RE: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Any other possibilities? I am going to read the man and info pages on mkisofs, but I think I need to know how it works within the program itself since I'm not calling it from the command line; does that make sense? Try and create the image manually with mkisofs and experiment with the

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Polsen
Check out the README file at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0RC2/rpm/Mandrake/README The only dependencies I can see are Mandrake_Desk and menu Good Luck Mark Leopold Palomo wrote: Dear people, I would like to install the last version of kde2 (rc2) and I hall all

[expert] xfce]

2000-10-17 Thread Warren Doney
Original Message From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] xfce To: "expert mandrake" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way to include xfce as one of the options in the Mandrake 7.1 login screen? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
I found the link very useful when using the NVidia drivers for my geforce2: http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html It's written for debian, but works for mandrake if you keep in mind that debian uses different directories for their libraries. You did remove the Mesa libraries

Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-17 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Dan, Appreciate it you can share your experience when you install LM 7.1. Cheers Sridhar - Original Message - From: "Daniel Woods" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 12:29 PM Subject: RE: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System I use a Epox 8kta

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Warren Doney
http://virtualartisans.com/linux/mandrake/ has some details of how he built kde2. -WBD Mark Polsen wrote: Check out the README file at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0RC2/rpm/Mandrake/README The only dependencies I can see are Mandrake_Desk and menu Good Luck

[expert] Macro Changes

2000-10-17 Thread SoloCDM
When I used RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 I had the follow hacks in my macro file for creating sendmail.cf. When I upgraded to Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14-15, and Sendmail 8.9.3-18 I wasn't able to use the following hacks. What has replaced the hacks or are any of them still used?

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, and the output of cat /proc/version, lsspci, rpm -qa | grep XFree, XF86Config-4, and anything more you think would be useful... I'll try to look at them... On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, you wrote: I tried all of this, and now UT cores when I try to start it. If I

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Buchan Milne am Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:23:27PM +0200: Ah, but only root can mount an ISO image in KisoCD (not that this bothers me that much, but it's still irritating). Anyone know how to get around that one ? No, there's no way to get around this, because AFAIK only users with ID

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Darin am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:53:36PM -0400: Does anyone have any useable instructions on installing nVidia drivers? Install XFree86 4.0.1. Get the src.rpms from NVidia. As root, do a rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-file-name and rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_glx-file-name. In

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Michael Powell PhD am Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:24:25AM +: almost all countries. PGP 5.6.8 offeres many different algorithms that are much more But PGP is not free, and on a free OS a free crypto application makes much more sence. PS: Please stop quoting all the text, and only

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Proto
Routed uses only the RIP (or RIP2) protocol to make routing decisions, whereas gated can use a variety of routing protocols. I admin firewall gateways for an ISP, and the only real reason I use gated is to speak OSPF to our exterior routers that won't speak RIP. Personally, if you don't need

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Michael Powell PhD am Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:39:32PM +: This is not a COOKER issue try telling someone that will listen to your It seemed to me that someone was looking for gpg packages. So I posted that there are packages available, what's the problem? sick mind! You're such

Re: [expert] Laptop installation - need help ASAP!

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... here's the situation, I have an IBM Thinkpad 760XD with Windows NT4 installed. I would like to install Mandrake7.1 on it. Can I use the installer's partition utility to repartition my hard drive without wiping out my current NT data? Not if you're running

[expert] Upgrade from Suse 6.1..

2000-10-17 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
Does anyone know how feasable it is to upgrade a Suse machine (production!!) with the new Mandrake? Would things crash and burn? :) Thanks, -turgut EgeNet Internet Services: http://www.egenet.com.tr Find all of Turkey online: http://find.egenet.com.tr Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Is postfix not necessary if your are going to be getting your security checks mailed to you ? I was initially under the impression that postfix did not have to run as a daemon for this (like sendmail) but my machines with postfix only send me mail when postfix is running (as opposed to the boxes

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Buchan Milne am Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:23:27PM +0200: Ah, but only root can mount an ISO image in KisoCD (not that this bothers me that much, but it's still irritating). Anyone know how to get around that one ? No, there's no way to get around this,

