Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach Praedor Tempus am Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:59:05PM -0700: Someone once posted a simple script for changing upper case letters to lower case, I believe, in this list. I didn't keep the message but I now have need of this script. Could someone please post such a script? echo HALLO

[expert] SAMBA + Mandrake 7.2 on an SMP Machine

2000-12-16 Thread Olaf Mueller
Hallo all, this is my first request at the list. I setup Mandrake 7.2 with Samba 2.0.7 on a dual PIII-500 machine. The setup is ok but I became a error message when I used the smbstatus command a second time. Can't create or use IPC area. Error was Die Datei existiert bereits ERROR: Failed

Re: [expert] Printers Mandrake 7.2 - my final decision

2000-12-16 Thread Trevor Farrell
Thanks everyone for the replies. My final decision was to buy the HP 950c. A close decision, but it came down to: Pro: 1) HP was $250, as opposed to the Epson at $400 2) HP had better quality printing (2440x1220 dpi as opposed to 1440x720) 3) HP have recently launched an opensource driver

[expert] Chinese fonts in Netscape?

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
I'm studying Chinese and in the course of my studies I am occasionally required to visit chinese wbsites that do not use Pinyin (Romanized spellings). I have installed the various chinese font packages, but Netscape shows only hollow squares in the place of characters. I have read the Chinese

Re: [expert] Printers Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
You have got a lot of tips by other users, even one recommending a Lexmark inkjet. I recommend Epson. Go to http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Epson and choose one of the "Perfectly" working models which are supported by the "stp" (GIMP-Print) driver. To install the printer

Re: [expert] CUPS Samba Printing

2000-12-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
It is now also in the "unsupported" directory of the Cooker mirrors (compiled for 7.2) and on the Cooker itself (compiled for the Cooker). You get to the Cooker mirrors on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 See also

[expert] looking for a qt-mt library

2000-12-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Trying to build kwintv 0.8.5 to replace the Mandrake version which has no sound. The configure runs ok, once it is given the qt2 paths, but make fails at the end looking for a qt-mt lib when linking. A search of the disk has failed to turn this up - does anyone know which package this file is

Re: [expert] SAMBA + Mandrake 7.2 on an SMP Machine

2000-12-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Hi Olaf, I recently started getting the same message on a Mandrake 7.1 box running the Mandrake-Update-supplied samba 2.0.7 (a P166 MMX). I also have the same setup on a 500 celeron, but thankfully don't get the message here since this is the PDC for our NT Domain. I got the message previously

Re: [expert] KDE 2.0.1 Konqueror

2000-12-16 Thread RedRat
Hello! On Friday 15 December 2000 16:25, you wrote: Beta1 is on nebsllc.com in pub/KDE_UPDATE Anyone tried these rpms? Any problems? so long, Timo Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] how do I kill the lilo menu?

2000-12-16 Thread Trevor Farrell
Hi, I liked the old inconspicuous LILO: prompt, and would like it back, but can't find anywhere in lilo.conf to turn off the new menu. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, Trevor Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing

[expert] Internet Connection Sharing

2000-12-16 Thread Trevor Farrell
Hi, I have enabled internet connection sharing using DraxConf so my other box (sometimes Win95, sometimes WinNT, sometimes some version of Linux, and sometimes something else! - it's my test machine) can see the net, but the internal ip addresses assigned are wrong for my LAN. I have altered

Re: [expert] suddenly problems with the soundcard

2000-12-16 Thread Ace Frehley
Wow! Four copies of the same message! Is there a reason for this? Besides a lack of interest in addressing this issue? Thanks for listening? Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] DHCP DNS

2000-12-16 Thread Trevor Farrell
Hi, I have a working DHCP server, and also a working DNS server, but can't find how to set it so that machines which are have address assigned via DHCP are automatically added to my DNS lists. Is this possible, and if so, where can I find out how? TIA, Trevor Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] Duplicate message

