Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
Eric from what I've seen and also from Hans' own mouth with the current version of Rieserfs it's the preferred method. In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime Allrighty. We'll see how it does tomorrow when i reboot. I'm too sleepy right now... eric -- Mandrake

Re: [expert] cd writer fails...

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 08:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Looks to me like dummy mode is turned on, so no actual write should occur. Turn off dummy mode, and try again. But the operation should work in dummy mode, shouldn't it? Anyway, I tried it in real mode, and the same thing happens.

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything to do with sound. First off, do (as root) a: lsof /dev/dsp

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 1:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running that has anything

RE: [expert] shorewall

2003-11-17 Thread Lawson, Jim
I'm Sorry, I should have went in to more detail yes I agree I think it is drakfw's configuration is broken. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:25 AM To: Mandrake Expert List Subject: RE: [expert] shorewall I have three

[expert] Exporting/transfering kmail filters?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can any one tell me what file would contain kmail filters? I would like to copy all my laptop settings for kmail over to my desktop and avoid manually entering all filters again. praedor - -- Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering

Re: [expert] Exporting/transfering kmail filters?

2003-11-17 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can any one tell me what file would contain kmail filters? I would like to copy all my laptop settings for kmail over to my desktop and avoid manually entering all filters again. praedor .kde/share/config/kmailrc - -- Mark Watts Senior

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering -

[expert] maps

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Holt
Anyone know of a good software similar to 'streets and maps'? I tried one a while back where you had to compile the maps and it was pretty rough. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_

[expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Timothy Brown
List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim -- - Timothy R. Brown Webmaster The Daily Star 102 Chestnut St. Oneonta, NY 13820 Phone: (607)441-7242 Fax: (607)432-5847 - http://www.thedailystar.com

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
$ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:13:35 -0500 Timothy Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where is linuxconf in M9.2 It was moved to contrib and as such is not included on the cds. Add a contrib source and urpmi linuxconf Charles -- Chaos is King and Magic is loose in the world.

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 17 November 2003 9:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim broken deprecated (??? I'm not certain of this, yet) contrib Flame? Why would anyone do that? Regards; Charlie - --

Re: [expert] Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime Allrighty. We'll see how it does tomorrow when i reboot. It does seem to be quieter. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
OK, I have some money, would like to support Mandy as much as I like using it. I am intending to upgrade an 8.2 machine (not updates for it anymore, even security, right?), who basic function is running 2 webservers, (virtual) and as an anonymous ftp server. The anonyftp files are on a

RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
IIRC, the best for Mandrake is to buy a club membership and then use the download edition David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ricardo (Tru64 User) Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Which

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Artemio
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: Which one should I go for? If you don't need anything super-special, I think download edition + contribs (that have an enterprise kernel on them) will do. I believe all Mandrake packs now come with contribs, so it won't matter which box to get. Want to buy your

[expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: Cool! I may not have had an answer but I hope I helped in finding it. James Well, you and Eric kept me from giving up, which I actually did, but changed my mind :) /Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: cut In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. Looking at it now, I think diskdrake should suggest noatime as default when writing to fstab, for resiserfs? As I recall, I did not choose anything when

[expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-17 Thread Björn Lundin
James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 15:55, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, I now have 9.2 installed on my laptop via FTP. It was about a 4 hour experience for me. Draksound is not able to detect the ISA card, and is not useful for this card. Everything is working pretty well, except for

[expert] Okipage 8z

2003-11-17 Thread Lawson, Jim
I have tried with mandrake 8.2 till 9.2 to get this to print. The printer installs and just sits there with the light blinking and jobs in queue. I checked the cups admin tools and the printer says online waiting for jobs. I have tried the printer with windows and it work perfectly. I have

RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-17 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
I don't see the update yet on my mirror. I'll let you know what happens after I do -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 5:58 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Disapearing menu's On

[expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't generally use gnome (and haven't tried it for at least 6 months or more). Last evening, in trying to locate where the problem resided with regards to my desktop and sound (or lack thereof) I started up Gnome 2.4 for the first time. Pretty

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: I have always done with 8.2. Basically same Freedom, but not Free ($0.00) We all understand the process consumes money! If all you want to do is contribute financially, continue to use the download edition and buy a Club

RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Lawson, Jim
I think 120 a year is high. I would like to see this at 80. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy? On Monday 17 November 2003 11:43 am, Ricardo (Tru64

Re: [expert] Re: Re: Noise RESOLVED :))))

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:53, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: cut In fact I'm so used to reiserfs being mounted notail,noatime that like a fool I didn't even ask Bjorn about it. Looking at it now, I think diskdrake should suggest noatime as default when writing to fstab,

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:18, Eric Huff wrote: $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count

Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-17 Thread David Rankin
Thanks Jack, sorry for the lack of initial info. I'm just wondering what the messages are. Server has been running fine for over 2 years and for some reason this showed up in my log and I was just curious. I looks like it is showing up on a daily basis now (well almost a daily basis). Here is the

