Re: [expert] xcalc problems

Trying to avoid --nodeps?? Never, never, never use nodeps is the fundamental rule with rpm's. If you used that option just once in an upgrade, you hosed the upgrade. If you do an upgrade manually then you have to go thru the entire list of dependencies and install them until you can install the pa

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2]

I do not know how my name got stuck in this conversation like this. Looks like someone took a clip out of context. You can give someone else the credit for this one. Thanks. Tom Berkley Scott Tyson wrote: > > Danger!! Will Robinson Danger!! > > Do not I repeat do not do everything this script

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

I do not know how my name got stuck in this conversation like this. Looks like someone took a clip out of context. You can give someone else the credit for this one. Thanks. Tom Berkley Scott Tyson wrote: > > Danger!! Will Robinson Danger!! > > Do not I repeat do not do everything this script

[expert] xcalc problems

Hi I have problems with xcalc and other packages from the X11-contrib package. With xcalc, for instance, all the buttons are placed one above the other. Since I upgraded my system manually, I figured there is something I forgot. But what can it be? I did try to avoid rpm --nodeps et al. Anyone

Re: [expert] Shutting down LM 7.2

No problems here shutting down with an expert install. On Monday 13 November 2000 20:52, Dennis Robertson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:14:18PM +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: > > Hello List, > > I crashed the system for the second time trying to recompile the > > kernel (I had no proble

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

Danger!! Will Robinson Danger!! Do not I repeat do not do everything this script (nv_check.sh) tells you. The very last step talks about "duplicate files" it finds specifically : /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.so.1.0 /usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.s

Re: [expert] httpd error, need assistance

Have you made any recent changes in your httpd.conf file lately? If yes, then back comment them out and see if the service will start up agai - you may have to change how they're written. I'd add an 'if not' clause here but I can't see how a service on a box would just up and die and stay dead l

Re: [expert] xdmcp access

Tib wrote: > Don't mean to interject, but I'm having a similar problem, only that it did not > work to start with. I was originally running kde (which would be kdm I > suppose) but now run gnome. it's always been the same, just timing out on > searching for a connection. Help? Try deleting your

[expert] httpd error, need assistance

When I run /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart it returns shutting down httpd: FAILED starting httpd: OK I then run /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status it returns httpd dead but subsys locked Anyone seen this before or do I need to ask the Apache list?? TIA Foam Keep in touch with http://mandrakefor

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra100 controller

How many scsi and ide controllers would you like to add to your system? I think that is the only limitation that you have to worry about. (Make certain the device drivers are available too) Tom Berkley Jeff Malka wrote: > > Can you combine SCSI and IDE hard drives? Will such a SCSI handle larg

Re: [expert] where does this file come from

Use the locate command and see if that will find it for you. qvaluelist.h is part of qt2-devel-2.2.1-3mdk and it is found in /usr/lib/qt2/include/qvaluelist.h Also there is a /usr/share/doc/qt2-devel-2.2.1/html/qvaluelist.html file that you may want to look at. What happens when you do the fol

Re: [expert] cdr writing

The recommendation to use cdrecord from the command line is a very good one to try. xcdroast made a lot of coasters for me when I started to burn cd's in linux but when I went to cdrecord from the command line, I got clean fast burns (10 minutes for a full cd at 8x on my plextor scsi cdr). cdrecor

Re: [expert] Shutting down LM 7.2

On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:14:18PM +1000, Dennis Robertson wrote: > Hello List, > I crashed the system for the second time trying to recompile the kernel (I had no >problems with 7.1), but that's incidentally the > reason I did an expert install. Now 7.2 will not shut down; it gets to shutting

[expert] Boot hangs / errors

Have just installed 7.2. on a coupla machines. Most everything is an improvement. But alas some things don't work, or in my case probably not configured correctly. When booting up on my system using grub, there are two options /linux and /linux-nonfb. The second one works the first option hangs.

[expert] real silly problem

M7.1/kde1.1?? login as stephen cd rig/labels click on xemacs icon on desktop open file dialog in xemacs shows contents of ~/rig/labels M7.2/kde1.9xx?? login as stephen cd rig/labels click on xemacs icon on desktop open file dialog in xemacs shows contents of ~ behaviour similar for an xterm

Re: [expert] xdmcp access

Don't mean to interject, but I'm having a similar problem, only that it did not work to start with. I was originally running kde (which would be kdm I suppose) but now run gnome. it's always been the same, just timing out on searching for a connection. Help? Tib On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Woody Green

Re: [expert] xdmcp access

xdm, kdm, or gdm? Woody gene wrote: > > I seem to have lost the ability to start a remote X > session since upgrading to 7.2. My X client says: > > Host sent UNWILLING: > Display not authorized to connect > > The Xaccess file contains a line for my host, in fact > it is unchanged sin