Re: [expert] Macro Changes

2000-10-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: When I used RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 I had the follow hacks in my macro file for creating sendmail.cf. When I upgraded to Mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14-15, and Sendmail 8.9.3-18 I wasn't able to use the following hacks. What has replaced the hacks or are

Re: [expert] xfce]

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Malka
Thank you. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Warren Doney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:02 AM Subject: [expert] xfce] Original Message From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL

RE: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Dunno, but I am going to reinstall 7.1 on my system since trying to get kde2 to work seems impossible on my system too. Seemed odd yesterday though that kde.org had rc2 version and mandrake packages were there and they are all date stamped 10/13 however the packages wont install since I installed

RE: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Yes it does take a lot of additional packages, like pam, bzip2, qt 2.2.1, menu, mandrake_desk, alsa (it seems), rpm 3.05 (for some packages), and the devel packages for a lot of the above and of course the kde2 files. -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread GrAnT GaLbRaiTh
As someone said before, have you upgraded mandrake_desk and menu before starting. when installing kdebase or any other package with an extra devel package it will say that the older kdebase-devel is dependent on it. I force the install and then install the devel package. As for the other

[expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Pascal Grossé
Dear people, I tried to install Mdk 7.2 rc1 on my new computer, with a IBM 15 go HD on a htp 366 controler (udma66 hd). The boot kernel recognized the controler, but the computer froze during the partition check (more or less, the freeze point is not constant). Has someone managed to install Mdk

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread GrAnT GaLbRaiTh
and glide_V3 and the latest 2.2.17 kernel to go with alsa ... kups it does go on but it's worth it On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Yes it does take a lot of additional packages, like pam, bzip2, qt 2.2.1, menu, mandrake_desk, alsa (it seems), rpm 3.05 (for some packages), and the devel

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Michael Dolan
this is where KDE needs a company/group like helix code. Installation of helix code is that simple its not funny. maybe if no group or company is willing to do it then KDE might want to think about doing it themselves - Original Message - From: "GrAnT GaLbRaiTh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Ron Stodden
Alexander Skwar wrote: No, there's no way to get around this, because AFAIK only users with ID 0 are allowed to mount any "partition" anytime. No, as long as the /etc/fstab has the user option specified for that mount, any user can mount it (via KDiskFree - kdf). If it is a vfat mount,

RE: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
I do agree there. I installed Helix-Gnome with no probs. I actually went to bed and in the morning, there it was with all the latest greatest of whatever it needed to make it happen. If KDE had an updater they would have a very nice package. I do however like Evolution for Gnome, as I have to

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... -- Stephen On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Please, send your /var/log/XFreeLog, and

Re: [expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
You need to ensure that you are actually using dma66. You will probably see a line like the following in your /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst: ide2=0x,0x ide3=0x,0x where a ? is a hex value. This indicates that you are using the dma66 controller in backwards-compatible mode.

Re: [expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Pascal Grossé
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:57:11PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: You need to ensure that you are actually using dma66. You will probably see a line like the following in your /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst: ide2=0x,0x ide3=0x,0x where a ? is a hex value. This indicates

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:36:37AM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this automatically... Well, if you use

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-17 Thread Matthew Micene
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Is postfix not necessary if your are going to be getting your security checks mailed to you ? I hadn't thought of that. Very true. In that case the my recommendation would be to spend a bunch of time with the postfix documentation and configure the server as

Re: [expert] Off to camp once again.