2000-12-16 Thread Pj
About the list-bot... Normally the bot only sends duplicate messages under two conditions other than member error. About 3 times a year it seems to take a vacation and when it does everyone gets double and triple messages. Messages also seem to get fouled when the weather is bad, most notably in

Re: [expert] KDE 2.0.1 Konqueror

2000-12-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 December 2000 08:23 am, RedRat wrote: On Friday 15 December 2000 16:25, you wrote: Beta1 is on nebsllc.com in pub/KDE_UPDATE Anyone tried these rpms? Any problems? I had the 20001210 rpms installed, everything was fine 'cept kdm was broke. With the latest 20001213 rpms

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
Thank you. A starting point, at any rate. I am not wanting to change a single file from uppercase to lowercase, but actually want to change all the filenames in a directory from uppercase to their corresponding lowercase version (a directory full of fonts - PFBs and AFMs that need to be

[expert] No more long downloads

2000-12-16 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am not sure where it started, somewhere during my upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, but I can no longer download long files without problems. It seems that no matter what ftp or http site I connect to, if I download a file that is in the neighborhood of 4 meg or larger, the download will proceed to

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 16-Dec-00 by Praedor Tempus: Thank you. A starting point, at any rate. I am not wanting to change a single file from uppercase to lowercase, but actually want to change all the filenames in a directory from uppercase to their corresponding lowercase version (a directory full of

Re: [expert] Fwd: rpm problems

2000-12-16 Thread Tom Berkley
I have seen some buggy rpms that will error out during an update and leave the original package showing installed in the database. In addition the package is not removable with the rpm -e command. So you can rpm -e --allmatches rpmname (and if necessary use --nodeps) to remove the offending mess

Re: [expert] how do I kill the lilo menu?

2000-12-16 Thread Tom Berkley
Yoh TF I think that if you comment out the boot message and menu-scheme in lilo.conf that it will work. I seem to remember doing this on an old install somewhere when the menu first started showing up, but I've started to like some of the features since I have 5 or 6 o/s installs and many

[expert] Can't install 7.2

2000-12-16 Thread jeff lang
Has anyone else had problems getting the kernel that comes on the install image to boot? I've installed a few other versions of linux on my machine but i decided to reinstall. I've installed Mandrake 7.0 before and i currently have redhat 6.2 on the linux partitions of my dual boot with win98

Re: [expert] Can't install 7.2

2000-12-16 Thread Leonardo T. de Carvalho
jeff lang wrote: Has anyone else had problems getting the kernel that comes on the install image to boot? I've installed a few other versions of linux on my machine but i decided to reinstall. I've installed Mandrake 7.0 before and i currently have redhat 6.2 on the linux partitions of my

RE: [expert] Can't install 7.2

2000-12-16 Thread Tal Amir
hi, first- publishing the errors will be very helpful. second, does RH boot from the same physical hd ? try to be more generous with the information you post next time ;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jeff lang Sent: Saturday,

RE: [expert] how do I kill the lilo menu?

2000-12-16 Thread Tal Amir
how about telling us what are you using now ? graphical login ? is it lilo or some other bootloader, such as grub maybe ? anyhow, you can always get a previous version of lilo and --force the old installation with the new one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] Can't install 7.2

2000-12-16 Thread jeff lang
sorry. the errors are: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferance at virtual address 0014. this comes after the kernel recognizes my other ide devices. once it happened after recognizing hdb which is my CDROM once it was after recognizing my hdd which is my CD burner, then i tried

[expert] Corel Photopaint 9 problems

2000-12-16 Thread angus
This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Can anyone give me a hand with this? Also when I try and run Photopaint I get the following error message: "unable to add Fontastic font

[expert] double posting

2000-12-16 Thread Tal Amir
hi list, any idea what might cause a mail server (sendmail) to post each message twice to a mailbox ? I've been getting almost every mail (from different senders of course) twice. any thought's ? _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ /

[expert] cdrecord dying with loss of streaming

2000-12-16 Thread Buchan Milne
Hi All, I decided to reinstall our P75 redhat 6.2 printserver/intranetserver/cd-writing server to Mandrake 7.2 today (if you want to know why I would break something that's working, it is that our other 2 servers run Mandrake, I have a new admin to train up - best not to confuse him with

[expert] Installation LM 7.2 : Stop after first IDE detection.