Re: [expert] Okipage 8z

2003-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 5:37 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: I have tried with mandrake 8.2 till 9.2 to get this to print. The printer installs and just sits there with the light blinking and jobs in queue. I checked the cups admin tools and the printer says online waiting for jobs. I have tried the

RE: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop offering updates, like Redhat did

[expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other OSs... I dug some more and found a workaround which

RE: [expert] Okipage 8z

2003-11-17 Thread Lawson, Jim
Yes I can see jobs in the queue. I wanted to state that this printer had never worked with version 8.2 to 9.2. Does this bother you? Yes delete the jobs the printer. Everything is the same on reinstall. -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other

Re: [expert] Okipage 8z

2003-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:07 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Yes I can see jobs in the queue. I wanted to state that this printer had never worked with version 8.2 to 9.2. Does this bother you? Yes delete the jobs the printer. Everything is the same on reinstall. I'm out of my depth, Jim. Just hoped

[expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks okay... but . is effectively in my path!! I discovered this

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbi n/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/loca

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Watts wrote: $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02pm-kevin uptime 1:02pm up 331 days, 18:01,

Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
so, it sounds like you don't intend to use automount... you've got automount daemon installed, probably from urpmi'ing something else that brought it in as a dependency. Since the config file is the default, it's got bad information in it. service automount stop chkconfig automount off On Mon,

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:31, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks okay...

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:59, Eric Huff wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbi n/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/loca

Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:12:03 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . is effectively in my path!! I see the same on 9.2rc2 :^P should be bugged as a security flaw IMO Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks okay... but .

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800, Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] WTF?? $PATH question: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/s

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:18, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 11:31, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:32, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . is effectively in my path!! I see the same on 9.2rc2 :^P should be bugged as a security flaw IMO Interesting... this was an rc2 system that I upgraded.

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:49, Bill Mullen wrote: ... This is because of the :: that appears about 2/3 of the way into the $PATH - this is the functional equivalent of :.: ... and that is a Bad Thing to have in there, as you know. ah-hah -- missed that. I'd suggest hunting through the

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:18:28 -0800 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem box did not have bash-completion in the RPM list, so I just added bash-completion-20030821-3mdk.noarch.rpm and checked that bash is at 2.05b-14mdk on several boxes. The double-slashes are now gone, but it

[expert] problem with pio mode

2003-11-17 Thread Angelo Naselli
Any idea? why 16 bit ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] angelo]# /sbin/hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geometry = 9964/255/63,

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This brings me to the maddening thing about linux over the last year or two. There used to be two files (as I recall) within which PATH was set: /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile. Now neither file contains much of anything related to setting

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:51:10 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question: Don`t think it`s bash completion, `cause I haven`t installed bash completion. Still I had similar path echoes since 9.2 last week. Yet to

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question...only in user path

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It appears that the :: (effectively .) in $PATH is restricted to user. Root's path on 9.2 is OK in this regard. praedorhh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Mullen wrote: This will not only remove the offending ::, it will remove any duplicate entries it finds (a couple of which you also have in yours), as well as any entries pointing to dirs which do not exist. If you find seeing the output of the script to be

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I can safely say that this is not set in any file in /etc/*. Since it isn't there (:: in path) for root, but only for user, I suspect it is somewhere in $HOME (?). praedor On Monday 17 November 2003 04:09 pm, Eric Huff wrote: On Mon,

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread elPunishar
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 1:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 1:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I should indicate that I scanned every file in /etc that contained any path statements via grep. Nothing untoward appeared. On Monday 17 November 2003 04:42 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I think I can safely say that this is not set in any file in

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:42, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I can safely say that this is not set in any file in /etc/*. Since it isn't there (:: in path) for root, but only for user, I suspect it is somewhere in $HOME (?). praedor I

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 13:16, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This brings me to the maddening thing about linux over the last year or two. There used to be two files (as I recall) within which PATH was set: /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile. Now

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:58:54 -0500, Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question: I should indicate that I scanned every file in /etc that contained any path statements via grep. Nothing untoward appeared. On

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not. It's not that big a deal I suppose, but it's not The Right Way(TM) for things to be. :) You seemed pretty

Re: [expert] problem with pio mode

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:12:17 +0100, Angelo Naselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [expert] problem with pio mode: Angelo, To me it isn`t clear what your problem is. Must I guess from the subject? If I am not mistaken UDMA(33) is recognized fine for

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 6:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count uptime to 497 days then using a new form of math 497 + 1 = 0 . I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with a Honeywell emulation layer. (For those who don't know

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Mullen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: What effect does it have? It means you can execute hidden files? If that's the case, couldn't you do that anyway - if you knew what the filename was? I suppose just for policy, you would want as few things in a users path as possible - is that just

[expert] What version for production:

2003-11-17 Thread Jason Williams
Just want to ask a really quick question. Im going to setup a PDC with Mandrake. It will have Samba 3 as OpenLDAP 2.1.22. What version of Mandrake is better suited for a production environment? 9.0? 9.1? or 9.2? Any recommendations and input is greatly appreciated. Thank you. Jason Want to