2000-10-17 Thread Matthew Micene
As an aside, if anyone is planning or is running webmin, there has been a security update from them that was released today on freshmeat. I urge you all to get it and update your systems. -- Matthew Micene Systems Development Manager Express Search Inc. www.ExpressSearch.com

Re: [expert] Gnu Privacy Guard 1.0.3

2000-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Michael Powell PhD wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:24:25AM +, Michael Powell PhD wrote: I'd make the RPMs available on my web site, but I don't need a bunch of armed and testosterone poisoned thugs breaking my door down in the middle of the night in case I

Re: [expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Sorry, my instructions were aimed at improving your hdparm performance (under 7.1). You should be able to install on udma33, then make changes to your /etc/fstab, add the append lines to lilo/grub and then reboot (assuming the patches are applied to the stock kernel). Unfortunately I can't tell

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Buchan Milne am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:39:07AM +0200: Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Buchan Milne am Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:23:27PM +0200: Ah, but only root can mount an ISO image in KisoCD (not that this bothers me that much, but it's still irritating). Anyone know

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach GrAnT GaLbRaiTh am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:41:37PM +1100: it does go on but it's worth it Yup, if you like KDE (I don't) you're right. It's for sure a lot nicer than KDE 1.1.2· Alexander Skwar -- begin des Endes der Nachricht Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com |

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:19:04AM -0400: Yes it does take a lot of additional packages, like pam, bzip2, qt 2.2.1, menu, mandrake_desk, alsa (it seems), rpm 3.05 (for some packages), and the devel packages for a lot of the above and of course the kde2

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Charles Curley am Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:21:20AM -0600: Well, if you use startx, it's a shell script; you could add those commands to it. Or /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which is run toward the end of the boot sequence. Or don't do anything but use the rpm files which will add alias

Re: [expert] CD burning under Mandrake 7.2 rc 1

2000-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Ron Stodden am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:10:21AM +1100: No, as long as the /etc/fstab has the user option specified for that Yes, you are right. I forgot about that option. Alexander Skwar -- begin des Endes der Nachricht Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com |

[expert] IBM Thinkpad A20m and M7.1 questions

2000-10-17 Thread Laurent Duperval
Hi, I just got a brand new Thinkpad A20m and I'm trying to configure it as best as possible. I've got most things working but here are a few things I'm having problems with: - Network card: I read a few dsites that say that the internal netcard is supposed to be a eepro100. When I try to

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread J.A. Magallon
Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installationÓ. [2000-10-17 15:36] One other thing: are you doing this as root before starting X? rmmod agpgart modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 modprobe NVdriver I really have to learn how to have the computer do this

RE: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Geez, if I sounded like I was complaining about downloading all the extra packages, sorry. I was just merely replying to a message. It would however have been nice to have it posted as to what packages I needed to prepare for battle, rather than going in blindfolded! :) -Original

Re: [expert] Errors compiling via-rhine driver

2000-10-17 Thread Rial Juan
I have the same card, and never had to download any drivers. The source is already in the kernel source tree, so you can just configure a kernel with the via-rhine drivers, and build it. If you don't feel like building a kernel, mandrake's stock bootkernels come with the module as well; just

Re: [expert] 7.2 RC1 and Nvidia driver installation

2000-10-17 Thread Buchan Milne
Ok conf.modules experts: How do I auto load the driver for the ov511 chip (common in webcams) for my Creative Webcam 3. Ath present I load is in rc.local with modprobe ov511 Note that this is a USB cam, if that affects anything. Buchan "J.A. Magallon" wrote: Stephen Boulet said at ÒRe:

Re: [expert] WebCam device driver autoload

2000-10-17 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:52:51 Buchan Milne wrote: Ok conf.modules experts: First of all (don't want to be pedantic, just want to help...), if you use a recent modutils package, change all your stuff from conf.modules to modules.conf and delete the former. How do I auto load the driver for

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Sprint Broadband internet access. The company does not support Linux, but they say couple of the customers are using linux. The cable from the tx/rx dish connects to my eth card What information do I need to setup the Internet

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-17 Thread Michael
First off check to see if it uses a static IP or DHCP. If it uses a static IP then you probably don't have to do anything more than setting up your ethernet card with the proper masks and such. If it uses DHCP you might need to use an assigned hostname to make it work. Try asking on your local

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Assuming you have no other ethernet cards installed in your computer, and the (cable modem?) (DSL thingy?) (Satellite dish?) connects to your network card, try the following: dhcpcd eth0 That runs "DHCP Client Daemon" and tells it to try connecting to a DHCP server (Dynamic Host Configuration

[expert] Help Wanted!: building a Internet-Box

2000-10-17 Thread José Antonio Jiménez Berni
Hi!, my exact purpose is to use a computer to access internet in a public place. As you can imagine, security problems arise when planning to do something like this, beside I'm a Linux fanatic I MUST use Linux for this. This is what I already have and where I need some explanations. I'm

[expert] SMC Ethernet Adapter-USB-Not really a linux question but...

