flash Broken (FYI)

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 12:42 am, Dave Seff wrote: I noticed that The Flash player from Macromedia.com is broken in 9.2 because of a missing libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 I couldn't find it in any package so I symlinked it from libstdc++.so.5.0.5. It appears to be working but I am always thought

Re: [expert] Oggs to mp3

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 01:32 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Out front, let me say that I love Ogg-Vorbis, but my car audio player and home DVD player prefer mp3s, so I am looking at converting my 10GBs of oggs into mp3s. My question is how to best do it, without ripping the CDs a second time. I

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just says operation not permitted or something. I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to

Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 03:11 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources only to be told that there were problems or errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download]# urpmi.addmedia -h mirrors.secsup.org_devel

Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 02:22 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 03:11 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I run into this distressingly often. I try to update mandrake urpmi sources only to be told that there were problems or errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] download

Re: [expert] What is the matter with Mandrake urpmi sources?

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 04:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I understand that a kernel-source rpm is not the same as a kernel.src rpm. What I do not understand is that I have just updated all my sources, including contribs, AND I added the urpmi sources indicated for the There was some talk on

Re: [expert] upgrading mandrake's kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:20 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup

[expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Meyer
I was poking around on the community twiki tonight and I am not sure I came back with an entirely positive experience. I really don't want to be negative, but I also want to give some feedback that I hope those of you that have worked so hard will find constructive. Anyway, the gist of my

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:50 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 6:16 am, Eric Huff wrote: Once I get to the Index, I think the organization is good, it is just very hard to find the index. I added a Table Of Contents link at the very upper right. I think it is

Re: [expert] Twiki feedback

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: It's not editable by mortals, but i think you (Anne) have the power to edit it. I can probably add/delete entries there, but I can't make it show Index in bold. (I had tried before, without success. All you get is *Index*)

Re: [expert] Hdparm problem

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:14 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:55 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to optimize my new drive, and I attempted to set its UDMA mode last night: UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 udma6 AdvancedPM=yes:

Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de screensavers in Gnome, and of course have installed the xscreensaver and xscreensaver-gl package. Any idea. There should be a lot of info

Re: [expert] 9.2 KDE screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:17 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi. El Miércoles 22 Octubre 2003 18:32, Greg Meyer escribió: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:46 pm, Pedro Capiscol wrote: Hi friends. I upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 and now I have no screensaver with KDE. I can see de

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:40 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: PS Is /mnt/cdrom using the size of /? Yes. /mnt/cdrom is just a directory on your root filesystem. You could make /mnt/game a symlink to a directory on your /home partition and then copy and start the game from there. Does it have to

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 04:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded the 9.2 Powerpack CD's, and went on an adventure. Well, 9.2 has several annoying install issues especially with a broken KDE install. For example: -consoles don't get installed properly What

Re: [expert] OggEnc problem

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:14 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote: This is a weird one, and I have tried *everything* I can think of... Ripping and encoding CD to ogg music worked fine last week, yesterday, it appears that everything works fine (used Grip, ripperX, MythMusic) to encode the ripped

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 23 October 2003 03:07 pm, Richard Bown wrote: Hi all just starting to move apps over on to pc with a fresh install of 9.2. I've noticed a lot of apps and libs which were standard with 9.1, are no longer installed with 9.2. Doing battle trying to compile gal-0.23 which is need ed

Re: [expert] Download and Powerpack editions

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:13 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Mostly proprietary drivers and what not that are installed automagically. I think it includes stuff like Flash and RealPlayer as well Also the kernel-source, but that is moot anyway with the update kernel that is

Re: [expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:01 pm, Vincent Chen wrote: Hi, all I just got a copy of mandrake 9.2 download edition. It's very easy to perform a new install. But I found some of my favorite apps like mozilla,xine,etc in 9.1 are missing after login, are they in default installation of power

Re: [expert] Mandrake releases bug fixes for MDK 9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:38 am, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 09:19 am, Avi Schwartz wrote: James Conner wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 02:10 am, James Sparenberg wrote: I agree, I was being sarcastic. I just installed MDK 9.2 on a friends system, I'll do

Re: [expert] menudrake

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:29 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have had problems myself. Just as you mention, items that appear in menudrake's depiction of the kmenus but not in real life. Some of these items are things I added several attempts in the past (as root editing the system menu)

Re: [expert] GAL

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:16 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: Why are you going through all this hassle when gal is part of the distro urpmi gal I think the package name is libgal23 or something like that. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read

Re: [expert] rpmdrake and cd media

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 01:25 pm, Thomas Gamble wrote: Rpmdrake seems to have lost the CD media entries for package installation. This happened after I added media for mandrake club. How can I get them back? Do I have to add them from scratch? urpmi.addmedia --distrib /mnt/cdrom -- /g

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere to change Go to the KAudioCreator options and then click the configure AudioCD

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:15 am, Larry Sword wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 05:27 pm, Larry Sword wrote: How can one change the location of the cdrom for kaudiocreator? It always looks for cdrom when starting. I would like it set for cdrom1. Can't find anywhere

Re: [expert] KAudioCreator ML9.2

2003-10-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 25 October 2003 10:15 am, Larry Sword wrote: I removed KAudioCreator, downloaded again and reinstalled, thinking I had a bad or incomplete install. Same problem. The version I'm using is ML9.2 0.89. I notice that Freshmeat has version 0.88 and a lot more information for setting

Re: [expert] Building ISOs with MakeCD

2003-10-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 26 October 2003 12:46 pm, Charlie M. wrote: October 18, 2003 02:07 pm, Charlie M. wrote: whack The only ISOs I've generated are from my local cooker mirror and are called Cooker Download after generation, but after install the boot splash identifies it as 9.2 Download edition.

Re: [expert] KWeather

2003-10-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 26 October 2003 01:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone use this applet? Under 9.0 it recognised my local station, but under 9.1 it only seems to deal with North America. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I used it in NA for 9.1 for a while, but it had a nasty memory leak

Re: [expert] TV card recommendations

2003-10-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 27 October 2003 02:30 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Well, this may be a post better sent to the newbie lists but since I've come to respect the posters on this list, please allow me a little latitude to ask people who's opinion I value a simple question :) My wife wants a TV

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