2000-12-16 Thread cavall_fort
Hello : I have a BIG problem : I can't to install LM7.2. In the same machine, 7.1 goes fine. I have a CDROM a HD 30GB, a CDRW, a 128 Mb RAM. I need all the IDE elements. I can't install LM7.2 for two weeks. I need a solution, any ideas ? (( SOS ! )) Articles, technical

[expert] cdrecord problem

2000-12-16 Thread Roger Sherman
I've tried several of the CD burning programs that came with 7.2, with no success. Can't drag into windows like it says in the directions, when I can, hitting whatever button executes the program doesn't work, blah blah... I went to Mandrakes home page, and found a tutorial, which I believe has

RE: [expert] DHCP DNS

2000-12-16 Thread SIR admin
your best bet is http://www.isc.org the makers of bind and dhcpd. i know for a fact that is it in their FAQs. matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trevor Farrell Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:31 AM To: expert Subject: [expert]

Re: [expert] how do I kill the lilo menu?

2000-12-16 Thread NeoMatrix
just type lilo -v reboot and then menu won't appear anymore NeoMatrix Get Free Linux Guestbook at http://www.iamnewbie.com On Saturday 16 December 2000 06:26, you wrote: Hi, I liked the old inconspicuous LILO: prompt, and would like it back, but can't find anywhere in lilo.conf to turn

[expert] Re: Corel Photopaint 9 problems

2000-12-16 Thread SoloCDM
angus stated the following: This is a weired one! I have just installed Corel Photopaint 9 and now my menu system has got screwed up. There are 4 copies of everything in the menu tree!! Can anyone give me a hand with this? Where did you get Photopaint and where can the other Corel

Re: [expert] pam-0.72-12.1mdk.i586.rpm

2000-12-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Dec 16, 2000 at 11:54:43AM -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: pam = 0.72-12mdk is needed by kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk This doesn't make much sense... 0.72-12.1mdk is higher than 0.72-12mdk, so it should be ok... got the same message with kdebase-2.0-7mdk which is the outofthebox 7.2 installation.

Re: [expert] pam-0.72-12.1mdk.i586.rpm

2000-12-16 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Dec 16, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote: pam = 0.72-12mdk is needed by kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk This doesn't make much sense... 0.72-12.1mdk is higher than 0.72-12mdk, so it should be ok... A new update has just been issued so pam-0.72-13.1mdk should be available on the

[expert] kwintv, tuning and audio not working

2000-12-16 Thread Bill Kenworthy
After lots of stuffing around, finally have kwintv (and xawtv) under 7.2 working. Dont know what changed, but the automatically detected settings are not working in 7.2, whereas they did in 7.1. In my case, had to tell the modules what card and tuner were present. add to /etc/modules.conf

[expert] Fw: [newbie] USB CD burners Win4linux

2000-12-16 Thread Andrew F. Brown
- Original Message - From: Andrew F. Brown To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] USB CD burners Win4linux To be more specific about my inquiry, Mandrake 7.2 detects my CD burner as the same thing windows detects it as: Sony CD-RW

[expert] Fw: USB CD burners Win4linux

2000-12-16 Thread Andrew F. Brown
- Original Message - From: Andrew F. Brown To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:30 PM Subject: USB CD burners Win4linux I have two questions. 1. Do USB CD burners( in particullar Sony Spressa CRX 100 E ) work under Mandrake 7.2. Somwhere in one off the

Re: [expert] cdrecord problem

2000-12-16 Thread Trevor Farrell
Roger, I have a LG cdrw (goldstar) that identifies itself as 'CD-RW CED-8042B ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM so I guess its similar to yours. It too produces the cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. message, but has worked perfectly under Mdk 7.1 for ages. Now

[expert] a PERL question...

