[expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Anthony Russello
I've had problems trying to get my Logitech mouseman+ scroll wheel mouse to work properly under mdk7.2. I've followed the tutorials, enabling chordmiddle didn't work, setting ZAxis to 4 5 didn't work. Any ideas from you guys? Other then that one tiny little problem, I am thoroughly enjoying

RE: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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[expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Steve Vertigan
A couple of quick questions. Is there a quick way to make KDE2 appear more like KDE 1.4? ie. close button on the left and small, elegant icons rather than the garish, tonka-sized ones that ship by default? Furthermore to that does anybody know what happened the "Theme Manager"? Mandrake 6

RE: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?

2000-11-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Scott Tyson am Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:30:39AM -0800: before but I've never done it with Linux. Will I have to do a new install? Unlike my experiences in Windows, you don't need to reinstall Linux. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german)

RE: Re: [expert] Getting new motherbaord.. new isntall?

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
In 7.2 you do not need to do any of that. Run MouseDake and select Logitech WheelMouse. Charles - Original Message - From: "Anthony Russello" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 3:15 AM Subject: [expert] I've had problems trying to get my

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2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] AMD motherboards

2000-11-18 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Sridhar G am Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:46:29PM -0800: Can anyone suggest me good Mb's for AMD 850 Socket A chip. The ASUS A7V is good. Heard that ASUS was good. Also wher can I purchase online (reliable stores). Check out www.pc-shopping.de for a price comparison. Alexander

Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread philomena
KDE2 no longer has themes in the same fashion as were supported in KDE1.4. Its a KDE2 thing, not Mandrake. KDE2-style thmese are starting to appear on themes.org, but there aren't too many yet. There is a legacy theme importer (Configuration-other) utility, but I haven't had much success wiith

RE: Re: [expert] AMD motherboards

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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RE: Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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[expert] Problems compiling module...

2000-11-18 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! It's the first time i write in this list... i hope there's no problem about it... I'm trying to compile the module i've found in internet for my Conceptronic CON100TC Pcmcia ethernet card (the compiled one gives me a kernel mismatch error so it doesn't load on startup). The following

RE: [expert] Problems compiling module...

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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[expert] X server distortion in 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Steve Vertigan
I've come across a wierd problem with the X 4.0.1 server in Mandrake. The screen displays correctly but the top left and right corners are distorted - they kind of come inwards about a centimetre from where the corner should be. For those using fixed-width readers it looks a little like this...

RE: [expert] X server distortion in 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Steve Vertigan
philomena wrote: You can change the appearence and size of the icons by right clicking and selection Configure. You can also alter the appearence in the Control Center - I think its in LookNFeel. Hi philomena, thanks for your quick reply. I had already poked around LookNFeel but didn't seem

RE: Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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RE: Re: [expert] Default routes to internet

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Anthony Russello
Yeah, I tried that, and for some reason, Mousedrake is stuck at Standard PS/2 mouse. If I run mousedrake, select the Logitech Mouseman+, and then close it, even if I try restarting X, I open it again and it still reads Standard PS/@ mouse. My XF86Config file identifies it as a Logitech

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2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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[expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Steve Young
must people set these very annoying auto reply messages -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Davis Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: [expert] I'm out for the week of Thanksgiving. I'll

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2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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[expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread skidley
Does anybody know a way possible to upgrade my cd burner firmware, all of the installers are windows obviously :( I have a Yamaha CRW4416E -- Chad Y. Registered Linux User #195191 Registered Linux Box #86749 Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread sking4
I'll bet we get a bunch of these messages before the end of Thanksgiving Chris Davis wrote: I'm out for the week of Thanksgiving. I'll get back to you when I return. Chris Davis Systems Administrator USA.NET Phone: (719) 785-2318

RE: Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Joan Tur
skidley escribió: Does anybody know a way possible to upgrade my cd burner firmware, all of the installers are windows obviously :( I have a Yamaha CRW4416E I can't help you there... i've got windows for such kind of things -or gaming, for instance- ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL

RE: Re: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread xaos
On Saturday 18 November 2000 03:15, some strange person did etch this in stone: I've had problems trying to get my Logitech mouseman+ scroll wheel mouse to work properly under mdk7.2. I've followed the tutorials, enabling chordmiddle didn't work, setting ZAxis to 4 5 didn't work. Any

RE: Re: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Chris Davis
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Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Felix Miata
sking4 wrote: Chris Davis wrote: I'm out for the week of Thanksgiving. I'll get back to you when I return. I'll bet we get a bunch of these messages before the end of Thanksgiving I think it's time for someone to get the list admin to kill his subscription. -- A gift opens the way