[expert] testing pgp sig

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 testing. nothing to see here -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/uVW43Fc5zsI6lBMRAv19AKCf9HKhT8+wyT5213aejVhaLZdq7ACgqlCA W4fmd65aAp9hHMpxF0raWhg= =qiqn -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was it. Thank you. /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc contains: SystemPath=/usr//bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin UserPath=/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin Both the system path and user path have the ::. I guess if I logged

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin/:/home/jack/bin/:/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/:/sbin/:/usr/sb in/:/usr/local/sbin/:/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: /usr/games:/usr/java/j2re1.4.0_01//bin that looks

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 11:14 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was it. Thank you. /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc contains: SystemPath=/usr//bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin UserPath=/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin Both

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:21, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not. It's not that big a deal I suppose, but it's not The

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
Of course, that doesn't anything to do with it though. A simple count of 100Hz ticks would fill an unsigned 32 bit integer in 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes, 52.96 seconds. After which it would wrap around to zero. Interestingly enough Windows 95 had almost exactly the same situation, but

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:35, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 11:14 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That was it. Thank you. /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc contains: SystemPath=/usr//bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:01, Bill Mullen wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Michael Holt wrote: What effect does it have? It means you can execute hidden files? If that's the case, couldn't you do that anyway - if you knew what the filename was? I suppose just for policy, you would want as

RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:29, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: I don't see the update yet on my mirror. I'll let you know what happens after I do Just got a message from Vincent (after I asked him) The iso's and the updates went out at the same time and seem to be choking the update of

Re: [expert] WTF?? $PATH question

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:54, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:21, Michael Holt wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:53, Jack Coates wrote: I don't quite understand what the problem is. Are you saying that '.' shouldn't be in your path or that it should be? should not.

Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use

2003-11-17 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: high all! i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program running

RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's

2003-11-17 Thread Dale Starr
Happened to me too. Here is how I fixed it: go into menudrake and hit save. All the menu options should reappear. -Dale From: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Disapearing menu's Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003

[expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is maddening. It is enough, literally, to drive me to uninstall MDK 9.2 and go SuSE 9.0. I have no sound in 9.2 on my desktop. I have an MSI KT333 mobo with via 8233 onboard sound. It worked fine in 9.0 and 9.1, kernels up to

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:16:58 -0500 Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have a fix? If you have a choice (OSS/ALSA), try them. I was feeling the same way (see bug at http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=57 ). Have you tried rmmod sound and modprobe sound...? ll

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
This is maddening. It is enough, literally, to drive me to uninstall MDK 9.2 and go SuSE 9.0. I have no sound in 9.2 on my desktop. Has anyone run into this and found a fix? I tried installing the 9.1 kernel-src-2.4.21-0.13mdk rpm but it will not build on 9.2. Errors all over the

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network stuff. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 02:00 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
Any idea what happened to the GTK GUI? Paul On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite

Re: [expert] Which Mandrake to Buy?

2003-11-17 Thread Joeb
Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: OK, the consesus seems to be buying Mandrake Club membership, and most ppl prefer the download edition. (mandrake, maybe dont spend too much time making all those other editions...) I am just hoping Mandrake wont drop the ball on the downloaded edition, and stop

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Glenn Burkhardt
On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful, it is really quite broken in 9.2, especially as related to Network

Re: [expert] Linuxconf

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 10:40 pm, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 12:15 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:13 am, Timothy Brown wrote: List, Please don't flame me. But where is linuxconf in M9.2 Tim It's moved to contrib, but be careful,

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the info but no joy. Sound is broken, plain and simple...so is draksound, apparently. If I fire up draksound and select another driver and go with the oss driver, it doesn't properly update modules.conf. It only partially updates it,

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:56:35 -0500, Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?: Anyone else have suggestions? Oh yes, trying to play with aumix and mute does nothing. I get little faint electronic chirps

Re: [expert] SOUND! Where is it?

2003-11-17 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah, I did check the wires. Last resort hope for a fix. Everything is fine. It is especially irritating that there isn't an error message anywhere on the system to be found. As far as the system is concerned, sound is OK. I have one more

Re: [expert] Gnome and a dialer app?

2003-11-17 Thread anton
I'm using kppp in Gnome. It takes an age to start, and won't minimise into the bottom panel (or if it can then I'd like to know how...), but can't see anything else even remotely as good. I think my experiment with gnome will probably end quite soon... Anton Praedor Atrebates wrote:

[expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that didn't. Now, 9.1 to 9.2 club, that was a fiasco. I finally moved my /home to a new

Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?

2003-11-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 17 November 2003 11:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that didn't. Now, 9.1 to 9.2

Re: [expert] Re: Sound configuration on Dell Inspiron 3200?

2003-11-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 17 November 2003 9:22 am, Björn Lundin wrote: James Sparenberg wrote: Rob draksound AFAIK is only effective on PCI type cards. Since your is ISA, using the old standby of sndconfig (just urpmi sndconfig) This should bring you online no sweat. One note. You have to run it