Re: [expert] Kernels witn 9.0

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 February 2003 01:31 pm, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Can previous version kernels be used in 9.0 without problems? In other words, can you simply install the 8.2 kernel files into a 9.0 box? What about the 2.2.x kernel from a 8.2 disk? Are there other packages that depend on the

Re: [expert] lock screen

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 07:08 am, Tom wrote: I upgraded my ML8 system to ML9.0. I attempted to use te lock screen function, and it has ceased to function correctly. It was working under ML8.0 We need more info to help. What Desktop environment

Re: [expert] Directory Structure question

2003-02-10 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 February 2003 04:38 pm, Jim C wrote: I am adding some touches to Mandrake's samba-2.2.7a rpm (specificly the samba-ldap version) and I have a question about the directory structure that Mandrake uses. Basically what we have are som

Re: [expert] Kernel Panic: No init Found

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:04 pm, Tru64 User wrote: All i added was lkcd support to new kernel, otherwise it should be exactly same as original, right? If you copy /boot/config to /usr/src/linux/.config instead of from configs to .configs

Re: [expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?

2003-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:36 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have dounloaded the source code for the 9.0 kernel, and I am wondering what was set for its compiling. You should upgrade to 2.4.19-24 first. I assume that I could be able to make

Re: [expert] Checking out the 2.4.19-16mdk kernel?

2003-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:01 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:36 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have dounloaded the source code for the 9.0 kernel, and I am wondering what was set for its compiling. You should

Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in the price? Wal Mart Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that way. http://www.mwave.com - -- Greg

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:14 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to compile kcreatecd-1.1.0, and it cannot find the Qt libraries on my machine. According rpmdrake to install qt3-3.1.1 would have to overhaul my system, and I can't find

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:35 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: QT3.1 is part of KDE 3.1 What version of MDK are you on? I am running KDE3.1 on 9.0. sorry for not being explicit. libqt-3.1.1 should already be installed on your machine then.

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:35 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am running KDE3.1 on 9.0. sorry for not being explicit. Rob, I'm looking at the kreatecd website and it looks like it was developed for KDE2. Are you sure you're not being asked for

Re: [expert] Qt?

2003-02-15 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:47 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: thanks for all your research, Greg. I realized a little while ago that it was looking for the qt2 libraries, not the qt3. I figure that I have 3 options: force the installation of qt2

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:00 am, Guy Zelck wrote: Hello all, Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? You are using an operating sytem that will become unsupported on March31, 2003. About 45 days from now. I don't think you are

[expert] Mandrake Build Process

2003-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have always wondered this, so I'll throw it out and hopefully someone can shed some light for me. Many times after a new version of Mandrake comes out, I like to rebuild some of the key packages, like glibc, XFree and KDE with GCC optimizations

Re: [expert] very simple question about kdm

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:40 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Hi, How do I get it to start up each time I boot? I've been running cooker to help with the testing and when I changed to kdm it now boots to command prompt only. I can login as root and

Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:34 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any suggestions? This page is from Tom's old docs section. I

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 01:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the exact reason for me trying other distros. Sorce based distros that are not sold are the way to go. (For me). I still use Mandrake at work for servers and workstations but

[expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as copying the new packages to the cd images and removing the older version? or is there some kind of

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-19 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:09 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Does anybody know how I would create a slipstreamed set of installation disks for 9.0 that included all the security updates. Is it as easy as copying the new packages to the cd

Re: [expert] Cooker update

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:33 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Can someone tell me whether or not I can update my install of 9.1 beta3 using 'mandrake update'? I can't download the whole cooker as I don't have that much download capacity with my

Re: [expert] 2.2.19-24mdk is DOA

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 10:58 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Have people actually managed to BUILD 2.4.19-24mdk and use it? Or are you simply using the binary version. What did MandrakeSoft do to get it to build and actually work, if this is

Re: [expert] Cooker update

2003-02-20 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:28 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Can someone tell me whether or not I can update my install of 9.1 beta3 using 'mandrake update'? I can't download the whole cooker as I don't have that much download capacity with

[expert] List Problem

2003-02-21 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anyone receiving a bounce message from this e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every message posted to expert? Or is it just me? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [expert] a question about pdf attachments

2003-02-21 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 07:18 pm, engage wrote: Everytime I receive a message with a PDF file attachment, it shows up as in-line text. Any other attachment type shows up as an icon. What is causing the problem with the PDF file attachments?