RE: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2 (themes)

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
I too am looking for a way to use the old themes in kde2.0, more paritcularly the Photon one (gotta love it :) ). If anyone out there has any ideas, please share. I want to use the icons, colors, the whole bit. I found a way that was supposed to do it on the kde.themes.org website, but it

RE: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
stupid question, but what is gears? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pgeorges Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag Brent Timmer a écrit : I have an athlon

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread pgeorges
Brent Timmer a écrit : stupid question, but what is gears? $ gears RETURN Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Darin
Does anybody know a way possible to upgrade my cd burner firmware, all of the installers are windows obviously :( I have a Yamaha CRW4416E You might try this: http://www.formware.com.bi They have firmware for just about anything CD related.. Dont know if they would have info on upgrading

Re: [expert] Getting new motherboard.. new install?

2000-11-18 Thread Scott Tyson
Well I got my ASUS CUSL2 MB last night and Linux isn't totally happy with my new MB. X wont start do to an AGP problem. Here is the errors from /var/messages; 12:17:47 localhost kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Nov 18 12:17:47 localhost kernel: agpgart: Maximum main

Re: [expert] X server distortion in 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Kelley
On Saturday 18 November 2000 07:01 am, you wrote: I've come across a wierd problem with the X 4.0.1 server in Mandrake. The screen displays correctly but the top left and right corners are distorted - they kind of come inwards about a centimetre from where the corner should be. For those

Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread skidley
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Re: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Anthony Russello
Reboot using a win98 bootdisk. Flash the drive, done You usually have to use a sysed win98 boot disk to flash NT4 and win2k still as well On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:15:39 +0100 From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] cd burner firmware upgrade

2000-11-18 Thread Darin
woops.. Make that http://www.firmware.com.bi I should check my typing more closely... Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert]

2000-11-18 Thread Anthony Russello
No, PS/2 is this a USB mouse? There's plenty of semicolons to go around Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

RE: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-18 Thread Ran Hooper
About adding that scsi adapter: insmod aic7xxx and modprobe aic7xxx works fine. I get an error message when I run modprobe that says 'Note: conf.modules is more recent than modules.dep' but if I follow modprobe with the aic7xxx it loads fine. What am I doing wrong here? I added line 4 to my

[expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-18 Thread Jeff Hoffman
Tom, The eth0 card is SMC-ultra hardware assigned IRQ 3 at io 280. So I am not nuts Mandrake has a problem with 3c905b cards! Tom Berkley wrote: Well, so far I cannot find an IRQ assigned to either eth0 or eth1. That is suspect and something to query the expert list about for starters. If

Re: [expert] X server is gone - font fixed not found

2000-11-18 Thread Celso González
El Sábado 18 Noviembre 2000 23:13, escribiste: Try to see if xfs is running if not then in a konsole type xfs -port -1 -daemon See you Celso González [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Could you someone help me to get X-server back? The error messages I've got are: 1) Failure for

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote: stupid question, but what is gears? It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run it is from a term. just type 'gears' That way you'll see the frames per second (fps) that your system is capable of in the

[expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-18 Thread Jeff Hoffman
Tom, I did that card still is not seen. Also, change the /etc/modules.conf to both 3c59x and 3c90x same result. But I may have a clue for everyone... Starting scanning the Turbo linux dos and they had this pci config stuff. So I found Mandrakes stuff and made a little shell(pcistuff). If

[expert] CUPS Fonts Printing Problem

2000-11-18 Thread mail
Hie I've been having problems printing true type fonts in Mandrake 7.2 After playing around with it, I got ghostscript to display the fonts correctly in ghostview. I realise now that CUPS uses its own renderer, and I have tried many times to get CUPS to print my fonts, I've added all the

RE: [expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
this probably doesn't help people much, but I too have a 3c905b. It finds it as a boomerang(which it isn't), and it didn't work at all. I reinstalled linux (because of something else), and now miraculously it works fine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[expert] Accelleration for Voodoo3-2K PCI

2000-11-18 Thread Anton Graham
I seem to be unable to get the tdfx module to load properly and am thus unable to get any accelleration. From looking at the XF86 (v.4.0.1) output (attached), it appears that it is attempting to load agpgart first, which reports device or resource busy. Does anybody out there have a PCI Voodoo

[expert] kde2: usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol: event__9QLineEditP6QEvent

2000-11-18 Thread Thomas Waznis
Trying to use kde2 in a 7.1 system with XFree 4.01 I get the above error message. I can run kde or other window managers but most applications won't run. Same error message when I try toi run "kbuildsycoca" Any suggestions? Thanks Tom W. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