2000-10-17 Thread Logos
This is not really a linux question, but... I have a linux box, a bsd box and a win box(both 98 and Win2k)...for the winbox I have a SMC USB Ethernet adapter. I've been messing with my LAN for about 8 hours now and am positive that everything is configured correctly, as a matter of fact, by the

[expert] Wu-FTPD 2.6.1(1): Problem with creating a guest user(Mandrake 7.1)

2000-10-17 Thread Logos
I recently upgraded my wu-ftpd to 2.6.1 from 2.6.0. I never really gave a though to configuring it previously as I didn't use it. Now that I plan to use it, I want to create a guest user...here's what I did: 1.under bash: useradd penguin passwd penguin (and all the good

Re: [expert] Wu-FTPD 2.6.1(1): Problem with creating a guest user(Mandrake 7.1)

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Groves
Instead of using wu-ftpd, I'd recommend installing proftpd. It's more secure, easier to configure, and is more flexible. I think you can find an RPM on the Cooker site. Jeff At 10:14 AM 10/16/00 -0400, Logos wrote: I recently upgraded my wu-ftpd to 2.6.1 from 2.6.0. I never really gave a

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Leopold Palomo
Oh, oh, oh. It seams that have been a controversial thread Well, I think that I was a bit bare in my message. Dear Mark Polsen, thanks for your answer, but I have read the file README file at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/2.0RC2/rpm/Mandrake/README and of course that it

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote: error: failed dependencies: rpm = 3.0.5-22mdk is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk libbz2.so.1 is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk [root@hoth kde]# rpm -i rpm-3.0.5-26mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libbz2.so.1 is needed by

Re: [expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Don
My HPT366 mode shows 4 in the HPT blue screen. Perhaps you should change your mode to either 2 or 4 Don On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:57:11PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: You need to ensure that you are actually using dma66. You will probably see a line

Re: [expert] udma66 htp 366 controler

2000-10-17 Thread Don
You should also be able to install Linux directly to the UDMA66 drive. Don On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: Sorry, my instructions were aimed at improving your hdparm performance (under 7.1). You should be able to install on udma33, then make changes to your /etc/fstab, add the

Re: [expert] ssh

2000-10-17 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have openssh-2.2.0p1-6mdk installed and the daemon running. If I try to ssh to my own box, "ssh -l praedor 10.0.0.5", it connects and asks for my password. I enter my entirely correct and valid password but then get the message: "Permission denied, please try again." Connecting from school

[expert] Strange firewall(?) problems

2000-10-17 Thread Peter Loron
I recently switched internet providers, and as a consequence had to update the network info on my Mandrake 6.1 (kernel 2.2.17, SMP) box I use as a firewall/ ip masq server. What I'm seeing is a log message in /var/log/messages that occurs every few minutes (the interval is not precise), which is

Re: [expert] Strange firewall(?) problems

2000-10-17 Thread Greg Stewart
Does your machine happen to be a an ISP using Compaq servers booting with the system configuration utility startup routine? How is your firewall setup? Do you have pmfirewall installed to set up your ipchains rules? Or, have you created rules to block 127.0.0.0 from the external

Re: [expert] Help Wanted!: building a Internet-Box

2000-10-17 Thread Ron Marriage
You must think that you will have some pretty linux savey public users. Just an opinion, but since most of the public users say to a library or school will be windows users, wouldn't a more windows like interface work better. Why not use KDE, remove the logout button from the panel. In most

[expert] Tracing Email Addresses

2000-10-17 Thread SoloCDM
Can a trace (just as in traceroute) be placed on an email address as it goes about the Internet? Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address. * Signed, SoloCDM Keep in