Re: [expert] fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach root am Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:44:19AM -0800: I would like to add the following; /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults ? ? It is these numbers I am primarily Make that /dev/hda7 /mnt/exchange ext2 defaults 2 2 The 1st number tells fsck when to check it, the 2nd number isn't used.

Re: [expert] fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-12 Thread Mike MacCana
Indeed. My bad. Mike On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Mike MacCana am Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:52:50AM +1100: [or vice versa, OI might have the numbers round the wrong way]. 1 is a yes, 0 is a no. No, it tells fsck WHEN to check it. First the 1's are done, then

Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs

2000-12-12 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 02:13, you wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1 soemtime in the future, and the version

Re: [expert] 7.2, alsa, and yamaha DS-XG

2000-12-12 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 11-Dec-00 by Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS: My problem is getting the sound to work. It is a Yamaha DS-XG, mandrake chose to use Alsa, and that is fine. However all I get for sound is a continuous noise. What do I need to look at to get this card working? from my /etc/modules.conf: ##

[expert] http://www.telesoft.ca/ is cool

2000-12-12 Thread Moulinneuf
This message was sent from: Linux Mandrake Expert. http://telesoft.ca/phorum/read.php?f=5i=577t=577 testing if it will post message on the mailing list http://www.telesoft.ca/ The name may not say much to most of you but

[expert] Mandrake 7.2 freezing! (when using CUPS and games)

2000-12-12 Thread Ian McLeod
Hi, When I go to print from many applications - my computer completely freezes - it appears that CUPS / LP (?) often take up an enourmous slice of CPU time and stay there - meanwhile the hard drive is going wild and nothing gets printed. I eventually have to either wait a few minutes while a

[expert] kwintv and sound

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Thanks to all those who helped with suggestions with kppp and dns - I'll see what happens next reboot! Next problem is kwintv (using a noname bt848 chipset): I get the following error message when starting it, and no sound: wdk@Ralph ~ $ kwintv Warning: QObject::connect: Cannot connect

[expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Powell PhD
I hope someone has had this happen, or know how to undo it. After a long time from a clean install (retail) all the sudden the devices in my /mnt (ie. cdrom, cdrom2,disk,floppy) had little locks on the mnt directories and I can't get in them...says I don't have access rights, and it won't let

Re: [expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Dave Sherman
Have you looked in /etc/fstab ? That's where the definitions are for those devices, one line of text per device. 'man fstab' for information on the syntax. Dave At 09:28 AM 12/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: I hope someone has had this happen, or know how to undo it. After a long time from a clean

Re: [expert] locked /mnt dir

2000-12-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I could use that answer too. Same thing happened to me last night - trying to access my cdrom as a user, it told me I didn't have access rights. As root, I would simply get an input/output error message. I could mount and unmount cdrom but not access it (It was a supermount drive). I

RE: [expert] ISP Connectin line

2000-12-12 Thread SIR admin
get a ISDN line. assuming every since user isn't using internet intensive applications all day, that should suffice. if they are...get a t-1, and give me a shell to help you with that bandwidth. my t-1 costs 1000.00 a month. our centrex-isdn line costs 300.00 a month. matthew -Original

Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 11 December 2000 07:13 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Mike MacCana wrote: Chris Molnar's RPMs seem to be marked as 2.1 - AFAIK, there is not KDE 2.1 yet, and it makes me very worried to install them on my system, especially when thewre may be a real 2.1 soemtime in the future, and

Re: [expert] Mandrake KDE 2.01

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 11 December 2000 08:36 pm, Daniel Velzi wrote: Hi Tom, I installed this version downloaded from tucows (must be the same I believe) without installing Chris Molnar's version before, and all run ok. Kedit is ok and my bookmarks in konqueror are here without problem. Perhaps Chris

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2000-12-12 Thread Anthony Russello
I see that kernel 2.2.18 has been released in final version. Has anyone tested an install of this kernel on mdk 7.2 yet? I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any specific tips on how I could compile and install it without killing my existing kernel install? This would

Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:05 am, civileme wrote: Chris's rpms at the NEBS site are from the CVS tree on the way to 2.1 While they predate the 2.0.1 release date, they are from the CVS after the feature freeze for 2.0.1 and well on the way to 2.1. Chris made 20001210 CVS rpm's

Re: [expert] Bad version numbers on `KDE 2.1' RPMs

2000-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 11 December 2000 07:22 pm, Mike MacCana wrote: kdebase-2.1-0.20001210.2mdk.i586.rpm is what I've just downloaded from nebsllc.com. How odd. I installed them anyway and KDM, drag and drop, and the cotents of my KPanel stopped working, so I'm gonna go with the official ones anyway.

Re: [expert] Accessing Voodoo board.