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 install failure

2003-02-22 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:50 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: All; Thought I'd take a shot at 9.1 rc1. No go. The install went ok up to the end. At the summary stage, it was installing the printer, and died, horribly. You obviously did not read the

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 Take 3

2003-02-23 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 February 2003 03:48 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: That's as far as it gets. I suppose I could re-load it (again), and look through the startup scripts while it's booted the first time, and find the culprit. But, I think this one needs to

Re: [expert] MDK 9.1 rc1 Take 3

2003-02-23 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:29 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Yeah, ok, tried that. I went to submit the report. Filled out the form, and hit submit, and it sat... and sat, and sat... I killed it after some time. Does nothing at Mandrakesoft work

Re: [expert] RC2 must be coming.

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 12:59 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Since the traffic on the list has dropped to dang near zero and new packages in the cooker are at an even lower level... I'm guessing rc2 is about the hit the mirrors... How about,

Re: [expert] ACPI and kernel-2.4.21pre4

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 04:47 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I built and installed the 9.1rc1 kernel-2.4.21 and it seemed to work great, in some ways much better than the 2.4.19 versions. I was almost able to get my wusb11 working again (worked

Re: [expert] ACPI and kernel-2.4.21pre4

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 05:14 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Monday 24 February 2003 05:07 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 24 February 2003 04:47 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I built and installed the 9.1rc1 kernel-2.4.21 and it seemed

Re: [expert] RC2 must be coming.

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 05:36 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote on Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0500 : I think things are moving a little too fast. There are alot of new people getting involved with cooker development, and I feel

Re: [expert] ACPI and kernel-2.4.21pre4

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 05:17 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I did not mean acpi, I meant apic. Despite the similarity of the acronym, they are different. Unfortunately, the people that come up with the names for this stuff don't realize that real

Re: [expert] www.TrueMajority.com

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 09:08 am, et wrote: Very bad form to send this type (of SPAM) to a tech mail list, From: Adolfo ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] has just made it to my spam filters Agreed. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:27 pm, flacycads wrote: really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for different architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an unsupported disclaimer, if need be? IMO, they will loose a

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 04:52 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, the popular perception is that i686 has got to be better than i586, and compiled for athlon must be even better no? Real world is that neither i686 or athlon compiling provides

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:53 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Seems to me there is logic in the MandrakeSoft model, but not the logic we (and other users) expect. This is, in fact, a big problem that needs to be considered. Whether Mdksft like it

Re: [expert] PC Chips 810

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:43 am, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I looking for a very cheap mother-board and faced PC Chips 810 with SIS 730S chipset and ASRock K7VM2 withe VIA KM266 chipset. I personally stay away from PC

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:06 am, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Perhaps, like so many others you missed the intent of the statements to start with. The problem is, Mandrake is losing out on the desktop, and server wars for a reason. The problem of

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:06 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: Question One. My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year. Is this correct? Yes What has gone wrong? Nothing Question Two.

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: If you want the newest software, run the new versions, And change every 6 months, no thanks! Now that we finally got all our 3rd party s.w. working like vpn clients

Re: [expert] SMART info from modern disks

2003-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 07:39 pm, Jack Coates wrote: I had, but I recently undefined it because everything from contrib fails due to glibc incompatibilities. :-P Were you trying to use Cooker contrib instead of 9.0 contrib? - -- Greg

Re: [expert] Mandrake Out of Control?/Is Windows faster on same machine?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:14 am, James Sparenberg wrote: it. Boot alone took 27 minutes! (with swap under 2 minutes) Says a lot about memory management. James Any chance you guys could do some snipping in these long threads? Especially

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:10 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Hello all, Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? I was going to take a shot at setting up a box and trying to build the srpms for KDE3.1 on 8.2, but I see that noone has

Re: [expert] Slipstreaming 9.0 Updates

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:56 pm, civileme wrote: I dunno what slipstream means either, but, I will hazard a guess about updating the CDs-- make directories, replace packages ./gendepslist to make a new hdlist.cz, then install once and make3

Re: [expert] Cannot compile against QT2

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:50 pm, diego wrote: rpm -qa | grep -i qt qt2-designer-2.3.1-29mdk libqt2-devel-2.3.1-29mdk unixODBC-gui-qt-2.2.0-1mdk libqt3-3.0.2-2mdk libqt2-2.3.1-29mdk qtrans-0.1.1-7mdk I was going to say you need