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra100 controller

Yes you can, I am doing that now. I use the onboard IDE, and a PCI SCSI adapter. 2 x SCSI hard drives, 2 x IDE hard drives, 1 x IDE CD-ROM On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:57:21 -0500 > From: Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To:

Re: [expert] Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions

I like this method it sounds very useful but I get lost when you talk about emacs, I'm not familiar with Emacs I use pico as my editor due to its simplicity. Would you mind explaining exactly how I could set emacs up to easily search for packages like this? On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Charles Curley wro

Re: [expert] Strange problem

Tried that. All in the nature of troubleshooting... :( On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Declan Moriarty wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:23:45 + > From: Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem > > On Sun, 12 N

Re: [expert] Strange problem

It was IDE On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Tom Berkley wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:19:33 -0800 > From: Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Strange problem > > Was the other cdrom drive scsi or ide? > > if ide then it was /d

[expert] Re: rpms olds Sparc/Ultra5

I am currently doing research on some incosistency of our system when altered from its original architecture and platform . I would like to know where I may find old versions of rpm in order to continue our testing prefarably rpm that used to be distributed with v 6.0 or more Olds for spa

[expert] Maple on mandrake 7.2

Has anyone been aple to run maple (i have version 6.0.1) one mandrake 7.2 ?? - in my case i coms up with a 1000 error messages ___ Mvh Lars Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

On Monday 13 November 2000 23:57, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:18:30 pgeorges wrote: > > Tom Berkley a écrit : > > > > ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a* > > oops > > >

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:18:30 pgeorges wrote: > Tom Berkley a écrit : > > ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a* oops > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so@ > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/exte

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra100 controller

Can you combine SCSI and IDE hard drives? Will such a SCSI handle large HDs if the motherboard BIOS can only handle up to 8.4 GB? Thanks. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [expert] where does this file come from

Hi, first off all, I write to you too, directly because the topic was posted a lot of days before. It's just a little question. I had installed mdk 7.1 till now that I have the 7.2. When I was using the 7.1 I compiled a litle program, kfoninst without problems. I didn't have any QT Professional

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

On Mon, 13 November 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Stephen Boulet am Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0600: > > I'm still doing > > modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 > > modprobe NVdriver > > Is > alias char-major-195 NVdriver > in /etc/modules.conf? If not, add it,

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra100 controller

So sprach Nicky Peeters am Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:21:30PM +0100: > Could anyone tell me what the benefits are of such a card, besides the ata100 > instead ata66 ? a) It's ata100 *g* b) You can use ata100 drives (or ata66 for that matter) in systems that don't support it directly via the mainbo

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

So sprach Giorgio Cittadini am Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:11:20PM +0100: > "hdreiser.img". Well, when I try to install the OS, I get the message "not You need hdreiser.img if you want to install from a 7.2 tree which is located on reiserfs fs. If you want to install from a cdrom, you need to creat

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

So sprach Stephen Boulet am Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:03:41PM -0600: > I'm still doing > modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 > modprobe NVdriver Is alias char-major-195 NVdriver in /etc/modules.conf? If not, add it, and NVdriver will be loaded automatically. And if you must use th

Re: [expert] Removing Extraneous E-mail Header Information

So sprach Arcana am Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:44:04AM -0500: > Does anyone know of of a script, or of scripting resources where I can get a > script that can remove all the extra information from the E-mail header? I'm have a look at formail from the procmail package. Alexander Skwar -- How to

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

So sprach Tom Brinkman am Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:35:58AM -0600: > things I wanted to re-install for is to switch to ReiserFS. During the > install's partitioning and formatting, for each partition you're given > 30 some choices by clicking on 'type', one of which is ReiserFS. But only if you

[expert] kappfinder

I was looking for kappfinder in 7.2 and 7.1 and couldn't find it. The kdebase rpm says it's included but it isn't in there as a separate file. It's not installed on my system as a separate application. Did they include this in kde so that non-kde applications are automatically added to the m

Re: [expert] cdr writing

Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: > My fault, I thought I put it in there, I only have the one cdrom drive, and > I > do make image files to the hd. Thought it doesnt matter. If I try to dup a > CD > or try to move files from hd to cd. Same result. > > Brian > > -Original Message- > From:

[expert] Kxicq problems

Kxicq stopped working.When I start it from the console, I get: Util found: /usr/share/apps/kxicq/utils/pine.kxutil Util found: /usr/share/apps/kxicq/utils/ping.kxutil Segmentation fault I've reinstalled it a couple times. Other than a system freeze up, followed by a hard boot, and fscking the dr