Re: [expert] KDE in Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-18 Thread Steve Vertigan
skidley wrote: Yeah that sucks, he must have an autoresponder set up :( Not so much set up, more likely he tried to roll his own. If he'd set up a proper autoresponder it would a) Ignore mail with a precedence of bulk/junk/list and b) Not respond to the same address more than once per 24

Re: [expert] Re: 3c905B

2000-11-18 Thread Tom Berkley
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/inotes/techtran/ff0e_5ea.htm was just looking on the 3com web site and found this little tidbit. think you should research their website a little regarding the card, firmware, ... you may need to run a dos config utility on the card to get it to work. that is a

Re: [expert] Adding a disk, insmod placement, moving /var

2000-11-18 Thread BillK
Run "depmod -av " and look at the results to see that the modules you are interested in have been processed. "man depmod or insmod or modprobe" for more info. Most distro's run depmod automaticly on bootup. Also, get rid of the module file you created - sometimes the wrong one may get picked

[expert] DHCP isn't working in 7.1

2000-11-18 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I just built a new MDK 7.1 machine to use as a Masq box. Tried it on my DSL modem, and for some reason, DHCP doesn't seem to work. Everything works fine if I manually set the IP address, but I should be able to use DHCP.. I am using DHCP on a MDK 6.1 system with the same DSL modem, so

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread eric
Brent Timmer wrote: stupid question, but what is gears? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of pgeorges Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag Brent Timmer a

Re: [expert] DHCP isn't working in 7.1

2000-11-18 Thread Tom Berkley
I think you need to read the howto for masquerading. If I remember correctly there is a specific line you need to add to your startup files (rc.firewall or rc.local) that allows dhcp to work. I used 7.1 on a laptop for a while as a firewall and it worked fine there. Tom Berkley "Bob Puff@NLE"

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread Stephen Boulet
On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:57, you wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote: stupid question, but what is gears? It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run it is from a term. just type 'gears' That way you'll see the frames per

[expert] 7.2 deluxe, but which one

2000-11-18 Thread stephen
purchased 7.2 deluxe from uk web site approx 10days ago discovered problems (to me with $HOME) with the kde1.9 shipped, removed it, installed upgrades - same problem attended MANLUG on stat 18/11/00 subject kde2 internals and thoughts by core member of kde opinion expressed that a) this

Re: [expert] Default routes to internet

2000-11-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:56:24PM +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: My pppd won't connect properly in non-root mode because it has to authenticate itself because I have a default route to the internet (eth0) when I type in "route" I get the usual routing information and at the bottom it says:

Re: [expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread pgeorges
Brent Timmer a écrit : I have an athlon 800, and nvidia geforce. I just installed unreal tournament to try it out in linux, and it lags horrendously in 640x480. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or something I have to set up? It says it's using sdl open gl in the preferences dialog.

Re: [expert] multiple partition woes

2000-11-18 Thread Tom Berkley
Lilo does not currently have a limitation on the size of the disk drive, so if you are avoiding lilo for that reason, just get the latest version and use it. Tom Berkley Brent Timmer wrote: Ok, here's my problem, and it's not an easy one. I just recently bought a 40 gig setup, and decided

[expert] multiple partition woes

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
Ok, here's my problem, and it's not an easy one. I just recently bought a 40 gig setup, and decided to throw linux on. I was having a few probelms, so decided to reinstall it. The problem comes in here. I also have Win ME and Win2000 on here, and somehow messed up the bootsector with grub.

[expert] nvidia + unreal tourney = lag

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
I have an athlon 800, and nvidia geforce. I just installed unreal tournament to try it out in linux, and it lags horrendously in 640x480. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or something I have to set up? It says it's using sdl open gl in the preferences dialog. Thanks in advance for the help

[expert] $DIPLAY not set?

2000-11-18 Thread Brent Timmer
Okay, I was playing a simple game of pingus, and tried to exit. It froze, and I had to force a log out. Then, my resolution was messed up. I went into drakconf to fix it, and it said I had to restart kdeinit. I logged out, and restarted x server, and it seemed to go into an endless loop. I

[expert] Additional support for printing with CUPS

2000-11-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Oi, many questions appeared on the mailing lists about problems with CUPS, the new printing system in Linux Mandrake 7.2. I have set up some places for getting additional help in case of questions and problems with CUPS: 1. A large article covering all about CUPS, beginning from what CUPS is

[expert] X server is gone - font fixed not found

2000-11-18 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello Could you someone help me to get X-server back? The error messages I've got are: 1) Failure for servers telnet 974581593 localhost (I had to install 7.2 a couple of times just because of this message) 2) Could not open default font 'fixed' Please help me