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:03 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: I was going to take a shot at setting up a box and trying to build the srpms for KDE3.1 on 8.2, but I see that noone has even voted for this on the Club website, so I am going to stop

Re: [expert] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:56 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: Sounds to me like you are a candidate for Debian stable, slow and steady, no real upgrades for years. Of course they are on KDE 2.2.2 still, so that won't do. You haven't even looked

Re: [expert] change hw time from local to utc

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 06:47 pm, Mark Chou wrote: I have a dual-boot MDK/Win2K box. I've recently upgraded to another computer, so I no longer need the Win2K portion on the older box. Of course time in CMOS was set to local time. Since the

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:59 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 01:08 pm, Jim C wrote: HOSTNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net DOMAINNAME=dude.mcgnarly.net Hmm, my DOMAINNAME here doesn't have the full hostname, only the last

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:49 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever you're all learning now, be prepared to unlearn when 9.1 comes out because it's all different. I'm trying to figure it out in cooker but it's a bear. -- Greg Surely you

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 28 February 2003 12:27 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:49 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever you're all learning now, be prepared to unlearn when 9.1 comes out because it's

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:26 am, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head title/title /head body James Sparenberg wrote:br blockquote type=cite cite=[EMAIL PROTECTED] pre wrap=On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 23:17, Ron Stodden wrote: /pre

Re: [expert] Contribs

2003-02-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 28 February 2003 12:48 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head title/title /head body et wrote:br blockquote type=cite cite=[EMAIL PROTECTED] pre wrap=On Friday 28 February 2003 02:17 am, Ron Stodden wrote: /pre

Re: [expert] Problems with cdrecord and scsi-ide

2003-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 01 March 2003 11:43 pm, Mark wrote: I am having problems with what looks like scsi emu probs, I am using mandrake 9 and a Duron 1.3g .. the problem is I have a LG 48x16x48 cdr drive no matter what i try I can not burn quicker than 8x with out having problem like Mandrake is

Re: [expert] UT2003 help?

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:17 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone else having problems with this game under v9.0? I can play it just -so- long then, always...it segfaults out. Whats puzzling is that this game, running under 9.0 on my 2 sons computers runs for hours flawlessly. We all use Nvidia

[expert] Re: [newbie] Samba-Only Windows Clients can write to shares

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:52 am, Technoslick wrote: I didn't get any response on my first post to the newbie listserv, so I thought I would try once more and cross-post to the expert listserv, as well... Here's the problem: my two MDK 9.0 workstations can read but not write to authorized

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:44 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:09, Todd Lyons wrote: RedHat also uses /etc/sysconfig/network: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q redhat-release redhat-release-7.3-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep HOST /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=www.mrball.net

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:45 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Greg, that's my point - surely one NEVER places the protocol in the host name. I'm suggesting the mandrake tools could stop this from happening. That's all :-) My apologies, i did not see the word reject in your reply, and I took it's

Re: [expert] Defragging

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:57 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David E. Fox wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:55:25PM -0800 : Reiserfs should never be defragged--the elaborate tree structure it sets up is I once heard that

Re: [expert] change hostname

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:15 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 13:56, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 04:45 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: Greg, that's my point - surely one NEVER places the protocol in the host name. I'm suggesting the mandrake tools could stop

Re: [expert] urpmi and cooker

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 06:48 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: Hi, Anybody know if you can get cooker packages through urpmi? I would like to update my system to some cooker packages but I get a lot of missing dependencies, so I thought urpmi might be fit for the job. But dunno what media to

Re: [expert] Double posts?

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 06:44 am, Jan Andersen wrote: Is anyone else, besides me, receiving all the messages twice? You are not subscribed twice by any chance, are you? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Rc2 is comming!!

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 10:44 pm, Salane King wrote: On Monday 03 March 2003 22:22, Damon Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:07, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:58, Damon Lynch wrote: Question: how come rsync is not more popular? It seems like a wonderful

Re: [expert] libGLcore.so.2 -- Where are you??