2000-12-12 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
On December 9, 2000 02:47 pm, you wrote: Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: You got the 3dfx kernel module driver to work with 4.0.1? I tried it and it would work, but after I exited from a game X would be hosed. I got weird screen artifacts. Hmm. I sounds like the module isn't loaded. Try an

[expert] Qt - mt

2000-12-12 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Where is qt-mt... I have a standard 7.2 install but kwintv 0.8.5 complains that there is no qt-mt. Other distros I guess have this (Suse for one) by default installation. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager) Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com:

[expert] LM update

2000-12-12 Thread SIR admin
i installed LM with high security settings. for some reason i don't see mandrakeupdate under drakconf. i can't find an RPM for it either. any clues? help me track this down :P matthew Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] KDE, kmail, and imap...no workie/no option?

2000-12-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have tried setting up an imap account (along with a pop mail account) to use with kmail but it doesn't appear to work. The pop mail is fine - it was setup through kmail itself (which only gives you the option of pop3 or local mailbox) - imap is not an option (WHY NOT?!). Through the

Re: [expert]

2000-12-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
I highly recommend buildkernel. You can get it from rpmfind. This is a nice, semiautomatic kernel-building script. Starting with a relatively simple command at the beginning (ie, "buildkernel --BKBUILDTYPE=bzImage --HOSTTYPE=i386" for instance), it will go through the process of downloading

[expert] Molnar KDE PRE 2.1 problem ...

2000-12-12 Thread Peter FREIMANN
Hi ! I had a clean fresh full expert installation of LM 7.2 I have downloaded all rpm's from C.Molnar's site at ftp.nebsllc.com but during update of kdegraphics i receive the error about missing "libbaglayout.so" that used to be a part of kdegraphics package Also my kdm stopped

[expert] konqueror and javascript/java - problem

2000-12-12 Thread Praedor Tempus
Related to an imap email problem I posted just prior to this message... I have two email accounts, one via work and one from uswest. Kmail handles my uswest account (pop3) no problem but it doesn't work with my work-provided imap account (inspite of setting it all up via kontrol-center). As a

[expert] Kmail - can read - not send

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Fisher
Mandrake 7.0 Thought I had Kmail sending working by changing from SMTP to Sendmail. Wrong! The message transfers to the sent-mail folder but never is received. I don't know where it goes. It would be so convenient to use this rather than going to the internet and using either Netscape or Yahoo

[expert] Re: [Dri-devel] DRI direct sloow

2000-12-12 Thread Svante Signell
Thank you all for your replies. The gears problem is solved, but the slowness still remains, see below. setting FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0 make gears jump to 611 fps q3a demo001 is OK, both with libMesaVoodoGL (3398 fps) from Q3A 1.11 and libGL from XFree86-4.0.1h (31.8 fps) But ut, heretic2,

Re: [expert]

2000-12-12 Thread Andrew George
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:57, you wrote: I see that kernel 2.2.18 has been released in final version. Has anyone tested an install of this kernel on mdk 7.2 yet? I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any specific tips on how I could compile and

[expert] Mac BinHex Conversions

2000-12-12 Thread bill
Has anyone used the 'macutils' or equiv? I have not had much luck for instance; converting BinHex Picts sent from Mac People. They usually try to send em jpeg but there are times when it would be nice to do a simple 'point and click' if possible. The 'macutils' on my LM 7.2 is dated 1992 and I

Re: [expert] can't set video refresh

2000-12-12 Thread Amit Bapat
This is how I did when I had similar problem. Install XF 3.3.6 and then look at the Modeline in the /etc/X11/XF86Config for the 1024x768 @ 100Hz modeline. Cut and paste this Modeline in your XF86Config-4 config file. Other option: Start XF 3.3.6 and fireup xvidtune. Note down all the values.

Re: [expert]

2000-12-12 Thread Anthony Russello
Wow. Now this is the kind of help we can all use. Thanks. I'll give that a try as soon as I shovel out my driveway. Cheers On Tuesday 12 December 2000 11:57 am, you wrote: I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any specific tips on how I could compile and install

Re: [expert] can't set video refresh

2000-12-12 Thread pablito
do those extra mode lines work with version 4.0 or is it just limited to the old versions? I never noticed any difference. -Original Message- From: Amit Bapat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 4:01 PM Subject: Re: [expert] can't

[expert] Postfix - YIKES!

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Spencer
Up until now I have not had Postfix running, simply because I didn't really need it. Alas, today I decided to start it so that root could be notified of system-related things via email. WELL HOLY CRAP!! It seems as though cron sends out an email every time it completes a job. This really

[expert] How to write locale file?

2000-12-12 Thread Dallas
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[expert] Re: [MandrakeForum] Name Your Most Wanted Cooker Packages, Please

2000-12-12 Thread Bill Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Name Your Most Wanted Cooker Packages, Please (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001212151414) Just got my new 150 MB quota on mandragon.org, so I thought I might do some of you a favour and recompile wanted Cooker package for LM 7.2. Please