[expert] Configuring ATI 128 on thinkpad

Hi, I was told that my Thinkpad A20m probably contains an accelerated ATI 128 card in it. How do I verify this for sure? And what is the accelerated X server that I should be using for it? I went to rpmfind.net and I saw XI128 but only for SuSE. Can anyone point me to the proper location? Thank

RE: [expert] cdr writing

My fault, I thought I put it in there, I only have the one cdrom drive, and I do make image files to the hd. Thought it doesnt matter. If I try to dup a CD or try to move files from hd to cd. Same result. Brian -Original Message- From: Scott Tyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday,

Re: [expert] cdr writing

You might be getting buffer underruns. I haven't seen one of these with Xcdroast so I'm not sure what it spits back when it deos hit one. Try putting the cd contents to Disc then burning from there. When I do cd-cd copies under Windows I have to do this or I get underruns. *** REPLY

[expert] cdr writing

I am having real problems trying to burn a CD-R. No matter what program I use, or what account I am under (i.e. root, or other users). When I try to either copy a CD, or make a DATA CD, 5 Megs into it I get a failure, medium error. I can burn a CD-RW with no problems though. I find it hard to beli

[expert] How to get Chinese Language Extensions Working?

Hi, Does anyone use Chinese language extensions and Chinese input (xcin). Can you answer some questions about getting it working on a system with English as the default interface language, but with China and Taiwan locales and fonts installed? I'm trying to learn some Chinese (my girlfriend i

Re: [expert] 7.2 is full of bugs!

That is what I thought originally. But this install went to 100% > > Jeff Malka wrote: > > > I think it has to do with the standard "custom" install. > > > > xfce is also in the 2nd CD but was not installed when I > > selected custom (all selections) install in Mandrake 7.2. > > [snip] > > > Wha

Re: [expert] MIRRORDIR and COPYDIR don't work right

> mirrordir *isn't* broken. It's designed to do exactly what it says, create a > mirror. That means it recreates the directory structure exactly as it is on > the source machine, under the specified target directory (in your case /tmp). > It may not be what you want, but that's what it's suppos

[expert] LM 7.2 on PCChips' Book PC

I just finished a successful fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 on a PCChips' Book PC (i810-based motherboard) over the weekend. I did a custom install, low security, development system, but wound up installing all packages. I used CD-R disks from www.cheapbytes.com. One quirk under the graphical insta

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: > Its on the first cd (inst) in the images directory, I just looked. In > linux use: > > dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0 > > or use the dosutil 'rawrite' if you only have an msdos boot available. > Yep, so I noticed right after sending my initial reply. L -- MY EM

Re: [expert] ReiserFS

On Monday 13 November 2000 09:11 am, Giorgio Cittadini wrote: > > I have installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (inst and ext disks). Everything > is OK, but one thing: how to use ReiserFS? SUSE 7.0 gives, while > installing, a choice, and all is easy. But LM7.2? I have tried to > create an image of "hdrei

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

Its on the first cd (inst) in the images directory, I just looked. In linux use: dd if=rescue.img of=/dev/fd0 or use the dosutil 'rawrite' if you only have an msdos boot available. Tom Berkley Laurent Duperval wrote: > > On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: > > There are two cd's for booting in resc

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

On 13 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: >> There are two cd's for booting in rescue mode, the first one has the >> kernel on it, the second one is a ramdisk image of system files ( ls, >> rm, cp, mount, ... and rpm). I think that the file is in the images >> directo

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: > There are two cd's for booting in rescue mode, the first one has the > kernel on it, the second one is a ramdisk image of system files ( ls, > rm, cp, mount, ... and rpm). I think that the file is in the images > directory on the install cd and it is named rescue.im

[expert] ReiserFS

I have installed Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (inst and ext disks). Everything is OK, but one thing: how to use ReiserFS? SUSE 7.0 gives, while installing, a choice, and all is easy. But LM7.2? I have tried to create an image of "hdreiser.img". Well, when I try to install the OS, I get the message "not

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

There are two cd's for booting in rescue mode, the first one has the kernel on it, the second one is a ramdisk image of system files ( ls, rm, cp, mount, ... and rpm). I think that the file is in the images directory on the install cd and it is named rescue.img Tom Berkley Laurent Duperval wrot

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

On 13 Nov, Tom Berkley wrote: > You should be able to boot in rescue mode and then in the files on the > second rescue disk you should have a copy of rpm that you can run. And > next time an rpm complains about dependencies, update the dependencies > list and THEN install the package you want. >

Re: [expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

You should be able to boot in rescue mode and then in the files on the second rescue disk you should have a copy of rpm that you can run. And next time an rpm complains about dependencies, update the dependencies list and THEN install the package you want. Tom Berkley Laurent Duperval wrote: >

Re: [expert] Where is libdl.so.1 in Mandrake 7.2?