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:25 am, Ken Thompson wrote: I have been trying to install several needed programs on 9.0 and 9.1 betas and keep gettong the failed dependency message for libGLcore.so.2.. A google search sent me to rpmfind.net and a further search turned up nVidia kernels and

Re: [expert] Routing Question

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:35 pm, Sevatio wrote: OS: Mandrake 9.0 I'm not sure if this is possible but I'll see if any of you guys know how to do this. I have a cable modem connected to a hub. Then two linux boxes connected to that hub. They each have their own IP addresses. When I

Re: [expert] No internet avalaible with rc2 for my cable modem

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 02:43 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:56, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Must of the test I could do with rc2 will be impossible without internet runing. Any clues to activate the internet conection for the cable modem will be very

Re: [expert] No internet avalaible with rc2 for my cable modem

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James, I put it, in fact the bug is related with shorewall, as soon as I install shorewall I loss the internet, but I can ping to any computer avalaible in the net. Thank for you interest I have not experienced this at all. I

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:55 am, Keith Powell wrote: This makes it a very difficult decision for people who either have no credit card, or who, like me will not send my credit card details either over the internet or by the equally open FAX. They will not even accept credit card details

Re: [expert] Mandrake's Golden Opportunity

2003-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 12:14 pm, J. Grant wrote: Hi Keith, Using HTTPS is much more secure than sending via post. I am also in the UK, I have never been the victim of online fraud. However before the net revolution some one did charge my CC and it was refunded. All online CC have a

Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 05:30 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: :/ I just bought another 512MB DDR PC333 module for my PC and now my linux won't boot anymore. I tried an update from CD, installer doesn't work either. Memory just went through a 3 hours memtest86 and no error found. Windows

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 12:27 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have been struggling with a problem on my machine since I reformatted and reinstalled Mandrake 9.0. Basically, anytime I attempt to rip a CD, my mouse goes absolutely bonkers. I run KDE 3.1 for my desktop, and rip CDs with Grip. I

Re: [expert] Mouse goes nuts

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 07 March 2003 07:16 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 03:09 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: How does one change the DMA settings of the burner, and DVD drive? You can use hdparm to do this. Great little utility.

Re: [expert] [OT] SCO sues IBM over Linux and UNIX

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:53 pm, Joeb wrote: Not to disagree with you Todd, but when you say They get their billion... are you referring to SCO or the lawyers (not that it makes much difference)? :) Way I see it, there are a couple of questions. Q1) Was IBM entitled to use the code? A1)

Re: [expert] How to mend a stupid slip?

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:58 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Webmin uses Konqueror. I have looked through all the cookies in Konq, and can find nothing that seems to be related to webmin. I have never allowed it to 'save password'. I thought webmin used whatever browser I used to access it. --

Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 05:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: In another thread, Mark Watts wrote: I do have these lines in the global options of my lilo.conf though: disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81 disk=/dev/hdg bios=0x82 This reminded me of another unsolved puzzle on my machine. In my lilo.conf

Re: [expert] kde screensaver problem

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:23 pm, David Relson wrote: At 12:03 PM 3/9/03, M. Talanana wrote: Hi, Did you install kdeartwork? All the screensavers which come with kde are in this package. You can even put your own pictures in the directory $HOME/.kde/kslideshow/pics and select Slide SHow

Re: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives...

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 05:34 am, Mark Watts wrote: Ok, answers to questions: No, I wasnt using cable select. No, I wasnt changing any jumpers. This has nothing to do with fstab - that doesnt get processed at the lilo point. With all 3 drives in, I get a lilo prompt. With hdb removed

Re: [expert] Help! root full but can't find a cause

2003-03-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 March 2003 10:48 am, Mark Weaver wrote: et wrote: On Monday 10 March 2003 07:17 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi list, I noticed this yesterday after receiving an error message from Mozilla that it couldn't send a message. So far I've been all over the filesystem every way I know

Re: [expert] Liquid Style on 9.0 with KDE3.1

2003-03-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:18 am, Steffen Barszus wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:47, James Conner wrote: I'd been using Mofset's Liquid style on KDE 3.0.5a on MDK 9.0 for quite a while. I wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.1, but didn't want to lose Liquid. I installed KDE 3.1 from here:

Re: [expert] PDF writer

2003-03-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:18 am, Paul Cox wrote: On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 am, Robert Barry wrote: I'm using the pdf printer in Samba. Mandrake has a pdf printer setup already in the Samba. It works great for any windows users on our network. They just select the pdf printer

Re: [expert] Suggestion to eliminate off topic postings

2003-03-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:43 pm, Todd Lyons wrote: Vincent Danen wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0700 : Zero tolerance. I'd like to see that done on all Mandrake lists. The amount of time some of us spend wading through this junk boggles me. In effect right now. I read what's

Re: [expert] 9.1 comming?