2000-12-16 Thread Mark Weaver
I've been getting a "message" from the PERL module the last couple of days since installing Mandrake 7.2 and while I don't see that it's adversely affecting PERL's function, I would like to do what ever I need to do to make it stop complaining. Could someone help me decipher this message?

[expert] Epson 900 Awesome Deal Was: Cups,lp,Gimp,Epson 900

2000-12-16 Thread bill
To make a long story short, the main problem was "user error" and not getting 'cups' restarted properly and the printer reinitialized as well as getting remote/local printer designations confused. This "pro-version printer has been on sale lately at various Comp USA's. I got mine for $179 and it

[expert] SBLIVE! + JOYSTICK = SOLUTION!

2000-12-16 Thread Patrick Mayer
Hi everyone, After a few days of unsuccessful trials, I've managed to activate the joystick port on the SBLive! and enable the joystick support in LM7.2. Here's how I have done it: -Downloaded kernel 2.2.18 -Compiled it -Rebooted with the new kernel; There's a catch there: Xfree 4.01 will not run

[expert] NFS, ReiserFS, and ext3fs

2000-12-16 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
I want to use a journaling file system for our home partition, but the ReiserFS is still not ready for use with nfs. (Unless this has changed?) Has anyone used ext3fs with nfs? How well does it work? How tough is it to get the module compiled and into a Mandrake kernel? Anyone ever done this?

Re:[expert]fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-16 Thread mrweb
Hi List, Many thanks to Rusty and Anthony. :) I learned that in order to have a multi boot system the way I had asked, would require me to appropriately edit each of my fstabs in all of my systems and also my boot loaders(?), if I wanted to be able to boot all of them from each other. I

Re: [expert] cdrecord problem

2000-12-16 Thread Roger Sherman
Thanks Trevor, at least its encouraging to hear someone else has the same kind (mine is an LG too, I thought it said that in my initial post, but I guess I was wrong) and has had some success...it's frustrating as hell, though, cause I have no idea what the problem could be... peace, Rog

[expert] PUMP or DHCP (Client)

2000-12-16 Thread Anton J Aylward, CISSP
I always used PUMP under RedHat. Any suggestions as to whether to use this or the DHCP client under mandrake 7.2? Experiences and warnings? /a Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re:[expert]fstab for 3 OS's

2000-12-16 Thread Dave
mrweb wrote: [snip] ++ |windows|LM 7.0|LM 7.1|swap|debian|LM 7.1| |hda1 |hda5 |hda6 |hda7|hda8 |hda9 | ++ [snip] What I really want is to have access to my files in all of my OS's from my Primary OS, this

Re: [expert] script to change upper to lower case

2000-12-16 Thread Daniel Woods
praedor, Someone once posted a simple script for changing upper case letters to lower case, I believe, in this list. I didn't keep the message but I now have need of this script. Could someone please post such a script? Here's one post from the past... -- Date: Sat, 19 Aug

Re: [expert] Fw: USB CD burners Win4linux

2000-12-16 Thread Mike MacCana
Re: Win4Lin, it works great. * Its install needs improvement, and is a little difficult * XFree86 4 users must as a line into their XF86Config file to avoid a small bug Other than that, its great - performance is top notch. Try the demo version. Mike

Re: [expert] PUMP or DHCP (Client)

2000-12-16 Thread Mike MacCana
Pumps fine for most people, and is the default in both Red hat and Mandrake. The only reason dhcpcd became popular as an alternative is because Red Hat didn't include the man page for pump, and doing things like cable ISP connections needs this sort of documentation. They're about the same. I

Re: [expert] a PERL question...

2000-12-16 Thread Kelley Terry
On Saturday 16 December 2000 02:11 pm, you wrote: I've been getting a "message" from the PERL module the last couple of days since installing Mandrake 7.2 and while I don't see that it's adversely affecting PERL's function, I would like to do what ever I need to do to make it stop