Thanks. I was looking at output of locate when I wrote that. Looks kind of stupid of me right now. Tom Woojin Lee wrote: > > I believe /lib/libdl.so.2 is linked to /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so... > > Woojin > > Tom Berkley wrote: > > > /lib/libdl.so.2 is part of glibc. hmm what you want to > > tr

[expert] kmail

i start kmail from comand and check my mails everything is ok but when i exit it closes but then i gt the output : $ kmail [kernell32@desktop /]$ QObject::connect: No such signal KIO::DeleteJob::data(KIO::Job*,const QByteArray&) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'job') QObject::connect: (recei

RE: [expert] syslog problems

It is just logrotate doing its job. After moving the log file, logrotate must restart syslogd for it to create a new log file. Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tib > Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 9:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

[expert] Bootstrapping RPM 4 installation

Hi, I needed to install an RPM and got an error saying I couldn't install version 4 RPMs with my RPM. So I went to download the latest RPM 4 I could find on rpmfind.net. When I tried to install it,k I got a lot of dependencies problems. So, I decided to compile and install it instead. So I got th

Re: [expert] Server Partitioning

On Thursday 09 November 2000 13:12, you wrote: > should know of any special considerations before I set up the > partitions. I hope this being Monday, and your e-mail being from Thursday, this isn't going to be a day late and a dollar short but oh well. First of all, I suggest taking a look at

Re: [expert] Geforce2, NVidia drivers, and LM 7.2

Tom Berkley a écrit : > > Well its not there for me either. pgeorges, please > > rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/a_filename_in_there > > and tell us what package the files belong to. rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/* XFree86-server-4.0.1-28mdk XFree86-server-4.0.1-28mdk XF

Re: [expert] Where is libdl.so.1 in Mandrake 7.2?

I believe /lib/libdl.so.2 is linked to /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so... Woojin Tom Berkley wrote: > /lib/libdl.so.2 is part of glibc. hmm what you want to > try is to make a link from /lib/libdls.so.1 that points to > /lib/libdl.so.2 which is the newer version not > libdl-2.1.3.so > > Tom Berkley > >

RE: [expert] KDE Sound

Why not just use Kmixer, and mute or lower the volume? 73's KC8NRB -Original Message- From: Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] KDE Sound Where is the KDE sound menu that used to be in other versions? I would l

Re: [expert] Promise Ultra100 controller

Could anyone tell me what the benefits are of such a card, besides the ata100 instead ata66 ? On Saturday 11 November 2000 23:44, you wrote: -- Nicky Peeters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Support -- Win98 error 006: Keyboard not found. Press

[expert] Linuxconf Webacces

Why when try to enter http://www.licoba.com.ar:98/html:/ok,==Configuración==de==redYou the next error ocurre Youv are trying to access a dialog from an older session of linuxconf. The current session of linuxconf has no idea what was entered prior to this session and therefore can't provide the i

Re: [expert] Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions

On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:30:53PM -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: > oops > > you have to use the i option to get the package name info so the > resultant command is: > > rpm -qipl >rpminfo.out > > and then use an editor or more or less to find your files. For the > mandrake 7.2 installation cd rpms

[expert] Shutting down LM 7.2

Hello List, I crashed the system for the second time trying to recompile the kernel (I had no problems with 7.1), but that's incidentally the reason I did an expert install. Now 7.2 will not shut down; it gets to shutting down the system logger and then hangs saying: INIT: no more processes l

[expert] KDE config not saved

Hi,.. I have found that two of kdes modules for configuration (kmcbell and kmcinput), dont restore configured options correctly on my system. I have checked that the options are saved (i turn the bell off and speed the mouse up), in the appropreate files in .kde/share/config. But after a logou

Re: [expert] Strange problem

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > In that case, other than to suggest trying a different cable, I'm stumped. > I had something similar with a cdwriter and cdrom. Some 'atapi' interfaces are not 100%. I would try 1. remove hdc, and fit your other cdrom as master. Boot and check it works. 2. A

Re: [expert] why does KDE change to user home for running apps ?

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:13:44 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > You could, alternatively: > > Boot up into runlevel 3 > ("linux 3" at the lilo prompt) > log in to Linux on a text console > "xinit" > At the XTerm you now see, cd to the dir you want and "startkde&" > Then minimize the XTerm. > But if you l

[expert] identd error message

I'm not sure quite what is causing this or how to fix it. Thanks for any assistance. :] Nov 13 00:07:01 unica in.identd[11989]: fopen("/proc/net/tcp", "r"): Permission denied PS. my /etc/services line for this goes like this: 'auth113/tcp authentication tap ident' an