2003-03-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 March 2003 08:35 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Does Mdk even try just *starting* the applications included in a release? I'm still quite miffed at 9.0 for a number of reasons; however, last night, I asked another list member if ohphone just *started* in 9.1rc2... NOPE! pwlib

Re: [expert] hard disk duplication and partition growth

2003-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:11 pm, Michael Noble wrote: To copy directories and files keeping ownership and permissions, etc the same, use the following: tar cf - dir | (cd path to new location;tar xf -) Do this as root. I don't understand why you would want to go through the additional

Re: [expert] Question regarding rpmbuild opts.

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:39 pm, Aaron Matteson wrote: Quick question, maybe pretty simple. Here is the scenario, I want to avoid adding --target=athlon|pentium4 to the rpmbuild commandline options, how exactly can i set GCC 3.2.x to build for this arch. by default? I assume there is a

Re: [expert] Question regarding rpmbuild opts.

2003-03-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 20 March 2003 11:57 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: If you build your rpms as root (not recommended) create an /etc/rmrc file. Sorry for the typo I meant /etc/rpmrc -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:15 pm, Jeremy Mereness wrote: I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was only aware of the

Re: [expert] Question regarding rpmbuild opts.

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 21 March 2003 04:25 pm, flacycads wrote: Greg, Does the #Macros section in your .rpmrc file substitute for the .rpmmacros file mentioned in the Mandrake rpm how-to? No, you still need that. the #Macros section refers the macro files in /usr/lib/rpm. The .rpmmacros files only

Re: [expert] ISO image from 1.2Gb folder

2003-03-22 Thread Greg Meyer
Hey, Gonzalo. Since you are posting from the future, can you look up the results of the NCAAA basketball tournament here in the US so I can win some money tomorrow. :-) -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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] Mobo query

2003-03-30 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:53 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: This is to replace the mobo in a box with a Cyrix/IBM cpu. Everything in it is pretty old, and would have to be replaced if I rebuild from scratch. From experience I would say that I would be pushing £500 to get a full decent system

Re: [expert] open office problem

2003-04-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:01 pm, Jack Coates wrote: yes, OpenOffice.org-1.0.2-7mdk. It started after I cleaned out my home directory, but persists after: restoring ~/OpenOffice.org1.0.1 ~/.openoffice from backup removing and reinstalling the workstation install via

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working. If you need something that was not on your download, try plf. Yeah, but the commercial apps should have everything

Re: [expert] IBM viavoice dictation for linux and Mandrake 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 7:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 8.2 and 9.x run different kernel and different libraries. I would not have thought that you would get 8.2 rpms working

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 April 2003 05:07 am, maxxik wrote: Hi everybody ! Where i can find KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1 ? wbr, maxx The KDE in 9.1 is practically 3.1.1. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 April 2003 12:41 pm, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: We are testing to run remotely X in 9.1 and with gdm we haven't had any problem until now. The bug only effects qt apps, so if you are a GDM and GNOME user, you won't see it, except if you try to use a qt app. -- Greg Want to buy

Re: [expert] KDE 3.1.1 for MDK 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:07 am, James Sparenberg wrote: Just curios... can you tell the difference between the AA compiled in and the AA not compiled in fonts? I can't. I can't. Tex says he can. Those with a sensitive eye for this stuff will probably notice, but most people will

Re: [expert] root login !

2003-04-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:51 am, richard bown wrote: Hi all, how do I log in as root from the standard X login on MDK9.1. The users are iconised so there's now way of entering the user ar root as you use to be able to on previous versions. I need to set up xcdroast which has to be done as

Re: [expert] Upgrading 9.0 to 9.1 with urpmi

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 June 2003 02:09 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: To make your life easier. If you do upgrade glibc and urpmi first. (You can even skip glibc from my experience but I understand the value here.) Then edit /etc/urpmi/skiplist. Add /apache2*/ (Someone check the regular expression

[expert] chmod question

2003-06-05 Thread Greg Meyer
Can I run chmod so that it only applies the changes to files or only to directories. I don't see an option in the man page that does this, but I am sure it must be possible. I want my files to be set to 644 and my directories to 755. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] chmod question

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:59 pm, Michael Noble wrote: To change files: find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; To change directories: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Thanks Mike, this is exactly what I was hoping for. Sorry it took so long to acknowledge, but it has been a helluva

Re: [expert] chmod question

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:21 am, Joeb wrote: I like your solution much better than mine! Your method was exactly what I was going to do when I stopped myself and said there must be a better way. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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